Hekatoncheires: April 2019

Saturday 6 April 2019

WIPs – What's Hek Up To?

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Been a little while since I posted a complete project so I'm gonna do something I haven't done for a while and drop an update with some WIPs. Here's what's on my desk right now...

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Tale of Painters

Review: Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard - The new edition of Warhammer Underworlds has landed, promising a streamlined and reinvigorated experience. We eagerly grabbed our box set, ready to see i...
1 day ago
Maniexite

Kosmiczni najemnicy - Dzisiaj pora na fotkę bandy kosmicznych najemników zrobionych ze śmieci. Śmieci z bits boxa, powybierałem co się dało i tak powstała ta ekipa. Są dość un...
1 day ago
Hobgoblinry

A Tin Soldier orc in a retro style - Here's an orc from Tin Soldier painted in a somewhat retro style with heavy blacklining in ink. Although I had originally based many of them on pennie...
2 days ago
LEADPLAGUE

Trench Crusade - Communicant anti-tank hunters - Following the Trench Crusade vibe I'm in at the moment, I've finally allowed myself to paint the Communicant anti-tank hunter from the very first Kicks...
3 days ago
Squalor and Dice

Gnome-mageddon - Part 3 - The Gnome-mageddoning! - Picture this - Halloween night, a basement full of nerds, and a table full of gnomes. We actually didn't get a picture of that, so I hope your imaginati...
4 days ago
Rob Hawkins Hobby

The Legion of the Infernal Skull: Death Eternal - As long as I've been playing Warhammer, I've been creating backstories for my characters and updating the lore as significant events happen in games I've p...
6 days ago
Gangs of Mordheim

Happy Halloween! - Underwolds Nighthaunt - On the occasion of Halloween, I decided to retake pictures of the older Warhammer Underworlds warbands of Nighthaunt faction in a new way and bring all t...
6 days ago
WarbossKurgan

The Ravaged Coast, part 1 - *The Ravaged Coast* is a new narrative Warcry campaign, set in Aqshy, published in White Dwarf #504 (September 2024). The full text has also been publishe...
6 days ago
Lasgunpacker

GeG Swap meet - The FLGs had the fall swap meet this Sunday, and despite shopping there for something like 24 years this was the first time I actually attended. All of t...
1 week ago
Whateley Inc.

Tale of one collector (part 1). - Come with me in this travel of exploration and people trying to take your money like there's no tomorrow. Welcome to THE TALE OF ONE COLLECTOR.
1 week ago
Jaeckel Alone

The guards of the White Lady (part IV) - One additional figure: the hornblower. That's it for October!
1 week ago
WAR HEAD

Brotherhood of the Golden Star - Noa's White Scars made a Civil War return renewed with a robust Breacher Squad and a menacing unit of Destroyers. The solid anchor and dynamic moving ele...
2 weeks ago
eternalhunt

Murders & Acquisitions, pt. 2 - Aw, man, I've let this blog lapse once again -- I am so sorry, guys! But hey, at least I do have something to share with you, even if it's just a small pro...
2 weeks ago
The Realm of Zhu

Rise of the Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath ins...
2 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
3 weeks ago
Leadballoony – It's a lead thing (sorry, no balloons)

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 1, revisited - Greetings Terrans, hope you’re all well! A bit of an unplanned revisit of my Tzeentch warband today, with some replacement … Continue reading →
3 weeks ago
Old Man, Paints

Orc Flesh – Painting Guide (Green) - Well, it’s #Orctober isn’t it? I thought I might as well make my contribution. Here is my simple painting guide for Orcs. I have recently just discovered a...
3 weeks ago
Warhammer 40,000 2nd edition

A Bitter Harvest: Fred Reed’s Old School Howling Griffons Space Marines Army - Everyone of a certain vintage knows of this legendary army. The iconic full army shot from the back cover of White Dwarf 179 is the stuff of legend. An (at...
3 weeks ago
Philotep's 1/72 Minis Kingdom

