http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=60 still finisihing up the bases ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=840 undead sharpshooter! duck! ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=855 Been out in the woods for a few days so not much painting, but I finished this one after work today This little fella looks like a quick draw: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=851 I wasn't sure how the fur and hide pallette was going to come together, but I'm happy with how this is working out ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1154 More undead pirates ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=843 I worked out the midtones, and took the edge off the shadows a bit, and now I am quite happy with her flesh tones ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=240 Its frustrating when I discover I need a color of paint that I don't have once a project is going, rather than before I start it ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=241 Finished the metals, re-did her crest, and finished the shield (motif based on Athenian coins ) ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=257 The rest of the Amazons are underway ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=259 metals, crests, & hair done ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=264 I woke up sick this morning ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=269 I've been jacked up on cold medicine for two days, so I haven't trusted myself to do the freehand on the last 4 shields ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=275 the musician and standard bearer for the warrior women are underway go team, go! ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=379 Finished this samurai tonight ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=367 I've had this guy on my desk, partially painted for months ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=354 The FUUK-Tarts gang is also done, yay! Some closer pictures of the foot soldiers, the bikers, and a closer look at the gang leader ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=351 I'll be able to finish this fella as soon as the sand dries on the base ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=355 finished this guy ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=356 while I'm 1) sick, and 2) waiting for my hand to heal, I've taken off from working on comissions for a few days until I can concentrate and have a steady hand ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=523 The last three, finally ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=526 This is going to be 'Hamar' a charcter for one my clients' RPG ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=544 Since the boob related posts are obviosuly the most popular, and in demand, I give you The Warrior Cult of Athena ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=557 part 2 of the boobies showcase :p ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=559 more amazons: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=564 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=565 The Cult of Athena's standard: The greek on the standard is from the ~7th centrury BCE 'Homeric' Hymns ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=567 The shields from this unit ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=576 Got inspired to do some skeleton pirates from Bronze Age & Moonlight ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=775 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=777 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=778 toe bone ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=784 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=787 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=871 I had a great time with this smooth operator from Mountain Miniatures ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=872 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=875 These guys are just about ready to roll: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=888 wah wah! ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=890 (punchline to a great pirate joke) ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=918 It was pointed out to me today when I shared the final pictures of the Taco General Staff that I had in fact failed rather stunningly in my limited research into the correct uniform colors ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1182 Random chaos thug ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=932 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=934 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=938 The undead pirates are partying down because they are all done being painted, and thus the crew is ready to get underway ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=944 He'll be swabbing the decks for all time! ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=947 unspeakable things are happening at Madponies ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=958 Orc diversion #1 & 2 are finished ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=963 #2 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=964 Shown in the patrol uniform of the 69th Infantry Regiment ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=965 Appearing soon in the chariot races: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=969 Test fit the orcs tonight ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=973 These are nearly done, and so is the chariot ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=975 Full images here and here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=982 Big burly barbar's! quick-n-dirty work on some Harlequin chariot crew: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=990 The CMON shop exceeded expectations (not hard to do) and delivered SJB's latest barbarian lady in time to include her in this project, which I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do or not ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=998 Turns out a hairdryer is just the right amount of heat to get the resin pliable, but not droopy or dangerously maleable ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1001 I finished this lass shortly after taking this ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1003 Mostly just need to finish up the horses and make a chariot base, and this project is ready to shelve till the sale ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1005 For a massive zombie fight game at Salute 2009 Great sculpts from BillT@Musketeer ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1010 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1012 Working on this officer from the 28th Regiment of Foot (Gloucester), for a charity auction ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1021 This fella is lookin' sharp to me so far ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1023 I've been informed these buttons should be more pewter ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1028 Hopefully I'll get this chariot photgraphed properly tomorrow, now that it's done ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1029 The Barbarian chariot is done, can I get a witness? So the original archer is pinned to be swappable with Red Sonja here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1031 I have to pack and move ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1043 It took all of my restraint to not paint the fella on the right's bicorne in tortilla-brown and the ruffed fur edging as lettuce and cheese ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1039 Well, sort of at least ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1080 After 6 long weeks of no painting, I finally took a break from putting our house in order and laid brush to lead today on some random projects ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1093 Zombie stoner #2, done for a friend of mine ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1111 Finally got my order in from Litko- 200 bases for about 22$ ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1124 The funnest part of zombies is almost always the goreification ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1129 I'm doing this conversion for a friend's wood elf lord ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1142 Costochondritis is pretty much destroying my productivity of late ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1162 I know, I know, I'm supposed to be working on the elf ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1176 I'm getting back at this painting biz a little bit more now and again ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1225 All this and more (well, not realy that much more at the moment!) over at my new blog, which actually works as expected ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1375 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=61 These guys are up for sale on ebay ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=842 Finally finished this batch: The assassin an be seen here for now, and the other 4 have full pics on CMON, here, here, here, & here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=374 I have too many ideas for random games ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=364 I'm trying to track down 3 figures from the now defunct Iliad games: Murata, female Aeromancer of Heraklyn, and the Air Elementals ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=382 Or actually, my back is making me feel like a baby ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=385 Okay, yuletide happenings are finally done, time to get back to work ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=425 Issue #3 of Wargames Painting and Modelling is finally out, and includes an article I wroute about painting verdigris ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=476 I've been working on re-formatting and redesigning my website slowly for a few months ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=484 The leader of the band of warrior women: Boobs just for you, Jericho ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=571 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=635 I just finished this silly little terrain piece given to me by my wife, back