It’s December which means that a lot of people have been preparing for Christmas for several months, big box deals are being released by Games Workshop and with New Year in sight, resolutions are on the horizon. I’m not a big fan of Christmas, probably a combination of my parents not embracing it and not […]
Armies on Parade 2018 has been and gone, display boards are being put into storage, or broken up for scenery, the armies are going back on the shelf and you've started planning what you're going to do next year. A few weeks ago I posted a blog about the construction of my Armies on Parade […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog showing the construction of my Armies on Parade board. Since then I have been hard at work getting all the painting done, which has taken a lot longer than I had expected. At the time of writing this post (the day before you have been able […]
With Armies on Parade only two and a half weeks away, I am working my backside off trying to get the display board for my Fimir ready in time to be taken to the Cribbs Causeway store on Saturday October 13th. Today on the blog, I will talk about the stages I went through to […]
Episode 6 of Binx's Hobby Podcast "A 99% Warhammer Podcast", sponsored by Triple Helix Wargames, is now available. You can now listen to it on iTunes, Spotify and Podbean On the show this month: - We talk about the games we've played this month - Look at some Games Workshop mobile games - Discuss our […]
Welcome to part two of my look back at the Warhammer Age of Sigmar event; Blackout, which took place on the 4th and 5th of August 2018 at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. You can read about the first three games played on day one HERE, today it’s all about day two and games four and […]
Welcome to part one of my look back at the Warhammer Age of Sigmar event; Blackout, which took place on the 4th and 5th of August 2018 at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. As ever, hosted by the wonderful Chris Tomlin of Black Sun fame, this event had 94 players from all over the UK hoping […]
It's finally happened, after 22 months of concepts, buying bits, sculpting, pinning, painting, more painting and basing, my Fimir army is finally complete. I say complete, but every wargamer knows, an army is never fully finished. With the chance of Forgeworld releasing some new Fimir in the future, I am sure I will return to […]
Yesterday I looked at how I painted the skin and the cloth on my Fimir, today I look at the metal and the details. 1. The metal was base coated with Balthasar Gold 2. The whole surface of the gold was then painted with Druchii Violet 3. After the shade the metal was repainted […]
Welcome to part one of my two day look at the stages I went through when painting my Fimir. I have finally finished painting 18 of these, with just the three banners for the standard bearers to do to officially declare them 100% finished. First lets look at painting the skin. 1. The Fimir's were […]