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Painted Wulfen for my Space Wolves
As noted, I am working on a Chaos project for the new, 8th Edition of Warhammer 40K. Nonetheless, there is still stuff from my current (and still main) 40K army on my table, including these lovely Wulfen I managed to finish. — read more
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Khornversions – Khorne MK III Berserkers
Brace yourself. 8th Edition is coming. A new edition of Warhammer 40K is as good an excuse as any to start a new army. Since I have a variety of Chaos miniatures, some of which I used to play Shadow War Armageddon, my current idea is to (maybe) finally try making them into a small… — read more
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Armageddon Blog 4 – My First Shadow War Battle
While I am still building and painting my scenery for Shadow War Armageddon, I had an opportunity for a quick lunch-time game at my local Games Workshop store. — read more
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Armageddon Blog 3: Painting a Ferratonic Furnace
Time to paint my Ferratonic Furnace from the Shadow War Armageddon Box. — read more
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Armageddon Blog 2 – Building a Ferratonic Furnace
The main attraction of Shadow War Armageddon box, at least visually, is clearly the terrain. I started by picking out the two sprues from the box that make the terrain piece GW calls, individually packaged, the Ferratonic Furnace. — read more
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Armageddon Blog 1 – Unboxing Shadow War Armageddon!
Look at what the mailman brought. A shiny new box of Shadow War Armageddon! It has been a while since I played with my Warhammer 40K miniatures, but Games Workshop latest skirmish tease has me back in a flash, ordering a box of Shadow War Armageddon (which also sold out in a flash, so I’m clearly… — read more
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Havox – Professional Photography Light Box Review
Taking photographs of miniatures can be hard. Worse, I am not much of a photographer. Usually, I simply use my iPhone. However, I did have a small foldable light box that made it a bit easier to take pictures of small things. Most of my Imperial Assault pictures on this site were taken this way. — read more
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Retro Gaming on the iPhone – Deathwatch: Tyranid Invasion
As I move house, my paints and miniatures disappeared in boxes. Deprived of “proper” hobby time, I took to playing on my iPhone. Deathwatch: Tyranid Invasion is a really cool retro game with shiny modern graphics Playing Deathwatch feels a lot like playing Space Hulk or Imperial Assault (if set in Games Workshop’s grimy 40k-universe, not… — read more
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Book Review – Star Wars: The Weapon of a Jedi by Jason Fry
The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure offers well-written and well-illustrated, fast-pace action scenes of X-Wing dogfights and lightsaber duels, strung together by a minimal story of, essentially, The Force telling Luke to go from A to B. It is a good fast-food-read of Star Wars nostalgia and a bit of X-Wing and lightsaber-action,… — read more
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X-Wing Tournament List – Poe & Wedge: X-Wing Aces Old & New
Will the new T-70 X-Wing bring back (a version of) the X-Wing to the X-Wing tournament scene? It’s a question I have been asking myself. Now, at a local tournament, I ran a test with the following Rebels Squadron, featuring the top X-Wing aces of two eras: Poe Dameron and Wedge Antilles. X-Wing Aces Old… — read more