• Butchers

    Weekly Waffle #4

    Well this week on the site front I’ve been playing around with a few changes to the Galleries. I’m still not sure if I’m happy with them yet so I’ll probably carry on messing for a while yet until I settle on something I like. On the hobby front the manic pace of the first couple of updates has started to come down to a more sustainable pace. I have finished off ‘Boiler’ for the Butchers Guild from Guild Ball and as I’ve said in a couple of updates I’m really looking forward to the rest of these models turning up. I think I have a good handle on how…

  • Butchers

    Weekly Waffle #3

    I’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the site again this week and think that things are now starting to settle down a bit. On the functional side the static pages are now displaying what I want them to, in more or less the right way. I have managed to find a gallery plugin that seems to work, although I’m going to leave it in the trial mode until I have a few more images uploaded so I can test it properly. Image wise I’ve been busy with the camera and will soon have some WWX and some Malifaux added to the existing Batman and Haqqislam offerings. I’ve…

  • Site Layout & Function

    A bit of an admin update to let you know that I am going to be playing around with some changes to the layout of the site this week. The site itself is built on WordPress and the ‘theme’ I have been using seems to be giving me some grief when it comes to adding images. Sometimes things work and then on something that I think is set up the same it doesn’t. So not being a coder of any sort my solution is going to be to play around with a few new themes until I find something that works. So if you notice any weirdness over the next…

  • Weekly Waffle #2

    Well I’ve made it to the second weekly waffle  and still have lots of enthusiasm so I’m hoping that’s a good sign for the future. With only so much hobby time in the week a lot of it this week has gone on the site, with not a lot to see from the outside. But I have been busy with the back end. There are still a lot of things to sort out but I’m slowly getting there. I’ve also spent a bit of time taking pictures of miniatures so that once I get things working I will have some content to add. On the hobby front I have managed…

  • Knight Models – Deathstroke

    So this will be the first of the painting guide to have supporting pictures to go along with Deathstroke form knight models. I tried to capture as many steps as possible but I think there may be a few missing. But it’s a start and with a bit of luck I’ll get better as I go along.

  • Dystopian Wars Russian Coalition

    Having got the bug for Dystopian Wars again after working out a colour scheme for my Ottoman Fleet, I have been looking for a ‘major faction’ fleet for my next project. I really like the Empire of the Rising Sun but as Pete already has these I thought I would look at the Russian Coalition. Without knowing all the fluff that goes with them I thought that if I went with a Black Sea fleet this would tie in with my Ottoman fleet. They may not be allies but they would be operating in the same area. After looking at several options I decided to go with the classic white…

  • MERCS Kemvar

    Having finished the CCC Yellow Jackets and used them in a game I decided I really like MERCS and wanted to expand my collection a bit. Of the other factions I like, MERCS Kemvar were at the top of the list so I decided to give them a go. They use a pale colour scheme for their armour so again it would be style I don’t normally do but would offer me a nice challenge.

  • MERCS CCC Yellow Jackets

    I’ve had these MERCS models for quite some time now and have been really struggling to get the yellow to look ok. On several occasion I had considered going with a completely different colour scheme but yellow is something of a nemesis so wanted to try and get it right. After quite a bit of trial and error and a few baths in Nitromors to clean things up I have managed to get something that I feel happy with.