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...

  ( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)     ← July                                                                                           September →     With the arrival of August, the UK was in the middle of a heatwave, and I was away on holiday. Together these resulted in my painting stopping for around a fortnight. When I eventually picked up my brushes, I decided to finish my last miniature for the Tau Empire in Aeronautica, the ground target Communication Tower.  Following this I returned to painting my Oathmark Dwarves. I had painted a few (fifteen) of these miniatures in July and was keen to finish the box of thirty off. So, I began by painting up the eight dwarve...

When I started collecting miniature, way back in 1990, my first miniatures were Dwarves. At the time, these were all metal miniatures for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and as a kid I could never afford many. As a result, I was never able to afford an army. With my discovery of Oathmark, I am now able to build my childhood Dwarven army. Paints required: Chaos Black spray Gun Metal (AP) Plate Mail Metal (AP) Shining Silver (AP) Dark Tone (AP) Strong Tone (AP) Soft Tone (AP) Weapon Bronze (AP) Balthasar Gold Bugmans Glow Cadian Fleshtone Kislev Flesh Mephiston Red Mournfang Brown Rhinox Hide Skrag Brown  Deathclaw Brown Doombull Brown Dryad Bark Gorthor Brown XV-88 Tau Light Ochre Steel Legion Drab Karak Stone Khorne Red Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red Carroburg Crimson When I painted the miniature, I effectively worked on four distinct sections: the amour, the faces and beard, the leather work, and finally the coloured cloth. Additionally, the shield was painted separately from the rest ...

Early on, when I started writing this blog, I wrote a several articles on probability in Warhammer Underworlds. Since then, I have discovered Oathmark . Oathmark uses D10 for all its dice rolls and I am interested to see how easy (or hard) it is to cast a particular spell.   To begin with I need to explain how magic work in Oathmark. Each race has access to spellcasters. Each spellcaster has a level. The level dictates two aspects of the spellcaster: 1. How many spells they know, 2. How many dice they roll when attempting to cast a spell. It is this second component that I want to consider.  My questions are:   What is the best spellcaster level to take in my army?  What are the best spells for each level of spellcaster?  Casting a spell When a spellcaster attempts to cast a spell, they roll a number of D10 equal to their spellcaster level.  Example. A spellcaster (2) would roll 2D10 when attempting to cast a spell. Whereas a spellcaster (5) would...

( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)     ← June                                                                                               August →     With the arrival of July, I continued painting my Oathmark miniatures. Throughout June, I had been working on my goblin infantry. So, I began the month with five more goblin archers, including a standard bearer. How I paint - Goblin Infantry Having finished all the Goblin Infantry miniatures that I own, I moved onto the Goblin wolf riders. I painted the miniatures in two parts: the rider and the wolf. The rider was painted with the same method as the goblin infantry. The wolves required some research, but I eventually wor...

        ( Red  items were completed this month,  purple  items completed in previous months)     ← May                                                                                                July →   As we entered June, I was still working on my Gloomspite Gitz, specifically my Rockgut Troggoths . I had started painting these large miniatures back in May, but I only managed to finish one. So, my first project for June was to finish the unit of three. Having completed this unit, I put together a small painting guide for the flesh, for my own future reference. How I paint Rockgut Troggoth flesh .       With the Troggoths complete, I had a Moonclan Grot icon bearer and musician ...