tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20945513158025922612024-03-13T14:42:50.624+00:00ilikepaintingleadA mostly old-school citadel based blog mainly focusing on Fantasy mini's from before a lot of people were born that occasional drifts into modern Zombie/Post apocalyptic territory and every now and then becomes all futuristic and sci-fiHeadnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-14861094222713407432014-08-02T10:57:00.000+01:002014-08-02T10:57:33.783+01:00I'M BACK!!!Hello everyone I'm back, I am actually still alive and able to paint. Sorry for the huge absence, last year was fairly shitty and since then I've completely re-launched my life, new job and new home at the other end of the country, I'm now based in sunny Newcastle. I haven't done a huge amount of painting so far so it won't be a glorious return with hundreds of painted mini's but I do have a few to show off so I'll get cracking:<br />
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I think this is a Ral Partha Wraith of some description, I went for a green ghostly scheme this time mostly using the Vallejo fluorescent paints<br />
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I've no idea who manufactured this fella but he's a great little knight, he came as part of a large lot of random ebay wins a long time ago. If it helps anyone identify him he came with his mace as a separate weapon.<br />
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Great old Citadel knight, I went for a different approach on the white jerkin, watered down sky blue over the base white.<br />
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Second old Citadel knight, I've tried to give him a glowing sword but I'm not really sure how it's turned out I think it needs more white highlighting.<br />
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A third Citadel Knight, and below here he is in the middle of the top row.<br />
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Here's a little solid base Gnome or Dwarf assassin that I can't seem to find on the stuff of legends site but I know he's there somewhere.<br />
Lastly on the painted front is my Blood Bowl Team, that I'm putting together for a mini League me my brother and a couple of other people are trying to start up. I've gone for the classic old school Orcs and I have a couple of plastic Black Orcs waiting a coat of paint to add to the team<br />
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I've also decided to make my own 3D dugout for the team, it still needs a ton of detailing, Orcish shields little stretchers etc but it's getting there.<br />
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40k Orc Painboy drafted in as my team Apothecary<br />
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On the great find front I picked this up from the reduced section in TK maxx I think it's supposed to hold spices and other kitchen items but works perfectly for mini's. The section on the right hand side slides underneath the main section perfectly and should paint up quite nice as a display stand.<br />
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Anyway that's enough for my first post in over a year, I've got to pace myself. Give me a shout if you have any questions.</div>
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-71139694775465157812013-08-22T16:18:00.001+01:002013-08-22T16:18:38.267+01:00GOLDEN GOBBO SHIRTSHi all, just a quick update and some shameless self promotion again. I've made the Golden Gobbo available as a T-shirt on my Society6 page:<br />
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He's available on multiple colours and a ton of different formats<br />
If you're quick there's free worldwide shipping until Sunday.<br />
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Incoming blatant self promotion:<br />
In the meanwhile I dug out some of my old drawings and jazzed them up and have made them available for sale through Society6 as an experiment to see if it's actually possible to make any money doodling. So far I only have two drawings up on the site and a few photo's that you can purchase as a framed print, Ipod cover, T-shirt, Hoodie and many other formats. If anyone's actually interested I can probably fire up the Golden Gobbo design that I did as a shirt or art print, let me know in the comments and I'll get it sorted.<br />
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Have a look at the link if anything takes your fancy there's free worldwide shipping until Sunday.<br />
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This is how it appeared on ebay so I took a gamble and placed a bid, the lead gods were smiling that day and verily they decreed that the haul was good and the rot nil. </div>
I'll post up separate pics of everything I've sorted out at the end of the post if you fancy a look.<br />
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Here's a couple of shots of the first two mini's I pulled out the pile and subjected some brush work. First up we have a Fantasy Specials Female Tortouress with sword from around 82 (I think):<br />
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Not sure why I went with the blue on the sword and shield but I think it works really well in contrast with the flesh-tones and the red cape. Not really sure if it's that noticeable but on the left hand side of the base I've added a tiny little mushroom that I knocked up a batch of:</div>
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Next up we have a citadel Barbarian that I can't for the life of me find on Stuff of Legends so I'm not sure what range he's from:<br />
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This week I also came across this great idea from Chris's Gaming Journal that I've stolen, he's basically used a Magic the Gathering card creating program to create cards for his All Things Zombie campaign:</div>
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I ran with this idea and knocked up some cards using the Song of Blades and Heroes rules and an online warband creator (<a href="http://www.wombatzone.com/files/SBHform.html">http://www.wombatzone.com/files/SBHform.html</a>)</div>
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The idea behind the cards is that I can grab any of my painted mini's dig out the corresponding card and knock up a warband quick sharpish, so far I've got about 60 cards and I've just got myself a printer so I don't have to sneak print things at work anymore and I can churn out cards as and when I finish a mini.<br />
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The warband creator lets you create brand new creatures and classes and totals up the skills etc and gives you a points cost which I've added to the top right of the card.<br />
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Back to the initial haul, I've managed to strip a lot of the stuff already and undercoated and based up some choice pieces ready to sit on my shelves for an age, I'll save listing where everything's from and which range until they re actually finished but as far as I can tell most of the mini's are really early Citadel slotta and pre-slotta:<br />
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After all this was dry I painted up everything, and i'm nearly ready to start the next section's:<br />
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I'm just waiting for the varnish to dry now then I've got a little bit if touching up to do and a few bits and pieces to create so it all should be finished very soon and I can crack on with the rest. <br />If there's anything you need to know about give me a shout in the comments.</div>
Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-8047966648831494642013-06-18T14:12:00.000+01:002013-06-18T14:12:12.998+01:00Crazy idea / Modular sewers/dungeons test pieceIn my never ending quest to never paint all my miniatures I had a crazy idea the other day for a modular dungeon system that is easy to store and should hopefully be easy and cheap to make. The crazy idea was to take a normal box file and create a small section of terrain that would hopefully sit next to other future sections and would be easy to rearrange.<br />
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Here's the box file as is at purchase:<br />
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I started by removing the paper holder at the bottom and sketched in roughly where I wanted the sewer channel to go and any doors to be and the rough layout of any walls.</div>
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This was supposed to be a step by step but I completely missed out most of the steps after this one. I'll try and explain the processes in any future updates and if anyone is not sure of anything just give me a shout.</div>
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Here's the box'o'dungeons as it stands at the moment:</div>
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The paving is hand drawn onto sections of polystyrene pizza base and then PVA glued over chunks of polystyrene to build up the height. </div>
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It still needs a some work sorting out the gaps and joins between sections and I still have a little more cobbling to finish off.<br />
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Once I've finished all the stone work I'll have a look at creating some water effects for the sewer channels and some wooden plank walkways/bridges for access to the different levels. I'm still in two minds whether or not to cut holes in the ends of the box so that they match up with future boxes or to leave them as self contained boxes?</div>
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The end of each sewer channel could end in metal bars and each section could be accessed by doors to keep each box self contained that way I don't end up losing the structural integrity of the box? Let me know what you think in the comments.</div>
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-84254245521223948362013-06-14T14:54:00.000+01:002013-06-14T14:54:15.884+01:00New paint jobs and a blog shout outHi everyone, I've managed to slap a little paint on some figures this week, and made a little progress on the Mega mini's goblins that I purchased a while back after I heard they were closing down their shop. I would link to them but it looks like Mega mini's has taken them down and sold the molds onto Midlam miniatures:<br />
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Here they all are based up and their flesh base coated along with a Mega mini's Wretch that looks like is still available from Mega miniatures.<br />
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So far I've only finished one of the group, mainly as a tester for the rest of the group:<br />
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I've tried to go for a more 'earthy' yellowy green on the flesh hopefully to distinguish them from the orcs that I painted many moons ago. The 'string' on the bow is a tiny piece of wire that drove me insane trying to wind around the bow. The red nose on the ears, nose, knees and elbows is just a mix of watered down pink paint and red glaze.<br />
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That's it on the painted front for now, I'll end this update with a shout out to my newest follower Don Hans and his amazing Realm of Citadel blog (<a href="http://realmofcitadel.blogspot.se/">http://realmofcitadel.blogspot.se/</a>)<br />
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Check out his amazing old school mini's and his equally amazing paint jobs very 'Blanche-esque', and the bases are something I might try and steal for my chaos mini's, look at them, how amazing is the zebra Minotaur! GO now and have a look at his other awesome mini's GO and don't come back until your peepers are fat with beautiful eye-candy!<br />
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-25882208603307849492013-06-06T13:53:00.002+01:002013-06-06T13:53:45.607+01:00All Your Base are Belong to UsHowdy everyone, sorry for the slow amount of updates recently but I've not really had much in the way of updates to show off. I recently sort of completed my attempt to undercoat and base everything I own ready for paint slappage but ran out of space about three quarters of the way through so there are still a fair few mini's languishing in drawers.<br />
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Hopefully now I can pick up anyone of a ton of mini's and just crack on with painting something, which is what I did:<br />
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Citadel C34 Fire Elemental, Dreamblade Gutsoup Golem, Dreamblade Hulking Brute, Grenadier Copplestone Barbarian, Grenadier Ghost and finally dungeons and Dragons plastic mini with a little conversion work.<br />
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I love these Citadel elemental's that were released in the early eighties and would love to own the whole set but sadly I'm not the only one and they always seem to go for a little outside my price range on the old ebay, I only managed to get hold of this one as it was included in a bulk lot and didn't even appear in the ebay picture.<br />
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Next up we have the Gutsoup Golem from Dreamblade, really simple paint job that was mostly achieved with washes, glazes and thinned down paint finished off with a healthy dose of tamiya red and clear for that wet look. If you're in need of some crazy monsters check out the Dreamblade range as they always seem to pop up on ebay for cheap and paint up really well.<br />
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Another Dreamblade figure this time a Hulking Brute, I'm not to sure on this guy I think he needs some kind of tattoos or scarification to break up all the flesh.<br />
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Grenadier Copplestone Barbarian, really simple paint job and a ton of Tamiya clear red. You can still get this guy from EM4:<br />
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I think this guy is a dungeon and dragons pre pained mini, He originally had a small hook like weapon that due to the bendy nature of the plastic that these figures are made of was completely ruined. I removed the hook and drilled through the hand and added the cocktail stick and wire club.<br />
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Grenadier Ghost, insanely quick paint job I just fired some watered down blue over the grey base coat added some fluorescent yellow to the face and left it at that.<br />
<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-86225158061223663172013-05-22T19:38:00.000+01:002013-05-22T19:38:27.816+01:00I'm still here!Sorry about the lack of updates for the best part of a month, real life and all that.<br />
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Recently I had the pleasure of hosting my fellow blogger and actual real life friend Phil of Monsters and Machines blog fame (<a href="http://monstersandmachines.blogspot.co.uk/">http://monstersandmachines.blogspot.co.uk/</a>) for a game of SOBAH - Fear and Faith (Battle report up on his blog). The weeks leading up to Phil's visit were spent franticly trying to put together some kind of tabletop and pulling together all the random bits of terrain I have secreted in various boxes.<br />
