tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35150710296819915812024-03-13T04:22:12.056+00:00Eyes of the SnakeThe Euphemismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15402213608990137564noreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-36845515927314961122020-01-14T18:00:00.001+00:002021-05-07T16:13:41.184+01:002019 Hobby Review and 2020 Goals
Well I haven't been able to update the blog in a few months due to being very busy, but I have been getting plenty of hobbying done. That is not to say I've actually finished much, as I seem to accrue new side projects at an alarming rate, despite my resolution last year to not start any new projects I've done a rather poor job of that. This year however I am determined to have a year of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-12956313674016378572019-08-25T11:00:00.000+01:002019-08-25T11:00:02.840+01:00Malifaux - Domadores de Cadaveres
When these miniatures were released I just thought they looked so cool I had to have them, that they fit with my Lady Justice crew was an added bonus! However, with the announcement of Third Edition these Spanish necromancers got shelved as I waited to see what the new version of the rules would be. Now that Third Edition is out and it looks good, I've been motivated to finish painting my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-56439568024944324042019-08-18T11:00:00.000+01:002019-08-18T11:00:04.745+01:00More Primaris Conversions
Due to moving house and not having any internet I was forced to take a bit of a break from blogging for a few months but now I'm back, and not with any of the stuff I was actually meant to be painting...
Earlier this year I ended up with another set of easy-build Intercessors, initially I was planning on converting into something a bit retro but this unfortunately fell through. Left with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-74257800267001925722019-05-26T15:09:00.000+01:002019-05-26T15:09:33.273+01:00Inq28 Navigators Finished
After a few weeks of hobby inactivity, I've finally had the chance to sit down and finish off my Navigator war band. Though I haven't had the opportunity to use them in any games of Inquisimunda, this was mostly just a chance to try and experiment with a different style, which I've enjoyed doing very much.
House Invespucci of the Navis Nobilite
As I've had a lot of fun with my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-21330004828368664622019-04-15T16:41:00.000+01:002019-04-15T16:41:22.458+01:00Custodes WIP (Apr 2019) - The push to 2000 points
This year I've managed to get some wargaming in nearly every week, and when those games have been 40k I've really enjoyed playing with my Custodes. While relatively simple to play, I've found them very rewarding and have wanted to get into playing some bigger games with them. The release of the Venatari tipped my hand and I've now started pushing towards a 2000 point army of pure Custodes.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-78607217202652082542019-04-07T14:48:00.000+01:002019-04-07T14:48:08.684+01:00Dark Spirits of Middle-Earth
While not an army unto itself, I had these misc. evil miniatures laying around and thought I'd give them a fresh lick of paint. These were quite quick and simple to paint up as they are mostly just dark robes and dingy armour, though I think they convey the mood of these characters quite well.
The Necromancer and the Castellans of Dol Guldur are some of my favourite miniatures from the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-2311249828036451072019-03-24T12:27:00.000+00:002019-03-24T12:27:10.795+00:00Army Showcase: Mordor
The board is set. The pieces are moving...
With 'Gondor at War' coming out, for my first Middle-Earth project of the year I decided to shift focus from my Isengard army to my Mordor one. Before I even got painting there was been quite a bit of stuff to fix and convert first which took a significant amount of time. When I first got into miniatures it was through LOTR, and I bought all kinds of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-64419923872622557112019-03-17T12:20:00.000+00:002019-03-17T12:20:00.833+00:00Project Orc - Part 2
"...the time of the Orc has come!"
