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Deathwatch Kill Team
One of my current motivational techniques is to have all my assembled models on display in my cabinets, even if they aren't finished. This makes the unpainted ones stick out like sore thumbs, and shame...
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Thoughts on Female Primaris Marines
Seeing a lone woman on the cover of the second edition of Age of Sigmar gave me a reaction I didn't expect: pride. I don't even play AoS, but there it was. Pride. This hobby has been a big part of my...
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Deathwatch captain kitbash
Today we have a kitbash of the Ortan Cassius model from Deathwatch: Overkill to turn him into a captain for my fledgling Deathwatch Kill Team. If memory serves, the head is one from the tactical squad...
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Tzeentch's Ineffable Plan – First Taste of 8th Edition Apocalypse.
IntroductionWe all went to Warhammer World to play with little plastic men and tanks and this is the three part record of those events… at least, the interesting ones, we’ll leave out the bits about...
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Iron Warrior Surprise
When you regularly play with the same group of gamers you tend to get used to what everyone else has in their collection and when something new comes along we tend to talk about it long before it ever...
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Interactive sector map: the Achernar Sector
Being a suggestible person, particularly where Photoshop projects are concerned, I was recently goaded into making a map of the Beard Bunker's own fictional playpen, the Achernar Sector. Today's post...
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Army showcase: Ostland State Militia
We here at the Beard Bunker have a habit of getting a little carried away sometimes. None more so than myself. During one of our role play sessions we ended up creating a town militia in order to fight...
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Deathwatch Terminator kitbash
To make up for having three of my Deathwatch dudes just having some flavour of basic bolter, here's a terminator with ALL THE GUNS. This way I'm not getting gypped by power levels.The rationale behind...
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Deathwatch Librarian
Having recently written the Astartes Librarian rules for our in-house (or in-bunker) Deathwatch ruleset, I was so taken with space wizards and Dewey decimals that I picked up a brush and painted the...
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Frostgrave Captain
When the time came to add the tenth member of my Frostgrave* warband, I was originally planning to get a treasure hunter. I've got a bunch of knights, so something zippier seemed sensible. But then, I...
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Health and Safety in Our Hobby
Health and Safety Huh, What is it Good for? Many of you will read this with a sense of impending dread. You will associate health and safety with needless form filling, bureaucracy and high visibility...
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Vanguard of Baal
It's Blood Angel o'clock again baby yeah! One of the major learning points of Operation Orbital Death Fridge (better known as the Salamut IX campaign) was that while power armour is just plain awesome,...
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The Memoirs of Edythe Hinzer pt1 - Ordo Xenos Inq28
Everyone has those elements of the hobby that are a refreshing favourite. Some bits - no matter how much you want to do them - feel like a chore. Others are just a delight. For me, small warband type...
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Tally Ho, Pip Pip, Chocks Away, Etc Etc
We are all nerds. As nerds we take an interest in various different subjects. The one we share in common is war gaming. However, as fully rounded and well adjusted nerds we have interests outside of...
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Scout Snipers (and MTP Camo Tutorial)
Greetings! My grind toward having my own slice of the Blood Angels 10th company continues and this time they're even sneakier...pictured here, a blank white wall...Yup, it's scout sniper time. With...
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Ooo Dakkaz Winz! (The Speshul Ork Service)
There is a rumour, that somewhere amongst the savage forces of Warlord Skumrenda are an elite force. Selected from the kunnin'est and the killiest nobz to be the best of the best of the best of the......
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Blood Angels Scouts complete!
The recruitment march goes on! Even more Blood Angels scouts are reporting for final training duty with the third company.I've recently bought a tray table for under my sofa and ooooh boy has it...
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Ministry RPG. A Brand New Game!
As many of you might be aware, in addition to wargamers, most of us here at the Bunker are also keen roleplayers. Two of us (Charlie and Jeff) seem unhealthily keen as, well, we've made an entire...
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RPGs: wargaming's gateway drug?
Here's one way to get more of your friends into gaming with miniatures: get them hooked on RPGs first. This may well be old knowledge, but I'm new to it. Two friends, Becs and Drew, have been helping...
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Build a Bigger Choppa...
And the Orks will beat a path to your door. A bit ago, Geoff said that he was about to make a Chinork for the Special Ork Service. As luck would have it… this is something I’ve done recently for my...
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