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Immortal Engines
Greetings fellow pals of the Primordial Annihilator! It's been a hot minute since any of the glorious sons of Lorgar have graced the august pixels of this digital journal. I'd kinda fallen off the...
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Oops New Battle Company
Look, things just get out of hand sometimes, you know?It was never my intention to collect an entire company, these things just happen. I was talking to Charlie recently about his long-term goals for...
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In Space, No-one Can Hear You Chant
They come with chainaxe, they come with bolters, they come with faith and with their neverborn allies, and now, the biggest assholes in all the galaxy [citation needed] come with far too many...
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Primaris Psyker conversion
Today's short post is an ode to the advanced headswap. I've just finished off a Primaris Psyker for the mechanised Guard army I painted back in 8th edition, because sometimes you just fancy a palette...
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Inceptor Inception
As I settle in to write yet another “Tom doesn’t like GW’s design so he fixes it” I feel I have to point out that I really do like most of the new Primaris range. The core armour designs are excellent...
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Primaris Whirlwind Conversion
This brief post is about how to get a Whirlwind that looks at home in an army of Primaris Space Marines. I'm not the first person to do this, but I am now a person who's done it, so here you are.The...
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Contenders, ready! Gladiators, ready!
Just a quick post this week, and this is largely a public service announcement for budding Space Marine commanders suffering from indecision. In brief, the Gladiator tank can be built to swap between...
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Modular Urban Board Project Log 7: All Roads Lead to Foam
Roads present terrain makers with a series of challenges and compromises. In today's post, I'm going to talk about how I made some road sections for my ongoing modular 40K cityfight board, and which...
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Project Capstone
Herein we find the first of several posts I'll be making reporting my progress in what I am calling Project Capstone.I've been pretty keen on Raven Guard aircraft from day one. Before even the Storm...
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Project Capstone: Thunderhawk Build Log 1
Herein lies the first part of my ongoing project to build (and paint I guess) a Thunderhawk. I have previously posted about the motivations for taking on such a crazy project, so this is just the...
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Bolt Shells And Body Bags
Greetings, fellow fans of evil teleport-capable slabs of excessive violence. I bring to you our preferred vehicle for such things... an upsettingly large amount of Word Bearers Terminators:Nothing like...
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Eridani Warzones: a loose 40K campaign framework
Four years have passed since we first created the Eridani Sector setting for our games in the Warhammer 40K setting. It's serving us well, and in that time we've played multiple campaigns and events,...
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Is it good to finish an army?
Finishing stuff feels great. Completed vacuuming is infinitely better than vacuuming-in-progress, and despite the existence of the word 'gooning' (don't Google that at work) I'm not convinced it's...
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Why I've spent most of 10th edition 40K playing the intro mission 'Only War'
People love the matched play missions, and I'm happy for them. Lots of variety, lots of numbers going up, lots of game balance levers for the designers to pull, and lots of randomness so that your...
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Painting Ork Terrain Quickly
Humies have a sayin': home is where da art iz. Dey're right, coz if yoo don't paint yor favourite glyphs all over your home, how will anyone know it's yors?Today's post is all about painting your own...
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Raven Guard Heraldry
A lot of people have been posting about heraldry this week in the Raven Guard subreddit, because they’ve just booted up Space Marine 2, have fallen in love with the greatest Chapter in the Imperium,...
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Thatos Terrain Done Unreasonably Quickly
Who's got John Williams on in the background? Just me?Fast terrain projects seem to be becoming a bit of a specialty of ours. About a year ago, Charlie, Drew and I went in for a pair of boxes of...
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The Beard Bunker is temporarily switching to monthly posts
I am here today on behalf the management* to make an announcement to all Beard Bunker readers, and instead of burying the lead, I've put it in the title. Regrettably, for while, we are going to have to...
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The 31st Nightfall Ranger Regiment: An Imperial Guard Love Letter
For the first of the Beard Bunker’s temporarily monthly offerings, I thought I’d write about something dear to my hobbyist’s heart: The Imperial Guard. Specifically my Imperial Guard collection, the...
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Project Capstone: Thunderhawk Build Log 2
After an unexpected interlude, here are the continuing adventures of building a Thunderhawk Gunship. For further context please see previous articles in this series. Day 15My regular roleplaying...
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We could have done more in 2024...
As Charlie mentioned in October, 2024 has not been a great year for many at the Beard Bunker. Nevertheless, hobby sure has hobbied, maybe less hobby for some of us than previous years, but as is our...
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Sons of Baal
A disturbingly long time ago, I was very excited to finally be owning an army I had wanted since I was ten years old. The full story of my adoration of this army is contained in that link so feel free...
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Back to Battlefleet Gothic
Way back when in 1999, Games Workshop dropped Battlefleet Gothic on my tender teenage self. I’d come to the hobby just too late to get into Epic, and didn’t know anyone playing Necromunda, so it was...
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Refenestration: Adding windows to 40K terrain
Charlie: We’ve all imagined having actual glass in the tiny plastic windows of our ruined dollhouses. What a fun idea! How utterly impractical! The idea is sensibly consigned to the most conceptual of...
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New Chaos Army: The Order of the Iron Ring
I started a new army this year, and it's definitely not a Chaos army. How could it be? They don't worship Chaos. Sure, they use Chaos, but so do some radical Inquisitors. They're not an Imperial army...
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