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Miniature Monthly prize!
It never ceases to amaze me how photographs are actually MORE forgiving of my painting efforts than real life. The reality is that this is rather more Impressionist than the picture indicates. I will come back with some glazing to try and address this. So how did I get here? Well the first coat of…
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Miragliano Union
Well that pesky thing \’real life\’ has been seriously interfering with my painting recently. In combination with my A.D.D. with these guys, there\’s been slow progress. Fortunately last week, I got the base colors on so they can be fielded, the rest of it is grinding through a ton of Non-Metallic Metal… I\’m still not…
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Test of Honour
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, will know that I have more Samurai figures than I know what to do with… I went a little gaga over the old Wargames Factory figures back when they were still available. I don\’t really know why as nobody I knew ever expressed…
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Bubblegum Crisis at 30
For those of you who are not familiar with Bubblegum Crisis, it was an Anime, first made in 1987 and remade a few times in the years since. It is arguably a great example of female empowerment where a group of women put on powered armor suits and fight crime. They aren\’t doing this to…
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Tint your Tribe r/minipainting contest – Pratchett
People may wonder why an Englishman, living in America, chose to paint a reading Orangutan to represent his \’tribe\’ in a painting contest. Is it a statement about British education? A statement that we are all once species sharing a planet and should all get along? An outright protest? Well not really. It is a…
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Work slows play
Hey folks, Updates have been getting a little thinner on the ground as I am currently preparing for an exam and workload is piling up a little. The pro elves have been progressing by inches but there has been some decent progress on our favorite Orangutan: After substantial angst over how to paint the flooring,…
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The Librarian
For those of you that are new readers to my blog, you should know that for the last year or so, my painting focus has been Blood Bowl. The drive for this has come from my local League that runs short seasons giving me just enough time to paint up a new team for the…
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Ooookkk!!!
For those of you not familiar with the universe of Terry Pratchett\’s Discworld, it is a fantasy universe that had a major part in making me the person I am today… it has a range of miniatures sculpted for it by the awesome Micro Arts Studios. Discworld features, among other wonderful characters, \’The Librarian\’: He…
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Weekend of Airbrushing
After a couple of pretty grueling weeks in the office with all sorts of issues, I\’ve been looking forward to a two day class in how to Airbrush miniatures more than words can convey. The class was held in the back room of my local game store and saw a dozen avid hobbyists gather to…
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Frosty the unwanted varnish snowman…
I\’m sure it\’s happened to others of you reading this blog… that moment when Frosty comes and sh*ts all over your painstakingly painted model. In this blog I am looking into how to try and undo the damage without completely stripping and repainting the model. This whole endeavor came about because I was rushing too…
Raggy Paints 