Hi everybody! It has been a few months since my last update and of course the world has become a different place since then. I sincerely hope that everyone reading is doing well and safe. In these weird times I am particularly happy to have an indoor hobby to keep me busy and allow me to pour some creativity into something. I know I have been silent for some time but I did take advantage of the confinement to progress with my projects, in particular Mordheim and can now post some of the results: First, my Sigmarite Sisters warbadn is close to the finish line, only a couple of models left to convert and paint to be able to field them. Here is a group shot of where I am with them at the moment: Bad picture but it's the best I can do in the current situation. You will notice some additions to the warband, in particular the leader, Mother Romhilda Von Steinhardt. Converted starting from the Sister Dialogus and the special edition Canoness and a number of other kits for small bits like the hammers (Stormcast Vanguard) and the right leg and feet from th Cypher Lords. Then we have the Augur, Sister Adelheide Von Sehlig. Converted from a number of kits, Sister Repentia, Warcry Cypher Lords and the dove from the battle sisters squad. The second Sister Superior, Sister Algrund Converted from the female Kairic Acolyte from Wh Underworld with the head form a Stormcast hero white name I cannot remember. After working exclusively on my Sisters for a few months I felt the need to change slightly and I decided to convert a heretical adversary for my warband: a chaos cultist for my next warband project. Converted from Blackstone Fortress Pious Vorne, sculpted hood and a arms from the 40k battle sisters. The sword is from the war cry Splintered Fangs. That's it for now. I am planning to join Instagram one of these days to share my work in a quicker way and possibly reach a wider audience. We'll see. Stay safe and keep lobbying!

Check out this brooding Cities of Sigmar project.

