My copy of Tim Hutchings’ Thousand Year Old Vampire came in the mail, and daaaaaaaaaamn this book slaps. That spot foil — the gold bits — looks like kintsugi. The stamps look so real I want to peel them off. I opened the front cover and literally went, “What the hell, why did Tim write […]
Thousand Year Old Vampire is one of the most gorgeous RPG books I’ve ever seen Read More »
By pure coincidence, this is my 300th post on Yore! I didn’t plan this one as number 300; I noticed I was getting close and then forgot about it, but as it turns out this grab-bag post of what’s on my mind right now (miniatures!) is pretty emblematic of my approach to blogging here. I
WIP it good: more bases, naming units, and building my Librarian Dreadnought Read More »
My timeline for Space Hulk — and, zoomed out a bit, miniature painting in general — looks like this: 2009: bought Space Hulk 2012 or 2013: finished painting all the Genestealers 2014: base-coated the red on all the Terminators 2014-2020: basically quit miniature painting altogether February 22-March 13, 2020: finished painting the Terminators I’ve shared
Space Hulk Terminator showcase Read More »
I know I’m posting a lot these days — I’ve been blogging for almost 15 years: posting twice a day, for one person, is a lot! — but I’m deep in the joy of this extended moment, of being a novice miniature painter falling in love with this hobby. Everything is new for me right
I’ve got a basing recipe in mind for my Blood Angels army, and now I have all the components: The basic concept is “plains of Armageddon” (an important planet in the 40k universe), which conjures up a sort of Moonscape in my mind — a wasteland of heavy gray dust and dying grass, site of
Cooking up a basing recipe for my Blood Angels Read More »
Priming minis used to stress me out because spray primer is so finicky, and I’ve ruined minis using it wrong. I’ve switched to brush-on primer (Vallejo white primer, paid link) . . . and apparently it still stresses me out. I think it’s because it feels too easy to mess up, and unlike a painting
WIP it good: first time using brush-on primer Read More »
My working concept for my Blood Angels army is the Faceless Strike Force, with 100% of the models in helmets. I wanted Space Marine Scouts in my army, which posed a small problem: the Scout kits only come with bare heads. Some Googling turned up two easy options for alternate scout heads: Skitarii Rangers and
WIP it good: Squad Cain, scouts with a head conversion Read More »
I’ve got a post queued up for later this week about my basing recipe, but tonight I tucked into the first step. Gotta see if this works, and the best way to do that is to try it. Sergeant Karios was the first model I built in my Blood Angels army, and he was my
WIP it good: basing Squad Karios, part one Read More »
I wanted to keep my painting technique fairly consistent across my Space Hulk set so they’d all look similar despite being painted over a seven-year period, but now I’m ready to try some new techniques with my Blood Angels army. One is a simple switch to a brush-on primer, rather than the spray-on stuff. Another
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I wasn’t in the mood to prime minis today (I did some test priming, which I’ve detailed in a post for tomorrow), so I picked another unit to build: Squad Dolos, my first Primaris Space Marines — the cool-as-hell Primaris Infiltrators (paid link). Gotta start with the sergeant! Although unlike Squad Karios, the first squad
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