Sunday, 07:41 pm, 22 June 2003
Those Long-Suffering Imperial Guard
I dusted off my long-suffering Imperial Guard army yesterday afternoon and 'milliputted' (aka green-stuffed) the bases. Just the active-third, I have based already. Still two-thirds to go. I want to paint the boots on the remaining two thirds before I base them. The project has taken more than six months so far. I think I can put them down for a month or more. A lot of it has been to do with my wife's working hours too. When she worked weekends, it was an easy hobby to keep me going. Now she isn't, our weekends can't be spared for three hours of me sitting under high intensity light painting detail.
Saturday, 05:57 am, 12 July 2003
Long Suffering Imperial Guard
I put in some serious time on my Imperial Guard army yesterday. So far I have based 612 points without extras, 672 with extras. It is strange laying out the army in units. It identified a big need for Sentinels - large walkers with good armour but weak legs. Putting in the time yesterday inspires me to work on the Imperial Guard a little more. The next few weeks are going to be busy to say the least but it will be nice to have something to cause me to turn off the computer.
Thursday, 07:31 pm, 31 July 2003
In other news, I have gone with the words of my weblog and employed Justin 'Fred'
Reed to paint some of my neglected Imperial Guard. Fred is known from White Dwarf
and various GW Codices. I am looking forward to seeing his work fixing my mistakes.
Here is some of Fred's work modified a little for the Log format.
Part of this trip was to try to get represses of some old miniatures from my childhood. Not miniatures that I had ever owned - but miniatures I wanted to own as a child. Unfortunately they didn't offer the repress service any more. So at the end of last week, I found an ebay.co.uk auction that had about 15 of the miniatures I wanted and some additional ones I wouldn't mind owning. I have included a link to the image (a 260k jpg) of the lot hosted on barbalet.net. The 15 came in a lot of seventy. Looking at the figures, there were a few more I was interested in. So about forty out of seventy wasn't too bad - I have underlined those in red - the cross, I am not sure about.
Sunday, 10:39 pm, 03 August 2003
The addiction grows...
In early February this year, my wife and I headed to Nottingham. In part, to see that part
of the world, but mainly to satisfy a childhood desire to see the Games Workshop
head quarters.
I hope to have the miniatures in the next week or so. I don't know what condition they are in. The auction said very good, but for their age and the slight discolourations indicate they could be in any condition - jpeg is very kind. I found some old White Dwarfs on offer too that come from the same time as the miniatures. Both date back to 1989-1990, when I became interested in miniatures thanks to my friend, Alex 'Gurap' Brooks.
Monday, 10:19 pm, 04 August 2003
Last Miniature Discussion for a Long While... I Promise...
I found this link today;
http://www.solegends.com/citadel/
Probably one of the best miniature archives I have ever seen. All the catalogues from my youth. Impressive and a great reference. And, Games Workshop's financial results for this year.
http://investor.games-workshop.com/Results2003/
Very impressive. It is funny how quickly I have returned to an old hobby. A hobby I despised for many years. I think I had to repress certain elements of myself through sections of my life. I couldn't collect miniatures and live in poverty. The two don't go together. Yet poverty, living in very basic conditions with just enough to buy food and maintain an internet connection - or just maintain an internet connection and barter food for internet - was such a central part of my life in Australia and to a lesser extent California. My home computer is still a circa 1997 Mac I rescued from a dumpster. Maybe poverty hasn't quite left me.