Lizzie's Lizzie's Everywhere...

... and not a drop to drink. But really - who would want anything, let alone water, from these tough guys? In celebration of the new Lizardmen book coming out in 2 weeks, I submit the following images of some recently painted skinks: Though they be little, they be fierceI was referencing a number of images from my trips to the zoo for these fellas. Skinks are spritely, so I looked to tree frogs and other small lizards. The colors had to be dialed back a bit from real life - you just can't make up things that wild and my worry was that too much color on the tabletop would be distracting... or froot loopy. These guys were built up slowly in thin...

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Continuing the Cryx Seether

Second coldest day of the year and for some reason, I'm inspired to work on an army whose principle motif is death... fun! So my model is stripped and has been pulled into its constituent parts. Time to prime.Now my basement and I have a history of priming with spray paint together. It's not by choice - this stuff turns to a watery mess in the winter weather. But spray-priming in the house has it's detractors as well. I'll recreate a few of them in pictorial form:All's well aside from a lite-headedness and the taste of citrus fruit even though I haven't eaten any.The wife comes home... we should still be good - and even though I'm poisoning us...

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Cryx - The first to come clean

Cleaning Cryx this fine freezing evening... because if you want to stay warm in Wisconsin, it's a good idea to head to your basement and poor concentrated solvents and cool water all over your hands. I think that's how Frank Lloyd Wright bit it.In any case - here's how I started to strip... my Jack...the offender - a Cryx Seether WarjackOccasionally I have to use some other solvents, but it always starts with my personal favorite: Simple Green. I bathe metals for as short as a few hours to as long as a day - Plastics can corrode a bit in this stuff over time, so in their case, cut it in half with water and soak for the same length of time. After...

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Madison Games in Middle Earth

I'm a big fan of the tabletop community in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin. There's a great bunch of guys in the local Warhammer Fantasy gang at http://www.wwhfb.com/ and the Warmachine/Hordes crew at and http://www.gearsandguts.com/ . The Warhammer Fantasy board has been kind enough to allow me and a friend to harangue it's members about another Games Workshop line based on a little known book and movie franchise entitled "Lord of the Rings". I've been trying to get a group of gamers together to play a specific LotR game type called Battle Companies... it employs stat tracking and fast paced game scenarios that allow you to build a force...

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Cryx - A Nightmare in Progress

Privateer Press makes intriguing models. I've wanted to try my hand at the Iron Kingdoms for some time and when a friend wanted to unload his Cryx army, I oblidged. The paint job on these death machines was... well... intriguing works as a descriptor here too.I'll be working to get this guy up to Midloo standards. Stay tuned for the process and some pi...

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Purpose:

We'd all like to think we have oodles of it. This blog isn't like you and me however... It's sole focus will be to house my trials and tribulations in the world of miniatures. Thanks for stopping ...

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