Mythologic Greek army complete - Hi everyone! It's high time to write a new post in this blog. In the end of June, I showed you the creatures painted for a Mythological Greek army. Sinc...
3 weeks ago
Magpie and Old Lead

Psyker Killers - Confrontation Gang Final Additions - As I'm closing in on the end of the Confrontation project, I've decided to do some gap filling. This essentially means finishing off any WIP figures and ...
4 weeks ago
Distopus

-][-NTERROGATOR Warhammer plus tv show - Finally got around to watching the interragator series on warhammer plus, getting somne strong ages of Darthur vibes especially the 5th age. https://distop...
1 month ago
Kaiju Country

Flames of the Ruinstorm - Age of Darkness Ruinstorm Daemon army The entire Daemonic horde so far! Earlier in the year I was invited to attend a Horus Heresy weekend event hosted by...
2 months ago
Bitter Old Painters

"Come on, feel the noise..." - “I have shattered the craftworld of Lugganath with my song, little Aeldari… What do you imagine I can do to you?” They’re finally done. After 4 years o...
2 months ago
Sproket's Small World

Aeldari Voidscarred Corsair, Part Two - Painting the Felarch As the first model of this project, the Felarch sets the overall colour palette and character for the rest of the models in the Corsa...
2 months ago
Not a Collector

Kuggköping 9d. - Time for a quick update on the blog. Kuggköping have gone through a few updates over the past month in preparation for an upcoming expansion I am working...
2 months ago
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

Undead - Vampire Knight - Today we have a miniature I've been slowly ticking over in between other projects. It's taken months of five minutes here and ten minutes there to comple...
2 months ago
Another wargaming blog

Guards! Knights! Squires! Prepare for battle! - Over the past few months I've been painting models for my Bretonnian army. I never got around to posting finished models due to a lack of tufts and the a...
2 months ago
The Old World Army Challenge

Nathan’s Evil Dark Elf Army - wrap up post - Seven old world army challenge’s done and dusted. I know I’ve completed all of these - any others? Anyway I’ve spent July painting up some additional fig...
2 months ago
Realms of Chaos

Realm of Chaos Campaign : Battle reports - Hi, two weeks ago with Slaanesh_Child and I, we played the four last battles of the campaign started in February this year. A great campaign finish with ...
3 months ago
Secrets of the void

Skaventide - Or something… As some of you might know, I collect skaven. I’ve done so for years and these days my skaven painting projects are few and far between, becau...
4 months ago
krokodyl z oczami na szypułkach

Harry Potter i kosmici z Taygety - Właśnie napisałem tekst o UFO i o tym, jak według Prawdziwych Kosmitów działają ich statki kosmiczne: Jak Taygetanie latają między gwiazdami Jakiś czas tem...
4 months ago
TheOttoVonBismark

Katsina Miniatures Crystal Spider Swarms - Working on my TOW Lizardmen army recently I went all in for some Spider Swarms using our very own spider models. They were sculpted by Doti and they are av...
4 months ago
Stone Cold Lead

Dwarves from "back in the day" - Sometime in the early 90's I bought a couple of packs of dwarves to crew my dwarf juggernaut which for such a hefty lump of a war machine was woefull...
5 months ago
the leadpile

Black Orcs get a Bath - Having been bitten by the Warhammer the Old World bug I decided I needed to move on from my two Chaos armies. I found myself coming up with more and mor...
6 months ago
Iron Sleet

Cult of the Hollow Thorne - +++ The Cult of the Hollow Thorne is one of the oldest Cults of the Green Man. It has risen to great numbers recently, as the search for illumination, cure...
7 months ago
Variance Hammer

Review: Tabletop Wargames – A Designers’ and Writers’ Handbook by Priestley & Lambshead - I’ve got no small interest in the design of miniature wargames, so when I saw that Pen & Sword books was doing a reprint of Tabletop Wargames: A Designers...
8 months ago
Mengel Miniatures