Project Orc is now completed! I now have 20 generic orc warriors painted up to use in either Mordor/Barad-Dur, Angmar, or Isengard army, with a generic captain and three banner-bearers for those forces. This was a fun little start to my 2019 plans for my LOTR forces and hopefully soon my completed Mordor army shall be appearing on the blog.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-38924142977795237122019-03-10T20:44:00.000+00:002019-03-10T20:44:03.792+00:00Inq28 WIP - Navigators II
After some more rooting around in my bits boxes and quite a lot of green-stuffing, I have put together my next three Navigators to finish off my war band and I've even started to get some paint on them. I've no idea if they'll ever see use on a tabletop but its proving to be an enjoyable little side project as something very different to my LOTR forces. Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-69776509204234119592019-02-24T01:11:00.000+00:002019-02-24T01:11:10.260+00:00Talons of the Emperor Army Showcase II - Adeptus Astra TelepathicaIn the second part of my Talons of the Emperor Army Showcase, I will be looking at the non-Custodes elements which help to bring variety to my army as well as being fun little projects each in their own right. While they aren't really field-able as a coherent force themselves, they are meant to serve as allies I can take alongside my Custodes as and when I need certain kinds of support.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-66113035027362142402019-02-10T00:55:00.000+00:002019-02-10T00:55:08.312+00:00Talons of the Emperor Army Showcase I - Adeptus CustodesMy Talons of the Emperor army that I painted last year has been one of my favourite miniatures projects I've ever embarked upon. It has been loads of fun and exceptionally rewarding in a way I doubt my next few projects will be. Painting-wise; red, gold, and black are my favourite colours and this might be best army I've ever painted, having tried a lot of different techniques including glazes, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-91548627777636214342019-02-03T12:30:00.000+00:002019-02-03T12:30:06.040+00:00How to: Basing Middle-Earth
The finished bases
I'm trying to put more painting and modelling guides onto the blog so I thought I'd start a year likely to be filled with Middle-Earth miniatures with a guide to how I do them, alongside a few thoughts I have at the end on variations. For reference, I have largely followed GW's grassy plains tutorial for my Middle-Earth miniatures but with some minor difference.
I wanted aUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-73055249529849870272019-01-27T12:30:00.000+00:002019-01-27T12:30:13.676+00:00Project Orc - Part 1
"The age of men is over..."
After flicking through the 'Armies of the Lord of the Rings' book in preparation for doing some new projects, I realised that by simply buying some Orc Warriors I'd be able to field several more armies than I currently can. Due to the somewhat random collection of miniatures I own, I worked out that if I had just one set of basic orcs I could not only bolster my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-17558750320534521192019-01-20T12:00:00.000+00:002019-01-20T12:00:13.871+00:00Inq28 WIP - Navigators I
So I've finally started work on my little Inq28 war band of Navigators. Thus far its been a whole lot of fun bringing my ideas to life from the original concepts I started coming up with last year. I thought it might be fun at this stage in the project to compare my original concepts with the assembled miniatures and talk about how things developed adapting from page to model.
First up IUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-79700805390132658612019-01-06T12:07:00.000+00:002019-01-06T12:07:20.178+00:002018 Hobby Review and 2019 Goals
This seemed oddly relevant to these kinds of posts
Looking back at my hobby review of 2017 and goals for 2018, I think I haven't done too badly this past year! Though its true that I got side tracked and started/finished some projects I didn't mean to, I have gotten more painting done overall than I did in 2017 which I'm counting as a win. I've also posted more on the blog: 24 posts this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-66492599876132237052018-12-16T20:01:00.001+00:002018-12-16T20:01:25.797+00:00The Forge World Nazgul of Dol Guldur are bad
As I've been getting back into the newly re-branded 'Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game', I've been digging out all my old LOTR miniatures and really enjoying getting them ready to play with. While doing this I began contemplating starting a Hobbit-era force and my first thought was to do a 'Dark Powers of Dol Guldur' army as it would be fairly small, I love the Nazgul, and I'd get to useUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-18504011187154818722018-11-24T12:00:00.000+00:002018-11-24T12:00:11.054+00:00Thinking about Inquisimunda/Inq28
