Last weekend, I embarked down south, to the little town of Irthlingborough, to engage in one of the largest and best regarded community events in the heresy.

You’ve possible heard of the Black Books. Maybe seen them referenced. Today we dive into what exactly they were, and why they mattered.

So, you’ve built your Blackshield, now its time to paint it. But how do you make a model that is primarily black interesting?

So, with a brand-new book now on its way, and finally seeing Blackshields enter Heresy 2nd Edition, we thought it would be nice to have a look at how you could go about making some example blackshields. And yes, I am going to type ‘Blackshield’ that many times in this piece.

In 2022 when the Casual and the Damned team started this project, we were riding high. The new edition had come out, new plastic miniatures were rife, and we all had time on our hands to start new things and grow our forces. And we as a team threw ourselves into both making articles and miniatures both.