Millest's Blog Exchange - A Beginning!

Well folks,
I think as we approach the ripe old age of 300 posts it's time for something new on MMM, an idea borrowed from Ron at FTW and Natfak on Faeit212, its time for us to start a blog exchange!

So what is the Blog Exchange?
It is basically an exchange of blogs on each others blog rolls, a link for a link. It's so simple it amazes me i didn't think of this before!

As we approach the 300th post on the blog it would be nice to start to pull my followers, occasional visitors and people I follow together and start sharing our links so we can all get to see new and exciting blogs.

So how do you get involved?
Quite simply comment below this post, email me direct using the contact buttons or even comment on on the subsequent "Friday Finds" posts (these are now been re-purposed to showcase links from new blogs that join the lists) providing me the link to your blog and letting me know that you've added me to your blog rolls. On confirmation of this you will be added to the following Friday's post and added to me current blog rolls.
If in doubt of which posts just use click on the keyword exchange and it should pull up any of my posts on the Blog Exchange for you to comment on and get added.

Hopefully that all makes sense and you'd like to join! Keep an eye out for the first new "Friday Finds" next week.
Thanks

Friday 5 Finds - 25.02.11

heres this weeks 5 find, sorry for not posting these for a week or two hopefully this lot will make up for it:

1. Independent Painters have a very sweet NMM Blood Angels Standard bearer up this week, one of the best NMMs for a while.
2. Mordian 7th has an Awesome inquistional Storm raven posted up, looks neat with some very simple but effective conversions.
3. Musings of a metal mind has a great Space Marine commission force up, the Angels of flame.
4. Jawaballs over at The Blood Angels blog has some neat little objective or as he refers to them loot markers posted up.
5. Over on Sanguine sons we have a neat little guide on how to paint hair. Looks good and will certainly come in useful for me.

Finally here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 28.01.11

Hi Folks,
heres this weeks 5 find, sorry for the delay busy week with the family visiting after the bad weather cried christmas off and work but hopefully this lot will make up for it:

1. White Metal Games has a rather cool looking Defiler conversion for his slaanesh forces, ceraintly doesnt worry about LoS!
2. Mordian7th has another Defiler based conversion over on his blog, though this time not quite so chaotic!
3. Mike over at Constantly Risking Obscurity has his work on a Black Templars Dread from the AoBR box set dread.
4. Mr Black has posted up some pics of a really really cool looking Khorne Terminator Lord he has completed on commission.
5. Over on his blog Mart has posted some of the work on his Winter wargaming board, looks good so far cant wait til its finished.

Finally here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 21.01.11

Hi Folks
Once again apologies for the quite week from me, I've managed to get a few reviews up and have another due to go up soon and finally my order of Cadians arrives just in time to see the announcement from Forgeworld that they are planning some nice Cadian conversion kits so at the minute I'm back to a crawl but hopefully well get some work completed and some vehicles ordered soon to tie me over till the new releases! In the meantime here are this weeks 5 finds:

1. First up over on Black Matt's blog we have some pics from the GT and of one of the most amazing looking Tau forces I have seen in a while
2. Back to Dark Future games now for a bit of a throw down and some pics of a superbly painted space marine predator.
3. Over on SoS we have a nice simple conversion for a vendetta for those of you fancying an Avatar theme to your force
4. Next we have the first of our steps away from the norm and have some nice screen shots of some new DoW fan models on Musings of a metal mind
5. Finally on Dragonforge Design blog we have their latest new product, ready made power cables for models, simple but ingenious!

Finally here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 14.01.11

Hi Folks
apologies for the quite week from me, i kind of got tied up reading every spare second this week and have read two very good books, will probably get something up about them on monday and possibly (assuming my order from Maelstrom arrives) get some modelling started. In the meantime here are this weeks 5 finds:

1. Dark Future Gaming have their return of the Artist of the week feature, this week its Bohun, some awesome models there.
2. over on AGGTG the sentinal squadron is complete and looking rather tasty, might have to borrow an idea or two :)
3. Independant painters has a rather heavily weathered Ultramarines rhino (not to mention a video from one of my favourite shows of all time - not to mention having worked with a chap who was there one I know a fair bit about) so worth a look
4. More Blue Smurfs....... I mean Ultramarine action from Hephesto's Forge, a nice model and hopefully we'll see some more.
5. Finally over at Mywargame some progress on the plan to reboot some old Salamanders, its not a big start in terms of numbers but its a nice bit of sculpting.