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Here's what I managed to put together:<br />
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It wasn't quite finished in time for the game in that the two buildings in the top right of the pic along with the two white buildings aren't fully painted and weathered.<br />
I won't post up the full battle report as you can pop over to Phil's blog for the full report, I'll just post up some pics he took during the game and try and breakdown the separate elements that made up the board. To start with the gaming table is made from two large framed canvases bought from Hobbycraft when they had a buy one get one free offer going. Both canvases were undecoated in black craft paint and then 'highlighted' using a sponge with various shades of grey and brown paint. The roads and warehouse carpark were a quick fix made from self adhesive floor-tiles chopped up into road sections, in future I'd like to make something a little more 3D but in a pinch they work pretty well.<br />
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Shot of the small waste ground behind the warehouse. The fences are home made from cocktails sticks and wire mesh. The caravan came from Wilkinsons as part of this set: </div>
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The junk is a mix of Black Cat bases and Pardulon resin items:</div>
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Interior of the Warehouse (<a href="http://www.sarissa-precision.co.uk/store/cityblock28/">http://www.sarissa-precision.co.uk/store/cityblock28/</a>)</div>
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If there's anything that catches your eye in the pics above drop me a message and I'll let you know where you can get it or how you can make it. After madly rushing to get all this sorted out in the build up to the game I've kind of burned out on the post apoc / zombie side of things so have dove back into the pile of fantasy mini's. With making progress and actually painting some mini's in mind I've decided to bulk base and undercoat everything that is currently in my draws that way I can dip into the draws and anything I pull out should technically be ready to go. I'm also aiming to go cold turkey on the ebay and purchase front so I can actually catch up. So far this is where I've got to, I've ran out of 30mm bases and 50mm bases but hopefully 200 30mm bases should be waiting at home for the next round.</div>
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-85805066431241940702013-04-23T09:26:00.002+01:002013-04-23T09:26:13.806+01:00SALUTE, LOOT, ABOOT THIS HOOSEHello everybody sorry for the lack of posts, I've not really had much to show off recently and I was away in the lake district for a week so haven't been near my desk to slap paint or glue on anything. Hopefully this week I should be back on schedule so I thought I'd start with showing off the loot I'd nabbed from Salute:<br />
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This was my first Salute and happened to fall just after my Birthday so meant that I had a large chunk of 'free' cash to blow on new toys. I went in with the proviso that I would attempt to keep the number of mini's that I purchased down to a minimum as I've got far to many as it is and with the Reaper Kickstarter arriving sometime soon I'll soon have more than a lifetimes worth of painting. All that being said I still somehow managed to come away with some mini's, here's the haul in all it's glory, I'll try and list it all below:<br />
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1. Bag of mixed leaves for basing from <a href="http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/">http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/</a></div>
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I used to make my own out of chopped up leaves but I always make too little or forget completely then can't be bothered when I need it so this is the lazy option.</div>
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2. Rust effect paint/medium from <a href="http://www.modelmates.co.uk/">http://www.modelmates.co.uk/</a>:</div>
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This stuff looks amazing from the demonstrations that the guys running the stand were showing off, I'll post pics when I ever get round to using it.</div>
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3. Prepainted starwars and D&D figures from <a href="http://www.tritex-games.co.uk/">http://www.tritex-games.co.uk/</a>:</div>
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4. Ainsty Castings small skips <a href="http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/256/osCsid/350c9c146379cecf253fefcd2d69cb1f">http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/256/osCsid/350c9c146379cecf253fefcd2d69cb1f</a></div>
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5. Ainsty Castings Swat Van</div>
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6. More Ainsty Castings stuff, Skips, Salt Bins, Fax, Safe Desk etc</div>
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7. New pin vice form the Troll Trader</div>
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8. 4 Grounds Barbed Wire X2 <a href="http://www.4ground.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=268&pid=314">http://www.4ground.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=268&pid=314</a></div>
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9. Copplestone mini's <a href="http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FW">http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FW</a></div>
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I bought the Scavanger Tank Busters and the two packs of not Predators that they do as I seem to have most of the rest of the Future Wars ranges.</div>
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10. Hurn Headtaker form Heresy <a href="http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=54&products_id=128">http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=54&products_id=128</a></div>
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11. Some random Dark Sun D&D monster that cost me £1</div>
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14. An Ox cart from 4grounds <a href="http://www.4ground.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=268&pid=327">http://www.4ground.co.uk/Default.aspx?page=268&pid=327</a></div>
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15. Not pictured above, A nodding Donkey from Fenris games:</div>
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Three awesome Laser Cut buildings from Sarissa Precision <a href="http://www.sarissa-precision.co.uk/">http://www.sarissa-precision.co.uk/</a><br />
I've been eyeing these up online for a long time but wanted to actually have a look at them in person before making a purchase and as they had a large stand with everything on display I finally bit the bullet and dropped a large part of my cash on three buildings:<br />
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I intend to jazz them up with a little extra detail inside and out, I've already removed the middle banister on the bottom building as my 30mm bases didn't quite fit with it still on there. Now all I really need are some more sets of 28mm furniture...<br />
