tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60561392011-12-15T03:14:32.454ZI painted Games Workshop miniatures when I was a teenager, and have started painting them again since my son has become interested in them. After subscribing to Battle games in middle earth I thought I would try and blog my progress through trying to paint them all. This blog is just about miniatures, not about the rest of my life, I do other things!Mafiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15261005466472218069noreply@blogger.comBlogger1201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056139.post-37316003568404766722008-10-22T10:50:00.003Z2008-10-22T10:56:08.315Z

And the winner is... Not more Uruk Hai Originally uploaded by mafiuIts strange that I thought this blog was dead. But the last couple of days, playing with my flickr pics, I noted that over the three years I have been using flickr, this was my most viewed picture. Why that is I don't know. Maybe its the composition? Maybe its because all of the other images you see of these seem to be single

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Doctor Hugh Doctor Hugh Originally uploaded by mafiu A while ago I heard a news item on The Signal about a company called Heresy producing a ‘Captain Nathan’ figure. I bought this immediately and it sits in my collection mounted and undercoated, like most of my collections. But I’ve been watching the site with interest as to what other figures might come along. There has been a Rev Shepherd

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WH troll Originally uploaded by mafiu Troll from Skull Pass A while ago I bought a metal troll, and looked everywhere for a painting guide for it. And although it was a pig to assemble, being a multipart model, it still lays half painted in my todo pile. So when I got another troll in my Skull Pass set, I was more concerned that I would mount and fail to finish this one as well. But over

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Dwarf's Head Originally uploaded by mafiu 21st Century Dwarf So I finally got around to opening my White Dwarf 30th Anniversary model. As I suspected it comes in multiple castings - Four plus the base. One of the castings contains two parts, the shield and the White Dwarfs head. The shield is quite a good piece as it has the hands of both of the dwarves who are holding it built in,

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See You Jimmy Originally uploaded by mafiu Ok so it looks like I've not posted for months. You would be correct in that assumption. This is linked to the fact that I've not painted for month. The Real Life is more important at the moment. But the only thing I have done miniature related is taken this picture of my dwarf. I like his eyes.See You. (Jimmy)

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30th Anniversary Dwarf Originally uploaded by mafiu 30th Anniversary Dwarf One of my oldest and favourite miniatures was the Dwarf on Stilts which I believe was a special edition. Quite a few of my early painting attempts were of dwarves, I think because Citadel had just introduced the plastic variety and I probably could afford them at the time. So I was annoyed to see in White Dwarf online

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Blog Review: Perryspainting.com Aragorn Originally uploaded by Perry of perryspainting.com. When it actually came to it - there weren't really many blogs devoted to BGIME. But one of the best sites that came up in my Google search was at perryspaintings.com. Not technically a blog about BGIME specifically, but a rather good site where Perry will paint miniatures for you for what seems

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Captain Sicarius Originally uploaded by mafiu. Captain SicariusI bought Captain Sicarius after seeing his picture in White Dwarf Online; and I really wanted to have a go at painting him. Construction was a bit difficult, with plastic to metal connections needed - which I never enjoy. Then I undercoated him and spent quite a while on the Ultramarine blue coat. Then I put him to one side

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Slayer(s) Originally uploaded by mafiu. Slayer(s) After watching a demo game in Games Workshop I got the urge to paint my Slayer out of the Skull Pass set. First problem was that I didn't have blazing Orange, which the paint guide suggested I should use for his hair. Painting both of the supplied models with my own mix of orange I was a bit disappointed - the pigment in the yellow seemed

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Idol of Mork Originally uploaded by mafiu. Idol of Mork! Had a bit of time this weekend - spend an hour in Games Workshop while the kids were watching a demo game of Skull Pass. Picked up some more spray while I was there, and mounted a load more of the Skull Pass set. Sat down tonight while watching Lost and had a real good go at finishing this model - which after intense research I now

