Jon Grant Miniatures

Painting I have not had much time for hobby this month, with work being very busy and the build up to Christmas well under way. I did, however, manage to finish painting Kurnoth’s Heralds, one of the two warbands from the Spitewood box set for Warhammer Underworlds. My Heralds They took me quite a bit of time, as I painted them in the same scheme as Skaeth’s Wild Hunt from the Beastgrave season of the game. Unfortunately, I did not particularly enjoy painting them. Still, they are finished now, which is the important thing. This year I painted a total of 54 miniatures. This includes eight Warhammer Underworlds warbands: A squadron of Iron Warriors Xiphons for Aeronautica Imperialis (3 miniatures) The Pyregheists, a Warcry warband (8 miniatures) A pack of Gryph hounds (3 miniatures) A unit of Gloomspite Loonsmashas (5 miniatures) Grandfather’s Gardeners (5 miniatures) Zikkit’s Tunnelpack (5 miniatures) The Jaws of Itzl (4 miniatures) Borgit’s Beastgrabbaz (5 miniatures) The Knives of th...

  Painting Well, it turned out to be a quiet month for painting. I have been trying to paint the Kurnothi Hunters from the Spitewood box set, but I am not really enjoying them, so they remain an ongoing project. I am even wondering whether to pick up another set and try a new colour scheme from scratch. I recently decided to focus on playing three warbands for a while: Blackpowder, the Truthseekers and Daggok’s Stab Ladz. I also wanted to try painting a warband using Contrast paints, something I had not done before. With that in mind, I bought a new set of Stab Ladz. I built them in one evening and then painted the entire warband in a single day, which is very fast for me. My New Stab Ladz The Contrast paints did make the overall process quicker, but I learned that they need multiple coats to achieve solid coverage. I also need to learn which layer paints work best as highlights. Gaming On the gaming front I have continued to play at my local club with various celebrities such as ...

  October has been a fantastic month — both for the hobby and for the blog. There’s been plenty of painting, gaming, and writing, and a few lovely milestones along the way. On October 13th, my blog reached 100,000 views , a goal I’ve had since I first started out. I was absolutely chuffed to bits. It’s been great fun sharing my hobby journey, and I just want to say thank you to everyone who’s read, shared, and supported the blog along the way. Then, just a week later, on the 20th, the blog hit 10,000 views for the month , which was a brilliant bonus. Painting This month, I finished painting my Pyregheists,  a really enjoyable project from start to finish. The ghostly green balefire was something new for me, and I loved experimenting to get that ethereal, otherworldly glow just right. I even wrote up a painting guide (see below) on how I achieved the effect, in case you fancy giving it a go yourself. My Pyregheists With the Pyregheists complete, I turned my attention to build...

Painting September is always an incredibly busy month for real-life commitments, so hobby time was limited. Even so, I managed to make some progress on a few projects. I continued adding new tiles to my modular board. First up was a nine-hex stream to clearly mark neutral territory. In several games I’d found it tricky for opponents to determine where neutral ground began, and I wanted the board to be as fun and easy to use as possible for everyone. Next, I created 14 new starting hexes in preparation for the upcoming Spitewood expansion. I marked them with clusters of purple heather . My idea was that the colour would stand out clearly, while still looking natural as part of a heathland scene (inspired by the moorlands of northern England where I grew up). Finally, I built a set of four Waystone tokens , again for the Spitewood board. These were my first attempt, and while I’m happy with them, I may experiment with different designs in the future. On the painting desk, my mai...

  Painting At the start of the month, I eagerly anticipated the arrival of Kamandora's Blades . Even though the warband wasn’t exactly well received by the community when first revealed, I had a plan! I decided to paint the controversial faces as if they were covered with warpaint . In my vision, these devoted followers of Khorne daubed their skin with ash and charcoal to form a skull-like visage, honoring the Blood God. I quickly painted the warband and shared them online and was delighted to receive plenty of praise in return, which is always nice. (My full painting guide can be found below in the Blogging section.) My Kamandora's Blades With the Blades complete, I was once again fully up to date with my Warhammer Underworlds painting backlog. That freed me to pursue a project I’d been mulling over for some time: building a 3D Warhammer Underworlds board . My Underworlds Board, complete with blocked hexes I’ve already written a dedicated article on this board, so I won’t rep...

Painting After some time away from painting, I finally found a comfortable way to pick up my brushes again. I started by returning to the Knives of the Crone . Having finished Tazari last month, I continued work on Kaerna Vix , Krieta , and Azphael . I finished them in reasonably short order, as most of the basecoats were already applied. With these complete, I was once again up to date with Warhammer Underworlds. (64 warbands and all the terrain pieces). 👉 How I Paint - Daughters of Khaine - Knives of the Crone Knives of the Crone I then decided to return to painting a few Aeronautica Imperialis aircraft. I wanted to paint them as members of the Fourth Legion , the Iron Warriors . It was really nice returning to my little planes, now I just need to get them on the board for a few games. 👉 How I Paint - Legions Imperialis - Iron Warriors Iron Warriors' Xiphons With nothing in particular to paint until Kamandora's Blades arrive on my doorstep, I popped into the loft for a ...

Painting Well, June didn’t turn out to be a good month! I seriously hurt my back (clearly, I’m getting old), and as a result, I could do very little painting. At the start of the month, I wasn’t able to do any at all. Eventually, I managed a few minutes here and there while standing up. As such, I haven’t finished my Knives of the Crone . I did, however, return to painting some Aeronautica Imperialis (or arguably Legions Imperialis ) miniatures. I completed a single Xiphon Interceptor in the colours of the Iron Warriors—a Legion I’ve wanted to paint for ages so I can deploy them against my Imperial Fists. I do love a good grudge match.  How I Paint Legions Imperialis - Iron Warriors Gaming Similarly, I haven’t done much gaming either. I managed to get a single practice game in against Harry before attending the Agent’s Clash tournament in Redhill. I used my [Cyreni’s] Razors against his Grymwatch . It turned out to be a very close and enjoyable game, played in a relaxed and fun ...

Painting This month, I had one main goal: finish painting the remaining two members of Borgit’s Beastgrabbaz. With these two Gitz complete, I would have all the Underworlds warbands painted—at least until the release of the Knives of the Crone. I started with Rigg and Sham, quickly painting the pair of Grots pretending to be Uglug’s pet squig, before moving on to Dregg. I finished both Grots on May 4th, thereby completing all the Underworlds warbands released so far. That very afternoon, Games Workshop announced the new warband would go on pre-order the following Saturday, May 10th. This meant I had until May 24th to paint other miniatures and work through my ever-diminishing pile of shame. My Beastgrabbaz I tackled a mob of five Loonsmasha Fanatics next. Following my usual paint scheme for the Gloomspite Gitz, I finished them by the 18th. The Loonsmashas The following weekend, the Knives of the Crone were released. I immediately built and started painting them, managing to complete Ta...