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That's all for this week, should have some more progress at the weekend and a few more pics of the buildings.Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-53903696743590155012013-04-02T13:52:00.000+01:002013-04-02T13:52:22.254+01:00Mini tank and payday lootMore post apocalyptic bits and pieces for you this week. As it was payday recently I decided to have a mooch around town and see what the retail gods would offer up for my painting table. First up I popped into TK Maxx and grabbed this from the toy section for £4.99:<br />
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It looked roughly the right scale for 28mm figures so I gave it a shot, once painted up should work really well as a terrain piece. Here are a few shots of the pieces and the with some mini's so you can see for yourself:<br />
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I also popped into Model Zone for quick look around and came out with a couple of airfix kits that were on sale, £1.99 for this little WWI tank</div>
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Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-20804480548433635852013-03-28T14:05:00.001+00:002013-03-28T14:05:36.015+00:00MORE POST APOCALYPTIC GOINGS ONHello everyone and welcome to my newest followers, finally breached the 100 mark hope you all enjoy what I'm spouting and I hope all of you who joined when things were old school citadel fantasy don't mind me drifting off into the post apocalypse again don't worry I will inevitably drift back to fantasy land at some point so please bear with me :-)<br />
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I realize that I've been lax in my blogging and my last update was nearly 3 weeks ago so this update may be a little on the large size and rambling.<br />
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I finished the Killdozer awhile back and made a little display board for any future PA mini's:<br />
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The Display board It's a £1 canvas frame from Poundland that I covered in Wilco's Flexible brown wood filer:<br />
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I'm sure there's a cheaper solution but it's just what I had to hand. I find using flexible fillers works better on terrain pieces as you get less chipping and with it being brown hopefully any damage over time won't be as noticeable.<br />
When the filler was still wet to add texture I pressed in some small stones and a few bits and pieces of scrap. Once dry it was base coated black highlighted grey and then slapped with various rusty/chemically colours and the 'chemical puddles' gloss varnished. I'm debating whether or not to make a series of stackable boards like this that somehow clip together to form a small gaming board and when not in use stack neatly under my desk but that's a project for another time.<br />
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The next vehicle that will be rustied up is this beast:<br />
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A Bob the builder truck that now I've removed the grinning face and googly eyes should paint up pretty well as a post apocalyptic vehicle. It's a little on the large size but as you can see in the pic below they do exist.<br />
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I'm not 100% sure whether or not to have it as a static terrain piece and build a series of shanty shacks on the back or leave it mobile and add a series of gun towers to the back?<br />
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Also in other supply drop news I put an order in with Pig Iron Productions:<br />
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Here's the painted up mini's<br />
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A mix from the Kolony Feral HQ set and the Kolony Feral Infantry Set, I'm missing the leader from the HQ set as I managed to snap off his banner pole and I don't have the means to reattach it at the mo.<br />
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Here's the Kolony Feral Blades.<br />
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Lastly for the painted stuff this week I have some rezolution Dravani Shamblers that I picked up on ebay:<br />
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I'm using these guys as a sort of Toxic zombie in my post apoc setting.<br />
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As you can probably see in the images above I threw together a little bit of post apocalyptic terrain in the form a mini bunker made from a piece of packing foam.<br />
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-7679352513768334282013-03-09T21:09:00.000+00:002013-03-10T17:03:58.373+00:00Going Underground! Going Underground!Not really a mini based update today, more of a trip report, me and the other half took a quick drive up to somewhere that we never even knew existed until yesterday:<br />
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-87675907733078352362013-03-04T12:07:00.002+00:002013-03-04T12:13:25.106+00:00Nearly finished first Wasteland vehicle<br />
Nearly finishing painting up this beast:<br />
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It still needs a little more work on the details and the tires need messing up but otherwise it's mostly finished.<br />
As I was paid at the weekend I blitzed the town for some supplies for the next round of vehicles and came back with all of this:<br />
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The Humvee looking vehicle and the tractor were both from the poundshop along with both rolls of the silver wire (2 rolls for £1).<br />
Another discovery that I made in my local Wilco's is picture hanging wire (the small brass loops next to the tractor) looks almost perfect for 28mm rope, it's made of multiple really thin pieces of wire already pre-coiled into an almost perfect rope effect, I love little discoveries like this.<br />
Also over the weekend I popped into Pets at Home to nab some aquarium plants to carpet my post apocalypse.<br />
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I'm trying avoid green for any foliage as I imagine my post apocalypse to be set on a nuclear wintered planet covered in chemical deserts and ash wastes and any plant life has evolved or changed to extract chemicals from the soil or air hence the crazy colours.<br />
Also that means that any objective markers or mission's can be based on capturing green oasis's or lone green plants etc, also the brightly coloured plants should contrast really well against a grey terrain board covered in rusting detritus. I'm debating whether or not to add some 'land coral' like this sort of stuff, mutated giant coral that's moved inland as much of the seas have dried up.<br />
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I've already separated and based up a couple of plants on washers, they still need their bases finishing:<br />
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Yesterday was also the annual Abingdon Wargames Club show Overlord which I managed to pop into for a flying visit and pick up these guys along with some plasticard and another bag of Dice.<br />
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All of the blisters came from the Ainsty stand, I've no idea why I need two Yeti's and some bat faced bare breasted 'harpies' but I'm a sucker for monsters in mini form. I also purchased a couple of packs of Gorka-Morka Digga's as they'd work perfectly as crew for any post apocalypse vehicles. Lastly I bought a pack of 28mm scale goats... I don't know why, I'll add them to the bag in the lead pile that includes other various 28mm livestock.<br />
