Indeed, I was sucked into the world of Middle-earth once again. I couldn't keep myself indeed from purchasing the box set once it came out... the same thing that happened to me after the Lord of the Rings movies... In any case, check out the first two figures from the box set in the Misty Mountains army gallery.

I've been painting up the goblin king himself in all his unhealthy glory recently. I'm trying to do it justice, so it's taking me some extra time, but stay tuned!

The Klaxus Redbombers are ready for action! The remainder of the team has arrived and are ready to take on their arch nemesis, the Nidavellir Flames! Check the Redbombers out in the Klaxus Redbombers Gallery.

Next up, some goblinses from the Misty Mountainses we thinks, yes precioussss....

Got some more of the Klaxus Redbombers done! Another jack and guard... not that there is anything else on the golbin/orx team anyway! The poses are similar but different, so that's nice. I had a change to play a game with my oldest kiddo and I realized that the level of complexity in the game compared to the amount of action in the game is really high. That is, there's lots of complexity, but not all that much action... at least, not compared to a wargames. After three action tokens, one player moved and picked up the ball, the other slammed and opponent, that's it! It doesn't look like it's going to be a hit with the kids unfortunately, but it's still pretty cool none-the-less! I'll paint up the rest of the miniatures for it anyway ;) Without further ado, check them out in the Klaxus Redbombers Gallery. Until next time...

On to the second Dreadball team. The first of the Klaxus Redbombers, which are my take on the Ork and Goblin Dreadball team. I basically stuck with the Mantic colour scheme for the Greenmoon Smackers because teeny tiny (aka Kiddo the Second) really liked that scheme and adobpted the 'giant green guys' as the team of choice. So yeah, red and black and green. Check out the first couple of figures in the Klaxus Redbombers Dreadball gallery.

I'm going to try to finish painting the Redbombers before I throw in the towel on Dreadball for now. It's cool, but I feel I need a change in projects... not sure what's next although I have a million unpainted figs to choose from :)

Basing is fun, so I finally got around to doing a basing article of my own. It's not super advanced or anything at all, but just adds to the completeness of my site. The article currently starts with the very basics, and I plan to add on to it as I complete more aspects and styles of basing... In the mean time, check it out in the articles section unders Basic Basing.

Next up, some more Dreadball action! Perhaps even a couple of goblins from the Hobbit boxed set...

Finally finished, the Nidavellir Flames are ready for the Dreadball Pitch! It was pretty fun to paint, but I'm not sure why Mantic bothered to send ten figures, when a Dreadball team only needs eight... I painted them all up in any case though.. although I might night paint up the extras for the other teams... One team down, three more to go! The orcs and goblins are next, not sure which team I will paint after that. Might take a break from Dreadball, but we'll have to wait and see! Until then, check out the Nidavellir Flames in all of their glory!

I got my Dreadball kickstarter package just about the time everyone did, before the December festivities. Of course, it took a while to actually get them ready, but here they are... at least here's the first of them anyway.

I have to admit that I'm not at all into sports, and at first I thought 'why would I potentially promote a violent sports game when I don't support it in reality?' Then I realized that I play wargames, and I certainly don't support war either... so yeah, I let myself off the hook and bought into the kickstarter.

The game play looks pretty interesting, and the figures are pretty nice. I think that overall the Forgefather team has too much detail per fig though... which is sad because I really wanted to get into the forgefathers for Warpath... but I digress. Check out the Nidavellir Flames in the Dreadball: Nidavellir Flames Gallery.

Next up, more Dreadball! I'm not sure if I'll paint up all of the Dreadball teams consecutively, but at least for now it's all that's on my painting table...

After years of languishing in my cupboards I finally managed to paint some of these figures! The Corsairs of Umbar were actually quite a joy to paint to be honest... the plastics in any case. The two metal character figs weren't quite as good, but hey. Check them out in the Corsairs of Umbar Gallery.

Next up, Dreadball!

I bought this figure simply because its awesome, and it sat on my desk unpainted for so long because I was worried about doing the sculpt justice in painting. But now that it's done, I am pretty happy with the result, and I will definitely be fielding it with my Romans when they play the part of humans in Mantica - that's Mantic Games Kings of War fantasy world. Check out the figure in the D&D Gallery.

Still working on those Corsairs as well... and another medieval house is in the works too!

This one was started back in 2009, and finally finished a couple of weeks ago. It was a fun project to look back on, but it makes me realize that I wasn't really all that great :) But these horses did the job in 15mm for sure, and it was interesting to be part of the process of creating an army from scratch, sculpting, watch it get cast, painting and assembling. So yeah, check out the Sculpting Horses in the articles section and see for yourself.

Next up some Corsairs of Umbar from the Lord of the Rings action... and after that, not sure :) Until then...