Monday, 22 March 2021

Citadel Fantasy Tribes Orcs including C15 armoured orc

Citadel Fantasy Tribe Orcs from the 1980s purchased from Games Workshop, Dalling Road, London. They appeared as line drawings in White Dwarf #30 - April 1982.








FTO -02 Orc attacking with sword and shield.





FTO-08 Orc charging with polearm. 2 variants: variant 1 and variant 9.



FTO-09 Orc advancing with axe and spear 





FTO-11 Orc chief with sword and flail.




FTO-12 Orc bodyguard with battle axe.



C15 armoured orc released later in the 1980s







Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Zombicide Black Plague Zombies

Zombicide Black Plague zombies. These plastic zombies though 32-35mm in scale were painted for my D&D games and Rangers of Shadowdeep upcoming games. I rebased them to convey that they were outdoors and not indoors or dungeons.

A couple of the zombies clothing were based on the original artwork for the game.









Zombie green/dead flesh version (zombie on the right) was painted:
1. Base: Vallejo Game Colour Dead Flesh 72035.
2. Shade: Citadel Athonian Camoshade + Citadel Nuln Oil (Black).
3. Layer:Vallejo Game Colour Dead Flesh 72035.
4. Layer:Vallejo Game Colour Dead Flesh 72035 + white.
5. Final Highlight Layer:Vallejo Game Colour Dead Flesh 72035 + more white
















Sunday, 7 March 2021

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Citadel C 17 Skeletons: Skeleton rising

 Following hot on the heels of Citadel C 17 Skeletons: Swordsman. I present “skeleton rising” another repaint from a purchase in 1987.




Monday, 1 March 2021

Sunday, 28 February 2021

Chronicle Miniatures CF-14 Henchman/ Hireling

Chronicle Miniatures CF-14 Henchman/ Hireling with carrying pack and lantern sculpted by Nick Lund in the 1980’s. Repainted in January 2021.






For some strange reason, I really like this miniature and I think it must have been repainted 3 times.











Thursday, 11 February 2021

Kids on Wheels by Morgue Miniatures 2021

Well what can I say that won’t be biased 🤔. I painted these wonderful miniatures sculpted by a talented young sculptor, Mat Holmes from my brief, because myself & my wife, Julie own Morgue Miniatures. We thought let’s do a small range of kids on wheels to compliment our first range of 1980’s kids which were inspired by “Kids on Bikes” RPG, “Tales from the Loop” RPG & “Stranger Things” TV Show. Happy with the way they came out & especially with the sculpts.

Also a big thank you to all our Kickstarter backers that made this possible especially in spite of a global pandemic.



We called this mini Patrick, boy on a skateboard. Facially inspired by Patrick Swayze, hence the name. Also had Mat our sculptor, add 2 “MM”s to represent Morgue Miniatures.

Next was Jennifer, girl on roller skates



Jennifer, girl wearing roller skates was inspired by Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing. I didn’t think, I painted the face to do it justice, however the hair was spot on for Ms Grey. I had to remove the tab that the miniature was attached to, so I could pin it to a smooth road base. Also with the 1980’s theme, I painted the socks in a rainbow 🌈 scheme.

Kids on Bikes





Julie- girl with a bicycle 

Julie was named after my wife and based on the cover of the RPG “Kids on Bikes” though we didn’t copy the dungarees that the young girl is wearing on the cover of the “Kids on Bikes” RPG. I was very happy on the choice of colour for her bike which I thought incapsulated the theme of the 1980’s. 

Elliot - boy with a bicycle 




We named this young boy with his mountain bike, Elliot after one of the biggest films of the 1980s, “E.T.”. Also I copied the colour palette of what Elliot was wearing. Red gilet & blue jeans. We also decided that he should have a BMX/ mountain bike which were coming into fashion in the 1980s as well. This was further enhanced by having off road tyres and finally a bright lime green paint job on the bike as a nod to “Muddyfox” BMX bikes & Kawasaki motorcycles which sported this colour during the 1980s.

Overall we were very happy with these miniatures.