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Locked and loaded!
Here she is! Base and all.You can see that I added a bit more weathering to the plinth (from Secret Weapon) and the jeep hood.Now you can see why I was very concerned about reflecting that green color...
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Reaper minis always shine!
It's been a while since I posted a Reaper Miniature (which means a few days!), so we have Aviriel Tellerion, Elf Paladin. One more very fun sculpt from Werner Klocke.I went with the classic deep...
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Mages and elves oh my!
Another small collection of Reaper minis from the vault. These guys were painted about 5-6 years ago.I know I have painted this Ardynn the Slayer a few times. He was the subject of a diorama...
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Why 2K?
Well folks, I had hoped for something more fancy for the 2000th post on the blog! Yes, indeed folks. In just 26 months of blogging, I have reached the two thousandth post!However, in some ways, a...
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Today we remember...
I thought it would be appropriate on this 70th anniversary of D-Day to post something I have never tried before... tiny planes! This is an entirely different experience.It requires a completely...
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She is very devout
Here's a test run for one of the entries I want to create for Reapercon next year. I wanted to get used to the sculpt, so that I can plan out any kind of freehand or effects.There are a lot of fun...
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Don't worry, be happy!
Hey folks! Here's a fantastic new material, one that will make quite a nice addition to the tool kit!These moulds are from Happy Seppuku, and they are the result of a recent kickstarter. As you can...
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The Desert Rats
Here and there I have put a few spots of paint on the British units from the Medeterranian expansion. First, an example of the infantry.I will be taking a few of these and converting them to have...
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The Great Experiment begins! Press Test.
It seems like this is what you have all been waiting for... getting down to business with the sculpey and the moulds.For the newcomers not quite familiar with how sculpey works, it is a clay that you...
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Playing in the sandbox
In preparation for the Mediterranean campaigns, I have started to paint some American and German tanks in desert scheme as well.I have gone with more weathering for my versions. Part of this is to...
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More of the Good Earth
The Oxide Paste and Dark Earth products came out again for some more terrain bits.While these are obviously very tiny, this could easily be scaled up to 28mm size.Some bunkers...And the desert sands!It...
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Playing with purple
There were a number of different topics that I left out of the original set of videos, since the idea was that once I had the means and knowledge of how to make them, I could add more titles as time...
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The first round of bases
Hey folks! I just made the first round of bases with the Happy Sepukku moulds!I thought I would choose one of the sci-fi moulds, and see how I could incorporate that into my existing techniquesAs you...
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Making a case for the Dragon
With all the chaos and mayhem that has been a part of daily life for almost 2 years, heading over to the Wandering Dragon Shoppe has been an imposibility.I have only seen the Shoppe once since the move...
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Getting Happy with paint.
All right... finally time to show the images of the painting process.For those not familiar with this string of posts, these are bases that I made using one of the Happy Seppuku moulds. Go on their...
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Rolling along with the Krios
Work has continued on the Mechanicum Krios tank. One of the reasons I wanted to take all these WIP images was to illustrate how the Shaded Basecoat works for much more complicated things like this...
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Spitting fire in the desert
Another plane for you! This time, one version of the Spitfire.With the future emphasis on the North African campaigns, I thought I would try out some desert camo (Rich has the more traditional green...
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Happy to see them done!
After working in a few more details, I took some shots of the finished bases.There are so many more moulds to try out! Each one is going to lead to many new designs.I may try this one again with...
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More planes!
Here's one more piece to the collection... the ME 109.Just as before, getting ready for some desert action!You have to be very judicious with your use of planes in Memoir. They are not all powerful,...
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From junk to treasure... part one
Many years ago, I snagged a bunch of junky Necron minis. They have been waiting for many years for something to be done with them.After creating the Tzeentch tainted Tomb King army, I thought it could...
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