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One year ago

Looking back at the blog, this time last year I was counting down the final 2 weeks until the Path to Terra campaign weekend. I was desperately trying to finish painting (and building!) my Dark Mechanicum forces for their first outing, in part 3 of Age of the Emperor. Many late nights paid off as the army was nominated for the best army award, something that really keeps my motivation alive. So much, that I took them again in part 4 and was nominated again!

Focus: sculpting and contests

I've been busying myself, thinking I could have crack at doing some complete miniature sculpts. Not only for my armies, but creating whole models for the ever-expanding miniature companies out there in our hobby. I've put my tendrils out to various small companies with offers of doing sample work and hunting down any contests on the radar as practice and challenges.

Heresy Goblins!

I've been keeping a watchful eye on Andy's progress with his latest goblins. Having started a Chaos Dwarf project, seeing the first few greens promptly made me decide to mark them up for use as hobgoblins. Looking half way between LOTR Orcs and GW Hobgoblins (but better than both in my mind), they really look the part.

There's loads of them too!

Check out the advanced orders over at Heresy and grab yourself some decent goblins.

One Knight Stands – short story

The Great Crusade recently held a short story fiction contest, for which I fell back upon the small bit of background about Imperial Knights to create my entry. I had great difficulty including a background section to give it context, whilst keeping within the 1,000 word limit, but here's the story:

My original submission:

ONE KNIGHT STANDS

Beardless Dwarf, no more!

A small update as I try to organise some more thought-out blog posts! After a good session of Blood Bowl with my local gamers, my friend shoved this Dwarf into my hand and sympathetically insisted I 'give him a beard'. So, here's a newly bearded Dwarf as part of my exercises to improve sculpting time and skill: