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Warhammer Visions Review: A magazine for hobbyists

The new Warhammer Visions!It has been years since I have had a subscription to Games Workshop’s monthly hobby magazine, White Dwarf. I have many fond memories of coming home from school and excitedly...

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Roboute Guilliman: the Avenging Son Impressions

‘A capacity for the theoretical is admirable, but a stomach for the practical is priceless.’As the dust settles from the grand reopening of Warhammer World last weekend, there is a lot to be excited...

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Skitarii: Progress Report

Servants of the Machine God assemble.Games Workshop continues its relentless release schedule, having just finished the Eldar and the Imperial Knights, it is about to complete releasing a set of kits...

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Execution Force: Eversor assassin conversion

The future belongs to the mad.Somewhere between the Skitarii, Eldar, Imperial Knights, and Cult Mechanicus, Games Workshop released the stand alone game Execution Force to showcase new plastic versions...

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Unboxing: Tech-Priest Dominus

01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01110010 01110011Although the Skitarii release was a very strong one, with a host of excellent models,...

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INQ28: Painting Beltran Destrieux

We are all but a weapon in the right hand of the Emperor.The release of the Skitarii Rangers was an exciting time for the Inq28 community, giving a wealth of excellent conversion opportunities (and...

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Codex Dark Angels: A look at the Artwork

Proof that if GW wants evocative artwork, they can find artists to create it.As a long time Deathwing player, I was extremely excited to see a new Dark Angels codex release, and purchased the digital...

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Age of Sigmar: Initial Impressions of the Miniatures

The Age of Sigmar begins.Warhammer Fantasy has seen a slow but steady demise since the release of 8th edition back in 2010. Although they released revised rules for most of the armies in the new...

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The Unforgiven: Black Knights

'One warrior usually suffices.'The recent release of the new Dark Angels codex has gotten me to start thinking more about the future of my Deathwing army.  With the changes made to Deathwing Assault, I...

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Unboxing: Cult Mechanicus Kastelan Robots

From ancient Mars...After all the excited Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii releases, it was hard to believe that the following Cult Mechanicus models would be able to live up to them. Fortunately for...

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Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors: Impressions

'From Iron cometh strength; from strength cometh will; from will cometh faith; and from faith cometh honour.'Any of you who have been following this blog for a little while know that I get pretty...

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Horus Heresy plastics: MKIV Armor Impressions

Plastic Space Marines have come a long way from their humble beginning. For the past few months there have been several rumors going about the possible release of plastic Horus Heresy miniatures. I had...

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Tyranid Malanthrope - Musings on Forge World's Tyranids

Creeping death.When people think of the models that Forge World produces, I believe that most think of their impressive battle titans, tanks, and more recently their vast range of Horus Heresy models....

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Age of Sigmar: First few games

It has been about a month since Age of Sigmar burst onto the gaming scene, like the burning radiance of Ghal Maraz.  With the freely available rules, new models (Space Marines in fantasy!), and a...

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Unboxing: Stormcast Eternal Lord-Celestant

The first few Stormcast...Having played a few games of Age of Sigmar while proxying my Dark Angels as Stormcast Eternals, I was really impressed with some of their character models, particularly the...

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Putrid Blightkings: Death Guard Terminator Conversion Finished

A fell wind blows...The year is already well past the halfway mark, and up until this point, I have not shown any progress of one of my favorite projects I started last year, my Blightking/Death Guard...

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Putrid Blightkings: Death Guard Terminator Conversion 2 Finished

Their number grows...After the success of finishing my first Death Guard terminator, I was excited to start working on the others, and see what Nurgle elements I could explore.  For this second Death...

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Putrid Blightkings: Death Guard Terminator Conversion 3 Finished

Death to the False Emperor!With the first two Deathguard terminators completed, I was down to a single model to complete. For each of the others, I explored different aspects of Father Nurgle, from the...

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Kingdom Death: Marred by Misogyny?

Miniature-based wargaming has long been a male-dominated hobby, one that has partially been kept that way by the portrayal of women in many of the games (well-endowed and often scantily clad women in...

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Musing about Malifaux: Campaign play and a shift in model design

Shifting LoyaltiesLong time readers of this blog will know that we have been very impressed with the skirmish-based miniature game of Malifaux, primarily due to the simple yet evocative system of using...

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