Moving more old miniatures
After moving some old miniatures, I've decided to move most of my remaining painted miniatures to my family's country-house. I mostly only keep painted from now on my Deathwing Terminators (+2 full squads) and some Genestealers including the big patriarch on the throne. I'll decide what to do when I finish painting other minis when I'm able to finish painting anything.
So, I've moved some really old miniatures, like the Rogue Trader Dark Angel Space Marines:
And an old Land Raider:
But also some newer miniatures, like this plastic Dreadnought:
Or the Ork Stompa I had already photos of:
And non-Warhammer miniatures, like this (already pre-painted) Metal Gear Gray Fox ninja:
This small Aliens APC (also pre-painted):
Or this old Aliens Queen:
As usual, you can see a few more photos and all the archives at the Warhammer 40k gallery and the Assorted gallery.
Moving some old miniatures
To make some room and fit all my miniatures in less shelves, I took the (hard) decision of a) selling a few miniatures and b) moving some old painted ones to my mother's house. These last months (years?), mostly due to friends either moving out of the country or just all of us having a very busy life, I've stopped playing and keeping boardgames (with a few special exceptions), so it was reasonable to also "get rid" (in a safe way) of some miniatures. I decided to take some photos first and uploaded here to my galleries section.
The galleries that have been updated are Epic 40,000, Warhammer 40,000 (newest one as there are multiple galleries) and Assorted/Miscellaneous.
And this are some samples of the photos I've added to it. As you will see, nothing incredible and most if not all painted when I was young, but still so full of memories I wanted to keep some photos of them always available.
All my Epic 40,000 painted miniatures. I had already only kept at most 2 units of each from my Eldar army and from the Space Marines and Orks armies. Now I'll only keep the titans and gargants I have pending painting.
Miscellaneous fantasy heroes and monsters. Some from HeroQuest and Advanced HeroQuest, others from various sources.
And then, some Warhammer 40,000 stuff, mainly some old Rogue Trader era tanks from my Dark Angels Space Marine army:
But also other minis like an old metal Tyranid:
Scenery...
And an old Leman Russ fully-armed
About a big ork and a busy painter
Small status update, as lots of real life work made me not have enough time to paint almost anything. I am also selling and gifting a few boardgames and RPG books so I've been quite busy not in the areas I'd liked to (regarding this blog, of course).
What I have done is received and assembled this gorgeous ork champion from GT Studio Creations, which I backed on Kickstarter for the 70mm model. It is so awesome and full of detail... I'm really glad I made that choice, even despite my crappy painting skills the model is going to look amazing, it already does unpainted!
Sadly, apart from that there's not much to speak about... I'm reading some books and comics but haven't finished anything that I can review yet, but at least October looks more promising regarding spare time in the afternoons (or nights).
My old LEGO Dragon Knights castle
One of my current goals is to "reduce waste". Not wasting time in absurd tasks, not burning energy in negative or harmful actions, like getting angry or complaining when I could remove, ignore or change those negative sources, but also reducing my physical goods. I've been hoarding toys, devices and "things" in general since I was a child, and while the emotional value is and will always be there, the less I have to care about (where to store, put, maintain etcetera) the better I feel, as I can use those energies to focus in other more relevant tasks. Tasks both "serious" and hobby-oriented, like painting, reading, playing games and videogames.
One of my few remaining LEGO items was a castle from my childhood. If I recall correctly I got it around when I was 14 for christmas, built it in a morning and then slowly expanded and filled it with extra pieces and figures. Since then, I have never ever dismantled it, and while I gifted all my LEGO blocks (bags and bags of them, imagine that I even had a CPU case made with them, like Google's first computer).
I now wish to reuse the space it takes to better distribute other items (mostly Warhammer 40,000 scenery that I have currently piled up), so I decided to take some photos of it and let another memory go with a better new owner, my nephews, so they also enjoy it and who knows, maybe they come with a better new design!
My beloved castle, front view. Walls have extra height, and every wall and tower has some ranged weapon, from crossbows to muskets.
Main gate, with two knights marching.
Main tower, with a flag and a wizard ready to launch fireballs to attackers.
Detail view of the front guards
Aerial view of the interior, which is quite packed
Closer aerial view. Horses with dragon helmets can be seen waiting for their riders. Also note the cannon, a movable ballista, more guards on every wall and toewer, and some treasure chests. Under the cannon there is a floor gate and underneath more chests and barrels too. All of them full of precious gold coins.
Left side view. Again the extra wall height can be appreciated, and under the pillars there is water.
The army general and a city soldier talk around the campfire, while another wizard seems to be busy behind them. There is also a castle king inside a tower (I forgot to take a picure of him), looking exactly like the general but with white arms, trousers and helmet dragon decorations.
Horses detail view (wizard and king's). A ghost can be seen in the chests building, lower floor, but even better is my custom ninja/assassin (just painted a normal head with black), awaiting instructions.
Back view, with the treasure holding building on the left and the king's tower on the right.
Main tower back view, with the forge on the floor above the gates, and two more mounted warriors ready to exit the castle if needed.
The forge room, also containing vials and scrolls for the wizards to ready their combat spells.
Rear view of the treasures and the horses.
The treasure building has an escape ramp that can only be opened form the inside, for an emergency where the treasure had to be moved quickly. Outside there was water and a small boat, docked and ready to be used by the king (but I already gifted this pieces).
More details of the courtyard: The cannon (and ammunition near the black well), the horses (here we can see general's black one) and the ballista.
More courtyard. The awaiting riders have simpler armour, only having a dragon decoration at the helmet. We can see that the wizard is preparing some potion near the shooting range.
Right side view.
Left side internal view. If you notice there is a guard behind the tall grey wall, but cannot be seen from the outside.
And that would be all. May the wisdom of the castle king help you out, and remember that this lands are under the rule of the dragon knights!
Work In Progress: Nagash
I still have pending the last touches to my Imperial Knight and the Rogue Trader Space Marine, but I got into priming all miniatures from Betrayal at Calth (blue/red + black base, so at least I can play with them) and I needed something really different for a change. So I picked up Nagash and started to paint it trying to follow more or less Warhammer TV's guide.
There's still much to be done, and sadly the images don't do justice but I only had at handmy phone, but after quite a few layers the ghost zones are quite nice, and I diverged a bit from the path and added some thraka green wash to remark shadows. The soldiers that will march around Nagash look better with it.
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