For the first time since I've been at uni (which is getting to be quite a long time now), I've been going along to the wargaming evening that the Tabletop Society runs on a Friday and there has been talk of a possible narrative campaign some time next year using the Inquisitor or Inquisimunda rulesets. I've never played in a campaign like that before but I've always wanted to really go crazy kitUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-37016524016693239152018-11-11T16:26:00.000+00:002018-11-11T16:26:08.460+00:00Servath Reznik, the Wrath of Ages
As I mentioned in a previous post, I've kinda decided to just quit Warmachine now unless Privateer Press really shake things up. I repainted my army last year after getting a few more things for it, but I found the process of doing so quite draining and not the most enjoyable of hobbying experiences for a number of reasons. In 2016 I tried to renew my interest in the game and had a few Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-17765498883034605362018-11-03T13:30:00.000+00:002018-11-03T13:30:01.764+00:00Re-painting Isengard (Nov WIP)
"Build me an army, worthy of Mordor"
Though I began earlier this year working on my Easterlings, the first army I am planning on getting painted up fully is my Isengard force. This is mostly because I'm quite happy with the base colours (it just needs highlights and touching up), I don't need to buy anything else for the force as its around 1000 points already, and Saruman is one of my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-28797032371206787162018-10-20T14:00:00.000+01:002018-10-20T14:00:01.713+01:00Starting a Kill Team
The new Warhammer Conquest part-works subscription thing looks quite interesting. If the armies involved were different and I had more disposable income I'd be somewhat tempted, but instead I just decided to just pick up the first issue because it was only about two pounds and you get three pots of paint and a brush with it which is an absolute steal. I also received a second one as a gift &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-47017267457308177082018-10-13T19:24:00.000+01:002018-10-13T19:24:12.493+01:00Autumn Workbench 2018 - Experimental Undead, Malifaux Mumblings, and Hobby Review
Last year in late autumn I wrote a bit of a rambling post about current things I was working on as well as reflecting upon my progress over the year in relation to the goals I posted back in February. I've got a few odds and ends I'm working on at the moment, and I've started thinking about next year already, so I thought I'd write another rambling post as autumn comes upon us once again. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-80098499724133024922018-10-06T13:00:00.000+01:002018-10-06T13:00:09.581+01:00At the Court of the Silver King - Chapter IV: The Fate-Ender
The agents of the Dark Gods also turn their attention to the Court of the Silver King. Seeking to foil the machinations of the God-King Sigmar, Tzeentch calls upon one of his more unusual servants to claim the head of an ancient traitor...
The wizard’s head fell from his body, three hundred years of schemes unravelled in an instant. The cult-leader hadn’t even felt the blow of the axe,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-15717314545593888262018-09-23T12:37:00.000+01:002018-09-23T12:37:05.744+01:001985 Mouth of Sauron
As I mentioned in a previous post, I managed to pick up this old Citadel miniature of the Mouth of Sauron off of eBay which I thought looked pretty cool. He didn't take particularly long to paint up as he is a fairly simple sculpt, but I had an absolute blast doing it. It's got me really excited to start getting into some more miniatures from Middle-Earth!
I painted him in fairly muted Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-29032682578772871142018-09-15T13:00:00.000+01:002018-09-15T13:00:10.402+01:00At the Court of the Silver King - Chapter III: Shadows of the Chained Star
As Artorian begins to make his way to the city of Gravenport, other forces set their eyes upon the Court of the Silver King...
The aelf screamed, her throat running ragged and her lungs burning dry as her eyes were slowly torn from her skull. The ancient sorcerer was taking his time, ensuring Lilith felt every motion of his cruel implements. The sorcerer was blind himself, as were the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515071029681991581.post-33646064468394517272018-09-08T13:00:00.000+01:002018-09-08T13:00:00.597+01:00Middle-Earth Redux
I'm rather excited about GW supporting Lord of the Rings again! It was the game that first got me into the hobby and I'm really looking forward to jumping back in. The lacklustre (and overly expensive) Hobbit releases just didn't do it for me, but the promise of new Lord of the Rings releases has me wanting to gather together my old miniatures and make something of them. As I mentioned earlier Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0