Summer

Sorry for there not being no update in over a month.  The reason is because school just ended, but only after two weeks of tests, meaning I had to do quite a bit of studying, so there was little time to paint.  But now school is over, and work was done on the Dwarves, which are almost all done, and I built a gatehouse, and, on Saturday, my Pendraken order of Ratmen came.  It was quite a heavy bag and after opening it, the whole HOTT army inside looked quite intimidating to paint.  However, I had to start somewhere, so I worked on a unit of six Haedusmen first, and as of this moment are in various stages of painting, the most complete ones look good (compared to some other things I have done).

Hopefully I will get some pictures up this afternoon.

An Update

Not much to say this week, but I felt I had to make an update.  My Pendraken Rat Army has not arrived, and I have been told it is supposed to be cast up early next week.  After "hanging around" on the internet, waiting for the Rats to arrive, I saw a set of easy intstructions on creating walls for 10mm figures, so began work on a few walls for the Ratmen to use when I receive them.  Basically, I cut a styrofoam board into 5 centimeter strips, I then snapped them in half.  After that, I painted the entire thing black with acrylic craft paints.  After that dried for about 20 minutes, I painted in light gray the individual stones.

I think the painting worked rather well.  The top one was the 1st one painted, and I think the stones are to big.  The second one was painted by me later, and the third by my brother at the same time.  I think the 2nd is the best, with the ones on the third being a little to irregular and large.  Below is a comparison picture with some of the Eagle Games/Dwarf 1/72 figures.

In other news, I have done quite a bit of work on the Fantasy box, with quite a few Dwarves and Trolls now sealed, a few in the queue for sealing and others in various stage of painting.

 

I will be gone this weekend, but I hope to update you next week on the order and the Terrain. 

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Dwarf Figures

I have finally gotten around to taking and putting up pictures of my new troops.  In fact, it is a mix of dwarves, made by Light Alliance and trolls and giants, made by Eagle Games in their Age of Mythology Figure Pack.  All the figures are well sculpted, but the Eagle Games ones are, as board game peices, not 1/72 scale, meaning the Troll is only a few centimeters over the dwarves heads, so the humans from Eagle Games are only about the Dwarves size.  This creates a problem, meaning that I may use the humans as dwarves, as they would not be good humans, however, they are not what you would consider dwarf proportions.  I must say that they are not very well painted, possibly I did not put enough primer on.  I will only have pictures of the best looking ones on here.

A Group Shot and the Box.

All the Dwarf Poses.

A Few Troops.  I really like the red cape on the one in the center.

Some spearmen.

An Eagle Games Troll.

Some Eagle Games Dwarves, to be used as Engineers.

All the Troops, in a box.  The unpainted ones are Eagle Games humans.

In other news, having been to the library on Saturday, I picked up 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three, both of which I have already read twice, Philip K. Dicks Divine Invasion, and Edgar Rice Burroughs Pirates of Venus.  I have finished 2010 and now I believe I know why I keep coming back to that series, however old it gets and however many times I read it.  It seems that anytime you read them, you get a sense of awe and amazement at space in general.  It also seems that he makes humans really look small and primitive, or it could be that throughout the books, you feel that the human race and its people have changed.

Questions?  Comments?