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The News Stand: 24/07/2026

Summer is here, and so the cup doesn’t quite floweth over as everyone takes time out. However, there are still some great previews for all things Ultramodern this week, so read on for more!

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October 2022 Recap – So Much Stuff I Can’t Come Up With A Witty Title

02/11/2022

Dear god, where has the year gone? As an update, still fighting through the house shenanigans and waiting for some more paperwork to go through. That said, I’m still working to push forward, try out new things and keep on the grind for the old. I’m also feeling a little bit better about things in general – maybe its the tweak to my work week so I don’t spend it all by myself, maybe it’s that melancholic part of me that likes the colder days and listening to the rain coming down outside. Mostly because they give me an excuse…
SITREP: Painting 3D Printed Scenery

01/11/2022

One positive of tidying up in preparation to move house is going through my workshop/printing room and finding things I’ve 3D printed but haven’t yet had a chance to actually paint and get on the tabletop. Having owned a 3D printer for almost two years (that’s also concerning), I have had one or two things fall into this category. Looking for some easy wins, I dived in on these two projects I had discovered and quickly hammered them out. First up, we had these three Wood Elf monoliths from Last Sword Miniatures. These pieces were one of the things that…
Weekly Update 3 – The One Where I Paint Less Than Planned

30/10/2022

Another week, another update – this time some painted Spectre insurgents as well as a few other things being mentioned. And then Modern Warfare 2 came out and I was distracted!
Weekly Update 2 – The One With Dwarves

22/10/2022

We’re onto week 2 of the updates, keeping the Youtube gods happy but also letting you see just what I’ve been up to. Dwarf 3d prints and some stuff on the paint table finished off by picking up a new toy for helping to make these videos a little easier to watch. See you all next week for the next part!
General d’Armee in 28mm (Or Charge Plays Napoleonics and Likes It)

18/10/2022

I’ve never really been excited about playing big-battle Napoleonics. To be clear, I have no problem with the period. I enjoy Sharpe as much as any full-blooded Yorkshireman is required to, and I can be suitably wowed by a large-scale display of massed ranks on the field of battle (I’m not an unfeeling monster after all). The problem I have is three-fold. One, I don’t want to paint that many troops. Two, my knowledge of the period tactics and strategies isn’t anywhere close to things post the invention of bolt action rifles leaving me without the instinctive knowledge of what…
Weekly Update 1 – The One Where Charge Buys A FDM Printer

14/10/2022

To keep the YouTube machine happy (and because it seems a fun way to be on top of hobby blog things), I’ve started doing a weekly hobby update vlog. It’s low editing compared to my other videos but it does let me ramble on about all the things I’m up to. This week, lots of stuff on the FDM printer, with some other things scattered in there. Why not give it a watch and then like, comment and subscribe? Eurgh, that felt weird to say.
Magewinds

12/10/2022

Long ago, there was the source. From it flowed all magic. Its mages were called sorcerers, and they guarded their power jealously. For with it, they dominated all things. The empire of sorcery ruled over the entire continent. Yet in time all empires fall. – The source was shattered, From it came the Tempest, and from the Tempest came the Winds. Now the Winds have made mages of us all. So begins the website for Magewinds, a miniatures agnostic fantasy warband game made by my friend Rachel where everyone is a mage. Designed to be easy to pick up, quick…
October 2022 Patreon Update – Time For Spooky Season

06/10/2022

Let’s do a little round-up of the Patreons I’m currently backing that play into. I’d usually include this in my main update post but frankly, it keeps getting longer and longer to the point where it overwhelmed the main update. By putting it in its own post (and delaying it a few days), it means I can hit the update cycle of most of the Patreons I follow. Spectre’s Patreon continues to provide some very nice models, although at maybe the not best value proposition. The terrain STL includes some updates to previously construction materials, including some truly massive pipe…