Monday 19 September 2016

Saying Goodbye...

Yep, that's pretty much it. This blog is now officially dead. However, I have begun a new one with Llama... http://magusminiaturesmiddenarde.blogspot.co.za/

I will leave this blog open, but yeah, I doubt there will be anything else done here. I have been preparing for a while now to begin this new blog, so little else has been left to this one.

Regards,
Joshua

Tuesday 26 July 2016

A Game Of Thrones Knights


Hej all you people! Long time no see, eh, eh, eh?

Well, I don't have any excuses! None! I have been incredibly busy with school work, and hobby at the same time. However I am sadly not allowed to show pics of most of the stuff I have been doing, as it is for a super secret joint project with a fellow Swedish blogger... who's name is NOT, and for the hell of it, NOT, llama.

But here is what I can show you, from other side projects!

So for a while, I was obsessed with a game of thrones... I rewatched the entire series... :2)

And here is what I have come up with!

So first off we have a slightly blurred (trust me it is better than the one with the shiny shield) hedge knight of unknown valour. I used him as a balancer between the two forces... So make that a hedge-heavily-armoured-mercenary-on-a-horse!

Next we have a familiar model, which turned into a Northman on a horse with a surprisingly Dornish shield. But my theory is, that contrary to the show, the northerners would have dressed in bright, warm, colours, because everything else around them is piss grey... Well... hmm, that contradictory... oh well, we'd better run with it. Oh yes, and a little disclaimer... my theory is also an excuse, a poor one, for painting a wopping great sun on a northmans shield... Oh did I mention that in my theory, the northmen also wear floppy hats and drink hot chocolate? No? well, Now you know!

Yep, no wolves howling through the long night... no flayed men, beheaded men, (that's you Sean... ;D) men who had their parts cut off by sausage wielding sadistic manchilds... etc... and no bears... nor moons... or ravens... or gods forgive easter bunnies...? hmm



And a personal favourite and a complete and utter bastard... no really he is secretly the bastard child of Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton... except that he turned out to be a Glover... Before they went all northern like... With their grey piss and hot chocolate (not a good combination in my valid opinion...). Notice the hand in the top left corner... It took too long to paint, and still its wonky, so don't look twice.


And lastly, on the GoT front, two pitiful billmen, friends of the "Bastard" no doubt. His playmates and fellow ruffians... footmen... etc.



More stuff that I couldn't be bothered to put into a second blog post, etc.


So I began another project, which I promptly abandoned for something else and converted in depth into once again, something else.

But here are some things...








Hmm, no comment up until here, but I have to say that radagast is pretty good looking being blond. Too bad he has a terrible choice in clothing!


 Warm Regards





 I'M BACK!!!

ps: umm, I had something witty, but I forgot it. So embarrassing... umm, yeah!



Saturday 4 June 2016

Fulfilling Dreams : Wants and Needs

Hehe, so the other day I was just passing by the local store -- I needed to pick up some supplies for the board I am making, as well as some paints. And I found something quite unexpected. I was just chatting to the manager, and paging through some books when I glimpsed this...

Now, I have always wondered at SBG... But, I bit the bullet and bought it anyway, because what the hell. Could I live without it. Yes. Would I have been happier spending the money on something perhaps more useful, possibly. But will it fill a gap in my life, however small a gap it might be, certainly.

I have been studying economics recently, looking at needs and wants. I have identified this purchase as a want... One that I could thankfully satisfy. It will just be fun, paging through at times...






Oh, and as a side note, I have recently been reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- by Tolkien -- it took me a while to just sit back and read it -- but I found I actually quite enjoyed it. I truly recommend it to any other fans of oldish literature/language or of Tolkien!


There are some nice references in it to middle earth -- pure gems... hehe.

It actually makes me feel like doing a scenario on it -- set in dark age England -- buuuuut, it will have to weight for a time when my metaphorical purse is heavier and my load of projects is slimmer (aka, never... ;D ) But maybe... One has to dream...

