Deviant Designs Deeds

Some old pre slotta miniatures from the early 80's a couple of 90's slotta adventurers   Dwarven Thief  ( Chronicle Miniatures Nick Lund)   Gnome Thief ( Citadel )   Human Fighter (Citadel)   Human Mage (Citadel)   Zombie (Otherworld)   Two Headed Ogre (Citadel)

I recentlyfinished painting the Otherworld miniatures Roper which took some time, partly because it comes in 9 pieces.   I think the thing measures up well against my ebay bought Grenedier version.     I've also signed up for the otherworld Dungeon Adventures set on indiegogo which I am really looking forward to. I note that at todays date it has hit US$13k, which already exceeds the orignal target of US$ 5k.   

Painted in line with the Duke of the Bloodkeep tutorial,

Just a few pictures of some recent painting. The Mordehime necromancer as part of the Mordheim undead warband I am finishing off. I received this as a gift from Mark of the Level 2 Blog. Followed by an Otherwold undead Halfling. This si the final one of the 3 undead non human Otherworld currently produce, again to be used for the mordheim warband. However these 3 figures are significantly smaller than the mix of GW and Westwind I am using for the remainder of the warband.  Finally an old Runequest Duck painted on behalf of Mark. I think he looks better in the flesh. He is so small that he is almost a 15mm miniature.

I have been organising a number of my old magazines and I happened upon this advert for the opening of Warlords Games shop in White Dwarf number 31, dated, June/July 1982. This was not my first White Dwarf, the oldest I still own is issue 22 which survives coverless but otherwise intact. Interestingly WD 22 this has a review of games day 1980 which I am fairly certain I attended, but being so long ago I am unsure. I certainly attend two back then at the Royal Horticultural Society hall, one of which I fairly certain ran a huge roman chariot racing game, it was there that I remember buying the D&D PHB shortly after it came out. Most of my early games were bought mail order via, Games Workshop in Dalling Road (I visited the actual shop once in the early 80’s), Games of Liverpool or Esdevium games (A shop I used to visit regularly when I lived in Reading). However back then I did not have a bank account and had to pester my mum for a cheque or pay extra for a postal order. ...

Mark in his Level 2 Blog  has been commenting on the need for a Minotaur for his Mordheim Beatman warband. I have 3 of varying sizes, An old citadel Runequest Minotaur painted when I was 16-18 (it was advertised April 1982) and which will be stripped down and repainted as I work my way through the lead pile.  It was about this time that I first started to build up a collection of fantasy figures with the intention of running a dungeon something I am now close to since I bought the Dwarven Forge terrain. The second is the otherworld Minotaur posted separately (but included in the group shot). The third is my Beastman Minotaur Lord from around 2004, which I believe was subsequently known as a Doombull which was painted a few years ago along with a few older beastmen. I did buy a plastic box set of Beastmen  and two chaos hounds with the intention of inlcuding this Minotaur in a Mordheim warband but in excess of 5 years later I am still n...

It has been another very busy month at work with 10 days overseas and in that time I transferred my study upstairs. However I did manage to get a couple of figures painted an Elven and a dwarven zombie, both looking like they pass some resemblance to certain characters from LOTR. A good set of figures which will be added to my Undead Mordheim warband which is 5 figures short of completion, The Undead Elf Searches the abandoned camp. I also recently bought a batch of Dwarven Forge terrain having wanted to run rpg dungeons with a full set of terrain for over 30 years. So far I have done little more than glance at it but hopefully over the next week it will be coming out of the box. So far I am very impressed at the quality.