Last night we played Thunderstone for the first time. It has been a game that has been sitting on our shelves for many years and surprisingly enough last night was the first time we had played it. We initially got it as a gift for a daughter. She indicated interest on it based off playing it with a friend of ours.

It was kind of funny the reason it got to the table last night was because I was getting ready to play a game of it online with my friend Aron on Yucata. My wife heard me listenin...

Back about 15 years ago I used to be big into the tournament scene particularly for Warhammer 40K but there were times I would play in other tournaments as well. At the time there was a large program that games workshop used to run called the Rogue Trader tournament program. For those of you who were not around back then the rogue trader tournament system consisted of tournament packages that were supplied by games workshop mostly to stores but on occasion to clubs that would run tournaments ...

It is Friday and the week is over, and I think I found a solution to my Kasrkin command problem. Been kind of searching here and there for different options. I think I found two of them I am going to work with.

First off, I found a Sergeant On eBay that looks kind of interesting and it was not hugely expensive but the only thing that's kind of a bummer about it is that shipping is going to take a while because it is coming from Russia I believe. But it gives a couple different options for he...

Coming back into 40K the last sets of games I played were 4th edition which was quite a while ago. I did kind of dip my toes and start with 8th edition, but the pandemic hit I never actually got any games to the table. During the pandemic 9th edition came out and I managed to score myself a rule book. Now I'm going through this and taking a look at the new rules and trying to figure out what's different between these 9th edition rules and what I used to play and 4th Ed.

One thing I find inte...

Got started today on my new commissar for my Kasrkin Imperial guard army. This one is made by Grim Skull and it's called the Imperial iron commissar. Looking at it it's got some good detail it's all resin very clean cast. Very minimal cleanup needed.

When I was looking at it I was wondering if I should actually go and pin pieces together but when I stuck the sword arm into the arm it went in there with a nice little peg that stuck in there pretty well without any glue and was pretty solidly...

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Making slower progress on the Kasrkin. For the most part I have been doing detail work. On the helmets I did the visors. On the rifles I did the scopes.

Did the skin tones on the sergeants as well.

The picture above is with the base coat and eyes done.

The next thing is the gloves and the data pads. I am starting them by priming them white. Still haven’t figured out what I am going to after that.

On the other hand, I also added some new pieces to the army. In this case I picked...

Been meaning to post some update on this but the project has been progressing. I got some serious work done on these last week. I am working at putting paint on the brush every day. Being that these figures are out of production. They all started out a little differently.

I started by priming the black ones with Krylon Green camo paint. Then I did the uniforms with AK Interactive Ocher Khaki.



I painted all of the gun housings white. then hit them with Basilicanum Grey contrast paint.

For the hos...

This morning I finished the mounted Knights for Time of Legends: Joan of Arc. As I mentioned in an earlier post. Mounted figures have always been a stumbling block for me. But with a lot of things, you just must work at it and keep pushing forward.

That is what I did with these guys. After I got all the base work done on these, I started on the colors on the barding. I would to 15 minutes here and do one color and take 10 minutes to do another one at another time until I finally called it d...

Time to start the Mounted Knights for Time of Legends: Joan of Arc. For some reason mounted figures have always given me trouble. It is more of a mental block than any thing else. I am not sure why that is but it is something that I have always had an issue with. But with this game there are lots of mounted units and they all need to be painted.

My plan for this was to have all the JOA content that I own finished by the time the new stuff arrives. Right now, I would say that this is looking...

Another game that I am just about finished painting is Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps by GF9. Initially I was going to give this one a pass, but I changed my mind and ended up pre-ordering it.

I found the minis effortless to put together. The Aliens had a little fit issue with the tails but in the end, it worked out. The Marines went together much easier.

The Aliens were super simple to paint. I primed them with a grey primmer. Then I gave it a coat of Citadel Contrast Wyldwood....

Back to the Imperial Guard.

For those that knew me back about 15-20 years ago when I used to play lots of 40k I played a lot of armies. I built a lot more than I played. But there was always a consistent army that I built and played over and over and that was Imperial Guard or as it is known these day Astra Militarium. I lost track of how many plastic Cadians I did but they easily numbered in the 1000s and built dozens of vehicles from the little Sentinels to the Mighty Baneblades. I have ma...

Not a huge entry today but I wanted to close the loop on the Bowmen. 

Well, I finished the bowmen on Tuesday. I dry brushed by working my way from Raw Umber to Yellow Oxide to Unbleached Titanium. I use Acrylic paint for this because the are not thinned out where you have to spend a lot of effort getting them ready to drybrush and a little goes a long way.


Here is a picture of the various stages of the dry brushing. The lighting wasn't the greatest in this picture but hopefully you get the idea...