The Thunderhawk Gunship I had been waiting to get one of these since it was announced last year! Despite a bit of a delay in actually getting my hands on it (out of stock for a while), its finally here- so what is the plastic Thunderhawk like? Value- 2/5 This one was tricky to rate. I have to admit, I had been slightly put off when the kit came out to see a single Thunderhawk for £26 (as of writing, it is about to see a price increase in March 2022). In a way, I view the Aeronautica range a little more like an Airfix kit- part of the joy is seeing the details of the larger aircraft recreated in such a small scale, but the cost of this is vastly higher than an Airfix kit.  Perhaps this is an unfair comparison- how does the Thunderhawk compare to another Aeronautica kit? The Thunderhawk compared with the Grot Bommer The Thunderhawk is large, and if it weren't for the wingspan, is starting to dwarf the Grot Bommers. However, I think the Thunderhawk feels like slightly worse value. F

  As an addition to my Epic Eldar force, I wanted to include a Super-Heavy tank, but I wasn't massively keen on paying £20 for a 2nd hand, and metal, miniature. Looking through my bits-box, I came up with the solution- the Eldar Guardian kit for 40k already comes with a mini-tank, the support weapon. With a few tweaks to the 'turret,' it already looks like an Eldar tank of sorts. The parts used The 'turret' is the underslung weapon from an Dark Eldar Venom The kitbash was very simple from here. The front thruster(?) was cut away to form the cockpit. The base for the turret was clipped away to provide a flat surface for the weapon. From there, a bit of milliput helped smooth over the gaps, connect the 'cockpit' to the main body of the tank and create a viewpoint for the gun operator. Before the basecoat goes on The platform for the support weapon scales quite well with the Falcons And that was that, from there the painting followed the same scheme as the Falc

  What's all the fuss about? Games Workshop have made Plastic Aspect Warriors since the 90s... With all the Eldar reveals for 40k happening at the moment, I've gotten into the Eldar vibe with some 6mm Aspect Warriors for Epic 40k. I decided to paint them in their classic colour schemes- which will make the force quite colourful (especially in comparison to my Black Templar force!) Usually I paint Epic models straight on the sprue where possible- but I've gone with the classic sticky-tack on an old paint pot for ease of photos. Exarch I'm painting my Epic Eldar as Biel-Tan, just like my 28mm Eldar. The Exarch therefore uses the White/Green paint scheme of Biel-Tan (which I actually inverted for my 28mm Eldar.) White: Celestra Grey > Apothecary White Green: Waaagh! Flesh Black: Abaddon Black Striking Scorpion Striking scorpions aren't the easiest to paint in 6mm I've found. The details on the 28mm models in yellow would be tricky to reproduce on a 6mm miniature

  The defiled Imperial Knights, dedicated to the Chaos god Khorne. Here are the mighty Knights of Khorne, my first painted miniatures of 2022- and my newest 600pt force for my Epic 40k 3rd Edition Skirmish forces project. These were fantastic miniatures to paint, and really GW have done a fantastic job recreating the larger 28mm Knights down into the smaller scale- without losing too much detail on the way. With the newer miniatures, and the rerelease of Knights back in 2014, there was a certain level of upscaling both in size and power. When you now compare these knights with the Epic 40k miniatures, you can see that rescaling to make the knights closer to what might be described as 'true-scale.' Compared with an Ork Stompa, the Knight towers over it- this small Stompa in the Epic range is perhaps more like a modern Gorkanaut/Morkanaut? As a result of this impressive size, the rules for Knights don't feel quite right- they would be more in line with a Leman Russ Battle ta

A Quick Blog Update: After a disrupted December, I'm finally back up and running when it comes to Hobby, and ready for a new year of working on the blog. My plans for my Hobby in 2022 are ones which I've been working towards for a few months, and I'm really looking forward to getting started! Projects to Finish I'm not far off completing my current projects in Blood Bowl and Epic 40k. I'm planning to finish painting 2 Blood Bowl Sevens teams and to complete my Orks and Chaos Knights forces of an equal size to my Black Templars, and a small amount of 6mm terrain ready for them to be able to play some small games of Epic 40k.  New Projects For the moment, I'm satisfied with my collections for Games Workshop games (both current and old) and I'm planning to move onto a project or two in Historical Wargaming. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while, and having dabbled with a few miniatures to test the waters, I've got a few ideas as to what I w

  A quick Hobby Update, or rather an update to say that not much hobby is happening... I'm currently in the process of moving house, and so, I packed my miniatures and paint away to be ready for the move. This means that I won't now be able to do much hobby until, realistically, the New Year. As is always the case, as soon as I packed away my projects, I've been unable to stop thinking about wanting to do some hobby (an unfortunate side effect given that it is often difficult to motivate myself when I have my paint station ready to go!). I thought this would be a good opportunity for myself to look back over 2021, take stock of my completed hobby projects, and look at what I have still to complete. (Note: the photos are not great- as they were taken during packing). Miniatures completed in 2021: Tzeentch Chaos Warcry warband - At the beginning of the year, I decided to make a Warcry warband- mostly for fun, but also for the possibility of playing a game or two of Warcry if

The Grot Bommer Whilst roaming on ebay recently, I found a box of Grot Bommers for the game Aeronautica Imperialis being sold for £17- a steal compared to the £32.50 they are sold for from Games Workshop. I'd had a soft spot for this model since it was launched, and had been tempted to start Aeronautica in order to build a small Air Waaagh! The full price tag though had put me off- slightly too high for 2 models I thought, but at £17, and needing some Ork planes for my Epic force, my temptation got the better of me, and here we are now. I thought I would give a short review of the Bommers, and my experience in building them here on my blog- where they will eventually make their way back when I get time to paint them up for the Orks. For my review, I've decided to score the kit on the following: Value, Quality, Build and Looks, each getting a score out of 5. I feel that breaking this down will help make my thoughts clearer on a kit, rather than a single score encompassing all of

 I've been building up my Epic Black Templar force, The Anatolikan Crusade, for the last two months, and have now got them to the point where I feel like they're 'Crusade' strength. The Anatolikan Crusade The force now numbers a mighty 60 Black Templar Initiates, 4 Rhinos, 2 Land Raiders, 3 Predators and 2 Vindicators- a huge force for 40k, but in Epic terms, a starter army. I had initially intended to use the rules for Epic Armageddon, the 'Current' edition- which although very much unsupported by Games Workshop, very much is still supported by the Community. The earlier 'Space Marine' and 'Adeptus Titanicus' games in the First and Second edition seemed a little more 'clunky' from what I read, and I was after something a little more abstract. In my reading, however, I came across the 3rd Edition of Epic, known as Epic 40k. Released back in 1997 (way before I joined the Hobby in 2010), from what I've read online, it was not very popul