I want to create rich narratives, beautifully painted models, stunning scenery and play awesome battles in the world of Warhammer 40k… well that’s the plan, let’s see if it actually happens.
For a little context, I’m going to step back a bit…
It’s Christmas day 1990 and my younger self is excitedly unwrapping a copy of ‘Space Crusade’, unbeknown that this would be my first steps into the world of 40k sparking an interest that would forever live in my mind for the next 30 years… and this is where it has mostly remained. Sure I played a few games of 2nd edition when I was young, dabbled in 4th edition in my 20s, I even managed to own and read the 5th edition rulebook & codexes without even playing a single game. It’s all been a bit of a failure to launch, but my desire to immerse myself into the hobby and the 40k universe has never waned.
For myself the real inspiration came from the pages of White Dwarf magazine in the early 90s… Epic battle reports with beautifully painted miniatures fighting amongst inspiring scenery and photographed against vivid backdrops. Characters brought to life through stories and their successes and tribulations documented round by round in tabletop battles.
It was those battle reports that cemented my interest in 40k, and today it’s still those same battle reports that have fueled my inspiration and motivation to embark on a journey into the hobby once again in the hope to create here what Games Workshop did within those pages, and what I’ve always wanted to do myself.
If I was to try and put a finger on what I liked back then it wasn’t just the strategy or the creativity on show, or my imagination of what it must be like playing one of those battles… it was the total sum of everything, the entirety and scope of the project and the complete and epic depth of each of those encounters that really lit up the light behind my eyes. And that is what I want this website to be, a home for campaigns to come to life with visuals and story telling, interactive pages, campaign maps, strategy and discussion… but also a platform to record the creativity of the project, modeling and painting, conversions, sculpting green stuff, building the game area, scenery design, campaign building, web design & photography.
Yep, there’s definitely a lot to do and somehow I need to fit in work and raising a family.
And so it begins…
Project Progress / Campaign Creation
Project Progress / Graphic & Web Design
Project Progress / The Gaming Area
Project Progress / Modeling & Painting
Test Progress Post 01
Test Faction 1 Post 02
Test Faction 1 Post 01
Main Test Battle Report Page
