The Blacker Templar

Dakka Painting Challenge: Nitty Gritty Armor - The latest DPC has drawn to a close and all of the entries are up for judging! Head over to the voting thread and check out the fantastic entries, and let...

Paint Queek Cwossing - Skaven day! Yay! Saturday was the first major Skaven release since I started this crazy hobby, so I was somewhat thrilled. I bought pretty much one of e...

Playing catch up... - So, Im kinda in a gaming funk right now. I know what I should be working on, and I even have a system to make it easier... I should be working on all my va...

Goatboy's 40k Thoughts: What good are Thunder Wolves? - Goatboy here again - today I want to talk about Thunder Wolves and how I think they should be used and dealt with. Right now, people are talking about how ...

Republic Roman Army Project - Republican Rome Army Project – Wargames Factory birthed a thousand Roman armies from their $9.99 sale. I picked up 3 boxes – 150 Romans should be more tha...

Painter vs. Painter: Round 2 - Posted by Ron That's right, Round 2 has already begun. Since it was my turn to pick the models for this Round, I chose something completely different fro...

Reinforcements have arrived! ... sort of? - So about two months back I made a sizable order of WWII German Infantry to use in my Weird War II games. Despite having a bad reputation I still ordered fr...

Step-By-Step Dark Angels Dreadnought - Now I finally have a normal Dreadnought in addition to my Venerable Dreadnought. The prime difference between them is that this one's got options. The vene...

40K Grand Tournament Day 2 - Day 2 of the Warhammer 40K Grand Tournament quickly got underway following a ridiculously late night in Nottingham's Rock City followed by another fine ful...

My first Primarch - Completed - When I was approached in August to convert and paint a Fulgrim in the style of Chris Borer's Slayer Sword-winning entry from the 2007 Chicago Golden Demons...

Vraks PDF - Leman Russ Company Project cont. - Well, I've got the base coat and camouflage done on these beauties before I have had to return to work abroad (until just before Christmas!). This post was...

#031 - shadow of the horned rat - my first warhammer fantasy army, the skaven, have finally received a new armybook after being outstripped several times by other armies... and what an arm...

New Arrivals::: - 2 new arrivals after successful bids on the wonder that is EBay... first is one of 3 classic Ork Tinboyz... this is the Marine version, and there was also...

Winners of the Edge of Reality Miniature Contest - Well, it was a busy month with lots of votes but it has come to a close and it is now time to announce the winners of the Edge of Reality Miniature Contest...

BrushThralls.com :: Painting Horses - BrushThralls.com is proud to announce a new article by Mikael “mananarepublic” Astrom. Cavalry is an integral part of many tabletop games and sometimes fig...

For Sale (Pt 1) - Hi guys, So, I've finally reached the point where some of my wargaming stuff has to go. We live in a very small flat, and filling it with lots of wargame...

New Blog - New Terrain! - The future of Redemptors of Golinar is slightly up in the air at the moment. Scott Kroll from Citizen Nick Hobby Center, myself, a number of guys from our ...

Tutorial - Grechin to Grot - In celebration of the new IG codex it's time to start a rebel grot army! What can you do with that mountain of old useless 40k grechin? Give them a make-ov...

TUTORIAL - Chaos Bases - One fateful day, about two years ago, I picked up the recent copy of White Dwarf. In that issue was an article about creating Chaos World tables and terra...