Warhammer 40,000 new edition
The new edition comes with some cool new box art featuring the Blood Angels fighting agasind the Orks: The box art focuses on a few individuals, but larger figured including … Continue reading
Community painted Custodes
The latest army to receive the community painting treatment are the Custodes. These guardians of the Emperor in Warhammer 40,000 are notable for their shiny golden armour, and many of … Continue reading
A flashy way to approach NMM
Non-metallic metal, or NMM, was something I tended to avoid as a painter. I had a go early on, with… results: So, yeah. I went back to actual metallics and … Continue reading
Limited colour palettes with Trovarion
The pull of miniatures painting is slowly reeling me back in. I’m not resisting, not hard anyway. It’s more about finding reasonable time in my routine to include the miniatures. … Continue reading
Under the sea: a review of Finspan the board game
Finspan is the latest entry in the -span series of games from Stonemeier Games. Finspan is designed by David Gordon and Michael O’Connell. Finspan plays with 1-5 players out of … Continue reading
Diablo II Resurrected gets an expansion
This expansion comes with a whole new character to explore, and some quality of life improvements which make it easier to play this legacy game. There’s also new end game … Continue reading
Star power: a review of the Euphoria board game
Euphoria is a worker placement game with a punishing streak designed by Jamey Stegmeier and Alan Stone and published by Stonemeier Games. Euphoria plays with 2-6 platers and takes 1-2 … Continue reading
3D printed terrain with Midwinter
Guy from Midwinter Minis has been playing with tabletop terrain made with an FDM printer with some incredible results. Like a lot of people, I think Guy has associated all … Continue reading
John Blanche paint set with Ninjon
I caught up with an old hobby friend over lunch yesterday. He’s a keen painter who gets through 500-1000 minis per year. Each year, he sells his results at the … Continue reading
From the stars to you: a review of SETI the board game
a well-designed and deep game that will keep your group engaged across multiple plays – 5 stars SETI is a game of space exploration and alien discovery for 2-4 players, … Continue reading
Community painted Kill Team
A new Kill Team release means a new visual treat of miniatures painted by the community. I enjoy these. It doesn’t make me want to impulse buy the new sets, … Continue reading
A new Yriel
The Eldar get some new models in this first preview of 2026 – including the first new plastic Vyper model since… well, since the first one! Of interest to me … Continue reading
The Red Corsairs emerge
The recent Warhammer previews included the Red Corsairs. These are a chaos-tainted, piratical group of Space Marines. The Red Corsairs actively recruit disaffected space marines to their cause, much to … Continue reading
Warhammer World… USA
My visit to Warhammer World in 2017 remains memorable. It’s a trip I would recommend to any fan of miniatures painting and modelling, even if Games Workshop miniatures aren’t their … Continue reading
Thoughts on 1 million miniatures
Warhammer Community posted an article about the challenge of painting 1 million games workshop miniatures in 2026. It looks like a combination hobby progress and hobby outreach event. It sounds … Continue reading
2025 Blog review
Looking purely at the stats, 2025 was a good year for Scent of a Gamer. The number of views rose for the second year in a row. Recovery from the … Continue reading
Warhammer 40,000 Total War
Well, they did it. In retrospect it looks inevitable. The Warhammer: Total War series has been incredibly popular (with a few hiccups in the third instalment). Warhammer 40,000 is the … Continue reading
…and they’re gone
I hope you enjoyed the Daily Miniature series over the past couple of years. I can reveal now that this was the swansong of my miniatures collection. I’ve sold about … Continue reading
Daily miniature: Rohan archers
Not all warriors of Rohan fight on horseback. There’s a plastic Rohan warrior sprue that provides options for archers, seen above, along with spear or sword and shield.
Daily miniature: Warhammer Quest spiders
These plastic spiders come from the classic Warhammer Quest box set. I painted these long after purchase. I settled on the eye colour first, and the blue bodies were chosen … Continue reading
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