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Before an extended hiatus from the hobby, my main army was blood angels. This year I’m remaking them in a new scale for armies on parade.

First post of my blog! First up, this complete boxed game has been funded on Gamefound! Why am I posting here? because it's obviously not 40k... Because, you can also get the terrain separately, if that's all you want (great for Necromunda and 40k etc) It's 2mm thick card and comes pre painted. It's also MASSIVE (those minis are bigger than Astartes) But game is really innovative with diceless combat, and the minis are detailed and pretty unique IMO. Pre-order the Mutated city post apocalyptic terrain set here via the terrain for Grave trigger - designed for the game, but also with other games like Necromunda in mind. This is a pretty imposing structure and works as a display piece (good for showing off your minis) What do you guys think of the design? more info below Back the project here Made from full-colour 2mm punch board with a rigid and robust structure, structure, the terrain is MASSIVE and designed to be an imposing centrepiece on your table. Large 32mm bases can be easily placed around the slabs of the structure. And by slotting the modular shanties between the slabs and columns, even the 50mm bases of the large Grave Trigger miniatures can land and leap from the platforms. This terrain is designed for Grave Trigger, an innovative, dice-less and brutal post apocalyptic skirmish game. The minis are manufactured from Unicool Plastic, which is a durable plastic-resin mix with high fidelity. If you only want the terrain, that's an option just head over to brutal cities to grab your set! Anyway more info on the gamefound campaign page or on the Brutal Cities website blog What do you think of the design? Grab your Grave Trigger set here

Greetings to you all! I have for many a year been plucking away in the WIP thread, but as most of the things I put there are actually finished by the time I post, I thought it a bit more apt to have a thread here as well - and as there is not far from though to action, thus it is done now. The aim of this thread is for me to post pictures of the various B&C permissable armies that I usually work on and the units belonging to them, which I finish. Currently, I have the following armies in my possession: Dark Angels (1st, 2nd and Battle Company) - about 5000 points total Chaos Space Marines (Death Guard, World Eaters, Black Legion & Fallen Angels) - about 4500 points Chaos Daemons (Tzeentch, Nurgle & Khorne) - about 3000 points Imperial Guard allies (Death Korps of Krieg) - about 400 points Grey Knight allies - about 400 points Tyranids - about 8000 points As you can see, there is plenty of potential for varied things to be shown and displayed here - and I look forward to sharing with you all. Thus, with no further ado, I bid you welcome to my thread of finished works from the forge of Master Ciaphas! Faithfully, Master Ciaphas

Hello guys, As per the title - I'm been making and selling MDF terrain for 6 years now! Also slowly moving into STLs for 3d printing as well. (You can see these stls at the Brutal Cities website) If you have any questions about the business, or hobby, let me know! - Ryan

So I did some science. I then followed this science with heresy, because it's awesome, and here's what I ended up with: a dormant Chaos Gate, about half an inch thick. When activated, it produces a glowing tunnel that gives the appearance of being several feet long. Why? For the glory of Chaos, of course! UPDATE: Brief (6 min) how-to-build video: https://youtu.be/JHh7IZqpGoY http://i.imgur.com/bcQrfnOl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Xb3drUpl.jpg

I enjoy modelling and painting, but I had no idea what to do with the models, so I began GMing a Dark Heresy 2E. Then I also wound up modelling stuff not in the game. Anyway, lets see what turns up! The PCs were an Arbitrator, Desperado and an Ad Mech He needed shades They soon met a harlequin that liked to mess with them. I love John Blanche and felt harlies should be "horror clowns" more than theatrical types:

So, some of you may remember my old blog, detailing my exploits in the 40K world of gaming. Most won't; that's okay. I did it then to inspire myself to keep painting and, in the process, may inspire others to do the same. One of the concepts supported there was "The Three Foot Rule", a concept that, as far as I know, was thought up by a friend of mine and which has lived with me for more than a decade. It goes something like this: Having painted miniatures on the table makes for a much more enjoyable game. For almost the entire game, you see your opponents miniatures at a distance of at least three feet. Therefore, if you can paint to a three foot standard (and make it look good), why not? So, there you have my painting philosophy in a nutshell. I'm not that great. Pictures are great but can show off the smallest defects, so don't be too hard on me when I screw something up. Besides, I'm getting old and my eyes aren't that great. Neither are my hands. Did I mention that I can be sarcastic and self-deprecating? A few other things: I love terrain. A good table makes playing a lot more fun. I have lots of grandiose ideas that I never finish. You'll see a lot of starts here but no so many finishes. Gaming should be fun, so expect a bit of (my strange) humor. First two things on the table are a complete redo of terrain for my table and the completion of my Legion of the Darned army. Legion of the Darned? You heard me right. More on that later. Two of my friends are also working on terrain, so you may see pictures of their stuff here also. One has a standard gray/black ruined building set-up (though not standard in build) and another is working on a forgeworld. I decided to make mine one of those mortuary worlds (kind of). Lots of goth, vegetation reclaiming what it can, graves and statuary, etc. Over the years I have accumulated more than my fair share of terrain kits, bits, and bobs. One of my favorites was the Pegasus line of gothic buildings. I start my quest with a little thing I am calling "The Rose Window Building". I started by gluing some 1/16 inch plasticard to 1/8 inch brownboard. This gave the base good rigidity as well as allowing me to glue plastic to plastic. I used Gorilla glue, clamps, bricks, and anything else I could think of to keep things together while the piece dried. I then chopped of the edges with a saw to make them neat and clean. Lastly, I measured out where the columns would sit, then scored the plastic with a linoleum knife to create the cut lines in 'concrete'. This was followed by simply gluing my already constructed building to the base. I built a little second floor from spare card, as I like second (and third) levels. You can see it in a later pic. I primed the entire things with desert sand spray paint, gave it a sepia wash, then dry brushed it white. The doors were painted brown. Lastly, I glued on some grass, lichen, and HO scale shrubs and small trees to create the 'nature taking back' look. Since I use a green grass mat for my table, it throws of colors a little when I take a pic, but here is the final version. It fits the three foot rule perfectly, I think.

