Imagine playing a tabletop game against an opponent over 1000km away. That’s what I did last night! OVERVIEW Okay, I’m a little behind the curve on this, but I had my first online game of Warmachine using Vassal. In case you don’t know what that is, it’s a program that let’s you play a large [...]

These have to be the easiest paint job I’ve done in a while. I painted them using a similar technique to Eiryss and used the Citadel Foundation paints on the flesh (Orkhide Shade and Knarloc Green). I then washed it with Thraka Green. Owen

I’ve played in lots of tournaments, mostly Warhammer, but also Warmachine and Hordes. It’s easy to forget something vital when packing up for a tournament, so here are my check lists. Here’s my Warhammer tournament check list – 1. Army (Miniatures, Movement Trays) 2. Dice (D6s, Scatter, Artillery, Turn Counter) 3. Templates (Flame and two [...]

I’ve been using three army builders of late, Forward Kommander, Warmachine & Hordes Builder and iBodger. Both are excellent tools. Forward Kommander is a web-based army builder that manages your collection and is primarily focused on MkII and until the Hordes MkII release only supports Warmachine. The collection management support is very nice and enables [...]

The Feralgeist is the easiest and quickest Hordes or Warmachine miniature I’ve ever painted. It took less than an hour in total. Here’s a step-by-step guide to assembling and painting it. ASSEMBLING Assembling the Feralgeist is straightforward enough, but you will need to apply a couple of advanced assembly skills – pinning and using green [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m pretty good at keeping the ‘lead mountain’ under control. I only have about €150 of unpainted Warmachine and Hordes stuff. In order to get ready for MkII I’m not going to buy any new Warmachine bits before the Forces books start to roll out in 2010, so this is an opportunity to get all [...]

It’s 4am and I can’t sleep, so here’s a quick (and basic) guide to basing. It’s weird but quite often I see armies that are quite well painted, but haven’t been based. Basing a miniature is analogous to framing a picture. A simple, yet cohesive basing scheme in an army gives all of the miniatures [...]

My Legion of Everblight photographs. I’ve plenty more painted – I just need to get the camera out and take more pictures. Owen