"Bring Out Your Dead! " (Part 1)

Here is something odd I found on Temu: it's a classic Monty Python style dead cart. It looked like a fun model, and it was cheap, so I went ahead and ordered it. When it arrived I was pleased with how well it scales up with Warhammer Fantasy miniatures. 

It fits perfectly on a 40mm round base which means this will be suitable as an objective marker.  And that's as far as I have gotten with it, as it's just been a crazy summer here in Neverness Land. 

Hopefully I will make progress with this model soon. My immediate challenge is finding time to prime miniatures where the outside humidity won't be a problem. 

Knightly Order of the Blazing Sun (Part 4)

 And now for the 3rd unit of this Knightly Order: The Inner Circle Knights.  These guys are all the same but I am going to slightly alter some aspects of each one's paint scheme in an effort to inject a bit of individuality to each knight while also maintaining their unit conformity.  

I knew early on that I wanted to add stripes to this unit's lances. I knew I could simply do it by hand, but I wanted to experiment with a short cut. Enter 'art tape'. In the past I have mostly used this for making grids on a dry erase board for work, but I know some people that  have used it to masking their art. Typically you can find this product in art and office supply stores. 

It was not my original plan, but after I accidentally painted all of the Knights shields yellow, I decided to divide them with a black and yellow side. So my first use of this art tape was on these shields. And it worked out well. The only issue was user-error on my part by not getting the dividing line ust right, but I was able to fix this without much effort.

Next, the lances. This was a bit trickier as the tape seemed to want to fight me with regards to going onto the model. I found that the longer the piece, the better i was at getting it to stick. being conservative about how big a piece i needed was not a good idea. 

In fact i have once piece slide up as I was painting the black on. i caught in time so the damage was minimal. 

After touch-ups, I think this might work out 

I need to get the other three miniatures painted up this way, and work out a few other details and these guys will be done. 

Knightly Order of the Blazing Sun (Part 3)

 

Unit two ready for action.

I have set my sights on getting more units for this army completed. In particular the second group of Knights. I took a different approach with these models at the priming stage. Instead of painting the whole model white, I instead only painted the riders white and primed the steeds black.  I painted the areas I wanted to paint with Contrast Paints using Corax White. 

Primed black with areas picked out Contrast Paints.

Everything else pretty much follows the same steps that I used on the first unit which I go into detail about in Part 1 and Part 2. The exception being that the unit champion for this unit has yellow wing feathers and all of their lances are yellow instead of black.

A regal champ.

I gave these models a bit more grass tufts on their bases than the first unit and I also added some fallen leaves as well. 

Sally forth! 

On to the next unit! 

Stormweaver on Unicon (Part 2)

 Between all the other projects I have going on, I dabbled some more on this model. Here is the current work in progress from where we left it off in Part 1 up to the present. 

As I stated I would do in Part 1, green stuff was applied to the most grievous of gaps left over after assembly. Then it was mounted to it's base. For some reason, it's left letgs peg kept trying to pop out of the hole. This resulted in it appearing a bit more elevated than intended. 

I hid this weird feature with grit and rocks. And when the miniature is fully painted I will hide it more with grass tufts and leaves. 

I had one of those rocks form a kind of a ledge that I hid a skull under. I dig weird little details like this, as they hint at a bigger story or event  which might have happened beforehand.

So I primed the miniatures and was pleased that my green stuff work seems to have been a success. Then I painted up the base.  I used Skeleton Horde on the hooves and horn. Then I.... realized that I needed to figure out the unicorn's color scheme before I could continue further.  

Check back in Part 3 to see what I do next with this miniature. 

Something is Stirring in the Dark Lands

 

The forges have been reignited, acrid smoke billows into the foul air, and flying cattle take to the air. Yes, the Chaos Dwarfs have arrived to the Neverness Hobby Chronicle. 

A box 'o Chaos stunties.

