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Little Wars 2018: The Bolt Action Tournament!
A few weeks ago I took part in my first tournament in 4 years, and my first Bolt Action tournament ever! You have seen all the posts leading up to this moment on the display board, titled "The Road of...
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Flower Garden
This Dark Sword figure was painted with oils during a recent live session, and finished off later on with additional details and foliage from Green Stuff World. Here's a link to the live...
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Home Made Tufts Part One: Shrubs and Flowers
I recently made a step by step post showing how I used my new Static Grass Applicator from WWS, creating a bunch of brand new home made grass tufts. Since then, I had found a number of tutorials...
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Home Made Tufts Step Two: Shrubs and Flowers
With the review concluded in the previous post on how to create the tufts themselves (link below), it is time to get to the really fun part! I was able to find these leaves and flower material on MP...
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The Goat Club
This unit of Beastmen is from Mierce Miniatures, and it was painted in a very similar way to another unit which was cast in metal. I did a multi part series that took the group from primer to...
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Roadside Forests: A new tool for trees!
As I was working on the display board for the Little Wars tournament, I was continuing a similar process on my road sections and some other elements for the upcoming Battle of Arras board.Since I was...
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Savage Blades
I have been using the oils for a greater and greater percentage of each figure as I learn more techniques, and manipulate the colors even more. A set of four figures was painted all at once using the...
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Mosaic Tile Basing
As I was finishing off the rest of the mosaic tile bases, I tried to snap a few images to show you how I make the initial design look more like mosaics than a painting. That is not very complex, just...
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Blondie
Earlier this year, I did an experiment painting a unit of Clan Escher on a facebook live session to show how you can try to utilize that extended drying time to your advantage.The technique has...
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The Road to Arras: a new terrain board
As I lead up to the Battle of Arras report, I wanted to show you what the newest terrain pieces looked like on the Ardennes board.I am still using the forest matt from TableWar... and this time around...
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Mob Rules
Time to see some finished images of the Gangs of Rome figures! This is one of the "mobs" which is part of the game. It seems that these folks can influence what is going on quite a bit, as they have...
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Death in the Marshes
Following their successful defense of their base in the last German assault, the Red Army decided to push forward to reclaim the ancient wooden cathedral of Korbyn on the Pripyat river.No sooner did...
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Ruling the Mob
This is the second mob painted for the Gangs of Rome game. These are groups of five figures that can react in various random ways to the mortal combat going on in the streets around them.When you look...
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Minis in Oils
My first experiments in painting figures entirely with oils were conducted on these figures, since they had many of the elements that I thought were well suited for that medium. First, there are a...
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Li'l Red
Here's another example of a Necromunda Clan Escher figure painted mostly with oil paints, As usual, I did some finishing details with acrylics once that was dried. This was especially the case where...
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Call your Shot
While I have been showing you the completed images of the mobs from Gangs of Rome, there are other figures central to the game. This would be the gladiators and fighters themselves!Again, I have not...
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Blood At Arras
Here we go! Battle report number three from the Early War series, this time covering the Battle of Arras. You can see that one on my YouTube channel here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njN4D64zH1k...
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Absolutely Fabulous!
Between my desire to create my own version of the Mig Ammo Oilbrushers and find a better way to store paint than the dreaded dropper bottles, I ended up with this...During a recent Models Workshop...
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Gangs of Rome
Here's another round of gladiators from Gangs of Rome. Just as I did with the mobs, I painted the mosaic tile patterns onto the bases. In that case of this guy, I matched the design from one of those...
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Lest we Forget
Today is obviously a day for remembrance, and a chance to talk about one of the reasons that I have delved so deeply into things such as Bolt Action.My Dad was in the Marine Corps in the later years of...
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