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Lonely Orc 66 Results? There doesn't seem to be many people blogging about BGIME. Now I know a lot of people may be doing this – but if I Google for BGIME and blog all I get back is 66 entries. Now their must be people reading this page – as I am getting on average 100 hits a day – ignoring the web bots. So who are you? Why don't you leave comments? As we seem to be a dying breed, I'm

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Orc, erm, thingy. Orc Thingy and Warhammer World Blog I got this model out to try and paint a bit more of it, from my Skull Pass set. I must admit it was this piece of scenery that made me want to get the set - well, that and the naked dwarf... When I originally painted this back at the dawn of time I wasn't too happy with the base and highlights I'd done, but when I got it out to paint

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Conversions ish Originally uploaded by mafiu. A while ago I think I mentioned that I really didn’t like the LOTR plastic horses. One of the biggest problems is that they are all supported by one leg, which is thin at the best of times, and then it is a large model that sticks out quite a bit on that one little millimetre wide leg.I mentioned ebob miniatures in my last post. They produce a

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Armatures Originally uploaded by mafiu. Armatures Nothing to do with I Robot. I was shown the ebob miniatures website, where they have some pretty nifty stuff for modelling. One of the things they sell are armatures, which you can see here. These are metal skeletons which you can pose, and then model into your own creations. I thought I'd have a go, so bought his starter kit, which has a

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It's Over Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well here I am - 91 issues later. Its been a long ride.Issue 90 comes with farmer Maggot, and three dogs. Apart from the conversion sprue, this is the most metal miniatures you with an issue. Astounding huh? There are rules for playing with the Hobbits that live in the Shire, some cardstock guys to play it with, and the Battlee for the Shire

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It's Over Originally uploaded by mafiu. Not a long post this one. But here is a momentous image. The message from the invoice on the last delivery of BGIME. Yes its arrived.But I've just started a new job, so havent got a lot of time to post. I feel like there should be some kind of celebration but I'll just leave it with this rather dull, but rather significant picture for now.

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Night Gobbos Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well I dont like square bases that for a start. They dont look nice when they are varnished and photoed and theres no room to put heavier bits in the base. This is my first real attempt at any original Warhammer stuff. Looking at the images now I can see lots of bits I've missed. This took me around a night, and another night on and off for

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Prince Imrahil Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well like I said I wanted to paint this one, and managed to get this done tonight. I think it was the blue and white scheme with the detail on the end of the cloak that did it for me. Firstly I did the armour and the dark blue cloak – this went easily. That’s was it for the first nights work, then tonight I completed it. The issue with this

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Penultimate Delivery Originally uploaded by mafiu. 88 has a metal Lord of Dol Amroth miniature, decorated in a fetching blue and white. There is a scenario and rules for staging a battle at Dol Amroth, defending the fortress. I comes with 6 card stock miniatures, of mounted Knights of the afore mentioned fortress. Prince Imrahill gets the nice painting guide treatment which I’m itching

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skull pass set Originally uploaded by mafiu. After my wife bought me the new Skull Pass set, we spent a couple of afternoons doing some painting. I also spent a while mounting and painting some of the models - but there really are loads. Here is what I've done so far. Some of the 'finished' ones at the front are done by the boys.

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86n87 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Issue 86 comes with a metal Suladan, who I admit having no recollection of (although it is years ago that I read the LOTR trilogy) He’s quite a colourful miniature with a rather fetching shiny gold mask. Obviously as he wasn’t in the film there is a rather weak drawing of him on the front cover, not that I could do any better though. After some rules

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Night Goblin Originally uploaded by mafiu. I know this is nothing to do with LOTR and Battlegames, but the temptation of two free miniatures on the front of White Dwarf was too much to bear. Easy to assemble, and a joy to paint, here is my simple little night goblin.White Dwarf has a painting guide with all the base colours in it, where as I used this, and then ran some highlights to

