Collecting John Pickford: New releases from Clam Minis

A bit of a plug for my own range of miniatures ... forgive me :)

- but finally all the new items has arrived and have been sorted, packed and are ready to go :-)


So what is new?

First, of course, the long awaited new set of multi part core warriors by John Pickford. This time I went for a set with great weapons/two-handed weapons/two hand weapons

Ewal Dvergar, Core Warriors - set #2

And then I'm really happy being able to give Sjoerd Trouwee's (Twisted Tales) fantastic latest pieces a home.

Not John's, I know, but will go rather well with them. There are 2 and a half miniature out - a Champion called Sweyn and the Captain twins, Olaf & Oluf.

Sweyn, Ewal Dvergr Champion

Olaf

Oluf

You can find out more on the Ewal Dvergar-blog - here - or by <clicking> the banner :)

Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!

More diversions from painting Pickford's, I'm afraid!

Have spend much time laying down lately and have killed the time watching "Spartacus - blood and sand" on DVD.
And as I have lots and lots of Gladiators in my boxes - mainly those by Mark Sims and Mark Copplestone's (Foundry and Crusader Miniatures), I was tempted to paint a few of those.

Also an good excuse to try out my new Vallejo skintones.

They where fun doing, but I think they will be the last ones using the Vallejo's - not really pleased with the skin colours. So will look elsewhere for a good Mediterranean skin recipe. Suggestions are very welcome.

So here they are:

Crusader Miniatures: Gladiators

Hoplomachus, Murmillo, Dimachaerus and Thracian 

And who know, I might even have to dig up some good Gladiator rules to try them out :)

Collecting John Pickford: Hidden Foundry's - Pig Faced Orcs

Over the years John has created lots and lots of fantasy miniatures for Wargames Foundry. Most of them we have seen - like the Goblins, Undead, Demons, Trolls - and more recently Halflings, but a few weeks ago some "hidden" pick-faced Orsc suddenly showed up at Foundry's new Fantasy eBay-store "Flyte of Fantasy"

(c) Flyte of Fantasy - http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Flyte-of-Fantasy

As the title says they seems to be for "Thousand Tribes". The Thousand Tribes are a warband (army list) in Foundry's new rulebook: "God of Battles" written by Jack Thornton.

In here the Thousand Tribes are described as a loose confederation of tribal people how share similar believes of animistic spirits.and ancestor worship. The Pig-faced Orcs seems rather useful as such.

These here are the first pack out of 8 packs made. Hopefully more/all will show up at "Flyte of Fantasy" as well.

Taken from the "God of Battles"-book, here's what we can await:

(c) Wargames Foundry "God of Battles", written by Jake Thornton ISBN 978-1-901543-27-8

Eeny, meeny, miny ...

And finally......, some new painted stuff :)

Have so many unfinished models standing on my desk and on those rare occasions, where I have the chance of painting something, it seems like I start painting something new  .... :-/

But I did finish something. and again it was for my baby the Brush Slave League @CDO. For this round I'd chose to do more of me own range of miniatures, so I graped three of the pre-glued and primed ones standing on my shelf.

Again they where a great pleasure painting, so can't really tell you why I haven't painted more of them, yet. Seems like creating new ones with John steals my focus of what this is all about, cause it really is all about painting.

Clam Minis: Ewal Dvergar Core Warriors set #1 (+)
"Plus" because, as a trained eye will see, santa's head is from the coming set #2

You will probably not love them as much as I do, but I still hope you can see the beauty in these little gems. Enjoy!



Oh! - and I also did this little shot of them, but didn't enter this picture as it's way to clean.

Guess, I better go build some dark, more sinister terrain if I want to do this kind of picture ;-)

Collecting John Pickford: Knightly Orders (part 2)

The Knightly Orders (originally poster here) from White Knight Miniatures are getting closer an actual release date.

On Facebook, these three pictures was posted during the weekend:


WK Minis: Knightly Orders - barded ponies

WK Minis: the Knights

WK Minis: Knightly Command

Look at those :-o

Excellent stuff, but I have to admite that I'm looking more forward to the themed knightly orders WK has promised us. All those feathers ... :-\ ... must have been a nightmare sculpting and will be a pain painting.

And those ponies calls for a chaotic conversion, don't they? ;-)

Collecting John Pickford: Pickford's Chaotic Creations

Andy Coleman (from awesome Four A Miniatures) have been teasing me for months about some chaotic dwarfs John Pickford has been doing for him, but he had kept them hidden form me (and us) - and just teased me about how awesome they were. He did however hint that they were to be mastered soon - and that there might be some spare casts ready in time for Salute 2013.

Luckily, I was invited to London by my wife (our anniversary present to each other) the weekend around Salute 2013 - and other than spending good quality time with my wonderful (and very forgiving) wife, I had the pleasure visiting the biggest UK Wargaming Show and the chance of metting Sir Andy in person (as he had a trad stand at the show) - so herhaps I could even get my hands of these pre-released miniatures, if ready.

And Andrew didn't let me down :) Masters had arrived just in time for Salute and he had brought a few copies to be sold at the show. When I finally found Andy (yes, the show is really that big) he started out telling they'd sold out so fast, and that there wasn't any left - but when he saw me getting pale and starting sweating, he dug out a nice little zip-locked bag with my name on. God, was I pleased to see those? - and what a beautiful sight it was. Inside I found 4 wonderful creations - a awesome dwarf castle duo thingy, a werewolf-dwarf, a lizarddwarf and a Razorback-dwarf. All so full of character and with some wonderful little details. All cast in the usually high 4A Miniatures quality - so they were certainly worth the trip to ExCel.

Thank you, Andy - will have to see how I can repay such great favour.

Oh! - and would you like to see them, too? :-)

Okay, here the are - not sure what the name of this little range will be yet - but for now, let's call them

Four A Miniatures: "Pickford's Chaotic Creations"

They are not up for general sale, yet, but if you ask "nicely", Andy might be able to sort something out for you. You'll find him at the 4A-Miniatures Store or on Facebook.

And don't forget to ask him about the new super awesome Paul Muller stuff, and the 4th Kev Adams Goblin-set, and the wonderful Shane Hoyle pieces (a cool dwarf warlord and a nice female dwarf with a baby). Saw so much great new stuff on his stand, but didn't bring my camera, of course :-(

Collecting John Pickford: More Ewal Dvergar from Clam Minis

About time, some might say - but better late than never, right?  :)

I've just received next batch of Ewal Dvergar from John, and whan an impressive sight it was. Fantastic work by John. Really impressed with how he catch that old feel - that some might call "old school" - I prefer the term "classic fantasy", though :-)

I've updated the Ewal Dvegar-blog with all the new toys, but here is a few teasers of what you can expect from this second set of warriors - all armed with Great weapons (pole weapons, two-handed weapons and dual hand weapons):

- enjoy!

Clam Minis: Ewal Dvergar - Core warriors, set #2

"The Mad Painter" for the Brush Slave League was also to be found inside the box from John. Looks sooooo gooood RL - so I did a few more pictures of him.

I know, it's not for the general public, but still worth a mention, I think :-)