Obligatory Warhammer World pictures and painting competition

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've still got loads of posts to try and cover but not enough time to do it. A little round up of our jaunt to Warhammer World the other week. Legally obliged to do the Rhino tank shot, this time at night as we were leaving.

I loved this Legions Imperialis/Adeptus Titanicus board.

As much as we do OK with what we've got for AT, this is awesome.

Playable, but also cinematic.

The Tyranid infestation beach is cool too.

The mix of Warhammer terrain and Lotus seed pods are great.

Mixing that old skool terrain scratchbuild with the plastic [and resin] pieces.

Goblin Town MESBG board. I mean it's awesome but it makes me laugh how the goblin's struggle if they don't start on the platforms. Climb tests just to get onto them and jump tests to get down.

I had a cappuccino and a Stroopwaffel for lunch, followed by a Philly Cheese Steak Baguette for tea. The steak was great.

Wow, this Norn conversion was stunning.

While this Norn was a feast for the eyes.

Red Scorpions

Grey Knights

Krieg

Imperial Knights

Whatever these new High Elves are called.

Tzeentch

This kitbash was insane

As you can see how the scale of it easily dwarves the Pegasus/Sphinx model on the left.

Old Skool Orcs and Goblins.

Not sure what these are but they look impressive altogether

A simple pallete with just a splash of flame.

Night Goblins in orange cloaks

Like Hallowe'en Gobbos - the Pumpkin Horde 🎃

Meanwhile in Warhammer Liverpool they had some new models on display.

I wonder what you could use this for in a Death Guard Army and who you could mount on it?

And their new paint display so you can see how all the Contrast paints work.

Death Guard - Myphitic Blight Hauler - Nearly done

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on a Death Guard Myphitic Blight Hauler. And wow, I love this. It's practically done at this point, I just need to base, varnish and add any glossy and gore FX.

But it's nice to have a record before I do all of that [SPOILER ALERT: raw unvarnished pics look better]

Everything about this thing is awesome. The fact it's £18.50 direct from GW. How easy to build it is. The paint job I coaxed out of it and its rules are absolutely fantastic too.

I like it so much I just got another one off ebay for £11.06! I need to get an 80mm base as well but have a unit of 2 will be cool.

I am considering doing the fleshy bits on the second one more like my Blood Bowl Rotspawn though. Whether that will stand out against the armour plates I'm not sure but it's worth a shot.

Then again, covering it in red if I don't like it isn't too difficult to do. The rust looks really great here. It's a mix of my Vallejo Rust Model Wash, Rust Orange pigment powder and even Dirty Down Rust [wherever it is yellow rust - the bottle has started to dry out and that was the best I could get from it].

The Cursed Verdigris 🗽 came out great too. It's such a contrast but it is weird to look at the previous post and see how brown it as and still have a little hankering for that true Grimdark aesthetic. The patination on the armour plates, with the subtle Blood Bowl decals look cool though.

The colours are much too bright in places here, which is what I love. But, just one day I'd like to do something truly horrifying that doesn't throw in some brightness. Another decal on the track guard. The one thing this is missing - numbers

Either a big one on a track guard, or some little ones on the weapon cowling. Nevermind, maybe try on the new one...

Death Guard Myphitic Blight Hauler

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on a Death Guard Myphitic Blight Hauler. I love these models. I think they're the best value items that Games Workshop sells - £18 for a chunky little tank that's easy to build. Anyway. These pics are from 28th May 2023!

What had happened was that my youngest [he was 17 at the time!] had shown an interest in 40k. Given how much I like this model and it's not too small, not too detailed with plenty of scope to make mistakes without issue we got him one. 

And, later on I got myself one and that weekend I decided to show him how to paint it, based on my own Death Guard. His is the one on the left and for a first go [not first painted miniature, he's done a couple at GW and Warhammerfest] it's quite good.

Now, we could leave this here, but I had intentions to go further. Except, he's never shown any interest in finishing his up. I had thought about sitting down one day and just doing mine in the hope he'd follow up. But I think he's lost interest.

Which means mine has been sat unfinished for nearly 3 years and for some reason [avoiding Capillary Towers] it appealed to me. I'd say there wasn't a lot left to do but I genuinely enjoy just putting washes on to make this grimy and decayed looking so there was a fair bit to do, because I wanted to.

