Hey Sexy lady...

Well I've started work on my first ever large scale model as mentioned in a previous post. It's a scantily clad lady from Andrea Miniatures entitled "Bus Stop" from their pin-up range. I got it to try out something different...and because I like half naked ladies! 

Work will probably be quite slow as I've still got a couple of regiments of Napoleonic infantry to finish! 

I will of course provide updates when I have them! (And hopefully she might have 2 legs by then!!)

 

Gromit hunting

Where's Wallace

 

Gromit Lightyear

 

Union Jack Gromit

 

 
 

 
 

 

A Grand Day Out

Got a week off work so hopefully should make good progress on the painting front this week, but unfortunately I've got to spend some time with the missus and my two little daemons too! ( which one is the Sith apprentice is still unclear as they both have so many differing dark talents! ).

So to keep them amused I took them to Bristol yesterday and we went Gromit Hunting! Basically the city has hidden 80 statues of Gromit (the famous Aardman animation dog) around the city. We walked miles and miles... Think I've worn their legs down to stumps and we've only found 32 so far!!

 
 
 
 

 
 

Big Lee's Million man march

This is a quick post for Big lee's miniature adventure which has just reached the incredible achievement of reaching 1million page views!!
Check out his incredible site and see for yourself why it has proved to be so popular...and maybe win yourself some goodies in his celebratory giveaway!!
Here's the link:

http://www.blmablog.com/2013/07/blmas-millionth-pageview-givaway.html

Hello Again... Hello....

Hi everyone!
Wow my page views and followers have gone through the roof in the last couple of days!
All thanks to Andrew (Loki) and his write up and support for me over on his tremendous Blog http://napoleonicwargamingadventures.blogspot.com.
Andrew has been an immense support and inspiration since I started and I really can't thank him enough!!

Well welcome to my Blog everyone, as you can tell I'm very new to all this but thank you all for taking the time to check my stuff out and I hope you all like it.

The pressure is on now to increase my output and make my ramblings a bit more interesting now I've got so much more interest!

Seriously though thank you all again for visiting and for all your kind comments. Feel free to add any comments and criticisms you like, all the help, support and advice I get is greatly appreciated!

Thanks again and  welcome

Wargaming Girl's Giveaway

http://28mmvictorianwarfare.blogspot.com/2013/05/wargaming-girls-100k-page-view-giveaway.html

Another plug for the fantastic prizes on offer at Wargaming Girl's fabulous blog!
Please check it out, follow her blog and who knows...you might get your hands on some of her goodies! ( keep it clean please!)

3D Printing and the future of our hobby

I was listening to a radio phone in debate about 3D printing the other day which of course was focusing on the creation of a printed Handgun in the US, but it got me thinking about 3D printing and the future of our hobby.
      Now I'm no technology expert by any means but 3D printing surely raises some interesting questions.
      Will we one day be able to scan a model and print off a copy for ourselves? We can probably already do this now but I imagine the costs involved would currently make this unviable for your average Space Marine... But what about for that one off expensive character model?? If the plans were published on the Internet you could do it?
     The costs are bound to come down as always will this lead to everyone being able to do printing in their own home or will it be more like printing photographs now? Yes I can print my own photos and once in a while I do, but the inks not cheap and it's a hassle... Much easier to pop into Asda and get 300 photos for a few quid....is this the future model?
      What about the studios themselves? Will they all go bust? Maybe we need to look at the example of music? I can download illegal tunes and I admit I have in the past but I don't now...I use amazon or iTunes. I like to do it legally and I like the 'real' thing. Maybe in the future that's what will happen?
      Games workshop, privateer press et al?? They must be quaking in their boots and if not they should be! At the very least they should be looking at HMV etc and seeing bankruptcy as a possible future? Now much as lots of people dislike GW  I'm sure most people admire their models and probably got into the hobby through them. What if they ceased to exist?
      The demise of Gw and our hobby has been predicted for a long time... Video games were meant to kill it but they haven't so probably 3D printing won't either but I do think it will see a change!
     Maybe it will bring a positive change.... More designers in their own bedrooms, more smaller independents, cheaper models, more added extras to inspire loyalty... Who knows????

Just a few thoughts......

Loki's Giveaway

This is a plug for a competition Andrew Saunders is running over on his great site Loki's Great Hall. Please check out his awesome blog and enter his competition!!
Link below:
http://napoleonicwargamingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/2nd-blog-birthday-giveaway.html