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I think you should buy some display case for them , its a waste to stuff them inside transport boxes...

i mean they are PAINTED!

Dysartes wrote:Now that is one bad-ass bear, malfred - mine is currently sat on my painting desk, glaring at me

It burns like blue fire going down.

LunaHound wrote:I think you should buy some display case for them , its a waste to stuff them inside transport boxes...

i mean they are PAINTED!

I'm sure when the day comes to burn down this place for insurance...um. Oh wait, the minis
would have to go with it. Guess people would have to "borrow" them from me or I'd have to stage
a fight with my wife and rent a storage space for them.

There simply isn't any room. And display cases are expensive.

Will you be expanding those to two full squads, malfred, or keeping them at minimum size?

Looking good, though, looking good.....

Dysartes wrote:Will you be expanding those to two full squads, malfred, or keeping them at minimum size?

Looking good, though, looking good.....

Some day they'll expand out. I want to see what kind of theme armies mercs get
before I commit to anything like that.

This here's the pics of the High Shields.

So finally I catch up to my current projects. These pictures are images of my work on
a smattering of miniatures. The progress is very slow, as it's almost the end of the year
and I think I took on too many minis at once. I'm making headway, though.

Here the pictures show the assembly of some of the minis. I actually pin some of them
for once.

20 Days ago, I took a bunch of models out to prime. Seems it was a good idea now that
I see the ice and snow and how difficult it would be to get time to prime.

malfred wrote:So finally I catch up to my current projects. These pictures are images of my work on
a smattering of miniatures. The progress is very slow, as it's almost the end of the year
and I think I took on too many minis at once. I'm making headway, though.

Here the pictures show the assembly of some of the minis. I actually pin some of them
for once.

What are the plastic minis in the first pic. They look really cool, I think I want some, lol!


Slappy

Slappywag wrote:
What are the plastic minis in the first pic. They look really cool, I think I want some, lol!

Those are the Legion of Everblight Warspears from Hordes. The plastic isn't styrene, and
the pieces are pegged. Their base size is 40mm.

Here they are started out.

Ah, Hordes. I was recently looking through their site. Awesome mini's. Do you play the game then, what's it like? I know it involves cards and stuff.

Keep up the good work

Slappywag wrote:Ah, Hordes. I was recently looking through their site. Awesome mini's. Do you play the game then, what's it like? I know it involves cards and stuff.

Keep up the good work

The game...not sure how to call it.

It's a tabletop miniatures game that is very WWF. You have these powerful personalities
leading troops and warbeasts on the battlefield, and only one of these characters is going
to leave the ring alive. Killing the commander wins the game, period. Even in scenarios,
gameplay is usually all about defending the primary condition but going for the assassination.

A game can get turned on its head because of this.

You could be winning all through the game, but "winning" does not inevitably lead to
victory. Thus you can't commit your most powerful resource, the warlock (or "warcaster" in
warmachine) to battle unless you're certain that things will go your way.


Primed some Skorne stuff some time ago. Currently trying to alternate my painting
between the two jobs. Might fail miserably.

Some progress I made maybe a week after I started.

The Reaper Dwarven Bear warrior on a resin base.

The Malifaux stuff that I picked up at Gencon. I *think* I know how I want to paint it.

Progress on the stuff as of last week (mostly skorne)

The Warspears taking shape.

This never happens to me. I swear.

http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/12/spray-can-spillage.html

Anyway, progress on the Malifaux and Spinespur models.

One of these days, I swear I'll be able to keep up with your pace....

Good lookin' stuff all about, though. How're the new PP plastics?

Jin wrote:One of these days, I swear I'll be able to keep up with your pace....

Good lookin' stuff all about, though. How're the new PP plastics?

Thanks. Hoping to slow things down in 2010.

The plastics are okay. I mean, they're really well sculpted (loving the Warspears and
the Bastions and the Fennblades so far), but the pegged system means that you
have to really cut stuff if you want them custom, and I really don't care all that much.

In a game where you only ever have one or two units of a thing, it's enough to have
two or three poses for grunts.

This is how far I got by the 24th. I was happy to get this far so I brought something
different with me when the Mrs. and I went to visit the families.

I stand in awe.

Tacobake wrote:I stand in awe.

Of what? And don't lie. I know you're sitting down.

This is a pic of what my niece and nephew painted when I brought minis to work on. While
I worked on 15mm Japanese Field of Glory stuff, they painted my extra Guardian weapon
teams. I think I'll bring old GW minis to these things all the time from here on out.

Later that night I went to my parents' and in-laws' places and got to work on the
Japanese armies I was working on for Field of Glory.

And you still churn models out apace, i hope you're going to take a rest after the year's up!! Great work though, some serious dedication in this blog!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:And you still churn models out apace, i hope you're going to take a rest after the year's up!! Great work though, some serious dedication in this blog!

Thanks. Yes, slowing things down in 2010, for sure. What will I do when I run out of
minis? The correct answer: buy more minis.

Here's the Bushi and Followers with a sepia wash.

Almost done in this picture...

Looking good, malfred.

I'm thinking of doing some form of 520 challenge next year - see what multiple of 52 figures I manage to complete over the course of 2010

Hmm - do FoW (or smaller) bases count as 1 figure, or 1 per infantryman?

It's more impressive if you count base stands

Well, given I think I've completed roughly 6 figures in 2009 (and two of those were penguins), even managing an average of 1 per week would be a good start

Dysartes wrote:Well, given I think I've completed roughly 6 figures in 2009 (and two of those were penguins), even managing an average of 1 per week would be a good start

I saw a group blog where some people were trying exactly that. 52 minis in a year, 1 per week.

Nice Japanese, malfred - any chance of a group shot of them completed?

And will you be trying to achieve any painting goals in 2010?