And here we are with a lot of washes. Purple, green, sepia, red.

I was really pleased with the mottled green on the track guards. It looks very similar to the 'superglue' technique -without the risk of gluing my fingers together!

Now this is not finished. I need to do all the rust effects and paint the red bloated skin and all the pustules.

I also need to add some sand and weird growths on the base.

That said, I could really stop here and it would be pretty cool and grimdark.

But I just can't stop. Much like the orange missiles I'll just keep throwing more colour at this. Whether the result is better or worse I know I have not done enough to call it finished.

Regardless, I love it. I just wish my son had wanted to finish his off as having two of them finished would be so great.

'nids part 384 - Terrain is everything - 3D printed capillary towers - shade and BASE - TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on the 3D printed capillary towers. First up sepia washes, and you can see it has not gone well. My Vallejo dipping wash is behaving just like Seraphim Sepia. It's starting to do this more often now. But I was sure it wouldn't be a problem as the AP Strong Tone wash [Agrax colour] would cover the dried out powdery bits. Except I ran out of Strong Tone.

So my solution was to mix Dark Tone [black] with my sepia to give it the higher quality glossy finish. 

For the most part that worked. I was able to cover up most of the patchy bits.

But I definitely need to start making a list of paints I need as I keep forgetting. The I order something, throw in a few paints and then when it arrives I suddenly realise there were a couple more I needed. 

Oh, and I did the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 too.

Which secures me a Great Big Chrome 'BASE' Stamps of Approval.

'nids part 383 - Terrain is everything - 3D printed capillary towers - prime and basecolours

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer. I got these 3D printed capillary towers on the 6th September 2025, just 8 days after I published my TO LIST, at the time I talked about terrain and said:

I have some other 40k terrain to do which I would mention but as we don't play it seems misguided to allocate time and resource to it with so many other things [that equally we don't play with but y'know...?] to do.

And I think this was the terrain I wasn't planning to do, but here we are. As I look back at that list I realise how I have managed to ignore the vast majority of it and just do whatever the hell I want. But that is OK. It's only a guide afterall, but maybe I need to get back on track after these...

 I started with one of the medium sized towers. Primed it with Red Oxide and then used a yellow 'filler/primer' to try to smooth some of the print lines. But how drop dead gorgeous does that look? I think I need to invest in a yellow primer for when I do my Mechanicum.

Anyway, the print lines are still visible, apparently multiple coats of the filler/primer are more effective. But, I suspect this will be less noticeable when I do the actual aquamarine and turquoise striations as they will run in a different direction, causing a baffle effect 🤞

This is the first one. I know we just did Old Stuff Day but I can't help being reminded of Warhammer 39,999's own pre-dipping basecoats.

Anyway, they've all had Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Red on the fleshy bits. Bone colour on the bone bits and Bahama Blue craft acrylic on the chitin plates. Rest assured, this will be the 383rd time we have basecoated a project, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

So  much so I got the rest [mostly] basecoated.

However, it was at this stage I started to lose my mojo. Having just got it back with pushing the Osgiliath Terrain over the line I couldn't face the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Which is why I painted the Goblin Town goblin I shared yesterday. But that wasn't the only avoidance miniature. I had a few other things too that I used to distract me from getting these done.

#MESBG Middle Earth Goblin Town - Tha missing Goblin - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community Remember when I was missing Goblin Town Goblin? Well he's been sat basecoated since September/October last year. Having finished the ruins of Osgiliath I was supposed to get onto my Tyranid, which I was just about to link to a post and it turns out I haven't shared it 😲 Anyway, I'll get to that but I was clearly avoiding it and thought this little guy could get finished. I had half a mind to convert him to a 2-handed weapon, because that would be useful. But the pose is a little awkward for that. So I started to add all the red raw bits and got a bit carried away

So had to tone it back. Which is still good. You'll have to take my word for it but he does match very well to my existing goblins. Although, the base is a bit warmer looking because I used VGC Leather Brown for the highlights

Close up this looks awful, but luckily from a distance 'table-top' ready is pretty cool. All the washes, the purple, red, brown, green and grey from the prime help give the skin a mottled translucent colour. I do love these little guys so I'm glad he's finished.

I didn't feel right just giving this the usual stamp, so instead it gets the Great Big MINOR Chrome Stamp of Approval worth 1 point. This brings me up to 187 points for the season so far.