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I got these two models some time ago with the intent of using them as spirit hosts and then I thought they'd make good banshees as well. I decided to put little magnets into the bottom of each miniature and then I put a thin sheet of metal on a 40mm base and two 20mm bases so they can act as either a spirit host or two banshees. While the miniatures are beautiful, I wanted them to look more scary and more true to the artwork in the Vampire Counts army book. I set about grinding their pretty little faces off with an xacto and a dremel. Then I sliced off the faces from some skeleton and zombie...

Lots of improvements but I missed a goal I was aiming for. One thing I’m pretty pleased with is that I’m not going to be given the award for Battle Champion. Right now it’s between PolarOne and Thade. If you haven’t entered your games in for July you’ll want to do that before the 1st of August or else you won’t be in the running for a very slick achievement. I really really wanted to have the Ladder League ready for folks to use and had the intention of creating one for my buddies in the Chosen Realms up and available. After trying to build one from the ground up I noticed several things that...

All done and disgusting. First time using Tamiya's clear red (I'm a fan) and employing the piece of hair technique for the string of gore effect. Zombies are just fun to paint. ...

Got started on these to help fill out my number of zombies. Just using mostly bits left over from the Dwarf and Undead sprues from Mantic's Mhorgoth's Revenge set. ...

It's hard for me to stay focused on one thing right now. I got a good start into my Space Marines and now I'm painting some Dwarfs. And the worst part?, I'll probably work on some undead after these guys are finished. Or maybe I'll go back to Space Marines. Ahhhh, miniature painting ADD! Well, last spring I purchased Mantic's Kings of War 2 player set. I painted up most of the Undead half but haven't touched the Dwarf half until now. Got a chance to use my new compressor to basecoat them all in enchanted blue. SMURFS!!!...

I'm pretty behind on my blog posting and I'm trying to get caught up a little. Over the last several months I started using an airbrush to do my basecoating for all my miniatures. Last year I had picked up a cheap airbrush at Harbor Freight with the intention of trying it out. Couldn't really go wrong for $9. It sat in its box for a good year before I finally broke it out to try. I actually didn't own an air compressor but was borrowing a friend's...

Now that the missing bits are casted, painted, and glued on, my second tactical squad can now be complete. Here's a quick pic of all 20 of my painted space marines.

Hey, gamers! This week’s efforts on iToysoldiers are mostly behind the scenes. I’ve been working on cleaning up some of the artifacts from changing approaches to various elements of the site. So if you take a gander at the site right now it doesn’t look like much has been done. Couldn’t be further from the truth, actually. Lots of navigation improvements, some profile improvements and I’m well on the way to being able to provide Pyramid Leagues on the site. Here’s the list of what’s been done: 1. Replaced the “favorite” and “endorse” flags for galleries and feature requests respectively with...

It's been about a year and a half since I purchased 2 of the Space Marines half of Assault on Black Reach starter set. Decided to finally get started on painting the 2 tactical squads. However, in the middle of painting I realized that I'm short 2 boltguns and 2 backpacks. I vaguely remembered the ebay auction I got these from did mention that a couple marines were missing some pieces. Hmm, well that kind of sucks. I decided I would try and cast them from the ones I had. Problem was I was already finished painting all of them and I wasn't sure if the instant mold would affect the paint. I...

This has been a long time coming. I went with a pretty simple, quick and easy paint scheme. My base coat for all the armor is plain old Krylon gray primer. I then just did base coat colors with no shading or highlights. I decided I wanted my space marines to be easy to paint so I made up my own "dip" using Liquitex matte gel medium mixed with water and black paint. After some testing to get the right viscosity, I applied it to the whole miniature and what you see is the effect. Of course it's not up to the quality of most of my Protectorate of Menoth miniatures, but I won't be spending as...