As soon as it was available in the states, I signed up for the Warhammer Imperium subscription service. A couple weeks ago, my first shipment came, and you know what, I’m excited for what’s to come. So, what came in Issues 1-3? Honestly, as an experienced Warhammer player and hobbyist, it wasn’t anything terribly exciting. Included was 2 paints (Macragge Blue and Runelord Brass), a pretty piss-poor brush, 8 minis (3 Intercessors, 1 Lieutenant, 3 Necron Warriors, and a Necron Warden), a cool poster (I’m a sucker for this stuff), some dice and measuring tools. I will say though, I love the pose ..read more

In my last post I was raving about Conquest. But, in this post I will take a step back and discuss the overall process, challenges, and successes of Para Bellum’s Spires from the Starter Box Set. Ranks of fodder to chew through For those of you who are not familiar, it contains: 1x Pheromancer 3x Brute Drones 1x Abomination 24x Force-Grown Drones This force comes in around 575 points or so if I remember correctly, and is a nice starter army that will let you build on it. For each of these models, the detail is amazing. For the Force-Grown Drones for example, you can make out each individual ..read more

So, it’s been a minute to say the least. The past few months I’ve been in a massive slump. Like many, I suffer from some pretty hefty seasonal depression as well as focusing issues. Those combined, plus an overall apathy from lack of free time kind of resulted in a lot of things getting pushed to the side. My partner told me that I need to start taking Vitamin D, which, she’s probably not wrong. BUT, I also think a healthy dose of something interesting helped. Several months ago, someone was selling a nice sized lot of Conquest minis on Facebook for a steal. I picked them up. Assembled a few ..read more

So I’m gonna be real here. I’m bad at following my own advice sometimes. Burnout is real. In a lot of things. In work, hobby, passions… life. And that’s kinda where I’ve been for the past however many months. While I really do enjoy blogging, when you try to make something enjoyable a job, it’s quite easy to burn out on it. On top of that… I’m truthfully burned out with my job. It’s not that its a bad job, or that my employers are terrible (’cause even though they have their flaws, they aren’t terrible), it’s just, the stress has been getting to me. It’s pretty much been a gauntlet of poor com ..read more

The Bloodborne board game that was released a few months back has some amazing quality miniatures. As a fan of the Soulsborne series, I was elated to get this in from the kickstarter. Recently, I’ve decided to start painting them, and I wanted to start with the Church Giant. I remember the first time I saw them in game, and was fairly intimidated by their large stature and massive axe. And while they have a fairly easy paint scheme, there are a few certain colors that are present in the digital version. I should note that I used zenithal priming on these models. Cloak The cloak was my favorite ..read more

Today, I’d like to share my quick and easy recipe for, what I consider, an above tabletop quality red armor. I’m currently using this recipe for my Genesis chapter Space Marines, but it would work well with Blood Angels, Chaos Warriors, and pretty much anything that you want to have red armor. Red is actually my favorite color to paint. It’s versatile, pretty hard to mess up, and well, it’s just a good color. So, let’s get to the recipe. Step 1: First thing is first. Do a zenithal highlight. If you don’t know what zenithal priming is, you can read my article on zenithal priming here. This will ..read more

In the before times, I primed with whatever I had available. In my blissful ignorance, I simply thought a base coat of whatever would be fine. I never gave much thought as to what I was base coating with, simply that it was a vessel to allow me to paint. While, yes, that’s all fine and good, and I’m not going say that’s strictly inferior, I’ve realized that there are more beneficial ways to prime. I started looking at the shade of what I wanted to paint, and going with how light I wanted the miniature I was painting to be. Fast forward to about a year ago, when I finally decided to try zenitha ..read more

In my last post, I briefly discussed some of the frustrations and burnout that I was experiencing for the past month or so. These periods frequently come and go for a miniature hobbyist, however, sometimes the periods are so bad, you can’t help yourself from purging all your miniatures and starting over. We’ve all been to that point. We’ve looked at our pile of shame and thought to ourselves, “Why do I have this? I’ll never get to it”, only to sell it and regret it later. I’ve gone through multiple periods of this, and from my experience, I’ve regretted almost every single time. Before it get ..read more

Games Workshop has been knocking it out of the park lately. Their new sculpts have been truly dynamic, interesting, just centerpiece worthy (I’m looking at you Belakor). Today, GW announced a new model (2 actually, but, this is the one worth discussing) for the Seraphon line. The old model for Lord Kroak was, well, meh. It worked fine enough, but it was finecast, and that had its whole host of issues. T’was a fiddly little thing Thankfully, today they announced Kroak’s upgrade, and it’s stunning. I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking. I especially love the gyroscopic design they wen ..read more

Today, a new battleforce went on pre-order for Adeptus Titanicus, and holy crap does it seem to be just brimming with value. I’ve always been a little AT-curious, and truthfully, love the models. But, just how good of a value is this new set? The new battleforce consists of: 1 Warlord Titan 1 Reaver Titan 1 Warbringer Nemesis Titan 2 Warhound Titans As you can tell, this is a complete army for Titanicus. While the titans each have their own load outs included, there is nothing stopping you from making sure all the weapons are magnetized so all you have to do is buy the upgrade sprues to sw ..read more