I realized this week that I totally failed to post pictures of the Knight General unit for the Empire from the Battle Masters game! I finished those in May 2024, but failed to post pictures... I have added them to the Empire Image Gallery. I also threw them into the Battle Masters gallery too.

Almost six years exactly since this project started and it's finally done! It's been my major focus since October 2019. Funny that it's not even nearly a full Warhammer Fantasy Old World army, but still it took so long! In any case, it is indeed finally done and the fully-painted bad based armies are ready to hit the battlefield. Check out the images in the Battle Masters Image Gallery.

Along with the Battle Masters gallery, I also added the figures to their respective army galleries, which in this case include the last unit of Chaos archers and beastment in the Warhammer Chaos Gallery and the final unit of goblins in the Warhammer Goblins Gallery. What's next though? Likely Bretonnians, or maybe I'll paint that mounted Chaos Sorcerer... we'll see.

Also, this year marks the 25th anniversary of this website. Back then I was painting a lot of Lord of the Rings miniatures, or I guess they're currently called the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game or whatever? Anyway, I feel like this site has persisted long after the relevance of websites and blogs ha waned to nothing, and the age of social media if firmly entrenched. I rarely post on social media either... in any case, I will continue probably for another 20 years, even though miniature painting and gaming isn't my primary focus these days.

Inspired by the Battle Masters figs I decided to paint another old Hero Quest figure, this time the Chaos Sorcerer from that game. It's a cheesy model, but I've grown to really appreciate it, and tried to do it justice. I also threw some paint on a single Chaos Knight to see how it would look in my pueple pumpkin colour scheme, and it's not a bad test model, but I'd likely do less purple and more complimentary colors, maybe oranges and browns.... and maybe rusted iron. In any case, check them out in the Chaos Image Gallery.

Next up are the last three units of Chaos from Battle masters: beastmen, archers, and one more unit of goblins!

I painted up the Reaper Pumpkin-headed knight that I bought the first moment I saw it but held on to it until just this year. It obviously fits amazingly well with my armies and my whole Halloween enthusiasm, so how could I not get it? Also, it's a large figure, so it fits with the more modern Age of Sigmar Warhammer vampires, which are quite large compared to regular humans in the Olrd World, so I wasn't sure I'd use it. But it is about the size of a modern Chaos Warrior from Age of Sigmar, so I decided it could be a giant vampire or a Chaos warrior representing the great pumpkin god of the warp! Check out the images in the Undead Image Gallery.

Okay the final unit from the Imperial Forces from Battle masters is complete, and for me it was a unit of Knights of the Realm, also fondly known as Bretonnians in our modern times. Bretonnians with feathered helmets I guess, but I'll field them with my Bretonnians! I'm pretty happy with them, I decided to do a shield image on the barding, which worked out pretty well, kinda mimicing the later Bretonnian knights that were scultped with shields on the barding. Anyway, check them out along with some scale comparison shots in the Bretonnian Image Gallery.

Also for posterity and completeness I added them to the Battle Masters Gallery along with their Battle Masters unit base. I will post a picture with all of the Empire units together, but probably not until I also finish the Chaos army in entirety.

I can't believe it's been almost ten years since I've painted any figures to my undead collection. There was a time when that army was the most important and expansive army I ever had... But I've been lost in Bretonnia and the Empire and Chaos and sports and D&D and Zombicide for the last ten years that I guess I just couldn't squeeze in the time. Anyway, the undead standard bearer is the latest addition, a figure I absolutely didn't need but just wanted to paint because I always admired it but never had it until now. I really thought this figure was the best figure I'd seen to date when it was released in 1997, and I still think it captures something that its descendants have yet to capture... Check out the images in the Undead Image Gallery.

For the second unit (of three) I decided to put in a little more effort and outdo the previous knights and I htink it went well. Inspired by the Swedish colours their shining barding is definitely a bright eye-catching contrast. I also took a picture of the knights along side some 5th edition Warhammer Bretonnians for scale comparison. Check out the images in the Bretonnian Image Gallery.

These ones I spent a lot of time on the shields, pants, and armour and I'm happy with how it turned out for sure. They look great, better than the previous unit I did, but will still look good beside them if I ever create a full unit of them for Old World or something... in any case, check out the images in the Warhammer Goblins Image Gallery.

This week in the Battle Masters gallery I've added two more units: the second unit of Imperial (Bretonnian) knights, and the second unit of Orcs. I spent a lot of effort on both making them look better than the first of each types of units. I'm pretty happy with the final result too! Check out the images in the Battle Masters Image Gallery.

These Chaos archers from Battle Masters are really Chaos Maruaders; back in that time the Chaos faction was made up of drop outs and derelicts of the human empires, and really modelled after punks from the punk rock era. That changed later when they reimagined Chaos as a Norse-inspired faction, which kinda makes sense when taken from the perspective of the Christians in Europe during the early middle ages. So before Chaos marauders were turned into shirtless, horn-helmeted, Viking-inpired warriors they wore mohawks and were also still mostly shirtless... Anyway, it was with the release of the new Darkoath Marauders that really that I decided to paint these archers for Battle Masters. Before that I was going to replace them with goblin archers... but then when GW went back to the punk-rock inspured mauraders with the release of the the latest AoS Darkoath faction I remembered how awesome punk-rock Chaos was and here we are! The next batch will have LGBTQ+ pride inspired hair. In the mean time, check out the images in the Warhammer Chaos Image Gallery.