The Beard Bunker

Like most longtime 40K players I have a lot of ruined buildings covered in skulls. But now--at last -- I  have a ruined building covered in skulls with actual rubble and a base. Ye God-Emperor, it makes a big difference. Today, then, I'm going to explain how I went about doing that rubble incase you're rubble-curious and want to have a go yourself. I'll also cover making the big honkin' styrene base. This is part two of my Chapel Project Log , the first part of which covered some tips and tricks for working with the Sector Imperialis kits. At the time of writing the building has been spray primed, but the actual painting hasn't started. Making the Base The base is a combination of styrene sheets and rods. The sheet was cut into squares the same size as a Sector Imperialis floor panel to add some visual interest, and these squares were then poly cemented to a grid of square styrene rods. It turned out Revell's contact cement wasn't quite hench enough for th...

If you've yet to really dig into the Sector Imperialis terrain, today's post will hopefully equip you with some useful knowledge. It will also serve as the start of a project log for my "modestly sized" Imperial chapel.

I like my Ogres... I've really been enjoying playing my Ogres recently. As you will know I have a rather large Undead collection: 5427 points according to my spreadsheet. This is by all measures my main army for WFB. However, the little Orge army that I started way way waaaaay back in 2014 ( The Onefinger Tribe ) has grown on me. It's also grown to a rather nice 2000 points with the addition of this lastest unit. A decent sized game of Fantasy is around the 2000 points mark, in my opinion. Enough units to give some tactical choices but not to big that it becomes exhausting. Anyway, I've kinda fallen for these big guys. I like they way they play, solid, reliable, and a not overwhelming set of special rules. It's also because of the sheer amount of charm I've managed to inject into them. You could argue you can give any warhammer unit character, and I would agree with you, but I've just seemed found something that sits well with me.

Howdo all! A new year brings you all a new contributor to the Bunker.  I'm Andrew, also Andy, and other less appropriate names on occasion.  I'm not entirely new to this malarky, having been blogging for a decade now over at Iron Legion , but as life changes I find I have so little time to maintain a blog myself and so I'm in the process of shutting it down.  You can however see a lot of my previous hobby over there, and soon there'll be a post of my own personal highlights in case you're interested. Charlie and the Bunker crew were generous enough to give me a home here as an occasional poster, so you may or may not be seeing more of my progress. As an opener, and in keeping with the idea of what I have done this year, here is what I have been up to - I made some pointy-eared tree huggers >:) Obligatory core - Glade Guard and Dryads (I really like the Dryads - they are very good models and so very easy to paint, I plan to have more) Lord...

Part three of the Storm Eagle build. It's all about the paint today. I know that this was my March project, and in honesty it did get finished and delivered in March, just only now getting around to sticking up a post about it.  Next time I'll show you all what I've been getting up to in April. Anyway. Here the photo dump.  Cockpit details Little Mens! Base coated in a mid grey. Preshaded in black. Just in the recesses. Doesn't need to be super neat. Then lightly dusted with black again, letting the midgrey show through. The preshade should give us a nice mottled/faded in look to the black. Done with the airbrush A very light drybrush of the midgrey just to bring out the edges.  I think it worked out ok. Door Details Top down The nose guns I've left off and can be swapped out depending on the mission Adding some Imperial Inquisition Red bits.  Now the fun begins, weathering! Paint Wear...

Good day to you all, Not a great deal to say on this one, check back to the first post here  for the background. This is just a quick post covering the remaining building stages. Lots of pictures ahoy: Adding the wing assemblies  Lots of elastic bands, tape, and matchsticks to hold everything in place while the glue sets. So much tape... That doesn't seem to fit Down, down is always an option. A fragile option, but still an option. Would have been a stronger option if I had painted the insides before sticking it all together. Doesn't fit that way either.  So, after some trimming and sanding I finally got it to fit. Oh, and a lot of sprue glued on the inside as a cross brace. Starting to look like the picture on the box. There's a little man in there! Prepping for paint. More prepping. Added a few neat brass etch symbols  All prepped, masked and ready for some paint.