Poppy Come Lately

Deadlines... such a double edged sword! In all my years of painting (and life for that matter) I can't seem to get past the whole 'finish at the last minute' thing! The same thing happened with this most recent model - I left it very late to start and got my montage image sorted and sent in right on the stroke of midnight... what a rush! (but not necessarily in a good way)

However, I am really pleased with what I managed to achieve in the timeframe that I gave myself, and I feel that I have painted the best face on a 30mm figure that I've done. Taking the photos on the other hand, has been a bit of a bind - I always seem to have issues with reds on my camera. I either need to work out how to fix the issue or stop painting red ;^)

If any of you CoolMiniOrNot'ers want to pop over and give me a vote, head over here and do your duty :o)

psssst: she's also on Putty & Paint... take your pic!

Anyhow, on to the photos:

Off the wagon...

Erm... I have fallen off the painting for wargames wagon this month... gah... I am disappointed in myself.

However, I know I'm a display painter at heart* so have cracked on with a little something else this week - Poppy-come-lately by Statuesque miniatures. Statuesque is a small British mini company by Andrew Rae, and he does a good range of girlies with various weapons in various styles at some very reasonable prices... most definitely worth a gander!

And here we go with a couple of quick photos:

Waddayathink?

I am painting her for the most recent Best of British showcase/competition over on Platoon Britannica - Rae of Sunshine. The deadline is the first of February so I need to get my arse into gear... there's nothing like a deadline to get the juices flowing!


*although that doesn't mean I wont be revisiting the Grey Knights in the future, its just that two straight months of painting grey is tricky for me!

Guess what just arrived...

More on this later!

Puppykicker's first 250 - Ravenwing

Here are some picturs of Phill's 250 points - some rather nice Ravenwing bikers

And some photos of our models together - 500pts of marines - not that many all things considered!

An interesting Kickstarter - Beyond the Gates of Antares

As you may have noticed, every so often I post about a Kickstarter on the blog. There are so many of them these days that I try to be quite selective with what I post and this one appears to be something a bit different again. I've pledged on board games which are complete and just need an injection of cash for production, I've helped fund the retooling of miniatures in a new medium, and pledged on new miniature lines to add to existing companies.

However, this Kickstarter is for a wargame which has yet to be created - the backers will be part of the whole creation process. It is called 'Beyond the Gates of Antares'

This game has quite a high pedigree already with people like Rick Priestley involved in the rules and Kev White and Karol Rudyk involved from the miniatures side. There are a whole host of other people on board with this including 'friends of the bodgers' Golem Painting Studios - head over to the Beyond the Gates of Antares kickstarter and have a look for yourselves.