Rab's Geekly Digest

As we come to the close of Orktober, I find that trying to batch paint hasn't quite worked out, for the month-long painting challenge at...

My wife had some of her friends round last night, so I escaped to my painting desk in the cellar and splashed a bit more paint around. ...

My ork horde is slowly getting itself battle-ready, with a little help from a couple of hours in front of the telly. Not ideal lighting for ...

The overlap between oldhammer and being (or expecting to be soon) a parent of young children was pretty clearly shown yesterday when I poste...

No matter what I've tried, I just haven't been able to get back into the painting groove  since Dad's funeral back in February, ...

Mini-Rab #1 had just started at a new school and, as a way of getting to know the other kids, has joined almost every club going - a bit lik...

Caprids - capra sapiens +++ Almost indistinguishable from the abhuman homo sapiens variatus  (the "beastmen"), Administratum r...

Normally I'm a pretty slow painter. I take ages to get the basics done on a figure, then get frustrated at how long it's taking and ...

Ahead of tonight's OGRE games of Necromunda, I've got my Guilder gang finished and based - and even with one spare ganger ready to s...

Dean inhaled deeply and appreciatively, rolling the smoke around his mouth before exhaling gently and regarding the glowing tip of his cigar...

Luthor caught sight of himself in the mirror and raised an appreciative eyebrow; all his items of clothing clashed with at least one other p...

Before the incident with the fungus harvester, Gregor had been regularly mocked and knocked around because of his diminutive stature. Since ...

Lefty sucked habitually at his prominent overbite and sighed. "A straightforward job" the boss had said. "Quick and easy...

Inspired by the second Oldhammer Forum (link on the right) legacy project which has just gone live, I dug out the Metal Magic figures I'...

One of the more interesting, and frankly unexpected, outcomes from the resurgence of interest in scenario-based fantasy and sci-fi gaming ...

That lovely man, Doug, from em4 miniatures has been slaving away over hot moulds to return the sadly departed Spacelords range into active ...

Several of you, dear readers, may be well aware of the (mostly) excellent line of miniatures that formed the Metal Magic  Spacelords line. S...

Having come up with a framework to create a random Sanctioned Privateer and his Crew, I had to give it a go. So, after a couple of tweaks (I...

Like I said in my previous post, game reports and nice miniatures were a big draw to get me to start some science fiction gaming. And, befor...

It was only a matter of time. Posts like this , this , and this  have broken my notoriously weak willpower. So, just when I seemed to be sca...