One Year Later

So, 

Illness, work and nonsense aside I have finally found a decent daylight lamp (£20 from Argos - £40 from Amazon) and have managed to do some painting.

I'm very out of practise but I'm getting there- I think I just need to experiment with techniques more and find on that actually fits. Also find my wood elf champion with the bow...I don't know where he disappeared too.

Anyway without much further ado about nothing:

Infinity 

Slight difference in size there

Gotta have some Cryx.

Next time I'll actually write a blog post and give some detail.

A Court for all Seasons

Still plugging away into the aether

I recently took stock of all my bitz, which there are many due to kickstarter and general ebaying from last year. Mostly I like singular models which don't really have a theme as I don't really intend to ever play any of the wargames from whence the models spring.

However, if you've taken any interest in my choices so far, you'll notice I tend to like painting Wood Elves and Circle minatures (as well as the odd whatever else) so here's my thinking:

Summer and Winter Courts ie A War of the Fey
Taking cues from 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' and 'Dresden Files' I plan on creating Seelie (Summer Fairies) and Unseelie (Winter Fairies) armies. Now when I say fairies I dinnae mean Tinkerbell. We're talking Grimm's and Germanic fairies, i.e anything that lives in the realm. Ice Giants, Giant Spiders, Dragons, Vampires, Loup-Garous, skeletons, zombies, wraiths, bears, tree-men..look you name it, it's in there.

So here's my current work on it:

Knight of the Summer Court

The Winter Queen, Mab

Skeleton of the Winter Court

You can see that with the Winter  Court I have attempted to add Ice effects and a cold tone. I don't know how well it worked to be honest. I've redone Mab as she's a work in progress. Considering she's the most important character on Winter's side it's necessary to get her right.

Zombie of the Winter Court

To return to your previously scheduled transmission...

Cats!

And now for something completely different:
I've been away for a while..I left my work at the end of my contract and at the same time became rather ill. I was pretty much blind for a month due to not being able to keep my eyes open. I've still got problems with the oils in my tears not working how they should, and as such I was unable to paint until recently. I still have problems reading unfortunately, but thank god for audiobooks.

Anyway, I've tried working around my eye problem in regards to my painting. It takes a lot longer and I have to stop but as you can see it's not awful..just a bit unfocused. New phone ( lumia 820) takes far better pictures which probably highlight further problems anyway. However it is nice to be able to get back to painting, and hopefully I'll be rid of this eye problem fully soon.

And now for the most recent examples of my painting:

Random Space Marine Lord 

Blood Bowl Orc

Warmachine..Cygnar something

Green stuff solves everything: more 40k

So

I've decided to really go for a chaos force that mixes thousand sons and alpha legion. As such I've began to convert, or kit bash, some models. Here are my WIPs. Given that I have a ton of Spaaaase Mareens as well it's likely that they will get bashed into raven guard or blood ravens at some point.


Okay not a kitbash but I love Ahriman, so yeah.

Kitbash of an Avatars of War priest, a chaos command sprue and Huron Blackheart's head.

And the rest of Huron blackheart and the command sprue

and the poorly painted work in progress Commander Lestrange. Really fiddly miniature and the head is not to the right scale, but it kinda worked.,

Just for reference that's what Huron Blackheart should look like. You can see which bits were taken and put where.

Squeek: skaven and others

So

Here's a very poor Rat Ogre and someone I like to refer to as 'the man who walks'.

I've got a lot of work that needs to be done on my skaven. Apart from that ill have some more time now that I'm switching jobs and getting out of law. So hopefully I can paint more.


The LAAAAAAW as Judge Rico would say.

WIP: The Wizard and the Glass

More work in progress

There seems to be a lot of thoughts as to how I could use them and not enough time.

WIP: Strange Tales

Sorry for the lack of posts, all 2 of you who happen upon this blog. I've been working and painting in mighty ways.
You may recall that a few posts before I mentioned an idea....well here's some more and a little more of a hint:
Sky Pirates
Elder Gods
Egyptian Spies
Cultists
Samurai
poor writing skills, and even worse painting skills.

And now the pictures, ere blurry they be.

                                                               Cultist of the Crimson Shroud

H.P. Lovecraft and Thrgll

Lord of the Crimson Shroud

The Man in Black

The Hollow Man

Grand Cultist of Crimson Shroud

Kit Cunningham (The Little Dragon)