The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one or more...and yet here they are in Schloss Evildom. I think this should be a film series like Avengers as it has virtually all the key elements of what for me make a great movie. In no particular order these classic elements are explosions, zombies, aliens, weird science, pretty girls, dinosaurs and fighting. All the great films have most of these such as Pacific Rim and Aliens versus Cowboys, whilst loser films su

So here we have our heroes. "Where there are Nazi evil zombies so heroes shall arise and smite them mightily" as it might say in the Bible if you move the letters around. Here in Reichbusters when there is something strange in the neighbour-hood - who you gonna call? These chaps and chapesses apparently. Straight from the pages of Victor, Battle and Warlord comics - staples for Baby Boomers and probably partly responsible for Brexit xenophobia! There are two lots of heroes i

Ive been working on this KS commission of Reichbusters for most of January and have realised there is an absolute metric tonne of minis in here so will probably have to do a second part once i get on to the stuff beyond the base box and stretch goals box. Thought I'd start with the even more evil nazis which is some going really. These appear to be evil nazi science men and their creations/aberrations... First up is a Nazi officer with a sort or viral pistol full of Vril. Vri

Following my blog about the mass of Free Folk I painted up this is a smaller, but more elite blog about the Men in Black who have to deal with the aliens north of The Wall...slightly mixing my universes there i think. I painted the main Night Watch boxes for a customer in 2019 I think so 2020 was concerned with later releases I think. Here we have Ranger Trackers, Conscripts, Stone Throwers and Builder Crossbowmen Ranger Trackers appear to be some sort of skirmishy light cava

As 2020 drags its sorry arse out the door and 2021 edges in sideways with a hopeful look in its eye I thought I would do another of my reviews. If you have had time to spare/waste and have read my overall Top 10 of 2020 here https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/single-post/2020-review-of-a-bad-years-good-bits you may have noticed the distinct lack of Game of Thrones minis on the list. Reason being that I have painted loads this year and just couldn't pick my favourite. I

* apologies to Bleak Expectations for the Title robbery... Latest update is a tour through the Kingdoms of Evilers, Moria, and Isengard starting with one of my favourite models the Balrog. Mine is the plastic version as I kept missing out on the Ebay metal versions so succumbed to the plastic version which was handily on sale at Wayland Games. I tend to paint as close to the GW versions as possible but having painted some Mythic Battles flamy stuff recently I decided to go wi

In an effort to actually get my Star Wars Imperial Assault collection painted before I get too old to care I have started randomly picking my crew a week or two ahead of scheduled games (on Vassal) and then painting as much as possible before the game. Below are the Rebels I have managed to get done so far. Han and Chewbacca - Han is always a good pick in any rebel list and virtually won a game for me single handed a few weeks ago. I say virtually because i was an idiot and f

A few Bolt Action Soviet bits recently completed and in one place. The BA10 armoured car is one of my favourite vehicles from an aesthetic point of view as it has plenty of nice open panels for some subtle modulation. I always thought it was called the BA 32 but apparently that was just a later version. Seems it was used extensively early war successfully against Japan and less so against Finland, although the tracked version can be made from the Warlord kit. Something like 3

The JSIII just missed WW2. Apparently some were en route for the front when Germany surrendered so saw no combat but were prominently on display in the parades which followed as a message to the Western Allies not to get any ideas. This painting guide goes through the basic steps of painting up this beast of a tank from Warlord. First up stynlrez black primer as above. The next steps below take the basic 4B0 and first darken it to go inthe shadows and then successively lighte

The Dark Ages of history are those periods when a great empire or civilisation collapses and the people who come after live in a diminished social/economic/cultural state. Often the ability to write is lost and so the period is 'dark; to the historian in a way that the previous golden age of literature and culture was not. Two examples of such periods are the Greek Dark Ages following the Bronze Age Collapse of the 12th Century BC and the Northern European Dark Ages following