I’m really enjoying the lore and aesthetics of Blackstone Fortress, so I was eager to paint one of the miniatures from the new expansion.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. Along with new rules and a progressing story, this box introduces a host of additional explorers, as well as Chaos Cultists to test their mettle. I also like a chance to paint outside my normal palette, and the studio’s paint scheme for X-101 offered exactly that – I wouldn’t normally employ much yellow, but the armour panels just looked great.The world-shattering weaponry that has lain dormant for aeons now stirs, and Precipice is in the line of fire.

I decided to invent my own forge world and went for a mixed Mars/Ryza parentage in the colour scheme – choosing to do it quartered proved quite the challenge.

These guys feature a more occult and barbarous aesthetic than their Traitor Guard brethren from the main set, helping shed some light on the dizzying diversity of the Slaves to Darkness. Some of the other Cultists are equipped with heavier weaponry, including grenade launchers and heavy stubbers, to make you pay dearly for every inch you advance into their demesne. In this latest expansion, Obsidius Mallex has gained control of a portion of the alien space station’s apocalyptic power, and now threatens to bring it to bear against his foes. inch (58 mm) thick tray with 1x 5 3/4 x 4 ( 147 x 102 mm) cut out, 1x 2 1/2 x 3 ( 64 x 77 mm) cut out, 4x 1 1/4 x 2 (32 x 51 mm) cut out, 1x 2 x 2 1/2 ( 51 x 64 mm) cut out, 6x 1 x 1 1/4 (26 x 32 mm) cut out, 1x 1 x 2 ( 26 x 51 mm) cut out and 1 2 x 2 1/4 ( 51 x 58 mm) hexagon cut out.

You’ll need a copy of Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress to play – if you don’t already have it, what are you waiting for? Since these represent 8 of the 13 models in the set, I have gone from ‘hardly started’ to ‘almost finished’ in one go! It’s not just the good guys getting some reinforcements, but the Servants of the Abyss, with a brand new set of cultists, led by a literal Firebrand. A new quest will take you deeper than ever before into the mysterious structure – can you defeat the four black shrines and overcome Obsidius Mallex in his Inner Sanctum? I painted him with a very rusted look on his armour panels, while anything leather is shabby and scruffy.Cultists are being drawn to the space station like moths to a flame, swelling the Chaos Lord’s ranks with loyal servants to build these stable zones . While painting the coat, I had the wild idea to add a freehand check pattern to the trim which is something I hadn’t attempted before.