 

Friday 3 June 2016

Sculpting Oldhammer 2 : Dwarf

So onwards I have persevered! And onwards, I have prevailed! And I have reaped the semi-debious rewards!

So today I finished sculpting a dwarf -- I wanted to try something smaller than a human -- and I wanted to try do hands. That was all I really wanted. Still, he looks semi awful, buuuut, I am just going to be using him for my dabblings in oldhammer...

Anyway, I haven't thought of a name yet -- but maybe I will go for Harald, as I didn't use it for the previous sculpt? I don't know!



And he turned out bigger than your common-or-garden gw dwarf -- at least those made in the 80's and 90's -- nowadays their dwarves are like little fat armoured tanks... hmm, one could probably use some of them as squats for 40k... not that I have anything to do with 40k if I can help it!

But anyway, here he is, all painted up. Harald the Half Dwarf -- damn! It sounds monty python... eric the half-bee anyone?

Anyway, I was saying... he painted up easily and so... on to the next project...





Next up in this little series will probably be bigger than human sized, methinks. An ogre, troll or hill giant, most likely...

But anyway, that's all for now...

Kind regards,

Joshua

Wednesday 1 June 2016

Sculpting Oldhammer -- myself -- aged 75

So for a while now I have been dabbling in sculpting, conversions here and there. So finally, whilst in the midst of an avid conversation with llama, I started pressing putty onto some wires that I had stuck into a cork.

He began as an elf, one which I had previously done some writing for, but I soon realized that my sculpting skills would not make the mark. So, he turned into oldhammer.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the wip -- those always seem to be my favourite, but, here he is.



Upon his completion, I decided that he was me, as a Norse in Oldhammer -- he has the same haircut -- and the facial hair (or at least, in my imagination... ;D ).

So, although I first thought he would be called Harald, I ended up naming him Josha -- with a j pronounced as a y.

And here he is all painted up! Which didn't take more than around 45 minutes -- not including drying time.

All in all, it was an enjoyable mini project, and although he is rather pathetic -- he does look quite cute!



Monday 30 May 2016

Converting an Oldhammer Beastman Part 2

This one was a bastard -- I admit it. His right arm just wouldn't come off. I spent around 5-10 minutes on it alone! It simply wouldn't give! But thankfully, I eventually hewed it off along with his axe, and so I could get on with the conversion.


So next up comes the shield and a chaos marauder horsemans spear arm.


Because of the strange positioning of his shield, and because I am too lazy to move his arm, I decided that he was guarding against arrows. So on go some plastic arrows.


I have, however, been forced to abandon this project as I am firmly in the throes of attempting to sculpt. I will post my progress soon!

Tuesday 24 May 2016

Total War: Warhammer is here!


Wooohooo! I love total war and now this?! Fantastic! Purchased!

Really looking forward to this game and I hope it works nicely!


Monday 23 May 2016

Converting an Oldhammer Beastman Part 1

So today, for no particular reason, I decided to convert a beastman. The basis for this conversion is a wargames factory Minoan minotaur. I lopped his head off and his right arm.

Below you can see the body, his shield, new arm, old arm, two new heads and his old head.


After a while of scratching around in my bitz box I came up with some heads that I thought were suitable.


I began by gluing the new arm on -- this is an old chaos marauder horsemans arm. Then onto the base he goes. Now, he needed a neck. A big thick short neck for a big head or a thin long neck for a smaller one.


Turns out I ended up using a big head -- an old chaos ogres head in fact.


Ridiculously oversized -- but hey, this is oldhammer, or more specifically, realm of chaos -- so that doesn't matter, right? hehe


Next up I furred his neck to blend in with his back. The two Swedish commanded shotte are just chilling there supporting his head so it doesn't flop down to the side.



Here I added a little green sausage to his arm to blend where the new arm meets the body.


And that too got some fur.


Now I just need to paint his shield while I weight for the gs to harden.



To conclude, I have some more of these bastards on the line, so perhaps there will be some more old-middlehammer on this blog... :D

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Dwarves!

