Daffodils and Dust
We here at the bunker often talk about the hobby butterfly. Like the butterfly we are drawn, powerfully and inextricably toward something beautiful and all consuming. It takes over our hobby desire so...
View ArticleStorm Eagle - A Work In Progress: Part 1
Hello my little Beardlings,In my post last week I said that 2017 is going to be a year of getting things finished and I also went on to list out the unfinished projects that have been sat around...
View ArticleFrostgrave: the Thaumaturgist's Warband
Maisey has been organising a four-player Frostgrave campaign of late, and the prospect of a wizard-centric spiritual successor to Mordheim was more than a little tempting. We decided we’d do this...
View ArticleA Thousand Sons
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. Wait, that's not right. Let me try that again. As far back as I can remember, I always was drawn to the ambiguous elements of the 40k...
View ArticleStorm Eagle - Work In Progress: Part 2
Good day to you all,Not a great deal to say on this one, check back to the first post here for the background. This is just a quick post covering the remaining building stages. Lots of pictures...
View ArticleFrostgrave: Something Wicked This Way Comes...
As regular Bunker Dwellers will know, Maisey has been organising a Frostgrave campaign for a little while. We've done some testing, figured out warbands and got to painting. To my considerable...
View ArticleFrostgrave: They Came From Beyond!
Yes, like the tagline to a 50's movie this time we're all about things that "Came From Beyond!" as the other half of my Summoner warband coalesces into the world:One of the things about Summoners, I...
View ArticleStorm Eagle - Work In Progress*: The Storm Eagle has Landed
Part three of the Storm Eagle build. It's all about the paint today. I know that this was my March project, and in honesty it did get finished and delivered in March, just only now getting around to...
View ArticleTabletop World Guard Tower
The rule for the Bunkerettes this year is simple: finish old projects, don't start new ones.I broke the rule.Oops.In my defence, there was a UK webstore selling Tabletop World's Guard Tower for a...
View ArticleGetting Your Just Deserts
This post is a bit of a two for one special offer this week. Firstly we have a rather large selection of photos of my finished desert board including a few with the 8th Army boys from before. The...
View ArticleHobby Brain Explosion
Today I would like to talk. About how Project Get Things Finished is going. About why I have butterfly brain. About how I react to creative urges when there is no outlet, or direction to them. Also...
View ArticleImperial Guard Mechanised Platoon
For many years now I've been feeling that 40K needed a major overhaul. The last few editions didn't go far enough for me, but as yet almost everything I've read about the new edition is encouraging,...
View ArticleScarab Occult & Tzaangors
It can't have escaped anyone's attention by now that the new edition of 40k is nigh. This is rather exciting news and the steady drip of information coming out each day is only causing further...
View ArticlePreparing Narrative Games
There are some skills that can never be perfected, only improved. Among these is the skill of running a narrative game. I’ve been at it for decades now, probably since before I could spell the word...
View ArticleBlood Angels 3rd Company (ish)
Greetings Bunker Dwellers! Unless you have been living under a rock, blindfolded, with noise cancelling headphones and singing an old timey sea shanty, you will have noticed that a new edition of...
View ArticleCaptain’s Log I
After months of preparation, the new Battlefleet Gothic campaign is underway! Andy and Jon have begun their exploration of the Scyrian Expanse, an uncharted sub-sector at the edge of the Achernar...
View ArticleThree week genestealer cult part 1
Charlie: Oh dear lord. On the 29th of this month, I'm running a Deathwatch scenario involving a genestealer cult. Anyone who's read enough of this blog will know how slow I am to get things done and...
View ArticleExalted Sorcerers and Industrial Thingies
If you hadn't guessed from the title, today is about two totally distinct things. In the first half we have a trio of Exalted Sorcerers, along with a group shot and a run down of the painting process...
View ArticleThree week genestealer cult part 2: big yellow goliath truck
Charlie: I now have exactly two weeks until the deadline, and out of about 40 models I have now painted... one truck.Minus the crew.Everything's gonna be fine. A hundred percent fine. I mean, I've...
View ArticleThree week genestealer cult part 3: you gotta do a montage
Charlie: Welp, here we go. The big game is less than a week away as I write this, which means it's the final countdown and I'll need the eye of the tiger if I'm going to avoid the danger zone. At this...
View Article