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Space Hulk Terminator Update

I've been on a Warhammer fantasy kick lately, focusing on my Skaven for the campaign and all the new End Times models, so I've been neglecting the Terminators. Brother Claudio's sculpting is finished...

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Scratch-Built Skaven Doom-Flayer

One of the Skaven weapon teams is the dreaded doom-flayer, a cross between a push lawnmower and a miniature doom wheel. I've overlooked this contraption until recently, mainly because the only official...

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Fit for a King

One of the projects I've completed recently is a war litter for my Skaven Warlord:  The litter is carried by clanrats from the Island of Blood set. They are holding a rack of spears, upon which the...

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Spreading the Disease

As my Skaven legion expands its Under-Empire, Clan Skryre and Clan Pestilens have joined forces. To lead the sea of plague monks that has been steadily growing around Warlord Skabsis, I've put together...

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Tomb Prince Selketta

It's been a while since I painted any undead models, so I took a moment to finish Selketta. Last year I showed the process for which I converted the model for use in my Undead Legions army. You can see...

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Painting a Plethora of Plague Monks, Part 1

I've been adding to the Clan Pestilens contingent of my Skaven army, and the bulk of it comes in the form of plague monks. Two 40-man units should be sufficient. That's four 20-man boxes, and a fifth...

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Painting a Plethora of Plague Monks, Part 2

In part one of this article, I showed you how I prepared the bases in a single large batch. The models were assembled separately on foam core strips so I could paint them with an assembly-line...

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Vanguard Conversion Commission

One of my clients contacted me to help him finish off a conversion he was working on. Michael wanted his Vanguard warjack reposed to resemble this illustration by Andrea Uderzo:  Mike had already...

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Furnace and Flayers: The Skaven Roll On

Justin, Jason, and I are still plugging away at our campaign, but it's slow going. As you can see from my previous posts, I've been taking a big bite out of my Skaven project queue. I finished a second...

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Space Hulk Terminator Trio

I'm Baaack! I just returned from a trip with my wife to Japan and the Philippines. We saw a lot of cool sites and had a blast visiting with her family. In a hobby-related note, we happened across a GW...

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Brother Leon, Space Hulk Terminator

I just looked over at the number of Facebook subscribers, and it's up to exactly 700! Thanks for following along, everyone! Don't forget to subscribe to the blog page itself and twitter as well!The...

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Brother Deino, Space Hulk Terminator

This guy officially puts me back on track to finish one of these per month. Brother Deino and the C.A.T. officially mark the halfway point through the Space Hulk Terminators.  There's not a whole lot...

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Brother Omnio, Space Hulk Terminator

Brother Omnio is finished ahead of schedule: I knocked this guy out pretty quickly since he didn't have any hanging Blood Angels icons that needed to be replaced.  Most of the sculpting went into the...

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The Age of Sigmar, God Help Me

And to think that only a year ago I was concerned about putting my ghouls on regimental strip bases, just in case they went back to being a skirmishing unit in the next edition of Warhammer. Ha!I was...

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Age of Sigmar, The Best Edition of 40K Yet!

Flippant title aside, in my last post I made the prediction that GW would soon be adopting the Age of Sigmar rules system for Warhammer 40K. After playing a game, I think Age of Sigmar will be perfect...

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Poll Time!

I've seen a lot of talk online about people rage-quitting Warhammer, or refusing to update to Age of Sigmar, and even people who didn't like the change at first being turned around once they tried it....

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The Results Are In! Is THIS what GW Wanted?

There was a pretty good turnout on the poll. Thanks to everyone who voted! We had around 155 on each of the first two questions and 133 on the last question. So, what does it all mean?First question:...

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Tyrant Zaadesh Conversion Commission

Here's another conversion commission, this time it's Skorne Tyrant Zaadesh. The client wanted the model posed like this image from Privateer Press:  The model's original position lent itself to the...

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Stormfiend Rattling Cannon Team

The first batch of Skaven Stormfiends is finished! These are the ones converted with rattling cannons. If you'd like to see the conversion process, check out these previous posts: Link  The two armored...

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Conan Terrain: Stygian Desert

Pulposaurus Entertainment had commissioned me to create a couple of demo boards for their new game Conan: Rise of Monsters. They just premiered it at Gencon and launched their Kickstarter campaign. You...

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