Here Lives Goblins

Dwarf Jester

2011-10-20T03:52:00.001-07:00

A cracking new mini from Rogue Miniatures, a new company, should be for sale any time now.

Fantasy Zoat

2011-06-11T07:42:00.001-07:00

This one took me back a way, I've no idea where the one I originally had about 20 years ago went to. Really enjoyed painting it up, wonder if I'll be saying that after the next 13 of them 8). Only place to ge tthem now is ebay and they go for a small fortune, saying that, you can spend on average £20 on on of these or one of those new citadel shitecast mini's. No brainer really

New White Knight Dwarves

2011-06-07T13:34:00.000-07:00

These are great Marauder Proxies, ideal for bulking up that old OOP army with something that fits. They paint up quickly and easily with little in the way of extra detail that bogs the painting down. These are after all Rank and Filers. The bases need completing. I'll be getting a few more units and trying out different schemes. Very reasonable prioce, fast delivery and the range will be expanding, see the White Knight blog link on the left for more info.

Red Box Games Svjanna the Sinister

2011-06-06T09:41:00.000-07:00

One I painted up a while back now. Fantastic mini, there is a lot of detail packed into this range and well worth splashing out for. I went for my normal deathly pallour as I think this works well as a Vampire/Dark Elf type.

Really easy to paint up too but I still need to add some foliage to the base.

I will be getting a few more from this range eventually.

Link to the webstore is on the left hand side

Cauldron Born Mini's

2011-04-15T01:39:00.000-07:00

A new company has just been set up selling some cracking mini's, I've painted up some of their Dwarves and some mini's sculpted by Paul Muller. I've added a link to the store on the right of the blog

Olleys Armies SF Ogres

2011-03-23T10:34:00.000-07:00

These are cracking mini's from Olleys Armies, I really like Bob Olleys style as it is reminiscent of the golden age of Rogue Trader etc... Quite quick to paint up using natural sand and pale brown colours. They certainly blow GW's Ogryns out of the water by miles. Spend £9.50 on an Olleys Armies Ogre or £13.80 on mis-shapen lump of metal from GW. It is an wasy choice to make.

Now if only I could get my grubby hands on the original Ogryns from the 80's....

FU-UKERS Cthulhu Sculpting Comp

2011-03-13T05:05:00.000-07:00

One of the Mini's I've got hold of that were released for the Frothers Sculpting Comp

All the other min's can be found here

http://www.frothersunite.com/shop/

4A Zombies

2011-01-28T13:29:00.001-08:00

Zombies, from 4A Miniatures. These are great to paint up, nice big chunky mini's that you can slap paint on, add a few washes, a few highlights and you are done. The detail is minimal enough to paint up quickly but are a few steps up the quality ladder than the normal filler mini's for zombie hoardes. Well worth picking up.

Lilith Hesperax

2011-01-20T08:39:00.000-08:00

This is from Games Workshop, I went in to pick up some paint and bought this on a whim. A very good sculpt, probably the best I've seen out of there recent ranges (well from early 1990's)

Painted up like the stock image from GW to sell later down the line when I have finished off the plastic squad I also got at the same time.

Hasslefree Pilot

2011-01-20T08:37:00.001-08:00

Picked this up while purchasing the "Goatboy", thought i might as well buy more than the one mini to make postage more palatable.

Lovely sculpt, and quick and easy to paint up, based on a Fenris Sulaco base. The Dog type creature comes with the mini but the oil can is from a 1/35 tamiya set.

Oh the Horror

2011-01-20T08:34:00.000-08:00

Picked these up off Ebay, sculpted by Kev Adams and now out of production, they seem to rarely crop up.

Used them as practice to blend different colours together

Fenris Giant

2010-12-02T07:00:00.001-08:00

Painted this huge chap up. Took quite a while as there is a lot of texture in the skin, but that makes it a better finished product IMO. Very reasonably priced as well.

It is cast in metal and comes in 6 pieces that are fairly easy to assemble. Pinning is advisable as the parts are quite heavy. It also comes with a 60mm resin base.

