Beards for the Beard God: Marauder Miniatures Dwarf Slayers

It should come as no surprise, gentle reader, that in a mountain riddled with delvings and workings, tunnels and pits, there dwell beings of a certain truncated nature, commonly known for their stereotypical love of gold, and their propensity for hirsute pursuits. I speak of course, of the Dwarf. A common staple of heroic fantasy, …

The Ranks Expand: Marauder Dark Elves

Just a quick shot to prove to Her Upstairs that the scribe does indeed work through the old backlog as well as adding to it: A WIP shot of 5 shiny shields, and also evidence that circular bases allow Marauder Dark Elves to form ranks. The thought occurs that placing the officer miniatures on 'Pride …

PBS1 Skeleton Horde: the archetypal plastic animated bone-men

There comes a time in every young scriveners life when he finds himself at a loss of what to do on a sunday afternoon in the mid-1980s. If you are one of these young fellows, then this article will hopefully guide you towards a fulfilling and constructive exercise that can easily be carried out with …

The Philosophy of the Dark Elf (Or Don’t Go In There, there’s two of them…)

Following on from the Eternal Elf , this weary wanderer on the Pewter Road has turned his thoughts once more to Dark Elves, specifically of the Marauder variety One might not go far wrong if one was to conjecture that the Marauder Dark Elf range appears to have been at least in part influenced by Ancient …

The Eternal Elf

Age of Sigmar is change. Change is often bad. But with Age of Sigmar came the idea of 32mm round bases under fantasy figures, and that, it transpires, is actually good. Witness this: A classic pose of indomitable strength and justified arrogance, multiplied tenfold by the majesty of the new large base. Truly he stands …

The Bilious Vomitings of an Infectious Hobby – Now with added Vomit.

In an offshoot of the tunnels beneath the Lead Mountain, there is a place where the walls drip with mucus, flies buzz, and corpulent little daemons chitter and giggle in the darkness. Here, it is Grandfather Nurgle who holds court. Long days past, the suppurating hordes of the Plague God would shamble out across the …

And so it begins….

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, the Lead Mountain Widow, destined to wear the be-jewelled battle-crown of playing second fiddle to a pile of little lead men upon a troubled brow. It is I, her chronicler, …

The Sanctioned Operative: Dark Future in the Gaslands.

Gaslands is a recent Osprey 'blue book' about autovehicular combat. There is more to be said of it at a later date, but for now here is the first car to be completed (after a fashion) of this particular Warrior of Text-Tarmac: The 'Nola Gay, vehicle of choice of the Sanctioned Operative Redd Harvest, from …

On the savagery and excessive height of the elf: The Widows Gaze, a review/comparison of Rune Wars DeepWood Elves and Shieldwolf Shieldmaidens

Rumour abounds among the deep delvings that a new fantasy mass battle game slouches towards the Lead Mountain. The rough beast in question hails from the Osprey stable, and has sprung forth from the busy quill of that stalwart scrivener Joseph A. Mcullough, (who blogs here), able progenitor of the canticles of Frostgrave. The name …

Krakon Games ‘Fomorian’ under the Widow’s Gaze: A review.

Many and multifarious are the miniature ranges that gather in the dark and boggy places of the Lead Mountain, and eventually the baleful eyes of the Widow will fall upon them all. Krakon Games * is the gibbering mud-spattered mind-spawn of Ross Whitehorn, who is on a sworn crusade to create as many strange and gribbly …

Goblin Knight Chariots: The Doomguard Cometh

After a flurry of rapid paint application to disguise new and suspiciously shiny metal from the penetrating gaze of the Widow, the Knightly Goblins (who ride under the Nom De Guerre of The Doomguard) have recently expanded their ranks. Like the beam of a warships searchlight, her roving eyes move on, unsuspecting. There will be …

Constructing Khinerai: Daughters of Khaine ‘Harpy’ Dark Elves

The Lead Widow's Mountain is generally miniature and system agnostic*. If a range or game has ever struck the fancy of the scribe, then nothing can prevent it from becoming part of the mouldering mounds of incomplete projects, not war, death, famine, fire, or the towering fury of the incomprehensibly vast arachnid in her lair. …

Ranking up: Elves’ rock.

The newest addition to the servants of Khaine, god of murder, is the Regiment Leader from Marauder MB3. Suddenly inspired to raise the level of the second rank of miniatures in the nascent unit, it did not take long for a good rummage through the spoil heaps of abandoned (nay, merely pending) projects to find …

Mustering Giants: Anti-Heroes test the light

Today a weary messenger approached the glooming pillar of cyclopean dread where the Lead Widow makes her lair. Steadfast 'neath her withersome gaze, this stalwart hero in red caparison rendered unto the scribe a package wrapped in gleaming oilskin. Scuttling back to his hidden safehold deep in the guts of the mountain, our intrepid scribbler …

The Ride of the Doomguard

Having established that models the scribe had a hand in sculpting do not count towards the expansion of the Lead Mountain, herein is presented for your perusal the first painted example of a Goblin Knight War Chariot, ready to mow down foes, or possibly come a cropper on one of those rather unfortunate boulders... Rather …

How to grow the mountain under the guise of ‘business’ or ‘work’.

Even back when the Mountain was but a molehill, the young Scrivener was an avid accumulator of lead (and back then it really was lead) who purchased miniatures with no further rhyme nor reason than the rule of cool. If it looked good, it went on to the pile (Although as it was the 1980s, …