Here’s A Commission I Did For My Best Friend To Have On Her Desk At Work.

I made some huts and some towers from take out containers, popsicle sticks, paper towels, school glue, and leftover bits for my Mordheim board!

I found the first Warhammer thing I ever painted, these Eldar Warp Spiders, in 1995 or 1996. I didn’t even know what they were! I would get the 2nd edition 40k big box with the beloved mono pose space marines, space orks, and gretchin, as well as the ever infamous and tournament legal cardboard deff dred in 1997 which is when I consider my actual start in Warhammer. Here they are next to the last thing I painted for a competition, a Chaos Daemon Prince, in late 2024.

The Rogue Idol of Gork and Mork!! This one is so much fun to paint! It’s got all these embossed details because it’s supposed to be like a cave painting come to life, but it’s taken the cave with it.

And there they are, all five of my big Orcs and Goblins Forge World units. I have the smaller night goblin and orc warboss kits as well. I’ve show those if you go back and look at my blog!

I’m glad I have all of them properly based now!

An Amazon purchase, a 3D print that I painted up for our Lost Mines D&D 5E campaign. The second floor has an area for gaming (I decided) here you can see Texas Hold-Em, Roulette, and of course…. BLOOD BOWL!

And some more!

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

I try to post something every day. I have a lot of stuff to show everybody. Here’s today’s! This Orc Warboss that I converted/kitbashed after listening to the Misfits a lot about 10 years ago or so. I named him Grimghost the Black and his lore is that he’s the leader of a warband from Sylvania called Da Grave Eatas! The ghouls eat the corpses and the boys eat the ghouls! One day I’ll make a regiment for him.

Today is a little different, I want to talk about the secondary market. Because some friends of mine on discord were astonished at how much my empire units new in box cost and I want to elaborate more on making the best use of kits. Consider this part two of hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent.

You should have a healthy bits box at all times. You can have several of them. There are a lot of eBay listings for just piles of bits and unfinished minis that you can use to make bespoke Warhammer minis out of just spare parts from multiple kits. Kitbashing is not a revelation, it even predates wargames as it’s a carry over from model railroad hobbyists. But you should buy listings of random bits because you can get some fantastic parts from kits you weren’t thinking of getting for incredible prices.

The re release of these old Warhammer kits comes with a lot of great bits for conversions, I think they really are worth more than people are thinking they are!

The main thing I want to talk about though is how to exploit the chud cycle to maximize your hobby hauls. I won’t get super political in this post because it’s not really what it’s about. But there is a cycle where really negative dudes get into the hobby through a video game like space marine 2 or a lore channel and buy a lot of minis. Then they get upset about how modern games workshop, a multi billion dollar company, has gone woke or whatever. Then they go farther back into earlier editions to try to escape whatever it is they don’t like, only to find that the satire is stronger the farther back they go. A lot of these guys putt around for a while and then give up and sell their armies for really cheap on eBay and Facebook marketplace. A lot of them are willing to haggle.

That isn’t political, it’s economical.

Neither is the satisfaction I get when these guys tell me I don’t belong in the hobby and I show them my armies I’ve painted over almost 30 years.

Take advantage of the deals!

Chorf! Chorf! Chorf!

Miao Ying the Storm Dragon by DifmanM

My Blood Bowl teams! The Reikland Reavers in Blue and White and Gold, The Orcland Raiders in Oakland Raiders colors, and The Norsca Rampagers in Minnesota Golden Gopher colors!