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Finally to finish here's a picture of Gilbert partaking in the universal cat-joy of sitting in an unattended shopping bag:<br />
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This all started after the Ramshackle games kickstarter caught my attention:<br />
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This led to an evening pursuing Ramshackle Curtis's awesome terrain and vehicles and eventually led to me backing the £34 rules/vehicles package and also means I will probably be putting through an order when I get paid too. Check out Ramshackles awesome stuff on their website, I love the dirty but colourful apocalypse that Ramshackle games are building and the characterful mini's and vehicles that he puts out.<br />
<a href="http://www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/nuclear/index.html">http://www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/nuclear/index.html</a><br />
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I thought I'd get an early start on some vehicle construction for the upcoming post apocalypse.<br />
The current vehicle is based on the chassis of a 0.99p shop car and tractor, a ton of plasticard, printer parts and pretty much all of my super glue :-)<br />
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So far I've only added the base coat of silver and various browns:<br />
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I intend to add some chipped color over the rusty base and add some verdigris and even more weathering to jazz it up and make it less brown and give it some more character<br />
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The turret on the back is made from plastic card and watch parts and has a magnetic washer on the base so it can be removed. The magnet I used was salvaged from an old pair of headphones and is built into the roof of the truck so hopefully I can build different attachments in the future.<br />
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The mini-gun barrel is made up from the ink barrels from some Biro's cut into sections<br />
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The Ammo feed is made from a small piece taken from a circuit board and an old metal watch strap.</div>
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One amazing thing that I discovered was that the bearing in an old PC fan with the blades removed was a perfect fit for the underside of the turret so it can be fully rotatable, you can see what I mean in the image below:<br />
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The heavily rusted sections on the truck like on the bottom of the dozer blade were achieved by mixing bird sand from the pet section of Wilco's with black craft paint at the undercoating stage. </div>
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The exhausts on the back are sections of a £1 set of plastic construction toys that I'm starting to run out of which work perfectly in rusty post apocalyptic situations.</div>
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The cab grating is the left over plasticard from all the rivet creation.<br />
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-89782143855949933442013-02-19T14:14:00.000+00:002013-02-19T14:14:02.078+00:00NEW PJ'sSlapped some quick paint on a couple of mini's last night between attempting to put together the Grenadier Death Giant and a Rafm Great Chthulhu both of which are seriously taxing my patience and doing me out of drill bits (so far I've managed to snap two).<br />
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First up we have an Ancient Citadel C03 Cleric (third row down on the right)<br />
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Nice and simple paint job, nowt special, next up we have a Citadel Ghost from their Night Horror range.<br />
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I'm not 100% convinced with the finished paint job on this guy and will probably re-visit him at some point in the future.</div>
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Next up we have an Earthdawn mini that I'm using as a sort of interdimensional visitor, I can't get this guy to photograph properly, the purples are more vivid in 'real' life I promise:</div>
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Now we have some EM4 miniatures proto shoggoths, again going to be used as summoned entities:</div>
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-18828305237801552552013-02-11T14:47:00.000+00:002013-02-11T14:47:34.418+00:00Recent Loot Feeling a bit under the weather at the moment so not much progress on the painting front apart from finishing some long ago half started causality markers:<br />
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I've no idea who manufactures these as I picked them up at a convention awhile back, I've mounted them on 25mm washers.<br />
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Saturday was the Newbury and Reading wargames Society Call to Arms show which is only down he road from where I live so is always worth a visit, just a quick peruse of the stalls and bring and buy got me all this:<br />
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From Ainsty's stall a heap of old TSR, Earthdawn, Skavvies, Ungors and other assorted beasties, here's a few shots of everything un-packaged:<br />
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That's it on the loot front, but stroke of luck I won my first ever competition!! </div>
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To sign off here's a picture of my two flat mates Bill and Gill approving of the new shelving arrangement</div>
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Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-67728100479182034812013-02-07T20:02:00.000+00:002013-02-07T20:02:47.083+00:00Long time no postHey everyone sorry for he gap in posts but real life hugely got in the way of any blogging and it's taken me a while to get back in the swing of things and I'm still not really back to 100%, so going forward for the next few months there might not be a huge amount of updates to my blog as I'm pretty much in the process of re-arranging my entire life. Anyway that's enough on the 'real' front here's what I've been up to on the hobby front.<br /><br />Firstly a big shout out to my friend in actual real life Phil who finally bowed to peer pressure and started his blog, Monsters and Machines.<br />
<a href="http://monstersandmachines.blogspot.co.uk/">http://monstersandmachines.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
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<br />I finally managed to have a big sort out of my desk and get everything arranged how I wanted:<br />
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The cabinet on the left contains all my finished mini's and is an Ikea Expedit shelving unit:<br />
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An easy solution to my display needs, the glass inserts were a little bit of a pain in the arse to put together but look great and should hopefully keep he dust off. I'm aiming to add some strip lighting to each of the sections as it's a little on the dark side the lower you get down through the shelves but that's an addition for next months pay packet.<br />
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Here's a blurry shot of one of the sections, my plans going forward are to create a Small themed diorama for the bottom of each section and get some clear acrylic risers for the top shelf to best use the space and also so you can see the mini's at the back of each section, something along these lines:<br />