Marching on to 2020! 2019 marked the end of the decade, and 7 full years of Between the Bolter and Me as a blog! The year was defined by the Mordheim 2019 event, with a large number of our posts detailing the creation of our warbands and the event itself. We did a lot of other smaller projects as well, including painting a host of models created by some of our favorite artists (Ana Polanscak and Helge Wilhelm Dahl). We continued to do live streaming on Twitch and YouTube, resulting in some of our best episodes of Dragged into Turbolasers with guests like Weirding Way and Modern Synthesist. With this post, we wanted to review everything we did in 2019! Conversion Corner - Space Marine Operative: At the end of 2018, we started a semi-regular column where we try to convert a model quickly, without resorting to a large amount of sculpting work. We started 2019 converting a Space Marine out of a combination of Primaris Interceptors and Reivers. The Space Marine next to the original Conversion Corner model, the Happenin’ Habber. Mordheim 2019: We were incredibly fortunate to be invited by Alexander Winberg (of the excellent Echoes of Imperium blog) to take part in Mordheim 2019, an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mordheim. The majority of the months leading up to the event were spent converting and painting models for our respective warbands: An Augur was converted, using one of the new Genestealer Cultist characters, for Adam’s Sisters of Sigmar warband. Pious Vorne served as the basis for a Sister Superior for the Sisters of Sigmar. A second Sister Superior was converted from an original Sisters of Sigmar model from 20 years ago. The Matriarch was created from Forge World’s Jenetia Krole, while another member of the warband was made to look like Alexander’s own warband. Eric’s Undead warband had a series of Wraiths that served as Dire Wolves. A dying warrior, pinned with arrows from an unknown sources was created to represent the sorrow and malice of Mordheim given invisible form. An Ur-ghul was used to create a miserable dreg for the Undead. So meaningless is its existence, that it has begun to lose some of its hold on reality, represented by being cast in clear resin. The painting process was almost as slow as the converting process, with Adam finishing painting the first two he converted, the metal Sister Superior, and the mysterious Choir member. Adam’s completed Sisters of Sigmar warband. Eric’s completed Undead warband. Ana Polanšćak created a Witch Hunter warband that Greg used. Although the build up to the event was almost a year in the making, the actual event was a whirlwind of activity that was over far too soon. It was a fantastic time, however, filled with all manner of exciting games and admiring the diverse array of collected models from across the globe. The highlight of the entire event was spending time with old friends (we hadn’t seen the Iron Sleet crew since the Pilgrym) and new ones. It is fantastic to put faces to people whose work you have been following for years. This is especially true for meeting Alexander, who we have been chatting with for years, but had never had the chance to meet in person. Thanks again to everyone involved in the project; it is not something we are soon to forget! The entire Mordheim 2019 crew! With Thomas Pirinen, John Blanche, and Alexander Winberg in the front and center. The Undead warband took part in two great games! Ana Polanšćak's witch hunters went to battle against Vampires and Possessed during the event. The Sisters of Sigmar took part in three games during the event. Mike Anderson sculpted Mad Meg for all of the participants in Mordheim 2019, which we converted slightly for an installment of Conversion Corner. Warcry was released shortly after Mordheim 2019, which inspired us to convert an Ogre for the Sisters of Sigmar warband. Conversion Corner - Blackstone Fortress Eldar Ranger: Blackstone Fortress was one of the most exciting releases of all of 2018, filled with all sorts of imaginative characters and Chaotic scum. We had the good fortune of playing through the base campaign completely, thoroughly enjoying the 40k-themed dungeon crawl. When playing it, one of us used the Eldar Ranger. We had been a little disappointed with the model, due to the odd pose, and ridiculously oversized rifle. With this in mind, we did a few quick modifications to the model, primarily focused on the rifle, for Conversion Corner. The Happenin’ Habber stands next to Amallyn Shadowguide, Eldar Ranger. Dragged into Turbolasers: Our podcast Dragged into Turbolasers just finished its 4th year, with us recording 15 new episodes in 2019. Although the podcast has always been evolving since its beginnings in 2016, our venture into live streaming on Twitch and YouTube has had a profound impact on the podcast. We found that we could talk about most of the new Games Workshop releases in our weekly streaming, leaving the monthly episodes of the podcast for doing more interesting topics like interviews with other hobbyists, like Modern Synthesist. We talked with Wardsylvania about the Inq28 event that he organized at Adepticon 2019: Carrion Pass. Shortly after Mordheim 2019 unfolded, we were able to talk with Alexander Winberg about the event as a whole. We talked with Magos_Buer about the collection of Inq28 events that he masterminded: Gelida, the Frozen Expanse. Weirding Way joined us and talks about how he got into the hobby and how he came to build his iconic Navigator house. To close out the year of streaming, we had Modern Synthesist, Voxmorbus, Red Wet Skeleton, and K0rdhal on for a lively discussion of 2019: our favorite projects, community happenings, and GW releases. Gelida - Revisiting some old conversions: While we were not able to attend any of Magos_Buer’s Gelida events, Adam was able to send two models to be used in the games. He dug out some old Scion conversions he made years ago and sculpted on fur-lined hoods and scarves to make them better suited for the unforgiving cold of Gelida. It was great to go back and finish converting some models we started during the second year of the blog. The Primogenitor - Death Guard: Recently, Iron Sleet announced their next narrative event, set within a cyclopean space hulk, called the Primogenitor. Although not officially involved in the event, we created a Death Guard legionary for Alexander Winberg growing warband! The Death Guard veteran was created using a Primaris Intercessor as the base model. Tabletop Fantasy Miniatures by Ana Polanscak: One of Games Workshop’s biggest releases of the year was the addition of Contrast paints to their paint range. Their release was an excellent opportunity to put some paint on the characterful creations of Ana Polanscak. We painted two models from her Kickstarter, both creepy constructs of flesh and bone. Just a handful of contrast paints worked surprisingly well to bring the horrors to life! One of Ana Polanscak's Blood Fiends and Skull Familiars, painted primarily with Contrast Paints. WilhelMiniatures Bone Trees: The incredibly talented Helge Wilhelm Dahl, of WilheMiniatures, created a series of macabre bone trees this year. Fortunately for us, he created silicone molds of them so that he can sell them on Etsy! We got a set of five of the trees and painted them to fit with Ana Polanscak's Blood Fiend and Skull Familiar we painted earlier in the year. Two bone trees created by Helge Wilhelm Dahl. Oldhammer: Hess Poison Breath: The last model we painted during 2019 was an ancient Citadel miniature sculpted by the legendary Jes Goodwin: Hess Poison Breath. The model was one we acquired when building our Mordheim 2019 warbands, but ultimately did not use. Having just finished painting the Blood Fiend and Skull Familiar, we realized the Poison Breath would fit perfectly with them! Jes Goodwin’s classic Chaos Sorcerer, Hess Poison Breath. Conversion Corner - Arco-flagellant: In light of the long-awaited release of the Sisters of Battle in December, we decided to convert a arco-flagellant for the final installment of Conversion Corner in 2019. Although often overlooked, the new plastic Blood Bowl models are excellent for conversions. The Wood Elf team was an excellent base for building an arco-flagellant! An arco-flagellant next to the Happenin’ Habber. So that was 2019! It was a great and productive year. We are really thankful for everyone who has been following us on this journey and leaving a comment now and then. And although social media is increasingly dominating the hobby as an easy way to share hobby content, rest assured that Between the Bolter and Me is here to stay! As always, comments or questions are welcome! - Eric, Greg, and Adam Wier

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My newly finished Undead Warband (currently WR 214): The Grand Legion of Konrad von Carstein* *What can I say, he is a bit delusional - a bat short of a belfry.

