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Warcry – The Denizens of the Ruins pt. 2

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Carrying on with the Warcry blog week in conjunction with Hoist the Colours Models and Games (our FLGS) we will look at the Denizens of the Ruins! But first… What is Warcry I hear some of you cry!?

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Warcry is a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop.

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set plus the random beasts/monsters found in the core set, the second of these Denizens of the Ruins/Chaotic Beasts that we have tackled are the Raptoryx!

To represent the Eightpoint’s varied (and violent) wildlife, many Warcry battleplan twist cards bring chaotic beasts into your battles. At launch, there are two types of chaotic beast that show up in your games – the airborne daemons known as Furies (more about these in our last blog post), and mutant avians called Raptoryx.

This is an Advanced Level Commission completed at π•΄π–—π–”π–“π–˜π–π–šπ–‘π–‘ π•²π–†π–’π–Žπ–“π–Œ 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for the Warcry release, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Warcry – Denizens of the Ruins pt. 1

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Carrying on with the Warcry blog week in conjunction with Hoist the Colours Models and Games (our FLGS) we will look at the Denizens of the Ruins! beasts, but first… What is Warcry I hear some of you cry!?

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Warcry is a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop.

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set plus the random beasts/monsters found in the core set, the first of these Denizens of the Ruins/Chaotic Beasts that we have tackled are the Furies

To represent the Eightpoint’s varied (and violent) wildlife, many Warcry battleplan twist cards bring chaotic beasts into your battles. At launch, there are two types of chaotic beast that show up in your games – the airborne daemons known as Furies, and mutant avians called Raptoryx (more about the Raptoryx in the next blog post).

This is an Advanced Level Commission completed at π•΄π–—π–”π–“π–˜π–π–šπ–‘π–‘ π•²π–†π–’π–Žπ–“π–Œ 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for the Warcry release, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Warcry – Untamed Beasts

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So as I so kindly put it in our first Warcry blog post – Warcry – The Iron Golem… Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months you will have heard of Games Workshop’s latest offering for your tabletop…

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Warcry is a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop.

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set, the second to be completed by our team is the Untamed Beasts…

Hailing from the Jagged Savannah in Ghur, the Realm of Beasts, the Untamed Beasts are brutal warriors who eschew the trappings of civilisation. Capable of binding the spirits of beasts to their own through dark rituals, they possess preternatural strength and speed. Those warriors in the Eightpoints venerate Archaon as the Eater of Worlds, and long to join him in his great hunt. To them, Chaos is the Devourer of Existence – a rampaging apex predator from which there is no escape.

This is an Advanced Level Commission completed at π•΄π–—π–”π–“π–˜π–π–šπ–‘π–‘ π•²π–†π–’π–Žπ–“π–Œ 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for the Warcry release, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Rider’s of the Apocalypse pt. 2

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πŸ’€ Iron Within, Iron Without! – Rise of the Iron Warriors

So having sat down with the absolutely enormous box from Hoist the Colours – Models and Games I quickly realised that with 30 heretic astartes I needed some transport and a a hobbyist of some time I have many a box in the pile of shame/mountain of hobby and so I pulled out a rhino to transport some of the lucky Chaos Space Marines to the battlefield!

So this pile of hobby will soon be an Iron Warriors Army… But first a couple of quick conversions NOT in the current pledge…

Check back for more of my progress in a week or so! – The Iron Jarl

Warcry: The Iron Golem

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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months you will have heard of Games Workshop’s latest offering for your tabletop…

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Warcry is a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop.

Our Studio Team has been lucky enough to be given a commission by Hoist the Colours – Models & Games for the 2 warbands in the new Warcry Starter Set, the first to be completed by our team is the Iron Golem…

The Iron Golems hail from the Ferrium Mountains in Chamon, the Realm of Metal, where they harness raging magma-flows to forge their brutal weapons and armour. More than just warriors, the Iron Golem are superb smiths, believing flesh to be impermanent where metal is eternal. Those fighting in the Eightpoints hope to prove themselves to Archaon, aspiring to one day provide arms for his endless hordes.

This is an Advanced Level Commission completed at π•΄π–—π–”π–“π–˜π–π–šπ–‘π–‘ π•²π–†π–’π–Žπ–“π–Œ 𝕳𝕼 by our talented Studio Team. If you are interested in getting something painted by our team please drop us a message!

