GALLERIES
A Little Freak Show.....
Allright, I see you're ready for some freaky minis!
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THE BEGINNINGS OF A PAINTERS CAREER
Well, how about these? I suppose this Dwarf, the Skaven, the Woodelf, Orc, Dark Elf and Goblin are the first miniatures I ever painted using the drybrushing technique, or, for that matter, even highlighting and shading. I must have been about twelve or thirteen years old at the time, I think.
Or were these poor Undead [below picture] destined to be my first experiments? Prime them black, do some drybrushing on top, and voila- the band is ready to roll!
These cute little trio to the right are an example of what you can do with the "epoxy putty and/or modelling clay leftovers you get when you finish basing your models or assembling multi-part kits." I used a toothpick to give these models the more or less desired shape, and I used parts of toothpicks as horns on the "Blue Squig" model. I made two more squigs and really used them in Warhammer Fantasy Battle games, as well as in Blood Bowl [in my Orc team "Hardrock Blues" I used them instead of the Black Orcs, that is, with their profile values], the little white lion is always a popular mascot of Blood Bowl teams, and as for the penguin- well there's nothing much about him, actually, but he does look better than a lump of clay I think.
This girl is actually a Succubus, but I've lost her pair of wings somewhere. I painted her really fast, in about an hour or so- in the last couple of Arts lessons at the end of a high-school year that I attended [together with Mat, Jan and Richard] the teacher let us paint miniatures, so we tried to do our best in the time given, and this is one of the results.
To the left is again a self-built mini, a peace squig out of modelling clay. Snot, the crazy guy below, was once on my BBowl team instead of an Orc model.
Ok, there's nothing much special or unusual about the mini above, but squigs are weirdos, and thats why they belong into the freak show, right?
Now be honest, guys- how many of you gamers play with fully assembled and painted figurines exclusively? Well WE don't- in fact the majority of my Blood Bowl players looks like Hakeem [the guy on the left], and in more extreme cases, things like Kill, the Ogre to the right, can be seen sticking on the field! [O.K. maybe this example is just the MOST extreme case -chewing gum and floral wire were only once part of desperate measures I took when I couldn't find a bottle of superglue and had an unbased Ogre and too soon a match to play!]
