Kelt Musician with the skin base coat
Kelt Musician after a wash and glaze in the shadows
This is my first attempt at glazing the shadowed parts of skin with a small amount of blue added to the paint. I may make a mess of things in the process, but will press ahead regardless.
You can follow the MoD painting challenge at the Rackham forums here.
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Rackham's Kelt Musician with a fresh coat of gesso
I finally finished the base and painted on the gesso primer this evening. It will be totally dry in 24 hours. I can’t wait to start painting this.
In the meantime, 50 stands of Copplestone City Guard Spearmen are distracting me.
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Cavalcade ox
Cavalcade water buffalo
Here’s a sneak peak of our new animal greens – an oxen and a water buffalo. The oxen was designed for the beasts of burden that were imported into Africa and Asia by the British, however, they can be used for generic oxen. The water buffalo is Asian in origin and can be found all over southeast Asia and China. These will be available in singles as well as multiple packs for those looking to bulk up a stable of oxen or buffalo at a reduced price.
More on their Web site.
I’ve wanted something like this for a project I’m working on. I had high hopes that Rackham would release the auroch sculpt they previewed so long ago, but that probably won’t happen now. Everything depended on that model for my project.
The Rackham auroch, sculpted by Yannick Fusier
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Today's purchases
A detail shot (click the photo for a larger image)
The back of the SnarfQuest card
My quest for “darkness” Rackham bits was a complete failure. The only two stores I know of that still have a few scraps of Rackham metal left didn’t have any decent evil models left (just a few old goblins). I will push forward with the painting challenge, however, but may, in retrospect, pick up an old goblin for fun. I’ll have to measure my mood once the Kelt is done.
I did pick up the Rackham earth familiars cheap—the store was selling them separately—a couple Reaper models (one more saproling to use as an ent for 10mm Middle-earth), and a pack of SnarfQuest minis for the old Elmore card game. For just 100 yen, I couldn’t pass them up.
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Rackham's Kelt musician
My entry, stage 1.
I’m taking part in a painting challenge that Dangereux recently started over at the Rackham forums:
“going through these dark times and as winter is coming along soon (for us in the northern hemisphere) I felt it would be appropriate to focus on the Meanders of Darkness for the time beeing.
Rules; Paint a miniature, plastic or metal, square or round base, from either Acheron, Dirz, Mid Nor, Vile Tis, Drunes or Ophidians. Some Cadwallon miniatures would fit here too, like Morzath, Syth, Scarecrow etc (use common sense).”
I took the entire collection of Rackham miniatures that I had with me here in Japan back to the United States in August save one: the Kelt musician. The LGSs in the Tokyo area have just a handful of R’s miniatures the last time I checked, and I really can’t justify buying another new model for this challenge (my R collection is massive, and I’d rather spend my cash on other things now). But if I recall correctly, a couple of my LGSs had some Rackham bits floating around, and I might be able to snag something small for the base to qualify my entry. That’s tomorrow’s adventure.
Anyway, since I’m already uploading stuff on the Rackham forums, I figured I might as well post my WIP here, too. So far he’s been scraped, filed, sanded, soaped, brushed, and rinsed twice. Today I’ll pin his feet and gather some bits for the base outside. If all goes as planned, he’ll be ready for gesso tomorrow evening.
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Ravage le Blog recently posted pictures of Dust Games/AEG’s WIPs of new models for the forthcoming Cadwallon: City of Thieves board game. The game will be premiered at GAMA Las Vegas in 2010.
More information and photos are available on the Dust Cadwallon Facebook page, where you’ll also have a chance to participate in an informal “contest” to name the orc character (WIP featured above). Click on the concept art image below to submit your suggestions.
(Oddly, C:CoT does not have a BoardGameGeek page, yet.)
Cadwallon orc concept art
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Rackham Entertainment's revamped Cry Havoc! Online.
Rackham Entertainment has just sent to subscribers the latest incarnation of their Cry Havoc! Online newsletter. This installment of CH!O includes links to their Web site with information on the forthcoming C:AoR army boxes (Lion and Wolfen), Rush n’ Crush the board game, the new Previews page, and more.
If you’re not already a subscriber, visit the Rackham Entertainment site to sign up.
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