Collecting John Pickford: Iron Mask Miniatures Dwarf Musketeers on Kickstarter

The Iron Mask Miniatures Kickstarter is now live

Gary has been working hard getting everything ready and it now good to go - and it do look rather nice.

Lots of options in there for getting your hands on the multi part Dwarf Musketeers but also the limited edition conceptual pieces and the new Ogres.

Hope that his campaign will do well and wish him best of luck. And should you have some spare cash why not spend some of them (if not all) on this great swashbuckling adventure.

Collecting John Pickford: You gotta love these Ogress

This time it's the new miniatures from Iron Mask Miniatures.

The Iron Mask Miniatures Kickstarter is very close, now. And not only will they give you the chance of getting the wonderful Musketeer Dwarfs - no, they will also try and bring out the most wonderful opponents for them - the Cardinal’s Guard Ogress.

And what beautiful sculpts they are:

Iron Mask Miniatures: Cardinal’s Guard Ogress

Awesome, awesome characters and seems sculpted with so much of love and passion. Excellent, excellent work - and these here really stands out as some of the best Pickford's ever.

Doesn't really show on the pictures, but the Ogress are another multi part project - so the complete set will give you a lot of different builds. Here you can see the parts, but I've been told that there will also be some daggers to go with them:

 
So keep an eye on Iron Mask Miniatures - certainly "One to Watch" :)

... and a "Mad Painter"

As I'm not well enough for spending hours painting, I've asked friends for help giving the BrushSlaveLeague exclusive Mad Painter a try.

And I wasn't kept waiting for long, as my good friend Jon B (aka Axiom) from Beast Face Miniatures/the Gaming Cantina - has just sent me his photos of his take on the crazy little dwarf .

BSL-exclusive: Mad Painter

And what a great job he has done. Wonderful use of colours and nice contrasts. Really did the little guy great justice. I'm so proud. Thanks, Jon - much appreciated :-)

Collecting John Pickford: Upcoming releases from Otherworld Miniatures

There isn't much to show yet, but Richard Scott have spilled a few beans for the hungry crowed @ the Otherworld Miniatures Forum.

Seems like John, in the forthcoming months, will be doing:

• 4 Goblin Missile Troops (2 archers and 2 slingers)
• An Ogress

But have also been making this "beast" here - and it seems pretty close to finishing :) - but looks like a nightmare moulding :-/

Otherworld Miniatures - Purple Worm - version 2

Now that's on hell of a worm - and looks so cool. Better go see if I can find a can of purple spray paint :)

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