Tutorials on TAP (The Army Painter that is) - *Taps microphone* Is this thing on? Wow, it's been quite a while since the last time I posted on here, but I'm back! Where have I been I hear you asking...
8 months ago
Borgnine's Miniature Painting

Myphitic Blight Hauler #3 - WIP - Okay, the last one of the Myphitic Blight Haulers for my Death Guard. This one is based on the smaller tractor from the Galvanic Servohaulers set - strip...
11 months ago
Recalcitrant Daze

IPMS Scale ModelWorld 2023 - Pictures from the IPMS Scale Modelworld show in Telford today. Read more »
11 months ago
The Empyrean

Grimdark Basing Tutorial: Building Bases (ft. Print Hub 3D) - Hi everyone! I've got lots of requests and comments surrounding my bases and how I construct them for my miniatures, so I thought I'd put together a step...
11 months ago
Xulutec

Instagram and Ebay sale - Some may have noticed - since last year i changed to display my lastest paintjobs on instagram instead of posting updates here. Instagram is a lot easier...
1 year ago
heresy of us

Prince of the Bladed Cross - ” The oaths were broken. The curse set in. The damned rose triumphant and revelled in their sin. “ SOH LASH. The Compulsive Prince of the Twisted Fortress....
1 year ago
Warofsigmar : Rumors and rules for age of sigmar

Warhammer old world : Pegasus Knight still without Knight - Sneak Peek: Bretonnian Pegasus Knight Soars in Plastic Excitement gallops through the Warhammer community as three photos of a new plastic Pegasus Knight ...
1 year ago
Le Blog dé Kouzes

Iron Hands Combat Squad - I salute you, proud sons of Ferrus Manus! Today it is my combat squad for the small Iron Hands Patrol I am building at the minute. I want to keep this f...
1 year ago
Realm of Citadel - Slave to the Lead

Rogue Trader Genestealer Cult #2 - A new addition to the Rogue Trader Genestealer Cult. The Dominator named Hulendar. These were the very first miniatures in the Tyranid / Genestealer ho...
1 year ago
NerdWorkshop

Figurkowy Karnawał Blogowy Edycja #CVII: Tanie Dranie - PODSUMOWANIE - Kolejna edycja FKB za nami, a przed nami prezentacja tanich drani których zgotowali nam aktualni uczestnicy. W ramach dźwiękowego umilenia prezentac...
1 year ago
Oldenhammer in Toronto

Rogue Trader Adventurers: Part 5... Stargrave - I've always loved Rogue Trader, but the impetus for my recent push to paint all of Citadel's RT601 Adventurers was the publication of Joseph McCullogh's...
1 year ago
Krakenborn

The Sundering - With Horus broken upon the Vengeful Spirit and her father broken upon the throne, Sgáthach and her Legion were faced with the uncertain future such a pyrrh...
1 year ago
Echoes of Imperium

All Echoes must End - This is the 100th post and it is also the final post. Over the years we have documented some amazing miniatures, friends and events. But I feel that the em...
1 year ago
Modern Synthesist

10th Edition Screamer Killer Conversion with Eric's Hobby Workshop - Though Games Workshop did not see fit to send me any advanced Tyranid models to support the Leviathan release, I was tremendously fortunate that anoth...
1 year ago
Faeit 212: Warhammer 40k News and Rumors

The Future of Epic Horus Heresy Plans to reach to M41 - Stepped away briefly, but there are rumors to lay out on the future of Epic Horus Heresy. Especially seeing how something like Epic may expand into the f...
1 year ago
Backwater Deathworld

Hive Fleet Celaeno - Celaeno, a minor hive fleet active in a cluster of dim stars, emerging from dark waters in the half-light of day, twisting and coiling in frail gr...
1 year ago
Miniature darkness

My new home - This has been an erie, empty place these last few years. My blog was a great little home for years as I dove back into the hobby but now these pages are le...
1 year ago
razzaminipainting

