Gnome-uary

The first month of the Old World Army Challenge is up! Go thither to see more of my gnomes and check out the other entrants! They are much better painters than I!

vincit omnia sanguis

When Games Workshop announced the new Sisters of Battle project, I was cautiously excited. One of my best mates in high school had collected them back in the late 90s, and I'd always liked the miniatures. As the sculpts started to be revealed, my caution gave way to regular excitement. I decided to get the boxed set on release! Yeah!

Which was lucky, as it turned out that you had about a twenty minute window to decide if you wanted it, when it was released. Bloody hell.

shiny

 It has since turned out that the monoposey nature of the original boxed set was giving way to more genuinely multipart models, although I haven't gotten the new kits yet (they release next week, after all). This is good, because while these are good sculpts, I don't want every single flamer sister to be standing on a smouldering daemon, you know?

In the meantime, though, I had to figure out how I was going to paint them. So! The first few months of 2020 have been a combination of new sisters and my Old World Army Challenge gnomes. I can't show you those (you have to follow the Challenge blog!), but I can show you my sisters.

War as business: Warhammer 40,000 Squats

A while back, I was feeling a bit down and bought myself a Squat tricycle on ebay for too much money. Since then, I've fallen down a rabbit hole mining pit of space dwarf purchases, and collected the better part of an army worth.

Given that 8th edition doesn't even have rules for the recent Necromunda Squat releases (let alone these 25+ year-old models), this is the furthest I could get from a practical decision. Even in the world of hobby wargaming, spending money collecting an army's worth of figures that you can't actually play with is a bit... niche.

Space Dwarfs plastic kit box art, Paul Bonner(?).
© Games Workshop 1989

After Action Report: Pirate Raid on Borgan's Rift

Borgan's Rift is a backwater. Formerly a major trading hub in the Periphery, centuries of piracy and neglect have left it with few major industries; aside from the wineries of Magliss Spirits, nominally the planet's owners, the planet holds little of value.

In the waning years of the FedCom civil war, the Magistcracy of Canopus gave permission to the Capellans to patrol the planet, turning it into a warzone. As the months rolled into years, the Magistcracy has spent some funding to redevelop the world, establishing a provincial military academy and other 'Mech facilities. Unfortunately, the collapse of the Second Star League has led to instability across the region, even if there have yet to be any major attacks on Canopian worlds.

Over the last few months, there have been increasing reports of pirate units bearing no unifying insignia. Canopian intelligence has succesfully tracked at least a half-company worth of light and medium 'Mechs to the scratchy foothills north of Old Port Town, an old smugglers' haven.

Colonel Lane Meisel of the 1st Canopian Cuirassiers dispatches a company of the 3rd Battalion to put down the pirates in force...

Rocky foothills north of Old Port Town.

+ + Shoot-out near Fungapipe Forest + +

Local Orlock gun-runners the Harrier Bois had a run in with abhuman huntpack Undergangan out in the scrap-fields west of Fungapipe Forest.

Scrap-fields. Note the pipe-spawned fungal forest on the skinward side.

Remember Doc Renegade's? "A Renegade Doc at Renegade Prices!"? Well, here's part of him.