Raggy's Gaming Adventures

So when I start typing things on Facebook... bad things happen. This time it turns out I get myself embroiled in a duel... with a couple of the guys at my local FLGS... one of whom is an accomplished tournament painter ( his entry into this year's crystal brush ) more of his work can be found here . The other participant is also a talented painter who maintains a blog like mine here . I should really not be allowed on the internet, it clearly gets me into a lot of trouble! A pretty basic sculpt I think you'll agree, I think really we were trying to find a figure we all hated equally... Challenging our motivation as well as talent in making it not look shit. The store even advertised the event on their Facebook page: Back to the figure... This is a promotional figure that was made by West Wind miniatures for their Secrets of the Third Reich preorder (I think). He is a Soviet Mech Pilot by the name of Konstantin Samokhin and it really isn't the most impres...

Howdy folks! I have been hard at work with painting and have some more blog posts coming up but for now I would like to help get some voting going for a contest we have at our local game store ( Game Kastle Mountain View ) I recently got into a painting Duel with a couple of the staff and the winner is to be determined by a blind vote! We all started with the same model:  Each of the three of us then painted up our version: I won't tell you which is mine until voting closes when I will let you know the winner and how I made mine. I may even do some interviews with the other two duellers. In the meantime: If you are local to Mountain View - Please drop by the store and vote! - Raggy, signing out

Well I have finished my SWAT team. There are 8 miniatures in all, 4 from the USX Range by RAFM (the taller miniatures) and the other 4 from West Wind's Road Kill range. In my mind the USX are nicer sculpts but are at least 32mm scale and although it isn't a massive issue you can tell without having o look too hard. My main issue with the West Wind miniatures is the faces which are not very well sculpted and it looks like the sculptor has given up on a couple of miniatures and just stuck Aviator Sunglasses on to cover the issue. That said, the one miniature with the goggles (not night vision) above his head has a very well sculpted face and is possibly my favorite miniature of all of them, one of the others looks simply comical with an over sized helemt that he can't possibly see under. Whilst I like slightly comic miniatures (esp GW and Privateer Press Goblins) I don't think it is really the right feel for SWAT, where it might fit better in a militia or young terrorist/...