Finally here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 07.01.11

Hi Folk
So here it is the first FFF's of 2011! With that in mind I've added a few extra bits so enjoy:

1. First up on Dark Millenium we have some of Mjolnir's Pre-Heresy Space Wolves, very tasty and some nice details included in the article.
2. Next on The Anarchy of Anton we have some Emperors children models and some of his other odds and sods that caught my eye.
3. Over on Ricalopia we have his latest project ED-2000.... I mean IKE! Very neat and rather tongue in cheek!
4. Drathmere over on 40k Hobby blog has some pretty tasty Forgeworld characters up on the blog all looking rather clean and well painted.
5. Over on Black Matt's Blog we have a huge post showing the completed Blood Angels army, if you don't check out any other link please check this one, it rocks!

Finally as a bit of an extra as it is the new year here is a link to From the Warp where Ron has posted a rather good guide on painting red:
Ron's Red Roundup!

here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Last but not least, just to give you guys a heads up of my up coming reviews Imperial Armour 10 arrived this morning and I am very pleased, 100 pages in already and was suprised by the rather awesome poster. As you can see from the Pic below its MASSIVE, looks like I will be picking one up for over the painting desk along with my other 40k artwork!

Enjoy folks and who knows maybe some models might appear soon!
Thanks for reading.

Friday 5 Finds - 17.12.10

Hello again folks,
Back again so soon, after all my excitement I thought I better get on and get these up before I loose momentum so here are this weeks Five Finds:

1. JP over on the Artic Templars Blog has created an awesome and intimidating looking Furioso Librarian Dreadnought that is well worth checking out here.
2. Next more updates on Les Bursley's spectacular Astorath WIP are up on Awesome Paint job, a must for any painting fan.
3. Black Matt over at his Black Legion Blog has a superb set of pics on his freehand painted Blood Angels Death Company Rhino/Razorback - the freehand on the RB is subtle but its there if you look.
4. b.smoove on A Gentleman's Ones has a great recipe and tutorial for painting black on large expanses of cloth.
5. Finally SC Mike has a frugal and unique take on creating your own Banewolf, an interesting and fun conversion using wholly recycled parts.

Last but not least here is this weeks Five Finds Sneak Peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 10.12.10

This week we have a fine selection of models from all over that there t'interweb! Including some rather unusual Space Marines. So are you sitting comfortably? Then let's begin:

1. John on Santa Cruz Warhammer has an update on his Amazing conversion of Belial of the Dark Angels, looking forward to the painting of this one!
2. Atreides over at Sons of Sanguinius has some rather interesting Imperial Guard Veteran conversions up on his blog, along with some force ideas!
3. Mordian 7th this week shows the first of the two Dark Eldar entries to appear in the list with his take on the Venom transport.
4. Over on Ricalopia we have some rather cool Dark Eldar conversions to represent those mythical creatures of the Eldar, The Harlequins.
5. Last but by no means least we have a Video post from Mike at Constantly Risking Obscurity of a whole slew of rather cool Lego Space Marines, including a dreadnought, speeder and a remote control Predator - Oh Yes Baby!!

And now for this weeks Friday five finds sneak peak:

Friday 5 Finds - 04.12.10

Once again a day late, one of these days I will have a quiet friday at work where I can actually sit down and get the five finds up, until that time though I have found you some nice links this week, who knows one day the network will have a queit day where people realise I have important work elsewhere!

1. Winterdyne of winterdyne commissions has just posted up some rather special looking Space Wolves sculpted by Scribor, very good looking and very feral!
2. On A Gentleman's One b.smoove has posted a pic or two of a rather neat Terminator and assualt cannon converion, very cool looking scenic base as well.
3. On Mr Blacks blog we have some pics of his rather tasty looking Angels Sanguine force including some of the Space Hulk models
4. Over on My Wargame we have a great step by step guide on how to use the Dark Eldar models to recreate John Blanches Sisters of Silence.
5. On Dei Greci we have the latest progress on the Athena and my word is she a beast! Certainly an Imperial Vessel worth of veiwing!

