For The Empire!

Well it's certainly been quite a challenge, but I've finished the unit of 10 Middenheim Knights, these older sculpts are completely different in style than the newer ones, and definitely more difficult to paint! Anyways, here're the results of my efforts:

Hobby Half Hour progress.

I've been trying to do a 'hobby half hour' every day, (inspired by Dan Heelan of www.heelanhamer.com fame and his '#hobbytime': it's one of the best podcasts out there, check it out!). My HHH is the time when I try and make some progress on my own army, because quite shockingly I don't own a fully painted army, despite the fact that as a pessimistic estimate last year I probably painted well in excess of 7000points of warhammer alone, not including 40k and Warmachine/hordes.

My army of choice is the Ogres, with a list designed to include the lowest model count possible, they're currently under 30! Anyway here's a head of a thundertusk to go with the bulls from the last thread, and also a pic of the force in all of its grey-plastic goodness...





As ever your thoughts are welcome! There'll definitely be some updates soon, as the thundertusk's face is now complete with all of his various boney-bits, and all but complete.

New Necrons!

It's been a while since I've last updated, but here's some pictures of the new Necron kits I've been painting; both of these are up on ebay; I'll be posting some more updates soon.

Cheers for looking; Ark is next, and some more Ogres, and some privateer press stuff!

New Vampire Counts Models Painted

It's been a busy couple of days, overall thubs up for the new VC kits though, which I think have cemented my opinion that as an army the Vamp's have one of the best selection of models available to them, so much quality plastic!***

The terrorgeist took me much longer than expected, the different layers make it hard to do at speed, I persevered and managed to get it up finished on ebay before everyone else though, I hope it was worth it.

The cairn wraith and banshees were much more forgiving, and beautiful simple models, a good colour choice and a couple of individual details really make these models in not too much time, and I think if someone had the $$$$ unit of them used as spirit hosts would look exactly how I always imagined they could, drifting along, great stuff all in all, another 10/10 for GW on their plastics (the cairn wraith is nicer to put together than the banshee though, a couple of fiddly bits there, nothing off-putting however).

All of these fellas are up on eBay now.

***We won't mention the black coach or vargulf being horrific to assemble, as it's not helpful to my argument!

First Post!

Hello all, as this is a first post I thought I'd do a bit of an introduction, then I'll get onto what I've recently been working on.


I've been painting for a few years now, like many I started when I was a kiddy (I still have some of my old models, I hope I've improved somewhat since!), I painted and played warhammer for a year or two and then it fizzled out. It wasn't until I was in university and I was both missing doing creative stuff, and realising that I needed something else to do to replace some of the 3 or 4 nights of going out a week that I picked up the hobby again. I had a couple of friends who I'd discovered used to play, and one of which still did, so that christmas I ordered the BFSP set and started out very slowly painting night goblins, I painted on and off in dribs and drabs through uni,only managing to fully paint one army (warriors of chaos).

Now I've finished uni and am giving painting for profit a proper go, this blog will include all of the stuff I'm painting for eBay or for commissions, as well as (hopefully) finding time to paint some things just for myself.

Without further ado here's the stuff I've been painting up for the storm of magic campaign:

And here's a link to my Ebay page

Also a couple of pics for those round-basers out there of the blood angels I've been working on until SoM took over my life :):