Chris

Very nice indeed, sir! Are you planning to play or is this only for hobby based amusement?

Five part painted Warhammer space marine terminator models, in dark red and black.

Falling back in love with terminators, getting these ready for a Boarding Action game next week. Also rediscovering what a nice paint Khorne Red is!

We didn't play the full rules so as to keep it manageable for him, but I like the interactivity and the high dynamism of the system. Not so keen on the amount of die rolls that that dynamism requires, though. But as a quick play, easy learn, mini agnostic system, it gets an initial thumps up from me

First games club night of 2026 and I got in a couple of games of Space Weirdos. First time I've played; against a 7yo on his first visit to the club who then mercilessly pulverised me. He brought his Ultramarines so I put some Tyranids to the test. He had a great time, which was the main aim!

A futuristic tank for Warhammer Horus Heresy, a Mechanicum Krios painted in pink and cream.

First model of 2026 ready for the table. Weathering etc must wait until the army is all done, pressure's on to have 3000 pts ready for an event at the end of Jan.
#HorusHeresy #Warhammer #Mechanicum

So the club hasn't just been a huge positive in terms of meeting great people and having fun playing games with them, it's helped me with the hobby side as well, by giving me that extra focus.

I've made real, solid progress towards collecting and painting a coherent army. I've got a way to go, still, but knowing that I'd be playing with it every few weeks has kept me interested in a way that I've not experienced before.

I used to flit about from project to project. And I still get a bit bored and want to do something new and shiny. But several of us started playing Horus Heresy when the 3rd edition came out, and I committed to collecting a Mechanicum army. And for the last four months that's what I've been doing.

The people there were kind and welcoming, and I've been going regularly since. My son has also started to go and also loves it.

And it's driven a real change in my hobbying.

I think I'd like to post more about my hobbies and gaming. And I'm starting with something positive.

About six months ago I went to a nearby gaming club. I didn't know what to expect, and I feared that it would be full of the kind of gamers that I don't enjoy being around.

I was so wrong.

My eyesight is too poor to make out what type of tank is lurking in the background. Can anyone make it out clearly?

Nail polish remover or other source of acetone, should dissolve the cyanogunk.

I am announcing a review into the number of people who have been diagnosed as being "eighty". There never used to be so many 80 year olds and it's probable that they're simply 50 year olds who have misread their age. When we correct this glaring error, we'll save billions on welfare.

I was 10. I'd been into the Fighting Fantasy books for a year or two and I also loved US Football. A newsagent in town had a back room that mainly stocked Airfix and Matchbox kits, and I saw in there a copy of White Dwarf (issue 80), and a red box for a game called Blood Bowl. And off I went.

Six robot/cyborg miniatures with sci fi weaponry, painted pink and on desert bases.

My plunge into Horus Heresy 3rd ed has resulted in these Thallax, for what I'm still calling Forgeworld Smeg

My teen did a little dance when the news broke. So then I had to try to be the responsible parent who finds murder repugnant. I felt slightly soiled as I did so.

A photo of a hex and counter wargame, depicting fighting in north eastern Italy in April 1945.

Bologna 1945 from Taktyka i Strategia here, trying a simple looking scenario to learn the system.

Very rarely. I don't think I've ever been to the cinema alone. Maybe to an event alone, but the last time I can recall doing that was several years ago.

One of the days I always look forward to in the calendar, the start of the English Test match cricket series. Disappointed that the selectors didn't cheer up us cricket stattos by picking S or T Curran, to have an instance of brothers playing international cricket on opposing teams.
#EngvZim

A Warhammer Chaos Helbrute in scarlet. Replete with the good Chaos stuff: horns, tentacles, general gooey gribbliness.

One of the models I've most enjoyed painting, old Mortis Metalikus.

A part disassembled and painted Hive Tyrant model for Warhammer 40k.

I understand Easter to be some sort of festival of new life and consumption. Which means it's only appropriate to be spending time with this ebay rescue Tyranid Hive Tyrant. Definitely a model where the solution to a poor fit was deemed to be more epoxy resin.
#warhammer #minipainting

I think it depends. Ask yourself: what do I want to enhance in my depiction of this place, and would a direct experience of being there help me to enhance it? Or: what is it about the way I write that would be enhanced by being there?

My current thinking is that they could have used the lift capacity for Browning's HQ to drop more forces to the south, but hindsight is absolutely a fine thing to have. Running Saga of the 6th with an accelerated and closer drop is on my to-try list.

A lovely visual answer to the question: were the 1st AB's drop zones well located for them to accomplish their mission?

Three part painted mech models for Battletech, all to be completed in the colours of the Northwind Highlanders unit.

My current mini painting project: expanding my Northwind Highlanders force for #battletech. Here's the long range fire support; a completed Awesome (left), a base coated Archer (centre), and a WIP Marauder (right). PPC heaven!
Aiming to vary the base green camo schemes to keep me interested.

Not a box but it made my pre teen brain light up with the possibility of what this game could portray on a table.

They look great to me. I'm also doing my IS mechs as the Highlanders. Never mind the lore, all these mechs operate over so many years in so many different environments and with replacement parts that who's to say what's "accurate"? Paint them how you want them.

Beautiful board and minis. I'd have taken them for at least 15mm had you not specified 10mm.

Airbrushing would be my choice but I guess that's not an option for you. Maybe try an overall medium grey base coat and then add the red and black colours using contrast style paints, which will blend more easily, I think, as well as giving automatic shading effects.

Tyranid lictor of Hive Fleet Leviathan, Warhammer 40k miniature.