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ne well i recently discovered something else that affects a fair few of us that has gone missing those of you that like to buy second hand models and strip them without stinking out the house may be familiar with biostrip 20 sadly this too has now been discontinued there are plenty of other options of course but i specifically like to use something mild and odourless but still with the ability to get that decades old paint shifted enter the new contender with a no frills description of a name i decided to give this home strip branded paint stripper a go on opening there is some odour but not too offensive less runny than biostrip and almost transluscent the texture is more gelatinous which actually helps as the product remains on the surface of the model meaning you don t need to use as much to submerge your tin soldier as this was a first time effort i didn t want to melt my first victims so these second edition 40k starter set space marines were only covered for around half an hour a gentle scrub with a brush and a tiny bit of scraping in the recessed details and they came out pretty good there is still some paint on them but it was a very quick turn around if they were metal i would probably risk them overnight for a full clean needless to say not a bad first go i think this is good replacement at 11 quid for a similar sized tub as the biostrip not badly priced either posted by peter brian at 3 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels biostrip 20 paint and varnish remover stripping models stripping toy soldiers sunday february 1 2026 clearing a blockage people talk about writer s block as this affliction that prevents authors from getting constructive work done towards their novel or article it s a commonly know affliction some prolific authors also label it as a myth and the excuse of unimaginative or lazy writers myself i am not sure i certainly have moments where i know i should be writing a blog post but cannot bring myself to think of anything to write about i don t think it s a block so much as the result of my brain getting easily distracted all of the time i am sure i have mentioned before that i try to write at least one blog post a month a self inflicted deadline that serves no purpose other than to keep this blog from drying up and ensures i keep my writing part of my brain exercised you will notice then that i missed january entirely and february is going to have to be a double post month some months i have loads to say a sensible man would therefore save a post or two for later there isn t really any relevant time stamps on these posts unless i am discussing a particular show that i am attending fundamentally though this blog has always been a whimsical vanity project so you get what you get i have found that blog posts without photos tend to feel short and if i were chasing the stats of people reading this posts without photos don t perform as well i have been in a hobby free period since christmas so that has also meant no photos have been taken in january either that also scuppered any inspiration for a post luckily in that respect i am a tiny bit organised since around 2018 when i started this blog any photos i have taken that are vaguely hobby related have been moved into a toy soldiers folder on my phone in more recent years i have discovered that i need a second folder for the same but photos that have subsequently been posted online whether it be in this blog or something like instagram it is embarrassing how many there are in both but luckily having a good couple of hundred in the non used folder means that this post now has some models that i finished painting in september last year these are all from crooked dice a company that continues to itch my middle aged mans need for nostalgia a need for nostalgia that i am fully self aware of as being unnecessary and sometimes disappointing when i scratch the itch i recently finally got around to watching a dvd in my collection that has sat untouched for years i watched the first episode of visionaries a terrible cartoon from the late eighties based on a toy range that childhood me was desperate to own but i know now the toys and the cartoon were both less impressive than any memory of them i might have but back to the hobby block yes i haven t done any hobby this last month but that s okay i have spent more time video gaming again with a touch of nostalgia back when i was a student i remember getting a bit too into playing the tomb raider games late into the night when i probably should have been doing coursework instead now i am playing the re releases of all six games on the nintendo switch i am once again finding myself constantly getting that itch to do just one more level i did declare before i started this marathon to my family that i would get a bit too distracted with these games and my prediction did come true this time though i have managed to keep it just about under control and the time stealing it has created has only been affecting other hobbies and not the essentials like work or other adult tasks additionally though i do think that there is a touch of a mental block at the present with my hobby time i do have a couple of projects built and primed ready to paint and they just don t seem to giving me the itch to get them done it s not a problem i am still playing games at the club and other non war dolly related hobby tasks are getting some attention so it definitely isn t anything that could be described as a funk i would probably go as far to say i am just enjoying a short break from the lead i regularly repeat myself telling you all that hobbies are there to help you when you need them and you should not feel bad for stepping away for a short period this 21st century obsession with monetising everything in our lives does make me cringe sometimes a recent tv show about pet cats noted that people buy cats specifically because they think they will be instagrammable what happened to just getting a pet i m sounding like a grumpy old man but i don t care that is ridiculous so when inspiration does return i am sure my obsessive brain will dive straight back in and give me plenty more for me to talk to you about in the meantime feel free to keep wasting time scrolling the internet or paint a toy soldier or just veg out in front of the tv and watch low budget terrible movies all time well spent in my opinion posted by peter brian at 10 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels crooked dice hobby time teenage mutant ninja turtles wargaming writers block monday december 22 2025 a very merry lead filled christmas to you all this will the be the eighth christmas for playing with lead not too shabby eh i am surprised i manage to find things to write about sometimes i m not a youtube personality constantly being invited to shows or being sent freebie items all the time to review so sometimes i do just end up waffling about absolutely nothing i am sure i have probably also repeated myself on the odd occasion this month i did do something exciting though in the grand scheme of things loads of people have been and there are posts and videos all over the web about hobbyists making the journey but to us it was exciting like a trip to a tiny wargaming mecca we went to warhammer world the illustrious opponent myself and a couple other friends all set off super early on a saturday