Showcase - High Elves Frost Pheonix

Todays showcase is yet another of the many, many, many high elves that will populate this blog (after all that is the army I am currently building very slowly).

Due to the size of this model and my somewhat limited photographic skills these do not follow my normal 'showcase' photo format but features a somewhat more 'in game' feel.

Showcase - Chaos Space Marine Dark Apostle

As a bonus post for the day I thought I would put up another one of those miniatures that's just hanging about in the battle bunker (that's the nickname given to my hobby room in case you hadn't guessed).
Again this was done for a painting contest with the theme of Heroes in the Peterborough Games Workshop store (my local one) and features a couple of minor conversions.

WIP - High Elves Spearmen

Well silly season is upon us and everyone is gearing up to party or working overtime (that would be me :( ) as such hobby time is quite slim on the ground at the moment however I have managed to find a bit of time to make a start on some spearmen for the high elves army that I am building at the moment. So it is time for yet another Work In Progress picture

At this stage they have only been undercoated white and very roughly painted with a base steel colour (Citadel Base Paint - Leadbelcher) as much of these miniatures is scale mail or helm this seemed the most sane base to work from.

Showcase : Battle For Blood Island - Warhammer Style

A while ago my local Games Workshop Store (Peterborough) ran a contest with the title and theme of conflict, it was intended to be a conflict between two (or more) heroes battling it out, This is what I entered

Battle For Blood Island

The Bad Paint Monkey Says Sorry

As  an apology for all the posts this poor paint monkey has not done recently I thought as well as a WIP post I should do a Bonus Showcase to say sorry for my lack of updates

Bad Paint Monkey!

Yep I know I have been slacking..... no new posts for a while .... Bad me!!!
Well real life has infected me with a job and as such hobby time is greatly reduced, however today I have a WIP photo of those Sisters Of Avelorn I unboxed the other week , see this post for the reveiw.

Totally legless

Some Pictures From Games Day 2013

As a regional winner for Armies On Parade I was fortunate enough to go to Games Workshops flagship event Games Day this year and as I'm sure you can imagine I did spend a good deal of time taking hints and tips from my fellow competitors many of  these ideas I recorded in the form of photos and here are a few of them

Unboxing the sisters of Avelorn

Ok here are my first impressions of this kit from Games Workshop for their high elf army. Firstly this kit produces two different troop choices (this seems to be their latest production gem, I would guess to save on tooling swaps in the machine shops) . With all the others kits they have made in this duel unit format this one produces the most divergent options I have ever seen.Now what does this mean to you and me? In one short sentence lots of bits for conversions etc.

The origin of inspiration

Entering Armies on parade 2013 has made me sit down on think about the origin of inspiration, certainly from an artistic/modelling perspective. For this year's entry mine was one of the great number of Space Wolves entries and as far as inspiration always a simple choice for me as many years ago when I last had a 40k army it was space wolves so the history was a well known beast to me. Using this knowledge of the background fluff I selected an iconic location (in this case Fenris the space wolves home planet) for this kind of work I always think it's best to use something instantly recognizable to your target audience,  this in many way will dictate the look your finished work should portray.

The Finished Item

A New Hope.....

Well here goes nothing. I have over the last few years pondered why anyone ever does these blog's however after recent events I am starting to understand.First of all a little about me, I am late 30 something man, with to many hobbies, not the least of which is my addiction to painting 'toy soldiers' in other words wargaming miniatures. Recently I found myself entering the Games Workshop contest Armies on parade and to my surprise actually won my regional heat and went through to compete at the national finals at gamesday this year (where I was soundly thrashed by some very impressive work). However this event has made me consider recording the thoughts and processes that go into things like that and perhaps share some of my painting successes (and failures).
I intend to record the journey of the many on going miniatures projects that I have on the go and plan on updating this with regular WIP (Work In Progress) photos and blurb. I might even review the odd product or two and reveal some of my tricks of the trade and a few that I have learned from others on the way.
Who know perhaps somebody might even read this, here hoping.......