Right, instead of posting my random stuff (that I do a lot) in my other threads, I decided to open one for those things...it will be mostly fantasy, with some occasional sci-fi/steampunk/40k/Inq28/anything else that I impulse-buy (I do that alot.....). Oh, and also, boardgames (Mansions of Madness, Myth when I finally get it in next January, etc).
What you can expect here in the future:
- ForgeWorld event only Warrior Priest
- D&D Collectors Series Illithid Raiding Party (oh, and the Drows too, when I buy them)
- Succubus and Bad Faerie from Freebooter
- Reapercon 2007 Sophie + some random Reaper stuff
- Gabrielle Lunardiente from Tale of War
- and who knows what else...

And just a quick teaser of what's coming in the near(ish) future...


The Illithid raiding party (with a bit of kitbash), and Ulfryk Lichbane, the Warrior Priest (with ALOT of kitbash) :) More shots comin' later...

That's it for now, see ya laters!

*note not an advertisement*


First, I don't think you should buy a Spikey Bitz mystery box; second, I like gambling. I have seen these come around before. The premise is you pay $200 USD for $300 retail of product. The kicker- some boxes have $400 worth of retail product. The product comes from Games Workshop, Forgeworld, Privateer Press, Infinity, etc etc etc.

So, I bought one. I chucked out $200 blind and I will show you what I get when it arrives!

The absolute minimum I will end up with is a lot more to complain about and some new miniatures to paint.

I am in the process of organizing and storing my collection of warhammer models (as well as a couple armies belonging to friends, some 15-20 armies in total) and decided to photograph the process for posterity. I figured I'd post some pics as I take them on this forum for redundancy, for perhaps inspiring others and for inflating my own ego. :D So I'll take pictures of each army as I organize them and post them here. Feel free to comment, question, admire or insult at your leisure.

Firstly, a few shots of my basement. The driving reason behind this mass-organization project is restoring this troll cave to a functional, furnished basement again.
1) The Army Cases 2) The extra foam and bitz storage. 3) Ye Olde Pile of Unfinished Projects (also a long forsaken treadmill)



Now for the first actual army: My single largest, favorite to play and most painted army:
The Deathskull Orks of Waaagh Lungrippa (~6000 pts.)



And just a couple shots of recent unique creations.
Lungrippa's Grav Wagon:


Warp'ead "Nutz" and his Cyboar "Boltz"


One down, many to go. Again feel free to provide any feedback at all (tips or experiences involving organizing warhammer models are particularly welcomed)!
-Gares

I am in the process of organizing and storing my collection of warhammer models (as well as a couple armies belonging to friends, some 15-20 armies in total) and decided to photograph the process for posterity. I figured I'd post some pics as I take them on this forum for redundancy, for perhaps inspiring others and for inflating my own ego. :D So I'll take pictures of each army as I organize them and post them here. Feel free to comment, question, admire or insult at your leisure.

Firstly, a few shots of my basement. The driving reason behind this mass-organization project is restoring this troll cave to a functional, furnished basement again.
1) The Army Cases 2) The extra foam and bitz storage. 3) Ye Olde Pile of Unfinished Projects (also a long forsaken treadmill)



Now for the first actual army: My single largest, favorite to play and most painted army:
The Deathskull Orks of Waaagh Lungrippa (~6000 pts.)



And just a couple shots of recent unique creations.
Lungrippa's Grav Wagon:


Warp'ead "Nutz" and his Cyboar "Boltz"


One down, many to go. Again feel free to provide any feedback at all (tips or experiences involving organizing warhammer models are particularly welcomed)!
-Gares

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One year ago today I set out to challenge myself to paint a miniature a day, for 31 days. It was a daunting task, and one I wasn't completely sure I could handle.

It was a success.

Many things have changed in the year since then. Most notably, my wife and I spawned two wonderful, screaming poop-factories.

Regardless of this major, life-changing/affirming event I'm going to try it again. The goal remains the same: 31 minis in 31 days. A few things will change from the previous year:
* I'm working without a safety net. Last year I had multiple backup minis prepared to paint in case my work day went too long, this year I don't.

* I won't be sticking as strictly to my weekly categories. There might be an imperial assassin, followed by a Farseer, followed by a samurai, who knows?

* I won't be working as much on individual, characterful, minis as much as working on units. Much of it Tau.

* The photos will be of a slightly lower quality since I don't have access to my work studio.

* Without access to my photo-editing software at work there won't be a Calendar like last year.
(EDIT: Turns out I can make it work!) Here you have it:


This year is also different because I'm not actually working at the newspaper right now. I've been on leave, taking care of the twins full time as their mother works, which leaves me only a few short hours every days for extracurriculars like showering, eating, or catching up on much needed rest. The wacky newspaper hours have been replaced by wacky tag-team infant hours.

This should be interesting.

Welcome to Muninn's May Mini Madness 2013: Nightmare Mode

~Muninn

I thought I'd share my latest project with everyone as in going through the process myself, I found online guides most useful and so this is an attempt to share this online help with others. I can't find all the sites tha helped me, but my main guide was from http://wardisciple.com/?p=215 so if he reads this, thans a lot. Well, onto mine.

