Purple Worm, Purple Worm *Guitar Solo*

John Dennet blessed us with this cunning looking Purple Worm from Grenadier.  I have had this mini for many years, and it just sat on the shelf with a grey primer coat looking miserable.  It was time to do it justice.

The metal cracked earth base is under the augmented one I made using bits of broken dried putty and crackle paint.

I painted a faux gloss effect on the model by trailing little specular highlights down the body, catching the ridges.  These become more purple as they reach the head, giving an opalescent chitin feel.

God I love this mini. It looks like it is happy to chat to the adventurers.

Citadel Fimir

Limited Edition Fimir.  Small, stylish and, unfortunately, very, very rapey.  The back story for Fimir makes me never want to be within 500 yards of Graeme Davis.

That said, the creature designs are very cool, and I really enjoyed painting this one.

One day, if I can get another, it's tail is coming off and will be used in a John Blanche Minotaur tribute.

Troll Schlongs

You cannot be an old school mini painter and not have painted troll dicks.

There are a disturbing amount of troll dicks in the early Citadel Miniatures releases.  It really was troll dicks and torture porn for the first few years.

These are both early works in progress, as I have to stop and go wash my hands and my eyeballs out every few minutes.

Actually the first official citadel mini is free swinging too.

It was a weird time.

Playing With a Stranger's Thing: Grenadier Demogorgon

One of my favourite minis of all time, The Grenadier Demogorgon by John Dennett has gained a wider audience after it appears in the TV show Stranger Things in the kids' Dungeons and Dragons game.

In this version I went with simple and bold colors, with the goal of getting the entire thing done in one sitting.

I have two others, one of which is joining my From The Pitt style red demon army of Dennett demons, and the other is getting ray guns for some future skirmish action.

I may grab a few more next time I swing by Mirliton because I keep thinking of cool conversion ideas.

Brilliant mini.

WIP Citadel Chaos Ogre

This Jes Goodwin Chaos Ogre is a work in progress, as I want to replace the poker chip bases I used to use with a decent sized MDF base.

Once I have rebased it I can focus on the little glazes that will make it pop.

The one major change I have done lately in my style is pushing up the values and contrast.  I was finding my early stuff is now murky and unreadable at a distance.  So from here on in I will be turning up the volume.

This ogre is rarer than the others in the range, as all the spikes caused the moulds to tear when the minis where being pulled out.  You can see a spike has snapped out of the socket when this one was put into the vulcanising press.

Thus, the spikey ogre was put out of production early on.

Ral Partha Ettin

This Ral Partha Ettin is by Dennis Mize, and has evolved extra long arms in order to snap off enough times to make 80s kids learn how to pin limbs properly.

Minifigs Valley of The Four Winds

Minifigs Valley of The Four Winds

I absolutely love taking very old minis that may be considered janky or rough and lavishing attention on them.  These Valley of The Four Winds minis by Minifigs (Available from Miniature Figurines dot co dot uk) are a great example of minis that shouldn't be discounted for their age.  They predate Warhammer!

I am not entirely finished with them, I have plans to add some clothing patterns onto the first two, and apply some glazes to the lips on the mouth mini to make it more lush.

I may also break out the putty to add something to the rider mini (left) which had a broken weapon on arrival, and looked better standing than riding.

"Shouting Head on Arms" is the stand out mini from the range, and is the best butt demon that exists.  I may grab some more and use them in conversions.

So Bosch.