As promised, a few pictures of the Genestealer I've been working on, although at this stage its just testing out an approach for getting the skin right.

( Genestealer Test 1 )

Currently working on a Genestealer skin test and I think I've got it pretty much where I want it, although the process was much more complicated than it needed to be. Sadly, I think I'm wedded to it now because one of the paints, while bloody awful to use, has a nice high gloss texture that gives the purple skin an appearance I like ( Read more... )

Planescape: Torment was released on DVD almost two years ago and I didn't know. I've not been able to play my copy of the game as the CDs are knacked and I've been patiently awaiting its release on steam or something and yet, for the past 2 years, I've completed failed to realise I could get my grubby mits on a new copy ( Read more... )

I put this together at the weekend to satisfy two basic urges. The first was to show that painting miniatures is not complicated and most of the effects achieved are done via easy to implement nifty little shortcuts as a few folk I know on forums were saying "I tried painting miniatures years ago and it is too hard." The second urge was to see if I ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13561766

Thanks to the media playing on the fears of parents and running a successful campaign of truth distortion and flying in the face of the facts, we've got a little measles problem.

The BBC was as much party to that little carnival of horrors as any other media outlet, but I note that this article neglects to ( Read more... )

I provided a quick peak at this figure a few weaks ago when I finished the Daemonhunters. He's a figure I've been waiting to do for a while and, as fate would have it, he's become part of a series of three figures whose share the same background. This figure is also my first attempt at painting Deathwing using different paints and a different ( Read more... )

Grey Knight Terminators completed with litanies, names and all in place.

( Full Squad )

I took a nice set of macro photos of my completed Grey Knight Terminators at the weekend to put up here and while I was editing the images, I noticed that I'd failed to add the litanies to their purity seals and their names to the shoulder armour scrolls. Doh. Having done all that, I then got distracted by working on my Landraider Crusader and ( Read more... )

I had a discussion with a few colleagues about FPTP and AV the other day, where in response to the fact that FPTP allows candidates who don't win a majority of the vote to still be elected, someone posed the question "but FPTP is the same process used for determining the X-Factor winner and the number 1 in the singles chart. It doesn't matter that ( Read more... )

...helping Alison build the foundations for her new potting shed. This has involved digging, moving heavy bags of stuff, mixing lots and lots of concrete, pouring concrete and levelling it all out.

This has left very little time for much of anything else really, apart from my driving lesson, collecting my new glasses and much needed beverage ( Read more... )