Brütal Crüsade Weekend
Since 40K's ninth edition dropped I have been yearning for a full weekend of playing Crusade games with my mates. Was it worth the wait? Yes. Just being surrounded by friends doing the hobby we love...
View ArticleIn The Year 2022... all is covered in paint
Welcome to our (sort of) annual end of year wrap up. We'll take a look back at the previous year and then lay out our hobby plans for 2022. This time we'll be doing things a little differently as we...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part One - Troops
Hopefully by now you have all read the Bunker’s plans for 2022 by now. If you haven’t, off you pop, have a read, then come back. At some point late last year someone suggested that we as a group do the...
View ArticlePainting progress! No, not that kind of painting.
If I haven't posted any miniatures for a while it's usually because I've entered a Photoshop fugue. For the uninitiated, that's when I get wildly overexcited about digital painting and lose all concept...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Two - Tech-Priests
Today we are going to a look at the Tech-Priests leading the forces of Forgeworld Arakos IXFirst we have the Tech-Priest Dominus, Neseb 71-8:The Emotionless Analyser of the Sacred Database. Neseb is...
View ArticleBrütal Crüsade Week
The Beard Bunker’s herd of nerds just spent a week playing Warhammer 40K Crusade at my place, carrying on where we left off with the Brütal Crüsade Weekend. The good times committee have issued a...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Three - Scouts
I was going to title this post The Year of the Cog: Part Thee - Steampunk Robo-Cowboys from the Future, but that seemed a little waffly for a blog title. However, they are Steampunk Robo-Cowboys from...
View ArticleWaaagh! What is it good for?
To avoid the classic 40K problem of Imperial armies constantly fighting each other, the players in our group make a point of having at least one non-Imperial army. For years, I've been using my Speed...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Four - CQB
… or ‘how I like to keep these handy, for close encounters.’That’s right folks, today I’m showing off the more up close and personal elements of my Admech, the Sicarian Ruststalkers and Pteraxii...
View ArticlePray They Don't Take You Alive
In the last dying gasps of 2021 we were all virtually sitting around our discord and musing that it would be nice to do one of those "new year, new army" deals. Fresh from painting a horde of Chaos...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Five - Heavy Support
As promised in the last Admech Post I've got the last model in the initial 1000 point Crusade Roster for you today. It a big 'un. We have K-44/4, an Onager Dunecrawler. As with all GW naming I ignore...
View ArticleSophomore Goffs
Sometimes a second album really is just refining the theme laid down by the debut effort. Similar riffs, but beefier; more assured. Such is the case with this second mob of idiots. While I'm sure...
View ArticleWho's Da Megaboss?
No one, not even the boss himself, can remember what his original name was. He'd move from campfire to campfire, telling the lads to "pay attenshun" to Da Plan for the next raid. He'd tell them it was...
View ArticleKilla Kans: Grötley Crüe
The clanking three-piece outfit Grötley Crüe got their start in Runt Hill. It's just out past Skid Row, where the speed freaks test their dragstas. There at the periphery of Mek City, on a dusty hill...
View ArticleHere come the fangrots
Sirrus Bizniz believes rok is for everyone, even grots, particularly if they're going to spend teef on rok merch. After all, that touring fleet isn't going to build itself.40K crusade demands that I...
View ArticleBack in Hochland
By Taal, it's like slipping on an old boot. I haven't painted an Empire mini in just over three years, and it was an absolute pleasure. I'm still painting orks for my own 40K army, of course, but I...
View ArticleBlood and Applause
One of my favourite things about the Drukhari are the various different flavours contained within. The army structure is even tailored to encourage you to take maximum advantage of the three flavours...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Six - Send in the Next Wave
As any good Imperial adjacent commander knows, you always need to have the next wave of troops ready to exploit a gap in the enemy's line, reinforce your ownline, or simply hurl at the enemy. As soon...
View ArticleTabletop World Townhouse
It's been five years since I invested in some tiny resin real estate from Tabletop World (the guard tower, thanks for remembering). Their kits remain a joy to paint. So long as one is familiar with a...
View ArticleThe Year of the Cog: Part Seven - Legio Cybernetica
Today is all about the robots. Big freaking, retro, robots. The kind that gave 1950s America nightmares. That's right, I've finally finished the Kastelans and their Cybernetica Datasmith.These models...
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