Painting tips

Recently, I’ve found myself enjoying painting a lot more that I have done in a while. The reason, less boring troops to paint! For 40K and Warhammer, much of the units are large and similar, leading me to boredom very quickly. Warmachine and Hordes have much smaller units that are much more interesting to paint. Thus my joy of painting has been rekindled.

So, I’ve been looking around for painting tips and tricks to help me improve my technique. In all honesty, I’m a passable painter, who manages to achieve decent results by accident more than anything. My basic  technique usually revolves around a base colour, throwing on some ink for the depth, then trying to highlight up. While this works fine for some miniatures, as I found when painting my Tau, it doesn’t when I want a more crisp finish.

Warmachine - First Games

Over the bank holiday weekend I had the opportunity to get some Warmachine games in. All of us are novices to the game, despite my knowledge of the setting I've only ever played 1 game under the Mark I rules! So it was back to basics, learning by making mistakes (and boy did we make them!).

Why I Love, City of Heroes

City of Heroes is a Super Hero MMO that's technically been around longer than World of Warcraft, but has never managed to gain such a massive following.

Later this year, City of Heroes goes Free to Play, and so I'm going to tell you why I love playing it, and why I think you should give it a go.

Review: Warmachine Wrath

Wrath is the first expansion book for Mark II Warmachine. Following the same format as previous expansion books (Escalation, Apotheosis, Superiority & Legends) Wrath contains new units for all of the factions, as well as fiction that moves the setting forward.

Introduced in Wrath is a new unit type, the Battle Engine! Large based models, that come with powerful abilities, these units should change the way you play your force.

I fail at posting

I realised yesturday that its nearly been a month since I last posted anything.

I fail at blogging!

I don't even have the excuse I've got nothing to write about, I have a list here of things I keep meaning to write up and end up forgetting.

So, I'll list them here, and if you like the sound of any of them, poke me and I'll write them faster!

Warmachine: Wrath review
Dark Heresy: Demon Hunters review
Deathwatch: Mark of Xenos review
Captain America review
Pictures of my Warmachine and Hordes stuff
Continuing Building a Deathjack.

Here's to a new post soon!

A Dance With Dragons - No Spoilers

Its here!!

I am now the proud owner of half a dead tree in the shape of A Dance With Dragons. Its even bigger that Peter Hamilton's last book, but only just.

Once I've finished my current book, then I'll start on it. Thankfully its quite a short one, Stephen Deas' The Thief Takers Apprentice in case you wondered.

I shall make sure that any posts I make regarding ADWD have spoiler warnings attached, so panic not if you've yet to start!

RPG Review: Pathfinder: Ultimate Magic

Time to get back into the swing of writing reviews for the RPG books I buy!

Review: Pathfinder Ultimate Magic

I've been a big fan of what Paizo have been doing with Pathfinder. While I don't buy the setting specific books, the basic core rules have all been excellent books, high quality and avoiding the rules bloat that afflicted 3.5 and seems to be continuing in 4th Edition.