Here is this weeks Blog Sneak Peak:

Friday 5 Finds - 26.11.10

This weeks five finds are all back in the 40k universe, mostly Space Marines but a bit of Ork fun too. Enjoy:

1. Veghist over on Lascannons & Lances hs posted up a rather awesome fully plastic Space Marine Librarian conversion, some great green stuff work there too.
2. Lamenter at Master of the Forge has more of his Artscale Marines to show with the latest work on his artscale devestator squad - this is quickly becoming one of my favourite blogs!
3. To keep in with the lamenters theme set by the last example Aventine at Zen 40,000 has his latest Space Marine Scout Bike squad up here.
4. Calebfilm has some awesome Jetbike conversions up on his blog, their labelled as Adeptus Arbites but I suspect their meant to be Custodes, either way they are spectacular!
5. Finally time for some Orky Action with Mart of Mart's Warhammer 40k blog showing off his Big Mek conversion

And here is your Friday 5 Finds sneak peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 19.11.10

Afternoon folks!
this Friday's five finds sees me dipping in to the realms of fantasy and looking in some different directions for me! We also have some amazing 40k work on here, so lets begin:

1. First up we have an AMAZING Salamanders Land Raider from the desk of Dark Future Games, gives me some interesting ideas for my future forces, lets just hope my skills live up to this awesome work!
2. Over on the White Scars blog we have some interesting conversions of Land Speeder Typhoons, good idea and looks like they might pan out very well once finish.
3. On The Quiet Limit Of The World we have some nice looking straight forward Death Company Marines, something that despite being nothing fancy looks awesome.
4. Zen 40,000 becomes Zen WHFB this week with an update on his rather awesome Skaven war machine, looks good and cant wait to see it with some paint on.
5. Finally over on Dave Taylor Miniatures we have the start of his Empire Artillery Train, a great looking project and a great inspiration to the fantasy players out there.

And here is your Friday 5 Finds sneak peek:

Friday 5 finds - 12.11.10

Hi folks, time for this Friday's five finds, got some interesting Marines, a touch of Guard,sprinkling of other forces and a hint of terrain, so here we are:

1. Winterdyne Commissions has an awesome looking Black Templar Deathwatch members, shows a number of great trick and styles, the whole blog is well worth looking over.
2. Ron over at From The Warp has a great step by step guide on how to convert a helmet for Chaplains and some examples of how to use it.
3. Byzantum Empire has another update on his growing Guard force with some great pics of his latest additions to the force in the form of two Leman Russes.
4. E-ville Armoury has some pics showing some very nice images from the recent More Rock Con, some nice models and some ingenious forces.
5. Finally Okidus has some pics up of his latest INSANE terrain projects, using some of the biggest and most expensive pieces he can find for them!

And here is your Friday 5 Finds sneak peek:

Friday 5 Finds - 05.11.10

Here are this weeks Five Finds, no rhyme or reason to them, no theme to them this week just links ive come across in the last week that i like:

1. Over at My Wargame.com we have an excellent article on reviving and remodelling the Adeptus Arbites using cadians and greenstuff. very nice and a good job of bringing the models back to life.
2. Master of the Forge has the start of an excellent "Artscale" chaos space marine squad, the parts are in and the first completed model looks awesome.
3. Massive Voodoo has some of his latest WIP projects, a spectacular nurgle marine and a larger scale saxon warrior, both very drool worthy!
4. On Chapter of the Iron Skull we have his almost completed Iron Skulls Captain Marcus looking rather clean and swanky.
5. Finally on Dark Future Games we have an outrageously over the top Salamander Fireborn conversion - its big, its metal and its mental!!