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Also above my desk I've attached some cheap plastic trays that now hold all my mini's that are technically WIP's that way I can grab anything that catches my eye and hopefully it'll mean that I get more mini's finished.<br />
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On the most recent purchase front I got a random box of lead from ebay that contained all of these guys:<br />
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A ton of old citadel and Grenadier mini's that for now I've just undercoated ready for basing, I'll probably do a separate update with individual shots at a later date.<br />
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Now to the painted stuff, first up we have a really early Citadel CO3 cleric (second row down)<br /><a href="http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983comp1/citcomp1025-01.htm">http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983comp1/citcomp1025-01.htm</a><br />
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Lovely little mini, but a little on the rough side sculpting wise so I've done the best I can and given him a fiery finish.<br />
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Next we have the awesome Saughin mini's that I got from my brother at Christmas:<br />
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The items in their hands I made myself from greenstuff and other spare weapons, I imagine anything that they would use as weapons would be scavenged and heavily corroded.<br />
Lastly for now I've painted up one of the Grenadier Demons from their box-set as an addition to the aquatic group (<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/6006.jpg">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/6006.jpg</a>)<br />
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Lastly for this update is what I'm calling the goblin cup, £1 from a charity shop and worth every penny:<br />
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<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-9148079001414592872013-01-04T14:35:00.001+00:002013-01-04T14:35:05.387+00:00Happy New Year and Christmas loot!It's been awhile since my last update so hopefully this large update will keep you all sweet and make up for the delay between posts.<br />
I hope you all had a great Christmas and new year and Santa brought you all wonderful gifts and much food and beverages were consumed by you all.<br />
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In the spirit of new years resolutions, spring cleaning and all that guff I tidied up my work area ready for 2013 and also managed to nab some 'paint racks' whilst Christmas shopping:<br />
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My paint racks are in fact cutlery trays from Clas Olson, that fit my needs perfectly:<br />
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In the couple of days since taking these pictures it looks like my desk has been hit by some kind of explosive devise but generally that's a good indicator of progress.<br />
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Just before the Christmas frivolities began I managed to finish a couple of figures that have been sat half finished on my desk for awhile:<br />
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First up we have a pre-slotta citadel Dwarf farmer that I can't seem to find catalogued anywhere. I tried to keep the colour scheme ruddy and earthy and went for a really dark skin-tone on his face which took forever as it was never quite right. The straw in his mouth is a tiny piece of off-cutting from a door mat dipped in varnish applied with tweezers and held steady until it set.<br />
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Next up we have one of the early Citadel Gnomes:<br />
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Again I went for a more ruddy red skin tone rather than a more pink human tone.<br />
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That's all for now on the Fantasy front, Next up we have a couple more of the Sci-fi mini's.<br />
First up we have Gordal Luggub form the Rogue Trader Space Ork command Group, check out Orlygg's Slowburn Rogue Trader blog for some pics of the whole range:<br />
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Next up we have an early necron from the Space Crusade boxset:<br />
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Lastly on the sci-fi front I finally painted up an ancient Ral Partha Battletech Centurian that was one of the first mini's that I ever owned.<br />
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He's currently serving as a battered much repaired combat robot rather than a huge hulking mech.<br />
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Now to the Christmas loot, my brother gave me a ton of his old mini's that he'd dug out of storage which is Fantastic and will keep me going long into the future, so mega cheers if you're reading this Owen!<br />
I'm going to spread the pics over the next couple of updates as there's a ton and my blog may end up being a little pic heavy on the unpainted lead side of things and I'd like to keep it colourful and not bore you all with pics of unpainted lead.<br />
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TSR Sahuagin's, these came without any weapons so I'll be sorting out my own weapons.<br />
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More TSR mini's again, Thri kreen, looks like I'll be making an insect based war-band at some point in the future then.<br />
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I also received from my sister a box of the GW Goblin Hobbit mini's which I think are awesome and could work in tons of settings, I'm internally debating whether to 'sci-fi' up half the box with guns etc and keep the rest 'Fantasy' or keep them as intended?<br />
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Also as part of the mega bundle from my brother was a whole Necromunda Cawdor gang and some Battletech Hero clix stuff that should come in handy for the Sci-fi stuff I'm putting together.<br />
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Next up on the painting table, hopefully with some better WIP shots and a Sunday update is the start of a fishman/aquatic Warband using the Christmas deep ones and Sahuagin and some other suitably fishy mini's I've dug out from the pile.<br />
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Also lastly a big welcome to my two new followers!!<br />
<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-66271846411496842122012-12-10T15:25:00.002+00:002012-12-10T15:25:43.611+00:00Underhive Scum and my 90th follower!Firstly I'd like to welcome my 90th follower Jessica from the Neon Pink Apokalypse blog, check out her awesome pikachu inspired grots.<br />
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Finally finished a couple more mini's at the weekend to go with the small 40k sci-fi group I've got going on. Both of these figures have been half started for a couple of weeks now and I just couldn't bring myself to finish them for some reason but this weekend my muse struck and I powered through. I've no idea when or if I'll ever play anything with any of these figures but they were both a fun diversion from my usual Fantasy fare.<br />
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First up we have a Necromunda Skavvy.<br />