...and they arrived all jumbled inside of a card box. I got these guys from a local shop (thanks Remington!) In the fall  of 2024 and it wasn't until the spring of this past year (2025) that I had the opportunity to strip off their paint. Unlike the dwarfs that I picked up in the  summer, of 2024,  simply painting over the existing paint was not an option for these guys. The existing paint was practically smothered onto them frosting over a lot of detals.  It would all need to be stripped off.

After a long and drawn out paint stripping process, that took up much of the later part of Spring and well into Summer of 2025, I was finally happy with the state of these guys. The first miniatures I stripped were the Hobgoblins. I wanted to ease into this army by focusing on the fodder units first. 

The first units completed were not part of this acquisition. The AOS Hobgrots were done as a sort of experiment which has led me to working on some of Hobgoblins included in this lot.  I got a Khan done as well.. The next unit for this army, the Black Orcs, were also picked up after the fact, but I felt they were necessary, and they have the bonus of being able to be used by my Ocs & Goblins as well. 

There are definitely some more old Chaos Dwarfs to be revealed from this haul and over the course of this year and beyond* I hope to finish and share them here when I do. 

*I would put your money on 'beyond'.

Stumped

Recently I decided that I wanted to add more woodland details to some of my miniatures.  That was when I remembered the stumps that Woodland Scenics made. For years, many years, I would see these things in hobby stores and model train shops and think about how they might work as basing material. Well, I think it's time to put them to the test. Of course, after seeing them for years in various hobby stores across the land, when I wanted to finally get a pack they were nowhere to be found. Luckily I found them on eBay for less than $20 after shipping. 

This pack contains a variety of pewter stumps in various sizes. They have stubs on the bottom to allow you to plug them into whatever material you were making your model out of. For the purposes of the wargaming hobbyist those studs fit near perfectly into the round mounting holes that a lot of 40mm (and larger) GW bases have. I did have to clip some of them down a bit though, as you can see in the pic below. And

These sexy minotaurs were more than gracious enough to model these stumps for us. Indeed, I think these will greatly enhance their bases to give them the impression that they are smashing out of an old woodland area. This helps fill out these bases with detail as these older models feel a bit small on these 50mm bases. But I really enjoy modeling up bases so this was kind of it's own reward for me. 

Of course they will work great with Wood Elves and forestry based Empire forces. Really any fantasy models now that I think of it. The next stage for these minotaurs is to enhance their bases further with rocks, fallen brush, dead leaves and even a corpse or two. And skulls, always skulls. These model will likely be covered in their own post thread as I begin focusing more on them and their beastmen ilk. Meanwhile, I think I might try to locate another pack or two of stumps to have on hand as I continue to work on more fantasy miniatures. 

Target Point

 Hello. I had this idea while playing a recent game with Rob. It was my dwarfs versus his goblins in a fight, to once again, save a village of cowering peasents.  It was during  one of the three turns that my dwarfs still had a cannon and I had to chose a target point for the shots. 

As illustrated in TOW BRB.

Typically we just use a die for the small marker, but I thought about the squashed goblin from the old 7tb edition WFB starter (Battle for Skull Pass) and how that thing would be perfect as a target marker. 

It just so happens that I have a few of these things, one of which had been painted by someone else. That was the one that I decided to try this idea out on. So I glued it to a 20mm base (I have a vast surplus of these things now so finding a use for just one felt like a win) and added some grit to it. 

Mounted and gritted 

Here is how I intend for this work; you point a corner in the direct that the shot is going in, drawing a line back towards the cannon. I used a laser line to illustrate this below. Also, I would treat the closest edge of the base to the target at the point to measure the bounce roll from. 

Follow the line.

I thought this worked out. So I proceeded to the next step which was priming the whole thing.

Primed. Or re-primed as the case might be.

Next I painted them. I used a combination of Foundation Paint, Contrast Paint and straight up Citadel Paint. And I think it turned out well. The next one I do might have some grass tufts added or he might even be in robes of a different color. I'm still mulling over that last idea though...

Basecoated.

After a few more minor highlights, this little model is now done. Hopefully so I will. E ablr to put this thing to the test in an upcoming game. 

Finished. Just like this gobo.