Last few daemonettes and a Big Guy for the Fifty Shades of Purple

November 29, 2013, 5:45 am

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Hello all,
Managed to get a few daemonettes for cheap on the dreadful Ebay. I'm missing only one now - so if you do have a spare of the one known as "Gristlewhip" I would be happy to purchase it from you...

Also managed to get a cheap Fiend of Slaanesh - perhaps the most chaotic thing ever produced by Games Workshop. I actually had to look it up online to figure out how to put its pieces together. Great fun!
She, he, it, whatever, will be used as a "big guy" for the Blood Bowl team until I can find something better.

After a wee bit of green stuff it was ready to paint - I've always wanted to paint one of these, but didn't have the money to buy one when they were first released.

Would have preferred the one with a scorpion tail, but this ones sinister daemonic tail-face has grown on me.

It has snuck into the painting queue and is almost finished alread - despite arriving yesterday in the mail :-).


All the best,
Kasper

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Daemonette Painting Queue

December 5, 2013, 1:26 am

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Hello all,
Busy, busy, busy painting Daemonettes - they are great fun and I thought I would show the painting queue at the moment. I'm aiming at as many shades of purple/pink as possible, but still trying to paint a few at the same time - this has produced what resembles a production line of purpleness:

All the best,
Kasper

Easy bases for Blood Bowl

December 6, 2013, 5:28 am

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Hello all,
Some of you were curious as to how I make my bases for BloodBowl. Happy to oblige, I can reveal that I have, once again, found the simplest way possible to this...

My son has been attending courses in architecture for kids and, knowing that his dad is a sucker for anything and everything interesting, one day he brought home a few tattered remains of the sheets of grass the architects use for grass. This turned out to be perfect for basing 28mm miniatures - and makes the entire process incredible easy.

Step one.
Cut out appropriate circles of this wonder grass:

Step two:
Glue these circles to the base. I use bases from Sally 4th with magnetic sheeting on one side. Cheap and easy to store afterwards.

Step three:
Apply some details to the base - I've painted a thin white line to represent the chalk lines on the field and some splatters of blood here and there, using the wonderful Tamira blood.

Step four:
Wait, there is no step four - the bases are already done! I do not think it can be done easier than this and the grass looks brilliant.
I've bought a large sheet of similar grass from a cheap Chinese store (through Aliexpress) and although a tad too bright the price is right (7$, including shipping).

I hope some of you found this useful - let me know if there are any questions!


All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (IV)

December 9, 2013, 2:55 am

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Hello all,

Two more of Games Workshop old and delicious Daemonettes join the Shades - my "count as" Dark Elf Blood Bowl team, described here.

 Although the pictures are quite crappy, you can just make out the pj on mrs. Suckflesh and Fiendthrob.

Suckflesh and Fiendthrob? There were some creative blokes at GW during the 90'ies!

Suckflesh will serve as a blitzer while Fiendthrob will do duty as a linelf or a thrower.

All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (V)

December 11, 2013, 2:59 am

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Hello all,
Two more Daemonettes join the Shades - my "count as" Dark Elf Blood Bowl team, described here.
This time it is the lovely Lustspite and her best friend, Lewdbeast

Lustspite & Lewdbeast are both dressed in this season's "must-have" for any style-loving Daemonette - alluring turquoise leather stockings and bronze accessories.

What a lovely couple, despite the crappy photographing skills of the blog owner :-/.

All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (VI)

December 14, 2013, 9:27 am

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Hello all,
Two more of Games Workshops' old Daemonettes - this time the truly alien-like Lewdfang and the more 'normal' Heartvex:

Lewdfang is the most weird of the daemonettes and quite unique among the Games Workshop early versions. I fail to see how she could in any way be considered Alluring, but she was fun to paint. As the only one armed with a sword she looks a bit non-blood bowl-ish, but I guess she snuck a blade with her to make sure of penetrating dwarven armour.

