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

That is right haters, using the sorry Codex-less Death Guard led by a sub-optimal Chaos Lord who did nothing and relying on my legendarily powerful units of Nurglings, Chaos Cultists and Chaos Spawn I emerged victorious. I defeated the Ultramarines after carefully adjusting my army list, improving my tactics and not getting randomly assigned the same primary and secondary missions as last game. Not only did I win handily, all my models died! Death Guard is famously not as hard to kill as it was a few editions ago. It still isn’t that shooty and my plague marines are not optimized for melee. Bi ..read more

Do any of my loyal readers remember when I was undefeated during 10th edition crushing the dreams of kids with their golden armour clad super soldiers that were even taller and more bullet proof than the Emperor’s finest? Astride their majestic jet bikes, capes blowing in the wind facing off against two chaos spawn and whatever else I plucked from the shelves of my miniature cabinet and threw on the table when summoned by Bill. Expected by one and all in the gaming store, to be swept aside because the Internet said Death Guard sucked? Those were the days. Stay twelve inches away at all times ..read more

So it took a while, but apparently I earned two more badges on the Internet. If I read the rules better and tried to game the system more, perhaps I could have done even better. I didn’t think this was even an online painting competition, but it turns out there were prizes that I could have won. Online painting competitions are a lot more common than they were twenty years ago. Besides being rushed for time and trying various untried techniques and paint combinations, I also would have benefited from taking better individual pictures of my models. I pay for webhosting and Flickr and I actually ..read more

Believe it fanboys! Of course after my slopchopping I then carefully or at least quickly painted on one or more highlights on each Nurgling then I may or may not have put a wash over top. And of course I used not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, well it might have been six, but I meant to use seven different rust effects. It was another busy week at work, stuff may have even gone wrong, but that didn’t stop us form partying and going to a Stampeders game on Friday, after all the markets were closed. All this combined with my determination to at least try to lose weight mea ..read more

Before it became trendy, I wanted to field a sea of Nurglings. Now all over the Internet people are doing the math to figure out how many stands you can field in a Death Guard army. The answer may be twenty seven, but before you can do that you need to buy and paint all those little beady eyeballs yellow. I’d already tried Contrast Paints on some Nurglings and of course I tried dry brushing or painting Contrast Paints over a black primed model pre-highlighted with grey, but now drybrushing and shading quickly is called #Slapchop or the slapchop method. People have tried to improve on it, so o ..read more

Not only did I finish painting the models I’ve been working on for the last little while, they look decent and I earned a badge on the Internet! I haven’t seen the badge, I kept checking the Bolter and Chainsword to see the final score, but I’ve also done a couple minor touchups or additions since the deadline officially closed. The last thing I did was put gloss varnish on a few choice bits and then I did gore. I couldn’t do bloody gore the way I usually do, because my Tamiya Clear Red was a solid block when I tried to use it today. Instead I used Citadel’s new Blood for the Blood alternativ ..read more