Tag Archives: Miniatures

Finally put a couple of decals on the first Firefly

Finally put a couple of decals on the first Firefly, now it just needs matte varnish then I will try my hand at pigments on the tracks & road wheels. View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CLVwfEtnst4/ #flamesofwar #paintingminiatures #paintingminis #paintedminiatures #paintedminis

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Hobby Planning for 2021

Taking a cue from the Drunken Samurai Painting blog I thought I would try to lay out a plan for what I want to accomplish around building and painting in 2021. I will hopefully post my actual results next January … Continue reading

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WIP Soviet infantry models for Bolt Action

WIP Soviet infantry, this is the LMG team from the first squad, a full second squad and a second sniper team. I cranked through the tunics & trousers on all 14 of them today. Hoping to finish them off tomorrow … Continue reading

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WIP DP-28 light machine gun team for one of my Soviet rifle squads

WIP DP-28 light machine gun team for one of my Soviet rifle squads. Finally getting close to done on the 14 soldiers I have been batch painting. View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CKiUvNnn2w8/   #paintingminis #paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting #boltactiongame

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WIP Soviet 82mm medium mortar team for Bolt Action

Soviet 82mm medium mortar team for Bolt Action. I glued the models on the base but still need to apply some Vallejo dark earth paste to blend in the metal bases before I apply grass, tufts and rocks.   View … Continue reading

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#WIP ancient 1:1200 trihemiola from Langton Miniatures

I am eventually going to put together a Rhodian fleet of 10-12 of these plus a few quadriremes to play Poseidon’s Warriors. US penny for scale, definitely the smallest model I have painted. Just need to paint the water base … Continue reading

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What a Tanker!

As is not uncommon for me I have picked up new miniatures games over the past year or so. First up was What a Tanker! from Two Fat Lardies. My local game group ran a demo game of this at … Continue reading

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Reality’s Edge – Cyberpunk Skirmish Rules

I backed the This is Not a Test (aka TNT) Kickstarter from World’s End Publishing a few years ago since it looked like a good post-apocalyptic ruleset and it was long before Fallout: Wasteland Warfare was announced. I never did … Continue reading

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Early 1980s Miniatures

This gallery is my collection of metal miniatures from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. The bulk of them are from Grenadier boxed sets and most of the loose ones seem to be Ral Partha. There are a few … Continue reading

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Adios Warmachine and Malifaux, hello Guild Ball!

It has been close to two years now since I have felt really engaged by Warmachine or Malifaux, it got to the point where I didn’t even bring models for either one to the Kingdom Con 2015 convention. Warmachine was … Continue reading

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Painting Backlog i.e. Wall of Shame

I have gotten into a really bad habit of continually buying models without finishing what I already own. The closest I have to 100% complete models would be my Protectorate battle box that I bought in the summer of 2008. … Continue reading

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Neat backgrounds for photographing models

One of the guys in my gaming club found a neat site that has downloadable backgrounds for photographing your models, I think I will give this a shot. Corvus Miniatures Cloud Backgrounds

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Exemplar Errants Assembly

My Knights Exemplar Errants are going to be very strong on the battlefield but getting them there is going to be challenging. They are a pain in the butt due to the large part count on each model. I built … Continue reading

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Seamus & Sybelle Assembly

That last Seamus shot was very small after cropping from the camera so here’s one of him after assembly as well as Madame Sybelle. Yes, she’s an overweight undead madame from a cathouse. Shooting raw pewter is sketchy, the high … Continue reading

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Errants in the Spray Booth

Here are various Knights Exemplars Errant in my ghetto spray booth. The officer from tbe UA is on the far left and you should be able to pick out the standard bearer. The other four are the grunts from the … Continue reading

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