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 contributed articles for the Warhammer Community site. He holds 3 UK Golden Demon finalist pins and 2 Armies on Parade Gold awards. His other passion is photography and cinematography, which he uses to great effect to deliver high-quality content to the blog.
Showcase: Space Marine Heroes Brother Gaiun
Stahly is a bloody nice bloke! He sent me this Blind Box Space Marine Hero as a Christmas present. (read about them here in his review). I’ve had an itch to paint a Dark Angel for a while. I think they might be my favourite...
WIP: Primaris Ultramarines Lieutenant #1
Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings! I almost wanted to name this blog post WIP Punisher Marine. I think he has an air of Jon Bernthal about him, it might just be me because I’ve been watching the Punisher on Netflix for the past week. As...
Showcase: Ultramarines Primaris Ancient with banner
This feels good. Finishing this model has been such a long time coming! I’m not a fan of half finished projects and the longer I leave it the harder it is to come back to it. I’m really happy with myself for pulling my finger...
Chat: 1990s 40k Wargames Terrain
For a while now, I’ve had this itch. A nostalgia itch. I remember an issue of White Dwarf (roughly issue 180ish) where they showed in detail how to make a ruined building from foamcore and plasticard. I don’t have that issue anymore so to scratch...
Showcase: Shadespire Bloodbound Warband
Shadespire has a really low model count. Only 8 models in total and boy are those models great. Each one has the detail and dynamic pose of a character level model. For that reason, I took my time with the Bloodbound and I love the...
Chat: Beer Mat or Tea Coaster?
Do you remember my post about selling my Anti-spill paint pot holders? Well I’ve expanded my range with these fun, hobby orientated tea coasters. Immortalising the words of the talented Mr Rhodes these coasters/beer mats are a tribute to the Lord of Layers Duncan. I’ve...
WIP: Shadespire Blood Bound Warband
Wow it’s been a while! The last time I posted about painting was on the 24th of September and I still haven’t finished that Primaris Ancient! I have bought the excellent Shadespire core set and dived straight in and started painting the vicious Blood Bound...
Chat Garfy’s Man Cave #5
Welcome back to my man cave. This is the fifth update in the series that spans 6 years. Join me after the jump for the latest tour around my hobby haven. Firstly, lets address the Elephants in the room. I have a new iMac (been...
Tutorial: How to paint NMM style blades / swords
In this enlightening tutorial I share my secrets on painting flawless blends for NMM blades. The magnification on these pictures is huge but the blends still hold up under such close scrutiny. It looks even better in real life (if I do say so myself)....
WIP: Ultramarines Primaris Ancient #3
Quick update today as I squeeze a few minutes painting in at t0he start of my Sunday. I need to make a concerted effort to finish this model in the next couple of days. I just have fine edge highlights and freehand left to do.
















