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Another Brick in the Shieldwall
I’m busy working away on my Oldhammer Orcs & Goblins army but I’m still at the rather less glamorous stage of applying base colours across the board. This weekend I’ve taken some time off from the...
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Prelude to War
Yesterday saw my first battle of Warhammer 3rd Edition in twenty-odd years. I fielded my Orcs & Goblins against the Undead of Chico from Oldhammer on a Budget. We intend to develop a narrative...
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Oldhammer Battle – Treachery at Legbreaker Ridge
“Wut tha heck waz dat?” Kanbok picked himself up, his back battered and bruised from the shod hooves of the boney steeds that had trampled him into the dirt. Those had not been the weedy humies the...
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War Pigs
After being skewered and then trampled down by Chico’s Death Riders in last week’s battle, I decided that my Orcs need some cavalry of their own. The Greedy Maw tribe is the ruling elite in my horde,...
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Two Steps Forward…
I finished another rank of my Marauder Orc regiment which I’ll use as elite Big Uns in Warhammer 3rd. Another rank of Big Uns takes the field To add some variety to the shield emblems I’ve painted one...
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There’s a Chill in the Air
It’s autumn and cold winds are starting to blow, so what better time to work on some warriors from the Land of Chill itself. These Dark Elf troops stem from Mengil Manhide’s Company, a Regiment of...
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Jaws
Since digging up the Plagueship I have been meaning to scratch-build some more ships for Man O’War. I decided on a squadron of Ironsharks of Khorne to get me started and so far managed to build and...
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The Making of Jaws
The second scratch-built Ironshark has left the dry docks and this time around I took some work in progress shots along the way. Tools of the trade It was a much quicker and cleaner process second time...
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The Fighting Big Uns
The regiment of Big Uns for my Warhammer 3rd Edition Orcs & Goblins is finished. Halfway through a unit of this size I usually run out of steam, but this time I kept steadily at it, while working...
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Arise!
As a part-time Necromancer, I have always been of the opinion that one can never have too many Skeletons. For aeons the bulk of my legions have remained buried though, slumbering in their cardboard...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
When getting back into collecting forces for Warhammer 3rd Edition I divided up my Vampire Counts army into the really old stuff and the not quite so old. That meant all the metal Skeleton Warriors...
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No Rest For the Wicked
Centuries ago the Iron Baroness ruled her fiefdom with an icy grip, squeezing every last coin from her subjects in taxes. When rumours about witchcraft and foul rituals at her manor began to spread,...
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Night of the Hunters
My Vampire Counts can call on packs of beasts to sally out ahead of their shambling main horde and hunt down the enemy’s light troops. Dire Wolves with Doom Wolf pack leader First to answer the call is...
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Sometimes They Come Back
Next to my skeletal legions, the rotting cadavers of Zombies are lurching towards the enemy lines, reanimated by the foulest of spells in the grimoires of the masters of necromancy. The recently...
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Leading From the Front
My Praetorian Imperial Guard forces for Warhammer 40k received a boost recently when I received two new squads with command and heavy weapons from an old friend. That means I can now field an...
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Orcs Just Want to Have Fun
The chances of getting an Orc Champion in Slaves to Darkness aren’t very high – roll 96-00 on a D100, followed by 69-80. However, when reading how Chico, that prophet of perversion, was raising a coven...
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Runes of the Ancestors
With the new Warhammer Armies Dwarfs having been released last weekend, I felt inspired to get painting on my warriors of the Karaz Ankor again. First to taste the brush was the venerable Runesmith...
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Set in Stone
I bought a set of Dwarf stone sculptures from Scibor Miniatures recently as I intend to build up a small collection of themed terrain to go with each of my armies. The statues, or rather what is left...
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Salute 2014 – Sci-Fi
Salute 2014 has come and gone and with it mostly unfulfilled resolutions from the previous hobby year were replaced by new ones. My main interest at the moment is in sci-fi so I’m starting with a...
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Salute 2014 – Fantasy
There were more fantasy themed tables that caught my eye at Salute this year, perhaps partially due to the Pelennor Fields skirmish game staged by the South London Warlords. The scene was recreated in...
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