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Next up we have the Warzone Dark Legion Nepharite of Demnogonis Figure, he's one chunky hefty piece of lead and was fairly difficult to paint as I kept dropping him :)<br />
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I'm really pleased with how he turned out, especially the weird fleshy part of his gun.<br />
Here he is next to the skavvy so you can get an idea of the scale:<br />
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Hopefully towards the end of the week I should have something amazing to show you all, something that I never thought I would hold in my hand, something long coveted... Cryptic I know<br />
<br />Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-58859564467355554452012-11-29T21:35:00.000+00:002012-11-29T22:11:32.621+00:00A Few painted mini'sManaged to finish a couple of more of the alternative armies and mutant chronicles mini's:<br />
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First up is the Mutant Chronicles Razide figure, who was great to paint, he was mostly various washes and glazes over a flesh base built up in layers with a tiny bit of highlighting at the end.<br />
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A fantastic chunky sculpt (that's a 40mm base) that would work well for a ton of systems.<br />
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Next up we have a couple of Alternative Armies Khanate Empire troops:<br />
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Again lovely Bob Olley Space Goblin sculpts that I decided on a blue skin tone for as I've done green goblinoids and why shouldn't space goblins be blue. Not really done much else mini wise these last couple of weeks as I'm feeling a little un-inspired but hopefully things will pick up over the weekend and things will seem a little brighter :)Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-19546995783031299922012-11-16T16:54:00.001+00:002012-11-16T16:54:45.245+00:0050th Post!!!Wow finally hit the 50 post mark, I suppose this one should be something special...<br />
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After being inspired by the awesome stuff happening in the 28mm Inquisitor scene I thought I'd knock myself up some interesting back-drop type scenery for my most recent sci-fi mini's, shortly after having this idea the universe serendipitously smiled on me by dropping an old printer in my path. So last Friday armed with screwdriver and hammer I set about demolishing my foe and this is what I ended up with:<br />
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PUMPING AND FILTRATION STATION 4Beta (decommissioned)<br /><br />
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This was the most fun I've had making scenery and is the biggest single piece of terrain I've ever put together. I think the 'water' could do with some added depth ala clear resin but for now it'll do. I imagine this station to have been long abandoned after a catastrophic failure somewhere in it's past but has since been re-occupied and partially re-built (hence the brick work and roof top work station. For the rust and general look of the station I had a mooch around the galleries on the amazing Opacity urban exploration website:<br />
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There are hundreds of locations from around the world with gorgeous galleries, check out the gallery for Bethlehem Steel Mill:<br />
<a href="http://www.opacity.us/gallery218_cathedrals_of_steel.htm">http://www.opacity.us/gallery218_cathedrals_of_steel.htm</a><br />
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Here's a ton of moody close ups:<br />
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I'm debating whether or not to make this the first of four pieces that all sit together as I've got three more of the same bases and an idea for an overall theme. Unfortunately I don't really have anywhere to keep any more chunky terrain so I may have to leave it for now.<br />
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Also this week I've expanded my sci-fi range of mini's with these fella's from Prince August Miniatures in Ireland who have the rights to the Warzone mini's:<br />
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Before I show of the mini's I should mention Prince Augusts awesome customer service. I placed my order on the 31/10/12, I received a follow up email on the 7/11/12 apologizing for the delay in getting my figures out to me as they couldn't locate one of the moulds and would I like a free mini of my choice? Awesome stuff as I didn't think a week was to long for shipping from Ireland, Prince August I doff my proverbial cap to you.<br />
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Anyway here's the mini's:<br />
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To be honest yes they are a little on the huge side but for mutants it's not really a big deal and if I base them on less built-up bases they should fit in fine with the earlier Bob Olley Marines. As to the casting on these mini's it was top notch, virtually no flashing and the tiniest of mould lines so overall a great bunch of mini's that would fit in with a huge amount of games and systems (Necromunda, Inq28, etc)<br />
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Also this week I managed to nab a copy of the Ian Miller book, Green Dog Trumpet and Other Stories which I didn't even know existed until last week.<br />
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I've not had a huge amount of time to sit down and digest it's contents so in the meanwhile here's a couple of shot's of the interior for anyone thinking of getting hold of a copy,<br />
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Does anyone else know of or have a list of the early GW artists book releases, at the moment all I can really find are RatSpike and Blood & Iron, are there other books I'm missing?<br />
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Here's to the next 50 posts and thanks to you all for checking out my stuff and keep the comments coming as it's awesome to hear what people think and also that way I'm not just talking to myself :)<br />
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Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-68657208356046056022012-11-07T16:06:00.000+00:002012-11-07T16:06:37.177+00:00Finished Squad of Bob Olley MarinesFinally finished the Squad of Bob Olley Marines:<br />
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I went for a bright colour scheme as I was a little sick of painting earthy browns, greens and human flesh so I tried to keep it bright and simple but still give the suits of armour a lived in worn feel without compromising on the brightness.</div>
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Also this week Aggro84 on the lead Adventure forums posted up a series of amazing pics taken from the Tears of Isstvan blog <a href="http://isstvan.blogspot.fi/2012/10/yggdrassiliumme-pilgrimage-part-1.html">http://isstvan.blogspot.fi/2012/10/yggdrassiliumme-pilgrimage-part-1.html</a> </div>
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Some other amazing inquisition/Necromunda (I-munda to those in the know) stuff I've been eye-drooling over are the amazing mini's over on the Spiky Rat Pack Blog: <a href="http://spikyratpack.blogspot.com.au/">http://spikyratpack.blogspot.com.au/</a> honestly if you're not already familiar with these sites go and check them out as some of the things these guys are coming up with are amazing.</div>
