Reaper Bones Wizard painted..............

Well, I've caught the painting bug somewhat and decided to take a mini out of the latest Reaper Bones Kickstarter box....Arakus Landazad, sculpted by Bobby Jackson and converted to plastic by a.n.other in some inscrutable Chinese laboratory. The mini was easy to put together with superglue, the only drawback being cleaning the mold lines......I think a sharp blade would work wonders as attempting to file the material doesn't work too well. I gave him a wash in soap and water and allowed him to dry....black undercoat went on without a problem and I built up from there.....

The professional paint job by Jen Greenwald (pic borrowed off  the Reaper site) just blows me away......wish I'd checked it before starting mine......

https://www.reapermini.com/search/wizard/latest/03958

As always; enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

A couple of pirates finished and an introduction to the crew so far..........

Loads more on the way in the next decade or so.....excuse the dust....hadn't noticed until I'd played with the pics. Must do better as it always said on my school report....

Hasslefree HFH001 Libby with a little extra gun support...

Old Glory Seven Seas Fantasy (I think)....oop now I believe....

Captain Hook Tale of War miniature from their Tale Revision range....available here.

Old Glory Pirate of the Month (October) from a few years back and still available at that link.........tell them I sent you...

Citadel Dwarf thief....oop...

Citadel female fighter....long oop....

Reaper Miniatures lassie....

Bronze Age Miniatures pirate lass....

The swarthy bunch en masse......

A Reaper Merchant with a Heresy not Sontaran head swap....possibly he will be involved in the shenanigans eventually.... 

As usual enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk

Another dent in the lead mountain................

Finished a couple of figs and added a few more....when will it ever end.......

Archive Miniatures (sculpted by Nevile Stocken  around 1978 or thereabouts) Alien Mutant, Grimp from their Star Rovers Line. 

Heresy Miniatures Sharclon Trooper, painted for a friend's son Sam. 

3 more getting prepped for my own collection....the middle one is a slight conversion with his shooting arm chopped and puttied for variation. Andy at Heresy is, hopefully, planning on expanding this range. 

and halfway through....

The others waiting in their 'pen'.....

I also decided to use one of the spare heads on a Reaper Miniatures Merchant figure.....

Still some way to go.............

Kev over at Stunties picked up a Dwarf Iron Man for me. I think it is from Impact Miniatures but have yet to confirm....I also need to get a good colour pic to try and do it justice......

I just missed out on this old Squadron Ruben Eowyn, Dark Lord & Nazgul set on Ebay.......my bid was blocked at the last second due to not posting to England. Grrrrr. I have numerous posting addresses in the States and would have paid more than it went for with only one bid. 

Various WIPs and finished bits.............

So many things to finish and so many things to start. I have a habit, like so many friends within the hobby, of starting something then picking up the next thing.....then the next one....result is half finished pieces lying around everywhere that eventually get neatly boxed away. In fact, half finished in many cases would be something of an exaggeration.......the joys of this hobby.

A couple of resin rabbits painted by 2 of my young daughters. As usual they shall take price of place in my collection. They are by Mad Clown Miniatures.

Gimli sitting on dead Uruk Hai..a Games Workshop sculpt that I have been sitting on myself for a long time.....a freebie for my pal Boki Gromdal (or Kev) over at Stunties. I promise I will finish it at some point.......

5 more gladiators finally mattcoated......Wargames Foundry and Crusader Miniatures sculpts.

Wargames Foundry Street Violence minis finally done. The first 5 have been sat waiting for varnish since time immemorial and really deserve a revisit on the faces / hair. It won't happen though as there are too many in the painting queue.....

Quite pleased with these boys though....one more lady mobster to finish to complete the set.....

Pulp Figures US Rocker Troops...courtesy of the ham fisted Bob Murch, a man of wonderful sculpting abilities. 

A few American Wild West minis from Wargames Foundry; these have been painted for some time, just need the inevitable mattcoate. The hand on this gentleman is not actually as large as it looks....promise.....it's just the angle of the pic. Oh, and my inability to take time over anything.

  

  

A couple of Pulp / VBCW tankettes courtesy of Aylafred on eBay. I have added Wargames Foundry Vickers machine guns to the rounded cupolas.....this is my imagination land here after all.

Heresy Miniatures have released some most excellent Sharclon troopers that bear a passing resemblance to Sontaran troopers from Doctor Who...the troopers come with a set of 4 heads to allow for variation......I lopped the head off a Reaper Miniatures merchant and, with the addition of a little sculpting putty my Sontaran Medieval Overlord was born....

Edit; a couple of quick painting wips.....

I picked up a sprue of these plastic 1/72 Zombie Pirates from a company called Mars (I had to phrase that way otherwise you would have thought they were Zombie Pirates from Mars....John Carter style). This sprue was courtesy of Big River (Janssen) off Frothers Unite Forum who bought the box and we shared them out. Thanks Janssen. About 23mm tall so a little small but nice enough anyway....

Finally a Cthulhu Wars pic......they just uploaded this artwork to their Facebook page....this is going to be one heck of a Kickstarter......