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Is this wrong?

Darklord — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:39:36 GMT

Seen this programme a few times and I just find it wrong.

New Nap Plastics from the perrys (28mm)

exilesjjb — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:36:02 GMT

Perry Plastic Prussian Infantry 1813-15
The most common question we've been asked over the last two years is, quite rightly, 'when are you going to make Prussians!' At last they're here! Well, the 3 up's for the plastics are anyway. These are in the tooling process at the moment so we have no release date.
The set will comprise of 40 Line Musketeers/Grenadiers plus a detachment of 6 Volunteer Jaegers which were often attached to regiments. The 40 infantry will give you a full strength battalion at 20:1 (for man-sized games), although we will be making the command frame available to buy separately too (direct from us) for those who use a different ratio. This is something we'll be doing for the other Napoleonic sets.
I've gone for the traditional march attack pose for the Line infantry and, as they're advancing at speed, I've made the Jaegers 'at trial', firearms in one hand and their Hirschlangers in the other (!) There will be a metal conversion pack to make the musketeers/Grenadiers into Fusiliers too. A metal range will accompany this plastic set and will possibly be available prior to this set.
There will be enough heads with covered shakos for all the figures in the box. In addition there will be heads with the Line Feldmutze and peaked Schirmutze for the Jaegers as some units had them. Likewise the Jaeger belly pouch is separate as some Volunteer Jaeger units had them. With all the faces, I've tried to give them a Germanic look.
Most figures are in 3 pieces as we realise people like to build up units quickly, so you'll get head , equipment (knapsack, haversack, cartridge box, short sword and half the greatcoat are in one piece) and body to put together.
The command frame comprises of one officer, one standard bearer, one drummer and an NCO.
Alan Perry
August 2010

Valloa's sheer tutorial

waghorn41 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:56:48 GMT

From the person who inspired me to try sheer
http://www.reapermini.com/forum/inde...1&#entry516579

Kester's IoB Skaven WIP

Kester — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:07:45 GMT

This isn't something that I do very often... ever... but here goes.
This is the Skaven Warlord from the new Warhammer boxed set. It is very much still in the WIP stage, I've spent an afternoon on it so far, but I think it is shaping up to be quite tasty!

I borrowed... stole... the colour scheme from Ogreninja but played around with it a little bit. Still got quite a bit to do yet.

Two New Mini's

shanerozzell — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:26:36 GMT

The first is my entry For the RedBox Games Comp

The second is the second of the two Privateer Press Mini's I got from IMP (Thanks guys and if you have any that need a new home....:smile:)

Pictures are by my good friend Paul Wool and crits and comment are always welcome:smile:

Article: RGM review: Brushes

Hinton — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:16:14 GMT

You can view the page at http://www.wamp-forum.com/VB4/conten...review-Brushes

Probably about time to say hello

tadme48 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:20:10 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I thought it was about time I said hello. Been here a few weeks trying to find my way around and getting some very useful information.

So like any dating site :confused: I had better tell you a little about myself:

I am old, very old or at least feel that way. Started painting when I was 7 with Airfix, did the usual thing with them when I finished which was to hang the good ones from the ceiling and the others had a firework attached to see how far they would fly (no longer recommended for Health and Safety reasons). I have had a couple of collections over the years, one destroyed by fire the other destroyed by a divorce. Had many breaks in between and only really took it up again in the last 5 years following a serious illness which gave me a lot of time on my hands, day time telly only gets you so far through the day. I still remember when the TV would go off before midnight and the white dot appeared and they played God save the Queen.

I am looking forward to a long and fruitful stay with you all.

Tim

Unoffical Warhammer Army Books

warhammergrimace — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:44:26 GMT

The guys over at Battle Reporter (http://battlereporter.freeforums.org...icial-f88.html) have produced 10 unoffical army books covering the lands that GW has ignored. These include Cathay, Nippon and Araby.

I plan to take a look at three of these books in my next few blog posts, the first book I take an indepth look at is the Norse, and will take a look at building an army using the books, and will include links for suitable miniatures.