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BGIME84-85 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Two more arrived, both with more of a literary than a film theme. Both issues have metal miniatures. 84 comes with Durburz, the Goblin King. He is commanding the evil forces in the Drums in the deep scenario, which is followed by a Moria and Dwarf-y game. The painting guide is again top notch, as all the recent articles have been. I think I

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Pacifist Marine Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well, sort of. This is a very badly painted model, indeed a conversion, that could be described better as a proof of concept... Well. What happens if a Marine didnt want to carry his weaponry? And here he is. I'm sure it will have die hard 40K'er shouting heresy!! But. .. What I really wanted to talk about was the new White Dwarf. In a fit

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Thrud the Barbarian Originally uploaded by mafiu. When I started this blog I said one of the things that I would do was upload some of the models I had painted years ago. So here is one. Thrud was created by Carl Critchlow and appear as a comic strip in White Dwarf in the 80s. Four special edition citadel miniature sets were created. This one is LE19 - Thrud and Admirer. I'm

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Battle games 82 and 83 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well as they arrived tonight I thought I better get these blogged as well. Issue 82 (only 8 more till the end!!) comes with a Mordor Shaman metal figure. Thats quite a few consecutive metal figures, I wonder if I'll get to the end of the series now without any more sprues? I can hope! The Mag starts with issues around Shamet tactic

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80 and 81 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Had these for ages and the photo taken to upload them, but today the next issues arrived so I better get going.80 has Tom Bombadil included, and a scenario with him and Goldbury versus the nasties,There are some cardstock khazad guards, barroweights a goldberry and some elve twins (or are they brothers?) And some cool Barrow tomb stratch builds,

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Holding Team Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well I finished these guys a week ago, and took the picture on holiday with me to upload if I found a free wifi connection. I didnt. But anyway these were the set that I think Alex gave me, which I've had drybrushed for a while. I tidied them up. painted the skirts and the faces and based them, and they now form a nice little squad to stop

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Only a couple more to go... Originally uploaded by mafiu. He lied... With all of the batch painting that I have done, I've got a storage problem, so I opened up my case and realised how many undercoated figures I still had. So here are some of them. One mounted rider. More hobbits than you could shake an Orc at, Boromir, Gandalf, a standard bearer, Arwen, and Eowyn. I dont think I

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Army of the Dead Originally uploaded by mafiu. An hour or so's work has got these finally finished. I've had these for ages since Rowan bought me them as a gift. They've been half finished for about 5 months, and as i was sorting out everything I thought I'd finally put them to bed. I had to spot repair quite a few, as they have been knocking about in various locations and the undecoat

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Legolas Finished Originally uploaded by mafiu. So here is Legolas, finished finally. I though I was going to get him finished before the next issues arrived, but they beat me to it. I’ve had him complete apart from his cloak and hair for about a week, but the next issues (and Sicarius and the boys models) distracted me. Spent a lot of time blending the flesh tones on his face, and

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Sicarius Getting ready for a paint job. I may have mentioned that the other week Reuben ordered a Gandalf from Games Workshop. We nipped up to get this one evening, and Zephan blew his top in the shop because he wanted a ‘goodies bike’ to go with his baddies bike (the orc) that he got a week or so ago. This was a bit out of character for him, so we didn’t succumb to his yells but when

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Battle games 78 Originally uploaded by mafiu. This has to be the last Aragorn! Issue 78 comes with him as King Elessar, in a colourful costume with his sword raised above his head for a hard chopping blow. It has what looks like the last parts of the campaign with "The end of All things" campaign conclusions. You get the idea for a Mount Doom set in the moddelling workshop, which is quite

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pigsy Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well I finished this guy last night. I took quite a while blending colours on his face, and came up with a better way of doing it - one which I may discuss later. Wasnt too hard really, although I dont think the red is as good as it could be. I do, however like the discusting blob of flesh by his shoulder.When I originally finished this there wasnt

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Space Orcs Bike Originally uploaded by mafiu. When the family were in Games Workshop at the weekend, while Roo was ordering his Gandalf, Zed decided that he wanted to buy something. Of course this was a bit of a dilemma, because what do you buy a 4 year old that he can make himself? Finally we came across an orc bike (sorry don't know the correct term for it) which was a plastic model.

