Oops New Army: Aeldari Edition
In the immortal words of Britney Spears, “Oops!... I Did It Again.” This time it wasn’t entirely a surprise. Unlike my usual approach to these articles, I don’t have a complete army ready to share...
View ArticleUsing Warhammer Skills to Make Gifts For My Parents
An 80th birthday present is not be the realm of book tokens or a pack of socks. With my mother reaching this milestone last year, and my father getting there this month, it seemed apt to go at least...
View ArticleBeard Demon: Count Binface Painting Competition
When we decided to hold the first ever Beard Bunker painting competition, we needed a neutral figure, since we all painted different armies, but we wanted someone suitably powerful and impressive. So...
View ArticleDown With Optimisation in Wargaming!
Paint the perfect tiny face in only twelve hours! Paint a hundred miniatures to tabletop standard in a day using this simple trick! Hone your tournament build by avoiding these underpowered...
View ArticleDestroyer Tank Hunter
When I was a kid, Forgeworld was churning out Imperial Guard tank variants and other vehicles in all sorts of delightful flavours. At the time, I wasn’t collecting Guard, nor did I have the money, but...
View ArticleOur Biggest, Silliest 40K Buildings Are Complete
I find it amusing that it's taken us so long to complete a miniature city building project that it would have been possible to construct a real building (albeit a small one) in the same time. Ladies...
View ArticleNightfall 31st Camo Cloak Guide (And Lots of Rough Riders Too)
Phew, it’s been a while since I posted about the Nightfall 31st, the Eridani Sector’s answer to “What if Gaunt's Ghosts but scummier?”I’ve been painting a hell of a lot of Tyranids recently thanks to...
View ArticleAbsolute Wins in the Cadian Infantry Painting Shed
I’ve mentioned a few times in previous posts about being back into the Guard in a big way, and I wasn’t kidding. To recap, I built my guard army originally as some infantry to accompany my Imperial...
View ArticleHive Fleet Highfiveathon: co-op army painting progress
In January, Harvey and I decided to have a crack at painting a Tyranid army as a joint project. Today's post is a very simple one: who is it, painting a joint army in this way, what's worked well, and...
View ArticleLazy Cadians
I may have moaned on the Bunker about how much I hate painting Guard infantry. I have definitely moaned to my fellow Bunkerites about it in person, extensively. But I worked out a method to paint...
View ArticleFull House
It’s very unusual for me to consider a project “finished”, but this one is. At least for now. Whilst some Bearded Bunker dwellers are capable of starting a project, building a modest collection, and...
View ArticleShould I update my terrain for 40K's 11th edition?
As I write this we're a few months away from Warhammer 40,000's eleventh edition. In the Warhammer Community post describing the new edition's approach to terrain, they describe how different match ups...
View Article3rd(ish) Edition Tyranids Painted Quickly
A while back now, Charlie wrote the excellent Fury of the Swarm expansion for 40k. I think it's fair to say it left an impression, because not only have we continued playing it to this day, but I was...
View ArticleHow to make your own Lieutenant With Combi-weapon for fun and profit!
At this point I’ve done quite a run of “Tom fixes a Primaris kit he doesn't like”. The Desolators, obviously, the Invictor Warsuit, the Aggressors and Incursors… Quite aside from my constant tweaking...
View ArticleHow do I get 3d printed bits?
Welcome to a world of infinite possibilities! Veteran bunker readers will be aware that I’ve been dabbling in 3d printing warhammer bits for a long time, despite the fact I do not have a printer...
View ArticleThe 2025 Drop Pod kit review: glue optional?
Falling through the heavens in a drop pod is about the most Space Marine thing you can do, besides angrily pointing at something while standing on a rock, or possibly struggling to fit through doors....
View ArticleThe Lachesian War is Over
If you're going to create your own sector of Imperial space to situate your games of Warhammer 40K (and in 2020 we did), it follows that you would want to fight some one-off battles in it, as well as...
View ArticleThe Management Wish to Announce a Change
I've been having a think about my priorities.The Beard Bunker has always been something that is written purely for fun. We try to keep to a schedule, because without schedules nothing ever happens, but...
View ArticleWhen James Gives You Lemons, You Build a Lemon
It wasn't immediately obvious that I had a lemon in my hands. The packaging promised me a Space Marine Gladiator tank. Certainly that's what my friends thought they'd bought me for my birthday, and...
View ArticleWe Survived 2025
Life continues to be taxing for many of the Bunkerites, we seem to be hitting a lot of crises that are happening in the mid-life, but not the fun kind. Nobody has bought themselves a (new) motorbike...
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