Torch's and Toasty Goodness

Another Zombie hunter finished this week. Sadie C from Hasslefree another cracking pose love the silenced SMG and the way the torch is held investigating those nooks and crannys. Also carrying a backpack for those essential's (lipgloss, phone, tic tacs etc) supplies. Whilst you know something is going to creep up from behind and grab her.

Had another a go at yellow with Sadie tried another recipe it looks ok just not a smooth as i'd hoped. They are kinda supposed to be tight fitting motorcycle leathers with a dark grey stripe down the sides.

Toastiness mmmmmmm. Picked up these a few weeks back with the7TV rulebook. Some Minion Specialists for my evil mastermind (TBA) to erm expend. Love the character of these figures. Especially the technician. a Nice set I really like the tanks on the flame thrower minion. I plant to get another set but I need to get some more Hardhat heads as you only get one sprue with this set and it only has one of those heads on. I will probably wait until the end of April though as they have some cool new head sprues coming out.

On a whingy note. What glue do you guys use for plastics? I had some of plastic glue from GW I only used it once on twelve dwarves to glue them to there bases only to come to use it the weekend and its all dried up grrrr. Any recomendations folks?

JUST A NOTE HAVE ADDED NEW PICTURES AND REMOVED THE OLD

Doctors and Agents

Been steadily working through some of my Individual figures this week. Again these figures can be used for any number of gaming needs. First up from Hasslefree is the Lab Technician. Nice little pose I feel. Could be used as a student doctor as well. I'm not sure what he will be used for yet but I've nicknamed him Dexter

Next from Hasslefree is Morgan B. I prefer this over the original as she has the trench coat added and a revolver. Quite quick to paint but she surprise me with how tiny she was! Morgan will be great as an office worker survivor or as an assistant agent. Reminds me a bit of Scully from the X-Files. Put up a size comparison at the bottom as well. Copplestone Future Wars, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and another Hasslefree lady,

As soon as this lovely lady was released. Hasslefree Destiny I just had to get her to go with my KKBB Soul Section the pose is just excellent and fits in perfect with the rest of the crew.

Heres some of the other bits worked on this week will probably have a few of  these ready for next week.

Work on the LOTR Dwarf's is progressing I'm basically using one hobby night a week to work on these and then working on everything else. Its good to get some progress done with these as seeing how many there's are feels like having a weight round my neck lol

4x4 and Gran with a shotgun

Been catching up doing the garden this weekend.Managed to get just the one Hasslefree figure done which is Madge the shotgun toting granny. Another fantastic figure from Hasslefree the post is jst great and I really enjoyed painting her.

Vehicle wise I managed to pick up some emergency 4x4's a Police and a Fire and Rescue one from ASDA for £2.00 each. There is an Ambulance as well but sadly there where none available. Scale Is supposodly 1:60 but they had some truck listed at 1:43 but they where tiny so not quite sure how accurate they are. I've included a few Hasslefree figures for scale.

H.I.V.E Higher Institute of Villainous Education

Reading wise this week I've just finished reading H.I.V.E (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) by Mark Waldon his blog has details of this books and its sequels can't wait for book two to arrive at the library to be honest. It was one of those books I couldn't put it down until it was finished!

Really love the concept of it and with my Spy-Fi infatuation it scratched the itch. Teenish fiction at its best and I found it quite funny in places. Certainly gave me the idea for some paint schemes for my evil masterminds. As well as some characters to boot.

From the back

H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) is a top-secret school of applied villainy where children with a precocious gift for wrongdoing are sent to develop their talents into criminal mastermind. After all, ‘villains have the best lines and wear the best costumes’.

One small catch is that the children cannot leave until training is complete, six years later. With villainy comes a certain freedom of thought, and every year one student in particular will show exceptional talent – after all, it takes the best to produce the worst.

This year there are two students: Otto Malpense and his new friend Wing Fanchu are both exceptionally bad, and they are definitely not keen on being held against their will for six long years . . .

I'd certainly give it a 7 out of 10

7TV Rulebook and Rescue Team Finished

Well finally managed to get into Waylands Forge and collected my Copy of 7TV Core Rules. WOW what an awesome book. Its absolutely fantastic quality it is beautifully set out, top quality print, the artwork is great and its all in full colour I'd thoroughly recommend getting the printed version over the PDF! Can't wait to try it out. Need a few bits to get first then I can have a few trials. If this is the quality of all there printed products then I shall be definitely picking up all the tokens and gadget/event cards Get it HERE

Finished my Rescue Team Split these into the two packs that I had from Gripping Beast. They are both from the MOFO Falklands British range. The first photos are of the smg pack I chose to use the Wooly hat heads for both these packs as I was after a special forces type look. The second set is the command (minus the mortar not decided if I want to use it yet) The guy in blue will be the leader I changed his head for the Grizzled Minion head from Crooked Dice. The main influence of these guys is the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service I saw this recently for the first time and though what a cracking film for some reason I must of missed this growing up or it wasn't shown on telly much. The rescue teams at the end are in simliar gear and so the seeds were sown.

Not sure what to start on next I also picked up a set of Crooked Dice's new minions set the flamethrower and technician guy. Nice sculpts and will be good additions to my other minions/guards. Have a load of Hasslefree bits to get finished for various projects so we will see.

Beards and Axes

Not much finished this week. Felt really ill over the weekend and slept most of Sunday so didn't get much done.

Been following 'The Hobbit Movie' on facebook lately and its put me in a Dwarfy mood especially the picture at the top.

 I dug out my LOTR Dwarf project which has been sidelined for a longtime. Its only WIP mostly I did do some test pieces over a year ago and have nearly finished doing the bases on these 7 lucky Dwarf's and done around 40 in total. As you can see in the last photo the gobbo's are quite outnumbered at the moment. I do have the Fellowship kicking around somewhere with a few other characters.

We'll see how far the project gets I got disheartened by the quantity of painting required. but will do this inbetween my other bits and bobs.

My Rescue squad have been given a wash of badab black for there grey and black scheme will hopefully have them done for next week.

Big Thank You to Lord Siwoc

Just like to say a BIG thank you to Johnny aka Lord Siwoc over at Brains and Guts held a competition to guess where a photo was from and I won woot woot clap clap. Expecting a little prize I came home from work to quite a large package. Originally It was to just be a groovy Cthulhu keyring but Johnny has kindly sent me 2 Zombies a Katana Kate and a load of cool bits to expand my bits box.

SIR YOU ARE A TRUE GENTLEMAN AND I THANK YOU ONCE MORE!

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