Preparing the snotlings

I’ve always liked snotlings, the snotling pump wagon is probably my favourite model of all time.

On a recent visit to Warhammer World I picked up a box of snotlings. The box contains 28 individual metal snotling miniatures, which fill four bases to create mobs. What is nice is that there are no duplication of miniatures, so you have 28 unique models.

The first stage was cleaning the metal castings. I think I will paint them on the casting sprue and then attach then to the bases.

I decided to use wooden pegs to make them easier to paint (and to remain standing when the paint was wet).

I am thinking of getting some more to use on my Warhammer 40K Ork vehicles, but will paint these ones first.

Constructing the French Char 2c Platoon of Tanks

The Char 2C was developed during the Great War, but did not enter operational service until after the war. It was a heavy tank landship designed for the trenches of the First World War.

Battlefront announced that they were releasing models of the Char 2C. They were delayed for a while. However, in the end I pre-ordered a box, who wouldn’t.

You get three models in the box, these are resin kits with metal parts.

I washed the resin and took the time to glue the tracks to the hull of the tanks. I then glued the metal weapons, of which two are attached to the two turrets and three to the front of the hull.

I decided to glue the rear smaller turret into the hull, as I couldn’t really see any advantage in having it loose.

The next stage will be an undercoat.

These are lovely crisp castings and really look the part. You also realise how large they are, well they were super heavy for their time, even if later in the second world was there were even larger and heavier tanks.

The Battle for Ceres City

This was a Legions Imperialis Diorama at Warhammer World. On my recent visit I took some more photographs of this excellent diorama.

Ceres City changed hands nine times during the campaign for control of the Delta-Garmon system, and the diorama captures the Blood Angels and the Titans of Legio Solaria waging war against the Iron Warriors and Legio Fureans.

More photographs of the diorama.

Minotaurs Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider

Minotaurs Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider on display at Warhammer World.

Minotaurs Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider

This Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider is from the Minotaurs Space Marine Chapter. The Minotaurs is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter whose true origins and genetic lineage remain unknown. The Space Marine formation by this name at large in the Imperium today appears to bear little resemblance to accounts of its past.

The Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider is the most durable vehicle currently in the service of the Legiones Astartes. These vehicles shrug off weapon strikes that would cripple other battle tanks, and are proof against even the most toxic environment. The weaponry of these vehicles is formidable, featuring an advanced quad launcher and powerful volkite batteries.

I quite like the up-armoured appearance of this pattern of Land Raider, and the weaponry looks quite formidable. I can imagine this being used to clear barricades in the ruins of an Imperial City.

This conversion kit was from Forge World and is now no longer available.

More photographs of the Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider.

Snotling Mobs

I’ve always liked snotlings, the snotling pump wagon is probably my favourite model of all time.

On a recent visit to Warhammer World I picked up a box of snotlings. The box contains 28 individual metal snotling miniatures, which fill four bases to create mobs.

The first stage will be to clean the metal castings. I think I will paint them on the casting sprue and then attach then to the bases.

Imperial Fists Rhino Doors

On a recent visit to Warhammer World I picked up some Forge World Imperial Fists Rhino Doors.

I’ve always liked the Forge World doors and have used them on some of my models such as this Land Raider.

I am planning to use these Imperial Fists Rhino Doors on the new Whirlwind, well the model was announced in January but hasn’t yet been released.

I did think about getting a Deimos Pattern Vindicator, but that model doesn’t have the round doors of the Deimos Pattern Rhino, so these doors wouldn’t work with that model.

Ultramarines Life Size Rhino at Warhammer World

When I visited Warhammer World in April 2026 I took another photograph of the Ultramarines Life Size Rhino outside the front of it, as one does.

It was originally used as a promotional piece for the THQ Dawn of War video game.  THQ gave the Rhino to Games Workshop who then gave it a repaint in Ultramarines colours.

More photographs of the Ultramarines Life Size Rhino.

Tallarn Deathstrike

On a recent visit to Warhammer World I picked up a Deathstrike kit. This is an online only model (and at the time of writing was out of stock online).

This Deathstrike is based on the Chimera APC hull and can either be built as a Deathstrike platform or as a Manticore multiple rocket platform. This was originally released back in 2010 and unlike many other vehicles that were based on Epic models, a version was never released by Forge World. The Epic version does have a much bigger missile, however that always looked like a strategic missile, rather than a battlefield tactical missile.

My plan is to paint this as a Tallarn Deathstrike to go with my Tallarn infantry.