Since my last WIP post almost all of my hobby time has been spent painting up partisans for Bolt Action. That work continues as Andrew and I are starting to reach the home stretch for our Adepticon Doubles team tournament army. Painting this army has been both fun and little challenging. They are a fairly… Read More Prepping for the parti
Kevin Chin is a seven-year veteran illustrator for the books and boxed games section of the Warhammer Studio. The interview is from the January 26 episode of Warhammer Live: In the studio and begins at 02:07:50. We being with a piece from Battletome: Everchosen depicting when Archaon conquers the All-gates and begins to build his fortress. Kevin says… Read More Warhammer Live – Artist Kevin Chin interview
Continuing our monthly review of White Dwarf as a regular feature on Chicago Dice, I bring you issue five, January 2017. Due to a shipping error, my issue did not arrive until last weekend and I must ask for forgiveness for this late review. I’ll highlight each of the main features from the issue along with… Read More White Dwarf – January 2017
Yesterday Warhammer Live hosted an interview with Games Workshop miniatures designer and sculptor Mark Harrison with a specific focus on the yet-to-be-released Lord of Change. During the interview, Mark mentions how the original model from 1989 provided for the new release. It speaks volumes to the iconic design of the Lord of Change being able to create… Read More The Lord of Change kit details
As my two primary armies are Deathwatch and Grey Knights I already have two of the Ordos well represented and with the release of Imperial Agents I have been looking around for an Inquisitor fig to use. When they first released pictures of the Triumvirate box set I wasn’t all that impressed because so much… Read More Inquisitor Greyfax
Adepticon 2017 is 64 days away. That gives me just over two months to get ready for: Bolt Action Combat Patrol – Chindits, done Bolt Action Doubles – Partisans, 70 infantry and two trucks Warhammer 40,000 Quads – Genestealer Cult, 49 infantry and four trucks We are looking at over a hundred models by the… Read More Partisans and Genestealer Cults
Hey everyone! Over winter break I was slightly hard pressed for time due to work and other fun things. However I did not let that slow me down and was able to work on my skills as a painter. I am notorious for starting and stopping projects to work on different techniques or ideas that… Read More Winter break
I am always on the lookout for interesting Kicstarter campaigns. Heer 46 has launched a campaign for a line of Gebirgsjäger miniatures. Gebirgsjäger are something that not many miniatures companies have. As far as I know only Warlord Games and the excellent Gorgon Studios have Gebirgsjäger available. Gebirgsjäger are another one of those elite German units from… Read More German Gebirgsjäger
With Adepticon coming up, Andrew and I have been working on the Partiboys for a while now for the Bolt Action Doubles tournament. He’s posted some great progress on the infantry for WIP Wednesday but more work needs to be done. As part of the creation of the Partiboys, we discussed how we were going… Read More PARTIBUUUUUUUUUUS
Another entry, another completed Imperial assassin. With the release of the Imperial Agents codex there is now a convenient single source for the Assassins, as well as providing a player like me who doesn’t have an extended history of 40k with the Inquisition material. After getting a few games in with the Culexus I realized… Read More Eversor Assassin
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