I started with the basic prep-work you would expect, cutting off sprue, cleaning, scraping etc
(this image may be of a later stage, but shows the assemblage as the essential parts).

For the most part, you build 100% as described, right up to the weapon pods.

Using what I think are 2mm magnets, I first placed the mount for the Lascannon/Heavy Bolters onto the main weapon mounting. Using the hole in the upper section as a guide, I marked where I needed to drill, then removed the upper section and carefully drilled down into the plastic, being careful not to go all the way through. Once I had my indent made, I simply glued the magnets into the holes - easy enough.


For the Lascannon and Bolters, I did exactly the same. As carefully as you can, drill into the exact centre of the weapon 'pegs'.

Its worth test fitting them here, if only to let yourself know you've done it right, and please remember - keep the magnets facing the right way!! You don't want your Bolters being repelled by the magnets on the main weapon mount. It's worth maybe marking the polarity of the magnets in some way (paint, scratching it, marker pen etc)

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I should have done this a long time ago.

Anyway, I got a privateer press archangel about a month ago, and I got my first airbrush a few days later. I've just found made some time to work with both of them, so I figured I'd post some WIP here.


The base is brown because I wanted to seal the foam for spraypainting. Then I added spackle paste to simulate water.




After airbrushing in several shades of grey.




I'm very pleased with how the cliff face came out.


And here's a random piece of foam terrain that has been waiting for paint for nearly two years. (I needed to use up my thinned out paint on something...)

Hello all!

Some of you may remember me from a year ago or so, haven't been active in quite a while. You know, getting to uni and drinking a bunch will do that to you. However, now that I've become more socially active outside of this box I've felt that something is missing. And that something is painting a bunch of stuff and showing it to you guys!

So I figured I'd close off my old dusty threads and start fresh with this one. And then I looked at my progress... ...not good. Well, took the pics anyway just for show, and then realised that there's no such thing as a memory card reader in this computer... Well *****. I'll work something out, don't freak out yet, give it a couple of days.

Meanwhile, I can tell you what will probably be in this thread. It'll be miniatures, yes. A bunch of random miniatures that I liked the look of and bought. And when I feel like "Hey, let's paint a... ...whatever this is", I'll do it! But, it'd be also nice to know what you like, and consequently, what I should paint! Give me a good reason and what in particular are you looking for in me painting that miniature, and I'll do it! Don't know if you'd like the look of a purple-cyan Ork? Well I'd want to know myself, and I'd be happy to help with a splash of paint :D But bear in mind that you need to sell the idea to me first ;)

Alright, enough ramble! I'll link you my photobucket so you can have an idea of what I was capable of a year ago: http://s585.photobucket.com/user/Goa...?sort=3&page=1

Anyway, thanks for reading, and any feedback is welcome as usual.
Goat of Yuggoth

I started playing and painting in 1997 and I've cumulated a bunch of miniatures over those 16 years.
Orcs and Goblins and Vampire Counts are my main forces, but I also have some wood elves,
brets, Confrontation, Malifaux, freebooter, Final Fantasy converted Chaos army for 40k!
Last weekend I started taking photographs of my collection, to share with you. I haven't painted everything yet,
so I hope this gallery will keep me motivated. Perhaps this thread'll even evolve into a plog, who knows?
There's quite alot, so I'll be uploading in pieces.

Without further ado; Vampire Counts, the second army of my collection.
I'll start with the Base units

Zombies:














And a group-shot:

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Hey there! I am making a small chaos space marine army. And for my, khorne marked marines, to stand out on the table, I wanted to repleace their torsos with marauder ones. And maybe on some the hands as well. But I dident find inuf pictures in the internet (only 3 or 3) to be sure that they will fit.
Maybe some one did that already for his marines, and could give me some suggestions.

Hey everyone, thought I'd post some of the work I've done on my Zombicide miniatures.

Here's all the Zombies that come with the game, minus the Abomination, which is just primed at the moment.



And while these bases are too thick (3mm thick, 25mm round clear LITKO bases), eventually the goal is to have all of my Zombie models and Survivors based on clear bases. I decided to go for the 1.5mm thick LITKO bases instead. The zombie strippers are from Reaper.



And the survivors:

Nick (or not Bruce Willis)


Phil (or nor Rick Grimes)


Wanda


Josh


And a group shot:


~iPaint

HELL-O! and welcome to my painting and gaming project log. I'm going to be running this concurrently with my blog more or less and since I just posted my first post over there I might as well C&P it here cuz I'm lazy like that...sometimes.
Sword and IF by Kristopher Blas, on Flickr


Chaintrap by Kristopher Blas, on Flickr


Squad Shot by Kristopher Blas, on Flickr


Firemouth by Kristopher Blas, on Flickr

In my altoholism (I have way more minis than I actually know what to do with) I have stumbled upon Malifaux. In other systems I can never finish anything so I thought a skirmish one would make it easier. And by now I have managed to complete a single crew with choices to spare. Huzzah!


Linking pics below. They can also be found here:
http://legioineptica.blogspot.co.uk/...resndolls.html