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  • zulu.tango

    Wrapping Wreckas

    By zulu.tango

    Hit the throttle on the Wreckas last week. I've been painting pretty slowly this year all things considered, decided to change that with this project. Finished up free-hand on a few items, got the squigs painted up, did the bases and oil washes last week resulting in a final project I'm pretty happy with!    I dug out some of the leftover terrain bits I had from the sector imperialis/Chalnath terrain. I put a fine terrain paste around those bits and then put in some sand to act as larg
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  • Bouargh

    Square Pants Bob

    By Bouargh

    Hi Folks,   Today’s blog entry is a little bit specific as it deals with something different from my usual inputs: instead of reporting hobbying progress, I will talk about a trail I did for a new technique (à la TITH – i.e. something that is not new in general but new for me).     The technique is often reported on purpose of adding details and create battle damages or war-torn marks on miniatures. But beyond painting damages, the sponge might be used on purpose of
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  • W.A.Rorie

    XIVth Legion build

    By W.A.Rorie

    So am I back from Indiana. I have to head back to move In-Laws into a Retirement Center, in a few weeks. And of course everything goes sideways at work moment I get back. So hobby time has been non existence. Silver Lining is LGS not get Saturnine until Monday, so I can get everything I need to do first i.e. my XIXth Legion and Exorcists  Call to Arms Vows, that I have not started. And won't have time this weekend.   I did start on building one of My XIVth Legion Commanders, not sure w
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  • GSCUprising

    Jagieŀŀo inspects their prizes

    By GSCUprising

    The Resistance have finally captured the war machines they believe they require to make their stand.   Brutus, the Malcador, reliable, dependable the spine of their battleline. She will not fail them. She will hold the line, her battlecannon roaring, her sponsons blazing as she paves the way for the Resistance's advance. The Iron Duke, his twin Earthshaker cannons blasting holes in the enemy's fortifications. He guards those retreating and the wounded behind his massive blast shield
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Combat Patrolling the Galaxy

New Hunt, Old Prey

So due to a burst of ‘inspiration’ and some time off I managed to get the Stormglaive Hunters pretty much done. I say pretty much cause I realized a bit after I took the group shot that I had not actually painted the Outrider Sgt chainsword and in the few days lost it…. Well they are pretty much done and we got into a battle.    Stormglaive Hunters (Storm Warriors)   So there is a FLGS like a few blocks from my house that has their 40k day on Thursday. I have been teach
Focslain

Focslain in Battle Report

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The Veeaitchez Clan

First go at Droog Boyz

I wanted to de-clutter the figures and give them all bowler hats and jock straps.  I already had some milliput and tried making bowlers with it but it was quite friable (?)…crumbly.  I bought a strip of greenstuff and gave that a go.  It’s really tricky to handle.  It doesn’t crumble but either gets sticky or, if you use water on your fingers and tools it gets very slippery.  There is eventually a sweet spot after some working with it.  I tried making a small brim first to add a dome on top but
Rowland

Rowland in Update Droogs

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The Terror and The Truth

Building the final units (Ninth Verse, Pale Wake, Orren Malith)

The final building portion of my CSM journey has been completed! Got the bits to make the Ninth Verse Chosen for the Ebon Word, and the Pale Wake Legionaries and Orren Malith the Dark Apostle for the Shrikeborn. Once my Votann are finished (down to a Land Fortress, 2 Sagitaurs, and a Grimnyr), I should be starting on these bad boys.   The Ninth Verse Chosen of the Ebon Word, decided to make them very much Iconoclasts and destroyers of the Imperial Lie, so all armed with smas
Lord_Ikka

Lord_Ikka in Hobby

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Pointy and Spiky

The fifth Beatle

a.k.a. The Pentarchy of Death – part II   Hi folks.   1+1+1+1 does not make 5. This statement looks obvious, doesn’t it? So when I have targeted a gathering of the 5 Tier 1 Dramatis Personae of the Ynnari narrative arc, it was obvious that the missing fifth Beatle will have to show up some day. And that day has come.   After some hesitation and introspection about my purchasing behavior (See [here]), I have finally had that “leap of procurement”. And Yriel has been
Bouargh

Bouargh in Aeldarii

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The journey to Birmingham - a Kroot story

Practice and musings

Just one practice game to mention and it was not the most competitive - so I intentionally hindered myself with unit choices to let me try out some things.   Game against Necrons which are very good but the player is just returning to the game after a long time away so not the time to bring the competitive heat. More local community building than competitive practice but any game can have value if you use it properly and reflect on it. So I had some fun pushing kroot onto objectives an
Happy-inquisitor

Happy-inquisitor in Battle report

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BrassClaw's Collection of Projects

Blood Greys Part 3: Bring it Down!

