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Nice work on the dwarfs.

and good show ol' chap, Graven for sending them.

As always, top job weets!

Thankyou. I like painting dwarves, its a shame I've run out. Its probably time I stopped buying miniatures for a while and finished what I've got. I'm not getting paid enough. I need to supplement my income with art somehow.

I'm currently taking my sweet time over some dark elf assassins that I previously painted some years ago. They have big mullet hair, wavy knives and punch daggers. They're a bit daft looking really in a very 80s way, its the hair! - I can't find them in the citadel catalogs so I think they are marauder or pal-ratha or maybs grenedier - I will research.


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yep they are marauder miniatures - http://solegends.com/marauder/mm73deassassins.htm

Something really heavy arrived in the post today. In fact I could say it was a giant package. Thankyou again graven, you are increasing my heavy metal supplies considerably. Also I now have an entire 4chan of river trolls (thats the best group word I could come up with for trolls)

Its going to take me a while to strip the paint off and pin it together so no pics yet.

Dark elves finished soon - they are 55% complete.

Grand like your collective noun too

lol, a 4chan of trolls. Nice one Weety.

Look forward to seeing more.

Awesome! I have him still primed after years The only fig I painted from Quest was the Barbarian.

Did you once have another giant graven? - you seem to have sent me some giant spare arms and weapons. Also a model which seems to be cut in half. Not sure what he is and I'm just curious to know what he was. Perhaps I can green stuff another half to him if I see a pic of what he looked like.

I sent it to you? I don't remember lol..pic?

That message is for graven. I'm sure you'd remember if you sent me a giant with spare arms!

Maybe we all sent giants with spare arms and you only got Gravens.

lol

^

Giant has spare arms iirc. Half guy? Guess giant was hungry

Lol. That makes sense.

So the dark elves are done - here is the before shot



And the new paintjobby

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Nice work, very subtle and Delfy!

They all have such perfect 80s hair too! Good job Weets!

Looks like an add for "cougarlife.com".

Nice job weets!

My wife and kids were just watching a teen movie from the eighties yesterday, you nailed the hairdo perfectly .

^ when cougars attack...

Nice work Weety.

Hi theophony welcome - did you sculpt that green stuff padded suit guy in your gallery? He is very cool.

The black and white 80s hair - its a bit goth and I think dark elves are a bit goth so it makes more sense than my previous paintjob.

What is cougarlife - I will go look myself...

Older women aye - gitsplitta you old dawg.

LOL! A cougar would t be interested in me. The site is for older women looking for young men.

Not so young anymore huh gits. I feel a bit old - no one's asked me for ID when I buy booze for 2 years now. Its awful.

I'm very envious of dave's dental stone cave. So I made some dungeon. This piece was rolled out onto scored plasticard (rolling out milliput is awkward - I had to lube up my rolling pin...). Then I got all geometric on its ass with a ruler. The rock texture was created by rolling an uneven chunk of granite about the size of a tennis ball across the surface. I've digitally altered one to give you an idea what it will look like painted.

I need to build some furniture for this room. I love miniature furniture. There's gotta be a wooden table with some bottles on it (maybe I will use Dr H's method? I have some sprue now.), benches, a pile of sacks, barrels, strongbox, weapon-rack, throne, sacrificial alter, etc. If anyone has any helpful suggestions please post them here.

Sounds good. The tiles look cool.

Yeah, wooden tables always have bottles on them...

Would love to see what you can achieve on the sprue carving front.

Lovely stuff! Your ideas sound good and Dr H has proven how versatile sprue can be so that's a great way to go about it. I'm working with card for my entry to the same competition which is rather versatile too although you would likely have trouble casting a porous material like that. If it's for one off pieces it's actually pretty brilliant stuff surprisingly, I'd be happy to give you some tips on using it if you go down that path. I could even do some short tutorials.

Well I had some spare milliput kicking about so I've made a tabletop out of it, and some skyrim style wine bottles, cheese wheel and bread loaves.

I need some tiny plates - its not very hygienic that tabletop. Can anyone think of what to use - I though maybe a brass tack with the point cut off and filed down - kinda bowl shapes

I will probably use sprue for the legs of the table.

I'm loving the table already. I could imagine that kind of table in the taverns my D&D groups used ot meet in to get new adventures.

Nice table and I like the things on it, especially the bottles.
I can't currently think of anything better for plates other than putty, but I'll let you know if I have a brainwave.

and don't forget to build a frame for the table, to go with the legs and for the tabletop to be nailed (or riveted) to.

A frame? I think I know what you mean. I've just sculpted a skull to go on it - possibly with a candle on top. Pics tomorrow when its all dry.

Good morning! Last night's work is dry and looking good - the brass tack idea worked, and I'm getting good at skulls.

Last minute update!!!

My first armature! I have no idea what it will be so I will just start by building a body and see what springs to mind.