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A New Look for the Blog
I've been tinkering a bit with the blog recently, and thinking of a few new things I can do.Welcome to the start of the new layout. I want the blog to look nice and clean, with the posts continuing as...
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Mechanicum - Completed Thanatar, and more automata!
I squeezed in a little painting on the weekend, and yesterday my FW Iron Hands decal sheet arrived. I received a neat tip from an excellent modeler on a Facebook HH group about the Mechanicum symbols...
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Mechanicum - Cerastus Knight-Lancer Part One
No prizes for guessing what's in the bath of Simple Green. This weekend's assembly project is a Cerastus Knight-Lancer. I'm looking forward to getting this puppy built, and if I can squeeze in a little...
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Mechanicum - A few new shots and a pilot for the Cerastus.
A quick shot of the finished Thanatar standing alongside my still-yet-to-be-named combat-focused automata.The Castellax with all of their shoulder icons.Finally, here's the pilot I built for my...
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Mechanicum - Finally, an update on the Knight-Lancer
A quick update of the Cerastus Knight Lancer. Last post you saw the pilot posing in his Throne Mechanicum. Here you can see some of the painted version in situ.And here are a couple of shots with the...
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Project Alchemy - An Oldhammer & Collecting Citadel Miniatures charity...
I was recently asked by my friend James Craig to help promote a project he has been involved with recently - Project Alchemy. This combines three things I like - good friends, charity activity, and a...
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Mechanicum - Knights, and more...
While I've been waiting on the custom decals for my Heresy-era House Taranis, I've taken my Knight Paladin a little further. Of course, once I reach a certain stage with him I'll use the same custom...
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Mechanicum - Acting as a Mechanicum Forge World
Sorry for the radio silence, I've been too busy to snap any photos of all the hobby work going on at the moment. In addition to my own Knights, I'm working on a big Napoleonic commission, a FOW US tank...
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WW2 - I mentioned working on a few 15mm jobs.
I mentioned last post that I've been working on a few FOW projects recently. One of them is for a long-time follower of the blog, Jake. Back in April I asked Jake to help me out by 3-D sculpting a few...
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Oldhammer Weekend approaches!
Very soon (Oct 25-26), Dropzone Games will travel back in time to the late 1980s.Oldhammer was founded by a handful of old grognards, bitten by the nostalgia bug (and possibly not too happy about the...
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Mechanicum - Knights so close you can taste them!
Not long now and my first two Knights will be complete. Just some chipping and then weathering powders to go on my Knights of House Taranis, sporting the 30K version of their iconography/heraldry. The...
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WW2 - A US Armored recon force.
Here are the models from a recent commission, painted up for a client in Viginia. He sent me the models, a mix of Battlefront and Plastic Soldier Company models. It was the first time I'd used the PSC...
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Death Guard - Some old school reinforcements and some new models.
While searching around for some Ogre bits a few weeks ago, I stumbled on a handful of old school Rhino-based vehicles. Some were missing parts after years of neglect, others had never seen paint...
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Mechanicum - More Thallax roll off the production line.
A little while back (here) I had assembled a bunch of Thallax so that I could really expand the beefy (yet fleshless) core of my Mechanicum force - after playing a few games, Toughness 5 and 3 Wounds...
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A quick tease, and Kickstarters arrive!
I have a few other things on deck at the moment, but I thought I'd show you two WIPs for my Death Guard. The one on the right is my second Contemptor (who will be wielding a multi-melta and a power...
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Happy Halloween! ...and some Ogre heads
Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate it!Here are a few Ogre heads that I converted up for my buddy Teras Cassidy, Head Geek at Geek Nation Tours. They'll be making an appearance in his Warhammer...
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Charity efforts, an update. And a Death Guard Moritat.
Well, let's get the Moritat out of the way. I've only faced one of these guys in my handful of 30K games. It was at the Old Line Massacre back in June, and the Night Lords Moritat armed with two plasma...
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When your mechanic calls you and says...
..."Dave, we have to talk."Yesterday, was "one of those days" where I got to hear the list of ailments facing my car, and the price for repairs. Of course, repairing the car is still going to be a...
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Things might seem quiet on the surface, but...
...underneath I've been paddling away like a duck. The car thing has taken some time away from fun, hobby stuff, but hopefully that will be restored in the next week or so. In the meantime I have a few...
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AdeptiCon 2015 is Coming!
Well, next March is the actual event, but I wanted to point out that the registration for AdeptiCon 2015 is only a few days away! On Monday November 24, at 8pm Central time (that's 2am Tuesday morning...
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