Hey guys!, back with some more traitor guard minis. This time with some heavy weapon teams  Back in the day, (like 9th edition i think) you were able to field heavy weapon team inside of infantry squads. So I got 4 teams to put in my infantry squads. You can see the older gun on the right, with its power pack on the ground.   With 10 edition, they removed the heavy weapons from infantry squads, they also removed the generic infantry squad for the more famed regiments.   
BrassClaw

BrassClaw in Bloody Greys

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In Service of the Imperium- W.A.Rorie's Blog

Thunderhawk being prepped......

Well I have been busy at work, and home life. Hobby time has been non existent and now summer is approaching means kids home all day. The wife trying to work from home means I'll be have the kids the moment I get home until she gets off. Then it is time to cook dinner/ dinner time, so I have to switch to night hobby time.    I have not been able to pick up a brush and well I wont be able to as, I leave Thursday Morning for my niece's High School Graduation in Louisiana. and will be bac
W.A.Rorie

W.A.Rorie in Miscellaneous

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BrassClaw's Collection of Projects

The Dengamar Strife Character Profile: Gwenthar Mor

Hey guys!   Here's is another character profile of the notable characters that are involved in The Dengamar Strife. Gwenthar Mor: The Pale Ghost   Gwenthar Mor: The Pale Ghost  Designation: Callidus Operative Affiliation: Officio Assassinorum Clearance Level: Omega-Red Known Alias(es): Rochelle Muckscar, Lieutenant Varn of the Bloody Greys, Kol Vreel of the Water Caste, The Pale Ghost Current Status: Active (Last confirmed extraction: Dengamar Prime, 011.M42) O
BrassClaw

BrassClaw in Writer's Corner

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Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

Genestealers WIP

So I based them black, and then did the highlighting in white from above. Zenanthal?  The airbrush is incredible for this.  Did the basing, the highlight and the initial purple for all the models in a night.     I was then using the Leviathan contrast to do the majority of the model, as the newer genestealers have a lot of Carapace and not the slots in the back. That is when I noticed I had 3 bottles of Leviathan Purple, not blue. So they were very purple. I am going for Table
refuse

refuse in R-Space Hulk-Genestealers

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Armata Strigoi

WIP progress shots of Violent Violet and her Violators

So a while ago I bought a few escher kits with the idea to make up a couple Astra Militarum squads, and a command squad to lead them, one of the local forces that often gets summoned up into the Armata Strigoi willingly or not when a large miltary forced needs to be mustered, whether it's to crusade yet another semi-independent border world into full imperial compliance, or to defend against an intrusion. Violent Violet is a frequent recurring character for many games I've played, whether that's
Arikel

Arikel in work in progress

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Ikka's Hobby Land

The Nightbringer is built

Managed to build the Nightbringer on his base and greenstuff the gaps despite suffering from Nurgle's Blessing the last two days. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out- the Purple Sun is such a cool model and I think it will make a statement on the table. As a bonus, I guess I get a Convergence of Dominion stele, which will probably never see the tabletop because it is not good.     Next up for hobbying I'm getting in a full set of Deathwing Companions from the He
Lord_Ikka

Lord_Ikka in Hobby

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BrassClaw's Collection of Projects

The Dengamar Strife Character Profile: Interrogator Malrik Voss

Hey guys!   Here's is another character profile of the notable characters that are involved in The Dengamar Strife. Here's Interrogator Malrik Voss Interrogator Malrik Voss Affiliation: Ordo Xenos Rank: Senior Acolyte / Interrogator Clearance Level: Gamma-Red Mentor: Lord Inquisitor Lanto Dannyrer   Origins & Background Malrik Voss was born on the Ice death world Karnyx, where the struggle of survival was always brutal. Recruited into the Schola Progenium afte
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

Airbrushing! Learning something new.

So I usually get bored painting miniatures on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th coats.  The priming is easy, but it is the base coloring and such that drives me crazy.   Way back when I was a kid and doing model cars and such, it was a pain then.  But a friend of mine had an airbrush and never had the same problems.  So why did I.   So I always thought about getting an airbrush, and one time I did.  The kind that took a can of compressed air to work.  Just cumbersome and a pain to use. So in 20
BrassClaw's Collection of Projects

The Dengamar Strife Character Profile: Explicator Sabrina Nerys

Hey guys!   Here's is another character profile of the notable characters that are involved in The Dengamar Strife. Here's Explicator Sabrina Nerys. Explicator Sabrina Nerys Affiliation: Ordo Xenos Rank: Explicator (Field Operative & Analyst) Specializations:Non-Imperial Cult Identification & Infiltration, Xeno-Archaeology & Artifact Recovery, Clearance Level: Gamma-Black Mentor: Lord Inquisitor Lanto Dannyrer (Codename: The Architect) Known Associates: Callidus O
Ikka's Hobby Land

Issues...?

