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There are minis? I'll have to look em up (robot voice - WORKING...WORKING...). Of course you're right, unless I can find them at a reasonable discount I can't really afford them right now, having blown the budget on new GW militia. Another time though. I think the first one I'd get would be sam vimes in his armour with the crossbow, closely followed by granny weatherwax in an opera dress!

Anyhoo, if those guys were the night watch then this is the day watch - bright and shiny, Sam Vimes would disapprove.



Not the best miniatures in the world and I over-painted on top of someone elses swabbed on paintjob so I lost a bit of detail. But they add meat to the army. I'll be getting them some command units next.

Such a colorful lot with dour facial expressions. I can visualize a fancy double wide door beyond them which they are guarding from the prying eyes (and persons) of the general public (meaning us).

I like nearly all of the Discworld minis by Micro Art Studios though I think I have only sprung for Luggage so far. For me, either the Librarian or Death with Rat Death will be next although I am sorely tempted by both Vimes minis and Granny Ogg with mug.

Big changes have been afoot with my workspace. I used to work in the corner of the coffee table, at constant risk of spilling hot beverages on the miniatures in my care (this never actually happened in 5 years of painting, but it was probably only a matter of time till it did),

Now I work in style, at an 18th/19th century mahogany Bureau complete with dozens of tiny drawers and alcoves! Its perfect and its fairly banged up so I don't have to be too precious with it (anyway its hard to accidentally spill paint with these new dropper bottles). I have a tiny drawer for everything. We don't think there are any secret compartments but touch wood...

Now I've got this beast the models are perfectly safe and can be hidden and locked out of sight (for parties etc). I've finally got room for more than one project at a time so people can send me as much work as they like and I will still have room to do my own thing. Finally I think I can start thinking a bit bigger.

Here's a pic, hope you're all horribly jealous!

Oh how I'd like to get into your drawers weety

Nice find, looks great for painting on.....but I bet some parts will seem to somehow find their way into a secret compartment.

And now you have space we want to see you constructing some big-ass mining machines for the stunties

Looks like a nice little work-space!

Old desks are often the best desks. Yours looks like a great acquisition.

We don't think there are any secret compartments but touch wood...

Well if you touch wood in just the right way, something might pop up...

I am indeed horribly jealous. Good desk Weety.

Hrm, well its better than my old kitchen unit, which I rescued from... well my old kitchen.

Monkeytroll - something big anyway. I'm currently feeling in a dungeon/crypt mood (and I got some model coffins in a job lot of junk so...) Not in the mood for mining shorties atm.

It is a great desk thanks all.

Dr H, nudge nudge wink wink, suits you sir! Oh the inyourendo.

But seriously. Some painting got done on the new desk:

Cannon crew ready!



Halberdier captain ready!



And more troops are mustering in the wings

My first knight



Outrider



Swordsmen

Many threats to the empire are stirring! In the western seas pirates abound, and beneath the cities mutant 1980s ratmen are breeding!!!

Ooh...skaven!

Looking forward to seeing those get the weety treatment.

And you can rarely go wrong with pirates obviously.

Look forward to seeing what you do with them.

Call me ignorant if you like, but has one of them got 3 arms? Is that a thing with Skaven?

There were a couple of skaven mutants back in the day - if I recall correctly that one is called Throt something. Mine was albino...or at least, he was supposed to be, ended upmore pink as I recall. All that warpstone has an effect on them

Edit: Throt the Unclean I believe it was......

Nice haul, Weety. Looking forward to more of your excellent work.

Nice stuff! I particularly like the brass effect on the cannon, is it the result of a lot of washes?

Commander cain - yes a shed load of washes (vallejo black, umber and sepia in that order) and a smigeon of highlights in between the washes (vallejo - dark sand) and a final very thin wash of green mixed with grey for that verdigris sheen.

Thanks vallhalla - hopefully it will be soon! I'm looking forward to the pirates, but they need a captain first (green stuff will be needed), and the skaven are not all based yet so it may be a little while before I get the paint out.

That's right monkey/Dr H he is indeed Throt the unclean. I got him for 99p. I must get this addiction under control but how can I help myself when they are 99p each!! That's a man-catcher he's holding - no doubt he wants to take some prisoners for his vile purposes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_catcher

Albino aye? Sounds like a plan.

Aye, the Discworld models are pretty cool. I painted up the Luggage for a magazine review a few years back. At my local show, Triples, this year, I was lucky enough to find someone selling offsome of their stock at £5 a pop - managed to get Angua, Nobby, Cheery Littlebottom and Mustrum Ridcully, as well as some resin bases suitable for Ankh-Morpork.

I'm very jealous! They are about a tenner new I think.

99p for the skaven? Bargain....far too good to resist. May have to see about 40k-ifying some of mine at some point, Throt would fit in with the slaaneshi beastmen.

hes got three arms - he'll be right at home.

Today at the carboot my lover bought for me

10 plastic marines
5 damaged SM leaders
4 space marine scouts
3 catachan guardsmen
2 valhallans
1 terminator
And a dreadnought in a pear tree!

Actually there was no pear tree :(. Satan alone knows what I will do with all those stupid marines, but I'm always happy to see valhallans

How does a deradnaught get up in a tree?

And let me know when they get there please.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
hes got three arms - he'll be right at home.

Today at the carboot my lover bought for me

10 plastic marines
5 damaged SM leaders
4 space marine scouts
3 catachan guardsmen
2 valhallans
1 terminator
And a dreadnought in a pear tree!

Actually there was no pear tree :(. Satan alone knows what I will do with all those stupid marines, but I'm always happy to see valhallans

OOH OOH OOH!!!! Valhallans!! I can't wait to see what you do with them.

I just knew you'd like valhallans valhalla130, the clue is in the name! They are in the stripper as the previous owner seems to have thrown paint at them randomly.

Miss dee those enforcers arrived this morning, Thankyou for that. I hope they'll come in handy some day.

cool Glad to know you got them

Great to see that Empire Hero beautifully painted excellent model to represent Vimes during Night Watch when he wore the eye patch as Sergeant Keel.

Yes - I bet he would have baulked at the plumes though. I must read that one again, it always struck me as the most serious discworld novel.

OMG, OMG, OMG I've finally gone and done it and bought Advanced Heroquest, breaking all of my rules about not spending money I don't have on things I don't have space for.

I think I must have early onset dementia. But then apparently you only live once I heard and they certainly wont have advanced heroquest in hell if I'm wrong about that.

Its got two of the starter heros missing but was half the price of the other offerings and I never liked those two anyway.

Its probably the GW game I'm most familiar with as my dad used to have it and would make us sit and play it as a family (probably his fault I like miniatures then). I don't remember much of the rules but I've been re-reading them and some reviews/batreps and it sounds right up my street. Any game where a mighty hero can get shanked to death by a goblin with a knife is alright in my book.

The best thing is that I have all the proper models for the skaven already! (except the jezail, the warpfire thrower and the grey seer).

It will make a great alternative to computer games when the grid fails... playing by candlelight will add to the atmosphere.

My copy:






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I must get some spare doors - there were never enough doors to go round.

Ooo. Nice score.

I've not played Advanced Heroquest. There looks like a lot more things compared to the normal Heroquest.
And tiles, not a board.

I thought the whole point of money you don't have is to spend it on stuff you don't have room for......have I been doing it wrong all these years?

Nice score...although I think I only played a couple of games (of either version of Quest) in my youth, I was more of a Space Crusade guy.....

I remember advanced heroquest being very unforgiving.