May the 4th be with you
A quick one for today. Just because it's the day it is.Heresy Miniatures: Dark Dwarf Lord Va'Durr“I sense something. A presence I have not felt since….”
View ArticleAn Ork Warlord
When returning to the hobby, back in 1999, I began building a 40K Ork army. I had big plans for this army but I soon realised that the changed Warhammer 40.000 game wasn't really for me. I came to...
View ArticleMornegueule Brisedent
And back to fantasy and something more dear to me. Yes a chaos dwarf but not one of my own, no - this one is a bit special as this one is an event model created by the chaps on the french Oldhammer...
View ArticleA lady in red
Or is she...? Cause a rather disturbed looking lady she is.The miniature here is an early John Pickford miniature. I don't know exactly when she was made, but my guess would be in the early 2000s and...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: Dwarf knights of the Great Bear on foot on Kickstarter
Just a quick message to let you all know that the previously unreleased - but most awaited - Dwarf Knights of the Great Bear by John Pickford and made for White Knight Miniatures Imperium is now on...
View ArticleAsk not what your Hold can do for you, but ....
When going through the lead pile I found this Dwarf Wizard - but judged on the pose he seems more like a missionary, town speaker or even an agitator.So in these times of great fear, mistrust and...
View ArticleMaggie, Leader of the Miner's Guild
As I've been afraid of being accused of interfering with the election process in a sovereign state, vote manipulations, misinforming the people, hacking campaigns, planting fake news or what-ever seems...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: Dwarf Skiers from the OS Miniatures Company
After a successful Kickstarter for Alpine Gnomes (sculpted by Byron Harmon) the OS Miniatures Company is now planing their next Kickstarter - and an exciting one it is.Their next Kickstarter will be...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: Otherworld's Giant Stag Beetle
Otherworld Miniatures have just released their latest Pickford sculpt. This time it's the Giant Stag Beetle added to their Wilderness Encounters range. It's a multi-part model of 6 part and...
View ArticleA doctor's appointment
Sorry for the quietness, but I have had a doctor's appointment - an appointment with the FU UK! Faceless Stalker/Asylum Doctor - another gem from my Pickford collection.The Doctor was an entry for the...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: BOYL 2017 and a mystery solved
For the last five years (or so) the Oldhammer community have met up at an annual "Bring Out Your Lead (BOYL)" event in Newark. The event is hosted by the wonderful people at Wargames Foundry.Apart of...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: The Sporks (Unreleased Sci-fi Pig-faced Orks by...
Well, I said the next couple of updates would be about my Pickford BOYL-haul but to my dismay I've just realised, that I'd never shared my set of Pig Faced Sci-Fi Orks with you.In 2012, when the...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: Pig-faced Orcs
Prior to the Sporks I showed you Friday, John did a small range of Fantasy Pig-faced Orcs. The range were sculpted during 2010 (I believe), but again unreleased til 2012 when Foundry published the God...
View ArticleCollecting John Pickford: the Alpine Dwarfs on Kickstarter
The OS Miniatures Company (OSM) are running their third Kickstarter campaign and again its involving John Pickford. This, third campaign, is all about a general release of the Alpine dwarfs - yes,...
View ArticleThe MM90 countdown - the beginning.
Like most "real" Chaos Dwarfs fanatics, I considered the Marauder Miniature range of Chaos Dwarfs (the MM90-range) as being the ultimate and most true chaos dwarf line ever made - and they have had a...
View ArticleMM90 painting countdown: 24
Like said earlier this week, I've challenged my good friend, Sjoerd Trowee in a MM90 Paintaton. Last Friday, Sjoerd called the MM90/5D as our next subject and I'm to paint that one, now.Sjoerd finished...
View ArticleMM90 Painting Countdown: 23, 22 ...... - and counting
It's Monday and it's now my turn to post a finished piece after less than 72 hours calling the challenge and then claim the score .... I thought I had a stressing job, but it seems like my relaxing...
View ArticleMM90 Painting Countdown: 21, 20 ... (it has become a trend - lol)
I was so close, but I had to call it in at 11 pm, yesterday. Base wasn't done and light was to bad for photos anyway - but then I woke up to this -...
View ArticleMM90 Painting Countdown: 19
I'll just leave this here ... just to claim this one before Sjoerd will take advantage of the time difference, again.It's nearly midnight here, so lightning is to bad for taking proper photos and the...
View ArticleMM90 Painting Countdown: 18
The countdown continues and I've only got 17 MM90s left to do (and that's only if I find a genuine and decent priced new copy of the MM90/1a "the Mage"). But with another 16 to go I won't run out of...
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