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@Prince of Spires: I will, after I've finished a series of books here. Do not be shy of reminding me about it, should time drag out. Looking forward to read it! https://i.imgur.com/pv5vsqr.png Last Ride of False Prophet Yuzhadaraf Following the obliteration of an outmaneouvered Infernal Dwarf host o...

A new design a Regiments of Renown contest is up over on Oldhammer Forum, in case of interest. Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Rogue Trader entries are both fine. Check it out if this sounds fun!

https://i.imgur.com/vyDPNck.png Signpost In the grim darkness of the far future, man finds himself damned for missing a sign. It is said that the road to golden paradise is well signposted, but it is badly lit at night. Amid the soulcrushing misery that characterizes life for most people in the dou...

@Prince of Spries: Thanks! Great choice of gift there, especially for your youngest brother. I hope he enjoyed it. :) Paint Your Tools Being something of a handyman that people often turn to for help with simple manual labour, you could confidently classify me as a tool user. A colleague would rathe...

Being a summary of the most widely recognized formal period classification of Warhammer Fantasy Battles (WHFB) and Age of Sigmar (AoS), used for both forums and Facebook groups: - Editions 1-3 of WHFB are Oldhammer (1983-1992), roughly the era of Bryan Ansell. - Editions 4-8 of WHFB are Middlehammer...

@SpellArcher: Thanks! Interesting likeness there. https://i.imgur.com/TFIULTI.png Kislevite Tzar Guard V "Make a fool pray to the gods and they will smash their own forehead." - Kislevite proverb - - - https://i.imgur.com/Pjx1WTM.png Kislevite Tzar Guard VI "Curious Varvara had her no...

@SpellArcher: :lol: Amber Truthsayers https://i.imgur.com/QZpmdk9.jpg Original fan content As the people of Albion have little inhibitions about the human form, Amber wizards wear little to no clothing, a cloak of fur, and of course as their status of Truthsayer demands, much jewellery of magical or...

Chaos Dwarfs Online XXXIX is up now! Its theme is Boar and Bull Centaurs. Check it out, and all the prizes on offer.

Joke Piece on Subversion This fun thing emerged on Reddit. - - - https://i.imgur.com/NLETtCf.png Into the Flames In the grim darkness of the far future, man leaves man to burn alive for his sins. Fire! Listen. The warning cry will send shivers down human spines, a portent of suffocating doom and he...

Wicker Man https://i.imgur.com/c5Oidfv.jpg Some souls never rest, and those whose fury rages from the beyond continues to do so in the mortal plane. Only the highest Truthsayer can beckon the bravest souls from their interdimensional home of the Isle of Wights to return. But they must have a vessel...

https://i.imgur.com/KBMTN34.png Discovery "Well I'll be damned! Did ya know this can opener fits on the end of a lasgun?" - Anecdote of an ignorant conscript discovering his bayonet, from Colonel Juanito Diaz' equally censored and celebrated memoirs Between Battle Drills, Bedsheets and Br...

Instructions for replicating the hats seen here, sculpted for a friend's Astro-Ungarian Imperial Army force in Warhammer 40'000.

Artisan's Contest XXXIV is up now!

Sponsored by Old School Miniatures! Check out the special prizes.

Design a 1980s style unit, for a chance to have John Pickford himself sculpt a chosen entry into miniature format for OSM's range.

@SpellArcher: Haha, well observed! @Prince of Spires: Thank you kindly! Very much so. I have never painted a standard size army in all my life. Not good at mass-painting, and the joy is in converting and painting a few pieces. :) Premier for Astro-Ungarian Infantry Conversions Lo and behold, ladies ...

https://i.imgur.com/EOIXm3e.png Labour Camp In the grim darkness of the far future, man buckles under the yoke. Come and see! Come, fellow human, and see the circus of depravity and destitution which our species has been reduced to, at the brink of doomsday. Shy not away, and close not your eyes, b...

https://i.imgur.com/Gy5arAR.png Xenocide "O, believers in the Enthroned Almighty! We shall hiss at the mention of the alien, as we shall gnash our teeth at its sighting. On countless worlds the human heart boils, sizzling and fierce with heated hate, so pure and just, divinely guided, holy ven...

