Happy New Year! Well it’s been a busy year for everyone, and sadly not wholly busy with hobby, but there’s been plenty of progress and plenty of good stuff. Rob After a having less hobby time than usual over the past few months, I didn’t think this year would have had as much progress as… More Brush and Boltgun 2018 Round Up
This post was meant to be all about how to paint Stormcast Retributors, in a similar vein to the Liberators, Sequitors, etc that I’ve already covered. Firstly, I always start by spraying them with Retributor Armour, as I find the spray the best base colour. As usual, this post starts with them sprayed with Retributor… More How to: Paint Stormcast Retributors – featuring lumpy spray paint.
Booo! Welcome to our special Hallowe’en post! As Hallowe’en was on a Wednesday this year, we thought it would be a good opportunity to post about some spooky miniatures or scenery we’ve been working on, to keep things on Ghosts and ghouls aplenty. Adam Asked to contribute something to our Halloween post was a… More The Brush and Boltgun Hallowe’en Special
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting up a Stormcast Eternals Knight-Incantor to get her looking great for the tabletop. A full list of paints used is below the video, along with links to other relevant posts and videos. A slowtime tutorial on how to paint the Stormcast… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Stormcast Eternals Knight-Incantor’
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting up a Stormcast Eternals Lord-Celestant to get them looking great for the tabletop. A slowtime tutorial on how to paint the Stormcast Eternals’ gold armour can be found here. Again, the periods of the video with no speech are extra quiet… More Video ‘How to: paint a Stormcast Eternals’ Lord-Celestant’
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting up a Stormcast Liberator to get them looking great for the tabletop. A full list of paints used can be found below the video here, and on youtube. On a related note, a slowtime tutorial on how to paint the Stormcast… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Stormcast Liberator’
If you’ve not come across it yet, part 1 of the guide can be found here. The final part of the Sequitor posts will get the miniatures finished and looking great for the table top. Bases The bases were painted almost identically to the Shadespire Stormcast that I painted here. With the easy to build… More How to: Paint Stormcast Eternal Sequitors, Part 2
In this video I’ll be demonstrating a quick and easy method of painting Stormcast Eternals’ gold armour. There are a lot of ways to paint gold, but this is the way I prefer. I’ve linked another method of painting gold armour below, which Mike posted up for his custodes a while back. For this tutorial… More Video ‘How to: Paint Stormcast Eternals’ Gold Armour’
When the second edition of Age of Sigmar was released a few weeks ago, not only did Soul Wars bring a newer, tighter set of rules, it also brought a host of superb new miniatures. The Stormcast Eternals, usually clad in their gold armour and looking a little plain, now had a variety of new… More How to: Paint Stormcast Eternal Sequitors, Part 1
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting up the Easy to Build Stormcast Sequitor Prime. Although it covers the whole miniature, I’ll be posting a video of how to do specific parts (shields, gold, etc) for the Stormcast in the next few weeks. This was a great miniature… More Video ‘How to: Paint Stormcast Sequitors’
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It was a warm June day when Adam’s Old Empire formed up against Rob’s Maggotkin of Nurgle in a 500 point scrap to the death. It was the first time we’ve faced off against each other. Rob – 500 points sounded like a lot when we first started playing. Turns… More Age of Sigmar Battle Report: Empire vs Nurgle
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting up a Putrid Blightking so they’ll look great on the tabletop. A list of paints used is beneath the video. Paints Used: Citadel Leadbelcher Citadel Mephiston Red Citadel Deepkin Flesh Citadel Ulthuan Grey Citadel Rakarth Flesh Citadel Abbadon Black Citadel Retributor… More Video ‘How to: Paint Putrid Blightkings’
In this video I’ll be talking through a quick and easy method of painting corroded and weathered plate armour. This miniature is one of the Putrid Blightkings from Games Workshop, and a future video will detail how to paint the full miniature. While you’re here, why not subscribe to the channel so you won’t miss… More Video ‘How to: Paint Corroded Plate Armour
Welcome to the second part of the Plaguebearer Painting Techniques guide, where I’ll be showing the remaining parts of how I paint the Plaguebearers. Part one is here, so if you haven’t had a look yet, go and check it out, it covers all the rest of the miniatures that aren’t covered below. Blight Swords… More Plaguebearer Painting Techniques, part 2
