SORTING OUT MY PHOTOS AND A COUPLE OF NEW PAINT JOBS

I saw somewhere that a black background on mini photographs would make them stand out more so decided to give this a shot. I'm still not 100% on the results but I think it's getting there, I can't quite capture how they look in reality (as always you can click on the image for a bigger view)

Unidentified fish guy, he's on a sold base and a little on the skinny side so I believe he might be Ral Partha, if anyone knows give me a shout. Tee base is just made up of DAS clay then highlighted up with various browns/yellows. I think he needs some drift wood or shells to make it a bit more exciting so I may have a shot with green-stuffing some sea-life

Not sure who put this out but again I think this might be a Ral Partha or Grenadier mini.

Old School Citadel Gnome from the time when Gnomes still existed in the Warhammer World, he's from the Adventurer Starter set according to the citadel collecting mini's site:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Again another old citadel mini, still needs his plastic shield adding but I'm holding off as I can't face doing free hand on the flat shields

 Early pre-slotta citadel Druid or Cleric (I think), my first attempt at painting none rotting human flesh, not 100% yet but I've got a ton of scantily clad barbarians to do so hopefully by the end I'll have learnt something.

 C-series citadel zombie really easy to paint as it's mostly just muscles but, I think he could do with some more variation in the reds but he'll do.

Lastly, here's some better shots of the Vilespawn that from Gribbly Miniatures (http://www.gribblyminiatures.co.uk/home.php)

I still haven't worked out how to get images to sit correctly on the page but hopefully all of the above is legible.

SOME PAINTED UNDEAD

I've finally finished a few of my skeletons. I've also made it my mission to undercoat and base all of my figures that way I can just pick up and paint anything without having to worry about waiting for bases to dry etc. Pretty much for the last few weeks all I've done is undercoat and mix sand with PVA glue but now 90% is sorted I can dip in and start painting without the boring bit.

 I've still got a ton of Skellies to paint but thought I'd have a break from painting bones start on some gnomes.
I was going to post up pictures of everything I have yet to paint but the camera I'm using seem to think any batteries I put in it are dead even brand new ones so I could only snap the following:

                                              

 I'll try and get a full photo log of everything up at some point this week as I know everyone loves looking at pics of mini's

POUND-LAND EXTRAVAGANZA!

I decided to have a mooch around the pound-shops yesterday and saw these bags of house construction toys that looked promising

For £1 I thought it was worth a go as it could probably be easily turned into some cheap scenery.
It can by the way:

All I did was take six sections of the 'brick' pieces and cut off the unused connection pegs at the top and bottom, I then used these to fill in the spaces at the left and right ends of the wall section and then glued the two sides together (3 pieces for front and 3 for back). The tiles on the top of the wall is a piece of card that I scored and rounded using the end of a paint brush. Once that was all glued together it was a case of dry brushing up through the greys to get the stone effect, overall I think it came out pretty good. 

If you're buying these it may be worth having a quick look at the different bags as I bought two and one the bags doesn't really have many of the solid brick wall sections compared to the other pieces. 

The 'OK' window could easily trimmed into a small doorway or window and you could quite easily use the brick sections for flooring.

Whilst in the pound shop I also picked up a bag of insect toys:

I'm attempting to make an undead war-band for skirmish based games and the 'giant' maggots are a welcome edition. Also in the pack are millipedes, flies, spiders, cockroaches, scorpions and ants, the smaller insects look pretty well sculpted and are made of a harder less flexible plastic and will look pretty good when painted up whereas the millipedes, scorpions etc are made of a more rubbery plastic that I don't think will take paint. On opening the pack I found that the maggots are made of that always sticky type of material which is a pain in the arse to handle. After lots of swearing I managed to eventually get them to stick to a base and not my fingers. To get them to 'set' and make them paintable I gave them a brush with super-glue from one of those tubes with an attached brush which seems to have made them relatively solid. 

Let me know what you think:

Once I get some more bases I may give the ants a go and painted up like Fire ants they should look pretty good.

INCOMING!!!!

Just a quick update, no pictures until later as I'm currently posting this on my lunch break at work

A ton of cheap stuff on it's way from the bay of E:

Pic I knocked up in photoshop (The clone stamp tool is your friend)

I've also been attempting to make a cheap modular gaming table using cork notice boards from the pound shop. I created a tester with a small A4ish £0.99p board that came out really well that I'll probably use for taking fancier photo's. I thought taking it to the next level and splashing out on a £3.99 cork board would involve the same principles and turn out the same but it seems that the bigger boards are immune to PVA glue so all my flock is falling off and it's looking more balding than I do...

I'm going to try and give it a new coat this evening and hopefully it'll take this time, fingers crossed and I'll post some pics of the results when I can