Into the Darkness – Painting the Heroquest Box Set (Part 1)

I’ve recently been working on painting up the contents of the classic Heroquest boxed game. I actually never owned the original game in my youth, and began my painting and playing days with Advanced Heroquest instead…but more on that another day. The first job was to take the models off the built-in plastic stands that […]

Custom Deathroller – A New Lease of Life for an Old Dwarf

I’m a long-time Blood Bowl player, and also really enjoy converting and scratch-building players to make them fit my idea of what the game is all about. This week, I set to work on a project for a friend…building and painting a Deathroller for their Dwarf team. For those that may not know, the Deathroller […]

Building the White Dwarf 130 Warhammer Fantasy Cottage

I’ve always loved building terrain, and the White Dwarfs from the late 80s and early 90s had some superb articles that provided step-by-step guides on how to build some brilliantly simple but evocative pieces. In this Back from the Dead series I intend to work through a good chunk of these, as both a highly […]

Painting the Unforgiven – Undead Skeleton Warriors

I’ve just finished the first unit of an army I’ve wanted to do for aaaaages…the shambling horror that is the Undead! I started off with some skeletons (of 80s Skeleton Horde fame) that I picked up fairly reasonably on eBay. Here they are in the box on the day they arrived – what a jolly […]

Painting the Ternwold II Halberdiers

I quite enjoy the Empire background in WFB; it seems much richer than many of the other races. I decided to base my army in Stirland, mainly because I decided on the green and yellow colour scheme first! Something I really wanted to get across with my army is the quite clear divide between the […]

Dragon Rampant: a mini review

I played Dragon Rampant recently, with the lovely Curis from ninjabread. Dragon Rampant is a fantasy skirmish wargame that’s very heavily based on Lion rampant – a historical predecessor – but with some extra bells and whistles…if dragons and wizards can be classed as bells and whistles. Dragon Rampant Overview Something I really like about […]