A cool gift from Steve

A very generous friend and buyer just sent us a super cool surprise!  We could not figure out what was in the box until we opened up the bubble wrap.  Thank you very much Steve!  It has a place of honor in the living room.

Steve gets an assist in the Armies on Parade quest, as he volunteered to watch over the Lizardman army in the foyer while we went upstairs to put our entires in the Golden Demon room.  That helped a lot!

Some wood elves

Dryads are some of my favorite wood elf minis to paint, as are the characters.  Here are a few images I dug up this morning. :-)



A WIP to show some of the green stuff added:

Warhammer Fantasy special edition Chaos minis

Over the years I have gotten my hands (and brushes) on a few of the special edition chaos minis.  They are usually pretty fun to paint, with lots of extra stuff!

For whatever reason, whenever the topic of chaos comes around, everything ends up being Tzeentch.  Even my 40k choas army is Thousand Sons.  Remember Prospero... Death to the False Emperor...

Some Celtos minis

This Arianhrod diorama was the first of it's kind for me way back in the day.  I have a few other dioramas built around Celtos minis as well, so I will gather images for those as well!







This has been a favorite Celtos mini of min... one that I have painted several times.



And another bigger diorama:

Uncovering some Dark Sword minis

Once again, I seem to find large collections of minis that I don't even remember painting!  After looking through the dragon pictures yesterday, I discovered these :













Dark Sword was alway more of the 'true scale' with the tiny hands and such, but you see many more companies adopting that style now.  To be honest, I would prefer the heroic scale, as it is a lot less fragile and a heck of a lot easier to deal with!

Dark Sword huge metal Dragon

Given all the talk about resin replacing pewter these days, here is something  that was one of the most difficult pieces I ever attempted, for a variety of reasons.

This massive dragon is all metal... including the wings!  I spent several days creating the display base, and a few more painting it.

Then it was time to attach the beasty to that display base. :-)

So, a few images:









Oh , yeah, and it was less fun to ship as well.

More Confrontation Minis

Here is the next batch of Confrontation minis.  This ogre set was quite the project, since the ogres are pretty daintily posed in some cases.  There were a lot of fragile parts, given the softer metals used in the casting.  They certainly are unique!







The little snotlings that went with them were pretty wild as well.