That really gets my Zoat...

Finally got my Zoat done! Its been a slightly frustraing paint job - deceptively difficult. As this fellow is to be a fairly distinguished character in the army he needed a good paint job. However, being faced with large surface areas of green and grey its been a struggle to get the highlights and blending I wanted so this has taken a lot longer than I thought it might. Still not 100% happy but it'll do for now - might go back when I have more patience!

Its a kind of magic...

These two came in the post not so long ago and pushed in front of the Zoat in the paint queue - couldn't resist having a go at the diminutive and quite strange Were-fox. Also thought she/it would make a nice familiar for my new Wood Elf Sorceress, who is actually an old Citadel Dark Elf, as some kind soul on the Lead Adventure forums informed me (must put a link up to this fine site!) Quite like the wilder, more ambiguous nature this mini has over some goody-two-shoes actual Wood Elf!

Anyway here's the pics - a fairly basic paint job on the sorceress at the mo - will add more detail to the staff and robes, and perhaps one or two tatts in honour of her chequered history! I felt I had to give the Were-fox lots of tattoos to cover its blushes and make it all the more pagan and mysterious!

Have you seen me dancing... like really dancing?

Just finished another Wardancer - probably my fave sculpt out of the bunch, although I have another chap in the same pose with a spear who is also pretty cool. 

Think I'll wait until I've got a whole lot done before I post Wardancers again - I was just quite proud of the jewel clasp holding this mini's tunic together and I finally got ginger hair right too - he shall henceforth be known as the Ginger Ninja! I think I'll try to give the whole army a Pictish/Celtic/traditional Wood Elf look and those with the fairest locks will have to have the auburn treatment!

Jes Goodwin Goodness

A while ago I treated myself to a copy of the 3rd edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle rule book as a bit of a nostalgia trip, and to replace the one I used to own many moons ago. Owning as I do a load of old orcs, ranging from the original Ruglud's Armoured Orcs to some of the early 90s Night Goblins, an idea was slowly beginning to form as I seemed to keep opening the book and gaze wistfully at the old Jes Goodwin Wood Elf minis pictured staving off Goblinoid  and chaotic hordes.

So I got on ebay and a few?! quid later I had assembled a respectable force of Wood Elves, including the original "old duffer" treeman, a Zoat, most of Skarlocs archers (still need Skarloc and his mad, two sword wielding champion) and some wild cat animal handlers. I really wanted the old Elf Kin spearmen but had to settle with some reasonably priced 90s Glade Guard with spears as they were proving rarer than hen's teeth. So all I have to do now is paint them all up, retouch and reassemble the old orcs and convince someone to join me in a nostalgic and probably very slow game of 3rd edition WFB, with all its mad rules!

Here's the first of many - an old Jes Goodwin sculpt of a Wardancer.

Ooh aah a little bit more...

After lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth, not to mention some excellent advice on how to achieve a shiny black pvc style effect (ta very much to all those who contributed!) I've finished the rest of the supposedly diminutive ones. Having turned them all sorts of shades of grey in an effort to get the right highlights I washed the lot in a mix of black paint, ink and water. Quite chuffed with the effect as they actually look black now and the highlights still show through - just waiting for some varnish now to get them real shiny!

Heres some piccies anyway - I'm sure they never really indulged in close combat but I couldn't let two mortal enemies lie!

And the rest of the squad -

Damn now I have to paint German Paratroopers - I may be some time!

Blobular Fever

Another fantastic mini from Black Tree Designs - the Rutan - enough to strike terror into the heart of... well nevermind. I do actually really like this mini for some reason - very 50s B movie, even if the colour scheme was inspired in part by my current cold! Thought I'd go for a Horror of Fang Rock vibe with the piccies, although this little fella is intended as the quarry for a Sontaran man/blob hunt in a WW2 Eastern Front scenario...

Ooh aah, just a little bit...

Seems like I've been away a while - anyway the Sontarans finally came from BTD - hooray! However, now I've got to paint them, the Rutan and the 40 or so WW2 Russians and Fallschirmjagers... might have come up with a scenario for them by the time I've finished! The thought of German WW2 splinter pattern camouflage made me begin to twitch a bit so I thought I'd ease myself in gently with a Sontaran trooper - now I've figured out what I'm doing with him I'll have the four other troopers, the Heavy Weapons trooper, Field Major and thee SSSS troopers done in a jiffy!