15mm Painted Bond Bad Guys and Girls............

........including 007 himself from Khurasan Miniatures!

Who was your favorite villain?

Some little 007 miniatures from Khurasan Miniatures of some of the famous villains from old 007 movies plus a more modern James Bond.

OddJob and Auric Goldfinger....

Blofeld (5 credited Blofelds in the series) and the beauty Rosa Klebb.......

Pussy Galore, villain but then love interest....... 

The last and best Bond........

Good luck to all.............

My mate brought in his laptop to work and I've caught up on a lot of blogs (I can access Google+ at work but nothing else) and confirmed a sneaking suspicion that I'm in the fifth painting challenge over at Curts place........

.....which could be a problem as I've no ready access to a laptop at the moment and hope to be moving country soon....

......but it does go on until March he says!!!!!

Good luck to everybody taking part all the same.............

Fecking hell.................

Where did I put those bleeding Orks?

600 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!

He's having a fecking laugh..................

Some of the Analogue Hobbies 2014 Challenge Wager Figures.......

 During last years Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge there was a side bet between seven bloggers (Ray, myself, Tamsin, BigLee, Clint, Stefan and Dave) for who would reach 600 points first and the prize was a figure from the losers to the winner.........I won!

Firstly we have Stefan and his rude Scotsmen from Westphalia Miniatures.......

Very rude......

Next from Tamsin a mobster Francis "The Lurker" Lee, arrived at Broadside inside this lovely box.......

Handsome fecker........

Next came BigLee and a Foundry Wild West figure I believe............

Then we had Clint and his Wild West bad guy..........

Beautiful work people and will be added to my fellow painters collection, growing quiet big..........

Still waiting on Ray though ( he has told me to go feck myself so far) and nice guy Dave!

Painted Foundry Minotaur and Reaper Golems!

Some items recently submitted to the challenge, two Reaper Bones 2 Golems from Anne O'Leary and a Foundry Minotaur picked up at Blog-Con, nice big miniatures.............28mm Foundry Harpy to show some scale!

Currently 7th in the challenge.......

Magic Painting Table, 900 points Painting Challenge, Pot Noodles and Boobs anyone?

The painting challenge starts this Sunday for 60 fellow lunatics and 1 chief lunatic (Curt himself) in his 4th Annual Analogue Hobbies Challenge......

My painting has suffered a little in the last 6 months in output so I thought the challenge might be a good way to light a little flame of colour into my hobby and have started to do a little at work on night shifts in readiness for the challenge.........900 points here we come!

Sofie does a painting table every Saturday on her blog, mine will just be on any night I can.......

What's this....nothing on the table at work!

Shazam.......painting table!

Rebasing some US Marine armour, a Nazgul from Sam from his blog competition and one of the challenge entries, black primer, black coke which sometimes by mistake doubles as painting water!

Now you don't......well before the day shift arrives anyway!

It's over here in the press above the sink behind the pot noodles that we love to hate but they are hot and that's something at 3 in the morning, each officer has a space like this in the tiny kitchen.....

......and of course some boobs!

Good luck to all.............

Ding Dongs, Twinkies......and The Painting Challenge

Received two blogging wins in the post last week and also have decided to enter the 4th Annual Analogue Hobbies Challenge  after a kind invite from Curt and even with my painting drought/malaise continuing but what the hell...........I have finished in the top ten twice I think but this time it will be in the top 40th or below if I'm lucky with the good job finished and finances stretched but let's see how it goes.........no sandbags here!

This large box turned up from Mellie Mel with just my name and some random persons name by mistake (probably meant my other half which is not Ray as some of you feckers are thinking).......looks like Jay?

Some cards, one might say Pay?........

What a box of sugary goodness..........

Also received these books from Carl when he ran a giveaway and myself and Ray won some books but Ray who was pulled out of the hat first got first choice.........but what's this I've received both book prizes, how did that happen????? 

Also Ray has dragged his poor, beautiful, kind, understanding wife into the snoring/sleeping debate by posting this bitstrip on Facebook........such a fecking liar!

28mm Foundry ACW Confederate Prisoners with Union Escorts and.......

..........a drunk on duty!

Lovely set of figures from Foundry, little use to the game other than eye candy but what does that matter, the less useful the set is to the actual game the more I seem to like it!

28mm Foundry Wild West Citizens arrive in Angry.

Most of these were picked up in a cheap bundle on eBay to start populating the town of Angry and for the painting challenge as well, I still have a soft spot for a good Foundry figure.........well I think they're all Foundry figures (I think Wild Bill is from Artizan)!

Dipping my large toe into 28mm American Civil War.

As stated before I've started to dabble in 28mm ACW skirmish with a touch of Outlaw Josey Wales and a smidgen of madness, I've started with the Perry Miniatures plastic infantry sets but added the metal command set (not my favourites the plastic but as the budgie said "Cheap"!).

The main unit is 28th Massachusetts Regiment, 4th Irish Brigade (had to be Irish!), some casualties (I have a weird fixation with casualty figures, there's even more to come!) and a 9pdr artillery piece, everything is from Perry Miniatures except the limber which is from Dixon Miniatures.

Started reading this for some colour and flavour.........