Spawn Again!
As is traditional in the week leading up to the WoffBoot, there'll be quite a few painting updates as we scramble to get our armies tabletop-ready.I've got around 50 models in varying states of...
View ArticleThe Deepwood Clans
Army finished! So time for a quick full army shot.See y'all at the 'Boot this coming weekend!
View ArticleMorghur The Shadowgrave, Master of Skulls, The Corrupter
Or, as his friends know him, Bernard."Hey, I didn't graduate Shadowgrave academy to be called 'Bernard'"It wasn't until I got around to reading the 8th Ed Wood Elf army book (best of the wood elf army...
View ArticleX-Wing: Original Trilogy
Want to spice up your X-life?Try a three-way!For all you Fett-Solo-Calrissian shippers out there.Squadron Leaders Kraken, Kasfunatu and myself (I'm Stylus, how do you do?) were all free for a Skype...
View ArticleLet Slip The Hogs Of War!
I want to expand the menagerie of my Chaos beasts, and since Bestigor and Ungor are the same genus as my existing Gor, it's time to bring on the piggies!Hakuna Matata!As you may have noticed, I'm quite...
View ArticleGor Blimey!
Is it me, or have we been overwhelmed with Gor recently? Well, they are core, so here's some more. Some more core Gor.My first 'horde-level' post, painting like a Kraken!Full disclosure: these were not...
View ArticleNever Mind The Whys and Wereofor
I finally lost my Mierce Miniatures cherry! It's Broga, the Wereofor Thegn, no less - because I guess 'Pigman' is too difficult to spell.With tusks like a Dick Dastardly moustache.Let's wrap up this...
View ArticleWoffBoot X - Stormcast vs Chaos Beasts: The Longest Day
WoffBoot X was always going to be Star Wars-themed (we had the new film to watch in the evening, a Rebellion board game, about 50 X-wing models and a marbletop kitchen counter that looked like a...
View ArticleWoffBoot X - Stormcast vs Chaos Alliance: No Stopping The Sigmartrain!
The dust had settled on our first battle, but now Generals Kasfunatu and East were looking interested in trying a game. And, after all, it was only midnight...... and the full moon was out.(So this...
View ArticleWoffboot X - While You Were Sleeping
No good Woffboot would be complete without a long, whisky-fuelled discussion stretching on until the early morning.Painting warhound lips - the perfect hangover cure.Trained by three years of looking...
View ArticleA Short History of the Dwarven Kingdoms - I
Total Warhammer!Finally, after what seemed like the whole of my adult life, the computer game adaptation of Fantasy battles 8th ed has arrived. Painting commissions have netted me the High King...
View ArticleA Short History of the Dwarves - II
Look for the Silver MiningPart two of a blogged description of my first Total War: Warhammer campaign, playing as the Dwarfs!The grudge has been called, the grobi scum must die. Fight time!This is my...
View ArticleA Short Dwarven History - III
Our holds are attacked!Drums! Drums in the deep! We cannot get out! Etc!As soon as I march High King Thorgrim towards his interesting quest, a small army of goblins burrows under the mountains to the...
View ArticleThe Dwarves, Abridged - IV
Grudges, grudges. So many grudges, so little time.All this losing means there's a lot of grudge to resolve. Alas, I've nobody about to resolve it with. And worse, the growing anger of the dwarves back...
View ArticleThe Horrors... The Horrors
The cellophane wrapping has barely left my Silver Tower box set, and I'm already assembling and painting.You mean it's not going to sit in the leadpile for several years?What heresy is this?I've kicked...
View ArticleBack from the Dead
Poor old Dungeon Saga. Not even a year old, and already hopelessly eclipsed by The Silver Tower in our hearts, minds and painting in-trays.By way of attempting recompense, as the game and its models...
View ArticleLunchtime HeroQuest #1 - The Maze
I'm putting this one under the category of 'why didn't we think of this before?'Read on, stranger...The premise is simple: I have a webcam, a lunchtime and a HeroQuest board. Kraken has a webcam, a...
View ArticleBatfinks
These have been cluttering up my in-tray for months.I started them round about the same time I started the Ungor units for Leofa's Beastmen. I thought I'd do a little bit every week alongside the...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle
So I still collect Warriors of Chaos. Just in case anyone forgot.Peering greedily into the shelves of my FLoGS. I discovered a box of Marauder Horsemen. One of the new AoS ones, a pack of ten, but...
View ArticleThe Fat Man Sings
Yeah, Herne's really let himself go since the 80s. This model turns up a lot on t'web. It's a cracker, to be fair, and a simple one to paint. And it's also one of the cheapest clampacks, a 'mere'...
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