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Beyond soaring mountains lie the vast Ashlands, a harsh patchwork of landscapes varying from steppe to lava pools and giant briar forests, cut through by dry wadies, gaping earthquake fissures and unclean streams alike, and dotted by oasises that are all too often toxic. Foreigners' babbling...

Virentian Dwarves of the Wrathful Mountains[/b]']Virentian Dwarves of the Wrathful Mountains Ladies and gentlemen, the historically based fantasy world of Warhammer, beyond naval expeditions, found one way of pitting Dwarfs against Lizardmen. This was by the means of the lost hold of Karak Zorn...

Howdy folks, Me and a Gothenburger went to a tag team tournament in Västerås during the weekend, the same one that Cavetroll attended. This is a brief report, because it would otherwise have been one of constant, utterly constant dice misfortunes. Never have we seen such abysmally poor dice...

Conversion Ideas For Byzantine Vermin The Vermin Swarm of the Ninth Age is based on the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantines or Rûm, the surviving Roman state in the east which centered on the nigh-impregnable crossroads city of Constantinople and which survived century upon century...

Howdy folks! This is just a quick mention with link for those interested in Warhammer and Chaos Dwarfs, or just curious overall for this largely community-developed faction. A great amount of stories, songs and fables (some illustrated) have been written for Warhammer Fantasy's Chaos Dwarfs...

Koghi Empire of Gold There has been a lot of brainstorming and homebrew development for the Ninth Age's version of the rich empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai in West Africa, all ruled from the saddle by mighty warriors and slavers. This is one example of something that might have chafed for a...

Check out the Oldhammer Art Contest! Deadline 22nd of March 2019. Feel like doodling something '80s style, by any chance? Slanns, perhaps? ;) Miniature prizes up for grabs.

CiLiNDr0 on Deviantart asked if I wanted to contribute a Celtic warhorn doodle to his brewing Kingdoms of Myth game. So here goes a quick little doodle, based on the Gundestrup cauldron. Drawn after a bout of sickness following New Year, but had to wait with uploading until the pale scan image...

Dread Elves of Maphria Island We are developing Dark Elves based on the slaving Sultanate of Zanzibar and colonial safari. Matthew Klaas de Witte accepted a commission from me to design a Dread Elf from Maphria, with a leopard skin and an enslaved Pygmy Halfling. Gut feeling told me he was...

Frost Elves: Northern Sylvan Elves Based on Finnic Tribes Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to go full circle where the Aurora Borealis dances across the sky. JRR Tolkien, the inventor of the classic historically-based fantasy genre (that Warhammer Fantasy and the Ninth Age are both part of)...

It's that time of the year again when it's time to shovel snow... and get a good excuse at making some quick snow sculptures! Anyone up for a challenge? Make the Old Ones proud. :) And some old ones from previous years:

A friend of mine, who is known as Deviatecod online, have a neighbour and friend who is into Warhammer 40'000. Recently, this 40k collector and another mate of his got the idea to have his Ork Stompa turned into a Freebooter Pirate Stompa. Consequently, Deviatecod cooked up a lot of detail ideas...

These 28mm miniatures sculpted by Fuggit Khan are out now! Order your Bazooka Team and Big Hats here. Priced upon release at €12 per each bazooka team of 2 miniatures, with various bits and 7 hats. A kit of the same 7 hats only is also available, priced at €6,5 upon release. Bases are NOT...

The movie director D.W. Griffith's strange and highly expensive film Intolerance from 1916 is to date the only movie featuring independent Babylon that I know of. Fantastical sets. There are elephant sculptures in there for some reason, but overall it looks rather brilliant in black-and-white...

These miniature bits are out now! Order your dungeon clutter here: Also on Etsy. The ceramics and household wares are priced at €6 per each kit upon release, while the dessicated corpse comes in at €3,8. Cast in whitemetal by Griffin Moulds JJP. Size comparisons...

My friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial for making a ramshackle post-apocalyptic drinking hole. Lots of similar stuff to be found on his blog:

My friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial most useful for adding detail and lifelike surroundings to your settings of mad adventure and horrible carnage. His blog is filled with this kind of scratchbuilding stuff. Enter, the dollhouse:

Ladies and gentlemen! Children of all ages! Gather around, come see the marvels and fun, the pranks and the stunts! Hear the music! Laugh at the clowns! For Rotten Factory has launched a new Kickstarter: The Circus has come to town! Paweł Jakub Górecki has worked hard to bring you these...

Over on the Ninth Age, there is a different homebrew ratman army book brewing: Vermin Anteaters. As a homage to that intuitive image of bipedal anteater-men, here's an African cousin of the anteater family, an aardvark. I hope there's space enough for all manner of mammals-turned-humanoids in...