About

My name is Jamie and by day I'm a working journalist with about 20 years of words and pictures across Scotland under my by-line.

In my free time, I paint miniatures.

I've been doing this off and on for most of my life, having first been introduced to the Warhammer 40K franchise by my dad some time around 1993, when I vividly remember buying a bag full of Blood Angels and then painting them all in thick, red enamel paint from Humbrol. Straight from the tiny pot.

Between school and work, it wasn't until 2017, at a particularly low point in my personal life, I jumped back into the hobby proper.

And some time after the pandemic, I got really into painting.

I like to paint fast with a limited palette, and I tend to lean into the grimdark aspect of the lore for inspiration. Tanks are beaten up, armour is scratched and scuffed, and the landscape is dustbowl wastelands scarred by millennia of conflicts.

This has served me well so far, and I have several first place finishes in painting competitions run by shops in my neck of the woods including: Best Painted Army, Best Horus Heresy Squad, and Best 40K Vehicle.

Aside from this, I run Warhammer 40K events of my own in a local shop that's nice enough to have strangers come in and roll dice every month.

Warhammer has given me a lot, and this tiny corner of the internet is where I'm going to try and give something back. If I can help at least one person in their own journey in this massive world Games Workshop has created, then that's good enough for me.