Happy New Year!

04 Thursday Apr 2024

Posted by in Realm of Warcry, Warhammer Quest - Silver Tower

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Greetings Terrans, I hope all is well! Embarrassingly, this is my first post of the year – I just don’t seem to have had much time or motivation to do a lot of hobby so far in ’24. Nothing sinister, just got busy, and then got out of the habit of painting is all. I kind of forced myself to pick up a brush a few weeks back & went through the motions with the twin Skaven from the Silver Tower set, starting with this guy:

Closely followed by a converted version of the same mini:

The second one is kind of intended to hang with my Nurgle warband, while the first is more of a lone agent:

I wasn’t massively motivated to paint them to be honest, and I think it shows in the painting – there were definite CBFA moments! More than that though, I just found it really tough to get back into the swing of it… Still, done is done, and while they are pretty rough paint jobs, they did help me to work through my ‘painter’s block’, so I will have another post for you soon! Next will be a quick skip over to the grim blah of the blah-de-blah, and my take on one of the most famousest units.

Final post of 2023?

19 Tuesday Dec 2023

Posted by in Side projects

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Greetings Terrans – wow, it has been a long while since I posted anything! I’m struggling for any free time at the moment with a lot of studying going on in the evenings & weekends, while a change in role combined with a change in my employer’s remote working policy means fewer chances to do some bonus painting during Zoom calls. Less painting has reduced my motivation to paint, so even when I have had time, I haven’t had the motivation… I’m in a bit of a catch 22 slump at the moment! Still, I did muster the energy to get these wee mites done recently:

Painting was super quick and easy – just a silver drybrush & some contrast paints to add a spot of metallic colour. Me and a pal are planning to get into Rangers of Shadow Deep next year, so these are for that & didn’t need to be amazing.

And that’s all for now! I should have a bit of time over Christmas to get back into some painting so hopefully I’ll rustle up some enthusiasm and have a bit of something to share before the new year, but in case I don’t catch you, have a great Crimbo & all the best for 2024.

Silver Tower – more bits and bobs

23 Thursday Nov 2023

Posted by in Warhammer Quest - Silver Tower

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Greetings Terrans, I hope you’re all well! I haven’t had too much hobby time these last few weeks, but luckily I have a good selection of easy minis that are primed & ready to just grab and paint. Among that pile were these wee scamps from the Silver Tower set:

I did a bit of conversion work on the duplicates, just to get a bit of variation – not sure how successful they are tbh, but it’s pretty small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.

I also did these guys:

I couldn’t really see a way to sensibly convert these four, but the painting was fun. The walking books ware a good chance for a spot of freehand, and the fishy things use the same metallic approach as I used on the Horrors a few months ago. I quite like how they came out :-)

While I was in the mood for painting up little things, I also did this Frostgrave (I think) objective marker that I’ve had lying around for ever:

And here’s a final shot of the whole lot together:

And that’s all for now! Hopefully there will be a bit of painting time before Christmas :-)