A Little Milestone

OK. So it's not a Golden Demon entry. But this cute Foundry Ork is precious to me. He is the first thing I've painted using my new detail spectacles and after having a little bit of treatment on my eyes. Two weeks back, I couldn't even see the end of my paint brush.

The optician said start off with simple bright contrasting colours to begin with, and then progress at whatever pace I am comfortable with. As we have 2 long weekends coming up (Easter and a royal wedding/May day), I think I'll be starting on all my WW2 stuff. By that I mean falsmegger Fulscumugger Falchemeegs Falshimeggger German Paratroops.

Gallery

Finally, I have sorted out the gallery. There are only 2 entries so far: Empire troops and 40K IG troops. These are just to see how the JavaScript and HTML hold together. Having said that, I've tried to put a couple of colorful pictures in each.

The gallery has it's own static page and is accessed from the page menu in the right margin of this blog page. Feel free to leave comments. I'm also open to having a few guest pictures, so if you've something painted up that deserves a showing, let me know.

It seems i can have up to 10 static pages on this blog, so expect some more soon. I will probably do a site/self profile, and a couple of pages on stuff like projects, tutorials or related items (computer combat sims etc).

Old Dog learns from younger pups

Well, I had planned a 4 day weekend painting Napoleonic Old Guard, German Falshies and some Frontier Indians. All painted to correct colours after researching and reading a pile of Osprey publications. That was until I saw these hard boiled egg miniatures. Yes, that's right, hard boiled eggs. These were painted by my friend Rachel's kids, Rebekka and Alex. These are so colourful and look like a ton of fun. So I've now changed my painting schedule to something more colourful and enjoyable. Sometimes you just need a reminder that you started doing a hobby because it was fun! New weekend painting schedule:

• Indian hill tribesmen in India silks
• Mussolini....in pink
• Heterosexually challenged war orks in silks and **BLUE** feathers
• anything else that I think will be fun.

I just hope my painting is up to the standard of Rebekka and Alex!

Here come the Girls.....

Rare Female Catachan Jungle fighters

Tallarn Desert Command Squad

OK. I've put some more rare goodies on Ebay this week. I'm selling the troopers from an all female Catachan command squad. I've put them on in separate listings with a start price of £9.99 each.

I'm amazed at the price some people are selling these for, and flabbergasted at some of the re-casts available (just study them for the shear lack of detail). The idea of wild women running about with machettes and grenade launchers is frightening.

Also up for auction is a Tallarn Desert Command Squad. Its painted and ready to field on the battle table. Officer has a bolter and the troopers have 2 granade launchers and 2 meltas.

More rare stuff for sale

I have a WD 30th Anniversary set for sale. It's like the one pictured except its brand new and boxed. Bidding starts at £10 (English pounds). I can post worldwide.