Status 2025 and Onwards

Hello out there.

I have decided that 2026 shall be the year to revive this blog. I am still semi active miniatures gamer, collector and painter.

Warhammer Renaissance: Dwarfs VS Chaos.

I do need to sort out my leadpile and thought to myself; why not use my old blog to do so. So I will be making some kind of status reports of my projects. With pictures of new and old additions to my painted collection.

So what can we expect? What genres, games and sytems do I paint miniatures for? Well I will try to list some of it here and now.

FANTASY (28mm)

Warhammer Renaissance, Warhammer Renaissance (WHR) is a non-commercial, fan-made remake of the 1990s Warhammer Fantasy Battle game, available for free in electronic format.

For this I am painting an oldhammer Dwarf Army, which I have been doing for years by now. I only have Dwarfs for large scale Fantasy gaming and I don't plan to branch out onto other armies.

That said I have a lot of smaller warband sized collections of other races and types or even individual characters, those won't be abandoned, but won't be expanded to full armies either.

So in conclusion my Dwarfs will be my one major Fantasy Army size project and I will still paint smaller warbands and characters on the side, those will be for different skirmish games like Dragon Rampant or such.

SCI-FI (28mm)

I have played many different Sci-Fi miniatures games and genres and somehow it usually ends up somewhere in the 40K universe, be that rules or just the setting. I have ended up with cutting it down to 40K 2nd Edition for larger games (Large scale skirmish I guess).

In painted army size 40K 2nd Edition I have my main force of Blood Angel Space Marines and I also have Squats, Genestealer Cult and Orks. I don't really see myself getting more armies, but in time some might branch out, parts of the Genestealer Cult could be a Traitor Guard Army on its own or even a Tyranid force with no humans included.

For skirmish gaming I have mostly played various Post Apocalypse settings or (again) in a somehow 40K settings. So in the end it will probably be warband sized gangs in the Rogue Trader rules and the background we created through various games of yore.

An upside of having all my miniatures for 28mm Sci-Fi running around in the same sort of universe is that any miniatures from my larger armies can easily be press ganged to visit any skirmish game and the other way around.

OTHER GENRES/SCALES

I still have a rather large collection of 28mm Darkest Africa miniatures that I want to get ready for some games of Congo, Death in the Dark Continent, The Men Who Would Be Kings or some or other Victorian Sci-Fi ruleset.

Epic 40K/Adeptus Titanicus. While I liked the new Adeptus Titanicus it just moved forward way too fast for me to keep up. I still have a couple of Titans and the first set of rules that came out for it, but I am not sure if I will pick it up again or end up dropping it.

The old Epic 40K on the other hand is something I don't intent to get rid of.

Epic Space Marine (or the 2nd edition of Epic back in 1991) was the first battle size miniature game I collected and played and one day I will have a finshed and awesome army to play it again.

BattleTech. Well, I have bought into a little bit of BattleTech. I always liked the mech miniatures and thought now was the time. If more comes from it I will post a bit about that too.

I might have other things popping up now and then. But these are my hopes and goals for the coming year.

Blood Angels Revisited

Updating this blog is deffinately not my strong side these days. But as things happen I have once again entered a 40K 2nd Edtion Challenge at Dr. The Vikings Cowabunga Journal and this time I decided to do something with my Blood Angels.

It has been going on for some time, so I will just post some of my pictures here and maybe make a bigger update about all my 40K armies at a later point. Who knows?

New and old characters to lead my forces.

Here we have a Chief Librarian in Terminator Armour, another Librarian in Power Armour, my Space Marine Captain in his Terminator Armour and Power Armour respectedly and second in command my Lieutenant when a Captain is not needed on the battlefield.

Chaplain for the spiritual inclined killing machines.

Veteran Marines led by a Veteran Sergeant.

"Spades" Squad Tactical Marines led by a rookie Sergeant.

Capaint and Librarian.

Some tank back up for bigger campaigns.

Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Challenge March 2022

I guess I forgot to post in February about my Genestealer Cult progress, but then again my February entry was a little boring, so here you can have two months in one.

For the third month I finished the second Brood Brother Squad, armed with laspistols and various hand weapons, they are led by a Genestealer Hybrid Neophyte. I also painted the Patriarch, but as I was about to start the Patriarch I noticed he had some damages which would take me longer than planned to repair, so instead I took my old (already painted) Patriarch and gave him some touch up and did some more work on the base. This was not what I intended since I wanted to paint a second Patriarch in green instead of blue, but that one goes back in the pile for later. The most important here is to actually end up with a playable army.

Full scale occupation

As bonus I finished a Commissar, which have no entry in the codex, so he will probably just ”count as” Brood Brother or be part of campaign plots and such. I also painted a Brood Brother with a Plasma Gun and made a bit touch up to some World Eater Marines for Allies.

Last month I did the Genestealers, the backbone of the Cult. Some ended up great, others not so much. So as usual...

Genestealers

 

So to get on track with the backstory here: Tef Dupont had managed to proclaim himself Governor to the Eastern Autonomy of Khardishian Prime, naturally the non infected part of the population was nor really satisfied by this and preassure was rising in the regional Capitol; New Dos Angeles (Former Twin Angels). To ensure the not so loyal Citizens of his good intentions Tef Dupont sent for Imperial intervention to ensure the population, this turned out to come in the form of a Commissar, more troops of the Khardashian 8th Company and even a small number of Space Marines of the World Eaters Chapter. If anyone had voiced their discontent before no one said a word now, at least not in public… To be continued…

Warhammer 40K 2nd Edition Challenge January 2022

So I kind of forgot to mention here that I entered the 3rd installment of the 40K 2nd Edition Army Challenge. This time around my brushes will be painting a Genestealer Chaos Cult.

For this month I finished the first Brood Brother Squad, armed with lasguns and led by a Genestealer Hybrid Acolyte and for a HQ model I painted a Cult Icon Bearer. As a bonus I also painted a Cobalt-1 miniature for a corrupt local despot.

The Brood Brothers will act as cannon fodder to protect the important Purestrains and Hybrids when the upheaval Begins. 

It is only buisness.

The story so far: Tef Dupont has managed to proclaim himself Governor to the Eastern Autonomy of Khardishian Prime, by some strange ways of manipulation, bribes and brute force. Along the way he procured the backing of the Khardashian 8th Company. Governor Dupont has set up base in Twin Angels and the Khardashian 8th Company is slowly digging in around the city.

As usual there is a lot more fun 'n games at the source: Oldschool c0wabunga