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Easterling Captain Originally uploaded by mafiu. This must be a record, it only arrived yesterday. You can tell by the way the base is still wet that I was in a rush with this one. Qhite pleased at how it turned out. Was very satisfying painting it turquoise to start with to get the rusty brass effect. Then off to games workshop to get some Dwarf bronze (and some greys) and stood by

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Issues 76 and 77 - Elves and Easterlings Originally uploaded by mafiu. On an absolute roll with these issues, got home at 5pm and they were on the doormat. I was releived to see that there were only two metal figures in this delivery again. As you can see by the picture I have completed all but two of the supplied pieces... Well, maybe not, for some unfathomable reason I decided to

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Two finished, one for sale. Couple more issues of BGIME arrived today. Review to follow, but just to get this in the right order, here are two finished models. The first is the King of the dead that I failed to sell as an unpainted item on ebay, so I painted it. Not sure of the grass on the base, its a bit too green to be around such a denizen of death, so I added some brown lichen to the

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Shiny Head! Originally uploaded by mafiu. So I decided to try a couple of conversions with my sprue that I got from BGIME issue 75.. I've had some warriors of Minis Tirith for a while now which Alex gave me, so I decided to put an old head on one of them, and convert one of my orcs into Golmoths Leiutenant. First thing I liked was that the heads came with a built in pin, which is very

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Conversions Hovel Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well after my last house taking about a year to complete, I created this pictured one in about 20 minutes. It's not that I have suddenly been gifted with brilliance, more that I've suddenly realised what to type into Google. I discovered the work of Peter Fitzpatrick, who is a gamer, but has produced a couple of really nice looking pdf

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Evenings Work. Stressed out today. Had some news I was sort of suspecting but it annoyed me when it arrived, so after doing the things I needed to do I hid away from the TV and did some painting. Yesterday I had mounted the king of the Nazgul and some other figures that were still in blister packs (mostly hobbits) and then undercoated them this evening. When I searched through the

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The King 74, Conversions 75 Originally uploaded by mafiu. A grusome front cover for a grusome issue. This comes with a metal conversion sprue which is really interesting.The theme of this issue is Heros of Middle Earth. The concuding article on battle companies is followed by a piece on larger battles and then some company scenarios.There are then 3 pages of conversions based on the

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The King 74, Conversions 75 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well I'm glad that for once I managed to get a few posts in between deliveries of the magazines. This one is quite good though with a metal Lord of the Nazgul figure, with a nice pointy hat!Articles are provided on Battle companies, and then a witch-king and fell beast scenario. Details of how to paint the model, which looks a

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bree house finished Originally uploaded by mafiu. So I finally finished my Bree House – well nearly… After painting the polyfillered base with green textured paint, I gave it a coat of goblin green and then flocked it. After that I painted some more PVA on, and flocked it with a darker brown material to add some interest. Then I repeated the process again to add some static grass to

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Bree House continued Originally uploaded by mafiu. I've not done much on this house. I was really pleased with the top half of it, but the plasticard bricks that I stuck on the bottom half just did not look right with the wood on the top. I've been humming an harring about what to do with it but I came up with the idea of painting the bricks with some textured paint, and this has turned

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I've had these reviews written for a couple of days, but been waiting to take the pictures of the mags. Decided I better get around to it tonight.Heres the other two:Issue 72 comes with more plastic orcs – I really must finish my other half painted ones, but also gives a few examples of painting these in a different style to the ones I did – so I might use that for inspiration. Two massive

