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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

Yesterday at 02:04 PM

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

Thursday at 08:22 PM

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

Thursday at 02:04 PM

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

Lord_Ikka in Hobby

Thursday at 06:31 AM

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

Wednesday at 07:41 PM

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

refuse in R-Space Hulk-Genestealers

Wednesday at 05:07 PM

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

refuse in R-Space Hulk-Imperial Fists

Wednesday at 04:40 PM

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

Bouargh in Aeldarii

Wednesday at 07:02 AM

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

refuse in R-Space Hulk-Terrain

Tuesday at 04:13 PM

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

Tuesday at 03:58 PM

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

Tuesday at 03:45 PM

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

Combat Patrolling the Galaxy

Tuesday at 02:08 PM

Sven's Hobby

Assault Druhtii

The Greymanes do not have Blood Claws, as they cannot afford to waste even a middling prospective Astartes. Instead, more experienced brothers, whose proficiencies lie in close quarters combat, take up the roles that Blood Claws would in other Chapters of the Russ lineage. These duguthi are odd sorts — impetuous, but measured.

SvenIronhand in Greymanes

Monday at 06:21 PM

Status Check in

Ok, I haven’t forgotten about this, just been a little busy. So I did two more training CP bouts. I got to use the Medusan Reboubt against the Vanghast Swarm. Not much to it, the turrets took out the psychophage pretty much turn one and the heavy intercessors held their own against the rest of the swarm. I split the squad into two squads of five and sent them to take the two no-man land objectives. One group took the charge from the leapers and held. The other held their own against

Focslain in Battle Report

Monday at 04:04 PM

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

I have started this project multiple times in the past. Collecting Genestealers, putting together terminators and more. But usually I would complicate the idea so much that it would get to be to much for me, and time or attention span would not be up to the task. This time I decided on a couple of quick rules. Keep the list as simple as possible I would get lost in magnatizing the marines, or hand carving/building the Space Hulk terrain, and it would just take too lo

May 3

Iron Concord

First four units table ready

The first four units in this project are table-ready: Ballistus Dreadnought, Terminator Squad, and two Assault Terminator Squads. Because the chapter was created to fight alongside the Adeptus Mechanicus, there is some of their iconography. The marine interred in the Dreadnought was a Techmarine, so that iconography is added heavily to that model in particular. This is all a learning experience for me. I've been painting for a long time, but I've never thought of myself

Concord in Iron Concord

May 3

The Dengamar Strife Part 3: The Response

Hey guys! I have more additions to the Dengamar Strife story/setting I'm building. Continuing on after the Dumir’s coup. We learn the Imperium's response: I will be posting some character profiles over the coming days to fill in some of the back story of these characters. So expect to be seeing those, until then!

May 3

Iron and Spirit

The Old Man of the 4th

Well, it's been a while! I've been busy with other projects, but now the weather is improving, I really want to get back to my Marines Adamant! With that in mind, I've finally finished a centre piece build for the army, my Logan Grimnar counts as… Warleader Isgrimnur Ironheart As you can see, he's built from Caanok Var, with a multitude of SW bits and a fair bit of scratch built plastic and GS sculpting, not least of which getting a high enough scenic bas

Lysimachus in Kitbashing/Conversions

May 3

TO&E of my Chaos Marines

Just a quick layout of my current, in-progress units for my CSM. Leaders will have what they are in-game after their name/title, units will have their loadouts after their name. Sub-leaders are two categories- for the Ebon Word they are members of a kill-team/trainee-style leaders that do not have full lore breakdowns. For the Shrikeborn, sub-leaders are unit champions who will have full lore breakdowns. The split comes because the Ebon Word is very character/leader-heavy, where the Shrikeborn h

Lord_Ikka in Update

May 1

The Ninth Verse

They advance as if the air itself were listening each footfall a syllable, each breath a vow No haste, no fury only the cold cadence of certainty A choir that knows the ending before the first note sounds. Blades rise like scripture being recited bolters speak in measured, punishing refrain Where the Ninth Verse strides, doubt curdles into terror they do not fight to win but to affirm what they already believe. The Ninth Verse C

Lord_Ikka in Lore

May 1

The Dire Catechists

Where the Dire Catechists walk, your faith dies screaming. The breakers of idols, the hammers of false light Our steps unmake creeds, our voices drown hymns Shrines crumble beneath our litanies of ruin Priests fall silent beneath the weight of Truth Where we tread, belief is shattered to dust We are the Dire Catechists, and faith dies before us The Dire Catechists Legionaries of the Ebon Word They are the hammer that fa

Lord_Ikka in Lore

May 1