tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60561392024-02-03T11:11:26.082+00:00I 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!Spidermafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15261005466472218069noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056139.post-37316003568404766722008-10-22T10:50:00.003+00:002008-10-22T10:56:08.315+00:00

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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