when we'd only been dating a short time ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=751 Finally finnished this Illyad Aeromancer comission: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=710 who knows if you'll ever be able to read this entry thanks to the cmon blog system being totally bolloxed up ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=789 I'm off for a week ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=898 MadPonies Charity Auction: 28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1916 and 28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1805 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1113 So now that I got the hats straightened out, I was able to get some final photos of Marshal Ney and staff ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1188 Round the horn! Here's to the demise of winter for one more year ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1241 Actually, it all began with painting green plastic army men with my Testors model paints ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1294 I will no longer be blogging on the archaic and annoying coolminiornot system ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1308 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=68 I originally got these to do as a street gang for a demo-game to be run at Salute next year, however I came up with a different idea that I liked better for that project, so now I have a bunch of Mr ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=279 I really like the way these came out ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=280 It has been a bit sporadic this week ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=302 Been another sporadic week, but I finally settled down and finished this lot this evening ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=321 It's finishing touches time on the last of the Gun Street Girls ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=327 This project is another bunch of girls, to be sent off to the UK for the Frothers gang-fight demo at Salute '08 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=328 A little progress on the 2008 FK-1 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=332 3/5 of the gang is done ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=339 Made good progress on the other biker tonight: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=341 finished off the 2nd biker in between making casserole and dressing today: And I got started on the last gang member: Now it's time to got eat turkey ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=347 Finally got the finished figures photographed under better lighting: Bigger pics here and here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=350 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=84 the amazon cheerleaders had to take a dip in paint thinner ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=394 I'd forgotten how much I really like these miniatures ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=398 I'm quite pleased with these ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=400 I finished the hose of all the remaing reiksguard I have primed at the moment ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=402 hurrah, hurrah! ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=406 Knocked another 7 out: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=414 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=87 I had a bunch of greenstuff mixed up to fix some bases on the VSF project ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=428 3 stitches, left index finger knuckle ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=511 For my scots-rebellion English: Sir Charles le Brun, his faithful hound Snoupé, and his trusted standard bearer Linus VanPelt, Esquire ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=622 Is that it's full of Scots! Did these archers for my Rebellion collection the other night ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=712 WIP knight and two sergeants ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=714 My Templar Knight and his two Sergeants are just about done, and ready to start causing rumours to lasting 800 years ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=718 Brian De Jay, knight Templar ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=735 Some english archers I've been mucking about with ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=771 made some more dents in the old archers: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=772 I finally finished the bases on these ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=819 Here are the rest of the archery mob: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=821 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=88 Had a busy weekend in non-painting activities, so only a little progress to update ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=445 Here is the Space:1889 Victorian Sci-Fi project, all based and primed ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=429 Started in on the Victorian personalities' skin ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=431 Enough of that web-wrangling, time to get back to painting ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=487 There will be a lot more pith helmets and swords to come when I get to the Queen's Own Regiment, but I'm enjoying these two dashing fellows at the moment: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=494 more doughty VSF Chaps ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=497 Well the PCs for this Space1889 group are all done, aside from one that is still on back order ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=501 Starting on the repltiliad group for this VSF ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=535 These guys are moving pretty well as they have verty little kit on them, and are only being done to 'cannon-fodder' quality bit more close up here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=539 I finished the Reptilliad unit today: Next up I think will be the Brits ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=543 I'm tackling 4 Deinonychuses now: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=545 I'm really happy with the way these came out ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=551 I've been lacking updates lately, so here's a shot of the colonial troops: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=647 English cannon fodder, all done aside from the bases: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=650 Back from vacation, and back to work ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=677 leather doodads and widgets abound on these fellas: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=682 Getting into the home stretch on these Germans ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=713 The trim on the pickelhaubes finally makes me think 'Prussian' when I look at these ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=715 So I finished the Germans, and went back and finished the Brits' bases as well, and got them all properly photgraphed: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=727 The last of the beasties are done for this project: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=731 This is the last figure for the VSF project- A chinese serving woman / body guard for the Victorian lady ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=747 Working on getting the hakama going with the right amount of vibrance ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=749 I finally finished this martial artist, which is the last in long project I've been working on for a customer's RPG game ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=755 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=211 One of our hills got left near a radiator and the foam warped pretty badly underneath ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1117 I've had this chunk of laminated foam sitting around in a box since Ben and I built our hills years ago ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1125 This waddle and timber house (Armorcast) is about 75% now ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1282 This piece is nearly done now ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1287 Here's the Inn, all finished up: More views and details here ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1291 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=208 Sorting through my collection I found this Warmaster army I never finished, and don't need ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1116 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=218 This fig is super fun to paint ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1015 These are for the Frothers game at Salute09 ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1134 http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&category=243 It is the time of the half man ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1240 I'm now full swing into this halfling warband for mordheim, and it is proving very satisfying ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1248 These guys will probably be my 0-2 youths in the Halfling warband ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1253 The fellow on the left will be the leader of this warband ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1255 I took last weekend off to go to the mountains and had a host of things going on this past week, but I finally got a little brush time this weekend ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1262 Color came out wierd on this one for some reason, oh well ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1271 A lively little archer from Harlequin miniatures ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1278 These fighting swine will be some of the strongest troops in the halfling warband: ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1280 This former Bloodbowl bruiser is getting a new job as a designated smasher with the halflings ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1281 Finally got some more time spent on the last fig for the halfling band, the ogre ... http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&note=1305