The Masterwork Guild

Fictional Wargaming and Roleplaying in miniature. Lots of Love here for 80's Citadel Miniatures. This blog is called The Masterwork Guild, after the D&D [Dungeons and Dragons] 'Masterwork' prefix to denote items of exceptional quality. Pretentious or what!

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Matt said...: Nice old school skin tones.; May 11, 2013 6:09 pm

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Jaeckel Alone

2024 has been a shitty year for many reasons. I lost a very close family member, then had a stupid accident that kept me away from the paintbrushes for s...
Stahly's Tale of Painters

On today's blog post, I'll share pictures of my finished Blood Angels Death Company Dreadnought, check out how he did in a recent battle and there's a re...
Snickit's Tail........................

It was Dwarf Month over on the 4th Edition Warhammer Facebook Group up until a couple of days ago so I did some up to date photographs of my Imperial Dwa...
Din of Battle

This is a guest blog post written by *Bruce Pettipas* of his two Vauban's Wars games he ran at Fall-In 2024. This was the first time that I heard of the ...
Warhammer Armies Project

As I mentioned on Patreon, this is not a huge update, mainly focused on adding more magic items as well as a few minor tweaks here and there. Reavers are...
Mr Saturday's Mumblings

It's been quiet on the Mumblings of late. I've been deep in the mud of Cyst, the setting for the eccentric, delightful game; Turnip28. A dystopian Napol...
Somewhere the tea's getting cold...

Happy Halloween - or at least it would have been if I'd gotten this post out on time! Read more »
Tales From the Big Board

An Ultramarines task force rides out to strike terror into the hearts of the Emperors's foes. At enfilade this year, I picked up a copy of the old Space Ma...
The Realm of Zhu

Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath ins...
Bleaseworld

Last month Phil organised a *Chain of Command* *Operation Seelöwe* game for Jen, Jim, Andy and myself, with the Fallschirmjäger (commanded by Andy and Ji...
Realms of Chaos

Hi, two weeks ago with Slaanesh_Child and I, we played the four last battles of the campaign started in February this year. A great campaign finish with ...
the leadpile

Having been bitten by the Warhammer the Old World bug I decided I needed to move on from my two Chaos armies. I found myself coming up with more and mor...
Rogue Heresy

Hello, it feels like I haven't post ages so I had to pull my finger out and get this one finished, my Flesh Tearers Space Marines project was back on the...
Port Imperiale

If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you'll know I'm probably one of the most pointlessly contrary gamers out there. I'm drawn to unloved a...
Oldenhammer in Toronto

I've always loved Rogue Trader, but the impetus for my recent push to paint all of Citadel's RT601 Adventurers was the publication of Joseph McCullogh's...
Gunfreaks Apartment of war

Since my wargaming hobby has taken a back(far back) seat to my simming hobby, I've gone from reading books about the Napoleonic wars etc. To listening t...
Blue's Marauding Miniatures

For my January submission to the Call of the Crown painting challenge I have produced a unit of 15 Reiksguard knights to act as the elite heavily armore...
THREE FLIES FOR NURGLE

Jasa Jual Tepal - Terpal dapat dibeli oleh peternak dari toko peralatan bangunan, tetapi toko ini biasanya tidak menyediakan terpal dalam gulungan penuh,...
Oldhammer on a budget

Welcome ladies and gents to the start of a random project that I didn't even know I was going to do until the end of last week. So really there is li...
Too Much Lead
Goblin Lee's Miniatures Blog.

A little conversion and paint job (if you excuse the pun!) . I had a spare Citadel Gnome miniature from the C33 Mounted Adventurers range, but with no pony...
Diary of a Lapsed Painter

This is an awareness raising post. So before I started writing this I did a Google and this petition came up, and is still live. http://chng.it/byjt24cWvx...
Old Orcs Never Die...

The great mountains surrounding the empire of men are full of fierce monsters, goblinoids of all sorts and bitter weather. Few men choose to live under such...
Figures by Faust

You can read the news of this here: http://brinkofbattle.blogspot.com/2019/12/permanent-price-reduction-announcement_7.html
Stone Cold Lead

Been a while and only a few spam casino comments to delete over all those months. Anyway, I painted something for myself at last so here it is. Three Alter...
Wargames & Stuff

I'm starting to feel like the more productive I get with hobby projects, the worse I get at updating this blog. I've actually been pretty busy with paint...
Dante's Game

Attended Coldwars 2019 on Saturday, March 16. Only got the chance to play in one game, Sky Galleons of Mars. A British punitive expideition against the H...
Realm of Chaos: An 80s Warhammer Enthusiast Blog

There was some talk online last week about how to best construct the wings for the famous Great Spined Dragon by Nicky Bibby. Some suggested PVA soaked ...
Belched from the Depths

Sharing another WIP project here. When my local historical club embarked on a group Wars of the Roses project last summer, I threw in. I'd already had fig...
Lead Addict

Here's a quick post holiday break update on my efforts. Since I am usually of a 1 track mind when I am painting I continue to hammer out the High Elves for...
Beholder Pie

Click to make big My final draft design of Camp Righteous and the House of the Crocodile, developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation".
Kings Miniatures

AD&D Blink Dogs This month I have been entirely focused on sorting through my storage and rebasing all my figures to Renedra 25mm bases. Boring stuff. ...
Trailape's Wargame

Hi Team It's been a few months since I played a game of BLUCHER so Rowan and I decided to have another game. We settled on 250 points each and Rowan comman...
Tales from the Maelstrom

Way back in pre-history (1986), a 13 year old version of me started a Warhammer Norse army. I bought it one blister at a time, using the money I earned fr...
Realm of Citadel - Slave to the Lead

A seriously chaotic miniature from the wonders of the Rogue Trader Era. Been drooling over this one since back in the days and now finally painted one! Ho...
Eldritch Epistles

I've made some progress on the Questoris Knight Magaera: ...and started another Forge World project, a Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank: These b...
Miniatures of Wrath

Howdie. So, over the past few months, I have been re-reading (or in the case for a handful, reading for the first time) the series of Battletech novels. I...
Hammer and Banner

*Preamble...* *Brighttower woke to the cold that chilled him to his bones. What was happening? Oh that’s right he was captured. With the full return of...
I Mostly Paint At Night...Mostly.

