"Victorian" Round up on Analogue Hobbies

Hi All,

The "Victorian" theme round has been posted on the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge Bonus Theme Round blog. (Whew, try typing that 5 times fast.)

I can't say it enough,but there is really some fantastic work going on. If Alan (Dux Homunculorum) doesn't win for his Flashman Diorama, then there is no justice. NO JUSTICE I TELL YOU!

Although I did mine in one sitting, on the Saturday the entries were due, I feel my entry came out pretty well.The main thing I was disappointed in was the last layer on the "flesh" which obscured the other layers I'd built up. I'm most proud of overcoming the casting anomaly that let a big hole in the side of the miniatures face.

I hope you will all rush off and cast your votes for whom you feel is the most deserving.

I had hoped to also have another 6 miniatures submitted on the Friday, but I waited and waited and saw no sign of it coming up. Then I went back to the blog authoring page and saw that it had dated my draft 1/10/15.

MOTHER F@#$*%R

Apparently I was too close to the "day" turnover that blogger has. I've noticed that my blog starts a new day at 5PM my time. Coincidentally that seems to have been about the time that I was drafting my post on Friday. I'm just going to have to do a better job of completing my stuff and getting it in ahead of my day for publication. It just pisses me off that I wasn't paying enough attention to catch it on Friday.

I'll get it together for this up coming week.

Cheers.

Mounts & Riders Points, Chart updates and WFB Banner Links

Ok, so I'm still having trouble keeping my posts to one subject. I suppose that is a goal in progress.

Points for the Mounts & Riders Bonus round were awarded and, as predicted, I received 90 points for my efforts. I had no illusions about coming anywhere near the podium for this one. There was some fantastic work on display once again.

I've updated my challenge progress tally and am approaching my graph of average progress needed. I am, however, still behind by some 122 points of where I should be. I've also added a running total of the number of figures painted. It's 19 :(

I'm about to enter the six figures I got 80% done on Jan 2nd, but just couldn't push through to submit them. They're from a unit of 19 but I'll take some points instead of a big fat 0 like last week.

I now have about 32 hours to complete my "Victorian" themed entry. At least it's based and primed. :P

Lastly I've done some digging for banner templates and came up with some interesting links:

Making 40K Banners

From the Warp: Flesh Tearer banner bearer how to

Empire Banners

Have a good one.

Update and Glamor shots

Hi All,

Just a quick update as I muddle through all I have to do. I wanted to show you some better shots of the Mother Crushers and Mounts and Riders, now that I'm back home with my regular set up.

I need to tidy up the base edges with some black paint.

Looks like these guys should have been dusted off a little better. Too much static grass and flock randomly about.

I really need to do a blog overhaul and collect my thoughts about 2014 and what the future holds for 2015.

I'd also like to not miss my Friday submission this week, like I did last week.

More Splintered Light comparison shots

Happy New Year everyone. I had hoped to have a few more posts for you but the holiday travels left me tired and I just didn't have it in me.

One question that did come to me was a comparison of the Splintered Light 20mm figures with Zvezda English 100 Years War.

Fladnag, four English and the two SLM Bugbears

 In the above picture we have our friend Fladnag from the Caesar Adventurers set. The next four are the Zvezda 100 Years War English Infantry and then the SLM Bugbears. The Zvezda figures are a tad larger, but not horribly so. You may recall that I always thought the Bugbears should be bigger.

With SLM Lizard men

 The SLM Lizard men look small net to the Zvezda guys, maybe more like skinks in Warhammer.

Beastman and Minotaur.

 Again the SLM Beastmen are a little diminuative, but the Minotaur looks right.

SLM Goblins

 I'm not sure if this shot with the goblins are helpful, but I think they work.

With SLM Kobolds

 I really like these Kobold sculpts, a lot of character. Little and nasty looking.

Hill Giant from SLM 28mm Range.

 I got this 28mm Giant to use as a Troll for 1/72. I think he looks great but I will put him on a sheet metal base.

Caeser Goblins, SLM Goblins and Kobolds.

 Here's a comparison shot with the Caeser Goblins and the Splintered Light Goblins and Kobolds. A little smaller but you could put a layer of something between washer and integral base to match the thickness of the Caeser integral base. It doesn't really bother me.

Caesar Troll and SLM Hill Giant

I thought that this 28mm scale Hill Giant would make a good 1/72 Troll. I'll base him on my galvanized roofers tin, I think he'll look good.

Hope you found these comparison shots useful.

Mounts and Riders - My entry for the 2nd bonus round.

I didn't submit this, but I wanted to.

So for this round I went back to 20mm for a bunch of Cavalry that had been stalled on the desk for the last couple of years. They were casualties of trying to gear up to get in a game of RrtK and having to scrap the painted army idea as I was taking too long.

I had intended to do four orcs and four Anglo-Saxons but three of the Anglo-Saxons already had the metal bits done so I set them aside.

They mostly came out how I wanted, I think the Liquitex matte varnish that I transferred to the dropper bottle may actually be drying more matte now. It seems to be killing the shine on the metallics a bit.

So take a look and vote for your favorites here.

EDIT-

I apparently forgot to include info on the figures, all 20mm or 1/72 to be precise. The Anglo-Saxon was from Revell set 02551. The Orcs are from Dark Alliance PAL72001 (I'll note here that Hannant's has the half orcs now), while their mounts are metal Ral Partha wolves from Ironwind Metals.

I'll also take this opportunity to welcome Blaxkleric to the blog. I know him from A Tale of Several Gamers and The Painting Challenge. I see he has several other blogs and a deviant art account, which I will check out when I'm not so harried.

My 2nd regular entry - The Mother Crushers

Or is that Muvva Krushas?

I decided to spare you all the shots of the back of the figures. If you want to see them you can find them here.

I assembled a travel kit for painting while on vacation and it has been rather difficult. At my folks I had to clean up my painting station so they could entertain every other day. At me in laws the lighting is atrocious.

I also really struggled with the white primer. When I started painting, around 1990, white was all I did. Now I mostly do Black, Brown and sometimes Grey. The little white specks from paint not flowing or not painting all the the way to the edge at the transition between colors. Gah!

I also took the pictures with my cell phone, as I felt that it would be too frustrating with the Nikon.

Hope you like them.

Oh yeah, here's a picture of Eeza Ugezod from the unit that I finished last year.

Meowy Christmas!

Just some silliness and wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season.

Not me, but an awesome idea.

I'll be feverishly trying to finish up my entry for tomorrow and the bonus round on Sunday.