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Sep 24

Mycenean Tower Shields - speedy painting

Ever since seeing Peter Conelly's illustrations of Ancient Myceneans in his book 'The Greek Armies' published way back in 1977 they have...

Aug 3

Contrasting fortunes - Speedy Haqq...

This blog is a quick demo of my current technique for painting my own miniatures as quicly as possible to a standard I find acceptable...

Jul 13

The Tufty Club - making tufts for basing

If you are old enough to know what the original Tufty Club was congratulations for still being here with me! If you are not or reading...

Jun 10

O12 Team Space Police - alternate colour scheme

After buying my first Infinity minis back in 2019 I finally played my first game a couple of weeks ago using my PanO force and an O12...

Apr 28

Van Saar from Staart to finish...

First of all apologies for the title, you get to a certain age and puns become amusing for no good reason. This blog is covering how I...

Apr 21

PanO - part one of probably two

A few years ago I picked up a number of Pan Oceania Infinity miniatures off ebay just for the fun of painting them as a sort of busman's...

Apr 7

Ancient Greeks in Speedypaints

For many people the relatively new 'contrast/speedypaints' are something strange and possibly wrong in some way. For those of us who made...

Mar 31

Foxes and Wildcats and Badgers oh my!

One of the cool things about being a commission painter is getting to paint stuff you would never ever normally buy for yourself. This...

Feb 16

Guild Ball Resurrection

I was sent these two teams a while back, so far back that Guild Ball was a thing. Then all of a sudden it wasn't athing and now...

Feb 7

World building - All the MCP terrain that has crossed my desk.

Since it's release MCP has been a staple of my commission work with customers across the world. I have many galleries on the website and...