Warhammer 40,000 has entered a new age – the age of the Dark Imperium. In this deadly era, five warlords answer the call to create new armies for the new edition. Every two weeks I will bring you updates from the front as Ben, Duffin, Brian, Adam and Dexter progress from concept to fully painted… Read More A Tale of Five Warlords – Introductions
A Song of Ice & Fire: Table Top Miniatures Game from CMON and Dark Sword Miniatures is one of this year’s most anticipated games. There have been several previews of the game play and the miniatures but no solid details – until now. Yesterday Beasts of War went live with an hour and half long… Read More A Song of Ice & Fire – Stark Vs Lannisters – What we know so far
Beginning Monday, June 19, Ben and I will participating in a Bolt Action escalation league at Tyton Games. We have been working to help grow the Bolt Action community there over the past few months and are ready to start an official event. Although we will keep track of wins and losses during the league,… Read More Bolt Action Escalation League
Warlord Games heads into new territory with their latest Bolt Action supplement, Campaign: Sea Lion. Unlike the previous Warlord releases that are all rooted in historical events, Sea Lion explores a “what if” scenario, the German invasion of Britain. Although Operation Sea Lion, or Seelöwe, was a real operation, it was planned and resources were allocated, an invasion… Read More Campaign: Sea Lion
With Adepticon 2017 done and dusted it’s on to the next set of projects. Now, unlike what I do for Bolt Action, whereI am constantly moving from one army to the next in a never-ending production line, for the next three months, my goal is complete one army for three games. Once the armies are done,… Read More Arena Rex, Blood & Plunder then SAGA
The top perk in the Adepticon swag bags this year was a copy of the core box for Fantasy Flight Games’ yet-to-be-release Runewars: The Miniatures Game. Needless to say, I was thrilled. It’s like Chicago Dice got an early review copy! Note that this not a full review, only Ben and my initial thoughts on… Read More Runewars: The Miniatures Game – Warhammer Fantasy meets X-Wing
With exactly one week until Adepticon 2017 begins I have been in a hobby frenzy. Being on such an extreme time crunch I won’t be going into as much detail as normal for my update. Right now I am working on: Display board for the Warhammer 40,000 team tournament – The display will have two levels;… Read More Adepticon, the clock is ticking
Quick and easy method for painting Warhammer 40,000 city bases. These bases are great for adding a bit of extra height to your models and can provide a strong contrast to paint scheme of the model. Base Layer Shade Abaddon Black Deathworld Forest Dawnstone Administratum Grey Pallid Wych Flesh Hashut Copper Agrax Earthshade 1. Start… Read More How to paint Warhammer 40,000 city bases
The near-future is here, and Earth’s abandoned cities are now battlegrounds for the ultimate spectator sport: GIANT KILLER ROBOTS. Let that sink in for a second. GKR: Heavy Hitters is a miniatures board game designed by Cryptozoic Entertainment and Weta Workshop. Normally any miniatures boardgame has my interest, but with Weta Workshop taking a lead with… Read More GKR: Heavy Hitters
In an effort to reduce duplicate miniatures, my Bolt Action Partisan army contains models from no less than nine different companies. Luckily, Footsore Miniatures has a wide variety of miniatures for Partisans and I picked up the majority of the range: Workers Militia IRA advancing IRA firing IRA with shotguns IRA with pistols Not only is… Read More Footsore IRA and Workers Militia
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