Garfy

Garfy is a UK hobbyist with over twenty years experience. He's a regular contributor to White Dwarf Magazine including 4 Armies of the Month features and has written articles for the Warhammer Community site. He holds 3 UK Golden Demon finalist pins and 2 Armies on Parade Gold award. His other passion is photography and cinematography, which he uses to great effect to deliver high quality content to the blog.
Paints & tools, Reviews

Review: RDG Tools Airbrush and Compressor

Alamo recently contacted me on Tale of Painters enquiring about airbrushes. I thought I’d write up a review on the kit I use. This kit pictured above can be bought from the link below: http://www.rdgtools.co.uk/acatalog/AIRBRUSH_KITS_AND_SPARES.html The first thing you will notice is the price, it’s...
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Dreadfleet: WIP of the Bloody Reaver

A little WIP shot of the Bloody Reaver I’m working on. I can’t say I’m enjoying it much. It’s quite challenging model to paint with so many pieces. But I’m slowly getting there.
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40k

Thunderhawk: We need guns… lots of guns. Part 2.

I’ve been very quietly recently… sorry about that. It was my birthday the other day and I was away for the weekend swimming with Sharks in Europe’s largest shark aquarium. It was awesome. Enough about my birthday though, I’m just starting to get my hobby...
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40k

Thunderhawk: We need guns… lots of guns. Part 1.

There are lots of parts for the Heavy Bolters as you can see above, read on to see the wing bolters come together. After I’d cut off all the excess and and cleaned up the parts, I realised the parts didn’t fit (no change there...
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40k

Thunderhawk: Front wings and aerilons

Having added the the rear tail fin in the last blog entry, I continued down the aerilon route and added the front wings, their aerilons and the main wing aerilons. First things first, a nice cup of tea in my favourite mug! Secondly the clean...
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40k, Showcase

Showcase: Completed Grey Knight Purgation Squad

Regular followers of the blog would have seen the WIP around a week ago, well I finished my Grey Knight Purgation squad yesterday. I don’t normally spend this long (23 days) painting 5 models, but I was working on these in-between the Thunderhawk, which is...
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Showcase

W40K Boba Fett Conversion

I made this model in August as a bit of a fun project. I know this is a GW only blog, but technically I can share this with you guys because it’s made out of 40k parts and is 40k scale. I used Catchan Commander...
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40k

Thunderhawk: Tail fin

Well today’s entry is all about the rear stabilising tail fin and ailerons. I’ve cleaned the pieces up as shown in the pic above. In these pictures you can see a groove in the engine, it’s important this is facing upwards otherwise the tail fin...
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