Fenris have a small online webstore as well as their ebay account. Link can be found on the left

FOUR A Minis Gremlin

2010-09-07T01:10:00.001-07:00

This is a "Gremlin" from Four A Miniatures (link on the left). It is a fantastic little sculpt from Paul Muller, the whole range is shaping up nicely to have some very characterful mini's in it, not just your run of the mill types but some weird and wonderful as well.
Painted in GW Foundation Paints

Fenris Skips

2010-08-31T02:58:00.000-07:00

These skips are made from resin and come from Fenris Games, a seller on ebay with a website/shop to come. Simple, well formed, no work needed apart from the usual light sanding down. Went for a really banged up look as I've been filling skips myself lately and are pretty much rust buckets. The mini in there for scale is a Hasslefree adventurer.

TAG - SWAT with caps

2010-08-31T02:54:00.000-07:00

These mini's are from The Assault Group (link to the left). There is a large range in various poses/equipment. Don't be fooled by the photo's in the store, which have put me off in the past, these are great.

Golgo Island White Tiger

2010-06-27T04:59:00.000-07:00

Painted this one up some time ago, reminiscent of Bolo Yeung...
Sculpted by the ever talented Kev White for "Golgo Island", a fantastic mini to be honest and a joy to paint up. I think I got it done from start to finish in about 2 hours. Base has been finished since, but didn't want the flocks etc to obscure the mini for ERM's shop photo.

Want it? You know you do, click below
http://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/ggl6-1959-p.asp

Long Long time No Update

2010-06-27T04:51:00.000-07:00

Mainly due to massive amounts of commission work but I had to show this little fella. Sculpted by Paul Muller and due to be sold by Four A Miniatures. I am really liking the range I have seen so far.

Long time no update...

2009-10-27T09:56:00.000-07:00

Mainly due to SYW commissions.
I managed to paint up Heresy's Cyclops in between commission work and have a Big Boris ready to photograph. Fantastic mini, easy to put to gether and is quite a heavy lump of metal. The flesh has less of a blue tinge to it in real life, the lighting wasn't great.

I've another one to paint up and probably chuck on ebay.

Hasslefree Ladies - Commission

2009-09-02T07:39:00.000-07:00

More Cryx

2009-08-17T23:13:00.001-07:00

Some more Warmachine Cryx for a Necromantic Bloodbowl Team. I enjoyed painting these ones up. The whole team was packaged up and sent to France.

Warmachine Cryx

2009-08-14T00:43:00.001-07:00

This was a very intersting miniature to paint up, not something I would have bought myself just by looking at the bare metal.

It was a commission piece for somebody's bloodbowl medic for a necromantic team. I enjoyed painting up the rust which was a mix of drybrushing and washes.

Drybrushed PP Battlefield Brown - GW Snakebit Leather - GW foundation Orange - GW Silver. Then when dry a black wash and an orange wash. Highlighted bits silver again and a pin wash of black where needed. It gives a nice rust colour and the rough drybrshing gives it the texture of rust too.

"Scale Creep" through the years

2009-08-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

Goblins on pogo sticks.

The one on the right (green and yellow) is a commission piece and the other is my own. GW Goblins appear to be more Orc size now than they were about 10 years ago

Bloodbowl

2009-08-11T14:42:00.000-07:00

Quick photo of a Bloodbowl team I am painting up for myself. Its going to be a random mix of old mini's. Favourite here is the Troll at the back. Picked up most of these about 15 years ago but the odd one or two are via ebay.

Rackham Dwarf --> Bloodbowl

2009-08-11T14:34:00.000-07:00

I was initially a bit confused when a customer sent me half a dozen Rackham Dwarves to paint up as his Bloodbowl Team. They are much bigger than standard 28mm dwarves but these were good fun to paint. Particularly the faces which are very expressive. They took quite a while to do due to the detailing on the armour. The yellow colour was quite problematic, eventually I went for painting in a pale yellow/brown colour and then added a wash of thinned yellow paint over the top once all the shading and highlighting had been done. These are out of production now, I believe, as Rackham is concentrating on plastic products instead of good old metal.

Golgo Island Renato Ramirez

2009-08-11T14:07:00.000-07:00

I bought and painted this mini up some while ago. It is a Tom Meier sculpt and initially I thought that the detail he puts into his sculpts would be quite difficult to paint. On the contrary, this took me no time at all. The sculpt practically paints itself. The spent shotgun shells are made from rolled milliput.

OK, its a bizarre miniature but it is quite endearing, I mean, who doesn't want an angry Hitler in a Tutu 8)

Can be purchased using the link below. Which reminds me I need to buy the Alpha Zorgl at some point as well.

http://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/golgo-island-171-c.asp