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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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  • 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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  • 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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"From the darkness we strike: fast and lethal....."

"Disrupt the Enemy Lines!" Part 2

"Disrupt the Enemy Lines!" will be a series of blog articles for my LGS HH 3.0 Slow Grow Campaign    Lists are updated monthly; new 500pt increments must be submitted by the end of the first weekend each month.   List Writing Restrictions No Characters with the Unique Special Rules Your first 500pt list MUST contain a High Command Unit   How to Score Points Each month you can earn up to 3 points for your team: Fully paint this month’s 500pts
In Service of the Imperium- W.A.Rorie's Blog

RIP Self Healing cutting mat....You did your job....

Well it is a sad day...my self healing cutting mat is done for...once I buy a new one.  All because a Bottle of Extra Thin Super glue cracked in multiple places and glued stuff down.    So went to my FLGS that is closing at the end of the month, which will be another blog post in itself, to say goodbye to the owner and pick up some debonder.  While purchasing the debonder, one of the employees said Extra Thin Super Glue bottle crack on you? I said yes and he said I am hearing that a lo
W.A.Rorie

W.A.Rorie in Miscellaneous

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The building uprising of Prawa V

Getting Freja into the Core

So, this one follows on from the Death of 329 blog, but occurs before it, as regards timeline. As with that one, it's not set in stone, this is all first draft stuff.   For some context, at the end of the previous story, the Resistance and bureaucracy ruling Prawa V made a kind of pact which benefitted both, but was ultimately not what either wanted. Reformed into the Concord. Read through previous blogs for more info.   This story takes place about 50-odd years after the fir
Pointy and Spiky

CtA25 - More Progress

Hi Folks,   It is astonishing how much hobby tasks you can complete when kids are in summer camps. Last few days saw me completing the Rangers and the Spirit seer. Whereas I also started priming and making the cloaks on the shroudrunner riders.       It is therefore a total of 15,5 points painted out of the 38 pts vow.   And the rest of the pledge is already quite well launched, with only WarpSpiders being in a state of still being on s
Bouargh

Bouargh in CtA25

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The Veiled Oblivion - the Severed on Crusade

[Intro] A world spotted, a force dispatched

The Program/Gestalt-Lord saw.  Cryptek-class units bent space and sent probes. Seeking clarity. Seeking knowledge. A outlying planet. War-wracked, hurting. Armies clashed and swirled. Many forces trying to claim something... there. A massive, twisting structure of metal, Aeldari wraithbone, human flesh, and the noctilith blackstone. A gate into the chaotic realm of the Warp.    The Program/Gestalt-Lord/C'tan felt. Disgust/bitter fervor/anger Whispers of emotion from
Lord_Ikka

Lord_Ikka in Lore

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The building uprising of Prawa V

The Death of 329

So, I am tinkering with a follow-up to the story I have written while I take a break before editing. I cannot recall who who said it (Oscar Wilde, maybe?), but someone said "kill your darlings." I've written this brief passage that follows on from the blog entry here:  Essentially, Krystan has programmed 329 to get ahead and provide a distraction for Freja so she can do what she needs to. There's no sympathy here. It is a machine. And it won't stop. Its only programming is to advance an
GSCUprising

GSCUprising in Prawa V - 50 Years On

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

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing like working on models and going to move something and discovering your super thin super glue bottle somehow had a leak and now stuff is glued to your self healing cutting mat including your ceramic coffee mug paint cup.....   Damage is fully unknown at this point but brand new Army Painter paint pot is glued down.    Its stuff....but the self healing mat hurts if I cant use super glue debonder. 
W.A.Rorie

W.A.Rorie in Miscellaneous

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"From the darkness we strike: fast and lethal....."

"Disrupt the Enemy Lines!"

Well one of the LGS is doing a Slow Grow League for Horus Heresy 3.0 and well I think My XIXth Legion will be getting the call.  Here are the details.   Horus Heresy 3.0 Slow Grow Campaign The Tarkath Front – War for the Galcoran Reach Duration:: August 2nd 2025 - January 31st 2026 Starting Points: 500 pts Monthly Growth: +500 pts per month (up to 3,000 pts by January) Entry Fee: $30 (free if you purchased the Saturnine box)   ⸻   The fir
W.A.Rorie

W.A.Rorie in Raven Guard & Successors

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Domhnall's hobby goodness

Game time! Preparing for club tournament

I have recently had the chance to join a local gaming group (Midhammer if there is anybody local who knows it), so now I'm getting to play games! Yeay!    I've now got 2 full games under my belt, and I start in the tournament in September... I'm expecting bottom of the table results    Bonus points are awarded for painted armies, so that means I need to get the proverbial digit out and painting!            So, continuing from my previous Ter
Domhnall

Domhnall in Imperial Reivers

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Pointy and Spiky

CtA25 - Progress report for Second Vow

Hi Folks,   Less than one week after pledging a second vow, I already have some progress with one completed unit of Wraithguards.     And a small close up on one WG:     One big advantage of the Saim-Hann paint scheme (oand of COntrast color range) is that is is relatively easy to harvest quick results. Without any kind of irony, I can say that I spent as much time painting and flocking the bases that doing the bodies and heads.  
Bouargh

Bouargh in CtA25

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Iron and Spirit

Hellfire and Dirt!

