Thursday, October 17, 2013
Dark Elf Team, work started
Phase 1: stripping old paint.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114962284366964781326/albums/5935757565812913841
Monday, September 27, 2010
More pictures
Photographing figures is at least as fun as painting them. Actually sometimes painting seems to be quite a chore, because I can't always get the result as good as I'd like get.
Anyway, getting good photos is also not too easy. Lighting got be just right, in order not to get soo much shadows there. This time I put the figs on the table sideways without bases. That way I could get the slot texts visible. Sometimes they offer valuable information for getting the data right.
More photos in the album
Anyway, getting good photos is also not too easy. Lighting got be just right, in order not to get soo much shadows there. This time I put the figs on the table sideways without bases. That way I could get the slot texts visible. Sometimes they offer valuable information for getting the data right.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Alright
Happened since last post: moved to new apartment in Käpylä and being passive paintwise since that. Today I painted some figures after almost 1,5 years of inactivity!
I had somehow hard to get my "painting corner" ready, but now it's almost ok.
I took some pics of goblin fanatics I received from eBay and also of Wilhelm Chaney, the Werewolf Bloodbowler. I am not exactly sure what are those goblins, but I am going to look up. They are Citadel, anyway. (Or Marauder.) I am quite sure I got more fanatics than these four, but I got so many boxes of figs, since the move, that I haven't been able to unpack everything as I don't have enough room! What a problem is that...(?)
Anyway, my plan is to sort 'em out to different categories and then photograph and eventually paint them. Well, this is more like "my dream." But, main thing is to progress! (To positive direction, I hope.)
I subscribed to a few miniature newsletters in Yahoo Groups. "Ralparthaminis" seem to be quite active group.
Yeah, hey, they are these: http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92372ogngoblins-01.htm. Those are produced approximately 1992.
More precisely, the pictures goblins are Night Goblin Clubber 1, Night Goblin Ball and Chain Fanatic 5, Night Goblin Ball and Chain Fanatic 1 (I think) with missing ball and the fourth one is not actually in the same advert as those, hmmmm... Well, hope he will show up in other ad.
Oh yeah, the missing one is here with the rest of the gang too: http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93567-01.htm. It's the Clubber 4.
The designs of goblins have changed a lot actually since those. The newer GW goblins got more "nasty" faces and longer chains. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod840901
Btw, it seems nowadays there are a lot of plastic miniatures, expecially the armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and 40000, and I don't like that all. New metal minis have gotten really expensive. It's ridiculous to pay like 15 euros for a single figure. One shopkeeper tried to defend the plastic ones by saying that they are more easy to convert, but come on! Plastic as a figure material is inferior to metal in all areas. There is only the price which would justify them. Luckily I got hoards of metal minis from 80's and 90's and more is easily acquired through eBay, if needed...
Here is one pic of my night goblins:
As you see, one of the got already some paint. This is condition that I they were when I got them. After that pic I painted the other clubber with green base paint. Take a look of backside of them (and my other pics as well.)
Here is Wilhelm Chaney with basecoat and highlighted fur.
I chose to use brown as a basecoat. That way I don't have to paint the fur separately. :-) Picture shows the he's got some paint chipped off, leaving metal showing underneath. Camera is clearly more perceptive that my eyes. Got to take care of that fur. I painted the base in my old apartment 1,5 years ago, so that's why he's already a bit rugged.
I had somehow hard to get my "painting corner" ready, but now it's almost ok.
I took some pics of goblin fanatics I received from eBay and also of Wilhelm Chaney, the Werewolf Bloodbowler. I am not exactly sure what are those goblins, but I am going to look up. They are Citadel, anyway. (Or Marauder.) I am quite sure I got more fanatics than these four, but I got so many boxes of figs, since the move, that I haven't been able to unpack everything as I don't have enough room! What a problem is that...(?)
Anyway, my plan is to sort 'em out to different categories and then photograph and eventually paint them. Well, this is more like "my dream." But, main thing is to progress! (To positive direction, I hope.)
I subscribed to a few miniature newsletters in Yahoo Groups. "Ralparthaminis" seem to be quite active group.
Yeah, hey, they are these: http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92372ogngoblins-01.htm. Those are produced approximately 1992.
More precisely, the pictures goblins are Night Goblin Clubber 1, Night Goblin Ball and Chain Fanatic 5, Night Goblin Ball and Chain Fanatic 1 (I think) with missing ball and the fourth one is not actually in the same advert as those, hmmmm... Well, hope he will show up in other ad.
Oh yeah, the missing one is here with the rest of the gang too: http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93567-01.htm. It's the Clubber 4.