Heartvex, on the other hand (or claw), is a more standard daemonette. But note her horse (ups, almost wrote hore's) leg and she starts to exude the weirdness and creativeness of Games Workshop as we knew and loved her.
Good, fun, interesting miniatures and a pleasure to paint.

All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (VI)

December 18, 2013, 5:23 am

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Hello all,
So a succesful defence Monday now means that I can put a "Dr." in front of my name, which is cool, but what is even more important is that I should now have time to finish the delightful and alluring Blood Bowl team, the Fifty Shades of Purple!
Now there are only a few minis left to paint and the team is looking pretty swell - nicely colourful and I am amazed at how perfect the old Games Workshop Daemonettes are suitable for a BloodBowl team.

Todays charming ladies are mrs. Limbsuck & Fräu Warptongue. Again these names are brilliant, but one is a bit gruntled by the fact that Warptongue has no discernible tongue :-). She is actually one of the more individual of the daemonettes.

Mrs. Limbsuck, another brilliant name, is a more typical daemonette although they are all very charming ladies. I do think they could have been a bit more "alluring" and a bit less "disturbingly alien".
Anyways - stay tuned for the last few dames and their big lady, and then it is time for a few group shots!

All the best,
(Dr.) Kasper :-)

A (late) Merry Christmas!

December 26, 2013, 6:26 am

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Howdy folks,
Thought I had uploaded this a few days ago, but apparently not.

Tired from knocking miniatures over, our Santa-Cat takes a brief Christmas nap :-)

 Anyways, just wanted to wish you all a brilliant Christmas and all that!


All the best,

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Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (VII)

January 3, 2014, 2:12 am

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Hello all,
The last two lovely daemonettes painted and ready to rumble!

This time the Bloodbowl team - the Fifty Shades of Purple - are joined by the always adorable Fleshthrob who is seen wearing this summers hottest leather legging. Beside her we find the mysterious daemonette known simply as "the thirteenth daemonette":

If you look at the original poster for the release of the daemonettes by Games Workshop, there are only twelve daemonettes:

(taken from Stuff of Legends (http://www.solegends.com/citcat19912/c20254rcdaemonettes-01.htm)).

However, as all daemonette aficionados know, there was a thirteenth released. She doesn't have a fancy name but is one of the best of the models, and quite original in her pose etc. 

 In fact, I think Mrs. thirteenth and Fleshthrob are my two favourite of these old sculpts.

Now the entire team is almost ready - just got the "big guy" to show and then the entire team will be revealed.
Oh, and I am still searching for a copy of the last daemon I need: the mysterious Gristlewhip...

All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (XIII) (Fiend of Slaanesh)

January 6, 2014, 2:42 am

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Hello all,
Now what would a Blood Bowl team be without a large, boneheaded big guy to knock the opponents out of the way? Even though my 'count-as-a' Dark Elf team of lovely daemonettes won't get to feel the protection of a bi guy often, the plan is to use the team as different "soft-teams". So as a human team they might have use of an Ogre once in a while.

What is more important is that it gave me the opportunity to paint one of the truly chaotic creatures named fiend of Slaanesh:

As the Fiend of Slaanesh were not given colourful names (as were the Daemonettes) - perhaps because they were multipart sculpts - I've decided this lovely being will henceforth be known as Sintongue!

 These are weird creatures - even for Chaos. There are a ton of mixed creature parts in this sculpt and all though the sculpt it self is not that great, the mini is great fun and looks very suitable for the Blood Bowl pitch.

It was fun to paint - but in hindsight I would have used a few more bold colours to make her (him? it?) more visible. I'm ashamed but I simply couldn't be bothered to highlight all the scales... :-/.

It still turned out all right and does look like something that could knock a Goblin into next week.

Anyways, thanks for looking - next time the entire team will be revealed, so stay tuned :-).


All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemonettes: The Fifty Shades of Purple (IX) - All Done and Ready to Rumble!

