What I painted in 2026

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.

I’ve finished the main character from the Mantic sci-fi advent calendar that I got myself in 2024. It’s speed paint on the whole, and has been sat mostly done for months. I added some decals to the screen in it’s left hand and painted the base.

This is a piece of scatter that I picked up at the Border Reivers wargames show at the end of the summer. I cut a length of clear plastic that was a sweet container, slid it into place and assembled the rest. As before: speed paint with a decal on the screen.

Look, all I’m saying is that if I was a Genestealer  I wouldn’t be rise up from the bottom to seize the means of production, I’d take over the ownership.

Having read around I discovered the “Guild of Ash“, which sounded just like that.

An extra arm, a head swap and a few genestealer icons on the belt buckles and Bob’s your uncle.