15 year blogiversary

Afternoon #Warhammer Community  I've been blogging for 15 years now!

That's right, 15 years! I've said many times over that I do the blog purely as a record of what I've achieved. A year ago I was commenting about numbers at 3.6 million views and now we approach 5 million. I said then I didn't hold any store by them, and I distrust them even more now. September was my best month ever but I've researched [Googled] how accurate Blogger's own counts are and it literally said they're bot and webcrawlers. So, no I have not had 1.4 million view in the last year. google analytics tells me I have had 16,000 'active' users and an 'event count' of 84,000. Not, 1.4 million but if I was so inclined 16,000 is still impressive.

If I'm not that fussed about numbers why do I go on about it? Well after 15 years you ask yourself how is this contributing to the community, particularly when blogging has far less appeal than YouTube or Instagram? Knowing blogger's 1.4 million views are unrepresentative of the real people who are actually  making the effort to follow your progress is grounding. But I think it does mean that more and more bots and crawlers are coming to the site. Which from what I can tell has made the site more popular for search engines. Whether this translates into the new world of AI search results who knows?

But the blog will continue and I think this is going to be a good year. The battle records manage to keep track of the games I've played. I regret they don't always capture some of the hilarious things that happen, or cool tactics. But, if I didn't do it this way I wouldn't be recording them at all and that would be an even greater travesty. So I'm already up on last year's post count and DreadTober has resulted in a wealth of hobby content. I'm just really glad I am still motivated to share what I'm doing and folk are still interested enough to drop in, read it and comment. Thanks for all your support.

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - Yellow and shading

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the eleventh of #DreadTober2025 and having met my Legio Gryphonicus Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan pledge I'm cracking on with my stretch goal Warlord titan.

And that's starting to look much better. The yellow and grey of Gryphonicus.

The coverage is insanely ugly, I just really hope that it works to my advantage when I try to create the mottled effect.

With some variation in tone already hopefully the shading and stippled highlights will create exactly what I'm after. It's amazing how little I recall of just doing this the other week!

And here we are with some Basilicanum Grey Contrast shading on the grey panels.

And Contrast Iyanden Yellow stippled on the yellow panels.

It's not the first time I've looked at that rich yellow and wished this was as dark as my yellow got. But I'll be adding a whole lot more brighter yellow highlights to it. It'll look great but I am going to miss this richness.

The guns and all the armour trim got shaded too. All the leg armour is glued on at this stage just so it's easier to paint. The carapace armour is separate as is attaching it to the base.

Only two days left and I doubt it will be finished by the end of DreadTober. Although these pics were from last Thursday and progress has been decent, my son is home this week and we're seeing Skindred tomorrow night. So hobby time has been tight. This one has been a little more challenging than the first one. So I don't want to push it. And lets not forget I have an additional 4 pair of weapons to complete. Although, it will be worth 18 points, 10 for the 'dread' sized model and 1 each for the additional weapons, as if they were 25mm based figures. 

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan - WHITE BACKGROUND PICS ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the tenth of #DreadTober2025 and just going to share my white background picture of my completed Legio Gryphonicus Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan. 

Not going to say a huge amount, I'll let the pics speak for themselves mostly.

As you can see I added a bit of blue [fer't Dad's] on the axes, to bring it back toward the official Iron Regent heraldry. I'm not entirely sure it's any better.

But the legs are my favourite element I think.

The void shield glow worked out really well too. Just some thinned Bahama Blue, then Nihilakh Oxide and then white.

Here we go, lets get the second wone done.

#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warlord Titan 2 - Basecoat armour plates

Afternoon #Warhammer Community it's the ninth of #DreadTober2025 and having met my Legio Gryphonicus Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Titan pledge I had lots to do to get my stretch goal Warlord titan up to speed. But the base itself needed doing so I got the old Red Planet BASE! 🔴 process going.

I know it's now more orange than red but I do love the colours. Still some scorch marks to enhance and bits of debris to differentiate but that'll do for now.

And that gets me the Great Big Chrome 'BASE' Stamp of Approval.

And starting to get the colours blocked in.

Once again that blue is really throwing things off. Luckily I looked back at some old Titan posts and it was a key concern back then and they look great now. 

I mean the orange doesn't do any favours but it'll be barely visible under the yellow.

It's still quite overwhelming at this stage. Despite how well the first Warlord went all the doubts come flooding back. Not to mention there are still questions about the silver and gold approaches I'll take.

But, with the first Warlord done I think I have more capacity to solve the problems. I don't think it'll be done befor ethe end of DreadTober, but it'll be pretty close. I think if the decals are done I'll be satisfied. Afterall, there 3 sets of weapon options for carapace and arms so this is a bit more effort than Warlord 1.

Battle record - 40k Tyranids Vs Ork Speeed Freeeaks - 23/10/25

I've been #PlayingWarhammer with a game of Warhammer 40k!We've been playing the darn game of 40k for 3 weeks now. Probably nine hours in already and although I was reluctant to finish it off we decided to.

We thought it'd be over pretty quick as we had very little left.

And then scenes of absolute dice chaos! 🎲

Three ones.

Followed immediately by three sixes and three threes.

Box cars when I absolutely needed it.

Box cars for Liam when he said he was going to 'roll like Dave'!

So we did have a lot of laughs at these insane dice rolls.

But despite some resurgence from the bugs, Old One Eye is an absolute must take. The Orks won the day. I think we had fun, but every unit feels like an unwelcome surprise when you come to use them. Again, rules were forgotten or overlooked and when you come back to them later in the game and realise it would have had an impact earlier on it just feels like you're stupid, rather than the game being overly complex. We not play again for a while but at least we had a laugh.

Meanwhile, Liam had been really busy at work so only had time to knock up a Vampire Counts army for Warcry! He's a nutter.

With an hour left in the evening he set up with Will for a 'quick game' but Will's Chaos Knights are absolutely rock solid. I'm sure we'll all end up playing it at some point. Might give me a reason to paint my Night Haunt... But I also have the Crimson Court too which I now have an idea of how I want to paint them, in a style very different to Liam's.