Space Vixens Commission Part 1

It's been a while, unfortunately due to ongoing health issues I'm only getting a much reduced amount of painting and gaming in at the present time. This is likely to continue for the foreseeable future but I'm hoping things will be sorted out by the end of the year

I paint a few figures for a couple of guys who run their own miniatures companies. Nothing huge, just one man operations but they are kind enough to send me free figures and I just have to send them back painted photos to use on their sites

One of these is Gary Mitchell, who runs his Space Vixens From Mars site. This is based on a series of novels Gary has released and a tie-in range of gaming figures. This latest batch is the first ones from what is likely to be the final figures from his range and fills out some gaps that he wanted to complete

So, I kick off with four of the above mentioned Space Vixens figures, armed with a variety of weaponry and equipment

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Finally a figure from his Divine Wind section, which covers personalities from history and beyond. This is Comrade USSR, a female superhero in body armour

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15mm Desert Buildings

I made my annual visit to the Devizes wargame show a couple of weekends ago. Knowing that I have quite a lot of figures still to paint I made a ruling that I wouldn't buy any new ones. So instead, these 15mm desert buildings from The Scene caught my eye and I picked up the first three they do in the range

Quick and easy to paint with a basecoat followed by a couple of drybrush layers, the only details I needed to pick out were the roof hatches. Painting time including varnishing was only a couple of hours - result!

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2/8/2013 - Forgot to mention that the roofs lift out to allow access to the interiors. The floors are scribed a with large square pattern

Flintloque: Orc Chaplain

I dug out another one of the Flintloque limited edition figures to paint a few months ago. He sat under-coated on the painting queue waiting for his time to come and I decided it was here this week

This is an orc (British) chaplain from the very limited range that is limited to just 250 castings. A chunky figure that required very little cleaning beyond removing a couple light mould lines. Painted similar to the example on the Alternative Armies website as I couldn't find any other colour details

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