January 13, 2014, 1:04 am

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Hello all,

Finally, the Fifty Shades of Purple-team is done - ready to rule the Blood Bowl world for generations to come!

As mentioned here, the team is a "count as" Dark Elves, using the old classic and brilliant Daemonettes of Slaanesh from Games Wokshop. It contains one of each of the Daemonettes (sans the elusive Gristlewhip..) with a doublette of two, and a Fiend of Slaanesh to be used as a "big guy".

Each is its own shade of purple, hence the name, ranging from almost black to almost white - been great fun to paint, and also looks both diverse and and as a cohesive team.

The Daemonettes turned out to pretty perfect for Blood Bowl, only a single one totes a sword while the rest are unarmed (except for their claws of course...) and are thus the perfect ball players.

The bases were easy  and if curious there is a guide here showing how to do them.

Now I just need to get my son back into playing Blood Bowl, and a few friends to rekindle their interest and then the Daemonettes are ready for their first tournament :-).

Hope you have enjoyed the pictures - the team was fun to collect and paint and I truly hope they will also be fun to play.


All the best,
Kasper

Blood Bowl Daemons: Pleasure Daemons resting in their new home

January 17, 2014, 12:41 am

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Hello all,
Nope - these two are by no means daemons, although they do have an evil streak at times - turn your back from your grass sheets and they will be there within a second.

Anyways, what I wanted to show today was the entire team of the Fifty Shades of Purple resting in their new home:

Another box from Sally 4th, which shows how one is large enough to hold several bloodbowl teams. In my case the above box holds each and every single painted Blood Bowl figure I own, revealing the less than impressive collection :-).

All the best,
Kasper

Elusive Gristlewhip, Auspicious Foldio

February 14, 2014, 2:21 am

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Hello all,
Been a bit quite here lately but more on that later.

What troubles me at the moment is that single Daemonette who keeps eluding me. She is neither particular rare nor expensive but during the last few months she has been the only one no one seems to sell on Ebay (and the only time she crept up was a seller who didn't ship to Denmark... sigh).

So, to show how serious I am, I've made the following poster:

Should you find this seductive daemon in your secret stash (better be secret with all the daemonhunters strolling the streets), I'll gladly buy her if we can find a sensible price for Slaanesh's little b*stard.
She will be painted asap and forced into joining her sisters on the Fifty Shades of Purple team:

 The individual members of the team can be seen here.


At the same time I've been constantly annoyed by how crappy my photographs turn out (mainly due to crappy light) so I joined the kickstarter for the Foldio:

It seems to be a very cheap little practical setup and I'm hoping this may help provide a bit more crisp and true-colour pictures...

It should arrive in April so expect a ton of new pictures around that time :-).

All the best,
Kasper

Gristlewhip - elusive no more!

February 17, 2014, 2:53 am

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Hello all,
It appears my summoning ritual has been a success!
As I mentioned in the last post I have been searching the scary corners of the Internet for the last Daemonette I needed to complete the collection, mrs. Gristlewhip.
Yesterday I then to much joy discovered that one of the ebayers who had a copy of the daemonette had opened up for shipping to Denmark. A few hours later, the much coveted lady (well, by me at least) was procured and is now (hopefully) on her way to Scandinavia!

Behold Gristlewhip, elusive daemonette extraordinaire:

Gristlewhip

To be honest she looks much like the others (perhaps a bit more daemonic face - or should that be insane?), and as she also turned out to be the most expensive of the lot (at 3.20£, whereas the others were bought at around 2£ each) she will be the one eternally chosen for first up on the line of scrimmage - especially in games versus dwarfs!

Anyways, thanks for sharing the summoning ritual with me - BTW, your soul is now eternally damned - and watch this space for a quick paint job of Gristlewhip once she arrives!

