Thursday, 20 March 2025
More Sons Of Horus Terminators
Sunday, 16 March 2025
The Red Angel Calls
Friday, 14 March 2025
Tiny Romans

Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Scenery Project 1 - Dibbler's Meat Pie Shop
I've been looking online for some interesting buildings to supplement my collection, those models that just have a bit of character to draw the eye. I follow Fogou Models on Bluesky and this building came up as someone had shared it, which instantly made me realise I needed one for my Madina.
Its made of an almost plaster of Paris feeling resin, so is a very different beast from the other plastic kits I've been playing with* and with it only taking an afternoon to paint, it was a lovely little project. The model is called the Bakehouse and I've added a roll shutter door** and junction box from the same company just to give it something, along with cardboard signs.
*this will not play well if stored in the same box as a foam built adobe
**I meant to order their shop opening but didn't realise I'd ordered incorrectly until I made this post
All of my other scenery for this project has been made with multiple periods in mind, so I'm trying not to put anything futuristic on that can't be removed for WW2 or Medieval games. This model I just decided would be sci-fi all the time and I think it just suits it.
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Saturday, 8 March 2025
Vehicles For The Desert
A few months ago we took the family on a long weekend to Cornwall to take full use of the last year where holidays can be taken in term time, this was supplemented with an extra night in Devon to break up the journey home. Looking at where we ended up staying it became obvious that a quick stop at the Tank Museum in Bovington was a real possibility.
We went to the museum fully aware that a young family and museums normally means a rapid exit when someone gets too bored, so I set my hopes low and aimed to see a few key vehicles. However, we were pleasantly surprised, every area has something for kids to play with, be it a table with army figures, fake Lego to build your own tank or a giant snakes and ladders, all topped off with a massive soft play.
This all brings me back to the project I started as the big early project for 2023, my African theatre British for WW2. I worked my way through the infantry in January that year but I was stumped on the exact colour for the vehicles and while I was working out my plan, other projects took over and this one was forgotten beyond it being the first option to play with my brother before we both drop the plan as neither of our armies were finished.
Coming back from holiday, I was, unsurprisingly, massively motivated to get some tanks painted, so I went to work playing with sprays and paints in my collection before deciding on a Zhandri Dust spray as a prime then a really watered down Tallarn Sand just to get the colour a bit closer and I was quite pleased with the result on the test Humber MK2 (below).
I then decided to use the other vehicle that came in the Gentlemen's War starter box to test the blue camouflage, which took me a few days of looking at my paints and photos online before I was happy to try an idea. Then work and home life hit hard and it took me about 2 weeks to finish this model, but again, I'm pretty pleased on the end result.
With those done, I then sat on the project again for a bit due to just a lack of opportunities to actually use these armies, but with the new Wayland Games venue hopefully opening in the next couple of months, it would be good to get this project usable and ready to go.
With that in mind, here are the first Matilda and a light mortar team that I need for my first list. I need to pick up another sprue of 8th army infantry as I am short an officer team in the new edition, but otherwise I just need a table and time to get a game in.
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Thursday, 6 March 2025
Sons of Horus Terminators
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
HMS Bienfaisant
I had a plan to try and do a ship a month this year to just keep them slowly trickling out, its now march and this is the first, so that's going well.
Friday, 28 February 2025
Little Gallopers
Saturday, 22 February 2025
5th New York
While on sick leave I had planned to give myself two or 3 big (ish) projects to do, mostly painting big units of things that I just haven't been doing in my normal painting time. One of those was an army of Warlord Epic scale American Civil War Zouaves that I picked up in a sprue sale last year. I had time while off to get some of the base colours on and have since gone back over them to get them done.
I really like having Zouaves on the table when playing ACW as the reds they tend to have in their uniforms give a bright pop above all the blues, greys and browns that the Union/Confederates normally wear. I have a few units painted for my 28mm ACW in the form of the 72rnd Pennsylvania, Baxter's Fire Zouaves but for these I went for a more "Zouave" colour scheme and picked a unit that had the red trousers, this time being the 5th New York.
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Thursday, 20 February 2025
Risen Like Immortals
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Saturday, 8 February 2025
Sweet, Sweet Caffine
Friday, 7 February 2025
The Heraclean
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Chaos Space Marine Combat Patrol
Speaking to my brothers about what games they want to play this year, they have both said that they would like to stick with Combat Patrol as their main way of playing as it allows them to dabble with armies and ideas without investing too much, plus neither has much painting or gaming time, so it keeps everything manageable. So I have been looking at my projects to see what needs doing as a priority and a combat patrol I should have finished a long time ago is my Chaos Space Marine one. This was supposed to be my big army for the year, so why was this basic part of it not done?
The next thing was the squad of regular marines. I've got a fair few finished marines for this army but I wasn't sure I had the exact weapon options and as I had a spare set on the sprue, it made sense just to purpose build the right squad. This was also the first unit to get the new army symbol on their shoulder, which I am really pleased with.
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Fjord Serpents - Karvi
Monday, 27 January 2025
The August Lion Patrol
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
The Lion
Friday, 17 January 2025
Grimbold, Marshall of the Mark
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The Horror Of Burning Things
Saturday, 11 January 2025
Nemesis Dreadknight Alessio
Thursday, 9 January 2025
Scenery Project 1 - Back to the desert
Saturday, 4 January 2025
Squad Polo
While waiting for the combat patrol to arrive I had a bright idea and bought myself a second terminator squad. Then because I was doing two of the same squad at the same time I gave them matching names and opposite heraldry.
Reading the before mentioned Emperor's Gift novel there is a battle scene where just over a 100 Grey Knights all descend onto a planet to attack a daemon army*, every marine of which is in terminator armour - this is a scene I'd love to replay one day** but I can do on a small scale if I have a handful of terminator squads.
*minor spoilers
**very much doubt I will
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Friday, 3 January 2025
Squad Marco
The next unit is some Terminators for my Grey Knights. These are another unit that came in the combat patrol, is they are built to that rule sets specifications. I quite enjoyed this kit as it's just so different from any other terminators that GW will sell you.
I didn't go nuts on the goldwork and left a lot of details as carved areas of their armour just to give characters and their elite terminator unit somewhere to go in the future.
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Thursday, 2 January 2025
Squad Romeo
A project I painted towards the end of 2024 that never made it onto the blog were my Grey Knights;
Over the summer I reread The Emperor's Gift for the umpteenth time, it's a book that always makes me tempted to do a Grey Knight army but I'm normally pretty good at avoiding that fate. However, with Combat Patrol being a thing and it being easier to organise those small games, I could do an army of just 11 models, scratch that itch, actually use them and happily move on.
So I received the combat Patrol for my birthday and got on with it*. This is the regular power armour squad - Squad Romeo. If this army ever expands much beyond the few bits I have picked up it is unlikely to be more power armour guys as I heavily expect Grey Knights to get the new marines in time, which would replace these.
*then didn't post anything
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