My ork force grows.
Lace 'n Big Hats

28mm Napoleonic British, French, Italian, Neopolitan casualties (Perry miniatures) They come in Perry plastic Napoleonic boxes. 28mm Napoleonic Briti...
Oldhammer In The New World

OLDHAMMER IN THE NEW WORLD PRESENTS Oldhammer In The NORTH We are finally going to have an event in the ‘New World’ Midwest! Pandemonium Games in Garden C...
The Wargaming Depot

I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked ...
Dice and Brush

So just a quickie today and an almost totally finished Retributor Prime. Did an small conversion on this one. I added a Tzaangor head from the Darkoth Chi...
The infrequent ramblings of a casual wargamer and hobbyist

Low and behold, the fledgling vanguard of my Hive Fleet; Spectre with around two hours of work put in using a fast wash approach. These will be used in my...
Handgrenadealiens Retro Dungeon.

It's been a bit of a slow year on the fantasy miniatures front but I have been busy games mastering a campaign based in a fantasy central asian setting whi...
Erny's place.

You nay have realised form the lack of posts that my painting and posting mojo really isn't where it once was. I am still enjoying gaming and honestly I do...
THE BLACK HOLE.

I have to bust this one out early as the rest of the month is jam-packed so it's now or never. I will go back to improve this one and pep the base up (will...
Napoleonic Adventures

Another unit for my Lion Rampant force. I painted these up as the retinue of the Duke of Lorraine, and are probably more uniform than they would be in actu...
Realms of Miniatures

Once in a while I try to play a game with the boys. I usually let them play a game of Heroquest or let them fight it out against a couple of monsters on a ...
Warhammer For Adults

Hi. Happy New Year, I guess. Better late than never. I mean, if you wait long enough, it will be a new year somewhere, right? Now that I think about it...
The Marienburg Gazette

I don't have any issue with the lack of points in Age of Sigmar. Others do. Such people comment that this means the game lacks 'balance'. But do points ...
Tabletop Heroes & Villains

Cheetor invited a group of us down to his place for a weekend of gaming down at his place. Amongst the games we played were the new Assassinorum: Execution...
Harry the Hammer

Oh my! Has it really been two years? Where did the time go. I know some of you have been worried that I have been trapped under a heavy object ... but no ....
Oldhammer

Is that model Oldhammer ? And this one? Every now and then the question comes back and while some will argue that the true proper "Oldhammer models" are ...
Ye Olde Skool Warhammer...

Unlike the "powers that be" at *GW *who erased Dwarf cavalry from *WHFB *very early in the game, I always liked the idea of the Dwarves having a small cava...
Bederken Miniatures

This blog is going down soon, maybe take a moment to update to the new www.darklinggames.blogspot.com? Go on, you will feel all organized and stuff. Do it...
FightingFantasist

Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
masterminis.net - where we learn to be a better painter!

*The Future of Games Workshop - Part 17: End Times* You can find part 17 of our epic series about the future of Games Workshop *on our new blog.*<< Clic...
Lead Legion Miniature Painting Services

Some of you are probably wondering why there hasn't been any updates on the website for a while? Well, it's because I'm winding down Lead Legion Painting S...
ilikepaintinglead

Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've completel...
Wargaming With Lead Ferrari's

Okay this mini is a bit special for me. Ever since I started playing Warhammer in the early 90s I always thought the giant scorpion mini was awesome. I on...
Oldhammer Generals

While this is not Oldhammer, it is a bit of retro gaming so it has found its way onto my blog! Been a very long time since I posted here so better this tha...
Devlanmud

In the way that I have way more hobby time than i have hobby funds, I've decided to sculpt a Hydra. I'm not a fan of either the old metal Dark Elf Hydra or...
Blogs of War

The League of Augsburg added.
Frontline Gamer

We all suffer from varying degrees of what psychoanalysts call "shiny toy syndrome" (it's not actually a condition in the DSM V, but it ...
Jon's wargames minis

If you frequent TMP much you'll have noticed that Kick-starters have taken off in a big way the last year or so. Up until now I have quite happily avoid th...
Mushroom Miniatures

warfairy.net is finally online and working with the first four 15mm fantasy products now available. Fairies and their juvenile siblings, the leaflets ...
10mm Napoleonics

Found this on Kickstarter the other day. While not in the block buster league of some of the projects (Reaper Bones for example), it seems a good value fo...
Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader Blog

The original cover to Brian Craig's novel. Not quite as bad as most of the truly appalling covers that the Black Library put out in the late '90s, early ...
Skarsnik And Old Lead

2 Citadel Giants! Wheeeeee! Here they are along with a slightly intimidated Marauder skeleton for scale. I'll stop now. I promise.
Paint Splats

In 1994 I was approached by Grendel (thanks Phil!) to nock up a few diorama pieces for the new magazine Anvil, to be produced in collaboration with Heartbr...
Another such victory

This is the 45th Regiment of foot. I have chosen it for no more cogent reason than its colour is green! It provdes the army with more variety, though adm...
Exiles Oldhammer Armies
The Closet Gamer