Terrain nostalgia

Visited my parents the past weekend and went through some old boxes with soldiers and terrain from my early years in the hobby. We are speaking early 90s for most of it, I believe. Look at that dark green on the terrain edges! Yikes!

 

The weird toadstool-like chaos terrain with the withered tree is from Spring 1999. Never put in the time to make a full chaos wastes themed gaming table like this. Would have been cool though...

Painting Crusade 2014

Returned last week for a blast of a miniatures weekend. I was invited to join the judging panel at Painting Crusade IX in Namur, Belgium. The event was great, cosy, and with some great entries. And most importantly I had the change to meet and talk about miniatures with a lot of excited and passionate people. For the judging I was teamed up with Benoît Ménard and Patrick Masson who both were great people, and I really enjoyed the daunting task. Lots of great models.

 A small part of the many models at the event.

An early Sunday morning walk along the river.

Duchess Death in the cabinet Sunday morning: 

Somehow the shifting sunlight in the cabinet glass made a bizarre 

reflection of light on her tail. Maybe she was a cute pony in a previous life...

During the past few months I have worked on a small booklet and managed to get it ready for the event.

Planning for Painting Crusade

A quick update showing a some of the minis that I plan to bring to show at the Painting Crusade event in Belgium next weekend.

Still need to pick a few more and plan how to best present them.

Photo setup

This blog has been quiet for a while. I have been working on a lot of things.
Among these miniatures and miniatures photography.

This is my photo setup as it looked in late February while doing a lot of mini-photography.
Not the best setup, but it works.



Now, I have got quite a lot of material that I hope to show over the coming months. I have a lot of models done over the past 2 years that has been only partially documented, so there is enough to get into and talk about.

My son has painted more miniatures - the little army now counts GK 5 terminators and 3 GK space marines - and he is still full of excitement for the hobby.

Finally, I am attending an event in Belgium: Painting Crusade taking place on March 15th-16th. I really look forward to going there, to meet fellow painters from central Europe and just to get out there and paint and talk about miniatures.

Two more for a combat squad...

Collaborative work between my son and myself. Well, I did the white Grey Knight to the left last year. But over the past 2 weekend my son has painted the two others drybrushing the metal in two stages, and painting in the gold, the basic dark red, and the basecolour for the powerweapons. He also painted the white shield, added a wash to the gold, followed by a drybrush of silver/gold-mix. I helped out with highlights on the red, some lightning effect on the long blade, painting eyes, and detail-work on the white shield. So a lot of help, but certainly also a lot of stuff done by himself. But the best thing was enjoying the process and sensing how proud and happy he was when he had the finished model to move around on the table.

These are his models number 4 and 5. And we still need to do the bases. However, I'll be assembling the remaining two models over the next weeks for the squad to get gaming-ready! Currently the 3 mighty Grey knights are fighting 4th edition High Elves and a half painted Wood Elves Dragon...

Halloween 2013 - coming up...

Preparations for the season event...

Gaming

 
Back at the working desk after a busy month of lots of things - among these some gaming.
In early September I ventured to Nottingham to share some hobby moments with a group of friends. We spend a full day talking hobby and gaming. And I am hooked on gaming again. But at the same time I also had the chance to see the miniatures gallery in Warhammer World. Always a pleasure to see 'Eavvy Metal stuff up close. Now I feel like doing both armies and gaming AND painting display pieces in the crisp and precise 'Eavy Metal style. So many ideas and projects and so little time. Oh well...

The image above shows my gang's big dude and the newly recruited juve overlooking the myriads of staircases leeding down into the lower hive. All my models got taken out of action during the game, but nevertheless it was a lot of fun.

So, I should be back at the hobby enjoying both painting and gaming and sharing the projects during the coming dark months of Autum and Winther. Stay tuned.

A minion for the Skulker

Painted the little minion-creature in no time last night: A rat with a man-face for a man with a giant rat-skull for head! The Skulker has gotten his rat-creature to on the base to chew the flesh and bones of his enemies.

Of other news I am working on a big mounted medieval knight. Challenging and exciting.