It's been a while...

So, here's what I've been working on lately - all the pictures are from Instagram (link in the sidebar!) where I usually update daily (it's a lot easier to upload pictures and comment on them through my iPhone)...

Most of my Fantasy stuff is now based on the round Warmachine-style lipped bases - I hated the look of square-based minis fighting round-based minis, so I decided to go back and rebase my Mordheim mercenary warband!

I'm also a bit obsessed with weighting my bases - I've done it for years with the hollow-bottomed 40K bases, but I decided to start and do it with this sort too - I clip out the slottas, clean them up with a Dremel and add a 2p coin to the base. Adds stability and heft, especially good when it's a plastic mini!

This is where I'm currently upto - new bases, sand and gravel added, painted, static flock! I took the opportunity to make some slight changes here and there and I'll be going back over the figures to finish off the paintjobs (they were paintied about 6 years ago and could do with some highlights here and there. Also in this picture are my Hellboy/BPRD figures - they got rebased too and I'll be tarting up their paintjobs in due course...

I got this GW Skull Temple second-hand on Facebook, stripped off the paint and cleaned it up, then cut out some MDF to base it up on. I added sand and gravel around the sides...

...and then went over it all with a fine brush and some PVA, adding sand to the various cracks and crevices where it would of settled naturally. It's since been spray undercoated grey then given a light coat of black/brown to start. It'll be painted to fit the rest of my fantasy collection (cream-coloured stone with green washes for algae and the like).

I bought this cobra ornament at a car boot sale last year, thinking it might make a nice terrain piece.

I chopped out a MDF base to fit the bottom and added sand and gravel - I also cleaned up some parts of the statue with sandpaper (and removed the eyes before painting). Also shown is a recent conversion - a Dark Eldar Sslyth converted into a fantasy Snakeman - I'm going to use him as a vampire in Mordheim.

Finally, painting-in-progress. It's actually finished now, but I'll give the completed terrain piece a post of it's own!

So this is what I've been upto most recently - I have actually completed a bunch of other bits and pieces too, I just have yet to take some nice pictures of them! Let me know what you think of this stuff so far!

Shoggoth

Known variously as darkspawn, shoggoths, daemonkind...

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," droned the trembling priest, daubing a mixture of crushed salt, blood and more esoteric ingredients in eldritch symbols on the torso of the bound and weeping sacrifice. The circle of cultists surrounding the priest and sacrifice took up the chant "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!" Unnatural bulges began to appear under the skin of the sacrifice, with blood beginning to flow from his orifices...

The priest grinned through broken teeth and proclaimed "His servant comes!"

The creatures leave a trail of mucus, blood and other bodily fluids in their wake.

This shoggoth is another miniature from the Horrorclix range - it comes pre-painted on a Clix base. It's part of the big batch of Horrorclix I bought for the zombie project - I picked up a few odds and ends, thinking that they'd either be fun to paint or with slightly different plans in mind - this one was for Hellboy to beat up! It'd also fit well in 40k as a Chaos spawn, WWWII as a Nazi experiment gone wrong (or right?) or as a post-apoc irradiated mutant! This was brilliant to paint - a proper nasty looking miniature!

Roger the Homunculus, Protector of the Book Pile

I recently upgraded my mobile phone from the rather dated iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4S - one of the benefits being the ability to use apps without the phone having a meltdown. One of my new favourite apps is definitely Instagram - a sort of Polaroid-esque, micro/photo-blogging social network of sorts. It's a camera app, with various filters available.

This was the first picture I took, showing off my rather snazzy Mezco Roger the Homunculus - for those who may not be massive Mike Mignola fans, Roger is a homunculus (a humanoid made from various icky substances...) who ends up working alongside Hellboy and Abe Sapien in the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence). He can be seen here guarding my current "to read" pile...

Expect more posts of this sort - I've primarily used this blog for my wargames projects - you can be assured that this regular viewing will not change, but may be supplemented with geeky installments such as this one. Especially when my painting/modelling is currently so slow!