The First Rumblings of Thunder

Striking into the Mortal Realms are the first members of my Stormhost, the Tempest’s Fury. These are Steelheart’s Champions from the Shadespire box. A lovely set of models, each one is a character in its on right and together they form an elite unit on the battlefield. Joining them will be the members of the … More The First Rumblings of Thunder

Progress

Haven’t had much painting time but did manage to squeeze in about an hour on the River Dragon The water effect on the base is almost finished. Another light blue wash is needed to tie the colours together. After that I plan to touch up the highlights but so far so good. Then it’s on … More Progress

Assembly complete

Stage one of the Centurion is complete. He’s fully assembled. I know a lot of people who paint models in sections before completely assembling them but I prefer to work on the whole piece. Two interesting things with this model though, the first is that Forgeworld are now moulding pegs onto the joints to allow … More Assembly complete

New Shinnies

I know I said in my last post that I would show off some finished Knights later in the day, but plans never survive first contact with the enemy unfortunately. That’s my way of saying that I got lazy on Saturday and didn’t paint anything. Anyway, today I got distracted by this showing up in … More New Shinnies

First Principles

Welcome to 6’s to Hit, my attempt at a semi-regular blog on my hobby activities. I hope to build this up over time to include articles on painting, game reports, reviews, background and opinions on all things hobby related. Firstly though I’d like to make it clear that the opinions expressed here are my own … More First Principles