You will be able to see these on display at Hoist the Colours – Models & Games and they are your best local hobby store for the Warcry release, contact them to find out about their awesome discounts!

Riders of the Apocalypse 40k

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Apocalypse Unleashed – Hoist the Colours

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Hi, I’m the Iron Jarl at Ironskull Gaming. I was asked to join in a fun little Tale of 4 Gamers activity at my FLGS where we all would delve into a bit of Apocalypse fun with the launch of the new rule set by Games Workshop.

An avid fan of Warhammer 40,000 (40k) I usually do the loyalist forces so decided that I would go heretic and do a Chaos force.

Picking up a Chaos Detachment set from Hoist the Colours Games I just needed to decide what Legion I would do. I decided on Iron Warriors, firstly to pay homage to a project my Brother did in the early to mid 90’s which I thought was super cool, inspirational work by Christian Byrne in his Will of Iron series of White Dwarf articles and because of a good friend and ex-colleague Matt’s stunning 30k Iron Warriors army.

I will be posting lots of updates as this project progresses! Don’t forget to check out the latest deals on models for your army from:

Iron Jarl – out for now!

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Burton Sci-Fi and Fantasy Con 2019

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My local Games Workshop Stores (Burton and Derby) were in attendance at the Burton on Trent Sci-Fi and Fantasy Con 2019 so we popped along to take a look…

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Burton Library is a great, spacious and welcoming location with a cafe on hand and I am surprised that there haven’t been more events held there to be honest.

We had Local Cosplayers in attendance including Ginger Nutz Cosplay who dressed up as a Munitorum Priest from Warhammer 40,000 as well as authors, film extras and craft stalls. Games Workshop’s James and Chris ran introductory games for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar while talking about these emersive universes and handing out sample miniatures, a voucher for a painting lesson, invite to their Crusader Events and Samples of their new Warhammer Adventure Novels – City of Lifestone and Attack of the Necron.

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This was a great day out for all ages of Sci-Fi and Fantasy fans as you can see from the photographs by Danni Brooks Photography :-

Join us at next year’s event which the organisers have confirmed will be on 15/02/2020

Vulkan: Son of Nocturne

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Our Studio Team have completed another Primarch Commission, This time it is the Horus Heresy Vulkan Model that we are proud to showcase!

Primarch of the Salamanders Legion, Vulkan is a Perpetual making him essentially immortal. His homeworld of Nocturne suffered many raids from Drukhari Fleets which helped to hone him into the warrior leader of the Legion of Nocturne!

This commission has been completed to Advanced Level…

Scenery Commissions

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Bringing your Armies to life with an awesome paint job is only one of the Commission Services our Studio Team offer…

Stunning Battlefields for Stunning Armies

Whether your collection has been painstakingly painted by you or as part of a commission why dull them done by playing on mediocre battlefields? Our Studio Team offers a Commission Service for Scenery kits so your Armies can look there best in all of your games!

Most recently we have worked closely with Geeks Wargaming (of YouTube fame) to deliver an awesome unified finish to two manufacturers laser cut MDF terrain products for upcoming videos, check out the pictures below…

Check out Geeks Wargaming’s Review Video!

Check out Geeks Wargaming’s Review Video!

Display Miniatures/Dioramas

Most collectors in this hobby like to proudly display some of their army or favourite characters, the only thing is when they stand on a 32mm base they can often get lost in the background. Fancy having a diorama base for your characters to make them truly a display piece, why not get in touch because our Team would love to help.

SQUIGS IN THE DICE TRAY!!!

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Welcome one and all to the first blog post in a very long time and the first of many I hope! So without further ado lets hand you over to Head Skull Dave…

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Squigs they are everywhere!! As a Night Goblin fan for many moons (pun intended) I have successfully transferred my Night Goblins over to Age of Sigmar (and those round bases) and played loads of games with the Moonclan!

Fast Forward a few months and BOOM!! we have stunning release bringing these gitz further into the mortal realms…. all hail the Gloomspite Gitz!!
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So after two weeks of back to back releases for the Gitz I finally secured a set of the most destructive and random of Squigs… The Squig Dice!

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These bundles of joy are just as random as you’d imagine seeing as they are six sided dice but be warned these are destructive, bouncy and elusive little monsters who refuse to remain in the dice tray!

An absolute must for the collector who wants all the cool things but sadly when it comes to dice these are just too crazy and i can see them boinging around the gaming halls all over the world