Finally here is this weeks Five Finds Blog sneak peak:

Friday 5 Finds - 29.10.10

Well folks, this weeks 5 finds has a slight Halloweeny feel to it! A lot of undead and mutant action in this week so enjoy this spooktacular (sorry) edition:

1. Bell of Lost Souls have some entertaining kill team style rules for zombie games! well worth a download and definitely something to get the modelling minds tingling with excitement.
2. More undead warriors now with Winterdynes awesome Forge world Chaplain dreadnought, some nice tips and tricks and a subtly different colour scheme.
3. Next we have Strictly Averages mutant Chaos Space Marines, though whilst I say Chaos who knows but the man himself, there are some nice conversions and good use of the various plastic parts out there.
4. Up now we have the hordes of the Imperial Guard with Admiral Drax converting a nice little Chimera run about for his forces.
5. Finally over on Path of the Exodite we have an excellent scratch built Eldar Fighter, its clean lines almost redeem your eyes from the undead action above!

Here is this weeks Friday 5 Finds sneak peak pic:

Enjoy Folks and be safe if your out and about and up to ghoulish fun! I will probably be out and about too this weekend so not much to update during this time, all thats left to say is "see you all on monday and:

Friday 5 finds - 15.10.10

A Day late and a dollar....extra??? Today I have your 5 finds plus a link to a chance to win some goodies! This week there is a mix of flavours, from the Emperors finest to the lap dogs of chaos, so enjoy!

1. Bell of Lost Souls have an interesting little rumours update for the potential new Grey Knights codex, interesting little bit but who knows what might happen in coming months!
2. Dark Future Games have some rather awesome looking Choas Space Marine Khornate cavalry on display, some very nice little details.
3. Galaxy in Flames have their take on a Space Sharks make over, finally a camoflagued marine that actually seems to work, almost worthy of a look in itself!
4. Mini Swelter have some more updates on their project to electrify and light up a thunderhawk, this is definately one to follow.
5. Kens 40k also has the start of a nice looking Imperial fists force and helpfully provides a few links and details on how to paint a good yellow.

Finally time for you extra link of the week! Dragon Forge Design have a post up at present asking what buyers and fans would like to see as well as a chance to win some of their bits and pecies. so head on over for your chance to win!

• Dragon Forge Designs comment to win competition!

Friday 5 Find Picture of the week:

Friday 5 finds - 08.10.10

This weeks five finds is a week early as this weekend I am on a small tour of Northern Cathedral cities, visiting York and Lincoln. Plenty of opportunities for visiting different GW stores and of course for seeing some rather tasty Gothic architecture. May even have a few pics.
Anyway heres this weeks 5 finds:

1. First this week we have a post on Bolter and Chainsword where Badaboom shares some of his artwork for the B&C Dornian Heresy fluff. Other pics are in there for fantasy and other 40k stuff but the Blood Angel is superb.
2. Commisar bob has his first test mini complete for his take on the Blood pact from the Gaunts novels, the Plague Pact, a very nice take with some simple ideas.
3. Awakening yennead has a rather tasty looking Vendetta on his blog with some superb detailing, makes a great looking peice and would certainly look good for an Inquisitional force.
4. Cyborg trucker has a little review of the new Quantum Gothic defence weapons. I must say they look rather tasty and certainly will fit in with the imagery of 40k so looks like I might end up ordering some.
5. Finally our comedy touch, Defending humanity has some pics of his clown ogres, amusing and quite well pulled off.

Finally a new bit to add to the Friday 5 Find here is a peak at one of the links from above to tempt you in to reading them:

Enjoy Folks

Friday 5 Finds - 01.10.10

This weeks Five Finds are from the past two weeks as I've been a little remiss of late.

1. Dave Taylor has put up some excellent and highly detailed pics of the Adeptus Custodes army he is selling off for charity. Dave is one of my favourite hobbyists and has inspired many of my projects and keep and eye for my homage to his guard in coming months.
2. From Ron over at From The Warp we have an excellent and highly detailed Dark Apostle conversion, Ron's step by step pics are something I would like to emulate in the future.
3. Heresy Workshop have this simple but effective converison of a Renegade Ogryn with a ripper gun, this shows well how a simple conversion can work.
4. Heresy Legions have some pics of their completed pre heresy Apothecary from their Rogue Trader homage.
5. Finally we have a link to the Wolf templars blog where they have some very cool conversions based on the new Forgeworld marks of armour. Very nice work.

