Friday, December 20, 2013

Roman Buildings

The blog titled "Paul's Bods" has been doing a lot of scratch built Roman buildings lately:

Paul's Bods

I've also seen some PDF's for paper-built Roman Villas which might be useful as is or as patterns for a more solid building

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Soviet version of "The Hobbit" from 1985

No joke,

The Soviets made a movie version of "The Hobbit" back in 1985, which you can see online at this site:

Commie Hobbit

It's all in Russian, of course, but there you go.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Progess and a Find

I've finished my 8 plastic Warhammer Knights.   I'm pretty happy with them.  I'd post some pictures, but I'm having camera difficulties.

I decided to put aside all my monkeys (I have 2 sets of armed monkey-men, 1 I bought, 1 Jason gave me;  I giant ape that Marlon left with me, and a pack of Flying Monkeys with crossbows I got at the Convention).  I figure that the armed monkeys aren't campaign appropriate, so I'll just wait on the whole monkey crew for now.

I'm basing, gluing and priming 4 more dismounted crusades knights and 8 longbow men from the Convention for my next project.  Some of them might have done ok for the Masked Archer, but I think the guy I've already painted is still the best choice.

Finally, I made a find at the Dollar Tree today.   They had some excellent Pine Trees for Christmas Garden displays,  2 trees in a blister for $1.  I bought 4 blisters, but might go get some more once I've gotten them open to have a closer look.  They seem unbeatable for the price.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

GW Knights

I've painted 4 out of my 8 plastic Warhammer mounted knights.   While they glued together much easier than I had expected, I found the figures too "busy" for my taste.  They have really elaborate helmets and whatever you call the big clothy thing that covers their horses.   After the first 2, I decided that I instead of painting the horse-suit and helmet parts various colors, I dramatically reduced the painted detail on the 3rd and 4th figures, and I think it improved their overall appearance.  The clash of colors and the overall business made the finished figures too garish. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Game Room Update

Monday I hauled out the old computer desk from the game room and replaced it with a large set of wire shelves.   Mission Accomplished (clearing the way was the hard part).  I've got some reorganization to get to.   So, be prepared for a slightly different landscape on Sunday.   Here's hoping the trashmen actually haul off the desk tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Monday, December 2, 2013

Miniatures Pics, recent work

First up are 4 dismounted knights from the later crusades era, which I bought at Fall-In.   I painted the 2 on the left with "platinum" color, and the 2 on the right with "pewter" color.   In general, I think I like the pewter better, but the platinum does have some advantage when viewed at a distance.


Next, I have my two masked men.   The one on the left is my choice for the "Masked Archer of the Apocalypse", but the one on the right is a close runner-up.   My final choice is mainly because the one on the left has a bow and quiver on his back, and the one on the right only has daggers.




Next I have a few more Outlaws that I bought from MegaMiniatures (R.I.P., alas) when I got the masked men.

Finally, in the spirit of the season, here's a learned wizard, who, because of poor color choice on my part, ended up looking more like Father Christmas than anything else.