morning to make the trip to our wargaming disneyland as it was december it was all decked out for christmas with decorations and christmas related merchandise available to buy not enough though in my opinion where is the abbess sanctorum tree topper we took the obligatory shot in front of the rhino apc and space marine posing like an ageing soft metal band in the drizzling rain we actually took this photo at the end of our day and as you can see we are still pretty happy the place was busy obviously but we did manage to get around the exhibition and see all the amazing dioramas on display i really enjoyed it and i do think it is worth the entry fee i would say a couple of negatives though from my perspective there was not enough historical models on display one tiny room at the beginning showing some of gws earlier work and a couple of cabinets dotted about showing a bit of history this did mean though that i got to see the actual model from the battle report that inspired my entry into the world of warhammer 40k yep the original tycho model back from white dwarf 166 it was inspiring back then and great to see in real life a couple of the armies on display had been made up from different studio armies their colour schemes being slightly different shades maybe the studio painters didn t write down their paint recipes before passing on the baton to another crew this is me being picky though it was still great to be among all those dioramas and one highlight was a 10 year old boy and one of our party enthusiastically discussing how awesome orks are and how no one else understands this the displays were impressive and i took an awful lot of photos most of which don t really come out well as the rooms were actually really brightly lit a combination of glass cabinets and lots of lights do not great photos make it does mean though that if you actually go there everything does look really great i must add that we did not just visit warhammer world that weekend we had a great welcome at warlord games store and made some purchases there we also went to a small independent gathering of traders on sunday afternoon including warp miniatures and ramshackle games among others we also had a super quick run around nottingham castle that was a great deal of fun so that s it for now folks may i predictably take this opportunity to wish you and yours a merry christmas or if this festive period is not your jam then may you have an opportunity for a rest from the business of life if you are exchanging gifts i hope you get that hobby kit you ve been using all your maturity to resist purchasing yourself i am sure you deserve it even if you already have a stack of unpainted lead to deal with already happy christmas all posted by peter brian at 11 18 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 2 2025 waagh if you wanna go faster the christmas season is looming fast my cans of primer are too cold in the garage and it is already dark when i finish work luckily working at home means i can nip out at lunch and prime the odd model for painting spray cans have to have a good warming hug for a bit as well as the traditional rattle before using it hasnt stopped me painting but i have slowed down a bit mainly because my leadpile is running pretty low so low in fact that i have decided not to take part in the analogue hobbies challenge this year i just don t feel i have enough models to paint and post about weekly for a full three months i mean i m not saying i have nothing the day i have my entire collection painted will be a miracle day gaming wise though it s been pretty busy we have been playing heroquest at the club tried the new dragon rampant 2nd edition rules and we are starting a bloodbowl league it has been like we are tabletop gaming in the 90 s again using my bloodbowl models i did realise they are looking a bit battered and the painted quality is not up to todays standard i d like to maybe give them a biostrip bath and repaint but i m not sure i would get them turned around before their next match it is very tempting to buy a new team though the youngest has done his warhammer wish list it s a completely confusing list with models from about four different armies trying to explain to the staff member that our kid just wants the models so he can put together his own amalgamated army for xenos rampant rather than playing 40k just generated a befuddled reaction i did try gently pushing the choices towards models i would prefer to paint as it is muggins here that will do the task i must admit to being bored now of painting ultramarine space marines my own wish list has some more bits to go with my new ork army i have been having fun painting the army does now fill the storage currently assigned to it maybe that is a sign to stop or buy a bigger box i wouldn t say no to a battlewagon i have already added this beast though it had to be painted red as we all know say with me paint it red and it goes faster i did enjoy the following in the instructions of the snazzwagon turns out it isn t quite difficult it s downright impossible i ended up snapping his wrist on the arm holding the rollbar some extra tamiya and a pair tweezers solved the issue though the whole project involved building it pausing midway through painting details that no one would see then continuing the build i can assure you there is realistic leather super tiny cracking detail on the seat rest of the driver that noone will ever see all the effort went on the interior and the outer shell you can see was a rush job as i began to tire posted by peter brian at 3 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 000 boomdakka snazzwagon buggy space orks warhammer warhammer 40 warhammer 40k saturday october 4 2025 nostalgic painting there is something comforting about nostalgia i was trying to explain to my son the other day that the music he is listening to now will be with him for the rest of his life yes as grown ups we do discover new music but the albums and singles we listen to between the ages of 11 and 20 will for most of us define us as people with few exceptions any songs i loved at that age i still will happily sing along to while i type away at my day job using headphones of course i don t need anyone else to be subjected in fact as i type this i am listening to a track which was the first cd single i ever bought i m too young to be a vinyl purchaser in my youth although older siblings did own some i already had an extensive collection of tapes mostly copied from siblings or the library or that excellent nostalgic method recording the top 40 on a sunday night this cd was my first pocket money music purchase that i chose purely myself and not influenced by anyone else s suggestions go listen to it here and then come back i ll wait welcome back it s certainly different right i won t apologise i loved it and stand by that what i am trying to say through the medium of terrible stop motion animated rock music is sometimes something has an enormous appeal to us because it reminds us of the time that we started to develop our own tastes and opinions and start to become individuals rather than a combination of the influence of our parents and older siblings this is why a lot of gamers my age have a real love for the models and style of painting from way back when warhammer 40k was in it s second edition you already know i do dear 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