So, another update!   This time I've been working on one of the units that will be taken from C:SM, a squad of Hellblasters. However, considering that the army will have a more Firstborn feel to them, I decided to make them as a ‘Plasma Support Squad’! I also wanted the squad members to keep the more individual feel of the counts-as Grey Hunter units, so I mixed up the types of plasma weapons, though this is just an aesthetic choice - they're all standard Hellblasters in the list.
Lysimachus

Lysimachus in Kitbashing/Conversion

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The Hateful 88th

Informing choices...

When doing an army the how and what you do is down to choice, to a greater or lesser degree - but no, you cannot take the Emperor.   However there is also the why. For me I like my actual model choices, their options, and how I build them, to link back to (and be informed by) some background information - before D6s I was known to roll D20s and D100s, so there will always be that roleplaying narrative element with me and what I do. So, for the Iron Warriors there are some stateme
Pointy and Spiky

Does it means this army is complete?

... well probably, or at least for a while.    Hi Folks,   A little big small update on my Drukhari force. Initially designed to be used as Ynnari units only the death of the Aeldarii index (caused by the release of the Codex) led to declassing of many unit options. And left me with as much units that could not be fielded along Crafworlders than units than could. This seeded the idea of compelting the army to a minimum size, big enough to be playable without any kind of objec
Bouargh

Bouargh in Drukhari

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Bad Mood Rising

Square Pants Bob

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
Bouargh

Bouargh in Milestone

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Zulu.Tango's Hobby Blog

Wrapping Wreckas

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
Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

CtA25 - Planting a second Vow...

Hi Folks,     In my Blogs' last installement I was wondering what could be a second pledge within the spectrum of options available in my backlog:   https://bolterandchainsword.com/blogs/entry/1137-cta25-1st-vow-completed/?do=getNewComment     In the end I found that it could eventually be… both things at the same time. While maximizing points in the Xenos Stronghold and giving priority to the Crafworlders I might be able harvesting some points while pai
The building uprising of Prawa V

The Hunt of the Night Rovfugl

I am so looking forward to completing one of my pledges - the Night Rovfugl, Barcza, and his team of Kasrkin. I will get this done this weekend. It is, quite honestly, one of the most adventurous models I have taken on. You ain't seen no Valkyrie yet, guys. And, in keeping with my mixing of languages and giving my vehicles some character, 'rovfugl' is akin to 'bird of prey' in Danish.   The Night Rovfugl flew blacked-out, its matte hull cutting low across the desert. No lights nor insi
Plz motivate me blog

Exemplary battle The Battle of Skallic

I really quite enjoyed exemplary battles when they were a thing and was quite frankly gutted once they went, no matter I'll just make my own with 40k kits and other delights!   My first battle is the Battle of Skallic a two part mini campaign myself and friend played a few weeks back to test out some 30k in 40 minute rules I converted from 3rd ed 40k.   It pits the Death guard vs Salamanders on a fungal agri world in my 30/40k narrative setting The Cathedra Sector   
The Hateful 88th

In the beginning...

In the beginning...     As can be seen I have been into Warhammer 40K for about as long as it is possible to have been, and for me when I think of Adeptus Astartes I first think of my RTB01 kit of 30 marines in very dark blue plastic, that later became known as MKVI Corvus pattern, as well as their Umbra pattern bolters and bolt pistols, chain blades and bayonets, and what latterly became Proteus pattern missile launchers and Phaestos pattern flamers.   Eventually Foregwor
Pointy and Spiky

CtA25 - 1st vow Completed

Hi Folks, 6 weeks and 7 units painted. Considering almost 2 weeks hiatus due to family business and some welcomed holidays, it is not that bad. But, wait a minute… 7 Units? Let’s check: -          One Archon (kit bashed) -          One Raider -          Two Venoms -          Ten Kabalites (Hand of the Archon) -          Ten Witches -          One Succubus That’s a confirmed 7 counts. Which also means that my first pledge for CtA25 is now complete!
Bouargh

Bouargh in CtA25

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Iron and Spirit

2k List Building with Space Wolves

Hello all,   So, for this blog post I've been perusing Codex SW and thinking about list building.   A lot of the units in the list below would be counts-as of one form or another (for example, the Fenrisian Wolves will be Servitors and the Gladiator Lancer will be represented by a Sicaran Venator), but for the purposes of this post I figured I'd keep it simple by focusing on what stuff will be in game terms.   It's not intended as mega competitive, but just a fun li
"You are my unbroken blades."

XIVth Legion build

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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