Ral Partha 25mm ES57 Frost giant

This one's been on and off the table for some time, but playing 'revenge of the giants' in our regular DnD session prompted me to finish him off.

Laserburn project WIP09 - Another toy, more vehicle painting

Scouring the toy shelves of local shops recently netted discovery of this little beaut for a mere £3.50. Looking distinctly like a 15mm ground attack aerodyne, it's heading for the painting table forthwith.

It's a Matchbox sky busters 'Strato saucer'. I believe they are re-releasing it in green too, but no-doubt it will require a repaint.

I've done a bit more work on my other vehicles. As you probably saw, I had masked the side of the pat-wagon in the last post. I used a high pigment liquitex ink to darken the stripes, for a nice low contrast effect. I did similar for the Imperial warthog, using chocolate brown on khaki.

After this, I worked on some lighting effects for the pat-wagon

That's all for now.

Laserburn project WIP08 - the story so far

Here are my nice new figures in comfort trays with what's happened so far on the miniatures side.

Here is the 'Painted' tray

And here is the 'Unpainted' tray. 

I still have a largish bag of unprimed stuff that can wait for now.

These were my Salute 2014 purchases. A Governance of Technology Skorpion tank from Atenociti's workshop

And a village encounter in the form of four cheap Amera buildings, a couple of objectives from Critical Mass, and a pair of laser cut MDF buildings from Warbases.

Here's the HQ assembled.

More soon

Laserburn project WIP07 - Judge pat-wagon again

A few shots of the WIP pat-wagon, on the table at the moment

The front grille - slightly shield-like

Tamiya 4mm masking tape, and hubcaps made from the pop-out bits in the middle of an x-wing miniatures game order wheel.

More soon

Firestorm Armada: Tarakian flotilla addendum and Syndicate Battleship

Some new additions from Salute for this 'was finished' project - Spartan have released frigates for the Tarakians, so I'll be sorting these out at some point.

The Tarl class frigates sit next to a painted cruiser from my flotilla

Also purchased, something I've been after for some time - A Syndicate Phantom class Battleship.

No doubt they will get painted sometime this century. :/

Hordes of the Things: Gogo's Crazy Bones and Qee Horde army

Here's a fun little project that I quite enjoyed putting together. Hordes of the Things is a simplified fantasy rules set from Wargames Research Group, wherein you can create an army from any miniatures you have, adhering to the basing standards in the book.

UK 1p coin for scale

This army is a horde army, so many of the standard units are the same - except all different.

 Each of these units are colour coded, and consist of 5 or 6 Gogo's crazy bones. These are available in newsagents, supermarkets and toy shops, and cost 99p for three standard figures - however they are produced in blind bags, so you don't know exactly what you're getting. They're still cheap enough that you can put the forces here together for about £20.

This is a unit of Magicians. It could also be used as a General if necessary.

Sneakers are stealthy units such as Ninjas, Rangers etc. The basing on these models is static grass and some yellow aquarium rocks. I used PVA glue to attach the models and the basing materials.

My first unit of Behemoths are taken from the Toy2R 2.5" Qee Keychain range. It's got a 'Cats and Dogs' theme. The cat is a prepainted model, The dog is a DIY version that I painted to match (well, sort of).

The next pair have a theme of 'Techno Baby and Techno Teddy' - again, these are from the Qee DIY range. They're all in Dayglo colours with black outlines.

The final unit of Behemoths has a 'Heaven and Hell' theme. A Rabbit Nun, and a skull-masked Devil, again from the Qee DIY range.

And here's a group shot of the Behemoths.

To finish the army, an Elephant Dragon(!) He is a 3.5" Baby Qee, and was painted with metallic pink and highlighted with a silver pen, plus the obligatory black pen. The paintjob is a bit simplistic to match the others, but I may redo the silver as I'm not overly happy with it.

The army was pretty cheap (all told about £45-50) and fun to put together. A pity my opponent couldn't pull his finger out, so it's never actually hit the battlefield as yet.

I did buy another vinyl toy as a God, but that's still in its bag.