Raggy's Gaming Adventures

Working away at my Space Hulk set. I am currently stumped by the basing for the terminators. My original intention had been NMM but I am realising that will take forever so I am now reconsidering - particularly as there is a lot of metal also on the genestealer models. Tank from Red Panda Games is a great sculpt and I have really enjoyed pushing my skills on this figure with the help of Miniature Monthly . I am really happy with how he's looking and can't wait to sit down and do a little more on him. Finally a departure for me - 54mm figures. Not something I usually do but has been a great way to really practice faces. I am now working on the skin tones and then it will be a test of my skills with fabrics. Missing Pictures: Space Hulk Genestealers The last couple of years have seen a lot of focus on Blood Bowl miniatures as I work to paint up a new team for every season/tournament. I am going to cut back on this a little. I want to finish up the mi...

Wow, looking back over this year - it's been super productive! 2 Blood Bowl teams, 2 competition pieces, 5 display pieces, a gang for Test of Honour, the miniatures for a boardgame and the start of another as well as a bundle of other miscellaneous pieces. There is a lot more here than I'd expected when I was sitting down to start this series of posts. It's maybe still not as much as I'd really like - there are plenty of boardgames that I really want to get the figures for painted up, but it's been some good progress none the less. Missing photos: The Chaos Pact team - Raggy, signing out

2016 was a super productive year for me. I painted up a good number of Blood Bowl teams as part of my revived interest in the game. This year started with more of the same as I finished off the goblin team that I was madly working on through the end of last year to have them ready for West Coast Quake '17: Having finished them off, I needed to get back to my team for the regular league that I had also started in 2016 - The Carnal Cavaliers Not pictured: Jim and Bob minis which I painted up as a bit of side project when I needed a break from the main teams I'd been so focused on. - Raggy, signing out

This is nothing new, you can see this and a few other videos over at my YouTube channel - RaggyPlays . I am simply testing out a new video player to see how it performs. - Raggy, signing out

That's right folks, it's another Miniature Monthly post. I'm not much of a one for painting figures as display pieces but Miniature Monthly recently started a paint along series for this new figure - Tank. Tank is an expansion character from Wander: The Cult of Barnacle Bay . I didn't pick up the game although reviews of it seem pretty positive. I hope to get tot try out the game at some point but in the meantime this figure has given me the opportunity to really push my techniques in new directions. freehanding stripes, texturing fabric, leather and further working on NonMetallicMetal effects with weathering. I got a little distracted before even starting on the model as a friend lent me some ScaleColour paints - something I'd heard great things about and been wanting to try for a while. A shoulder pad got some True Metallic Metal treatment. The job was a little rushed but the results were astonishing - these are far and away the highest quality paints I'...

Well I've been doing a ton of hopping from project to project of late. It's not all by choice as I've been travelling a fair amount and had to be selective in what I take to paint. One of the main things I want to work on over the next few weeks is a display piece 'Tank' from the new Wander game by Red Panda miniatures but before I focus on him, I have been distracted by trying to paint up the miniatures from yet another boardgame. This time it's 7th Continent - a kickstarter I backed a long time ago and am finally in a position to maybe get a few games played. The nice thing about this game is that it only has 11 miniatures and they are only about 15mm scale. I painted 4 of them in a single session! In fact before I even thought to get the camera out: I've not done too much experimenting with flame effects and although the picture is pretty shoddy, I am fairly pleased with the effect. I think I need to dial back the reds and oranges and maybe work...