After a hiatus I came back to the blog, only to find I can't post any pictures.
I follow the normal procedure, but it's only showing me pictures I've either downloaded from the net, or ones I've taken before January 30th.
What's afoot?
A study in practical nostalgia, travelling back to the early 1980's with a fistful of cash, to buy all the stuff I couldn't afford on a paperboys salary.
After a hiatus I came back to the blog, only to find I can't post any pictures.
I follow the normal procedure, but it's only showing me pictures I've either downloaded from the net, or ones I've taken before January 30th.
What's afoot?
Just a roundup of things that have been happening.
It was Colours at Newbury Racecourse yesterday, and I took Broadsword Miniatures to add to the Oakbound Studio stand.
Just dumping a load of pictures gleaned from WD and Line Wolf publications for reference. All Chaos Warriors from Gary Chalk's collection. It's interesting to see the same figures popping up in different battles, sometimes changing sides in a truly chaotic manner.
I've been finishing off a couple of flags to match those shown in the White Dwarf article.
First up the Black Uruks. I painted a banner for these a couple of years ago but decided I wanted to copy the one painted by Gary Chalk. I finally worked out the banner pole shown was a Dixon samurai yari with severed head cast on, so ordered one which came in record time.
I've just finished some medieval townsfolk for sale. Great fun to paint. Most of these are from Colonel Bill's which I picked up at Attack in Devizes last week.
I'll be out them up on the Broadsword Minis page of this blog and also on Instagram #broadswordpaintedminiatures
Trying to drum up a bit of cash, I've been painting figures for sale. I've done this in the past with some success, so hopefully these will go.
The bottom 2 pics are Footsore miniatures which are much more slender than traditional wargames figures, and this seems to be the trend at the moment. They were all fun to paint, and I think I enjoy painting to sell, more than for my own collection, because I don't get that feeling of guilt that I should be working .
I recently tested the Mythic World dwarf moulds I bought from East Riding Miniatures with some success. I'm renaming then Gnomes as they are diminutive even for dwarves. Initially they'll be sold as a mixed bag of 20 got £20 to work through the stock that came with the moulds.