The Beard Bunker

The thing about buying the massive  Leviathan box due to a rabid desire to paint the new Terminators as quickly as humanly possible is that, having painted said slabs , one is then confronted with a bunch of other models. Honestly I started painting the Ballistus Dreadnought before it ended up lurking in the bottom of a box for years, since the armless gun box on legs look is, to me, unintentionally hilarious. As is the case with so many silly GW designs, however, I've warmed to it during the painting process. Today's post will have a few quick notes on the heraldry decisions I made, but the bulk of this short post is a short story exploring this Dreadnought's rather brutal origins. Painting For the most part this follows the normal Cobalt Scions paint scheme . I did however go slightly off the usual track as I tried out Citadel's Retributor Armour base paint. Its coverage is very impressive, so perfect for anyone wanting a very bright, saturated gold. I rather like it,...

Call it the Pile Of Shame, the Cairn Of Opportunity or the Heap Of Grey, everyone in this hobby has some models they haven't yet painted and face the dilemma of wanting the new shiny thing when they haven’t finished the old shiny thing.  Today we’re going to look at how a few Bunkerites manage their backlogs. I wish  this was my full backlog... Tom I started collecting 40k as a kid, with very limited money.  It was a hard cap on how much I could buy, even when most of my birthday presents and Christmas presents were Warhammer too.  When I became an adult with lots more money to buy models and much less free time to paint them in, I ran into problems.  Especially as that was around the time of the first big Apocalypse release with big limited time good value bundles of big formations and entire armies.  I still have things on the sprue from those days.   I have a limited capacity to hobby.  If I buy stuff quicker than I can build and paint it ...

If you haven't already read Oops New Army: Imperial Soup Edition Part 1, I recommend you go read it first as it sets the scene for what I’m about to talk about today, the Imperial Guard portion of my accidental Imperial Soup army.  Dubbed “Battlegroup 86”, the army consists of elements from the Imperial Knights of house Ulfir, the Cadian 177th Mechanised Infantry and the Cadian 53rd Armoured.  Last time I focussed on the Knights, this time I’m diving into the Guard, but with an overall conclusion for the whole army. Why Imperial Knights are a skew army.  All Vehicles All The Time.  Certain armies, such as Orks, will particularly struggle with that kind of army, to a degree that playing it is simply not fun.  The same would be true of playing an Imperial Guard armoured company.  With that in mind, when I started building Knights I knew I would be able to bring them along to contribute to a multiplayer Apocalypse game, but I wanted to be able to have a mixed...

A good blog post should have some advice or information relevant to the reader. It should serve a purpose , I think, or it's just onanism. This post does not meet that requirement. It's just a rant about how much I f---ing love the terminator sculpts from the Leviathan box. I'm not going to say anything that's not already been said. My paint job will not be the best on the internet, nor will it be so humorously bad that it's worthy of your attention. The one sop to the concept of content is the bit where I have a think about how to approach the existence of terminator armour for Indomitus Founding Chapters, an absolutely niche lore point that no one asked for, but which I'm writing anyway. There's the cards on the table. Now here's some big blue chunkers. Look at them. Just look .  These sculpts convey weight and heft while also having very natural looking movement. Sure there's a few moulding artefacts to make them easy fit, but those become largely...

 It should go without saying to readers of Oops New Army: Necron Edition and Oops New Army: Tyranid Edition that I have A Problem.  I think the issue might be that I have lots of plans that I promise myself I’ll do “one day”.  But once you decide you will do something in the future , it becomes very easy to say yes to little things now .  Once you’ve started you might as well carry on.  My Imperial Knights/Guard army is a testament to this.   This “Oops New Army” is an even bigger Oops than normal, since it is in fact two armies, Imperial Knights and Imperial Guard.  This article I’ll be mainly focussing on the Knights, and next time I’ll talk some more about the Guard. Why Giant Robots Are Cool.  I suspect most Giant Robot lovers started out with some variant of Gundam, but for me my mechaphilia all starts with watching Full Metal Panic! (the explanation mark is apparently a required part of the title).  Alongside a lot of anime stap...