So a few days ago, a package arrived for me from Llama, containing several items of note, some sketches for some ents that I have been coveting and, his first attempts to cast his dwarf chariot. Now, this came at the most opportune time for me, as I was in need of some dwarves for a side project of mine.

So, one of his dwarves has now been fixed up and made into an archer, and will soon be painted up.

Here we have, in order, the main three characters in my side project. Thori, Anari and Bori.





I shall keep everyone up to date with the painting.

Edit: This is my 100th post! hehe, I only realized after I had finished!

Friday 6 May 2016

Never Ending Bloooogpoooost

Hey guys, I'm finally back! Whoah! What a rush!

But anyway, I have been relatively busy while I was gone.

Relatively so. Not very, just relatively. And now I am back at school... yay... :(

But lets just jump right into it.

So first up, in a moment of pure genius, even if I say so myself, I decided it was time that I made and painted a few officers.

This first one is made from Warlords Swedish Infantry box, and it turned out a lot better than I though. I decided to go for a brighter yellow, rather than my usual dull but warm brownish yellow. Still not sure whether I prefer it or not.



The second officer and drummer are made from Warlords Dragoons command. I wasn't going to use the miniatures for anything else, so I decided I may as well paint them up and make them useful, instead of sending them off to llama to get melted down!


Also, as a new development, I have retired the old Almänne, and replaced them with the new and improved Almänne, armed with muskets. Just seemed more right considering the time period.



Moving on, I finished another two Ottemarke pikemen, which I had been struggling on for some while. Still need to do another four chaps though, which I am for some reason, not looking forward.


Then, seeing this is a fantastical representation of Europe during the 1700s, I decided to just finish off Balin, from the Hobbit. I am currently using him as a dwarven merchant, you know, to herd pigs, or carry beer around the place...


Then, in a bout of inspiration I began working on some Paelkii shotte, which I quite like, but are quite annoying to paint for some strange reason. Its probably just me... hehe.


And now, my dear friends, Romans, countrymen... We finally get on to the good stuff!

So while I was moving in to this newly renovated house of mine, I was forced to thoroughly sort out all my "shit". All the crappy high elves from when I was seven and such, as well as stuff I am unlikely to use -- assault on black reach orks for example.

But anyway, while I was busy sorting through everything, throwing stuff away and deciding what to sell, I came across a treasure! Yes indeed. A whole herd of pink pigs!

These fine chaps, I do believe where my mothers, when she was just a wee small gurlie. And so, being the industrious, forward thinking and entrepreneurial young lad that I am, I decided to recruit them for the cause -- the cause being a herd of pigs to be stolen by rabid Paelskii raiders somewhere in the grim darkness of the far future...

So I ended up painting these horribly pink pigs pink all over again, and basing them up, ready to be stolen.

They look like fleshy death himself, but that's ok, because... actually no! That is unacceptable! I want my lawyer! Who the hell painted these pigs! I'm going to sue them...


But anyway, to conclude the pictures, I came across these boxes? Yes I think they are boxes... Crates perhaps? Never mind, because they work perfectly as ammunition or food containers or other such wonderful objectives for fantasy 16th century European warfare!


And lastly, I apologize for the decided lack of posts over the last few days... uh, week, but life had truly gone down the drain in its glorious entirety!

But I am back, and hopefully, I can get back into the rhythm of things!


Sunday 24 April 2016

Last post for some days


So I shall be moving shortly, and so I wont be able to do much hobby for the next day or two, so that will explain my lack of blog posts.

I am thusly excused.

But anyway guys, after six hours on skype with Llama, and much conversation about this and that, including the Swedish tradition of fikka? Spelling anyone? which I first misheard and pronounced it fitta, a word which has a very different meaning to innocent little fikka!

But anyway, I managed after much ado to complete these chaps below, thus completing my Paelsk Forlorn Hope squad.

                            



I really like this unit (probably because it has GB Dark Age Warriors in it!) and I am looking forward to doing more Poles in the future.

But anyway guys, today is a special day. It's a special day because I have some advice for you. Here it goes.

"When life gets you down, go to sleep..." _ Joshua, 2016