Silverblade's Minis, Works in progress

[Silverblade The Ench]

My mini page:
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/minis/index.htm
Lot of paint jobs are old, so they ain't perfect

Anyway back to the grindstone!


Built & painted a Gamesworkshop "Fortress" , great for when we have some seiges etc in me D&D games
Got it for 1/2 price from Ebay, woot!

and did my 1st proper "mini" that is a SMALL miniature, hehe, in oh, 3 years or so...sigh, so long :/ health sucks, hence long hiatus.
Anyway least now I can paint again, at moment

The lord of the rings elf is just a cheap basic plastic model, didn't want to waste a good mini on my rusty skills
Got it with a Gamesworkshop LOTR magazine, was cool every mag had a mini, so I have a PILE to paint stored away. Along with me D&D ones from Ral Partha (old 2nd ed) the D&D metal minis afore they were stopped, stripped Grenadier ones (who's paint jobs were old and sucked) and ton of Reaper minis.

Going with a new basing style using a sandy sort of yellow.

I hadn't totally finished with the Fortress when I took pics, sorry.

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[Silverblade The Ench]

New one: Reaper mini, I think it's a skeleton warrior?
note the very old pots of Citadel paint..shows how long I've been at this, and, how long I've been out of action!

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[Relique Hunter]

Wow, great detail. I wish I had a steady hand to be able to paint my own minis.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Well it just takes practice
I steady my hands by bracing them against each other etc, and use a thickened grip on the brush to help.

As noted in my painting tips, I hold the mini on a heavy old Ral Partha paint tub filled with lead, with flat top, on which blu-tac holds the mini, holding that on table or against other hand gives bracing.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Very nice! How much was the castle and is it available for order online?

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Reveille,
Ta mate!

I got the castle form Ebayer for 1/2 price (£25 or so think he just hadn't got round ot painting it), from gamesworkshop it's £50

http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99220299001&orignav=300810

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Reveille,
Ta mate!

I got the castle form Ebayer for 1/2 price (£25 or so think he just hadn't got round ot painting it), from gamesworkshop it's £50

http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99220299001&orignav=300810

Ack. Thats about $75 american money. But I have been wanting a castle of sorts for some minis.

Hmm.

I wonder how hard it would be to get/create a tree canopy village?

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

well I used ot have a great castle mould set, from near 40 odd years ago, wish I'd kept it, made awesome castles
there is LINKA and a few other modern companies making moulds for castle creating.

andI saw on ebay a damned nice painted viking village hut, for £27

 

[Cat Moon]

Nce job on the elf, the detail really shows.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Cat Moon,
Ta!



And latest: Reaper Mni lizard king (got this years ago, think it's lizard king?)

His sword is meant to be a "flaming sword", the mini's wepaon it looks just like some cheap piece of basic metal the lizardfolk made, but I thought it look cool, and hey, I'm sure their shaman or druids could cast some suitable spell to give their chief a burning sword


And when messing around in Paint Shop Pro, I made some artistic versions of the pics, 'cause they looked cool

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