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So four more arrived – with two sprues and 3 metal miniatures. BGIME70 is Haradim themed, so you get a sprue with a set of these guys and a painting guide. These are really colourful compared to most other characters in the game, but they also provide several other colour variations for painting these. The scab red/desert yellow/bleached bone is by far the best one. The modelling workshop is

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Radagast Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well, I finished this from undercoated tonight, quite an accomplishment as I was watching Battlestar Galactica at the same time.Not so happy with his under robes based on this picture. I tried to ink wash it as I had used too wide a set of shades, and I thing it was more ink than wash. His outer robes look pretty good though.I know its not properly

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The kids have a go We all stopped in tonight and I spent a long time with Roo and Zed helping them to paint something. As you see in the picture, we painted Aragorn and a Tyranid. Roo had painted Strider's face a couple of weeks ago and I've been trying to get him to think about where he puts the brush so that he doesnt foul other bits of the model with the loaded brush. Tonight I mixed

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Issues 66-69 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Issue 66 is a break from the norm as it comes with a campaign map with cut out pieces and markers and rules for running a campaign this way. An article on converting the supplied riders of Rohan comes next, with instructions on how to build destroyed cottages.Issue 67 has more parts of campaign, building on from previous issues. IT comes with

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Too many Sprues . No way to catch up with the painting now. Look what just arrived - no less than four issues at once, and look how many models! This is getting a bit silly now. I'm not going to review these in any great depth, I'll do them with all the issues in one post after this one. I dont really know whats going on with DeAgonistini at the moment, after no issues for 9 months I

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BGIME 65 Originally uploaded by mafiu. 65 comes with a mounted figure whom I couldn’t immediately recognise – which turns out to be Theodred, if you follow these posts (the counter keeps on going up so someone must be reading them…) you know I don’t get on with mounted models unless they have a metal horse, because they are way too fragile, made worse by the fact they are hard to

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bgime 64 Originally uploaded by mafiu. Hot on the tail of the last two issues, BGIME 64 and 65 have now arrived. 64 starts with some filler articles, and then a Escape from Edoras scenario, which spans for several pages. Then an article on painting the supplied standing Eomer, which I could take or leave. A mostly metallic and armour clad figure, which does have a few red leather

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Gollum by the pool Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well Gollum was much easier to paint than Bilbo, with only about 3 base colours to play about with.I followed the painting guide, but of note was using chainmail mixed with grey to produce the shiny skin of the fish. It was then suggested that you used a gloss varnish on the fish as well to make it look wet. i decided not to do the normal

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Bilbo. I thought I could do it. I thought I could get Bilbo and Gollum painted before the next installments arrive, and had Bilbo undercoated and basecoated. I got home last night, only to find two more issues on the doormat, (and they've invoiced me for 3!!)Anyway the detailed instructions in BGIME were great for painting Bilbo. There was lots of ink work in this one, and I like the step

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Ooh! Shiny.. Well here is a strange cross over between my main 'blog' and my miniatures one. Heresy Miniatures has produced Captain Nathan, who could be used in many SciFi RPG Gaming. I heard about this on The Signal, which is a Firefly and Serenity Podcast. I had to buy him, if only to encourage Heresy to make some more, similar themed models. How about a Jewel, and a Summer, and a

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A nice smiling Golum greets you when you open the packet, as well as the Golum eating fish miniature, that I didnt have. I'll be painting Golum and Bilbo from Issue 63 as soon as I get a spare evening.Theres Golum rules and a painting guide, and The Path to Mordor, The Forbidden Pool and Shelobs Lair scenarios, with a card Shelob, supplied with Gothmog, and a standing and mounted Mouth of

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Well I mean that I only just finished some painting before these issues arrived. Smug Grin. And as a good link, Bilbo has a very smug grin on the cover. Theres a couple of Scenarios, Ambush at Amon Hen, one update to a previous one, and a Gifts from the Elves section as well as Ambush in Hobbiton. The Bilbo Baggins miniature that you get with this issue has a nice brightly coloured painting

