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 -

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

Renard the Freesbeasts' leader Harold the Royalist leader So the first half of the season comes to an end with this game. All the teams...

After the first game these two went into game two with different expectations. The Rogues were confident after their quick win against the Freebeasts whilst the Royalists were a bit down and surprised by their defeat to the Hillfolk. The game was again Recover the Paychest on the same terrain as round 2 game 1, and the sidequests were Test a Spell for the Rogues alongside their innate ' Search for stuff.' The Royalists rolled Attrition alongside their own 'Kill things' side q

Round Two of the NPL was Recover the Paychest, Not a quest with many XP at stake but one which the Freebeasts were well set up for as even if they fail in recovering the paychest all survivors walk off with two XP compared to the Hillfolk who if they fail only get 1 XP each. The Freebeasts rolled Isolate which was going to be tough while the Hillfolk were luckier with Deliver a message which Eun the bird was well capable of with Flight. At game start the table looked as below

After the epically long game one which went into extra time this game barely made it to the end of normal time! On one side were the...

The Referee The Bab NPL is a competition between 4 crews to see who is the top crew in the North. Each crew will play eachother at least...

As a commission painter I get a limited amount of time to paint my own minis so I have developed a method which speeds up the process...

This year has been a sort of preparation year for me. I had the idea early on that I might launch a Youtube channel based on both this...

One of the cool things about being a commission painter is getting to paint stuff you would never ever normally buy for yourself. This...