First model I’ve spent a lot of time on since taking quite a long break from painting.
26th February 2025
Thousand Sons Aspiring Sorcerer
26February
12th April 2022
How to paint Horus Heresy Thousand Sons
12April
A quick scheme to paint up Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons, using an airbrush for basecoats.
19th June 2021
Pre-ordering Dominion…for science – Games Workshop’s new queuing system
19June
As someone who regularly orders limited items - boxes, books and miniatures - I was a bit skeptical of the new queueing system.
28th April 2021
A week in Ulfenkarn
28April
Let's begin with a Vampire pun...Like most hobbyists with a pulse I was instantly interested in Cursed City when it was previewed on one of the Warhammer TV preview shows. There's been a lot of negativity surrounding the release, but I don't think that killed enthusiasm for the boxed set - whether you're interested in the lore and back-story, the game side or painting the miniatures.
4th April 2021
Maw Greenskins
04April
It’s time for my bi-annual blog post. Does that mean twice a year or once every two years? Yes.
10th September 2020
Hobby Challenges and the #dailygrot
10September
Last year I decided to paint a goblin miniature every day in August, as part of my first ever Armies on Parade entry. I also found it quite motivational to have to paint a miniature every day.
6th September 2020
Painting a Lake-town House
06September
I bought the Lake-town house set on the weekend of release, when I was still foolishly aiming to own everything Games Workshop had produced for Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit. I bashed it together without any thought, didn’t attach half the bits and left some unsightly gaps and sprayed it with some leftover Mournfang Brown spray – I don’t even think they make this any more...
31st August 2020
Blood Bowl: Skavenblight Scramblers
31August
The only Blood Bowl teams I’ve painted before were my failed goblin team – I finished one miniature – and an Undead team I painted on commission. Due to all the hype/excitement around the upcoming release of Blood Bowl with its glorious new Ork models and Snotlings – my love of Greenskins is showing – I had a sudden urge to paint a team. My first and only Goblin Team...
30th April 2020
Hobbitarn’s Hobby Highlights: Issue 1
30April
Here you’ll find a curated list of tweets and links I’ve found interesting, inspiring or useful this week. I hope to put out a post like this every week going forward, but like everything else blog related I’ll probably get distracted by something small and plastic that needs some paint on it. Today’s a great day to write this article, as it’s the night before...
22nd March 2020
Unreleased miniatures: My favourites
22March
My collection of Games Workshop’s Middle-earth miniatures has grown and shrank in size over the last 15 years, in which time I’ve picked up a few miniatures that were never released to the public and some made in limited quantities. There were always miniatures though I never thought I’d get to paint. Recently, GW have been releasing some of these gems as part of Made to Orders...