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Closeups - Light box. Well here are the first two completed of my Army of the dead. I've struggled with these, as there wasnt really any colour guides that I could find anywhere. Finally I undercoated them, and then drybrushed them all with a slightly different shade of gray, then I washed them all with a mixture of a green and black ink wash, which gave them more of a consistent 'glow'

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Closeups - Light box Originally uploaded by mafiu. Heres the light box, took two and a half sheets of A3 featherboard and a bit of masking tape. I really just used 5 A4 sheets thinking about it. I used a cheap halogen bedside lamp for the lighting, which I pointed to the top of the box. I'll get better results with two of these lamps, but this is just an experiment.

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Closeups - Light box Well - here they are - both based. I had a bit of a basing session, finishing the bases of models that were not even painted yet. But I've had difficulty getting decent pictures of them of late, only taking pictures at night, but then I decided to make a light box out of some of the spare featherboard I had left over from my Bree houses. I'm quite pleased with the

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Finished Aragorns Not sure of how to refer to this Aragorn, but I'm happier with this one than the Weathertop one, especially because of his face. I'm quite proud of how realistic the leather looks on his back, so heres a close up for your enjoyment. Also noted Aragorns one fingerless leather glove on his sword hand. When I was doing the hands I thought this was just a bit of flash on his

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Finished Aragorns After the guilt of my last entry I ended up with a free evening, so sat there listening to YourMacLife and painted both my aragorns. I think technically they should have been both painted differently, but when i had them both together it seemed silly not to use the paints I had mixed efficiently. Looking at this picture I see that there is a bit of fluf on his knee (

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aragorns One of my friends - you know who you are - asks me if I've done any painting every time I see him. Of course mostly the answer is always no. Last night I was wondering when the nex issue of BGIME would arrive - looks like there are more supplier issues. But then I saw these two aragorns on the side. These are the ones I mentioned in a previous entry that I was going to try

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Half finished Bree Hovel Well, like I said in my posting for BGIME 61 - I liked the Bree buildings that were in the modelling section. So me and Roo went on a crusade to buy some materials for houses, and were stunned to find no plasticard anywhere in Milton Keynes, and also that foam card costs a fortune. So using spare balsa wood and some card we had - we managed to knock this together.

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Sixty one with Strider BGIME issue 61. With a metal Strider. The one thing I could do without at the mo is another Aragorn, I nearly have as many of these as uruk hai.. I dont care about the rest of this issue - although i may use the painting guides to try and finish my other aragorns.. But the model section at the end is excellent. There are some wonderful tudor style '

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60: Captain Boromir Issue 60 sports a morose Sean Bean wearing a shiny military number. The campaign continues with a "Counsel of Elrond' article, and a War in Osgiliad scenario. The painting section describes the painting of the included Boromir, using a startling 21 different paints and ink. Thats about £36 worth of paint if you dont have them - you can see what a great hobby

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Orc Captain - BGIME58 The long awaited issue 58. Well - the unexpectedly arriving issue 58 would be more accurate. This issue comes with a metal Orc with his hand and weapon in the air and an attached shield. I've not got this one so a welcome addition to my collection. It starts with a bizarre article about Battlefields, and announces the start of a campaign in the next issue. there

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Issue 59 and Faramir A metal Faramir arrived with issue 59. This is a model with him in his armor, as opposed to his ranger cloths. This has details on a LOTR campaign "THE DOOMED CHARGE" Scenario. The painting of this Faramir model looks blindingly simple - should take about an hour - so I might do this just to get it done... The models are for some Gondorian buildings but these aren't

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Well I didnt see this coming!! Originally uploaded by mafiu. This is a picture of an invoice sent to me by DeAGOSTINI that has really come out of the blue. A while ago got a new credit card, so the number changed. Of course all the payments that were on the old card started to bounce, so I had to update them all. At the same time my battlegames stopped coming. As they were coming too

