Collecting John Pickford: Wargames Foundry Demons

After a few years on the shelves at Foundry's up in Nottingham John's demons finally sees the light of day. Today, Wargames Foundry has announced the release of their "new" Despoiling Demons of Death and Destruction. The new range consists of demons sculpted by both John Pickford and Kev Addams. The Demons are already available for purchase and can - from today - be picked up from their web store - here.

And here - taken from today's newsletter - is a small teaser of John's Winged Demons, Succubus and the lovely Dagloritous and his servant Alotherup

Collecting John Pickford: Wiki Update

Gave the Collecting John Pickford wiki a good overhaul yesterday. Uploaded more than a 100 new pictures - and lots of new stuff have been added - like:

• Space Lizard Centaur Bodyguard (Zoat)
• Bugman's Brewery Dwarf King
• Alebelly's Barrels
• Foundry's Hill Troll, Goblin Wolf Riders, Vinegar Tom and witches imps, Christmas Panto
• Otherworld's Ogres, Kobolds, Spiders and Goblin Wolfriders

But also this little gem - a very limited conceptual piece:

Goblin Fanatic

There might just only be two castings in existence - and one of them is now in my possessions. Wonderful piece and I'm quite determined now doing a small Goblin Army based on Foundry's. Collecting "Poshgoblin" Miniatures calls for an Goblin army, doesn't it?

"Arrr!" - Captain John and Sea Scum

Today, my entry for the BSL round 2. Can't tell how it ended, as the poll ain't closed yet - but I am allowed to share them, so ...... here they are :-)

For this round two I've converted some WKmini dwarfs into Pirates. Most of them are very minor conversions - but the Pirate Captain took a bit more work. Here's a WIP.

The trained eye will spot that it ain't entirely WK's - and Old Bugman Range (Citadel) has been added to the crew, due to the "pirate" look. Rest is WK's - Floozie (with added hat and sword), plug-in dwarf with converted head, pistol and hook, Set 2 dwarf (Captain John) with converted coat, hat, sword/sword arm) on a Fenris Games DS base, set 2 dwarf (with bandanna).

And then all painted!

WKminis: Mix of core infantry dwarfs and civilian (Pirate conversion)

Pirate Captain John with treasur

Sea Scum

A few new pieces

As said yesterday, I've been painting for a "commission" I took back in September 2011. A good friend asked for help painting his Orcs and Goblins, and offered my help especially after knowing that part of his collection was some of Wargames Foundry Renaissance Orcs (or Ogres, as they like to call them now).

Painted the first one straight away, but the other two kept sitting on my desk. Been felling so bad not finishing these, so now that I'm back I "forced" myself finishing them - asap. Not that I needed to be forced, though. The miniatures are done by Kev Adams and ooze of character and was rather fun painting - so when I first started the miniatures painted themselves, so to say. Only distraction has been my Brush Slave League (BSL) round 2 team.

So here are they:

Wargames Foundry: Renaissance Orcs

And a group shot of all 3 ....

But please remind me of this, next time I say yes to do something like this :)


Another piece I've been looking forward painting is now finished. Many years ago I was the lucky owner of the unreleased Marauder Miniatures Dwarf on Pony, but traded it for something more needed 8-10 years ago, and have (of course) regretted it many times since. Why do we never learn?

But with WKs awesome stuff, I now had the chance to create myself a new heroic leader for my Pickford/Marauder dwarfs.

Back in October I shared this at Twitter.com:

It's a converted WKmini Light Cavalry Pony Rider turned into a classic Lance Knight with some accessories from Miniature-Heroes - and would now do the job perfectly.

He is now painted and looks like this:

WKmini: Dwarf Light Cavalry (conversion)

Quite pleased with him actually - and think I might do one or two more :-D But next (WKminis) on the list are the Pony Rider Command with converted banner bearer and drummer, but I might save them for the BSL round 5 :-P

Collecting John Pickford: Core Infantry Command from White Knight Minis

Been trying to get this here poster all week, but my life is a bit hectic right now (in a good way) - so haven't really had the time. But, as I have just finished a small "commission" and my second round team for the 2nd round of the Brush Slave League I need to calm down a bit before I can go to sleep, so why not spend the time wisely and share this little piece of exciting news.

And yes, it's White Knight again - and this time it's a fantastic set of command figures for the core infantry men.

As always multiparts with lots of options for you to customize your miniatures.

So lets start with the single part musician, shall we :-P

A classic dwarf drummer, but John has really spend some time doing the details right - and the end result is fantastic. Lovely character. And saying its a single part miniature ain't quite right, as he has a separated head, of course. So, most small beard heads from the range will sit rather well on this guy, I guess.

Next, the standard bearer! Lots of options for this guy. Separate head and the choice of 3 different standards - should really give you the possibility to personalize each bearer.

And last, my favourite, the Champion. A quite dynamic character with the option of 3 different weapon hands (pistol, sword and hammer) - and 2 different shields. And again a separate head so you can make even more variants.

So the command set looks like this:

Another strong release, I must say - and definitely on my list of April purchases, as these are expected to be out within a few weeks.


White Knight has also been experimenting doing some minor conversions, himself - so not exactly Pickford sculpts, but close (but is it close enough? ;-) )

Sallet helmet plug-in's:

Would certainly look cool doing a unit of these armed with spears - unfortunately I don't think they would rank up that well on 20x20mm square bases, though.

Last "home made" conversion is a 4th body for the rank and file Zweihänder - where the great sword is replaced with the flambergé.

A clever conversion, in my opinion and will make a great addition to the coming range of Great Swords.

All-in-all some great miniatures coming to keep an eye out for.

Dwellers Below

So, finally time to actually show you some paintings.

The painting challenge season 2012 has started and I'm slowly starting planning what to do. So much unpainted lead to do, but have decided focusing on AD&D and my beloved dwarfs (all kind).

Today's pictures are my entry for the Brush Slave Challenge at Chaos Dwarfs Online. The 2012 version will be run in a league format, meaning you'll paint a team of 3+ miniatures and have it match up against a random drawn opponent and earn points as in any other sport league. You can however - during the hole season - replace your team with a new one - and in that way earn additional points. So, the spirit of this little "game" is to earn as many points as possible, by paint more miniatures.

My first team consist of some very old Grenadier AD&Ds. All from the #2012 Dwellers Below box set from 1980. The set consists of 8 classic AD&D monsters and has always been a symbol of where it all started - more than 30 years ago:

Grenadier: #2012 Dwellers Below 

BSL 2012 Team #1 Dwellers Below

 Intellect Devourer

 Roper

Aspis

 

     

Otyugh

Cave Fisher

Planned on doing all 8 for my first team, but I still need to paint the Yuan Ti, the Beholder and a Rust Monster - but 5 miniatures after a 3-4 month's break is better than nothing, right?

Now, on with team no. 2 :-)