It was an inevitability honestly. This iconic miniature game comes from the distant past when people used hex boards and printed maps in chilly, moist basements to play out mercenary role playing and very long and overly detailed ginat robot combats. It was that game that I used to aspire to play as a kid, but never really got into. It was just too much accounting for me... almost as bad as Starfleet Battles. But I digress... with the advent of Alpha Strike the game finally became accessible for me and I dug out those old mechs I purchased twenty years ago and finally painted up my first one! Check it out in the Check out the images in the Battletech Image Gallery.

I had to pick up that previously unreleased Bretonnian Lord on Food with Great Weapon and squire, even though no respectable Bretonnian lord would ever walk around a battlefield. It had too much old-school character to pass up though. Also, I picked up about eighteen metal Men of Avereign from Harelequin Miniatures, aka EOE Orbis, aka Black Tree Designs as a proxy for those old metal halberdiers that GW used to sell... that was before those metal halberdiers were re-released though... In any case, I think the Harlequin figs are amazing, at least as good as the GW ones, and they fit in well too. Check them all out in the Bretonnian Image Gallery.

This has been on the painting table since I painted my last Sisters of Battle back in January 2021, so it's been there for five years... I painted it up though because of the monotony of painting up the Bretonnian Lord on Hippogriff, which was a lot of work and slow progress because it was basically the same colour scheme! Will I paint more Sisters soon? Not likely. She was the only one on the table... but I did strip about 20 old sisters recently, so who knows? Check her out in the Battle Masters Image Gallery.

I didn't think I would paint anymore Battle Masters after the Ogre, but after playing a couple games against two Ogre Champions and another Knight of the Realm unit for the Empire army to balance it out, I realized that the Knights or the Realm are pretty powerful. So, I decided to add another cannon, which can be powerful, but also fail spectacularly in a similar way to the ogre. I played exactly two games after that, and they were better. I am convinced that the game plays better with two ogres and two cannons, and maybe the only reason we didn't see that in the box was because of cost? Anyway, check out the pictures in the Battle Masters Image Gallery and also a few more extensive shots in the Empire Image Gallery.

I didn't think I would paint anymore Battle Masters for a long time, but after playing a few games I decided that I needed another Ogre Chamption. They are just too fun to play with! So I thought I'd paint one up for the Chaos army, and then just add another Knight of the Realm unit for the Empire army and balance it out that way. You can check out the images in the Battle Masters Image Gallery and also a few more extensive shots in the Chaos Image Gallery.

I finally finished the years-in-the-making figure of the original sculpt of King Louen Leoncoeur on a not-so-original hippogriff. I love the original King Louen Leoncoeur figure and that style of Warhammer, but that old hippogriff was just not that charming to my eyes; I get it, some people love it too, but I wanted to try something a bit more modern, so I converted it using a figure from Age of Sigmar, and I'm quite happy with it. Sticking to the magpie theme for my flying Bretonnian figures I decided to lean in a bit more to it than I did previously, and I think it turned out pretty well! Check out the images in the Bretonnian Image Gallery. Until next time!

I realized this week that I totally failed to post pictures of the Knight General unit for the Empire from the Battle Masters game! I finished those in May 2024, but failed to post pictures... I have added them to the Empire Image Gallery. I also threw them into the Battle Masters gallery too.

Almost six years exactly since this project started and it's finally done! It's been my major focus since October 2019. Funny that it's not even nearly a full Warhammer Fantasy Old World army, but still it took so long! In any case, it is indeed finally done and the fully-painted bad based armies are ready to hit the battlefield. Check out the images in the Battle Masters Image Gallery.

Along with the Battle Masters gallery, I also added the figures to their respective army galleries, which in this case include the last unit of Chaos archers and beastment in the Warhammer Chaos Gallery and the final unit of goblins in the Warhammer Goblins Gallery. What's next though? Likely Bretonnians, or maybe I'll paint that mounted Chaos Sorcerer... we'll see.

Also, this year marks the 25th anniversary of this website. Back then I was painting a lot of Lord of the Rings miniatures, or I guess they're currently called the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game or whatever? Anyway, I feel like this site has persisted long after the relevance of websites and blogs ha waned to nothing, and the age of social media if firmly entrenched. I rarely post on social media either... in any case, I will continue probably for another 20 years, even though miniature painting and gaming isn't my primary focus these days.

Inspired by the Battle Masters figs I decided to paint another old Hero Quest figure, this time the Chaos Sorcerer from that game. It's a cheesy model, but I've grown to really appreciate it, and tried to do it justice. I also threw some paint on a single Chaos Knight to see how it would look in my pueple pumpkin colour scheme, and it's not a bad test model, but I'd likely do less purple and more complimentary colors, maybe oranges and browns.... and maybe rusted iron. In any case, check them out in the Chaos Image Gallery.

Next up are the last three units of Chaos from Battle masters: beastmen, archers, and one more unit of goblins!

I painted up the Reaper Pumpkin-headed knight that I bought the first moment I saw it but held on to it until just this year. It obviously fits amazingly well with my armies and my whole Halloween enthusiasm, so how could I not get it? Also, it's a large figure, so it fits with the more modern Age of Sigmar Warhammer vampires, which are quite large compared to regular humans in the Olrd World, so I wasn't sure I'd use it. But it is about the size of a modern Chaos Warrior from Age of Sigmar, so I decided it could be a giant vampire or a Chaos warrior representing the great pumpkin god of the warp! Check out the images in the Undead Image Gallery.