2020 Update - After a long break

Hello everyone!

After a long break from painting due to travelling the world I have returned to New Zealand and returned to my favourite hobby - painting miniatures. A couple of models were painted before I left as I forgot to update this blog before leaving, and a few models have been painted since my return. As Covid-19 is more or less under control in New Zealand, I will be able to get a few games in every now and then, I look forward to posting some game pictures up!

Models from before my worldwide adventure:

Wardancer Character

This is my Duke when I run a combined arms army - my favourite playstyle, although not the most competitive.

Grail Knight standard bearer - I had fun blending the two colours on the standard.

My other six painted grail knights - I have a few more including two heroes to paint still.

I decided to change the colour scheme on this unit - The red wasn't doing it for me, yellow works much better with black.

And my growing knights forlorn, accompanied by my Duke on foot - I have a few more of these to paint still, I'll have a unit of 30.

Since returning, I have managed to paint a couple of models and I'm hoping to have the unit of 8 finished in a few weeks.

Questing Knight Champion

Questing Knight

I hope you enjoyed this update, I'll have another one in a few weeks.

Thanks for reading!

Blog Update 5/3/17

Hey guys, so after the Christmas period, I got married and so didn't have the time to post anything and then, due to an awkward work/life situation, we've had to move out. Because of this we have been going from place to place for the last few weeks. Naturally this means it has been hard to find time to paint.  We have decided to relocate to Christchurch as this is a much better region than Queenstown Lakes to save money for our OE at the end of the year. And as I have Carpentry skills, there is plenty of work for me.
Today, I found time to paint and I have a few photos of what I'm working on.

This Easter, I'm going to Natcon in Christchurch entering in 9th Age as Kingdom of Equitaine.

Here is the Grail Knight I am working on, I'm having 3 in this colour scheme and 3 white with red to match the respective lords in my army.

I recently bought a Vallejo Thinner Medium and it has really helped improve my painting, as you can see comparing the two painted knights here.

 This Grail Knight is not yet finished but I can't wait to see how good all 6 of them painted will be!

 I started my Damsel today and she's already taking shape! Just the little details to go

Below, I have my crossbowmen, with various armour types.

 And here is my colour scheme for my Knights Aspirant. I still have to finish this model, the red needs to be a lot brighter and hopefully I can make the overall model look a bit more colourful like the rest of my knights.

Hosting My First Tournament - A New Age

On the 1st October, on behalf of my wargaming club, OMTS (Otago Miniature Tacticians Society), I hosted the South Island's first Ninth Age Tournament. We had three players down from Christchurch and a total turnout of six. I would have liked it to have been more but it was still a great weekend!

I took some photos throughout the weekend and some of the armies were fantastically painted. My personal favourite is the Sylvan Elves army, made from Lord of the Rings models from Games Workshop.

Enjoy the photos and I should have an update on my Kingdom of Equitaine models soon

The beautiful Slyvan Elves getting crushed by the monstrous army of the Warriors of the Dark Gods 

Basing My Kingdom of Equitaine

So I've been working on my army for A New Age, and here's my first of 3 skirmish trays with my bowmen.

I used Selleys Knead it epoxy putty to build up the mud and this is actually so much better and more cost effective than green stuff, the only downsides are that it has a strong smell and it sets a lot faster than green stuff (also an upside)

The gloss effect was achieved by using a thick coat of Army Painter's Soft tone Quickshade. I'm really enjoying the muddy meadow look that's happening, the Army Painter Battlefields meadow flowers was a great buy for only $12!

Over the next couple of weeks I should have my General on Pegasus done and I'll get some good photos in sunlight when he's done.

Thanks for reading!

A New Age

So in a couple of months, I'm running a 9th Age tournament here in Dunedin. I've decided to dust off and repaint my Bretonnia, now Kingdom of Equitaine, for the event.

But that requires a lot of work so I doubt that everything will get finished but I'm going to give it my best shot. So here is my first of my Scottish Knights!

And of course, as with everything in life, you get distracted... so here is a unit filler I'm working on for my Sylvan Elves Dryads, I'm really happy with how it's taking shape and there'll be some better close ups of the details when it's done.

Daith, my Wood Elf Warlock

I have also just started D&D with some friends and I decided to make a model for my character, this was a lot of fun to put together and I'm really happy with how he looks.

 One of my friends has fairly recently started a Harlequin army and he wanted me to give him a hand painting them so I've got 6 of them to paint up and this is the first one done.

And here is the first bit of work on my General, mounted on a pegasus for now (I'll eventually get a hippogriff)


































Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed! Feel free to leave a comment

Marshal with Lightning Claws

I have been doing some work on my army for my next tournament at 2500 points and today I decided to finish my warlord, a marshal with lightning claws. I am really happy with how he turned out and I also magnetised his backpack and banner, allowing me to change him between infantry and jump infantry. This model is from the sword brethren box and it's such a great model that I didn't have to do any conversions on it. (the rest of the two boxes have been converted into honour guard that I'll eventually finish.)

Next on my list is to paint the sternguard that I have finished magnetising, Chaplain Grimaldus and my terminator knights.