Category: Fantasy
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Queen Zosga
“There upon the ancient, tusked throne of Gorblud sat Zosga, hobgoblin queen of the Misty Vale.” My first model for this year’s Orktober is Trixia the Hobgoblin Queen by Artisan Guild. I tried a new technique, well it’s new to me, for painting green skin. It’s in Dr. Faust’s Painting Clinic video on layering and…
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Amazon Update Number 8
This batch of twenty-four came from the “lead pile” and are freshly painted, whereas the last batch were finished Amazons merely rebased. All of these figures are from Eureka and the shield decals are from Victrix. The good news is that there are less than 200 Amazons left to paint, the bad news is that…
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Amazon Update Number 7
Finished another batch of Amazons – 16 more. Many, many more yet to come. It’s amazing & a little depressing at the number of unpainted miniatures languishing in boxes & drawers.
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The Ogress
Gronza, the Ogre Beauty, is a pinup miniature from Artizan Guild. I usually buy miniatures because I need them in a game. I bought this one because I wanted to push my painting skills a little. I spent nearly ten hours painting this one figure (four hours on the skin alone). After looking at the…
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Amazon Update Number 6
Managed to rebase another twenty figures. The finished Amazon collection stands at 186 figures with at least a couple of hundred still waiting to be painted or rebased. Noble Infantry Archers Slingers Warriors Sword Maidens Cavalry Peltasts Leaders, Heroes, and Casters That’s the finished collection, what do you think? Your comments and suggestions are always…
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Adding Terrain to the Map
With the outline done, the next step is to fill in the terrain features of Valkae. To add terrain features to the map, I used drawing techniques from WASD20’s series on how to draw fantasy maps to draw the terrain features, and Tony Bath’s Setting Up a Wargames Campaign found in the book Tony Bath’s…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 