The Stoke Is High

Christmas came and Lord and Lady did it deliver! Nyle delivered the dope goods for our first annual BBST Christmas Model Friendship Exchange (the title seems to get longer every time I write about it). Without further ado, here's that new hotness: 

This Librarian is a conversion masterpiece! I honestly still don't know where half of these bits are from. I'm truly impressed.

In the same vein, here's a model I painted for my shit head brother who doesn't play any more but he wants to but he's too busy playing video games but ZOMGTHENEWNECRONSARESOSICK.

I still need to add snow but I'm happy with the paint job. I'm having fun with the dry brushed NMM technique I started messing with for my present for Nyle. I popped a few edges with some watered down white on this one. I think that really sold the effect.

Lastly, it looks like the BBST crew will be participating in this year's Independent Characters Hobby Progress Challenge. We should have even more consistent content coming out for you, our valued reader. I cannot wait to have 2000 points of painted glory by year's end. The Red Scholars will be nearly Apocalypse ready if all goes according to plan...

Hobby goals for next time:

-Get my first 1k assembled and ready to paint!

Best Christmas Ever?

Possibly! Not only did I get a ton of books on ancient history and a new tactical squad, I played several games of Super Dungeon Explore with my bros and ate like a seaside king (crab AND oysters!). Plus I got my super special gift from Jason and found the most exciting email I have ever recieved in my inbox!

Application for Citadel Publications Editor (Ref: 0001461)

Hello Nyle,

Thank you for your recent application for the above position. I am pleased to let you know that you have been successful in reaching the next stage in the recruitment process. This will involve an interview and we will be in touch in early January to confirm the details.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the Christmas break and have a Happy New Year!


Kind regards,


Lisa Sipple
Personnel Team

Games Workshop

Ssssssssooooooooooo excited! Best gift ever? Possibly!

But Jmo's is a pretty close second!

I hope you guys enjoy your minis as well! Merry Xmas! Just add snow bro!

Sloshhammer gift exchange!!!

Firstly, this is what I got. A complete airbrush paint set. I'll have absolutely every color I'll ever need, ever again. I'm starting my gift projects over so I can utilize these badass paints. So be patient pleaaaase!

SPOILER ALERT: I had HDR on so there are 2 photos of each one, didn't know which one looked better so they are both on here.

 To be honest I'm not quite sure what this guy is (mechanical turkey vulture/eagle?) but it's badass. This is an accompaniment to my bro Nyle's gift. I will have to reglue it onto the perch though.

And this is the badass space wolf that Nyle made me. Completely custom, no one else has this, and it is badass!.

I am especially fond of the custom pelt.

Halt! Who goes there?!

TO THE WINDOWWWW!!!!

TO THE WALL!!!!

This guy is also, absolutely badass. So many crazy details makes it absolutely stunning. Though I am not completely sure what model it is...

These are the photos that I took with my iPhone, when I complete My gift models, I will take better pictures with a legit camera of all of the models so you can see the crazy details in each of these models. I am eternally grateful that my buds crafted these for me, and I now know that I must step my game up in order to keep up. I just got that paint set so I will be restarting. I will post better pictures as soon as I am finished! Let's Do This!!!

More Minotaurs!

My girlfriend went on a cruise for almost two weeks. And while I missed her terribly, that meant I got a lot of painting time in. Who'd have thought I'd have gotten a whole ten man vanguard squad and a chaplain painted? Not me!

The chaplain is my home made Ivanus Enkomi that I but together with my Asterion Moloch when the Badab War IA books came out two or three years ago. I was pretty stoaked about him then, and am even more now that he's painted! Next project will not be Minos however...i have two drop pods and a ven dread ready to go but i'm ready for something vastly different. What will it be? Stay tunned to find out!

Withought further ado here's my new 550+ point glass cannon.

Transmission Received, Lord Commander ANinja

First off, I got my holiday friendship model from Nyle! I'm anxiously waiting until Christmas to open it. This is already shaping up to be the best Christmas for friendship ever.

In that same vein, I have your dudes' goodies all wrapped up and ready to go out tomorrow. They're coming in these shitty oversized quarter machine prize bubbles from the Jap discount store:

Oh, and at long last I have some hobby progress. After really tightening up my scheme on my Centurion squad, I decided to paint my next batch of Tactical Marines to a slightly higher standard.

My shite phone camera doesn't do it much justice but I tried my hand at a bit of simple blending and battle damage on his armor. I really need to get a better set up for photographing these.

As for future progress, my only goal is to paint this tactical squad and maybe paint my Captain. I just got the Clan Raukaan supplement and I'm considering switching from counts-as Iron Hand to this list. I think I need to play a few games before I solidify my choice.