After a many-year hiatus, I've (mostly) put my hobby bench back together, and am ready to start getting dirty. For my Loyalist Legio, I've created Legio Lupos, the Wolf Pack. ...and for the Traitors, Legio Erinyes. For Loyalist Knights, House LowenKralle ...and lastly for today, a WIP of my Questoris Scion. Clearly I also need a lesson in how to properly post images to the forums! All of the pics are here:

[Posted in the wrong section. Please move.] Of relevance to the science fantasy setting Warhammer 40'000. Copy-pasted from an advice reply over on T9A for Mad 'At's Citycape Skirmish Blog, since much of it could be of general interest to wargamers all over. Mad 'At is by the way an accomplished scenery builder and miniature painter, as should be evident here, and it's something out of the ordinary to play across his club's terrain at some Swedish tournaments. I guess the board will double up as both sewers and streets with canals? I'd highly recommend you paint some odd stones in different tones to add interest to the plain grey board as it stands. E.g. blue-grey, reddish brown, beige, blackish grey. Likewise, a little moss and painted lichen clinging to stonewall surfaces can break up the grey monotone and give life to the texture: [align=center] [/align] It can easily be done, and is a simple way to improve terrain. Needn't be Golden Demon level, something quick like this from a Danish Frostgrave table adds a lot. Also, a touch of ivy somewhere could be neat. As could the rare tuft of grass growing between cracks in a stone or brick wall (not the street stones, that could impede placing bases around). Yellowed grass will help keep it grimdark if that is desired. And a simple bird's nest somewhere high up in a ruin could add a lot, maybe with eggs in it. Onward, wood can easily be made to look more organic on miniatures and [lexicon]terrain[/lexicon] by adding a few streaks of grey or grayish-greenish-brown (Catachan Green is a classic) into thew woodwork. This is not to say that all the wood surface shall be covered in it, but that once one have painted it brown, one can add a few veins of grayish green. [align=center][/align] Clever take with the ruined parts of Avras (Constantinople and Rome rolled into one) for a Mordheim game. This is probably not what Cityscape Skirmish players want to see, but what the heck: In both the case of Rome and Constantinople, when they got largely depopulated and the living city shrunk back within the walls, parts of the former city were given over to farming and pasture for cattle, goats, swine and sheep. So that you had a living city centre, huddling together around the Vatican in the case of Rome, and lots of ruins and abandoned enormous monuments, falling apart in urban decay. And scattered amid all this was some agriculture within the city walls. So you could include some field or orchard in a misplaced location, e.g. on some broken-up market square or within the walls of a ruined temple whose roof collapsed long ago. Perhaps some makeshift little stable of herdsman's hut thrown up against the towering stone wall of some ancient grand building. Maybe even stray farm animals just for flavour without any effect whatsoever on the game, moving out of the way automatically as the warbands roam about (or perhaps breaking line of sight and possibly stampeding in panic for some odd scenario - or being a cattle raid)? Maybe some broken statue could enhance the ruined impression? Likewise, as a bone thrown to fungoid Goblin fans out there, you could make a patch or two of brightly coloured mushrooms who release spores with odd gameplay effects in their vicinity, particularly for sewer play. And some unearthed mass grave, for all Necromantic needs. Furthermore, don't be afraid to add burn markss to frayed and damaged edges of ruins. It can aid with the visual impression. And speaking of marks, some old dried blood stains or just stains of mold, dung or dirt could help break up the grey stone expanse. Not big spots and splotches, but ones better done with a detail or stippling brush. And if you ever do a living inhabited city quarter, you could include posh ancient fluted columns and other intricately carved stonework that has been looted from old buildings and built into newer ones, such as shoddy little mansions. Here are parts of some ancient Greek columns from the Bactrian kingdom still in use in Afghanistan today: [align=center][/align] Also, while much more relevant to sci-fi than to fantasy, some graffiti in the form of chalked or coal-drawn clan markings, pathfinding signs or unholy occult symbols drawn by gibberish madmen (Chaos stars and so on) could be added to some ruin or another. Perhaps Roman, Viking or Egyptian style? Just throwing ideas in case anything is of interest. Hills as Dump Piles On a different note, how about spicing some of your hills? Tired of all wargaming hills looking virtually the same? While we all want a flat surface on top for movement, the steep hillsides are usually open field for add-ons, so long as they don't interfere with movement trays on top and units passing by. While moss and flowers can be added to the sides of hills to bring nature more into the game, there is also another route which can be taken. Simultaneously with the vegetation, in fact: Hills as dump piles. One dump could be corpses and skeletons, such as this Hill of the Slain, an illustration for Silmarillion: Another could be ruin stones poking out from the sides of the hills, some bearing ornate carvings, like the Schuttberg in Germany made up of rubble from cities bombed asunder during the Second World War: Another could be a Tell, an ancient settlement mound built up of layers upon layers of sunbaked mud brick. Perfect for desert tables. Some artistic license would work best here, since the outermost layer of bricks usually crumble down to an indistinguishable dust layer. Instead, make some sections of the hillside be worn brick wall visible among the earth. Could include pottery and bones for extra effect: Yet another take on a fully or partially artificial hill could be to make it a dumping ground for waste, such as one made up entirely of pottery shards stacked on top of one another, akin to Monte Testaccio in Rome which is a hill made up of millions of discarded olive oil amphorae during the city's ancient heyday of bustle and consumption: And last and least, how about a dump pile for Skaven underground digging? All those tunnels and caverns clawed out from the earth must leave a lot of waste, that needs to be dumped above ground. This would be an ordinary hill, but perhaps with some Skaven skull or broken ratman shield or weapon sticking out from the earth, rocks or grass of the hillside. The same could be done for others than the verminous swarms, of course, including Dwarfs (runestone proclaiming ownership of dump pile material by some clan?), Chaos Dwarfs ( sprinkled with obsidian shards and dead Goblins?) and Goblins (Goblin waste, including dung, broken gear and fungi). Just make sure any such vertical/diagonal additions to hills are done in a friendly fashion for tabletop movement. Got any tips of your own to share? Do please spill the beans!