All the best,
Kasper

Cursed Spontaneous Ebay Purchases - Nurgle Troll and Darkling Elf

February 19, 2014, 3:48 am

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Hello all,
Well as I mentioned in the previous post, I managed to track down and buy the last Daemonette I needed. Now the cost of these old miniatures is often deliciously low, but postage to Denmark is horrendous and thus I often, entirely by accident, but more minis from the same seller, to ensure I get the fullest out of the postage that they often combine.
This time I fell in love witht wo very different miniatures - a soon-to-be Nurgle Troll and a delicious Dark Elf.

The first of these is the following weird sculpt:

TSR's Troll B, 5305

This is actually a Troll (nicknamed troll B 5305), sold by TSR as part of their "Monster Tribes" in1983:

 
 The Ebay-seller described it as a "Very rare TSR Mud Golem" from the 1980's and, of course "OOP" (and, as befits Ebay, a presentation all in Caps Locks...).
I plan to paint this chap up as a Nurgle lineman/big guy, depending on his size - his rotting body should be perfect for this. I have searched the Internet for any painted examples, and have so far found none. So, should you happen to have a painted example or have seen one, then I would appreciate you sharing the love!


The other mini I "accidentally" purchased is this contemporary Dark Elf assassin:
 

This was sold as a C09 series Dark Elf, "Death Maiden" even, from the 1980's and, as always, "OOP".

I believe this is actually "Witch Elf with Daggers 2" (074252/10), and dates from ca. 1985? First picture I could locate is in the Third Citadel Compendium (Link: http://www.solegends.com/citc/c09darkelves.htm), but she reappears in the 1991 red catalogue, and the body type in the 1989 winter catologue.

I think she is one of multiple variants on the same body type, all sculpted by Bob Naismith.

In the Citadel Compendium she is indeed called a "Death Maiden", which shall henceforth be this deathly assassins nick-name. Also - I seem to remember that this was one of the assassin titles (lvl 5, perhaps) from the third edition Warhammer armies? Will have to check next time i'm down in the basement...

(Link to her "family", the Dark Elves of the nineties, in the Stuff of Legends: http://www.solegends.com/citcat19912/c20207darkelves-01.htm)

Anyways, stay tuned for paintjobs of these two, very, different miniatures!

All the best,
Kasper

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Hereditary nerdness: more miniatures painted by my son

February 24, 2014, 5:48 am

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Hello all,
Not only is it great fun to paint minis with the sons sitting next to me, but the oldest is also making great progress. Or at least I, the proud dad, thinks so.
Here are his last efforts - an old High Elf Spearman and a brutal Black Orc:

Now remember he is only nine and has painted a handful of minis - I think he is doing great! He has also painted this Zombicide toxic zombie - I like his idea of a two-colour hair-do, very Venomesque.

It also something his friends are eager to participate in and makes for a nice break from the computer gaming and violent fighting that they otherwise seem to favour :-).

Anyways, stay tuned for a post on how I've gone from dreading the son and his friends ruining my brushes to being mellow about it - somthing that has involved incredible cheap brushes from China :-).

All the best,
Kasper

By Fire and Sword - brief (very brief) review

February 25, 2014, 1:02 am

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Hello all,

So I backed the "Fire and Sword" kickstarter, but only with a few $ to get the rulebook.
I've now had time to review it (not played it, though) and it looks okay. Some rules seem a bit redundant and needlessly complicated but otherwise it looks like it would do the trick and provide a good game. I think the second edition of Fire and Sword will prove to be a strong ruleset.

The reasons I backed was 1) to gain access to armylists for the eastern european/Russian countries during the timeperiod, and 2) to see what scenarios were in the book. I'm always on the lookout for scenarios, maps, etc, so was curious to see this 'eastern' take on things. But unfortunately there was not a lot of this in the basic version. Few armylists and few scenarios, but I guess these will be available to peruse later somewhere online.

So it looks like a fun ruleset, with great illustrations and painted minis, and their miniatureline looks great but is a bit too expensive for my taste.

