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...
View ArticleTaking 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBuilding a Necron Empire of Gold -Episode 1: The Concept
First off, sorry blogging world for not being around much. There has been some tough times with my father-in-law battling cancer right at a time when work/study has been totally crazy. Life gets like...
View ArticlePainting 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...
View ArticleLeman 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...
View ArticleIn Search of The Ultimate Risk Set
PrefaceThis post has been a long time coming. I have wanted to broaden my blogging topics for a long time but just never got around to it... until now!! In part this was inspired from seeing Odie's new...
View ArticleOn the work bench: A Ceremonial Honour Guard
Life in the Honour Guard: Spend weeks drilling, polishing, yelling, and parading just faint and look like a noob!The other day I pulled out a few more lasconnons to paint in their tan colour for my...
View ArticleModelling Goals for the Year - 14 Projects for 2014
It is possibly a bit of wishful thinking but I never work on just one project at a time so I need a spattering of things on the go. You may notice that I have been purposefully vague with the exact...
View ArticleCeremonial Honour Guard WIP - Part 2
In between my other projects I have slowly been making progress on The Veneration Cannons, so welcome back to part 2 of my step by step build. -If you missed it, part 1 is here-Since last post I have...
View ArticleAn Army of Rough Riders! - WIP Post
OK, a lot of people have asked to see them so here they are!It all started with the 1998 3rd Ed Warhammer 40,00 Rule Book.First of all, this book was great because it included the all of the codex Army...
View ArticleCelebrating 50,000 Hits
Evening Gents. I'm just kicking back with a cool drink on a sweltering 43 degree day looking over the crazy number of visitors that have stopped by my little blog this week.Over the last two and a half...
View ArticleFor Sale: Praetorian Guard Limited Edition Box Set
A good fellow here in Oz by the name of Michael has a mate with a shed full of very old miniatures. I have brought things from him before and he is very reliable. Currently he is parting with a full...
View ArticleThe Confrontation of Tartarus Tor: A farewell to 5th ed Imperial Guard
With the new Guard codex on the horizon, it was with much glee that I managed to squeeze in one final battle with the rule set that has been my 40k life blood for the last 5 years (since May 2009!!)....
View ArticleTaurox Conversion: Lowering ya ride, part 1
Knowing that new Guard goodies were on their way I started putting a fund together so I could join in on the Guard loving. Selling a Tau codex and Warhammer Fantasy rulebook ensured that I would have...
View ArticleTaurox Conversion: Lowering ya ride, part 2
This is a pictorial log of my attempt to lower a Taurox and in doing so improve the overall look of the model (if that is possible). If you haven't checked out Part One,  please do so here.As a...
View ArticleTeuton Scions and Taurox WIP
After starting my Taurox conversion yesterday (found here in Part 1 and Part 2), today I pulled out the Scion kit. Since I first saw them I have been dying to put Curious Construct Pickelhaube heads on...
View ArticleBuilding a Necron Empire of Gold -Episode 1: The Concept
First off, sorry blogging world for not being around much. There has been some tough times with my father-in-law battling cancer right at a time when work/study has been totally crazy. Life gets like...
View ArticleBuilding a Necron Empire of Gold -Episode 2: Working From the Ground Up!
This project seems to be progressing faster then I can blog about it. For those that are just seeing this, it is best to start at the beginning. In Episode 1: The Concept I explained how this project...
View ArticleKingdom 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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