No hockey? No problem. The rest of the Ilyad band...

This is the last of the Ilyad figures I recovered from the archives.  The weapon and armor were typical of the detail and fine casting these folks did.  It sure made a painter's life much easier!!!

Forget the lockout, this guy is ready to play!

For those of you who did not see most of the original posts, here are a few of the other figures from this batch...

And then a couple of group shots...

And then there was one... Handgunners nearly complete!

Almost there!

As you look at this, the final handgunner is being painted.  Once he is done, I will do some clean up work and tie in a few more details.  Then it's on to the Swordsmen unit!

There will be a color change, however, as we switch to Nuln... partly for the sanity of both myself and Jon. :-)

I am working on something brand new that may be revealed tomorrow which has made me think of yet another set of DVD's.  Painting horses!  Why the heck I had not thought of that until now is beyond me, given how many horses I have painted this year!

This would easily be a set of 4 to 6 DVD's.  Dapple grey, Palomino, White, Brown, Appaloosa, and the list goes on.  Years ago, Cathy and I purchased a 600 page volume which contained an encyclopedia of information on horses.  Countless breeds and styles.  I love painting horses, so why not?

Of course, this raises the question of who to 'partner up' with on this.

Aside from GW, I will have to think about what company that could be.  There are a few manufacturers who make some decent horses...

Still working from the archives... more Ilyad!

Until I can get the RAM situation resolved, I am going to be doing a few other things for the Kickstarter over the weekend.  I have a few other Raging Heroes figures set up as tests for certain flesh tone instructional DVD's.

I will be painting a Mantis warrior as an example of Non- Human flesh tones.  Basically, painting a Slaneeshy kind of color, with some accents of spot patterns, etc.

Also, I am still working on graphics for the Kickstarter page, which will hopefully be able to evolve of the course of its run.  I have to do some more tests to see if I will be able to do the things I need.

So, it's time to get back to work, since a very long night is before me...

Back to square one.. more hidden Ilyad gems

Yes, more images recovered from the abyss!  I think many of these were in group shots, but the individual pictures were never processed.  So, we have a few more barbarian heroes coming your way!

The flesh tones on this guys were very interesting to paint.  Fortunately, there was a lot of detail and finely sculpted lines.

The "Wish they were still here" category... Ilyad minis uncovered!

I accidentally ran across these images as I was searching for something else.  A number of of of my favorite minis from Ilyad.

These were always very fun!  I have more of these to show you.

Our quest for the expanded RAM capabilities met a major snag, as just about every attempt to increase RAM has over the years.  Not sure why, but it always works out that way.  So we are stuck at 1 Gig for now.

Powering up, Easterling Kataphrakt command

We will be getting a very early start today on another Kickstarter Quest... this time to boost the RAM on the machine from 1G of RAM to 4G.  The editing software needs a minimum of 2G, and these video files are going to be pretty huge, so it was advised to go big.

I was very big on my Easterling cavalry, as it was a vital cog in my Axles of Evil army for Bibo's Bash in November.

This was a converted War Drum figure, using some Lizardman bits.

The accidental champion had to have his sword replaced anyway, since it was little more than a twisted chunk of pewter by the time it got to me.  So, I took the sword from a chaos warrior and replaced it.  He became the unit captain.

Here we have the War priest, Captain and Black Dragon

I think most of you have seen the converted banner figure.  Tomb King bit, and then my patented green stuff/tin foil banner.  You can see the posts on how these were made as well by doing a search...

And the whole group!  Now I have to get some sleep, since we leave in about 4+ hours...

More individual shots of the Easterling Kataphrakts

It just occurred to me that I never took true individual shots of the various Lord of the Rings figures from my Bilbo's Bash tournament armies aside from the heroes and such.

So, I started out by snapping some pictures of the Kataphrakts.  These first miniatures were the 'grunts'.  Later I will post the command figures and group shots.

I did add some extra things here and there, such as the skulls on the saddle of this guy, as well as a few pointy things on the horse's armor!

More to come!!!