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On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.

you say?....

I'm glad you're all liking the troll because there are more.

Hey cool graven. The post will be watched closely!

Now onto some troll restoration work.

One of these feet was not sculpted by citadel miniatures in the early 90s, but by me, just now. Guess which one!
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I can't tell which foot is the Weety special! great job!

Great job, Weety. Looks perfect.

Thanks! Its very gratifying to restore this rare old model it to its previous state (visually anyway, hope no one ever tries to strip it, the green will crumble).

It was the one on the left.
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I don't think there's a single person that would feel the need to strip something you've painted of late.

Ooo flattery! Me likey.

I just checked ebay and some swine just outbidded me for a bunch of old metal empire troops. Oh the humanity! Cruelly jilted me of my prize, damn them, damn them all to hell.

Oh well I suppose I could use the money to buy something practical...

You've got plenty of spoons and underwear I'd guess..BID AGAIN!

But I'm short on forks, knives and overcoats.

I didn't win I'm afraid. Its January so I just don't have the spending power. Eventually they will be mine. These are the ones I'm after: (but its getting to the point where I might go plastic to save money)

Let me take a look through my stash of old metal Empire models - I may have a couple of them going spare... Will check Saturday morning and let you know if it's Yay or Nay - most likely will be the handgunners...

Such generosity! That's pretty cool of you.

Of course I might end up with some anyway because I went straight out and bid £5 for four handgunners (someone is almost guaranteed to outbid me for £5.50, and I need the money for food at this point)

I have succesfully bought a greatsword champion though! Before you know it I will have a very small army.

Any of these take your fancy?



Only handgunners, no swordsmen.

I have no particular need for them and while I could sell them on eBay, I really can't be bothered at the moment... If' you can work your wonders with them I'll happily donate to the cause...

A whole regiment of my favourite things to paint! They've got slashed puffs in their doublets, feathers, beards and arquebuses. Please do send them! I'll PM you.

Great work on the Empire stuff really fripperyey reminds me of the 5th Ed army.

PM received, will pop them in the post hopefully Monday morning

Cool!

Another troll has been spotted, lurking under a bridge.

This is how I do the trolls



I wanted to give my river trolls a greenish tinge to give them that slimy look, so I started with a wash of P3 green ink, P3 red ink and P3 armour wash in a 2:1:7 ratio. After that's dried I drybrush with white and wet blend vallejo skin tone into the fleshy areas. Next a wash of vallejo red wash (a very cherry red), followed by vallejo flesh wash and more red ink worked into the shadows of the skin and the mouth, finally I pick out details like the teeth and claws, the eyes and his bones n stones.




Some stuff I picked up recently

vampire from '93



Ratmen! 1987 or therabouts,

Glorious troll weets. Expertly done!

Good job, Weety.
Nice to see the stages too.

lovely work weety; great to see the step by step!

I finished my first guardsman for the comp today! - go over to http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/567422.page#6436382 to check it out.

Some more empire stuff came out of stripping today.

Greatsword Champion and Gun Captain.

Bits in post

A can confirm the package arrived!

Coolnesxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for the bases, harley quinn is very cool, I'll get her prepped asap and on her way to you.

Now an example of what happens when someone trys to get me a hobby related xmas gift.



Voltagiers! somebody get Sharpe/Sean Bean back quick before they overrun us! Anyway I've chosen to take it seriously and make them look proper...

Dont get rid of the card please as it has her stats on

That troll looks fantastic! And I have that Greatsword guy, painted him about 12 years ago... haven't looked at him in months (since I had a game of Fantasy), I remember being proud of how he turned out, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how yours looks.

Thanks for the inspiration!

No probs D. I will send the whole thing back, it'll help cushion the model. Do you want it primed? I have a choice of white, grey or midnight blue.

Hi Hdbbstephen and thanks for commenting. the greatsworder will be fun to paint, hes already primed so maybe you'll see him soon.

Grey please


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And if you want to put up a pic of her please do so

No probs. I've got one more day of work to get through and then I'm on a break so I can get started on that.

Speaking of projects, inmygravenimage has sent me a commission, I owe him one because of all the free ogres and trolls.

Unfortunately. a kitbashed plastic mini doesn't post well when sent with a bag of metal ogres (but thanks for the ogres graven!). So it needs a little reassembly!

I'll go check out the pics in gravens blog later and see how its all supposed to fit together.



Looks like my cutting mat needs a wash.