They Dug Too Deep
This week, on When Dwarves Go Bad...Yeah, more Massive Darkness. These are the Dwarf Warrior mobs, along with their bosses. Nice pick for dungeon monsters, these! Not the spiky Chaos Dwarves of GW,...
View ArticleThey Deep Too Dug
To cut a long story short, I painted more Dwarves.There's still a sad part of my soul that hankers after a Chaos Dwarf army. Even though they haven't really made it into AoS mainstream, probably...
View ArticleLittle Red Riding Hoods
Gracious, Grandmamma, what a big beard you've got.The Troglodytes, last of the minions for Massive Darkness, are tribes of evil-worshipping barbarians who live deep in the dungeons. I'm sold, basically...
View ArticleWarhammer Conquest Issue #1 - The Grand Opening
... well, you can hardly 'unbox' a magazine.Warhammer Conquests is a collaboration between Games Workshop and Hachette Partworks (the guys who know all about these 'collect-as-you-go' magazines). You...
View ArticleBrutes on the Ground
There's a light at the end of the tunnel!Yes, the minions for Massive Darkness are all done. And all the heroes. Nothing but sweet, sweet monsters from here on in, and it should be a genuinely joyful...
View ArticleGet To The Chopper!: Thousand Sons vs Tyranids
Caught in a warp-saturated space hulk, a thrallband of Thousand Sons must cut their way through the escape hatches before the tendrils of Hive Fleet Afanc close in...Homebrew! Who doesn't love it,...
View ArticleEchoes of War Part I: Space Wolves vs Genestealer Cults
We're off to the hivesprawls of the planet Vigilus (the latest playground in the narrative of the 41st millennium) - a mini-campaign from the recent Tooth And Claw box!I, Stylus, will be giving Kraken...
View ArticleGet Up and Golem
Just a quick one! I was slowed down this week by a nasty cold.Not stopped, of course, my hands are still functional. Therefore I must paint, and with my implacable determination driving me, I did a...
View ArticleThus Ever Two Tyrants
There's quite a lot of redundancy in Tyranid kits, more so than most I'd say. Only one thing to do with spare biomass, right?First up, Zooanthropes. Venomthropes seemed more of a priority when I first...
View ArticleEchoes of War Part II: Space Wolves vs Genestealer Cults
We return to the hivesprawls of Vigilus - and the epic conclusion of the Tooth And Claw mini-campaign!I, Stylus, will continue my insidious infestation. Having enjoyed success in the previous two...
View ArticleMy Old Man Said Follow the Van Saar
See, this is what happens when you live a ten minute walk away from a FLoGS.Dick Van Dyyke sings 'My Old Power Bamboo'The Van Saar gang didn't really grab me when they first came out. Something about...
View ArticleHark! The Angels' Ravenwing: Thousand Sons vs Dark Angels
Hunt the Fallen! The Sons of Prospero take on the First Legion as my Thousand Sons thrallband resist interrogation from the Dark Angels!And in a rare change of pace, I'll be playing in person! Like...
View ArticleBanner Headline
Time the Hagan Lampreys had something to muster under.Without the will or the wallet to buy any more boxes of Scions, I needed to get fairly creative with my spare parts to make a flag waver for the...
View ArticleCaught Some Weres in Time
Massive Darkness descends once more!You can probably count the number of werewolves I like in the world of figures on the eyes of a cyclops. This is a rare exception, in that I like the pose. And the...
View Article57 Varieties of Sorcery
It's been a year since I bought my trio of Exalted Sorcerers, so it's about time I finished off the third one...... but not before I paint a couple of other ones first!Don't jump the queue, sonny.First...
View ArticleFrom The Depths It Rises...
Another Mutalith Vortex Beast? You betcha. I got the first one to divide between Age of Sigmar and 40k, but this one is definitely for the Thousand Sons.... which is ironic, because I used an Age of...
View ArticleEvery Dog Has Its Day
After a mere decade, Mrs Stylus took an interest in painting a Space Marine.I showed her a catalogue of chapters for inspiration.Me: "You can paint them any colour you like.""What are these grey ones...
View ArticleBiclops
End of the see-son sale! Eye one, get one free!Yes indeedy, it's a twofer on Polyphemoi. These are the two biggest monsters in the Massive Darkness set, towering over their chums by a good inch in most...
View ArticleBrush (Not) For Hire
The following models were painted by me for someone else. That said, there are three very good reasons why I'm no commission painter:My painting standard, honed over the decades, is what I would call...
View ArticleBrawny Brawny Banks
Time for a song.O you'll take the High TrollAnd I'll take the Low TrollAnd let's hope these Ogres ignore usAlthough Low Trolls are low,So my hit points are alsoAnd there's no potions left to restore us...
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