The Beard Bunker

This blog has been simmering away in our minds for a few months now. All it needed to bring it into the light was one unifying idea that would allow us all to focus our efforts. A couple of weeks ago that idea surfaced. Early in 2013 we are all going to take the same week off work, we are going to camp out at the house of beard and have a campaign week. Yes, you heard me, not a campaign weekend, a whole WEEK. Friday night to the next Sunday night filled with themed campaign joy. As a result we are all going to produce a 2000 point themed Warhammer army to showcase our style of gaming. That means every unit and character named, backstory written to give character to the army and to inform conversions and imagery, every model fully painted and based. We will make themed scenery to complement our armies and if there is time even build baggage trains for the armies to allow for convoy raids and skirmish gaming. As if that isn't enough we are going to share every stage of the project ...

Greetings to all of you lovely people out there. I thought I would put together a little gallery of some of the previous painting from this merry band. Now I don't have examples of everyone's work - something I intend to correct rapidly! - so consider this a kind of part one. All of these images (as you'll see from the watermark) were featured first on Pirate Viking Painting under the Friends of PVP tag but I felt that they deserved to be here too! Enjoy! Charlie:    Maisey:  Jeff:   Jen:    

Wargaming is a bit like salad. Fact. It has the capacity for infinite variety, can have a lot of ingredients, and without said variety becomes a case study in disappointment. That’s a bit like beards,* which leads us on to the topic at hand: the Beard Bunker. The Beard Bunker is a wargaming blog that has been created in the hopes that its members, who between them have over fifty years of hobby experience, will be able to share ideas for projects, conversions, painting techniques, campaigns, background material and anything else we think may be of interest to the gaming public. Some blogs have an author. This blog has several, which gives us plenty of opportunities to give conflicting advice, spew acrimony, cry havoc and let slip the d— look, the important thing is that there’s no one way to do things in the hobby. If Jeff recommends painting rust in six glorious stages whilst I suggest only four, I’m not saying ‘Jeff is wrong’ (although he is, along with several other terribly ...