Jon Grant Miniatures

    ( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)     ← August                                                                                           October →   I have not had a lot of time for painting during September. This has been due to my work. Additionally, I have started trying to build a YouTube channel.  I started September wanting to paint some more Aeronautica Imperialis aircraft. Having read Aeronautica Imperialis: the Horus Heresy, I wanted to paint up Legion aircraft for both the Traitors and the Loyalists. I started by painting up three Xiphon Interceptors in the colours of the Blood Angels for my Loyalists. Next, I painted my Goblin Captain for my Oathmark Orc a...

  In 1990, I read the Hobbit for the first time. A tale of a band of dwarves, who set off on a quest to retrieve their lost treasure from a dragon. At the same time as reading this book, I had just begun my first foray into miniature collecting and as such I was drawn to the dwarves. In my first few years of miniature collecting, I tried to build a dwarven army, but unfortunately, I never had the funds and so it was never built. With my discovery of Oathmark, I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia for my younger years. On top of this, I have been building a goblin force. So, it only feels right, that the ancient enemies of the goblins get to battle against the dwarves once again.   To build this army, I wanted to use the Warhammer third edition Armies book to guide my troop choices. Back then an army needed to include a certain number of troops for the dwarves it was 40 warriors and 20 crossbow men (dwarves). This was a good place to start. I began by build two unit...