What I’m Working On

Hi there, I’m Andy and this is my blog in which I’ll be chronicling my adventures and mishaps in the world of miniature painting. I might not be the best painter but I’m nothing if not prolific, at the moment I have paint more than a thousand miniatures.

I tend to paint all kinds of things, from wargames to board games and even scale models from time to time. I think it’s this variety that has kept my interest in painting since returning to the hobby. Even just within the realm of Warhammer, painting an infantry model is different to painting a vehicle, especially now that I’m starting to incorporate scale model techniques like pin washes and weathering in my toolbox.

Below is an ever-growing list of what I’ve painted since starting this blog and what I’m currently working on. Below each faction, game or boardgame are a collection of the latest blog posts on said subject.

Wargames

As with many others, my first foray into miniature painting was Warhammer 40,000. I started with Tau but these days I collect whatever looks coolest. From the disgusting Death Guard to the indomitable Astra Militarum there’s so many awesome looking models out there that it doesn’t make any sense to limit yourself to just one faction.

Nor indeed to just one company’s models. My collection might be mostly Games Workshop miniatures at the moment, but I do plan on picking up some models from other game systems.

Nurgle

I have probably painted more Nurgle miniatures than any other. There’s something about the skin flaps, the boils and the maggots that make them so much fun to paint. Not to mention the armour and weapons that are awesome fun to make look weathered and decayed. They’re a great excuse to use techniques like chipping and enamel washes that I don’t get to use anywhere else.

Kill Team

Being a smaller skirmish game Kill Team has become the perfect vehicle to release teams of models that otherwise wouldn’t fit into larger Warhammer 40,000 armies. As such I have amassed a fair few Kill Teams throughout the years.

Commemorative Series

Like Kill Team, Games Workshop’s Commemorative Series miniatures are great one-off projects that don’t have to fit into an army. As they don’t fit in anywhere, they are an ideal way to test out painting techniques or styles you wouldn’t normally use.

Board Games

But it’s not all about Warhammer, I am also an avid collector and player of modern board games. As a lot of these games, particularly Kickstarter games, come with plastic miniatures there is ample opportunity to do more painting. In much the same way that there is something special about having a Warhammer battle with fully painted miniatures and terrain, there is something to playing a board game with painted miniatures.

Narrative Campaigns

I do also love to tell a story, the idea of a telling a story over a series of linked battles is honestly one of the reasons that I started this blog. I have recently picked up a copy of the Five Parsecs from Home rulebook, and I have been having eyeing up other systems through which I can spin a narrative.