Social media links - Hi all! I thought I'd pop my social media links here for anyone that wants to stay updated on things. I post a lot more on Instagram, Facebook and Twitt...
1 year ago
And Then Dice Happened

Happy New Year -
1 year ago
The Lead Collector

Oldhammer 3rd Edition Orc Army - Hello all, I picked up this army on the fly a few moons ago. It was in poorly painted condition. I must say that I grossly under-estimated the work th...
1 year ago
Tales From The Aaronorium

Trollollo. - Greetings, fellow humans! This month, I have mostly been painting some Fellwater Troggoths. These are the first proper models for my Shyish based Troggoth ...
2 years ago
Creative Twilight

So You Want to Start Blacksmithing and Not Sure Where to Start? - Blacksmithing has received a lot of attention in recent years. Largely due to the show Forged in Fire. It's helped bring this largely niche hobby and profe...
2 years ago
Old Orcs Never Die...

Empire Ogres wip (March 2022) - Its been so long since I've posted I barely remember how. I haven't been motivated to take pics of the work I've done over the past couple years. Hopeful...
2 years ago
The Painter of Devils

The Dead Below: My 2022 Hobby Project - *“Beyond the shimmering veil stands a dread legion, blade locked to rusted blade, spear joined to crooked spear, howling out one name–the Undying ...
2 years ago
The Tyrant's Due

Fantasy Pic Dump -
3 years ago
The Rook

Index Astartes: Centaurs (I) - + An introduction to the Centaurs Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes +
3 years ago
The Realm of Gerezman

Stormcast and Scenery - Some of my Warcry terrain, along with my Stormcast accompanied by the Man Hound.
3 years ago
One Man Warband

Relicblade Ramblings 1: Introduction and Knight Tactic Cards - I've hit a bit of a painting slump, so in the interest of diversifying my hobby time I've decided to resurrect the blog! And what better place to (re)sta...
3 years ago
The Lore of Yss

Valak Raum, The Harrowing Blade: Act One, Scene Two - Raum stumbled from the portal in a daze, a brilliant light blinding him and a bitter chill wind biting at his flesh. From behind him his remaining follower...
3 years ago
Nautilus

[Nautilus Paperminis] Guerra Civil Española, Batalla por Madrid - El mes sacado lanzamos el primer set de la línea de miniaturas de papel dedicadas a la Guerra Civil Española. Este segundo set trata sobre la defensa de...
3 years ago
Objective Secured

Stalasquig Conversion - Warhammer Underworlds Mollog’s Mob - Hello folks. I’ve been remiss in not posting this small conversion sooner but with everything else going on in the world and here it passed my mind. I ...
3 years ago
bigbossredskullz

Bigboss 2020 Year in Review - Another year has passed and it is time to wrap it up and move on! Blogging as a platform is still on a downward curve as seen the last few years but intera...
3 years ago
El Soldado Tranquilo

Goblin army - He estado desarrollando el estilo de pintura monocromo. Es fácil de pintar y efectivo en el tablero, para agilizar mis sesiones de pintura y dedicarle má...
3 years ago
The Lost and the Very Damned

My Magnetised Movement Trays/Display base (a tutorial) - For some time now I've been making my own magnetised movement trays/display bases for my Lost and the Damned army, and as I was making one for my unit o...
3 years ago
The Data Slates of Inquisitor Vuln

Warhammer is for Everyone; The Warhammer Community is Not. - Games Workshop is a business, and so it will sell its products to anyone who wants to buy them. In that way, Warhammer is for everyone as in anyone who has...
4 years ago
Stro'Knor Macekiller

While the Toys Were Out - Straying from the orc theme, but in the spirit of Halloween, here's my Undead army... Currently they weigh in around 1750 points. I've got enough zombie...
4 years ago
The Convertorum

MORE MARINES - Hi again! The summer wasn't a particularly productive period from a hobby perspective, but once the cold autumn winds started to blow things have picked...
4 years ago
LarsonicMiniatures