@Olthannon: Thank you most kindly! I'm practicing with backgrounds all the time, since it's something I'm a raw amateur at. Good to know it worked.



Kislev Tzar Guard IV

"One cannot have two deaths, but you cannot avoid one."

- Kislevite proverb

Taken from this lecture by Jennifer Mace (part 2 of a 2-part series on ancient Greek art): Here is a chart with human proportions, ranging from the normal through the idealistic to the heroic. Sharing here in case it might help anyone out there drawing or converting, given that heroic proportions is...

@SpellArcher: Aye, indeed!



Scribe's Contest XIII is up now! Its theme being a Chaos Dwarfs in Blood Bowl writing competition, with a 30-500 word limit. Plenty of miniature prizes on offer. Check it out!

https://i.imgur.com/9a7mrwa.png Untangled It was in that moment when Yehunnas Moltkesson realized that he had forgotten which tree he had climbed before cutting loose the tangled branches. - - - Based on a real logging event which occurred decades ago for my maternal grandfather (93 years old at th...

Lothern Infiltrator 00L https://i.imgur.com/6hcntFm.png https://i.imgur.com/4HwgxAX.png https://i.imgur.com/h4bR4pM.png Flaming light flickered between colonnaded shadows. The ruddy light was cast not only by torches and braziers, for it emanated also from molten metal, ensorcelled lava and far wor...

Original thread start from here . First post is copy-paste, the rest will be running updates. Welcome! This is the log where I'll post anything which I've converted and/or painted for others. Most of my hobby work is not done for my own armies, but rather for my brother's and our friends' collectio...

Some creations of mine and various friends on a survival Realm server (Java edition) after a recent lengthy bout of activity: https://i.imgur.com/h1TZfuU.png https://i.imgur.com/dPbzZQz.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xO6LFMg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pW9nyX1.png https://i.imgur.com/CoDny9V.jpg https://i.imgu...

https://i.imgur.com/8zEPgtH.png Lay of the Ivari Bailif "Ack! Let me record the horror that's occured, all due to a foreign master's accent, 't was during Dorntide and the ash dunes lay still, when a bailif from Hive Ivar rode into our ville. And the knees trembled like rattles on us all, for ...

Here is a translation of a Swedish song from 2016, on the topic of the national speech defect known as the Danish language. ;) 40k version can be found here . https://i.imgur.com/AIWgshp.jpg Woodcut by Olaus Magnus. Lay of the Danish Bailif By Ola Aurell Ack! Let me record the horror that happened, ...

https://i.imgur.com/QKmz7Fy.png Pure Human Form In the grim darkness of the far future, man slays man for his foul body. Sing, o woman, of her fair visage! Sing, o man, of his handsome features! Sing us a song of the beauty inherent in the human species. Sing of the youthful splendour without blemi...

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Fri Dec 31, 2021 6:52 pm

This rings a bell, documented by Anna Comnena I believe? Must've hurt, so soon after Manzikert.

Spot on!

Golden Hat XXXVIII is up now! With a complete flurry of prizes: https://i.imgur.com/qYxHX4A.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QzwEuEC.jpg https://i.imgur.com/an810XN.png https://i.imgur.com/mHLHOiT.png https://i.imgur.com/H6WNuvx.png https://i.imgur.com/Cbd3W7q.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mXXqn2Y.jpg

As you can see here over on the new forum the Warp Storm , this site is hosting an event where you have a chance to win vouchers from Element Games. Here are the most relevant parts of the announcement, but you can find it in full through the link Entry requirements are nice and easy: simply reply t...

@SpellArcher: Oh yes, the original Varangians were Swedish Vikings, from the eastern coast of Uppland (the landscape north of Stockholm). The coastal regions there are still called Roslagen, meaning "rowing teams", from which Rus and thus Russia is derived. The Rus were Swedish Vikings inv...