The quality of these books are superb, they're well written and the layout design is excellent. Well worth downloading all of them before they get a cease and desist letter.

RGM review: Brushes

Hinton — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:17:27 GMT

A quick review of some different brushes for painting miniatures, as well as brief segment on care and cleaning of brushes.

Own a Golden Demon

Darklord — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:10:11 GMT

Rob is selling off some of his Golden Demon trophies, chance to get your hands on one!!

BattleTech: Flashfire

GunjiNoKanrei — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:07:38 GMT

With the Ironwind Metals contest concluded I would like to offer my entry up for review and discussion. The Flashfire Mech is only the third miniature I have finished in 2010 due to the birth of my son in March.

The miniature has been slightly modified. Originally the Flashfire is a Solaris VII design for arena combat, but I decided to create a variant which could be used by mercenaries or house regulars. To do this I filed off the spikes on the left arm and shoulder. I also repositioned the legs into a walking pose making the miniature more dynamic.

To show the scale I used an infantry trooper and a road sign on the base. The trooper stands exactly 6mm tall. The road sign was scratchbuild using a needle for the pole and thin plasticard (a blister) for the sign.

That I took first place in the IWM contest was really unexpected ... after seeing the Jabberwock's I didn't think I would have a chance. A heartfelt Thank You to everybody who voted for the Flashfire :smile: I really appreciate it.

As some of you may know I have also submitted the miniature to Cool Mini or not. Now here is a question: This is not meant to be a rant about the score! But after 52 votes the score was sitting at 7.7. My question is: What is needed to score 8+ with a BattleTech (Mech) miniature? The obvious answer would be to claim the manufacturer is GW, submit just one or two views, make the pictures super small and state that this is the new "SpaceAngelsAssassinDreadBot", but seriously ... I felt I had a decent shot. In my opinion the painting is good (ok-ish if you ask me, but the overall feedback I received was positive), I show pictures that are big enough to actually see the miniature, show close-ups, show different angles. Honestly, I don't know what else to do :confused: How do I need to improve painting-vise? Add more details? Are the pictures crap? Or do people just dislike Mechs that much? (And I thought everybody loves big stompy robots ... :wink: )

Again I want to make it clear that this is not meant as a rant. I accept the scores. But I want to improve and I want to score 8+ with a BattleTech (Mech) miniature. Help me please :smile:

I have already received some valuable feedback in this regard:

The Flashfire is not an 'iconic' Mech
Even though it is walking the pose is still too static
Do more with the base
Add more details

Interesting though that all of this is not necessary when you either submit a Space Marine or have a 'name' (knowing some of the 'names' personally i am pretty sure they don't always like that no matter what they submit they automatically score an 8,5+ ...).

Please discuss :smile:

Happy Birthday Demonherald

Darklord — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:28:26 GMT

Happy birthday mr Cardiss you old begger - enjoy

A video for (and of) my daughter

Hinton — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:04:53 GMT

While I was going through my hard drive cleaning out some old files, I came across an old video that I had been working on many, many years ago with photos of my daughter. Decided to go ahead and finish it since I had some newer pictures. If the YouTube video won't play for you, there's a link to the blip upload below.

http://blip.tv/file/4087048

WaMP Monthly - Black and White - Voting!

Moth — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:57:27 GMT

This is going to be tight! Some great entries for this month's contest!

Entries are as follows:

Imperial Guard sniper by Precinctomega
Whitehammer-Blackram by kdlynch
Black and white for the lady by Waghorn41
Black and White Hannako by Breadhead
Alyx by Spellscape.

And the pics can be found here, http://www.wamp-forum.com/photopost/...and-white.html

Voting will be done as follows:

Theme x/10
Overall x/10

The voting will close on the 13th of September 2010.

Thank you to everyone that entered, and good luck!

Druid Beaver

skippen — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:28:35 GMT

My first WIP here! Here is my current WIP. I am quite happy so far with how the cream/white colored cloak is coming out. It's a bit hard to see in the photo. I am not sure if green is the right color for the neck piece, but like the face, it is just one coat right now.

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