Big Update (part 2 - Muskets and Tomahawks) - Without furtherado, let's continue with part 2 of my blog update. Another System I'm looking forward to is the upcoming german release of Muskets & Toma...
4 years ago
Gardens of Hecate

Gardens of Hecate Studio - *D*ear readers, You are looking at the final post of this blog. It's been going for more than eight years, and time has come for it to shut down... Because...
4 years ago
Tears of Envy's blog

Miniatures Without Borders raffle - A quick note to say get yourself over to the excellent raffle set up by Echoes of Imperium. All proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders. The collab between ...
4 years ago
Realm of Chaos 80s

Gladiator Ogre and Jack o' Lantern Familiar - I had a rather productive day today. Managed to make headway with the enormous amount of school work I had to get through and I got two miniatures fin...
4 years ago
The Bleak New World

Shock and Awe Incarnate, Thunderous Wingbeat of the Raptor: Concussors - Well, this post has been a long time coming for me since this unit has been a long time in the making. Ever since I first came to really love the Stormc...
4 years ago
PINXIT

Hobby from confinement - Hi everybody! It has been a few months since my last update and of course the world has become a different place since then. I sincerely hope that everyone...
4 years ago
Tales from The Ashen Stair

Court of the Crooked King - So begins the Great Hunt of the Goblin-Folk...
4 years ago
Convertamunda =][=

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4 years ago
FUMMELFINGER

There are no lions on Terra. -
4 years ago
Belched from the Depths

Let's connect on Instagram - I have been unhappy with the Blogger platform for many years, and am always searching for better ways for hobbyists to engage with one another. Instagram i...
4 years ago
WilhelMiniatures

WilhelMiniatures on Etsy! - Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last update, and I've been working on a few interesting things since then. The thing I'm most exited about ...
5 years ago
Miasma of Pestilence

Necromunda: House Cawdor looted Ambot - Seemingly, I couldn't resist the lure of splitting a box of Ambots with my mate Andy GI. These things look great. At the time of building and painting, I'...
5 years ago
Nicolas Grillet

Mordheim 2019 - Hello! It has been a crazy while, and I’m terribly sorry for that! Mordheim 2019 happened this weekend in Helsinki, and I cannot say enough how grateful I ...
5 years ago
Greenstuff Gretchin

The Best Fantasy Series You've Never Read.... - ...and probably never heard of. Recently I've been trying to become more socially active, to try and push back against the blockades that my poor mental he...
5 years ago
Tales from the Maelstrom

Norse Giant - Evening all! My last post was an update on my 3rd edition Warhammer Norse army, and I mentioned in it that I had a Norse Giant on the way - well, here he ...
5 years ago
liminal

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5 years ago
Of Marauders and Citadels

Old World Army Challenge Wrap-up; a 1000pts army of Forest Goblins! - Well here it is, the end of the Old World Army Challenge. When we decided to do the challenge, I really wanted to start a Goblin army, something that was ...
6 years ago
Ex Profundis

Dark Mechanicus Mutant Abominations - Deep in the underhive, the thralls of the Dark Mechanicus serve their masters in their search for arcane technology and new subjects for their experiment...
6 years ago
Servitor Crusade

Inquisitor Theodora - Inquisitor Theodora and the Relics of Io. Very pleased with this model. I changed my painting style going for a greatly reduced paint set (Vallejo liquid a...
6 years ago
Picta Mortis

Aelf Prince - Inspired by the artwork of Yoshitaka Amano
6 years ago
Dark Places

The Dathedi Concord - *"They are puppets all. We need only pull their strings."* The Dathedi Concord is a shadowy criminal organisation which operates in the darkest parts...
6 years ago
Yodhrin's Forge

If the coffin fits... - Resurrection is an appropriate theme for this post - I'm back myself after a fair long break, and the first thing I have to show folk is a new Mordheim Und...
7 years ago

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