Zach Roche

Ionus' Sentinels of the Bleak Citadel

Also got a best army nomination. Very happy to get one. #WarhammerCommunity #AgeOfSigmar #Stormcast

There is a profit plan.

I'm really liking this project Liam, can I ask where exactly you get these models from? I know you said they're trench crusade but I can't seem to find them online

Trench Crusade Court of the Seven Headed Serpent Desecrated Saint. Large humanoid figure with a smaller figure crouched inside. The larger figure weirds multiple weapons across four arms and is armoured in captured sheilds

Rear of the desecrated saint, captured crucifixes and strung up bodies

Think I'm done with the Desecrated Saint.

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5 sons of Horus breachers now ready for combat 🛡️✅ #hobbystreak day 463

Congrats on 800 days!

Spartans looking cool side by side

Standard bearer

I forgot my red paint so these guys only got their bases blocked in.

#hobbystreak day 800

Spartans with the bulk of their work done. The simple scratching does so much.

Standard bearer for the Praetors command squad. I will do a champion for them but I am not sure how many.

Second merc lance

#Ironwarriors #horusheresy #wip #battletech

For the 30th anniversary of #DeltaGreen I’m considering expanding IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES with cut elements (an operation in the Château des Portes, a resolution system using the King in Yellow tarot, and vast notes and other structural suggestions from the 11 times I have run it). Thoughts? #TTRPG

‪More coming in. So loud. Pure terrorism that the world has just decided to accept as the “norm”. Terrorists who are welcomed and celebrated at sports events, film festivals, game awards. No justice, just cowardice and appeasement.‬

A digital mockup of how sweet this would look

Step by step on the bases. I put down some martian ironcrust on some bases to hide mistakes. Then a layer of agrax earthshade -> drybrush squig orange -> drybrush fire dragon bright. Longest stage was waiting for the wash to dry #hobbystreak day 462

So good. I love seeing the classics

So much better than the power diaper

A miniature of a bald man in golden armour holding a large hammer in one hand and a two headed eagle is perched on his other outstretched arm. His shoulders have a dark fur gloof from which hangs a deep red cape.

The Cooler Coteaz ™️

#WarhammerCommunity #miniatures #minipainting

Crimson fists?! Incredible! ✊

Much obliged. A long project but a good one I think

I got them all assembled and started the highlights. Now it's coming together #hobbystreak day 461

After a lonnggg day at work I just grabbed 25 bases and put a layer of martian ironearth on them #hobbystreak day 460

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

I am honestly quite close to having the core of an army of these guys now, don't you know?

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Wrapped up my Impulsor/Gladiator

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I'm never doing it this way again. I think in future I might blue tack on the backpacks, because removing the backpack gets you access to most of those awkward places, but my days of blue tacking shoulder pads are solidly behind me

PAIN! I only blue tacked in the shoulder pads and heads to get access to hard to reach details. Today I had to remove all the blue tack and fix any minor errors. It took agesssssss. But you can see all the headless horsemen lookalikes #hobbystreak day 459

The Conservatives are, after all, well placed to know a lot about this morass, since they introduced it. In 2012, the coalition government launched the Plan 2 system of student loans and raised university fees across Britain to £9,000 per annum. To put Plan 2 in simple terms, loan repayments were laid out via a seemingly innocuous series of calculations. The first to consider is the threshold at which repayments begin. If you left education with, say, £27,000 worth of debt, you would only start paying it back once you met a predetermined salary. On its face, this might not seem like a particularly onerous demand. “Low-earning” graduates would avoid being saddled with repayments before they were financially able to begin making them, while their “high earning” peers could start chipping away at their debt, and provide an income stream for the state.

As any of my fellow literature or history graduates will tell you, however, the devil is in the details. For one thing, the threshold at which someone becomes a high earner was never particularly high and, following years of inflation, is now preposterously low. Rachel Reeves’ announcement that the government are freezing the threshold at April 2026 levels (£29,385) for a further three years only makes this worse. The real living wage for London is currently calculated at £28,860, which means that any London-based graduate making just £40 more per month than the minimum needed to live there will automatically begin paying their debt. In real terms, this means practically any graduate in any form of full-time work will be paying as much as 9 per cent of their income to the state, and for a very, very long time. Worse still, the amount owed by those graduates below the threshold does not remain static – it accrues interest, year on year, whether you’re working for low wages, volunteering, taking a career break or on maternity leave, ensuring that if you do pass the threshold some time later, you will be returning to find your original £27,000 much enlarged.

If the state’s attitude to what constitutes “high earnings” makes you think it’s oblivious to the concept of inflation, let me put your mind at ease. When it comes to the calculation of student loan interest, they are very conscious of inflation indeed. Each year, the interest charged on student loans is calculated by two components. The first is the Retail Price Index (RPI), which generally records a higher number than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Governments prefer the latter, lower figure for many of their other calculations, just not when it comes to adding extra debt to every graduate in the country. To this is added a second component, a percentage tied to each graduate’s earnings, meaning that as your salary increases so too does the interest you’re paying on the loan you took out. If you think this seems like a predatory and punitive way to bilk students for as much money, and over as long a period of time, as possible, then you’re just about up to speed on this scandal, which amounts to a regressive stealth tax on every graduate in the UK. One which, it’s calculated, you would need to be earning £66,000 per year to pay off in anything like a timely fashion.

The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.

6 skorpekhs destroyers done! Ready for more tournaments and friendly games

All 25 guys are now shaded, I can finally see the finish line #hobbystreak day 458

Today I finished of a couple of squads of Havocs to the join the True Sons, still need to figure out what direction this army is going to go in

#WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer40k #ChaosSpaceMarines #ChaosHavocs

Batch painting gives and takes. I'm close to the end of my patience on this, gotta wrap it up soon. Today I shaded 5 more, leaving just 5 to go #hobbystreak day 457

Every single model is like a resident evil boss

Hunter of the Left Hand Path for trench crusade. Humanoid figure in armour with a cloak and his left arm has exploded into a bow

Hunter of the Left Hand Path for trench crusade. Humanoid figure in armour with a cloak and his left arm has exploded into a bow

Two Wretched for trench crusade Semi naked figures in chains and masks, with trench clubs

Two Wretched for trench crusade Semi naked figures in chains and masks, with trench clubs

Today I finished up the Hunter of the Left Hand Path, and then started and finished two Wretched.

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