Wednesday 30 March 2016

And so it begins..........


Nice parcel arrived off Uncle Pete today.....


Hoping to get them all sorted out in time for the annual Salute expedition...family probs have meant life is somewhat on hold at the moment but, with luck, things should get back to some form of normality soon.....I'll update the minis for sale page eventually......


Started the bagging process......


The full set....


Cameron & friend.....



Thursday 3 March 2016

One or two Assault Group Dwarves just turned up...............


Courtesy of Uncle Pete at The Assault Group......now I can start moving onto the artillery section of the Steam Cannon....


Started on one of the limited edition Kickstarter Wizards....daughter home from university so little time for more at the moment!


Tuesday 1 March 2016

Armoured Nightfolk finally painted up.....


Continuing the recent Nightfolk theme, I've finished 10 of the armoured types. Lovely sculpts by Martin Buck......I keep looking at the finished pic and thinking I should do highlights....then I think no, they'll look fine once varnished......3 more on the painting table along with some old Nevile Stocken Archive minis.



I also took pics along the way so I've added them below....something of a new approach for me but it allowed me to look at the painting in close up as I went along without having to rely on my failing eyesight / magnification I use....

I tend to clean up the miniatures then base them before undercoating in black....a good cheat as it gives great demarcation between areas without the need to carefully paint dark lines afterwards.....


Not sure where the blue and red scheme came from but I think it works nicely....


I checked the paint job by Andrew Taylor for The Tracker and Beast piece (here) after I'd started with green....that helped with the later lighter color of the underneath areas otherwise I'd have been really lazy....






I decided to add contrasts for the cuffs as otherwise it didn't quite work for me...





Just the washes to go....GW Gryphonne Sepia. For me it gives a nice finish although sometimes a little dark....I'll need to work on this.


Finished group.......


Figures are all available from Northumbrian tin Soldier - link here.....just click on the Nightfolk tab at the top.

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