I did a similar couple of posts to this with the Death Guard a while back, and as I’m now also painting up some Age of Sigmar Plaguebearers, now might be a good time to show how I’m painting them, and a few ideas to help them all look a little different, and a lot… More Plaguebearer Painting Techniques, part 1
Well March to War 2018 is over, and we thought we’d give you one last post to show how we got on. We still think it’s an excellent challenge, but it is one that needs careful planning and consideration. Next year we’ll all complete it… Adam: The end is nigh! Actually, for me it’s right… More March to War 2018 Roundup
Hello and welcome to another update on our March to War challenge. This week it’s just me as Dave has spent the last two weeks painting his house. After that he was too sick of paint to swap the large brush for the detail brush. We’ll try and get a bumper update out of him… More March to War 2018 – 8th Update
In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you a quick and easy way to base your Nurglings to make them look great on the battlefield. Everything you need is listed below. The bases I’m working on for my Nurgle Daemons have a muddy swamp effect at the rear, and green grass at the fore, so it… More Video ‘How to: Base Nurglings’
It’s week eight, and we’re moving quickly through the second half of the challenge. We’ve had a fair bit of distraction this past week, with two nights spent playing some Malign Portents games of Age of Sigmar. If you haven’t played Age of Sigmar, we recommend you give it a crack, it’s simple, with added… More March to War – Update 7
My Death Guard army progress slows as we look at the Malign Portents which are being seen across the eight Mortal Realms, my focus has shifted from Warhammer 40k to Age of Sigmar. I’m painting up some Nurgle Daemons for AoS, happy in the knowledge that I can also use them in 40k as part… More How to: Paint and Base Nurglings
We’re half-way through February, and that means half-way through the challenge. That means that we should be pretty far ahead with what we’re doing. There should be lots of shiny models covered in paint to show off. Read on to see just how much we’re lying to ourselves and just what’s been going on over… More March to War – 6th Update
This week’s video is a quick and easy method of painting Nurglings to get them looking great on the tabletop. The video shows how to paint one row of Nurglings, but repeat the process on each row and they’ll look like the image above. A full list of paints is below the video here, and… More Video ‘How to: Paint Nurglings’
Today marks the last day of January – the first month of March to War. Progress has been varied so far, but with two months still to go, we’re on target. The tactic for completing March to War is to get the painting out of the way first then do your building at the last… More March to War 2018 – Update 4
Adam: 2017 has been an interesting year for hobby. Most of my successes are stacked towards the front half of the year, as a new job in May began stealing most of my weekends due to travelling around the country, slowing down production on my armies. Whilst I often take things away with me to… More Brush and Boltgun 2017 Roundup
Shadespire. What can I say about it? Well, not a lot, I’ve not played it yet, but in the coming week or so we’ve got a couple of gaming days coming up, and by thunder I’ll be playing it one way or another. Miniature wise, what I can say, is that the miniatures are great,… More Shadespire – Stormcast Eternals
Rob: Well, it’s the Christmas Edition, but there’s nothing festive about this week’s painting. With work’s parties and day to day life, there’s not been too much in the way of painting other than finishing off the Stormcast Eternals for Wednesday’s post: I’ve also been working on the Khorne Bloodbound a little, though not a… More Hobby Guilt – Christmas Edition
Dave: We’re nearing the end of our hobby guilt marathon now, and I’ve made some good progress since our last update. I’m not as far on as I would have liked to be for various reasons, but I’m finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with these guys. I don’t… More The Ever Present Hobby Guilt
While painting up the Bioligus Putrifier for a video, I realised that about 20% of the miniature is bottles of some description, so, I held off on painting to do this video. This week, I’ll be taking you through a quick and easy method to paint glass bottles. Thanks for watching, and if you… More Video ‘How to: Paint Glass Bottles’
Adam: So, I hear you ask, in our tale of Samurai and hobby redemption, have I managed to make steps to turn an erstwhile band of unpainted Ronin into an honourable band of retainers worthy of their noble lineage? The answer is, kind of… Having assembled a few models, the first thing I needed to do before… More Hobby Guilt Season Week 1
Plaguebearers. They’ve always been hideous, and as Games Workshop’s miniatures have improved, they’ve become more so. With the release of Blightwar and the ongoing Death Guard releases – you may have noticed I’ve been painting Nurgle a LOT – I thought it would be a good time to expand my Chaos force for Age of… More How to paint plaguebearers