Issue No. VII · Frontier Edition · Spring '26

Battle on your tabletop.
Crafted on ours.

A long-keep specialty for Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, The Old World, and Dungeons & Dragons. Painted minis, primed plastics, sound advice — and a few honest tools to help you field something worth seeing across the table.

Painted Warhammer 40,000 diorama lit by warm side-lighting: a Space Marine command squad advances through broken hive-city terrain in low fog.
Above — Sergeant Greyhold's command squad, painted at the workbench by candlelight. From a forthcoming Painting Showcase feature.

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Four Game Systems

40K · Age of Sigmar · The Old World · Dungeons & Dragons. Stocked deep, known well.

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Backed by the family of specialty shops kitting out hobbyists since the year aught.

From The Workbench · Tools

Honest tools for fielding a better army.

No spreadsheets. No half-finished apps. Two tools, both pulled from the workbench by hand, both meant to be used while the glue dries.

Painted Space Marine command squad arranged on a battle-mat, ready for list construction.

Now Open

Army Builder

Pick a faction, hand-pick the unit roster, watch the points run hot or cold against the legal cap. Save a list, hand it to a friend, take it to the table — or send it straight to the cart, fully kitted out.

Open the Builder
Top-down tabletop view of two painted armies arrayed across modular terrain.

In The Forge · Coming Soon

Battle Simulator

Two armies, one battlefield, the dice in our hands. Pit a saved list against a friend across the wire, or against a generated rival the engine will narrate as the turns roll. Phase Two of the workshop — keep watch.

Ring the bell

Choose Your Game

Six game systems, one workbench.

Each one a curated mini-homepage, not a shelf of SKUs. Pick the war you want to fight; the maps will follow.

A Warhammer 40,000 diorama: armoured infantry across the ruined floor of a hive city.

M41 · The Grimdark

Warhammer 40,000

The Imperium, the Xenos, the lost gods — ten thousand years of war, yours to command.

Enter the 41st Millennium
An Age of Sigmar diorama: shining knights advancing through a fog-bound realm.

The Mortal Realms

Age of Sigmar

Storm-cast and sky-borne — fantasy reborn, big-hearted and bold-edged.

Take to the Realms
The Old World miniatures arrayed for a classic rank-and-file engagement.

Return of the Old World

The Old World

Rank-and-file, banners high — the classic fantasy battlefield is open for business again.

Form the Ranks
D&D rulebooks, dice, and a painted dragon mini on a wooden table.

Adventure Awaits

Dungeons & Dragons

Rulebooks, dice that ring true, minis to fight over — everything the table needs.

Roll Initiative
Hobby supplies — clippers, files, modelling knives — on a paint-spattered workbench.

The Workbench

Hobby Supplies

Clippers, glue, files, brushes, basing material — every tool the workbench asks for.

Stock the Bench
Paint pots arranged on a workbench — the full Citadel range.

The Paint Rack

Paints

Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter — the full rack, sorted by recipe, never by SKU.

Open the Rack

Fan Favourites · This Fortnight

What the players have been buying.

Four packs out the door more often than the rest — across factions, across systems, across the workbench. Honest sellers.

Warhammer 40K Space Marines Combat Patrol box on a white background.
Earn 96 pts

Warhammer 40,000

Space Marines Combat Patrol

★★★★★ 4.9 · 128 reviews

£96.00

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Age of Sigmar Stormcast Vanguard Hunters box on a white background.
Earn 64 pts

Age of Sigmar

Stormcast Vanguard Hunters

★★★★★ 4.8 · 74 reviews

£64.00

Quick view
D&D 2024 Player's Handbook cover, white background.
Earn 50 pts

Dungeons & Dragons

Player's Handbook (2024)

★★★★½ 4.7 · 412 reviews

£49.99

Quick view
Citadel Essentials paint set, white background.
Earn 22 pts

Hobby · Paints

Citadel Essentials Paint Set

★★★★★ 4.9 · 256 reviews

£22.50

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Learn · The Long Read

Honest workbench writing.

Painting recipes, rules tutorials, terrain pieces. Written by hobbyists who'd rather show their working than sell you something.

A painter's hand applying a wash to a Space Marine pauldron under candlelight.
Beginner 12 min read

Painting your first Space Marine — the slow, honest way

Five recipes, four brushes, and the patience to let each coat dry before the next. A primer for the hobbyist who's never opened a pot before.

Read Guide
A 40K rulebook open on a table beside dice and a measuring stick.
Intermediate 18 min watch

10th Ed. 40K — movement, charges, and not losing to a Knight

A practical walk through the rules-as-played, with a few honest tactics worth knowing before you take a list down to the local tournament.

Watch Tutorial
A hand-built ruined-hive terrain piece in progress on a workbench.
Advanced 26 min read

Building a ruined hive-block in a weekend — foam, plaster, patience

A piece of terrain you can walk away from at midnight and still come back to on Sunday. Tools, materials, and a few honest shortcuts.

Read Guide

Creator Partners

The hobbyists worth following.

Painters, narrators, list-builders — partnered with the workshop and pouring their best work into the public square.

Portrait of Bram Pertwee, painter and tournament list-builder.

This Month's Featured

Bram "Old Holloway" Pertwee

  • 40K
  • Age of Sigmar
  • Painting

Forty years a hobbyist, twelve a tournament player, the past three a partnered creator with the workshop. Bram paints by candlelight and writes about it plainly — colour recipes, list theory, and the long, honest arc of getting good at this.

Visit Creator
Marg Wilkes, D&D narrator.

Marg Wilkes

D&D

Sam Foulkes, 40K painter.

Sam Foulkes

40K

Iona Hark, AoS list-builder.

Iona Hark

AoS

Eli Quint, terrain-builder.

Eli Quint

Terrain

Theo Carrow, Old World narrator.

Theo Carrow

Old World

Ada Crane, painting tutor.

Ada Crane

Painting


The Gallery · This Week's Postings

Painted by the customers themselves.

Sent in by hobbyists across the network — nothing staged, nothing studio-lit, just honest work shown plainly.

The Long-Keep Ledger · Loyalty Points

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