I painted and ork (and I liked it...)

Big news... Mrs Doggles paints her first ork!

Not bad eh? - I may be biased, but considering this is her first ever miniature, I'd say it's pretty marvellous... I'm so proud!

I painted the same mini alongside her so that I could give her some pointers, so here's a pic of the two of them side-by-side:

There's not a huge amount of difference between the two of them is there? The only problem now is that I'll find it hard to shoot at him...

New marines WIP

Trying to be patient and forcing myself to put this new Tac Squad together after the bits have been painted is quite testing... - finally got the arms on some of them now after painting the bodies fully:

Here's how I now paint heads - I drill a little hole in the bottom and mount them on a cocktail stick - the champagne cork provides a nice easy-to-grab handle (and a little bourgeois style...)

I've found this a lot easier to be honest. Heads on sticks all lined up ready to go:

Hopefully have some more finished stuff in the next post- keep rollin' them sixes folks :o)

More from Warhammer World

Some random pics from the miniatures hall for your delectation, marines up first:

Classic artwork

Found the old two-page spread of the Horus vs Emperor face-off that my fave diorama in Warhammer world was based on - it was from White Dwarf 131:

...and it looked like this:

Cool eh? :o)

Warhammer world

This year our wedding anniversary celebrations included a trip to Warhammer World in Nottingham - 'cos nothing says "I Love You" like beer and Space Marines...

Over the next couple of posts I'll pop in some pictures of the minis that were on display in the painting exhibition hall - great to see them up close and personal, particularly models that I've seen in White Dwarf in the past.

Bugman's was great - scored myself a souvenir pint glass, and the chilli burger was rather tasty.

Obligatory pic of Mrs Doggles with the life-size marine:

...and here's one of my favourite dioramas of all time - the Horus / Emperor face-off:

With Games Day being just a day away, I thought that more would be missing but the exhibition hall was pretty full of great minis. More pics in the next post - for all those lucky enough to be off to Games Day tomorrow, have a great day!

Legion of the Damned all done!

Yay! - all finished. The last one was a bit harder to paint with the banner and all.

Side view of the shoulder:

...and finally, the whole squad together:

Really enjoyed painting these guys, they're corking models. I gather there are new ones too (heavy weapons and the like) so they might go on the shopping list at some point.

...and then there were four...

Almost there with the Legion of the Damned now - here's Torchy McFlamerson:

Which means the squad now looks like this:

Just one more to go!