Bryan Ansell - The Mighty Dark Winged Avenging Lord of Chaos - BOYL edition

 

Hey there, here's a bot of a special one today !

People familiar with the Oldhammer scene will probably be familiar with Bryan Ansell who founded Citadel, bought Games workshop and propelled the whole warhammer universe into this compelling mammoth that's been part of my life and many others' for ages.

Civilians and sci-fi NPC's

Alright, throughout the heat waves and some house works, I've been following my quest to get as much terrain and as many NPC's done to get more options in my games.

So here's a batch with several nice models I've amassed over the years.

Even more Sci-fi Terrain : tables and furniture !

 

Hey everyone, so today is yet another batch of scatter terrain, I promise I'm gonna paint something else soon but this is clearing the desk and my mental space plus it's extremely motivating because of how much better my tables are gonna look !

More Sci-Fi terrain - Boxes and crates

 

Hey all, so I'm still in my terrain phase, painting a fistful of scatter every other group of miniatures to slowly but surely up my scenery stock. This time is clearly not the most fascinating jaw dropping  batch sinc its all just crates and boxes but I know those really blend builings into their surroundings, fill empty area on a table and they make great visual focus points when your players are seeking treasures.

More Krogloggs !

 

Hey everyone ! So not so long ago, I painted a bunch of Krogloggs from Lead Adventure Miniatures's Astropolis range and I got the warm welcome and the joy I got painting them felt great so I went looking into the online store and found that there were a few of those I didn't have !

Plenty of SciFi Terrain !

 

Hey everyone ! Today's a bt of a photo dump of various terrain bits I've done over the past few months and have been amassing on my desk ! I've decided to make this year the one when I getmore scatter terrain and NPC's painted to fill my tables , trying to squeeze some of those every other project.

Pestigors and Shaman Foulhoof - Wharhammer Quest Darkwater

 

Hey all, Following the first 4 heroes, and the mire kelpies, I've got onto the next villains and boss I needed to start plating the game, namely the pestigors and the Shaman.

Krogloggs and Tweekies from Astropolis

Hey everyone, you might have experienced it yourself but sometimes some models just jump to the top of the queue without any warning. Well I've had those on the desk for literal years (actually 2 house moves) and just the other day I applied some base coat onto them and two sessions later they were done.

Mire Kelpies and tokens - Warhammer Quest Darkwater

 

Hey everyone !
Following the heroes I painted for Darkwater, here are the villains I need to play the tutorial before we can move onto the main quest !

The Four Starter Heroes - Warhammer Quest Darkwater

Hey all ! So after taking a little detour back to Blackstone Fortress (which I'm really glad I did since we've now played several games or it), I'm finally back on track with Darkwater !
Of course, 3 months later, ut is no longer the hot topic and the world has moved on with it but I'm not a trend chaser so I can live with that  fine.

Chaos Space Marines - Blackstone Fortress completed !

So with the release of warhammer Quest : Darkwater, my butterfly attention got back to Blackstone Fortress which we started playing with the kids. Having cleared a few runs, I could feel the impending need to have all the villains available soon.. Luckily, I only really had 3 left to do : the 2 chaos space marines and the chaos Lord Obsidius Mallex.

Exö-Squad Röknauts

 

Hey everyone, so you might have noticed I'm a huge fan of Röknauts from Ontos Games, and their latest project saw the arrival of a much anticipated troop type :

Now the thing is, Röknauts have got some some love from very talented painters I cannot possibly emulate, however, I'm having fun keeping my approach to them and I absolutely love seeing the force grow and seeing the project make a cohesive whole thanks to the impeccable artistic choices from Ontos.

As ever, the Rökthane is always a great piece of attention and Hurtzr Wârnug is no different from his brilliant counterparts.

Colour wise, I've kept the colours familiar, it's the green and yellow combo that was chosen by my brother Crooks for the Heavy Industrialist Union.

I love that this theme ties our little imaginary worlds.
Of course Hurtzr Wârnug had to bear a little resemblance to Werner Herzog so I kept the pale hair and tried to make his beard as luxurious as possible.
By the way, I think any dwarf enthusiast will agree the beard is the definite test when it comes to dwarves and the beard on this one is jus *chef's kiss* MWAH.

The Exö-squad comes with a new time of special weapon in the form of a sunstorm rifle which I painted like I usually paint my plasma weapons.

I'm also VERY glad Ontos did the work right  and gave one of the Silvrhand gauntlets a pointing finger pose because nothing's cooler than this if 2nd ed 40k has any place in your heart.
A little detail I aded is painting the loincloth in the same camo the other troopers wears as a reminder of their former squads (more than to actually camo their crotch).

Now although there are 2 body variants fro the trropers, I find the poses make for a smart array of combos with the way the heads turn

As you can see, the Exö-squad are quite chunky and imposing as befits their status, you really get that sense of indestructibility from them.

Now with so many Röknauts done now, I had to check and see how they looked together !

This is really shaping up as a great force and I'm really eager to see more of them in the (I hope near) future.
Now If I'm happing a few other space dwarves I have at hand, it's getting even better !

I couldn't resist testing some backgrounds and a little scenery do try some more atmospheric shots. For some reason the settings on my camera went funny and I only managed to get them back to normal after I was done so these are a little washed out but it's definitely given me the will do do plenty more !

Small Scale Scenery

 

Hey everyone ! 
So my son and I have had a few games of Flames of Orion now and we've found we're destroying more and more scenery as we play which is a good thing right ?

Rein and Raus - Blackstone Fortress

Hey all, so I recently got a box of the new Warhammer Quest : Darkwater like many I guess but that triggered a wave of guilt from the few models I had left unpainted for Blackstne Fortress. Since I'm easily influencable, I decided to just get them out and finally finish 100% of the heroes and later do the last 3 marines I needed to complete the whole set (and hopefully play some games)

Space Pirates !

 

Hey everyone ! Happy new year and best of everything for 2026 to you all !

2025 ended with a little group project with my friends and I decided to make it this particular band I've had in mind for a long time but only just finished now after starting it 2 years ago (see HERE).

Now since I wanted my band to be mostly made of overweight untrustworthy idiots, model selection was pretty fun.