My life may finally be normalizing, I had a medical incident, then my family visited, but now they are gone and I can devote Sunday to painting miniatures ..read more

It has been hot, but I can’t burn in hell if I’m already on fire. Despite the heat today I painted metallics and Vince is probably right about the best acrylic metallic miniature paints. I finally got some Warpaints Fanatic paints, as Sentry Box is finally stocking them. So I’ll give them a try, including on these models, but maybe even more on the next batch of Plague Marines and Chaos Space Marines. If you want to play name that tune, I’ll include a clip of the band that wrote the song I quoted in my opening paragraph later in this blog post. Not only has it been hot making me concerned how ..read more

Last week was a busy week as it was both quarter end reporting period and the start of the Calgary Stampede. I had planned to paint more and I definitely did paint both last Sunday and this Sunday, but perhaps some of my grey highlights were too subtle as I was accused of posting the same picture twice, rather than actually putting more grey paint on my new Chaos Space Marine Lord. I took this as a sign and dutifully put too more grey highlights on the model. I also put some off-white and laid the model flat on my desk while it dried, proving once and for all it was a new photograph. Since the ..read more

Forgive me Grandfather for I have sinned it has been over twenty days since my last blog post. I have been painting. I did not post to the ‘Gram on #MiniatureMonday nor on #ThrowbackThursday but I did go through my bitz box and find a twenty plus year old piece of metal to glue on to my latest Chaos Space Marine Lord. The title of this blog post refers to the fact that this model has so many tubes, they are more like intestines. Plague Marines have them too and for my latest batch I’ve been painting them Grey Seer. The plan is to use Contrast Paints particularly Magos Purple and Flesh Tearers ..read more

And not just against the puppets still in thrall to the crone emperor but against my current webhost Liquid Web who I swear make my old website run slower and slower to try and get me to upgrade. I literally had my wallet out and was going to upgrade but their idiot of an online sales person tried to keep upselling me to a fully managed account that would be four times what I thought I would be paying and even more than 400% more than I currently pay. So I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but putting more effort into Muschamp.ca and especially Muskblog is getting really frustrating. I worked o ..read more

I apologize. I’ve been back from Scotland for over a month now and I haven’t updated this blog. Of course I’ve been blogging up a storm elsewhere but no miniatures were painted and no games were played until yesterday. Bill and I played our umpteenth game of Warhammer 40,000 and my fifth game of tenth edition and I was soundly trounced. Bill employed a new tactic, he took a phone call prior to the start of the match and while waiting all ability to think and roll dice left my body. In hindsight I still need to choose better army lists, employ better strategies, make better tactical decisions a ..read more

I don’t have a lot of the time for the hobby, but I do try to paint every Sunday and I sometimes get a little painting in after work, but generally I’m tired and busy. Currently the second rust effect and the second verdigris effect paint is drying on my Nurgle Forge World Terminators, but I’ve been taking work-in-progress photos during the day so I can share those. These models are now out-of-print and people are expecting me to just cough up my other two alas I didn’t get your DM bro. But it is not my responsibility to buy models with my limited income over the last twenty years then careful ..read more

January is the busiest month of the year at work. We are still trying to fix everything and complete all our obligations but I try to make a little time on Sundays to paint and yes I have been taking pictures of the two models I am currently working on. They are two old Forge World Nurgle terminators which I of course will run as Blightlords at least initially. You might remember the Fabulous Mister Toad, he has gotten two coast of gloss varnish plus a little Blood for the Blood God. He still hasn’t gotten on the table but he was in the last army list I wrote out which I will have to redo afte ..read more

It is actually almost finished. I have a bad habit of applying one more highlight then one more wash then of course one more highlight. The only thing I might highlight more is the lone eyeball. I really want to it to pop. If you tuned in last week or follow me on Instagram you would have seen earlier work-in-progress pics of this model. It is a Plague Toad of Nurgle made by Forgeworld but I plan to field it as a Chaos Spawn, as you must run them in units of two in the current rules for Warhammer 40,000. This model who I’ve dubbed the Fabulous Mister Toad will accompany Maceo the Mutated for a ..read more

It wasn’t much, but I did put several coats of new paint on my counts as Chaos Spawn. I’m using this model to try out some of the new paints I’ve bought but also just to paint something dark and dirty and slimy looking as my first two Chaos Spawn were bright and multi-colored. My first Chaos Spawn, Billalexdevin Stumpy, Spawn of Chaos Maceo the Mutated was also an experiment as I dry brushed him. This model is from Forgeworld and I decided I wasn’t going to use dry brushing on the Plague Toad of Nurgle but rather switch back to black primer and try out some paints I got from Monument Hobbies ..read more