2014 is coming to a close and there's a raft of activity around some of the community projects I'm involved with.
Top of the billing is Project Alchemy, due to end this coming Sunday (9 November). This charity fundraiser in aid of UNICEF has currently raised £1,740, just shy of the £2,000 target, with all donors being entered into a draw to win some amazing wargaming memorabilia. A massive 'thank you' to everyone who has put their hands into their pockets so far! And if you haven't, what are you waiting for! Here's a teaser of what you could win:
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| Details on how to donate at www.project-alchemy.weebly.com |
The Oldhammer Legacy Warband is looking very fine, with 13 models completed and numerous others currently WIP and due for completion before Christmas.
Similarly, the Talk Fantasy Football Legacy Team is coming to fruition, and we're only a handful of models away from a complete team.
I really enjoy participating in community projects like this, where people get to share their hobby and contribute to a group project. Happily, yet another such project surfaced earlier in the week, with the Oldhammer Salvation Army, the brainchild of Asslessman over at Leadplague. This concept is so simple, I'm surprised no-one has done it before:
1) dig out a neglected WIP model from your collection
2) send it to someone else
3) they finish it
4) the model has been saved from the terrible fate of hobbying limbo
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| I am sending this RT mercenary to Whiskey Priest to receive some much needed attention |
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| Captain Crooks will be getting Geordie LaFrog |
I love the idea that I can give something that has been in a box for a number of years and see it finished. I am also very much looking forward to working on a model which is the brainchild of somebody else!
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| This interesting mutant is coming my way courtesy of Whiskey Priest |
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Blood Bowl Slann
I'm giving my Slann team a run out tomorrow night, after a fortnight off from the current league. I'll be playing against Tris' Dwarves (not a good match up for me I think, with no block and some dodge on my team). I did put the finishing touches to this guy last night to bolster my squad. This big, ugly frog is my Kroxigor; a simple conversion from the 2nd edition Blood Bowl Troll. His head was replaced with that of a giant toad, and a few Slann-esque embellishments added.
As is traditional with newly painted models, I expect he'll be seriously injured when he fails his first block against a Troll Slayer!
I have that troll but he looks ace as a frog. Who'd a' thunk it?!
ReplyDeleteHe's got the warty skin, gangly legs and bloated belly that seems to translate to 'frog' quite nicely. OK he's not technically got a prehensile tail, but I reckon a prehensile tongue is just as good ;)
DeleteThis is all excellent ! I'm really happy that so much good initiatives like these exist, I remember when my hobby was just a sad solitary experience...
ReplyDeletePainting for others, painting other people's stuff, giving away things is actually VERY rewarding ! Not only do you get presents in return but you also make friends and help strenghten the community around solid values like solidarity and sharing.
I'm really excited about picking something else in the salvation thread but I want to send something first just to feel "even" !
The fact you're involved in so much of these is just another proof of how nice a guy you are (and no further proof was needed at that point).
The Frogsigor is brilliant, just the right look and all. No need to oevrdo things, just simple and effective, the kind I like.
"I remember when my hobby was just a sad solitary experience..." me too JB - for a period of several years I genuinely thought that I was the only one interested in playing with old lead figures, rather than building the newest plastic kit. Now it turns out there's 1000s of us!
DeleteAnd shucks...you're making me blush with your kind words ;)
Yeah, that Troll conversion looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteNicely done :)
Cheers! Funny how these things can sit on the WIP pile for years...I think I did the conversion back in 2011, but I need him for a Blood Bowl league game tomorrow, so he just *had* to get a paint job!
DeleteI know the feeling, I've got an impressive shrine to "half done" miniatures gathering on my painting desk. My siege dreadnought & Orctober entry are staring at me while I type.....stop looking at me damn it!
DeleteYou really nailed the frogs head proportion to the body. Where'd you source it from? Or is it too far back to remember now :p
It was some sort of giant toad...might have been Citadel, but equally might have been something else. Reaper? Otherworld?
DeleteThat Mercenary was my favourite by miles, but I'm glad he's going to a good home. :)
ReplyDeleteSorry...on the plus side, he's really simple should you want to recreate him :)
DeleteThe big frog is inspired and brilliantly executed, I really like it. That orange is very smooth too. Whats the recipe?
ReplyDeleteJust GW blazing orange highlighted with golden yellow. Its actually a quick and dirty paint job to match the rest of the team I originally painted a couple of years back. These days I'd probably do glazes and washes...but it probably wouldn't look much different!
DeleteThe skin tone fits my concept of a frogs skin though, even if mine is a pop-culture, Kermit heavy sort of concept. Glazes and washes etc might have improved the look I suppose, but the iconic, comic book, graphic, sports strip look works perfectly here I think.
DeleteYou are a white undercoat sort of person it appears. Or you were back then anyway :)
Nope...black undercoat then and now! Haven't used a white undercoat (apart from an Undead Blood Bowl team) since about 1998 ;)
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