Crumbs its all go now! Did a bit of painting on my macragge set. First I did the above, which was drybrush the arms boltgun metal, line the shoulder pads in shining gold and paint the belt bags a neutral brown (snakebite I think) Next bit is the red eyes and other read highlights - but I cant find my blood red paint.
My next trick was to glue together some of the aliens from the set, but I shouldnt have done that. You see - when I bought these I quickly cut them from the sprues and clipped them together to see how they went, and without thinking I glued them together, but still need to get the flash and mould lines off. Anyway I'll do that tonight and undercoat them. This is a scary miniature even unpainted dont you think? Thats the gene stealer for you.

Well, spent so long fixing my blog posts that I thought flickr had been doing correctly that I now have no time to ..... No - I cant say that really.
As I said in my previous post, I already had a small toon of these guys, and now have some more from the front of Battle Games.
The problem with these were that they were all slightly different, so you cant batch paint them as easy as, say, the million uruk-hai that I have. I suppose I at least have that, that I've got loads of the miniatures that are easy to paint. Anyway, these are my favourite plastic figures to own, if not to paint, and that is only in the Middle earth stuff. Nothing can compete with them marines.... :)

Labels: LOTR, Miniatures

Hmm - looks like flickr hasnt been posting the text to my blogs... I've corrected a few later on as well, maybe that last 4 posts didnt have text on them, so scroll down in case you are interested in what you missed, So here is what I wrote earlier:

So, today I had to drive on business to Holmes Chapel, around 5 hours round trip from where I live. On the journey back I got to wondering about my blog or lack of, and thought I may have a chance to do something tonight. I took loads of photos of my miniatures when i started this venture, so much so that I'm not sure which ones I've posted or not at the moment.

So I get home - a little earlier than normal, to be greeted by a delivery of Battle games. At least I can write a little about this - even though I may not get to paint - did I miss out a post about the previous set?

So this is issues 50 and 51. I get some more soldiers of Rohan with Issue 50. My previous set of these took ages to batch paint, but I was really pleased with them. I'll post them later tonight if I havent done so already. The scratch built instructions for this issue were to build a Rohan house - which I have already done, although this is slightly different than the design that was in white dwarf. I may take the painting instructions from this to finish my existing house. This model isnt too big, so I may end up actually making this one. Hey who am I kidding, - I cant even write about how much I am not painting - let alone build something from scratch...

Issue 51 comes with Gamling - a miniature that I havent got until now - so it was worth not cancelling my subscription. I note that I get Eowyn next issue as well, so I look forward to that :) The modelling project is the Golden hall of Edoras - which I would love to have a go at - but is a bit big. You never know. It would compliment the houses and cottages that I havent made or finished quite well!!

Ho Hum.
I'd like to say I'd post again soon......

Labels: LOTR, Miniatures