What I painted in 2026

I don’t feel like I’ve done that much this month, the muse has been hard to entice.

I quickly knocked up half a dozen Wargames Atlantic Foot sergeants to have a game of ‘Great Helm’ (the game itself was … refreshing). Coloured primer, metal, flesh, leather, half arsed shield design, wash, done.

I spent more time on another couple of the Calabresi unit : the Lugo Mannaro and the Champion of Faith. 

I kitbashed this chaos spawn for the Mordheim event that I went to last month, but I left it at the club and forgpot about it for a couple of weeks. I should have taken lots of WIP photos, but I was caught up in the moment when making it. 

Finally, thanks to richsh, I had to get an Axel Tickelbrook for the Tiniest Headbone. I unashamedly copied their colour scheme, although I foolishly didn’t paint in sub assemblies. 

A month? Well, I have painted a few miniatures for my spring clean project.

As a palette cleaner I cracked open my Calabresi Unit for Silver Bayonet, picked 3 of them and added a Bad Squiddo mini.

Then I quickly painted these 3 for my first game of 1490 Doom. A confessor from the Sanctifiers kill team, Lyssa Revenya from the Saviours of Cinderfall box, and a Frostgrave cultist.

I wasn’t going for Don King with his possessed copy of the Queensbury rules when I started this Occult Investigator from Crooked Dice, but that’s where I ended up.

1. Gump for Moonstone. I was intimidated by this before I started but it was straightforward once I grasped the nettle.

An unnamed Judge from Citadels 1980s 2000AD range, doing the rounds of the city blocks.

I know judges normally have gloves on, but I just couldn’t see them on this sculpt.

A forgotten Newcastle celebration, that occurs on the 5th Sunday of Lent, remembering when the starving citizens of the under siege city got their hands on a cargo of carlin peas.

Carlin Sunday 2026

Anyway, these minis have nothing to do with that. A couple of were jackals from Northstar’s Silver Bayonet range.

“They’ve all got it in for me”

The watchman from A Meridian miniatures Kickstarter and Pock from the Hexbane Hunters with a head swap.

Four wolves from Northstar. They seem a bit small but maybe I’m conditioned to think that all wolves are dire wolves.

Finally a Mystic from Northstar’s Stargrave range, my first attempt at a ‘synthwave’ painting scheme.

The background is from an old sci-fi coffee table art book that I inherited from my Dad.

This oldhammer Troll has been kicking around on my painting table for nearly 2 years. All of my painting this year so far has been aimed at clearing the minis cluttering up my shared work and hobby space.

Once he was done there was a lot of space on his base, so I filled it with a casualty from Ragnarok minis. I’m pretty sure if the hapless Viking has taken a blow from that hammer he’d be mush, so maybe the troll has spotted him on the ground and has wandered over for a snack?

A relative gave me a GW gift voucher a while back. I used it to buy some miniatures that I would never pay for myself: the House Grim Military Attaché.

Honestly, I think I could have painted him a bit better, but the detail was kinda of freaking me out.

He’s based an cobbles as I’m far more likely to use him as a Mordheim Captain than a Necromunda character. I think he gets away with it: nothing screams “Sci-fi” … except the tube coming out the side of the skull.

But, in keeping with my Guild of Ash, I magnetised his head so I could pop on a Genestealer Cult one.

I also painted up these Rotten Factory pieces. An Ostermarker paying his respects at a roadside shrine on the way to Mordheim.

This is a ‘Cultist tracker’ from Northstars Frostgrave range. I painted his warhound to use as a wolf last year sometime. I’ve nothing planned for him right now although he might make his way into a Mordheim warband somewhere down the line.

Talking of Mordheim…

Here’s my latest hero for my Ostermarker warband. He was promoted after my last game. It’s a Meridian Miniature from their Black Crab Necropolis Mercenary set.