The Magmahold

 I didn't get round to doing a hobby round-up post in March, so this is going to be a bumper post covering two months of hobby progress. Last month's goals 1. Paint the Mortek Crawler: done. This felt quite tricky to paint, because it features a lot of areas of bone colour which given the fairly dark scheme for my OBR could easily have been quite boring. I ended up introducing a second bone colour of dark grey tinted purple to try to make it a bit less plain, and am reasonably happy with how it came out. 2. Paint the Underworlds Seraphon warband: done. I'd been looking forward to these, but the colour scheme I'd planned didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, and I ended up painting them pretty quickly. They're probably my least favourite of the Direchasm Underworlds warbands I've painted so far, but at least I'm still on track with my goal of painting each warband before the next is released. 3. Convert and paint a Celestial Hurricanum for my ghost dw...

 On the Saturday of the Easter bank holiday weekend, I played in the ‘Straight Outta Shadespire XIV’ Warhammer Underworlds tournament, a best of one championship format event played over webcam, with a special highlander rule that meant each entrant had to take a different warband. As the name suggests, this is the latest in a series of webcam tournaments that have been running since the pandemic put an end to face to face organised play. It was the time I’ve played in one, I’d been tempted before but put off by worrying that my slightly spotty internet connection might not be up to it. Having recently got a new router that excuse no longer applied, so I figured I’d give it a go. I ended up taking the Godsworn Hunt, which is probably the Underworlds warband I’ve had the most experience with, though less so in recent times. I’d probably have gone with Khagra’s Ravagers had they been free when I signed up to the tournament, but someone had already taken them, and though that player...