Category Archives: Side projects

Random Interlude 3

29 Tuesday Nov 2022

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Greetings Terrans, something truly random today – I recently picked up one of those new-fangled ‘League of Votann’ nouveaux-Squats as a free giveaway mini at the local GW… well, seemed rude not to do something with it:

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I spliced in some Fyreslayer bits & and gave him a CSM head from BS Fortress – no plan, I just wanted to do something a bit different really! The paint job was a bit of a faff – I hate edge highlighting at the best of times, but I hate it even more when the actual edges aren’t very clearly defined… Still, it’s tough to argue with free, and he came out ok I think.

As a side note, last week Jon posted a comment about the Votann, comparing them to the Sontarans from Dr. Who – absolutely spot on with the official GW fluff, and the head that I used is a bit too close for comfort – now I can’t unsee it! As another side note, I think I have painted more Dwarfs this year than I have over the rest of my life… weird!

Anyhoo, that’s all for this post – painting time is a bit limited at the moment, but hopefully I’ll manage to get a little bit of something done for next week. Cheers!

What a load of Gnarloaks, (plus random dude)

26 Wednesday Oct 2022

Posted by in Side projects, Terrain, Warcry

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Greetings Terrans, second post in a week eh? Crazy times! This one is a bit of a cheat really, because all these bits were sort of lying around in various states of being painted. First up, there is this random Marine type:

I have no idea who this is, or why I have him, but he was a nice mini to paint! I’ve gone for an Inquisitorial vibe rather than painting him as a Marine, and, unusually for me, I went for a blue colour scheme. I’m really pleased with his cloak :-)

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Next up is all the terrain from the Heart of Ghur boxed set… I’m a bit hit and miss when it comes to enjoying terrain – sometimes I do, but I often don’t. This lot definitely fell into the latter group, but I persevered & got through the set:

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Phew!! Fair play, you do get a ton of stuff in the set, but it does get tedious from a painting perspective… All I can say is thank fuck for Contrast paints!!

I might go back to these and add some tribal markings or something to the bigger pieces of bone, but for now I am just glad they are done :-)

That’s all for now, hopefully I’ll catch you before the end of Orctober with a sneaky last-minute Greenskin!

Random interlude

01 Saturday Oct 2022

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Greetings Terrans, bit of a Rando Calrissian post for you today! I spotted a set of the rather lovely Lord of the Rings range markers in the FLGS in Dublin last Easter. They were put out by GW back in 2018 & are long out of production… I missed the boat back then, but they seemed like the perfect souvenir for me to pick up. They’ve been sat in their undercoats for a while, but I finally got around to painting them:

For those that are interested, we have from left to right / top to bottom:

Gandalf the White’s Staff (12″)

Gimli’s Axe (5″)

A Morgul-blade (3″)

Sting (5″)

Gandalf’s sword Glamdring (6″)

Aragorn’s sword Anduril (8″)

Witch-king of Angmar’s sword (10″)

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They were fun wee things to do & I’m now thinking about how best to display them but still have them accessible to game with… any ideas please post them below!