A change is comming

Hi guys sorry about taking so long to post anything new, but a friend opened up a hobby shop near me, and things got in the way. Any way slight change of focus said friend who owns the shop has asked me to build him terrain, not to blow my own trumpet but I am quite good at that.

My Old West town

From street Level

Another Street level picture

The Saloon

Ruine tower made from Hirst Arts

So yes I can build terrain, so he has set me the task of making a Malifaux/warmachine board. So I’ve been looking around for inspiration and found it in the form of this http://www.wyrd-games.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15839 go check it out some of the best looking table I have seen.

Any way my idea that i came up with A Bayou table, with a rickety shanty town built upon decking above the swamp, with wood walk ways and the like joining the buildings together. so far I have just been planing it.

The general idea is 12" x 12"placeable swamps with building built upon it, with walk ways and decking, some will have just walk ways, and also smaller placeable walkways so to link the board all together with walk ways.

I will be starting work on this in the next few days i will post plenty of pictures and possibly some plans. I will keep you posted.

James

Assembling your Space Marine

Cleaning & prepping your Space Marines

Assembling the Miniatures – Tools of the trade

So things that you will need to do the hobby..

1. A hobby knife – There are many different knifes, they all pretty much do the same thing, that’s cutting, cleaning mould lines.
2. Clippers – Clippers are useful tool; they aren’t necessary as you can always use a knife, but they do make life a lot easer when getting a model from the plastic kits.
3. Files – also know as needle files due to their small size, great at cleaning flash and mould lines on metal and plastic models.
4. Glues – Super glue and polystyrene cement glue are all you will need. Many different types depending on where you live.
5. Putty – Milliput or greenstuff is what I use, for different tasks,
6. Sculpting tools – Great for using with Milliput or greenstuff,
7. Pin vice – allows you to drill holes in to metal or plastic miniatures, helps them hold together when you sink a pin into it, also good for making holes in the gun barrel to add a little more realism.

As you see I have a video to go with this explaining more in depth of what things are.

Thanks for reading

James

Greeting Video

Greetings

Hi Guys n Girls My name is James, I have decided to make my own Video Blog about Painting miniatures and my tips on how to paint them well.

I am one of these people who seam to never finish anything, something new always comes along and makes me go ohh, and I start on that before I even finish what I was doing in the first place.

But I aim to change that from now on, and with this blog and videos I aim to upload over the next few weeks will help inspire and make me complete my projects.

So over the next few months I will be showing giving advice and any tips I can for all you budding painter out there. My first project will be a 2000pt Blood angel Army, or just a little over that amount.

A little about myself, I am 30 years old and I have been into the Hobby of war gaming for over 15 years, it all started back in Christmas of 1989 when my parents brought me Hero Quest the board game from MB Games and Games Workshop.

Back then I wasn’t really aloud to do the bigger games like 40k or warhammer due to no local shop that I knew of in the area and not many of my friends doing wargamming, but that all changed when I went to Secondary School, and all my friends started to play Warhammer 40k at the time second edition had just been realised so I brought it one birthday.

Over time I came to the realisation that I was just bad at wargames, I have about as much tactical ability as a cardboard box, and my luck is usually just appalling. But I enjoyed the painting side far more, and always wanted to flied a full painted army on the board instead of grey or silver models that were not painted.

So my plan is to show you guys right from the start to finish on how I build miniatures, and clean them, to painting them. What paints I use on them how to prime them and how to pin them together.

So my plans are to do…

1. My Blood Angel Army
2. Then move on to my Warmachine Menoth Army that I have sitting around for some time.

I will add more as I go along but that is my plans for now.

Any way thanks for Reading I hope you enjoy the post and the videos that I will be uploading over the coming months.

James