15mm Fantasy Houses and Hovels.......

.....from Alternative Armies!

Got these sent to me by a friend earlier in the year but they had remained on the resin pile for quite a while but my friend Daniel who is a big Star Wars Legion fan and who was in a painting slump at the time, so I ended up painting a Fleet Trooper unit for him earlier this year and recently he was looking for a drastic change in his painting queue and hey presto I got these done.......

They are from Alternative Armies and could be used for other periods as well as Fantasy.....

....I like his painting skill (he's a damn good painter) and it gives a boost to a little painting slump or lethargy!

Figure is a 15mm Battle Valor villager for scale help, picture quality is the usual clusterfeck.....

Nicely done Daniel, he may need more drastic changes in his painting queue........

Do they require basing?

The Legion fleet troopers in question.........

Miniature Paints size testing, finally played the Star Wars X-Wing game, 2 other blogs are giving away stuff and it's fecking hot!

I use Miniature Paints for my Tanned Flesh and Earth Brown mostly with a few others along the way and recently they've started releasing some paints with newer smaller looking plastic bottles instead of their glass bottles and for the same price....so I did an experiment.

I cleaned out an old bottle, put the new container beside the old one and emptied the new bottle into one of the old bottles.......and as you can see there is little difference well not enough to make me stop buying them.......I feel good but not?

Also today before I went into work my mate Vinnie brought over his brand new issue of Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game and between the two of us we played the basic rules game (in the garden) and I know we're late to the band wagon but we really enjoyed it, we took turns with two TIE fighters (the good guys) versus the Luke (the git) Skywalker X-Wing, Skywalker won both!! We only managed two games because the sun was trying to fry my brains ( fecking hot today and still is) but good game and easy to play....so far!

Not great pictures but hopefully you get the idea......

I really hoped for breaking news............

I know one of the TIE fighters is back to front.......

Beautiful miniatures.......

Two good bloggers are giving away stuff and have asked other bloggers to pimp them out like Pamela Anderson.........

We have Seb over at Back to the Minis and

Burkhard over at dhcwargamesblog

Ray and myself won some figures to be painted by the very talented Andrew Saunders over at his blog but he uses the term historical miniatures, I'm hoping for some leeway:D

Sorry if it's all too much...here's a group of Princess Leia re-enactors, cosplayers........ what do call a group of Princess Leia's..........a Fisher of Leia's?

200,000 hits, some ladies, some blogs and....

....a BIG thank you!

Some controversy yesterday with my post, some people were a little unhappy with the content but I never set out to do that, the miniatures are made and you buy them primarily for scenery and sometimes because someone actually made them. Don't get me wrong I loved the comments and opinions because we're all different and some people are not into wargaming but take the time to comment and I appreciate that a lot, a damn lot.

I will warn people in future if there is anything like this because I've painted something last week in 20mm that I believe is quite grim but happened a lot in WW2 and a lot of other conflicts over the centuries but on to the ladies of cosplay , Google and some blogs you should visit.

Google is such an asset.

Catwoman.

Not a clue but it says a certain something, found out her character name is Mileena.

Jessica Rabbit.

Steampunk or Malifaux?

Baconfat Log : Miniatures blog.

Anne's Attic : Weird, funny Irish girl blog.

Jay's Miniature Enterprises :Miniatures blog.

Sean's Wargame Corner : Miniatures blog

Laughing Ferret : Miniatures blog, running a competition and needs 3 more followers.

World War 20mm : Miniatures blog.

Will recommend some other blogs next week.