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Diminutive Denizens Update: Oct 10, 2009

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Photography Slackage

Looking over my painted miniature gallery, it looks like the last time it was updated was August 8th.

Of 2008.

It would be fair to call that significant slackage.  It's not that I haven't painted anything since then, I just haven't taken the time to photograph my miniatures and post. Yet.  Time to shame myself into ... 

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Exemplar of Hate

When I sat down with my Bastions the other day to prep them for painting, I decided to knock out Rhoven’s Honor Guard at the same time.   It’s been a couple years since I painted any exemplar models and I remembered I hated painting their armor, but I forgot just how time consuming it was.... 

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Miniature Sealant

Once a miniature hits the table, it's inevitably going to be subjected to the rigors of gaming.  Even the most careful of gamers will have accidents.  It's painful to see hours of hard work spent painting a figure vanish in one quick tabletop accident, but that's why most gamers seal their miniatures after painting them.

So ... 

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Switching Gears – Painting RPG Miniatures

After the rush to get my army painted for Hardcore and the disappointment of not being able to play, I decided to take a break from painting Privateer Press miniatures.  I'll come back to them soon enough but I spent the past couple weeks finishing up a handful of models for our weekly roleplaying game.

First ... 

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Hordes: Frostfang Brood

When I just tried digging up a link to my write-ups on the color scheme for my Warmachine/Hordes armies, I found an article for The Vermillion Menofix but I didn't see one for my Legion force.  So to remedy that I snagged this off another forum and have copied it here to my blog.

Looking ... 

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Painting is on its way

So I have figured out it will be about 7 hours more of work, and somehow it is turning out not to be a failure. I do hate painting warrior models though…I have left the Farrow Bone Grinders for last. Time is ticking away, but I have all of tonight and tomorrow to do it!

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Character Jacks & Beast

It's been over half a year since I started my Protectorate of Menoth character warjacks.  Working on them quickly degraded from fun to tedious but a couple weeks ago I finally forced myself to sit down and make some actual progress. I'll finally have them - and Typhon - competed within the next couple days.

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When Is Good Terrain Bad?

For many people tabletop war games can be a very visual hobby.  I’m not a proponent of having to paint to play but there’s no denying that painted models and nice terrain can really dress up a table.  Sometimes, though, well crafted terrain can add difficulties to play, or worse yet be damaging to models!

My ... 

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Return of the Brush: Typhon and Company

Typhon WIP

After I finished Epic Thagrosh I took a bit of break from miniature painting. I'm not sure if it was the culmination of the burnout I had been feeling or the stomach virus I had caught but I pretty much put down the brush about a month or ... 

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