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There's his head! Ahh, Wormtongue, wormtongue... There's your head. Since this blog was originally about middle earth stuff, I thought I better finish one. So here is another hours work tonight. This looks way better in real life and light than the picture, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Had to re-do his fur collar, as I had done it grey originally, and wasted about a

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For a while now I have been concerned with the difference in 'feel' of metal miniatures verses plastic ones. Picking up a metal miniature gives a nice, quality feel, but then picking up a plastic one is jsut not the same. When the plastic space marines first came out they were supplied with bases that did not have a slot in them, so I used to glue a penny in them to get a bit more weight. But

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Finished! Well, sort of nearly... I inked and drybrushed the sand on the bases this evening, and found a matt varnish to try and de-shine the decals - It was a revel varnish, that the first time I tested it (on a spare blood angel that has been a test piece for me..) dried shiny - but then I realised that there was a thin layer at the bottom of the pot - so stirred it in with a match stick and

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The full squad Well here they are.. Another evening of fluoro-painting got me to nearly finished. I applied the ultramarine decals - but I dont like the way they dont lie flat and are shiney - I'll have to matt- varnish them I suppose. Writing on the seal.. So on the other side - I painted on the white arrows and the IV emblem onto their shoulder pads - much happier with that.

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Penultimate Squad Sorry its not high key like normal. Well, I said yesterday that I hoped to get my marines finished on Friday, well now its Saturday evening and I still dont have much to show for it. I forgot just how blummin fiddly these marines were, not to mention all these new 'Seals of Purity' which have appeared since I last did this...So this picture is how I stand this evening,

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Where's ya head? This is the sum total result of all the painting stuff that I took with me on my recent holiday in scotland. I only got around to painting in the evening, and the light was pants. So in the end I only did Denethor (finished) and wormtougue (with no head). Cloak Detail (less shiny in real life) I was quite pleased with Denethor, when I looked at him in the light of day.

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The end is nigh! Progress as of Saturday Night This is how it looked on Saturday night. As you can see I've based all of the painted models, everything is off the spues and undercoated. Spore mines finished (apart from one escapee that needs basing.) But now its 2 days later. All my gene stealers are finished, and I've even done the bases. I'm much happier with the finish of the red on these.

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Varras Originally uploaded by mafiu. My mate Paul came around the other night. Now Paul is the chap that I used to do this painting lark with 15 years ago. After the kids went to bed we played the first two scenarios from the Macragge pack. I think thats what has given me the encouragement to get all of these finished, as I enjoyed it but felt bad that I was playing with some unpainted

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It crashed. Originally uploaded by mafiu. I've also finished all of the scenery from the set now. Originally I had just undercoated and drybrushed the crashed Dauntless, but now I vomit browned the sand, and then brown inked it, and added some detail to the bits of wreckage. Saw this in the shop today, and they had drybrushed everything - I prefer this way, where I have colour coded

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Finished Biovore Originally uploaded by mafiu. Heres the finished Biovore, with sanded and inked base with some static grass. Looking at it now it's a bit dusty, that was due to sanding off the polyfillered base. But a brief brush with a big paint brush will clean that off. Does a Biovore have eyes? They are just painted red in the manual, so I'm not sure what to do with this one.

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Biovore Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well, I've been at it again, buying something else before I have finished painting my other stuff. I bought this metal Biovore miniature. it was quite a bargain actually, as you get a few spore mines with it as well for the price, and it was surprisingly easy for me to put it together, but i did pin it while gluing, - something that I don't often

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Burning the midnight oil Originally uploaded by mafiu. What an evening. I ended up with an unexpected evening in, and two very tired boys who went to bed early. So I was rewarded with the opportunity to get some painting done. I wont talk about it now, apart from mentioning that I based everything I've painted from Macragge so far, as well as finishing my Biovore, which I haven't even

