I'm back ...

Sorry for the absence here on the blog :(

Health has, yet again, had a major influence on my hobby and time for painting miniatures. It has even been a struggled keeping the Collecting John Pickford news-section up to date, ignoring the fact it doesn't involve much "work".
I've had changes made to my medication and have also managed to increase the physical training, but at the cost of hobby-hours. But there has been some small progress, and I have managed finishing quite a few pieces that have been standing here way to long.

Today's miniature was my entry for the 2nd round of the Brush Slave League, but due to the changes in format, it was held in reserve and was first entered in the 3th round.

The miniature is a conversion of the Impact! Miniatures Zoat the Bibbisaur by John Pickford (also look here). Started working on this piece 8 months ago, but was never finished. BSL was the perfect excuse to finish it, as big creatures are rewarded.

The Bibbisaur is originally made for Fantasy Football, but as I'm no longer into the genre, I decided to fantasize it a bit. A rather straight forward job, as all the iconic Fantasy Football spiky bits are all separate pieces.

So, I gave it new shoulder guards made from some plastic Chaos Warriors and a  plastic sword (think its from some GW Ogres), found in the bitz box. Kneepad was replaced with a Dwarf buckler shield and a Marauder Miniature shield (Dark Elf) was then glued  to the back.

Ended up looking like this:

Impact! Miniatures: Fantasy Zoat (conversion of their Zoat the Bibbisaur)

Think I might be getting a few more of these. Will look nice side-by-side as a little cavalry unite, I think. Will probably have to change the pose a bit - can't have all those guys pointing at you, like that :)

Collecting John Pickford: Impact Miniatures Star Player - part 2

As promised a few days ago, I'd post pictures of my metal fantasy football Zoat variant (done for Impact! Miniatures) when it arrived.

Arrived today and here is the pictures

Impact! Miniatures: Zoat the Bibbisaur

The sculpt is as great as the Sci Fi version and the new pose is fantastic. And as the shoulder guard and knee pad are all separate pieces it will be so easy converting it into a traditional fantasy miniature. Think I might try that :)

And a little side bonus ...! When John did the changed to the Zoat, "Axiom" had him turning the original carried Eldar casualty into a separated miniature. Meant for his own private use - but he has - kindly - let me have a copy of it.

Cast in resin and looks like this:

The Gaming Cantina: Eldar Casualty, helmet variant

Wonderful :) - and thanks, Axiom - that was very kind of you :D

Collecting John Pickford: Impact Miniatures Star Player and Interloper Miniatures

Yes, I'm finally back and today I have a few announcements to make :)

First, ..

Impact! Miniatures: Zoat the Bibbisaur

About a year ago, I posted pictures of a certain Sci-fi Lizard Centaur (aka an Eldar bodyguard Zoat) done for the Gaming Cantina ("Exoditejon"/"Axiom"). The miniature was originally a limited edition miniature for an annual Gaming Event held by the Gaming Cantina, but afterwards John has been converting it into a Fantasy Football character.

The FF Zoat version has now been picked up by Impact! Miniatures and cast in metal. The miniature is available from the Impact! Miniatures site - and can be found in their "Pro Player Minis"-section, under the name: Zoat the Bibbisaur.

There aren't any pictures of the finished and painted model on their site, yet! Nor have I got hold of my copy yet, so I can only share the picture that was posted in the "what's at Tom's desk" thread on the Impact! forum - but that's better than nothing, right ;-)

Wonderful version of the Zoat that easily can be converted into a classic fantasy settings, I think.

And will - of course - post pictures of the metal version when it finds me.


And secondly, we have...

Interloper Miniatures: Termites/Bugs

The first crowd-funding project involving John Pickford's sculpts has seen the light of day. Would have loved to see his name in the Otherworld Dungeon Adventures-campaign, but that was unfortunately not going to happen.

But then came the Interloper Miniatures project along .......

"Interloper Miniatures - Cast in Ruin" is a campaign to fund a dozen 28mm scaled metal miniatures for use in post-apocalyptic role-playing and tabletop skirmish games. Not really that exciting until you actually see the concept arts for them - as they are certainly one of a kind - and no way they can be called typical (post-apocalyptic) miniatures. The range will consists of ..... Rabbits, Lizardmen, Fowls and bugs/termites - most of them armed with guns :-)

Here is the conceptual art piece from the opening of the campaign - and it gives you a good impression of what you can expect from their campaign:

The project involves quite a few famous sculptors - and in here you'll find names like Bob Olley, Paul Muller and then - of course - John Pickford.

And it can't really come as a surprise that monster specialist John Pickford will be doing the bug-creatures/termites seen here on the right hand site. Certainly the type of miniatures that you would expect to see John do - especially after the many Otherworld Creepy Insectoids/Monsters.

Here is WIPs of one of the three bugs John will be doing:

The different campaign-perks will give you set of 3 miniatures from each of the races. And should you like getting the Pickford's - the $15 "Buuuuugs"-perk is the one to aim for.

And while there don't forget to check out the Fowl sculpt - done by Mr. Bob Olley. It's certainly worth a look (and some spare cash), too.

Darn, don't you just hate crowd-funding's? ;-)