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End of 2017 look back plus 2018 hobby targets
Hi everyone. A belated merry christmas. As per usual I thought I would post a rundown of my hobby throughout 2017 and hobby aims for next year. My aim for this year was to finally get all the marine...
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Tactical squad - overview and tactica part 1.
Hi folks. To kick off the new year I thought I would put up an article about everyone's favourite unit, the humble tactical squad. Well, they aren't everyone's favourite unit now are they? In fact I...
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Tactical squads overview and tactica - part 2
Hi folks, this is the second part of my guide to tactical squads in 8th edition. First part found HERE. Enjoy. TRANSPORT:There are 6 ways to get around in the new codex, and they are pretty much the...
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The Space Marine Lieutenant returns! My take on how to best use them in 8th.
Hi folks. Hot on the heels of my tactical squad reviews I thought I would delve into one of the new units for the codex – the Lieutenant. I was really excited to see primaris Lieutenants in the Index...
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Finally some hobby updates.
The heroes of Badab laid out in their gloryGreetings all. An update at last! I have finally almost wrapped up my Astartes projects and am progressing to other things, namely xenos, imperial guard and a...
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Sons of Orar Showcase
Dear all,I'm trying to get my act together with the blog and so here is the latest marine army showcase. It's worth noting that I expect by June latest to have a full army showcase posted for every...
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Imperial fists showcase
Imperial fists join the fray! My latest showcase is a bit of a shambles as they’ve all been basecoated in different ways at different times using different sprays. Nonetheless, now it is finished in...
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Salamanders showcase and overview.
Salamanders are here! When building a themed army I usually build in restrictions depending upon what the background for the army is and what aspect of it I want to focus on. With Salamanders,...
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Devastator squads - overview and tactica
Hi all,Following on from my tactical squad and lieutenant articles, I wanted to write about devastators. The humble devastator squad first caught my attention way back when I read my first white dwarf...
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Whitescar complete - showcase
It’s not deja vu. I have previously posted a whitescars showcase but there have been a couple of changes since which I thought warranted an update. Namely, a few additions to the company veterans and a...
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Iron Hands army showcase
It’s a great pleasure to showcase this army as at one point it was my most completely painted. Now it has expanded and been rebased but is still impressive from a distance. Ill briefly go over the...
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Dark Angels army showcase
Dark angels. The first legion. The unforgiven. This army has been a pleasure to craft over the years and started as little more than a 2k doublewing army. The advent of dark imperium and the newer...
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Heroes of Badab army showcase
Who are the heroes of badab I hear you ask. Simply put, they are a themed army I created to represent each of the space marine armies of the badab war on the same battlefield. This army has gone...
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Moving on to new projects and club scenery purge
Hi folks,Been a while as I've mostly bee working on non-marine projects a few months now, aside for a bit of tinkering with my Dark Angels. Looks like Knights and my 'tale of gamers' pledge to...
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Raven guard army showcase.
Hi folks.So this one kind of slipped through the net. I was just going over which armies I needed to do a showcase for still (I make it 5 now - coming up soon) and raven guard stumped me a bit. I...
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Black Templars army showcase
Greetings folks.Hot on the heels of the Raven guard showcase is the Black Templars showcase. By my count that leaves Blood Angels, Ultramarines and Deathwatch to go! Blood Angels will need to be split...
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Ultramarines army showcase
Hi all,Getting close to the final showcases now. Only Blood Angels and Deathwatch to go. As a brief update I was generously given a job lot of Primaris by a friend from our gaming club - between these...
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Blood angels complete 5th company army showcase
Hi folks. Saving the best til (almost) last – here, finally, are my Blood angels. My first marine army back in second edition and my favourite marine chapter, this also serves as my largest army. I...
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Legion of the damned showcase
Hi folks, My penultimate army showcase is actually my smallest. It's a legion of the damned force, which sadly is pretty difficult to run being an index-only option these days with no official HQ...
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Deathwatch army showcase
Seasons greetings folks. The past few months have been filled with many challenges that have impacted my hobby time. Of these the one that has impacted the most is having a house extension built, which...
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Blog update - very long overdue! What I have been up to the past 2 years
Hello everyone. I have been off the radar for almost 2 years now it appears from the date of my last post. Many a reason for this. Exams, new baby, new job, working on the house and garden, COVID etc...
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Tabletop Tactics homage project
Hi folks,Following on from my hobby update I wanted to share some pictures of a project that took a fair chunk of my hobby time over the Summer. I'm a fan of Tabletop Tactics having started out...
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Blood ravens update, new decals, army 70% done
Greetings all. A rather unexpected project was an update to my blood ravens. I would say the army is painted to 80% of my highest standard in that I haven’t highlighted them, but all the basecoats and...
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sons of orar update.
Hi all. Wanted to update regarding my sons of orar project. Exclusively primaris project which I’ve assembled, basecoated and based 95% of the models (210 by last count) and am setting myself targets...
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sons of orar milestone reached
Brief update all. My aim beginning of the year was within 6 months to get 10% of the army fully painted with representation from each squad. This was more of a background project while I continued with...
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