40K For the Win

Working on clearing off my Table of Shame, I decided to work on the Ork Bunker that I picked up a while back.

Hi Everyone! It's been a while, but here's my year in review! Lots of paint put down this year, and my first tournament victories in two years!


Here's the total count of miniatures:


Infantry: 165
Monsters: 2 (Thousand Sons Daemon Prince & Venomcrawler)
Tanks/Vehicles: 4 (Goliath, Two Chimeras, Tauros Venator)
Terrain: 12 distinct 'units' of things.

Here's a few of the best pictures from the year!

Tired of your boring old MDF buildings?

Just add decals!

Hi all! Long time no see! Summer is winding down, so naturally I'm racing to finish more than necessary.  With both Armies on Parade and Shorehammer coming up, I wanted to create a display board. Earlier this year, I completed a display board in a three day period for my friend. I did not hit that goal this time.

Howdy all,

I managed to get some Thursday evening gaming in at the local Damascus Powerfisters this last weekend and ran into a club friend - Dave. He knows my limits on spending this year, and offered a trade - The Chaos side of Shadowspear for a display board.

A sneak peak!

Howdy all! I recently picked up some scenery from Multiverse Gaming Terrain so that I could fill out the scenery on the desert industrial board. Here's my write up of the experience.

Twas the Night before Christmas,
and all through the house,
All the creatures were purging
and cleaning
Especially the future spouse
Away terrain
Away paint
Away miniatures so small
To hide until the Yuletide festivities
are past for all.

Santa's Helpers

Merry Christmas Eve & Happy Holidays! Here at the Blockade household, we've been especially busy with trees and decoration & baking. But this month has also seen a variety of event & future event planning & even some miniature painting!

Hi all!

Been a while since I posted, and wanted to show of what I've been doing. There was a local terrain competition at the nearby GW store the other day, and a hobby club friend was kind enough to 'donate' two boxes of material to the Tabor Warhammer League earlier last month, with the idea that it be used for the club. Two birds with one stone, so I set to work! Especially useful was the Sector Mechanicus NIB set. I've been meaning to replace some of my oldest work at the club (read as pieces that are about 5 years old now), so I set to work.

Greetings! Or should I say put on this hard hat?

While it says "Day 2" it should probably say entry #2, as this has been a multi-day project, but here's where we came from to where we are now. I'll add some tips/tricks about what I learned from this at the end. When last we left the project, we had four very cool pillars (that I could also use to create a vaguely water-world concept that seems to be percolating in my mind).

Hi all!

As usual, hobby ADD has struck, and while I was waiting for things on the martian board to move along (read, I haven't bought any sand, so I can't sand the board, also I need glue - where is my shopping list?), so I decided to get to work on this monster.

A few days a huge package came in the mail!

Yes - I was excited. Soon a delicious smell of burning mdf filled the room.

What is it, you ask? A Promethium Rig from a Kickstarter run by Wargame Model Mods, a British Company.

The focus of the kickstarter was to allow the founder to source sufficiently strong tubes to support a variety of projects. As with most MDF terrain, it is simple to build cube or rectangular shapes, but more organic shapes are difficult to form.

Hi all, Blockade here.

Other than that awesome intro Grenn Dal gave me, not much to say! I'm glad to be here, and I'm sure you'll get to know me in time. I wanted to start with this project I've been working on for the club.

Project Name: Martian Mining Board

Goal/Project Overview:

• Three 2x4 foot sections that are moderately modular. 
• Two hill sections and one flatter section with some moderate depressions carved out of them. 

•  4-6 larger machinery / mining / industrial pieces
• 4-6 smaller scatter terrain, LOS blocking or barricade style pieces. 

That's the goal at least. So far, here's what's complete.

With the wife out of town for a couple of days, I had a couple of evenings to myself to watch hockey and build up some terrain. I assembled all my kickstarter bundle from Death Ray Designs.

As predicted I started work on the barracks kit last night.  I got the basic building assembled and it is ready for the card details.

Last night I had some time to work on TGTP2016 (The Great Terrain Project of 2016 last time I write that out).  I finished up the bunker and worked on the cannon turret.

Last night I continued to work on The Great Terrain Project.  Tonight I worked on one of the bunkers.

 I spent some time this weekend finishing up my new rocky terrain.  I am very happy with how they turned out.