August 2026 retrospective
Hey everybody,What a month! August has seen some things, that’s for sure. I was on holiday for the second week, which was quite lovely (aside from the sunburn), but real life had once again intruded...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Deathwatch
Four years ago, I shared this post talking all things Deathwatch. Deathwatch I’d been going through all of the outstanding projects that I had, and was getting really enamoured with this army in...
View ArticleNecrons showcase!
Hey everybody,After a very long time away, I’ve recently come back to painting my beloved Necrons, and have finished five more Immortals armed with gauss blasters. I say ‘five more’, because I already...
View Article12 years of painting miniatures
How on earth has that happened?! I can still remember that first day of walking into my local Games Workshop and picking up the old finecast Beast of Nurgle, then coming home with a few paints and...
View ArticleSkitarii
Oh, I’m back, baby! This is the first Games Workshop miniature that I’ve built in a very long time, and I absolutely love it. I can’t wait to get started on painting these guys. I’ve got a fairly...
View ArticleThe flesh is weak!
Hey everybody,At this point, I suppose it’s no big secret that I’m really starting to get back into the big tabletop wargames from Games Workshop. I’ve mentioned a few times how much I have been...
View ArticleTuning out the noise (again)
Hey everybody,Last year, around this time, I wrote a post about “tuning out the noise”, about trying to find my way back to Warhammer 40,000 on the back of some new Votann models that had been shown...
View ArticleSmall-scale, slow-grow Warhammer 40,000 – a stream of consciousness
Hey everybody,Well, it’s happening again! After so long away, I’m once more feeling the siren call of Warhammer 40,000! It really is true what I said the other week, that once GW gets in your blood,...
View ArticleJuly 2026 retrospective
Hey everybody,July has been a busy old month here on the blog – and an even busier one offline! Chateau Spalanz has seen a new bathroom put in, which was a little under 2 weeks of disruption but went...
View ArticleThe Seraphon rise!
Hey everybody,I’ve been talking off and on about Age of Sigmar over the last few weeks, but today I wanted to do a bit of a throwback type of post to talk more specifically about the Seraphon faction,...
View ArticleOnes that got away: Adeptus Mechanicus
Hey everybody,Continuing the look at hobby projects of yesteryear, today I wanted to think back to one of my longest-running projects that never quite got off the ground, and generally revel in the...
View ArticleGetting back in the game!
Hey everybody,The other day, I talked about my desire to get back into Age of Sigmar, which to some degree felt like a bit of a left turn after having spent so long away from Games Workshop, and...
View ArticleSigmar calling…
Hey everybody,If you’ve been paying attention to this blog lately, you’ll have no doubt noticed that Games Workshop is creeping back into view, as I’ve made a few posts about things like the stunning...
View ArticleOnes that got away: Blackstone Fortress
Hey everybody,Last winter, I had the idea of doing a series of posts about past projects that “got away”, but only wrote up some vague thoughts about the Deathwing army that never was, and haven’t...
View ArticleDangerous times ahead…
Hey everybody,At the weekend, I shared some Age of Sigmar appreciation, showcasing some of my favourite models from the range. It’s personal taste, of course, but I do genuinely believe that Games...
View ArticleAge of Sigmar appreciation post
Hey everybody!While it doesn’t seem to be as popular as its older sibling, Warhammer Age of Sigmar has pretty much always held a kind of fascination for me. Warhammer Fantasy was how I first came to...
View ArticleThe Games Workshop Big Summer Preview
Hey everybody,Yesterday we had the Big Summer Preview from Games Workshop, and man, I am so tempted by so much of this new stuff they’re showing off… Let’s start with the big one, though – a new...
View ArticleHorus Heresy: The Path of Heaven
Hey everybody,After slightly more than three years, I’ve been back in the Horus Heresy for book 36, The Path of Heaven, as part of a buddy read with Dave. My goodness, the Horus Heresy just keeps on...
View ArticleAdepticon round up, part two (GW)
Hey everybody,The other day, I talked a bit about the latest news from Atomic Mass Games following Adepticon at the end of March. As it turned out, there wasn’t really a tremendous amount of new stuff...
View ArticleThe recent reveals from GW
Hey everybody,It’s been a while since I’ve talked about 40k here on the blog, but despite the fact that I’m not really playing, painting, building or buying Warhammer stuff these days, I do still...
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