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Hes a dark angel

aha hence the wings and the dress. You want me to paint him? Don't be mysterious.

I was showing ya a stage of nmm

Aha. Yes I tend to use a similar blue grey for swords myself (so far anyway, only done 3).

There will be a photo update sometime today I reckon. Finished work for the day and retreated from the sun into my dark cave of a flat (I'm ginger and I fear the sun). So painting hopefully.

Wow I won the bidding on some great old classics today for 99p each. Real nostalgia stuff for anyone who was into advanced heroquest. A lot of these where featured in the rulebook and others in the box art.

rule book page (click to zoom):


And here is what I purchased

..

Back when miniatures had CHARACTER. Zomg, so jealous. Yes, even with a desk full of dragons. STILL JEALOUS.

More pictures. Better pics of the beastman and just completed Ruglud from Rugluds armoured orcs. Also a small bijou dungeon made of milliput - as soon as I get more milliput it will become more spacious and will get some furniture and walls.

dungeon is off to a good start now you need gob piles of gold for your dezins to guard from heroes that may need the xp.

beast men is pretty awesome also.

i love comming here and looking at the old minatures i know some of the folks that follow this played, had or seen them irl. but for me its just neat to see something unique and characterful painted up (very well i might add)

any way enough of my fanboying of you just keep it up and we will look forward to the next picture update.

I like Ruglud's sword, very nice.

Good start to the dungeon.
How big are those slabs?
If you want to save on putty, try using some sprue (or equivalent) for the core and puttying around it.

Not enough skulls.

Miss Dee, what do you use those plastic beads for?

Love the flagstones weets, you gonna do more terrain?

A whole dungeon lair dsteingass - I wish I could do more but we are cramped for space so it can't be much bigger than a shoe box.

Thanks alabamaheretic! You are very welcome.

Dr H. sprue? Is that the stuff that plastic minis come attatched to? I'm a bit of a lead snob so I don't have any. I could probably use something else common, like gravel maybs.
The big slabs are about half inch square. Its a very small dungeon yet. I will work on trying to get the slabs a bit more even. I want a nice staircase and some arched doorways, definitely treasure and provisions, tables, candles, flaming torches, spiders and whatever else springs to mind.

Oh and skulls of course Briancj

I have an old SM bike box full of leftover sprue that I intend to use one day as brick or rubble for various terrain projects.

The beastmen and orcs are looking really nice weety and thats a grand start to an underground lair.

Weety's home for misfit miniatures

Is there any chance of some more shots of the Goliaths, with a strong light source behind the camera? Minimum shadows, sort of thing?

Lindsay40k - but my head goes behind the camera? There really aren't many shadows - I take my photos in a light tent with a light on either side. admittedly one light is slightly stronger than the other so the right hand side is ever so slightly brighter. But most of the "shadows" are just my paintjob I think. I do make an effort to give an impression of a light source when I'm painting. I could try and light it even more though maybe...


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Ask and ye shall get - here is the goliaths in the blinding light of the daylight bulb directly behind the camera (click to zoom)



Here is the original. It doesn't look that much different (but does admittedly have some highlights caused by directional lighting):

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

Dr H. sprue? Is that the stuff that plastic minis come attatched to? I'm a bit of a lead snob so I don't have any. I could probably use something else common, like gravel maybs.
The big slabs are about half inch square. Its a very small dungeon yet. I will work on trying to get the slabs a bit more even. I want a nice staircase and some arched doorways, definitely treasure and provisions, tables, candles, flaming torches, spiders and whatever else springs to mind.

Oh and skulls of course Briancj

That it be...
Nowt wrong with that, we all work with what we like and are comfortable with (I've only ever worked with plastic for models).

Yeah, anything that's cheap, smaller than the thing you want to make and can hold putty on the surface will do.
Also, something that's lighter than the putty will make the final model lighter overall (a lot of putty can make quite a heavy model.
I've seen aluminium foil used for bulking out, I use sprue because I have loads.

Cool. I like the ambition and look forward to seeing the result.

I'm kinda kidding of course I have lots of plastic but as I bought it all second hand it wasn't on sprue. Plastic is undoubtedly better for multi-part kits, vehicles and converting.

Aaaaaah feels good to be home for the weekend, time to walk down lidl and get a nice red wine and some cool frosty graffenwalder. I wish they had a fridge in that shop its a drag having to wait for it to get frosty.

More goblins and beastmen to paint this weekend perhaps. I've also found some empire troops to represent hapless explorers.

Things and stuff.

Playing around with flagstones, and some goblins - no idea who the goblin with the flintlock is? Anyone recognize? I couldn't find him in the catalogue. He looks like a pirate.

Good work on the Goblins. Nice skin tones, armour/clothing, boots, the shield and the metal...They're just nice all over...

I'm quite liking the second dungeon layout, with the small slabs in the middle you could add a grill/drain to the centre, maybe some channels and then a torture table over them...

It's really nice to see how busy you've been weets! Loads of lovely miniatures for me to goggle at! Where is the Slaaneshi Beastman from? I've seen a conversion from it once before but that's the only other time.

Keep the prosperity going, pal!

Great Idea Dr H. Will have a go at that soon.

Casey - Its from 1991 I think - a real nice model.

Its great to have a flare up of enthusiasm. It will probably wear off soon but in the mean-time I will take advantage and paint.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat19912/c20281rcbeastmen-02.htm

Very nice weets. You've definitely got your goblin zen going on!

Cheers gits. Goblins are fun. Little smiling faces full of malice.

Some things I haven't yet shown people.

A 1988 realms of chaos khorne champion, ought to have cost 15-20 quid but I snapped it up for 4 inc postage because the photo was really fuzzy. Remember to take a nice picture if you are selling stuff folks!! Makes all the difference. Anyways Its a really nice sculpt that stands up well to modern stuff

A 1988 chaos snakeman.

Very cool, my favourite ever army used quite a few of those beastmen for conversions. Nice new minis too! I'm sure I have a bag of stuff that you could use but they probably need a lot of restoration and would duplicate stuff you already have. I'll have a look in a bit.

I think I know the army you mean. Is it this one - http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-33913-25745_Beastmen%2040k-%20The%20metal%20beast%20project.html

Not that one but I am a big fan of that army. The pressmoulding used in that project is truly brilliant if I remember correctly. It was an old WD article, a Slaaneshi CSM army. Probably the biggest influence on me to date, closely followed by Hive Fleet Moloch.

I've had a look and I actually don't think you'd have any interest in the stuff I was thinking of. It's only a few Necromunda models and a couple of Bloodbowl that my cousin had painted back in the day and which have at this point lost an array of limbs and weapons. It's conversion fodder at best. Sorry about that, I remembered it differently.

I have to admit I never thought of collecting blood bowl. Its a bit too sporty.


I have had a very busy day paintwise.

A whole beast man unit... wonderful!