Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Tree-man for 10mm & 28mm by Eureka Miniatures


 This mighty dude is from Eureka Miniatures and is an 18mm Tree-man. As you can see from these images, he works well for both 10mm and 28mm.










There are three different sculpts, two of which are near identical. However, being metal, you can bend their limbs to provide a good variety of poses. This one is mounted on a 40mm base. Time to paint some more.

Monday, 25 October 2021

Elf Maiden by Dark Sword Miniatures

 

Stand and deliver!

Dark Sword make some very nice miniatures and this Elf Maiden is no exception. I wanted to find another miniature to be the avatar for one of my players' character for D&D. The miniature I was currently using wasn't the best sculpt.

I was trolling through Magister Militum's web page and found this beauty to add to the collection. Definitely going to get more Dark Sword miniatures. Great sculpts.





Sunday, 17 October 2021

The Watcher in the Water

 

In keeping with the theme of nasty things in the water, here is my Watcher in the Water.


This is a early Watcher in the Water model from Games Workshop, the body of which was made from plaster and the legs from metal.



I've mounted the body of this beasty onto an old CD as a base. I then used sand to make the bubble effect and painted it using the same method I use to paint my naval ship bases.


I inked the model in the a gloss brown ink and, once dry, then painted the entire model and water/base in GW 'Ardcoat in order to made to look wet.

Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Baby Shark doodadodadoo...baby shark... Wizkids Great White Shark

 

Now that I have traumatised you with reminding you about that bleedingly awful song, here's my latest edition to how to terrorise your D&D player's, a Great White (Wizkids) Shark!

River sharks? Hmmmm?




The business end of the Great White!

So with my laptop still out of order for a few more weeks, its time to hand the borrowed one back for the moment.

You can see the potential for an upcoming adventure with this mini :)

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

CL4P-TP Claptrap

 

Still enjoying computer problems with my own laptop and so have to borrow someone else's to post this 😒 Still in lockdown and still trying to catch up on a load of unpainted lead. So here is the latest addition. This little fella is from Armourcast Miniatures and is called a Dancebot. Kind of reminds me of someone...



Alright. Time to give the computer back. So that's all for now!

Sunday, 19 September 2021

Radscorpions - D&D Wikids Giant Scorpions perfect for Fallout Wasteland Warfare

 

My personal laptop recently decided to go on the fritz not loading Windows. My RPG buddies can fix it but thanks to the stupid lockdowns we haven't been able to get together since mid-June 😠 So not happy. Needed to borrow another laptop just to post this.

Anyway, so I recently bought three D&D Wizkids Giant Scorpions but wasn't really sure on how I wanted to paint them. Seeing their size, when they arrived in the post, it hit me that these would be ideal as Radscorpions for Fallout Wasteland Warfare as well (and a darn sight cheaper too). I am developing my own home grown D20 rules for Fallout too so that we can rpg in the Wasteland using a rule system we know well as a group. So Radscorpion paint job it was then.





Painting was very simply done. I just base coated the miniatures in Chaos Black spray. I then used a dark brown (Rinox Hide???) as a wet brush over the exposed parts of the model. I then used a Terracotta red colour and dry brushed that over the exposed extremities of the body. I then used a lighter red on the pincers, sting and eyes. I then washed the model in a Gloss Brown Wash. Easy! The gloss wash really brought the colours together and gave a shine to the chitinous exoskeleton that I wanted.





Somebody has found some new pets!


Not what you want to find whilst scrummaging around the Wasteland.


Hopefully I will be able to get my laptop back into working order soon.

Sunday, 5 September 2021

Fallout Wasteland Warfare - Power Armour

 

I've finally gotten around to painting up the Power Armour suit from the Fallout Wasteland Warfare miniatures game by Modiphius.




Paintjob was fairly simple. For the armour I just:

* Base coat in Chaos Black spray

*Wet brushed in Dark Brown (adds a kind of rust look to the deep recesses)

*Heavy dry brush the armour and gun in Boltgun Metal

*Washed in Brown Wash

*Highlighted in a dry brush again of Boltgun Metal

*Painted the eyes in a Sky Blue, the head lamp White, the cylinders on the back were painted Terracotta and the gun was highlighted in Khaki and Terracotta.

*The power core was painted in a bright red (Evil Sunz Scarlet, I think)

Job done! Other than the base. That was a little more work. But its good enough for the table now.