New purchases and the White Dwarf 30th Anniversary miniature

Another little update.

I have been up late tonight getting through my backlog of miniature assembly (probably procrastinating from painting again...)

Anyway I think I have assembled everything I have so far except the tyranid, which I am going to have to convert using the plastic hive tyrant legs pictured below.  The seller sent a metal OOP set instead but once I brought it to their attention they sent out the correct legs free of charge, so now I have both!

Some other purchases have arrived... namely a couple of snazzy new plastic palettes, a rather nice finecast dwarf standard bearer (look at how crisp that finecast is and a set of five corks.

I plan to either use the corks to mount miniatures on when priming/painting or to break up for scenery or maybe dig chunks out once a completed mini is attached for a rocky base... or to give a cutaway effect...

... all eBay specials!

When it comes to some actual work... I have already mentioned putting together a lot of stuff.  I completed both Kingdom Death miniatures and they are pictured below.  Also put the giant on his base and completed the 30th anniversary model.  I now remember why I bought it, so damn cool!!

Skaven - complete | Orc - Ribbons

Hello there,

Test Skaven has been completed - very quick job with a lot of drybrushing in the mix.

For the skin, I went talarn flesh, ogryn wash, dwarf then elf. Metal was macharius orange and scorched brown drybrushed on then drybrush of chainmail.

Bindings were the brown colour then washed with ogryn and painted dheneb.

Parchment was ogryn washed then drybrushed with dheneb and white.

Wood was brown + wash then left. The bone details wre treated as per the parchment

think thats about it...

Also basecoated the ribbon on Mr Grimgor Ironhide. Going for a yellow/purple arrangement to match my empire general.