While about 2/3rds of my CIS army is 3d printed due to my entering the game just at the point when everything was out of stock before the new edition this model is newly acquired and built. This was not a joyous process for me as while the parts fit and instructions were really good, 105 pieces was about 100 pieces more than what I like to put together. I do not enjoy the build process at all and this was too much. I will not be assembling another one. However that aside onc

Recently I have been handed 7 BB teams to paint up for a regular customer who has become a BB player and after painting the first - Beastmen - I thought I might do a couple of painting guides on some of the rest. First up is Khemri. As usual I primed dark but this time mixed some dark brown primer with the black so it would not be quite as cold black a basefor the shadows. Then straight to the airbrush to spray in the bones. These were done in desert yellow, dark sand and the

Since forever I have always wanted an Aztec army in 28mm but the cost and lack of miniatures on the market as well as the ruleset with which to play them made it unlikely that I would ever actually have one. That is until the arrival of 3d printing and a set of rules which allows Aztecs to compete with both historical and fantasy armies. The 3d STLs that make up the vast majority of my Aztec army are by red copper miniatures who released this set as a kickstarter a couple of

This is a very picture heavy review of my favourite s from 2025 and I have divided it into sections so you can skip those you have no interest in! This is entirely objective of course and should you wish to see more I would refer you to my website where everything I have painted is in the newest pictures section - Scroll to the bottom past earlier stuff! Contents MCP Warcrow Frostgrave Burrows & Badgers Star Wars Legions Moonstone Kimera 75mm The Old World 40k A tank! MCP -

Terrain for this battle changed from the usual urban ruinscape as I imagined this area to be on the edge of Emporia or perhaps just outside one of the gates in a marshy less livable area, hence the huts instead of houses. In game terms the marshy areas count as difficult going providing a cover mod for anyone within but not blocking Line of Sight. The patches of woods were the same except the bases of the trees blocked LoS and the template cannot be seen through. The huts had

I recently saw a post here speculating on the look of an Africana/Southlands type of army in the Old World and thought I would offer up my own force created from a variety of readily available sources, some old metals but mostly 3d STLs. As there is no GW version to date there can be no copyright issues here and it might be useful for anyone thinking of building such a force'to know where to find them. I am associated in no way with any of them. I have always been keen on an

Following the mayhem of the Museum I thought this game might be a bit less... carnage, and so it was for most of the crews but for one crew it was not. In fact for one crew they left with just the Apprentice and one soldier left standing. The scenario is a standard scenario which for 4 players has 9 treasure tokens scattered around but with each treasure token being picked up the odds increase that a monster worm or snake will appear randomly by any of the treasures and presu

After the chaos of the Mausoleum I thought this would be a more sedate affair for the 4 warbands but spoiler alert it was the bloodiest game to date with lots of paid man casualties as well as a Wizard and an Apprentice going down. The Statue constructs were absolute killing machines laying waste to all and sundry with consistently high rolls. Fortunately for the warbands there were no creature encounters rolled as they may have finished off some of the warbands! Why this car

The Mausoleum Deployment saw the Northlands crew once again entering from the North in two groups each built around a Mage. The Wizard Turi headed one group which had an Archer, a Ranger and the Man at arms as well as a thief whilst the Apprentice took the rest. There were 3 probable targets for the Northlands and two possibles if all went well. Spoiler - it did not. On the Eastern board edge the Occidental crew was also split into two groups with again three possible targets

Some of you will have read the first series of Batreps I made for the BaB Premier League featuring four crews, Pirate Rogues, Highlands Hillfolk, Freebeasts and Royalists. If you haven't, the first in the series can be found here ... https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/single-post/burrows-and-badgers-npl-game-1-royalists-v-hillfolk-tis-the-soldier-s-life-to-have-their-balmy-s and the others follow it. However I also decided that I would do exactly the same but with a