Now with Salute out of the way I’ve got back to finishing off the Sarissa Precision terrain I’ve been working on for the Cross Gaming Club. I’ve definitely taken longer than I should have to finish it (sorry guys!) but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. Here’s the latest […]
Salute was yesterday and before I do a full rundown of the day I wanted to post pics of Lindo Guapo who I managed to get finished just in time to enter him into the painting competition. I was brushes down at 11pm on friday! Anyway, here he is: Pretty pleased with how he came [...]
Although my attention is very much focused on getting my Salute mini finished this weekend (like that’s going to happen!), I’ve been meaning to make a post about the awesome game table my Dad built for me and delivered recently. He’s a cabinet maker by trade and so I asked him if he might be [...]
The Salute countdown clock is ticking rather loudly and urgently at the moment with just over a week to go. Eek. As Mrs Von D would put it, I’m “ratcheting up the pressure”! I have a mostly free weekend though so I feel like I’ll be able to dedicate a decent enough amount of time [...]
Last weekend, James and I had a first play of Sedition Wars: Battle for Alabaster. You will probably be aware of it as the uber-Kickstarter sci-fi boardgame by Studio McVey that’s thematically a cross between Aliens and Dead Space. My copy is still unassembled – a treat I’m saving for when I’ve finished the Sarissa [...]
Yesterday we had another small meetup for the local members of the Platoon Britannica painters forum. It was a fun day and always nice to chat over painting, sharing tips and seeing other painter’s work in person. Unfortunately London Transport often carry out engineering works over the weekend and that causes problems for some members [...]
With the proliferation of new skirmish minis games coming out in recent times, largely thanks to the Kickstarter crowdfunding model, it seems odd that our local club has become so monogomous of late. They’ve always had a WarmaHordes bias down at the ‘Cross but lately things have become almost exclusive. It’s a little sad for [...]
Gotta love some alliteration! Anyway, just a quick word to say that my Tilly paintjob was voted the favourite by members on the Platoon Britannica mini competition. The final entry list was small but it was an honour to have mine recognised. The competition – whose aim is to encourage members to paint minis from [...]
And here’s Tilly finished just in time to be entered into the Rae of Sunshine online painting competition over on Platoon Britannica. And here are a couple of close-ups. Mrs Von D thinks I’m bonkers to do such tiny detailing on things like the oil barrel – it’s Miniature Madness I tell you! Have to [...]
On Sunday a few local folks from the Platoon Britannica forum met up down at the Dark Sphere store to chat, paint and share tips, etc. Unfortunately, snow put paid to many members plans to join in the fun, but the few hardy souls who braved it had a good time nonetheless. I spent the [...]
So just before the holiday break I asked for readers to help me choose a colour scheme for my Statuesque miniature. Apologies for keeping you patient folks waiting. Without further ado I present a progress update on the lady herself. Seems like I have a penchant for painting shiny buns! The model is Tilly Tumbleworth, [...]
A quick update to get the blog back up and running in 2013. Here’s one piece from the plethora of Sarissa Precision terrain I’ve been working on for the local games club, it’s a landing / heli-pad type affair. Quite pleased with the stencilling on it, and the yellow grating stuff adds some visual interest. [...]
ok, so in my last post I asked for a couple of numbers from readers and I got 268 (from Mark) and 78 and (Jani). Cheers, chaps. Now how the Dickens am I going to turn those numbers into a colour scheme? Some of you may have hazarded a guess, but what I actually had [...]
There’s a painting competition running over on Platoon Britannica to paint up a Statuesque miniature. They do a really nice sci-fi range that you should totally check out. Anyway, I’ve been so undecided about what colours to use on my selected mini that I thought I would put a call out in the hope a [...]
Just in time for Christmas I’ve finished the second half of the hero mice that Mrs Von D and I will be taking through the quests in the Mice & Mystics boardgame. Here is noble leader Prince Collin (in the red cloak) and the roguish Filch. Pretty chuffed with these two – who took me [...]