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Ikarran (ig)Nobles - or how I can't write characters
Right then, if you are here there's a fair bet that you are someone who prefers the narrative side of gaming. As such, I have no idea whether this post will be of any interest to you whatsoever or...
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Four Tips for Handling 40K's complexity
Warhammer 40K's eighth edition ushered in a new era of streamlined core mechanics. It also gave us a baffling profusion of unit-specific special rules, stratagems, faction rules, sub-faction rules, and...
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Automated 40K Crusade Roster upgraded to v1.3
Back in September 2020 I made an automated campaign roster for 40K's new Crusade mode. It's a Google sheet formatted for ease of use on smartphones (for obvious practical reasons). It's since become...
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Ruined MDF Buildings - Part 1
 I've been getting an itch. A tiny tiny itch. We've been looking at doing some historical WW2 gaming in 15mm with more emphasis on vehicles and vehicle manovers.Due to the current logisical whoopies...
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Ruined MDF Buildings - Part 2
I did it, I totally finished these buildings before getting distracted by Dark Angels (Honest). I'm still waiting for the vehicles to arrive, once they do I'll do a proper 15mm photo shoot with the...
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Easy backdrops, skin recipes, and a hammer-filled short story
This is going to be one of those posts which is really four separate posts too small to exist on their own:How to quickly add a background image to your mini photos without having to have a physical...
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Smelling a Whole Lotta Heresy on this one...
Greetings fellow seekers after forbidden knowledge! It's Word Bearer O'Clock once again on the ol' Beard Bunker (no rest for the wicked and all that). I've been painting more lads - yes I need more,...
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By the Cog and the Switch and the Heresy of this B...!
Greetings my friends! Yes, it is time to stir sacrificial blood into the lubricating oil, carve runes of desecration into gear trains and generally get up to no good with mechanisms. Because it's time...
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Dark Angels: First Legion New Blood
 There have been a lot of heretics, xenos, and pretenders floating around the blog recently. Something needs to be done about that. The best way to do that is to bring back the First Legion. The true...
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Baddest of the Bad
It's always the same, in every action movie with soldiers there will be one squad who are the baddest asses around. Everyone's cool, they're cooler. They're the ones who end up fighting Predator or...
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Cobalt Scions Impulsor
A Space Marine Battle Pile is a bit like a sumo wrestler in a room full of cats. He's big, and he's dangerous, but he's not going to control the room. Since I have spent the last year and a half...
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Cobalt Scions army complete!
This will be the final entry on my Ultramarines Successors, at least for the time being. Today's post will go over the conversion of Lieutenant Amulius (the modelling process, not the religious...
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Defiler of The Word
 Welcome, fellow devotee of the Dark Gods! I've got quite a large project for you today, however, to quote Gimli "It still only counts as one"...Yep! It's Daemon Engine O'Clock again! Now, the genesis...
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Sound & Fury
Throw horns Chaos fans! It's time for the second best* battlefield band in the 41st millenium. They come, heralded by the screaming of infernal chords, the Noise Marines of Slaanesh!Yep! I wanted some...
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Brush Care and Maintenance
Greetings one and all. A long time ago, in a blog far, far away (hence the odd watermarks), I was having one of my maintenance days and wisely decided to take some pictures. Thus allowing me to share...
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Modular Urban Board Project Log 1
I was fine with my long-serving plain grey urban board. Sure, it had absolutely no features or texture to it, but it was fine. But then I made the ruined chapel with a fully scenic base, and it served...
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Something Icky This Way Comes - Plague Marines and Cultists
Greetings fellow devotees of the Plague Father, even as I become more immune to our bloated lord's latest and most irritating creation I nonetheless serve him. By painting some of his most devoted...
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In Praise of Soup Armies in Warhammer 40,000
This is one of those titles that really only makes sense to the initiated. If you don't know what a 'soup' army is, it's where your Warhammer army combines forces from multiple factions, e.g. an army...
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Orlocks! Orlocks with wings!
All right, calm down Sméagol. They don't have wings, they have a crudely designed, home workshop assembled, jump pack. That's better, right?As anyone familiar with this blog will know, I am a teeny bit...
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Sponge My Stencil
Hopefully regular readers will have forgotten how, two months ago, I said I was done with my Cobalt Scions army. Nine years of blogging should've taught me to avoid declarative statements.That's not...
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