Been a little while again. I've been pretty busy with Battletech lately! Started up a local group a couple years ago and it's quickly grown to nearly 20 people a week! Not too bad. I've also joined an AD&D 2e group and found someone to play old GW games like Space Hulk with, so my motivation for miniature painting has come back quite a bit recently. I'll just show off a bit of what I've been up to!
This is my most recent project I just finished:
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| A garden variety snotling, Peasebloom the musical pig, and a friendly toad enjoy an afternoon in the forest. |
This project has been in the back of my head for probably about 10 years now when I first got the Peasebloom model from White Knight Miniatures, sculpted by John Pickford in 2007. Something I acquired way back in ye olden times I think on the Bugman's Brewery forum when his landsknecht dwarfs were made available for purchase to the members of the forum. (I always really enjoy it when forum members do their own limited runs!). The tree was made by me for this very project approximately 10-11 years ago back when I had very little confidence in my hobbyist skills so while it may not be the greatest tree, I'm still fairly proud of it as it was my first tree! Made of twisted wires covered in greenstuff and sculpted to look like bark. Unfortunately, the more interesting side of the tree with a little hollow ended up on the back side. Oh well. The ground, the pond, and the mushrooms were all sculpted out of wads of green stuff as well.
The pig, unfortunately, was chewed on by my dog probably about 7-8 years ago when it was a puppy, so the feet are rather mangled and detached. The rest of the model, however, was fine, so I made a little log for the pig to be sitting on and just kind of tried to bury it's "feet" in the dirt. The toad is from one of the old Reaper Miniatures Familiar packs way back from the late 80s or early 90s I forget which, and the snotling I found in a bag of random snotlings while looking for a good companion piece for the pig. Oddly enough, this one was not carrying a weapon or looking aggressive at all and I thought the watering can actually worked well with the little pond.
Overall, I think it ended up not too bad. Finally finished my first diorama after ten years! I sure need to speed up my painting or I'm never going to get done with everything.
Next up, here's my AD&D Character: Largo
Largo is currently a level 1 fighter who specializes in the longsword and uses a small-medium shield. So far he's had a couple near-death encounters, particularly with a Dwarf smacking him for 8 points of damage with a warhammer! (He only has 9 hp!). We'll see how long he survives!!
Next we have some Terminator Marines for Space Hulk!
Some good old metal Crimson Fists Terminators. I did not assemble them, they came this way, so you may wonder why the Captain has a normal power fist and an assault cannon and why one has a single lightning claw, well, it wasn't my decision! I just went ahead and painted them. I think they look cool, anyways. They also survived their first Space Hulk mission!
At some point I would like to get some proper crimson fists decals for them and I think they would look good with some extra decoration on their power fists. Perhaps some stripes or something. So I still consider these a work in progress. I also have 4 more that are primed and waiting to be worked on to join the team, bringing the terminator squad up to 8 marines. I got a little tired of painting terminators after these though, so the others might wait for a little bit before I get to them.
