This weekend Birmingham is playing host to UK Games Expo 2013. For full details go to this link. My plan is to attend the show on Saturday May 25th.This is the first year that the show will be held at the NEC Hilton Metropole hotel, having been pr…
Photos Two, Three, Four and Five – Show the progress so far. I still need to paint the metallic areas and varnish but I am very pleased with how the piece is coming along. I know that it would have been easier to have fully painted the two figures prio…
I wanted this pair of 40mm Graven Image figures to be mounted on to a display or diorama base. I searched through my box of bits and settled on this 50mm round 28mm tall socket or plug of rough wood, (pine I think) that I picked up some time ago. I hav…
Last night while searching through some of my favourite Blogs I came across this new on-line magazine – Figure Painter, for full details go to this link.At just £1.00 for the download I thought it was worth a punt and with only one exception (I c…
To regular readers and followers it should be obvious that I enjoy painting model soldiers. I also like to browse both images and magazines of beautifully painted model soldiers such as Military Modeller. In fact my modelling focused bookshelf if cramm…
The Pledge for May 2013 continues. Sharpe and Harper from Graven Images sculpted by Jim Bowen.Photos One and Two – Sharpe has had his flesh areas and the jacket ‘blocked-in’. At this stage I am trying for a neat effect, but not too worried about defini…
I recently had to repair my Mother-in-Laws personal cassette player (she likes to listen to audio books – the ones on old fashioned cassettes which Sue and I pick up for her from charity shops). Having repaired hers, I thought I would try to repair my …
I recently picked up this magazine from e-bay. Darker Horizons was a one-off publication by Atlantic Publishers – the publishers of Miniature Wargames. The magazine is a 52 page standard format layout and published in Winter 2011 with a cover price of …
Continuing with my plan to highlight some of my older terrain pieces I have chosen this huge Russian Church. Which I built nearly twenty years ago.The model is one of my largest pieces of terrain standing nearly 18inches (450mm) tall. The mai…
I have mounted both figures on too a short section of old paintbrush with a dab of superglue. Photo One – The Sharpe miniatures has had the right arm completely re-modelled and the expose joint filled with green stuff. As I stated in the first pos…
This week I received this brace of Japanese model making magazines from my daughter who has just returned from a short trip to Japan.Just in case it is not obvious, both are in Japanese, however I find that I can follow the step-by-step artic…
Towards the middle of April I was looking around to see which set of models I would choose for my May 2013 On-Line Build and Pledge. The obvious answer was a group of Flintloque RifleOrcs and I had started to plan both the models, the background story …
Full details and rules of this years Trash Bash competition are now available here. Last year I built an entry – the Imperial French Aeronef le Louis Daguerre, for full details see this post.I am still undecided as to whether I will enter thi…
There is no obvious link between these two books other than I have just finished reading one and earlier today I picked up the second.Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis is a very strange tale of evil, in particular an evil book written by a turn of the centur…
I was recently directed to this great post and thought it was worth sharing. 26 Reasons why Doctor Who Fans are The Best.For full details click on this link.Tony