All the best,
Kasper

Ebay laughs: cutest Troglodyte ever

February 26, 2014, 6:22 am

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Hello all,

While trawling the scary corners of Ebay, I stumbled across a picture that made me smile and thus I thought I would share it.
This must be the cutest little Troggy you've ever seen:

It was listed as "TROGLODYTE ARCHER Metal C24 Troglodytes Rare Painted Warhammer Citadel 1980s B4" and sold for a fair penny. But I really adored the fold hairdo and the fun little smile :-).
No disrepect meant to the ebayer or whoever painted the Troglodyte - just thought it was cute!

All the best,
Kasper

Review of some (very) cheap brushes - or how to enjoy painting with kids...

February 28, 2014, 1:31 am

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Hello all,

So while it is great fun to (finally) have the sons (and their friends) involved in painting miniatures, it is absolutely devastating on the brushes. So to stay mellow, I've tried out a few, cheap, alternative solutions and this post is my review of these cheap brushes from China.  

A great place to read more on the other side of the issue - the brilliant but truly expensive brushes - is here: http://arcanepaintworks.blogspot.dk/2013/12/all-about-brushes.html. 

While I would love brushes like these, I myself have so far only bought medium quality brushes (ca. 8-12$ each), but these are still a bit too expensive to be ruined by the kids after a few hours of painting (and trust me, they will be ruined quickly - according to my estimates by a six year old in half an hour and a nine year old will also, with time, destroy any brush).

So I've bought the following brushes, via Aliexpress, as a way of preserving my smile while the kids have fun painting minis.

The first are these:

Aliexpress description: "3pcs Tiny Liner Drawing Painting Pen Brush Acrylic Nail Art Detailed Design Tool set" (whatever that means...)

Three brushes, of various sizes, total prize (including the (free) shipping): 2.99$ or 1$ each.

Quality: Actually surprisingly nice brushes - I love the thick grip and the brush itself keeps its point fairly well.

This is after app. three hours worth of painting by a nine year old:

They have now given up their point, but each was able to paint two minis before quitting on us.

Verdict: I actually used the small one of these quite a bit and have found them to be respectable brushes (within their price range) and will definately consider purchasing more of these, particular at 1$ each.

The next brushes are these:

Aliexpress description: "12pcs Colorful Nail Art Brush, Design Brush Pen For Fine Details Tips Drawing Wholesale 4260".

A set of twelve "nail brushes", dirt cheap: 4.47$ for the set or 37 cents each!

Quality: Not great, but not that bad either. They are useful for blocking in colours and absolutely great for kids. They will with heavy use loose their point within hours, but each will give a kid ca. three hours of painting time and can afterwards be used for drybrushing or base painting. I must admit I've found myself reaching for these (the new ones) when needing pinpoint accuracy and at 37 cents each these are wonderful to have available.

This is after app. two hours of heavy-duty painting by a nine year old:

and by a six year old:

They are more or less destroyed - although they will be used for drybrushing etc - but at a price of 37 cents each, they have done their job.

Verdict: To be honest, I'll definately be buying a set more when these twelve are all gone - the possibility to have the kids, and their friends, paint minis without fearing for my favourite brushes is well worth their price, and I've found it really useful to have some cheap, adequate, and disposable brushes near at hand.

So, if you find yourself with kids who would like to paint and share "daddy's hobby", which is some of the best quality time possible, I really recommend buying some of these or similar brushes - they'll make your smile genuine rather than grusome :-).


All the best,
Kasper

TSR 1983 Troll B 5305 - almost done...

March 6, 2014, 4:31 am

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Hello all,
Remember that weird, so-called Mud Golem I accidentally bought on Ebay? Well it is almost done and it has been fun painting it.
 

The 'Nurgle' Troll with some of his friends in the painting queue...

Well there are almost no crisp details and some weird sculpted stuff but it was so interesting it jumped ahead in the painting queue.

Just needs some work on the base (I couldn't bring myself to remove the old solid base, so chopped up a GW base and inserted the old mini) and perhaps something it has torn apart on the base...

A lot better than it used to look:

All the best,
Kasper