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Building a Necron Empire of Gold -Episode 3: Builders down tool and up weapons!
Well that was a long break between drinks!The last few months have been full of too much work and not much hobby time. As a result the little rulers of the Necron Empire have been growing irritated....
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Mounted Storm Troopers - 1st Carabiniers, Brimlock Dragoons
In the interest of actually posting on my blog regularly, here is the 'work in progress' up date on one squad of my Mounted Storm Troopers. First of, 'Mounted Storm Troopers' do not exist, so lets...
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Militarum Equester - A play through of the new supplement!
For those that have not been following this, I have been working on miniatures and rules for a Rough Rider Army for some time now -The Macharian Thunder Guard! Today was the proud day when I finally...
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The Fall Of Praetoria: by Warhammer 40K Campaigns
Attention citizen soldiers of glorious Praetoria.Praetoria stands at Her hour of need. The call has gone out across the galaxy, to our regiments, our neighbours, our allies and the mighty warriors of...
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Brimlock Dragoons and Praetorian Infantry Progress
Time for another update on the 1st Carabiniers, Brimlock Dragoons.The background and first progress post on these guys are both back here.From last post, I finished sculpting the big jacket cuffs and I...
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Contextualising My Praetorians (and a Big Gun Emplacement)
Well, it has been quite a break between solid painting posts. This blogging drought ends here! Starting this month I will attempt a feat that I have never achieved ever in my last 4 years of...
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Reinforcing the New Front!
"Your spirit is the true shield!"This post is about reinforcing the new army imagery that I introduced last post. To do this I have started painting up a defence line for the new campaign front in the...
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Taking Cover From One Hundred Thousand Hits!
My blog has clicked over to 100,000 hits! Thank you to everyone that has stopped by over the last four years especially to all the great bloggers that have left comments from time to time!In the real...
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The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
I am very good at planning and very good at finishing things, just not so good at joining those two concepts together. I inevitably end up doing way more than I planned, way better than I planned, way...
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Painting Up The Old Demolisher!
After handing up my PhD thesis (which I talked about in my last post) I gave writing a solid brake for a bit. This unintentionally spilled over to my blog too so I have gone a full month without a...
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Leman Russ Demolisher Finished -Tank 211 'Bumblebee'-
Gents, this one is a double blog post, so be sure to checkout the work in progress post for this tank here. As always, comments are always welcome. Seeing that the Preatorians were 'never' on campaign...
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Kingdom Death: Monster - Unboxing and Magnetising
I have been off of the blog for a while but I had to throw up a quick post for this one! My copy of Kingdom Death: Monster arrived (finally) so I have been one happy man this weekend! First off, I know...
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Windmill from ‘The Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek’
White Dwarf 222, of June 1998, featured a battle report adaptation of the Battle of Rorke's Drift - best known from the film ‘Zulu!’ Naturally, this pitted a platoon of the then newly released...
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Easy Medusa Conversion
Here is another small project that happened between other things. I had two Earthshaker Platforms and I wanted one to be a Medusa Siege Gun. I had seen similar conversions on the net so I gave it a...
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Hobby space rework: The reset button has been pushed!
I have not posted here since last year but sometimes it is healthy to step away from things to come back re-invigorated. There has been some sporadic hobby time in there but nothing made it to the blog...
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Terrain Building: My Quest for Better Wargaming Trees
From my younger days with Warhammer 40K I remember seeing many battles fought on what looked like wide grassy fields. I appreciate that Napoleonic and earlier real battles might have looked like this...
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Terrain Building: Carving Rock Pillars with a Hot Foam Cutter
I have been on a terrain building bout recently working on my old school wind generator and a small forest of trees. I have always wanted to make some big rock pillars and cliff faces for my terrain...
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Terrain Building: A mixed bag update - Wind Generator, Rock Formations and...
I really love having lots of things on the go at the same time. It is not great for finishing things but I do get there eventually. I like to keep my hobby as 'me time' so I place no constants on what...
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Terrain Building: Finishing the Rock Formations (and a 40k Sharpe)
I carved up a few more rock formations and set to work painting them. For those just joining this adventure, here are my previous posts on my foam carving and terrain building (post 1, post 2 and post...
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Sharpe’s Duty - A 40k Narative Skirmish
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe Lieutenant Richard Sharpe of the 95th Praetorian Rifles, Imperial Guard, stood at attention in Major-General (Margrave) Chretzo Sigenandus’ command tent. The young lieutenant...
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Ackland Returns from Exile with Plans to Invade Europe: The Blood Lion Crusade
Hello Blogging world! I have pushed my way past the scattered piles of half written blog posts to finally hit the publish button on my blog again. As always I have enjoyed reading many of your posts...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 1]
Big call right. - Trust me, it's worth it.The Easter break provided me with the opportunity to finally pen this epic tale. Enjoy it while downing a few choccy eggs ;) Being married with young kids,...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 2]
(Part 1 here)[Please excuse my over use of Gifs. It was tough for me to write some of this out. Also sorry for the long post - I could not break this part of the story up. If you can make it to the end...
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The Greatest 40k Hobby Adventure Ever Told [Part 3]
The Pride of Praetoria. A thin red line stretching to the horizon, backed up by big guns. This is how I always imagined Praetorians going to war. (Part 1 here, and Part 2 here)I had made it to...
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Attilan Rough Riders Bring Horses to a Tank Fight – and Win
Games Workshop has just announced new Rough Rider models on their community page. It is time to resurrect the Macharian Thunder Guard Cavalry Division. Colonel Ackland is coming out of retirement....
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