The designs of goblins have changed a lot actually since those. The newer GW goblins got more "nasty" faces and longer chains. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod840901
Btw, it seems nowadays there are a lot of plastic miniatures, expecially the armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battle and 40000, and I don't like that all. New metal minis have gotten really expensive. It's ridiculous to pay like 15 euros for a single figure. One shopkeeper tried to defend the plastic ones by saying that they are more easy to convert, but come on! Plastic as a figure material is inferior to metal in all areas. There is only the price which would justify them. Luckily I got hoards of metal minis from 80's and 90's and more is easily acquired through eBay, if needed...
Here is one pic of my night goblins:
As you see, one of the got already some paint. This is condition that I they were when I got them. After that pic I painted the other clubber with green base paint. Take a look of backside of them (and my other pics as well.)
Here is Wilhelm Chaney with basecoat and highlighted fur.
I chose to use brown as a basecoat. That way I don't have to paint the fur separately. :-) Picture shows the he's got some paint chipped off, leaving metal showing underneath. Camera is clearly more perceptive that my eyes. Got to take care of that fur. I painted the base in my old apartment 1,5 years ago, so that's why he's already a bit rugged.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Chaos Player 2
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| Lähettäjä Blood Bowl |
Here are pictured the Blood Bowl second edition chaos players: http://www.solegends.com/citcat912/c20322bbchaos-h.htm
I got all of them but one, the Chaos Player 1. Very rarely seen in eBay. I also got the Chaos Dwarf players, some of them more than one.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Some new photos
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| Lähettäjä Citadel |
Thrud the Barbarian. Limited edition miniature. Pictured with the original paint.
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Thrud_-_Collectors_Guide.
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| Lähettäjä Ral Partha |
The Stone Giant.
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| Lähettäjä Blood Bowl |
More pics of the ogre. This one is not actually a BB Ogre, but quite "regular" big guy.
http://www.solegends.com/citcat912/c20292ogres-h.htm
Remember that the photos act as links to the main gallery.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
eBay
Last couple of weeks I've been browsing eBay for Blood Bowl miniatures and been quite successful. Especially the British eBay has people offering BB and many other figures for sale. My painting has been pretty much on halt because of that.
Sometimes the older figures get little pricey, but still they are quite cheap compared to the prices on the local stores. Well, in Helsinki there are actually no BB miniatures available at all.
Sometimes the older figures get little pricey, but still they are quite cheap compared to the prices on the local stores. Well, in Helsinki there are actually no BB miniatures available at all.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Mummy!
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| Lähettäjä Copplestone Castings - BT1 - Bad Things 1 |
This fella came with the lady and the man. No basecoat pictures of it, because I started painting this a while ago and didn't occur to took any. It was easy to paint, as there are no tiny details and there are only a couple colors to be used. Still I managed to tinker around it for a long time, as I wasn't pleased with result. But well, here it is. Next I'm going to fix the base. I bougt some JOVI Terracotta Modelling Paste from nearby Saiturin Pörssi store and I'm going to put some of that clay/paste/whatever to it to make it look like a dungeon floor or something. Paint it, too, of course.
I already did a couple of bases this way and they look decent. The only thing here is that it's quite hard to keep the paste from staining the figure, as it is already glued to the base. I have been wondering how these base modifications are made, gluewise speaking. There are lots of sites giving tips about making bases but they ignore the glueing process completely.
It is possible to cut the metal base part off and then put glue under the feet, but it won't hold much if the figure is used in gaming. There must be some drilling and little metal pins/screws/nails to put through the underside in the feet.
Remember to check the gallery as there is another picture of this late pharaoh. And use the zoom tool to see the details. (What details?)
And oh yeah, today I received some stuff from Tritex Games: Blood Bowl Rules Book 3rd Edition (second hand), SF Metal Fantasy Football Selection and three Translucent Green Impact D6 Block Dices. It took the usual seven days to arrive from Britain.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Female Cop
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| Lähettäjä Copplestone Castings - FW18 - Cops with Handguns |
There's also another new pic. Caption texts tell more.
I'm quite happy and feel energetic for this newborn hobby of mine, which I can share with you in the net also. I've been planning on getting some Blood Bowl action and today I went and bought some supplies to create a Blood Bowl table of my own. Well, actually just the field, it's hard to do any carpentry in this flat.
At the moment I got not many BB figures, but I will do some modifying with the miniatures I have, although I think I will not dare to touch the figs from 80's and early 90's, as they are quite cool as they are, even though I don't have any actual game use for them right now. And I'm quite sure that I cannot resist to order some more stuff very soon, again. Also, nowadays there are more BB like games and producers, so not GW monopoly anymore. So there are wide variety of teams/player figures to get.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Copplestone Castings
One of the coolest online stores is called Copplestone Castings. From there I ordered a punch of figures to be used with Cyberpunk RPG, which we have been playing recently. (We = Ari, Mikko, Samu & I.)
I've been visiting the local RPG stores every so often and I've noticed that the Games Workshop stuff they sell is ridiciously priced nowadays. One single figure may cost 10-15 euros! Back in the day, with that money one could get a whole army of metal guys. Well, luckily there is this thing called net and postal orders can be made quite comfortably from home. Although the real life shopping of RPG stuff is really neat, when you can see and touch the things you're going to get.
