Archive for October, 2009

Updated Legion of Everblight Photographs

I grabbed the camera tonight and got more photographs of the Legion. That’s everything that I have painted so far. Epic Thagrosh, the Strider UA, Raptors and Harriers are still in their boxes, but I don’t intend to start painting them until the run up to Hordes MkII next year. Owen PS There are much [...]

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Painting Cheat Sheet (Legion of Everblight)

Contrary to the title of this post it is not about the details of painting the Legion of Everblight. Rather it is about the importance of keeping painting notes. Below are my notes for painting the Legion – Nyss Basecoat (Undercoat Black) a) Codex Grey / Chaos Black 5:1 b) Codex Grey / Kommando Khaki [...]

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Flames of War – Forest Fighting Rules

The following rules have been developed to allow Flames of War players to run battles on heavily forested battlefields. I plan to use them in my Battle of Hürtgen Forest Campaign. I have compiled these from an excellent thread on the Flames of War forum and I thank all the useful contributions made by the [...]

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Flames of War – The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (Background)

In this article I briefly discuss the background to the Battle of Hürtgen Forest and present it as a setting for a Flames of War campaign.

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Karchev the Terrible: Assembled

This miniature wasn’t as bad to assemble as I thought it’d be. 24 pieces (including the base) makes for a pretty big metal miniature, but it goes together quite nicely. The pieces slot in logically and there is little green stuffing required. The green stuff is drying at the moment. Once it is I’ll wash [...]

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