Painting And Hobby: Update Feburay 2022

 Well its been a busy few weeks for me with work and with my hobby time.

Firstly you may have noticed the blog has had a little refresh and has a snazzy new logo.

I decided to make the logo more clean and hopefully represent not just this blog but also any future projects online that I may pursue.

Thanks to my brother for the new logo designs.

So other then the new logo and blog refresh what have I been up to?

Well let's take a look.

Painting and Hobby: Necron Royal Warden

 As I painted the Space Marine Lieutenant model from the Imperium magazine as a Space Wolves Captain (you can see the post here) in my last Paining & Hobby post I thought as its been made I might as well paint my first Necron. 

Yes thats right I have not painted a Necron before.

Unboxing: Model Box They Came From The Stars June 2021

 In this months Model Box we venture to the stars as we mix with aliens, robots, smugglers and all sorts of creatures.

Let's take a look inside this months box.

Painting & Hobby: Industrial Terrain Silo & Bunker

 

This week I did it.

 I finished all of my industrial terrain.

One Bunker and one Silo was all that was needed to be painted to finish this project.

Let's take a look.

Painting & Hobby: Industrial Terrain Project

 A few years ago I put a cheeky bid on Ebay for a load of industrial terrain which has been used in a fair few Shadow War Armageddon games but has always been that project I have not got round to.

 You can see the Ebay horde here

As there has been talk of Necromunda and as I was in the mood for a project I thought it was time to work through it.

Painting & Hobby: Sci fi Terrain Bits

This week I was in the mood to finish those little bits of terrain that hang around and you just don't get around painting. 

With an hour or two spare and wanting to get my hobby fix I got working on some bits of Sci Fi terrain.

The Sci Fi parts in question were a mixture of Mantic terrain and some small MDF terrain that I have used for Deadzone and Shadow War Armageddon and have been unpainted for too long.

Let's take a look.

Painting and Hobby Update: Gorkamorka Terrain

 I was having a little look on Ebay the other day and came across this auction for the rule set for Gorkamorka which had some of the old school cardboard terrain which was around during the 90s

I never got to play the game at the time but who can resist that iconic artwork?

As it is Orktober after all and  I put a bid in and..... I won it...

Painting and Hobby Update: Mantic Terrain Crate Battlefield Objectives

 I have been on a bit of a Mantic kick these last weeks and as I have just finished painting my new Northern Alliance warband for Vanguard I decided to get to work on the Terrain Crate Battlefield Objectives that are used in the scenarios for the game.

Painting and Hobby Update: Mantic Vanguard Northern Alliance

 

This week on the hobby desk I have gone through my grey pile list and decided to worked on my Northern Alliance warband for Vanguard as I really do want to get people trying out this game and its taken me a bit of time to get to these due to other games my gaming group are playing and if you are like me you painting and gaming revolves around that.

I visited Mantic HQ a few years ago now for the launch of Vanguard and it was a great day and it's a good game. 

You can see my visit to Mantic HQ and my Interview with Matt Gilbert about Vanguard from these links below.

   Matt Gilbert Interview      Mantic Vanguard Launch Day Part 1     Mantic Vanguard Launch Day Part 2

Let's take a look at some close ups.

Review: Your Model Box August Wastland Theme

On todays blog I have another review for you and this time its Augusts Your Model Box which is themed Wastelands.

Think baron lands, mutants, chemical spillages humanity fighting to survive thats the tone of this genre of games and Your Model has brought a fine selection of miniatures and paints to help you set the scene.

Let's take a look..

New Year New Army

Over Christmas you may have seen my posts of a few bat raps from my Warhammer Fantasy games with Riot and co.

Well after playing a few games I got inspired to pick up a brush and get to work on a new army.

Age Of Sigmar Heard Stone and Update on Raptoryx Paint Scheme

The last few weeks have been quite on the hobby front due to life stuff but before all that I got to work and finished one of the new AOS terrain pieces called the Heardstone . 

This is for the new Beastman for AOS even though I don't play AOS  A) I though it looked cool to paint and B) I thought it would work well a terrain pice for War Cry maybe for the Untamed Beasts.

Click for form more pictures.

War Cry: The Terrain

So I have had a painting slump over the last week after I had completed a lot of terrain in around a week or so ago.

My final pieces that I completed was all the terrain for War cry.

Here is some more pictures..

Random Painted Minis and Loads of Terrain

Well over the past couple of weeks I have been moving to a new dedicated hobby space and I have sorted through all my hobby stuff  and as you do you find a few things you forgot you had.

Well here are some miniatures that I painted this year and forgot to up load as well as terrain projects I finished this week after finding them in various boxes.

Some Scatter Terrain from Gatehouse Gameing Sci Fi Accessories

As there was no path to glory last week I thought why not make a bit of terrain.

Using the terrain from Gatehouse Gaming Sci Fi Accessories that I got from Januarys Your Model Box I decided to make use of these and make some scatter terrain.

Shadespire: The Reavers! Its Done...

There we have it the last of for the Shadspire series of warbands are all painted!

Last but not least are the Reavers.

More pictures below..

Shadespire: Magore Fiends

Another warband finished and its Magore Fiends ready to bring glory in the name of Khorne!

More pictures below

Sahdespire: Spiteclaws Swarm

I am getting there with another warband complete and this time its time to delve into the sewer for Spiteclaws Swarm. 

More pictures below.

Review: Rosemary & Co Brushes

As miniature painters getting the right brush and one that lasts is always important and finding brushes that will last more then 5 minutes and at a reasonable price can be a case of trail an error. 

I have had brushes that I have spent a lot of money on to cheap brushes from ebay that you just have  to throw away after one use.

One brush company Rosemary and Co aim to give you quality hand made brushes at a reasonable price.

Rosemary and Co are a brush company with over 35 years of experience who cater to professional artist to miniature painters with a catalog of brushes from synthetic to Kolinsky Sable..

Rosemary and Co were kind enough to send me a range of brushes to review and put through there paces.
So lets see how I got on.

Shadespire: Ironskull Boyz

My paint brushes have been out again (well new ones from Rosemary and Co which there will be a review of soon) and this time another Shadespire Warband has been painted and this time the Ironskull Boyz bring the Waahhhh!

More pictures below