The art of movement

Holidays and a flare up of my movement disorder have meant that I haven't made much progress since my last post. Due to the recent KoW kickstarter delivery I have loads of assembled miniatures in various stages of painting cluttering up my study. With the impending delivery of yet more Kickstarter swag I decided to have a bit of a tidy up and to that end I had a big session of painting up movement trays and magnetising everything so I could put stuff away in boxes. I'm not sure why but units look so much better when they are based nicely and on a matching movement tray. It took me all afternoon to do about 8 trays, slower than usual but my PNKD was bothering me at the time.

In other news I found some old orc crossbow miniatures when clearing out some storage a few weeks ago. I JPed (re-based) them yesterday and now they will be Orc Sniffs in my Orc KoW army.



I think I painted these over 10 years ago. They've been sitting around unused for a very long time. Its always nice to find new uses for old miniatures.

Brocking at the moon

And here come the last two werewolves from my first batch (more to arrive later)



And my first completed brock rider.



I've another 29 of those to go so it might take a while.

There wolves

Since my last update I have been deluged with miniatures from the Mantic Kings of War Kickstarter. There are still more to come later in the month but this delivery was pretty substantial - ogres, werewolves elves and lots of dwarves riding brocks. It is going to take a while to make a dent in that lot.

I made a start on the werewolves as they are nice miniatures and easy to paint up. Last night I had this many painted:-



And this morning I added these as well.



Not bad going really. :)

I have two more ready to paint up and another 6 coming in my next delivery from Mantic. I guess this means I'm starting an undead army.

I've also been working on the brock riders and here is a WIP shot of one of the brocks.



I think they'll look really nice when I have them all painted up.

2013 Part 2

The first miniatures of the second half of 2013 are beginning to stack up. Here are some Hasslefree minis flanking some very old Grenadier evil dwarves.



Following swiftly on we have a couple of Citadel Black Orcs and Savage orcs. I've painted these up to fill the gaps left by the standard bearer and musician.



Painting these with "modern" techniques (i.e. washes) meant that these were quicker to paint up than the original unit members and the results look better too - that's progress for you.

Half term report

Well the score at half time is 181 miniatures worth painted (165 actual) vs an unknown total of purchases.

This means that even if this year is likely to be a fail, I am still on track to have the most productive year since records began which is something to take comfort in.

Lets see how I've been getting along with my objectives.

1) Play more games
I made a good start with this one but it has tailed off a bit recently. Must try harder.

2) Don’t make any impulse purchases
Er, best skip this one I think.

3) Paint at least 4 DreadBall teams
I've done well with this one - I've painted up 6 teams so far.

4) Paint my Dwarf Army
Well I have 5 of them on my workbench right now. I think I will have to make a bit more of an effort with this one.

So lets see what the second half of the year brings.

More guards

I decided to take a quick break from painting DreadBall minis and paint up some more elves. The trigger for this was organising a game of KoW and deciding I wanted to use more palace guard in the list. I dug out the palace guard I bought in January(-ish) to use to plug the gaps left by removing the banner and musician from the units (to save on points).



It was a nice change to paint some elves again as it has been a while. Whilst I was doing the palace guard I decided to paint up a couple of siege engine crew which were also on the to-be-painted tray.



The Dragons Breath engine itself will be done when I work out what colours I want it to be.

The sound of sirens

Another milestone - I'm now half way through my DreadBall Season 2 teams. Here is the complete female human team.



I painted these up very quickly - probably too quickly. After I had varnished them I had a good look and realised that I didn't like what I saw. Fortunately it seems like another round of highlights has salvaged them and I think I am now happy with the result.

Next up is Anne-Marie Helder, a S2 DB MVP. I painted her at the same time as the rest of the team but as she can play for anyone I game her a unique colour scheme.



And lastly I have a colour scheme tester.



I bought quite a lot of Mantic orcs in the sale and also when they were on offer at the Clash of Kings. They are stylistically quite different to the other orcs in my collection so I wanted to try and make them blend in by using the same colours. I'm quite happy with the results here so at some point I will be painting up several units of them.