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Adore your style. Look forward to more.

And I love your rubarb and custard flavoured marine chapter. Thanks!

The house looks great so far. I have a tip for wood planking if you don't mind unsolicited advice. I go to coffee and tea shops and grab a handful of wooden coffee stirrer sticks. They cost the store about 15 cents USD for 1000, so I'm not breaking their budget by nicking 20. Then I stuff them in my pocket with my pens, change, and keys & carry them around for a few days. The result is realistically battered miniature wood planks. It adds a level of detail that would otherwise take me hours to duplicate by hand. Just something to store away in your builder's bag of tricks.

Looking forward to seeing more from this project. Not sure how you've passed under my radar up till now.

Nice work on the knight. It does look like a bought model.

House is coming together nicely. Keep it up.

And as an alternative to wooded stirrers, you can also make small wooden planks etc. from sprue. Y'know, if you have lots of free time and don't mind putting in some work. Just saying.

Great looking knight - excellent job on restoring and painting him up, like him a lot

Also really digging that house - definitely stonework for the lower storey, will be a great contrast to the upper.

Yeah, after seeing Doc mention Oblivion here the other week I had to go and seek out my disc and put in a few hours (honest, only a few).

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...Yeah, after seeing Doc mention Oblivion here the other week I had to go and seek out my disc and put in a few hours (honest, only a few).

I've put in more that a few since then...

Very nice use of cardboard and sticks! Liking that olde English Tudor period styling going on.

Hey warboss_wazaaarg thanks for the tip - and you've reminded me that I've got some somewhere. Too late for this building but for the next....

Dr H I'm not sure I want to take the risk with my fingers, sharp knife, sprue, its bound to end in tears. Maybe for small detail work.

Haha monkeytroll I'm putting aside at least 24hours of the holiday for oblivion, which is a very apropriatly named game. I love it so much, the frumpy elves, the luminous green orcs, the transendentally mellow soundtrack. Its so big and mysterious and full of flowering plants. I'm currently a nord called Red Sonja and I'm loving the eyelid ruins.

Thanks Shasolenzabi, I've been at it again today, doing the sides.

Looking brilliant young lady! Bravo!

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Sir Percevil Porkus.

The paint scheme is good and really ties the model together. I wouldn't have known it was a kitbash without seeing the WiP picture.

Not knowing it is a kitbash is the mark of a sublime conversion

Oblivion is awesome, as I found skyrim to be Elderscrolls for the win!

Also liking the detail work on that house!

I'm in the shivering ilse at the mo, I love it, so trippy. I like to jump between giant mushrooms to level up acrobat.

Anyway, while I'm bottling up enough courage to milliput the hovel, I painted the bones pirate captain. He looks pretty good for a model that cost 2 pounds new. Not a lot of detail but enough, my only complaint is his sword is bent and his fingers look like sausage.

He looks fantastic. The colors you chose for his clothing and the wood plank base are wonderful. Since you mentioned his fingers though, I can't unsee his meaty left hand.

That is one heckuva Pirate!

Yar, that's a salty dog! - Concerning the hand, well, have you ever seen the hands of a seasoned fullrigger sailor? All that rigging and roping in wind, weather and saltwater makes their hands look exactly like that: big, feisty sausage fingers with a skin like tree bark.

How did you do the base? Milliput?

Yup, thats good old milliput, textured by running a splintered lollypop stick over it.

The blue is a sky blue, then blue ink, then a wash of pale grey 1:1 flesh, Highlighted with pale blue-grey.

The grey/flesh wash stops the blue from being too blue and gives it that sheen. When colours strike me as too vibrant and jarring I often give them a wash of a dull contrasting colour.

The red is a pink called old rose, several layers of red wash and some more of the grey/flesh wash over the top.


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Well actually living in a pirate town I have seen the hands of a seasoned fullrigger sailor, and yes they do look like sausage.

Excellent as always, Weety. Love the dwarves and their shields.

Well I finally got around to finishing off the milliput stonework and the beams, still needs gaps filling, windows making and bits trimming. Those gaps for bottom floor windows will be filled in with wire for bars and a sort of stonework frame. No big windows on the bottom floor or the goblins will sneak in.

Nothing doing for a bit. Family comes first!

That is looking fabulous.

The scale looks spot on with those Reaper minis.

Doesn't your family expect you to suffer for your art?
If not, they had better have brought something good to imbibe!

well its St Patrick's day and we are half Irish so hopefully they are good for a pint. Merry St drinksalot day youse guyz.

Happy St. Patrick's Day weets!

We'll have our traditional Dublin Coddle (thanks to Iffy for the recipe), some Guinness and a viewing of "The Quiet Man".

We didn't have any Irish booze in so in the end it was Spanish lager and Scottish whiskey for us! Still, we got the parents to tell us about the Irish side of the family.

Dammit, I forgot to watch Darby O'Gill!

Great job on the house, like that a lot.

And you just need to think of it as having gone all international for Paddy's day..

Spanish Lager? I must ask, what do the Spaniards know about Lager? Wines, yes, but Lager?

The stonework turned out very well indeed. With those minis (Reaper Townsfolk?) in front-- shows scale-- I can see that it is a good size too.

San Miguel ain't a bad lager. Maybe its not as good as german/dutch lager. Or Cornish and Irish beer of course, although those definitely aren't lager. Maybe I'm getting confused and it's actually mexican?

Anyway, I'm back from my family visit and looking forward to finishing off that cottage. Its definitely a good scale(not like some GW vehicles) and you really could get a family of 28mm miniatures to live in it. I need to do an even bigger one to be the tavern one day.

I have totally got bus-lag. 15 hours of uncomfortable chairs is no joke. Better go to bed.

Well that seemed like a long break, although actually it was just because my SD card reader broke again (I've got to stop getting them from poundland).

In the meantime the house was finished. (needs a little base around the edge but is otherwise paint worthy).



I even did the back, although its a little dull (I might just put a hatch in the upper floor and a little pully block above it for quick escapes)



And finally this guy got some pigment. He confused me, but I've decided that he is an ex-gladiator who made good and likes a bit of bling. Sort of a neutral rogue type. A very odd sculpt, if anyone can place him let me know.

Do you know what range that fighter came from? Year or anything on the tab? I poked around over on Stuff of Legends and didn’t spot him, but there is a lot to sift through there.

Your work on dwarves a few pages back inspired my to get one of my own painted, and work on my freehand. I blatantly stole your pattern, hope you don’t mind.

House is coming along nicely. One of these days I need to make some terrain for my table...

I think it had a blank tab - which is a sign of being from marauder minis I think. I could be wrong but its buried in milliput now so who knows. Anyway someone might remember it as he's odd looking. He's a knight/harlequin/gladiator with an ice pick and a punch dagger. If he had a back story it would be unconventional.

Nice work on the shield nevelon.


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I reckon he is a nobleman who is exiled from high society because of scandal and gambling debts. Faking his death he uses the last of his money to escape from the bailif to the distant land of Tilea. His violently sadistic tendancies led him to put on a mask and sign himself up to the local gladiator's arena in the hope of winning the grand prize and becoming rich again. He hopes one day to return to the empire and take revenge on his enemies. Complicated revenge like in the count of monte cristo.


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Well I cant see him in the marauder catalogue. He is a mystery.