I did a survey for epic scale terrain in general last year, but it's still going and I'd love to know what you guys want to see in future terrain. You can find the survey here if you'd like to add your voice! Here is the terrain I've designed so far: They are not in the best situation, on the roof! You can find the collection of epic scale terrain here - it's designed to work with 6mm (epic 40) 8mm (Legions imperialis) and even 10 and 15mm! This is due to the proportions of the large public scale architecture. While the photo above shows battletech minis, the buildings work with legions imperials scale guys too. You can also see the new 3d Printable terrain I've just released. (the golden brutalist building with the mech on the roof, and the small buildings with ducting. The tower here is actually a local Sydney skyscraper I love. I wanted to show people how tall skyscrapers are compared to epic scale minis. The tower breaks apart into separate buildings too, for more flexibility. Also turns into 28mm when you put it on its side! Anyway thanks again and if you'd like to tell me what to design next you can find the survey here

So it's been probably years since I have put my face on these forums and it's probably time I get back to where it all started... I've had some very hectic tournaments in the last few years, focusing primarily on CSM but moved the start of 2016 to the loyalist and superior codex of SPACE MARINES! I've gone through a full circle event realising that as much as I do love Death Guard, they were not heavy on the chaos iconography like other chaos marines were so I went back and built a full army of loyalist kits with the preheresy scheme with a few worn out models but mostly basic painting on them. I ran with this on the CSM codex for a good two years, heavily investing in vindicators, land raider and terminators to get my work done and I performed well most games but then the codex creep came... Experiments with 4 Maulerfiends, Cypher in Spawn stars, and all the like left me feeling let down by the basic elements of the army and so the Emperors guiding light set me free. The leap into using preheresy models came almost 2 years ago because of their rugged and tough appearance plus being expensive they were not seen often at tournaments in this area so I took to it quickly and they suited my painting style - fast and washy! Within months I had made 50 marines and a few tanks as well as ordered 15 odd terminators, which is now in the 50 mark thanks to BAC and BOP box sets. My shift in the hobby though turned towards the hobby, where I found solace those earlier years when things in life just seemed tough, warhammer and particularly the building of terrain gave me a reason to be excited for tomorrow. https://www.facebook.com/DistrictTerra/ I put most of my stuff on here, been using it as a good creative release and have just in the last month moved in to a much bigger home where I can finally get some real work done and all those half finished projects can go to rest. Just to make sure there is enough spam in the post. I hope to reconnect again with those of you I may have lost, and make new friends along the way!!! Introduce yourself either here or FB. Looking forward to a good reunion.

greetings, I'm coming from 40k0. Been lurking B&C painting/modelling section for a while and I thought i'd start posting and sharing my work. here's my start on the Imperial Fists 5th company. This project is looking pretty exciting, I'm looking to really bring these guys to life and develop the Chapter a bit more. hopefully I'll have more to share as I finish some modeling and christen my handy-dandy new airbrush with craploads of yellow. Sorry for the bad pictures, believe or not these were the best ones of the batch... Just looking to share and fishing for C&C. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/102.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/103.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/105.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/106.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/107.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/111.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/109.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/augustmanifesto/imperial%20fists/108.jpg