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Some painted Macragge stuff Well, with Roo having chicken pox I've been around the house more, so have taken up painting again for a while. My Macragge set is coming leaps and bounds. I've undercoated the whole of the crash pieces, and finished the main cockpit - which you can see in the picture, although I'm not overly happy with the sandy colour of the base (vermine brown with a brown

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GaladrielWell, I fitted this in while I was in the middle of my recent macragge marathon (which is by no means finished) While I was working on blogging all of my BGIME I came across galariel that I had sprayed white. When I dug out the article There was only a few things to do:Space wolves gray wash for the cloak & reset white.Elf flesh / then dwarf flesh wash + white drybrush for the

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I've sussed the problem with red! Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well - fancy that. All these years I've never been able to get a decent blood red colour on a miniature. I could have sworn that I had bought some more modern colour, but when I came to do the red on these tyranids, I could only find my 15 year old stuff... So I needed to go out to get some lych purple, and so bought some

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. Now this guy isnt one that I'm that bothered about - so he might go on ebay. But this is a strange issue - because I've not had any more delivered since this one. So it might be the final one - or it might be that some problem has happened.Anyway it explains how to paint Denethor. The scenery article is about some parts of the

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. I was hoping that I would get this miniature, I liked pigsy out of the film as it reminds me of the character in Monkey. Of course really this ugly thingy is Gothmod the Lieutenant of Mordor. This looks like an easy one to paint - must have a go - but I'm hooked on the more colorful W40K stuff at the mo. The scenery is the Minas

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. Had a bit of time this weekend - mostly because I have been ill. Anyhow it gave me the chance to catch up with these issue 'reviews' but to really do some painting as well. I'll get to that once these are finished. Issue 55 came with Minas Tirith Banner Bearer, on horseback and quite a brief painting article about it as it takes most

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. Really pleased with this one... I've been after this scenery piece for ages, and I'm sure that I've got this cheaper than if I was to buy it in the shop - In fact can you get this on its own? Anyhow the magazine wasnt too interesting. There wasnt a specific painting article, just a painting techniques one, same for the scenery

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. Ok - so I lost issue 53. Dunno where it went - so I cant blog it. But in the mean time I started painting my gene stealers.. (if thats what they are..) The instructions say to paint with chaos black - so out to the garage and start to spray, and the paint runs out. Ho hum. After a couple of days, got some more black... Sprayed them

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Catching up with BGIME Originally uploaded by mafiu. Well I have a huge backlog of these to post so here goes. issue 52 had Eowyn :) I was going to keep this in its pack and sell it on ebay because I'd seen some going for around £10, but I forgot and opened it. Was quite impressed with the painting article about her so once she is mounted I'll have a go at decorating her. The

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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

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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

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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

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Mafiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15261005466472218069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056139.post-1100724140429864452004-11-17T21:42:00.000Z2005-01-10T20:14:15.166Z

Well, no posts for weeks and then two follow each other back to back. I suppose its a bit like joining a gym. When your paying the day rate, you go quite regularly, and constantly think that you'd save a fortune by joining. Then you go and join, and then only go at monthly intervals after that. Blogs are like that. Or at least this one is. Sort of. Anyway - this battle games arrived

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This arrived last week, and I havent had time to blog about it - even to open them till tonight. Issue 46 comes with King Elindil, and instructions on how to build "Your own projects" - How naff is that? Issue 47 came with Isildur, someone who I dont own yet but do now. The scratch build is a mountain of mordor - which isnt anything special.

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Did I show you this one? This is one of my paintings that I did lateat night, didn't take too long in painting it and wasn't very happyabout it - but then, in the morning, in the light of day, I was quitesurprised. Not very recent, but better than nothing.

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I'm hoping that I can post 2 photos to the blog at once. I'm using flickr to host the photos, and the email feature makes the picture posting easier. So hopefully you can see that I have started the construction of my macragge set. Well, just a couple of marines. The shots dont really look as good as the figures do in real life, but I have only under and basecoated them. I'm following the

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