Well, there you go. a couple of hours and that’s where I’m going to leave them for this weekend.
Brick Lane Commune WIP 1
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The Brick Lane Commune rise!
After gawd only knows how many years I’ve finally got around to painting my BLC. They have always been my favourite company so it’s about time I painted them.
As you can see they are based on pennies, base-coated and receiving their first round of washes. Once all the washes are done then I shall begin the detailing such as pinstripes, chequer patterns, unifying armbands and neckerchiefs, as well as faces, buckles and buttons.
I have sixteen figures to do so I can have a wide variety of different BLC companies, and then I must construct the mechanised walker… so no biggy 🙂
I’ll post a few WIP shots as I progress through the project.
Artists’ Spotlight – Claudia Zuminich
One of the delights of writing and publishing rulebooks are the artists you encounter. As some of you know I have a particular preference for the sainted Kev Dallimore. He is the chap who painted all the Northstar figures for IHMN that appeared in the book and on this blog countless times. His work shall also feature in our forthcoming game Daishō.
Recently on the IHMN Facebook page another artist has appeared, a certain Miss Claudia Zuminich. It turns out she is the artist who created the IHMN diorama in the recent Wargames Soldiers and Strategy issue 76. From what I can glean from her FB page (https://www.facebook.com/claudia.zuminich?fref=nf) she is a professional artist and as you shall see in the photos below she is one of the best figure painters I have seen.
So rather than ramble on forever, I’ll let you judge for yourselves:
The men who would be King!
Those splendid chaps at Artizan Miniatures have released some sets of British and British Sikh troops fo their Second Afghan War range to alongside their already excellent wily Pathans (afghans).
As you can see form the pictures below they would be perfect for both the Indian Army or The Shangri-La Fusiliers in Sleeping Dragon, Rising Sun.
The two officers above in the fur-lined or sheep-skin jackets would excellent for Captain Dravot and Lieutenant Carnehan.
You can find them here: http://www.artizandesigns.com/list.php?man=23&page=1
Midnight Workshop
That celebrated chap and sculptor Mike Owen, whose designs have graced Northstar’s IHMN Range, has been building up a range of strampunk miniatures over at Artizan Designs.
The Midnight Workshop range has fourteen excellent and reasonably-priced miniatures available so far and is well worth a looksee.
You can find them all here: http://www.artizandesigns.com/list.php?man=22&cat=157&page=1
Captain Napier, unarmoured and now available!
The dashing Captain Napier is now available from Northstar Miniatures without his SRC Breastplate.
You can find him here: http://northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=627
Without this Napier is 16 points cheaper at only 49 points.
Artificer Minatures Painting Service
My good friend Bob has been busily beavering away on my figures for me and here are some of the results:
Bob paints figures for living and he is very good at it, mark my words.
He is also selling his custom-made 7’x4′ ruined cityscape based upon the town of Pripyat in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (includes 5 storey buildings and everything). We played across it at Xmas at it was breath-taking. You can find details of this over on his website (see the Blogroll, in the bottom right of the front page).
Steve Saleh sallies forth!
Many of you know of Steve Saleh, the sculptor behind the first IHMN company figures from Northstar. I had the pleasure of meeting him at Salute last year and I can report that he is not only very talented but also an excellent chap as well.
Northstar have now released a range of his own sculpts under the imprint ‘Lucid Eye’ and the figures are really quite magnificent.
Here are just two to give you a flavour of what Steve is creating:
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=6140
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=6141
Note how Steve injects such dynamism into his figures without having them adopt outlandish poses. That, ladies and gentleman, is the mark of a master.
I’m hoping that these, and his Neanderthals, are at Salute because they have just shot to the top of my ‘must have’ list.
Neanderthals I say? Yes I do. Feast your eyes on these beauties…
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=6137
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=6138
I really hope that Steve expands this range soon because I am already hooked.
Damned Prussians!
Do you remember this?
Then get a load of this:
Over on the IHMN board at the Lead Adventure Forums one of our stalwarts, Count Thorwin (Iron Cross with nut clusters) has built the Kaiser Wilhelm walker from the cover of IHMN.
You can see more photos of it and a description of how he built it here: http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=64203.0
L’atelier de C12 – The Workshop of C12
One of our French gentlemen has just completed his Servants of Ra:
C’est magnifique!
He has also done a lovely job on Lord Curr’s company as well:
You can find more picture and a lot more splendid stuff here: http://c12box.wordpress.com/
In Her Majesty's Name! 