Finally to make up for the lack or recent posting here are two additional links that I thought you all might enjoy:

• Another link to Dave Taylors blog, this time this link shows his excellent conversion of the primarch of the Space Wolves, Leman Russ.
• Sadoukad has an excellent post about his latest give away for his Copperhead Valkyrie and his link to the BFG bits store

Friday 5 Finds - 10.09.10

Here are this weeks Five Finds. I was also wondering before the links are added what format you readers would prefer the title in, would you prefer:
Friday 5 Finds
or
Friday 5 Finds - 10.09.10
I thought this might make it easier for those looking for previous articles, please let me know which you would prefer or any other suggestions you may have.

So here are the Five Finds:

1. Heresy Workshop have another excellent entry in their Rogue Trader Era modeling project - one I may have to borrow once I'm back up to speed - This weeks entry is a RT Era MP.
2. Keeping on with the Forgeworld Space Marines Theme Artic Templars have the first in what appears to be a series of MK3 armour conversions
3. The Sons of Taurus have an excellent little article on Killzone Teams showing some old models, some cool conversions and some sample lists, enjoy.
4. 40k Hobby Blog have a very effective and nice looking Tau test model, certainly a blog worth keeping an eye on to see how the force develops.
5. Galaxy in Flames have some pretty sweet looking Squats models just to give a true retro feel to this Friday, definitely worth keeping an eye on them to see how they progress.

That's all folks, Enjoy!

Friday 5 Finds - 04.09.10

Well folks after yesterdays Forgeworld email I thought it best to hold off for a day before posting the five finds to give people chance to see the latest news and also get a good look at the links. so with out further ado this weeks Five Finds:

1. This week Dave Taylor announces another charity project for himself, this guy does so many things to move the hobby on and point it in a great direction, kudos to the gent and get yourself over there for more information and details. I will be hopefully getting some more info off him once its available so keep your eyes peeled!
2. Next we have the 291st Death Korps of Krieg blog, its that good and the models that inspiring that rather then a single post I have decided to reference the whole blog! seriously worth a look for those interested in DKOK and any modelling ideas.
3. We now have Masteroftherforge.com, again an excellent blog, once again I'm linking to the whole blog as there are some truly special Marine conversions on there and some of the best modelling tips about. A great site for any Space Marine and Lamenters fan.
4. On to Bushido's Blog now with a brilliant looking squad of converted Combat Medics for the Sons of Horus, one of the best "counts as" squads out there. simple and convincing.
5. Dark Future Games have a post up linking to and talking about the now Ad-mech Shoulder pads, Skull Space Marine Helmets as well as icons for Flesh Tearers and Space Wolves Rhino bits from chapterhouse studios.

As I've been late in posting the Friday 5 Finds I thought I would treat you to a couple of other links to help you pass the time, so here they are:

• Mywargame.com presents a count down of their Top Ten Pre-Heresy models and sites.
• 40k Hobby blog discuss Army Painter Primer and its issues, but does show a nice looking mini.
• Awakening Ynnead gives some nice simple tips on how to paint chipped metal and provides some useful links.

Well folks that's it, enjoy and if you have anything you would like to add or an article you would like published on the blog please drop me a line and I will do my best to accommodate you.

Friday 5 Finds - 06.08.10

This weeks FFF has a distinct Space Marine flavour to it, with a slight hint of guard in one of the tutorials, so here are my top picks from the past week:

1. An AMAZING Renaissance Marine force, that is now up for sale (get in there you might get lukcy) over on Hogs of War - unable to credit a name - but this force is amazing the level of detail that has been put in to it!
2. Some simple but sweet Angels Sanguine conversions from Mr Black over on Mr Black's Conversion and Painting blog. A very sweet librarian conversion that may find its way in to one of my forces some how!
3. A rather impressive True Scale Space Marine Scout squad by Lamenter(?) over on Master of the Forge. Also shows some of his other True Scale work. if your a TS fan this is the place to be.
4. A well painted and subtle Lamartes - nothing flash which makes it work - from Steve over at E's Painted Minis
5. A tutorial on casting your own bases from Drathmere over on the 40k Hobby Blog

Hope your as interested as I have been.