The Pledge

As you may or may not recall, I took the Pledge at the beginning of this year.I would paint more than I bought.

Well, the total currently stands at:

Bought: 217
Painted: 133

So I'm not doing too bad, actually.

The big problem I've got coming up is that I backed the Blood Rage Kickstarter for the boardgame; the problem is that due to the massive funding it got the stretch goals mean that it's going to come with night on 100 figures. Do I count them towards the Pledge? I've counted the Bloodbowl figures I got second hand but that's a bit different.

Proof that I bought the boardgame for the sake of the game comes from the photographs I took the other week. When we reorganised the book cases, I had to accept that I have a board game problem:

There needs to be some variation on Alcoholics Anonymous for people like us.

To Ruin And The Red Dawn!

Note to interested readers: Theoden's armour is an absolute cast iron sod to paint.

I finally got the chance to get the shot of my growing Rohirrim force for Lord of the Rings. The warriors were painted as per the previous post; Theoden King, whilst using a simialr colour palette, required a slightly different approach. In the film, his armour appears black or brown depending on the lighting and digital shot grading; shots of the actual costume show it to be a glossy dark brown.

I undercoated the mini with grey primer as usual and then gave it a black wash to help with the recesses. The main armour was then built up with multiple coats of chestnut ink. Gold detailing was added between layers of ink so they gained a reddish shade. Final highlights and edgings were gold only; the armour was not highlighted as the grey showed through to lighten the raised areas.

As you can see, the whole force hangs together quite well:




There are 16 warriors of Rohan and Theoden here - which as well as being the decent core of a LOTR force also gives me two units for SAGA.

While I had the photography set up, I decided to get a decent shot of the two D&D character minis which are now based up:


I'm looking for a good Cleric miniature to stick a dragon head on to for the next one if anyone has any bright ideas?

A couple of late birthday presents popped up from friends who know my interests: Perry Mounted Men At Arms and a box of Griping Beast Saxon Thegns.

This means that the Pledge currently stands at:

Bought: 189

Painted: 17

YIKES.