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Here we go: Let’s see, which projects you and we had miniaturewise & besides our beloved dose of Bones  😉

I think one of our main problems with posting in time is the fact that we often work on weekends, so the whole “use the weekend for hobby time” concept doesn’t work so well then.. But even if we’re running late, we’re still running, and to be honest I wouldn’t want to miss the painting  😀

Anyway, here are the projects:

Dirk: Customized Super Heroes

Dirk will probably add some more info later, for starters some basics: For our ongoing Super Heroes RPG campaign (we use the Heroes Unlimited games system by Palladium Games) Dirk uses his vast collection of Heroclix miniatures to represent Heroes and NPC. Mostly the out-of-the-box minis suffice, but sometimes he enjoys converting doubles to get even more fitting figures.

Some of these are complete re-paints with detailed freehand works (like heroe logos) while others also got a new surface structure to make a new kind of mutant  😉

 

Antonia: Miniature (miniature) Warhammer

Dirk and I enjoy playing Warhammer Tabletop, Fantasy or 40k, but rarely manage to do it because it always takes a lot of space and time just to prepare a game (our flat isn’t that big). Therefore we thought about a way to miniaturize the game further so we can play it just on a regular table, without the need of large mats or boards.

There is a game produced by Games Workshop called “Warmaster” but since it got discontinued, the minis are rare and expensive. Plus, we wanted to use standard Warhammer rules.

So we decided to scale down the game by counting “inch -> centimetres”, therefore making the whole board 2,5 times smaller, and to use Demonworld miniatures (Ral Partha), which are still produced and available, plus some other manufacturers for the 10-15mm range. For reference you can see one “normal sized” 32mm Beastman down right which I intend to use as a giant!

Of course we have a lot of projects, so this one is on planning stage mostly, but at least we already have miniatures, made some bases from plastic card and even bought some tiny dice! Love them  😀

 

Jim: Bloodbowl and more

 

Jim sent in a workbench pic showing the minis he is working on. Center stage is his Bloodbowl Amazon team, plus some other minis which can count as antiques since they are from the 70’s even  🙂

Jim said he could tell us some more about this workbench and the minis in the comments if we’re interested, and Dirk & I are defintely, so please do  🙂

 

Arjen: Age of Worms WIP

Arjen used a whole lot of minis for a campaign of “Age of Worms”, a game or system I unfortunately never heard of. Is it an RPG campaign? Or something like the “Descent” board game? Would you care to elaborate in the comments?

Mashaaf the giant worm from Bones II is the center piece, in front are slugs and maggotmen frome Heresy Miniatures which nicely fit the theme! Arjen wrote he had some trouble picking a color scheme  but is happy with it now, which I agree with  – it looks really disgusting  😀

This week’s gallery:

Coming Next:

10/03/16 Hordlings, small demons/familiars (Add-on, but since they’re small and cheap we’ll keep them in anyway)

Some small and hopefully easy-to-do demons or minions which work as familiars, low-level enemies or maybe just base decoration. Have fun 😀

Want to participate in next week’s post? Email the pictures of your minis until 09/03/16 to

–>  new address:  MondayMiniature@fantasymail.de  (It’s a .de domain, in case emails are bouncing)

10/10/16 Egregis Darkfathom, Dark Sea Priest (Core Set)

10/17/16 Companion Animals – Feline, Hawk, Wolverine, Wolf, Bear (Core Set) -> paint as many as you like

10/24/16 Stone Lurker, classic dungeon monster (Core Set)

10/31/16 Kar Drakir, Reptile Warrior (Core Set)

11/07/16 TBA – maybe Baby break

11/14/16 TBA – maybe Baby break

This entry was posted by Antonia & Dirk Vogel.