Thursday, October 20, 2016

SHOWCASE: Featured on Tale of Painters blog!


It's been a while since I had the time to contribute, but my close combat terminators were featured on the world famous Tale of Painters blog.

-trip

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

3rd Anniversary and 200K views!


During our down time, the Hammer's 3rd birthday silently came and went last month, but the views keep piling up!

We want to say, "thank you" to everyone who visits and comments. We hope our articles are informative, helpful and inspirational. And although it's been a while since we've posted regularly, we're not down for the count - in fact, I've just recently dusted off my hobby table...

- trip & deet

Monday, June 20, 2016

WIP: Alpha Legion- Knocking the Dust Off



Finally found some inspiration to break out the brushes after a long time off. Hooked up the airbrush and booth and batch painted up some bare heads for my troops.

I'm definitely rusty. A couple of the heads are coming out pretty well, but the others...yeesh. Bare human heads have never been my strength. I've got my best attempts and maybe my worst, both in this batch. The Vallejo skin tone set is a nice addition though. I think I'll get better results moving forward.

Where you at, Trip? Let's fire this thing back up!
~Deet

Thursday, May 12, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENT: On Hiatus



You may have noticed we've been a little... absent lately. Yup. That happened. Trip's got a new job, I've got a new house with a wicked commute, it's all conspiring against our regular twice-weekly posting regimen. We've thought about shutting it down, but I think we both still enjoy the hobby and posting about it. For the time being, just consider us to be on hiatus and we'll get posts up if and when we've got something meaningful to say.

Hope you're all doing great, and we'll look forward to talking Little Plastic Men with you in the near future.

~Deet

Thursday, April 21, 2016

TRAVEL: Stockholm


Was incredibly lucky to get to travel to Stockholm for work this week. Beautiful city, and at least one fantastic game store!

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

WIP: The Emperor's Champion Kitbash


Made a kitbashed version of the Emperor's Champion... and then realized he's only for Black Templars.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Thursday, March 24, 2016

WORKSPACE: Deet's Hobby Room 2.0 Is Born


It's got a long way to go before it's fully up and running, but I'm beyond excited to finally have a fully dedicated hobby space.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

TRAVEL: Hong Kong & Shanghai

Shanghai- 360 degrees of jam-packed humanity

Just returned from two sleepless weeks through Asia. Found a little hobby time anyway. Gotta love Asian hobby shops!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

WIP: Kitbashed Space Marine Chaplain


Created a custom chaplain so I could run the Battle Company formation. Details after the break.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

WIP: Bring on the Space Lizards!


I can't even field a full FOC of my last new army and I'm already on to another one. I'll get back to my Alphas shortly, but for a quick change of pace I'm breaking out the Space Lizards. Time to get my Seraphon on!

Thursday, January 28, 2016

WIP: Alpha Legion 'Fiend- Paint Finished


This has been another painfully long project, but the slog is finally coming to a close. The primary paint is complete. Now just have to paint up the base and do my weathering and I'm on to new units!

Thursday, January 21, 2016

WIP: Alpha Legion 'Fiend


I've put a lot of hours in to this guy. That metal alone has taken probably 20 hours between the black base, the metal, wash, touch up, and highlighting. IT'S DONE! Well, the metal is anyway. Now on to the fun parts.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

DISCUSSION: Start Collecting Sets- Who Got 'Em?


Between 40K and Sigmar, there's a frightening number of armies, all with unique and interesting models.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016