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Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-55500283371548456172012-11-02T13:02:00.000+00:002012-11-02T13:03:13.078+00:00First Finished 'Marine' in Space and a Quick TutorialI managed to finish one of the Alternative Armies Bob Olley Not space marines this week. There's a few things I'll tweak on the next ones I paint up and I'll probably not be as heavy handed on the rust/wear on the armour but overall I'm pretty happy with the finished paint job:<br />
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As a couple of people asked in the comments of the previous posts I've put together a tutorial for the rusty bases so here you go.</div>
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Most of what I learned about putting together interesting bases came from reading through the amazing tutorials and looking at the amazing eye candy on the Massive Voodoo blog so I can't take full credit for the results so after you've had a look at my quick tutorial go give their blog a gander as it'll inpire you.</div>
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<b>Step 1: Picking your scrap</b></div>
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Have a dig through your bits box for some random scrap, anything will do as once it's all painted up it looks suitably metallic and industrial. I tend to keep a tub of all my base off cuts as these work really well as rusted through sheet metal so try to keep hold of any integral bases that you've removed or any broken slottas.<br />
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If you're planning on doing quite a few of these bases make sure you've got a good surplus of bits and pieces that you can bring to the base, old watches, old electronics pieces of model kits, sprue, flashing old green stuff it's all good.<br />
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<b>Step 2: Covering your fingers in glue</b></div>
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There's no right way to put these bases together so just slap some of your pieces onto the bases and start building up layers. I've tried to build the bases up in two layers the first being piping wiring etc the kind of stuff you'd have running underneath the main floor in some kind of space-hulk.<br />
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Once you've got your under floor area sorted try and pick out a couple of flat pieces for your crumbling flooring, this also helps as it'll give you a relatively flat area to pin your mini's feet.<br />
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Before I glued the main flat area to the piping I scuffed up the surface with one of my files to give it a bit more texture. After the flat areas are glued down you can start filling any voids and spaces underneath with cogs, wires and any other small bits of scrap you have lying around. I added more extra texture to the flat areas by sprinkling filings from my desk top into some super-glue liberally spread all over the place.<br />
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Once this is all dry you should be able to pin your mini to the scrap heap.<br />
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Next take your verdigris colour paint and water it down into a wash and slap some on in random patches for some extra colour.<br />
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For the next stage I used some Vallejo Pigment to simulate crusty rust you can probably get the same effect with a lighter orange paint. Take an old brush and gather some up directly from the pot and lightly dust your base, you may want to have a few practise goes on something until you get a 'feel' for the powder.<br />
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For the last stage I took a fluorescent Yellow Vallejo paint and painted in all the deep recesses and edges of the base to simulate radioactive glowing slime. Lastly I slapped a little bit of gloss varnish on the pools of 'liquid'. There you go one slimy rusty pile of scrap base all it need now is the edge neatening up and you're done.Headnhalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03610625079153750762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2094551315802592261.post-30994245289438691262012-10-29T14:53:00.000+00:002012-11-27T13:45:30.023+00:00Short Sci-fi interludeI had a hankering to paint something sci-fi-ish towards the end of last week so had a dig through my to do drawers and managed to come up with a bunch of suitable models to slap some paint on. After a shout out on the Lead Adventure forums I've got a few more avenues to investigate for some more suitable aliens to add to the group.<br />
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From the depths of the lead pile I've resurrected 6 Bob Olley Retained Knights, 3 Bob Olley Space Goblins, a Space Crusade Necron, an ancient space Hulk genestealer, a battletech Centurian and some Kryomek Aliens that still need some TLC.<br />
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Here's a couple of close ups (click to enlarge)<br />
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Snipping off the integral bases on them all was a pain in the arse but as I wanted them all standing on piles of decaying scrap it was worth the effort and finger blisters. For the bases it was just a case of raiding my bits box for anything that wasn't organic looking and dissembling some of the watches kindly provided by my wife. If you're thinking of doing some similar type bases I would suggest keeping all your base off cuts as these came in handy for filler.<br />
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I usually paint the bases of my mini's last but as painting these was going to be messy I thought I'd finish them up first so I don't mess up the mini's feet.<br />
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The edges need cleaning up but I'll sort this out as a final step.<br />
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For the bases I undecorated everything black, dry-brushed Bolt Gun Metal, then a lighter layer of Mithril Silver, then a little GW bronze, (not sure which one) and a small amount of blazing orange. Once all this was dry I watered down a little blue that looked suitably verdigris like and hit a few areas to add some variety. Lastly before the slime stage I gave the base a light dusting of Dark Yellow Vallejo Pigment. Once this was all dry it looked a little too boring so I whacked on a little watery Vallejo Fluorescent yellow around the edges and in the deep recesses to give it a little colour and contrast.<br />
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If anyone wants to see a step by step tutorial give me a shout in comments and I'll get one put together.<br />
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Most of these minis are still in production so if you want to get your hands on them check out the links below.<br />
Bob Olley Retained Knights:<br />
<a href="http://www.alternative-armies.com/Retained_Knights.htm">http://www.alternative-armies.com/Retained_Knights.htm</a><br />
Bob Olley Space Goblins:<br />
<a href="http://www.alternative-armies.com/The_Khanate_Empire.htm">http://www.alternative-armies.com/The_Khanate_Empire.htm</a><br />
Battlemech, Centurian:<br />
<a href="http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/20849-centurion-p-65.html">http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/20849-centurion-p-65.html</a><br />
Kryomek Aliens:<br />
<a href="http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_113_119">http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_113_119</a><br />
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