As the Emperor Wills

This past week, I did something I didn't think I'd do (at least until I was forced to abandon the hobby due to real life); I sold some of my minis! Well, not really. I mean, it was only my Necrons. The majority of my Necron collection I'd acquire early in my return to the hobby when I had bought the 9th edition starter set, while the last of them (my Deathmarks) were picked up a few months later from an issue of the imperium magazine. The thing was, beyond painting, I didn't really use them, finding myself prefering my Space Marines and Sisters of Battle. Also with the exception of my Deathmarks, I never really felt my painting skills were all that good on them (which makes sense, given they were an early paint job). I'm truth, it wasn't until recently that I'd even considered selling them, as I wasn't quite sure how to do that. However, I recently learned of this website called Miniswap, where people could seemingly b...

Earlier today, I finished painting the Crimson Court, my fourth Warhammer Underworlds warband and, as I looked at the finished article, I wondered if I'd ever use them. During early 2025, I purchased the new edition of Warhammer Underworlds' Embergard box set as well as the Revenant of the Realm warbands box set. The reason for the latter was to own the Crimson Court warband (which I consider a gorgeous set of minis), while the former was to have a Warhammer game to play with my kids (because I found it generally difficult to play generally). And, initially, it did seem to do the job because my eldest showed some interest in playing at least a toned down version (no cards or warscrolls). Unfortunately, he did have a bad habit of altering the rules further (which bothered me) but at least he continued to show an interest. In fact, so optimistic did this make me that, over the recent Christmas period, I acquired the Spitewood expansion and the Seekers in Shadow box se...

Something I've been putting off for literal years, I recently decided to paint the STC Hab Bunker had bought long ago. Having already primed it in Chaos Black back to close to when I'd bought it, I found myself a little apprehensive, fearful it would take far too long. However, I powered through and got it done: First up was an all over Heavy Drybrush of Mechanicus Standard Grey Followed by a Drybrush of Eshin Grey And finally a Drybrush of Dawnstone Next up, the Base doors were painted in the Fang Then Shaded in Agrax Earth shade Before being Drybrushed in Russ Grey Before a final Drybrush in Fenrisian Grey Next were Base Lights and canisters which were given a undercoat of in Corax White I applied lights with Aethermatic Blue contrast While I Applied canisters with Iyanden Yellow contrast. Then, I drybrushed lights and canisters with White Scar Then came the metals which I based with Leadbelcher and Balthasar Gold (depending on whether I wanted gunmetal or brass)....

Back in late summer/September 2025 I got really lucky when I won a copy of the Army Painter Speedpaint Mega Set 2.0 Since then, I've been playing around with the painta that came inside this set, priming some outstanding Minis of the month in white while others that had been primed in black were resprayed with white (in a zenithal style (at least, I think that's how it's done)). All of these came out to varying results. However, with the Emperor's Children's Tormentor (which I'd originally planned to paint traditionally), I discovered a different that I really wanted to try out, doing so over the Christmas holiday). So, my plan was; Starting with a primer of Chaos Black (which was done way back in October to avoid the cold), I applied a drybrush of Corax White a la the Slapchop method (at least I think it was) Then I applied Familiar Pink on every panel I deemed to be that colour in its entirety (regardless of how much Corax White was on it. That...

Last week finally saw the end of Romulan project as, having already gotten them most of the way to completion, I was able to quickly finish the job and get them crossed off my list. To do this, I simply followed up on the work from the prior two weeks by ... For the Romulan minis, applying a highlight of Zandri dust on the regular Romulans, obviously avoiding the deepest crevices of the skin. I followed this up with an edge highlight of Kislev Flesh. Then applying an edge highlight of Fenrisian Grey to their hair. Next I moved onto Commander Sela, applied another layer of Kislev Flesh, similar to the Zandri Dust highlight Then I added an edge highlight of Flayed One Flesh to her most raised points. For Sela's hair, I added a layer of Screaming Skull. Following it up with an edge highlight of Wraithbone. Finally, I finished the bases I had been working on by  continuing to apply Khorne Red. Lastly, I used Warpstone Glow to highlight the name plates. With that...

 Week two of my new writing process and I continued where I left off from last week, as I continued working on the Romulan Away Team from Star Trek Away Missions. This week, I worked as follows? Applied Balthasar Gold to the weird necklace thing that Romulans seem to wear. Used Leadbelcher on the Romulan Disruptors and their Tricorders Applied Zandri Dust for all Romulan skin (except Sela) Sela's skin was given a base colour (3 coats) of Kislev Flesh Sela's hair received 3 coats of Wraithbone The rest of the Romulan hair had a touch up of Abaddon Black (also used a dot of this for the eyes) Then I applied several washes; Nuln Oil on the metals and Romulan Skin, Reikland Fleshshade on Sela's skin and Iyanden Yellow (a contrast more than a wash) on Sela's hair Applied a second wash of Agrax Earthshade on the metal Drybrushed the brass with Sycorax Bronze followed by Runefang Steel Finally, I drybrushed the silver with Ironbreaker In between all of these other step...