July saw an meet-up of epic proportions when twenty or so hobbyists clashed in Helsinki in a celebration of Mordheim's 20th birthday. It was an absolute blast and the terrain and miniatures on display had to be seen to be belived. Huge thanks to Alexander Winberg for arranging this crazy endeavour, and to Mordheim's daddies Toumas Pirinen and John Blanche for participating. I managed to play two and half games over the day and my nefarious vampire Graf Sugismund did rather well for himself (though he lost an eye in the proceedings). The last game turned into more of a moody photoshoot than a proper game when Kari, of Iron Sleet fame, brought along his nifty smoke machine. And then we had to break for dinner and beers. Lots and lots of beers. Here's a few of my cruddy pictures from the event, but there's many more and better ones at that, at various other blogs: Head over to Echoes of Imperium to have a look at all the participating warbands: echoesofimperium Greg Weir has a brilliant recap of our first game over at Between the Bolter and Me: mordheim-2019-witch-hunter-games and Eric does a more general recap of the event at the same site: mordheim-2019-recap Tammy covers our last game, among other things, over at Tears of Envy After event I needed to do something completely different, so back I went to the good old 41st millennium. I picked up a box of Intercessor space marines and started testing various colour schemes using the contrast paints. Here's two of them: The process is rather simple. After spraying the model black and then with either grey seer or wraithbone, I sponge the model with dark brown to add texture and battle damage. Then I drybrush the whole miniature with pure white to provide highlights. After this the contrast colour is applied (in this case gryph-charger grey). This approach works for basically any colour scheme and due to the contrast paint's translucency the drybrushed highlight is subtly visible through the basecoat. Just painting for it's own sake was a lot of fun, but after a few random marines like these I decided to go back to my beloved Metatron marines and see if I could replicate the colour scheme using contrast paints. It turned out I could. Contrast painted Metratron to the left, original colour scheme to the right As there's lots of new marine stuff coming out I'll try to turn these guys into a proper army, by adding more Intercessors, a few hellblasters, a dreadnought or two and perhaps some vanguard - so there's plenty of hobbying to do. And then we haven't even mentioned Warcry...

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Custom warbands for the legendary skirmish tabletop game Mordheim. Includes parts of my Possessed and Witch Hunter warbands for Mordheim MMXIX, a celebration of the 20 year anniversary of the game

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Does your eyes deceive you? No, they do not - for I am back with yet another of these, increasingly sporadic, blog posts! I sure long for the times I could update the blog on the fly using a phone app... On to the models. Hobbying has been as sporadic as the updating, but I have actually managed to crank out some stuff the last few months. To begin with two finished character for my incipient Mordheim MMXIX undead warband. A humble zombie and a slightly less humble necromancer, based on the nifty new gene-cult Locus. I've decided to use the wraiths from my fledgling Nighthaunt-army as count-as dire wolves, as the models are simply too cool not to use. Furthermore, I've been playing a lot of Kill-Team lately and have been having some fun with the new Mechanicus Sector terrain. I'm pretty pleased with the refinery I bashed together, even though the ruin and larger building admittedly is bit more pedestrian. They work really well in-game though - here seen housing a mob of Ork Kommandos. (Sorry for the varying quality of the images here - photographing terrain is different from snapping pictures of models) Last but not least, my pals at Warhammer Community sent me a little gift: I'm simply in awe of the new Abaddon. I love that it sticks so close to the original model, only turning it up to ten - but not, as I feared, eleven. There's a restraint to it. Big, but not gigantic, detailed, but not cluttered, dynamic, but not standing-on-one-foot-jumping etc. It's the perfect update on a classic, and among the top ten GW miniatures ever. Vastly superior to the action figure-like Guilliman; this is a proper MODEL - not a toy. Not sure what I'll do when it comes to painting and modelling. I might paint the old bastard more or less straight out of the box, or convert him into some kind of warpsmith-style dark mechanicvm character. We'll see. That's it for now. I'll be back in a month or two. In the meantime be sure to check out 28 Mag - the new online magazine about all things grimdark: 28-mag.com

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