Anyway, Bad Things 1 is one of the figure packs that I bought. (The underlined part is a link to the Copplestone's page.)
This is one picture from my gallery. Click the pic to see more.
When we used to paint the figures in the olden days, we never used any basecoats or "primers." And it showed. After a few play sessions the paints started to chip away. Now I've spent many hours finding info on net about all this stuff and more. Another thing is the way the minis are held while painting. I remember it being quite hard to keep them between the fingers and trying not to touch the still wet parts. I realised that I could glue them in top of any can or whatever. Just to remember not to use too strong glue, so that they can be easily removed when the painting job is done. Empty tin cans are just great.
I've been visiting the local RPG stores every so often and I've noticed that the Games Workshop stuff they sell is ridiciously priced nowadays. One single figure may cost 10-15 euros! Back in the day, with that money one could get a whole army of metal guys. Well, luckily there is this thing called net and postal orders can be made quite comfortably from home. Although the real life shopping of RPG stuff is really neat, when you can see and touch the things you're going to get.
Anyway, Bad Things 1 is one of the figure packs that I bought. (The underlined part is a link to the Copplestone's page.)
This is one picture from my gallery. Click the pic to see more.
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| Lähettäjä Copplestone BT1 - Bad Things 1 |
When we used to paint the figures in the olden days, we never used any basecoats or "primers." And it showed. After a few play sessions the paints started to chip away. Now I've spent many hours finding info on net about all this stuff and more. Another thing is the way the minis are held while painting. I remember it being quite hard to keep them between the fingers and trying not to touch the still wet parts. I realised that I could glue them in top of any can or whatever. Just to remember not to use too strong glue, so that they can be easily removed when the painting job is done. Empty tin cans are just great.
Alright now.
Around 1987, when I was 13 years old or so, I discovered Dungeons & Dragons, the amazing fantasy role playing game. Me and my fellas were quite hooked to that right from the beginning. I'm not quite sure since when the game was available from the Finnish book stores, but I guess it had landed on Finland quite recently then.
After a while playing just D&D I realised that there were also other RPG's as well. And that way I soon found out about fantasy miniatures. We played a lot; there were a bunch of guys and everybody wanted to GM something. So, there was Top Secret, Runequest, AD&D, Palladium, Rolemaster, MERP, Traveller, Recon, Star Wars, Space Master, Cyberspace, Harn, Gurps, Warhammer Fantasy RPG & Battle, Shadowrun, Rifts and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Just to mention some.
Some of them we played maybe just once, but anyway, the world of RPG's was really the thing for me. And to many others too, it seemed.
Mainly the miniatures were used with Warhammer Fantasy and 40000, also some Blood Bowl (and Dungeon Bowl!) too.
Actively I played for a few years. And then other hobbies took over and RPG's faded to background. There was some rock music to play and pints of beer to drink. I never got fed up with the games, it just seemed to be more and more complicated to get around gaming with friends.
And now, at the age of 35, some twenty years later, I've got back to gaming. Well, at the moment I've mostly bought paints to replace the old, dried ones and also got new figures.
When I searched the net to get info on today's miniature scene, I found some really cool sites dedicated to mini's. And so I decided to set up a figure gallery blog of my own. Photographing is also one of my hobbies, so this is a nice way to combine these interests. Not to mention the whole WWW thing, from which I even got myself a profession.
After a while playing just D&D I realised that there were also other RPG's as well. And that way I soon found out about fantasy miniatures. We played a lot; there were a bunch of guys and everybody wanted to GM something. So, there was Top Secret, Runequest, AD&D, Palladium, Rolemaster, MERP, Traveller, Recon, Star Wars, Space Master, Cyberspace, Harn, Gurps, Warhammer Fantasy RPG & Battle, Shadowrun, Rifts and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Just to mention some.
Some of them we played maybe just once, but anyway, the world of RPG's was really the thing for me. And to many others too, it seemed.
Mainly the miniatures were used with Warhammer Fantasy and 40000, also some Blood Bowl (and Dungeon Bowl!) too.
Actively I played for a few years. And then other hobbies took over and RPG's faded to background. There was some rock music to play and pints of beer to drink. I never got fed up with the games, it just seemed to be more and more complicated to get around gaming with friends.
And now, at the age of 35, some twenty years later, I've got back to gaming. Well, at the moment I've mostly bought paints to replace the old, dried ones and also got new figures.
When I searched the net to get info on today's miniature scene, I found some really cool sites dedicated to mini's. And so I decided to set up a figure gallery blog of my own. Photographing is also one of my hobbies, so this is a nice way to combine these interests. Not to mention the whole WWW thing, from which I even got myself a profession.
Friday, March 13, 2009
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