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With the Assault on Black Reach set, and the extra bits and pieces I’d been buying, I’ve been painting quite a few Marines and Orks since I started collecting Warhammer. So I decided it was time to pick up something a bit different for a change, and to give me some variety in my [...]

When it comes to Space Hulk, I established two things this weekend:

I suck at Space Hulk
Space Hulk rocks

I got the chance to break in my set, and me and a friend sat down for a good couple of hours of gaming.  With both of us having read about the game extensively in White Dwarf a [...]

As I’ve come quite late to the hobby, the significance of the re-release of Space Hulk by Games Workshop is slightly lost on me.  However, despite this, I still found myself drawn to the set when reading through last month’s issue of White Dwarf.
Designed as a subset of 40K, Space Hulk focuses on a simplified [...]

Yup, after a tonne of posts surrounding the various painting efforts, I finally got round to playing a couple of games of the Assault on Black Reach set the other day.   As it was the first attempt, all my extra units such as the Assault Marines were left out of the game, and we [...]

Since getting the Assault on Black Reach set, most of my effort has been involved in painting the miniatures.  This was because I didn’t want to straight out assemble some of them without painting some of the individual pieces first.  Pieces like the heads of the Ork Deffkopta pilots for example I could see being [...]

So, the Assault on Black Reach, Warhammer 40K starter set finally arrived this week.
Containing all you need to get started with two reasonably-sized armies (Space Marines and Orks) this is a really nice kit, containing a mixture of units, rule books, dice and the like.
The units are simplified from the normal ones, the same as [...]

So the latest additions to my 40K army are a set of Assault Marines.
While I’m still waiting on the Black Reach set being delivered, I was looking for something to paint, so picked up this set of guys, and like the bike unit, this set offered me yet another aspect of the hobby.
Like the bike [...]

Well, I’ve now finished the bike unit and I’m pretty pleased with the results.
The overall process was pretty much the same as a basic unit, clipping everything off of the sprues, building the model, basecoating, foundation paint, detailing and washes.  The main difference aside from the size of the model was in applying the transfers, [...]

My newfound addiction to Space Marine miniatures continues.
After a less-than-successful trip to Hobbycraft to get the Assault on Black Reach set, I did end up picking up a bike unit.  I’ve had my eye on the bike+sidecar unit for a while as I think it looks really neat, but as I hadn’t tried any vehicle [...]

Over the last week, I’ve been painting up my other space marines, and continuing to try around with different ideas. I’ve slowly added some extra details, like painting the scroll on the side of their legs and painting their belt pouches brown.
However, today I thought I’d go a bit extra. I’d been meaning [...]