So, got back from RMO (went 2-4, a personal best in a 30+ player tournament- I am never good in tournaments) and decided to start on my Nightbringer conversion. Tell me if you can figure out the issue -      So. My original idea of using one of the Convergence of Dominion steles to be the base and put a Purple Sun of Shyish on top of it is probably not going to work. I don't really see a way to make the full stele work as basing material and at this point I think cutti
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

Keeping focus in 2026. A history of excess from the Lord Commander 80s to 2020.

Part of the blog was me "focusing" on doing one thing and finishing it.  Space Hulk.  And I figured I would explain my previous armies/projects. This is my "brain dump" on justification of the blog, and kind of a summary of 30+ years of my time in the hobby.  Just a virtual reminisce for me.  A way for me to capture my thoughts and review them so I can plan the next steps.   More for me to clean my brain out!  And I do think in bullet points, not prose.     I tend to get an idea f
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

So next up, I have to decide on the Genestealer color scheme. I already have 3 other color schemes:     Hive Fleet Gorgon? Last year’s Cthulhu stealers. 11 Stealers with the Ygmirl heads.  I love the Cthulhu heads!  They go with the Delaque models I have been working on.  You know how the Delaque worship the Silent Ones!  Every time I see this, I really lean towards it.  Just not sure I have enough of the heads!     Another choice is the stealers from
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

All your bases belong to us.

Bases are on.  Put magnets on the bases.  I had bought some 40mm magnets, but they actually took up the whole bottom of the base.  So luckily I had also bought some 32mm magnets too, so I decided to use them.  For the GW bases with the magnet holes, I attached them to the bottom.  For the other ones, I put a blob of green stuff on top of the magnet so it would attach to the base and the ground. Used their toothpick handles and drilled a hole through the base (and the magnet in some cases. A
Pointy and Spiky

Heavy gunners spotted

Hi Folks,   My wish list for Aeldarii is reducing slowly: I have completed my army with a Dark Reaper unit (long time wanted). I am therefore left only with the Ynnari Reaver bikes on the top list. I have also worked on the secondary and tertiary priority lists sourcing Yriel and another Spiritseer. But these two are still on sprues atm.   The Dark Reapers are a tricky unit to paint if one wish to tie them through clour scheme with a specific Craftworld or the Ynnarii.  I hav
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

Basing the terminators

So I am not that talented for making terrain, and my 3d Printer still isn't working so I wanted to make some bases.   Years ago I made the bases (for the 25mm version of the game), so I figured I would do it again.   You can see the bases here under the Genestealers I was doing for Kill Team.  I would cut out the base to make a void under the grating. And use sprues as beams.     Basically, a plastic card with a circular cutter, marked up the decks some ra
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

Terminator apothecary

W.A.Rorie gave me a lot of great ideas for the Apothecary and Tech Marine, so huge shout out to them! So the only Apothecary in Terminator armor I could find was an old Dark Angels one!   Looks pretty good, has an Apothicary symbol on their shoulder so I was sold.  I also order some Dark Angels apothecary on bike bits to add more to the model!  I said I wouldn't over do it, so was keeping the model clean.     Now the Dark Angels Apothicary is the old scale
Space Hulk in 2026 - Kill Team

The Imperial Fists - Troops Assembly

So the Imperial Fists: I purchased what I thought I needed (and a bit more) \     So I started assembling the army in a more traditional (to me) way. Priming on the sprue, the assembly was difficult. Having to strip the paint where the model was joined. So I pivotted, as I mentioned, I bought the airbrush and figured I would follow the YouTube videos.  It was a lot easier.  For the Apothecary I used blue tack to block areas.   Nor for the Imperial Fists yo
BrassClaw's Collection of Projects

The Dengamar Strife Character Profile: Lord Inquisitor Lanto Dannyrer

Hey guys!   I have been working on my setting some more and I have come up with a few character profiles of the shakers and mover with in the Dengamar System and Greygar Sub-Sector. Here's Lord Inquisitor Lanto Dannyrer   Lord Inquisitor Lanto Dannyrer Codename: The Architect Affiliation: Ordo Xenos, Imperium of Man Clearance Level: Omega-Red Sector Jurisdiction: Greygar Sub-Sector Origins Born on a frontier world of Ozbudria Zeta, Khrave Marauders ravaged the
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