The Hay-on-Wye Festival 2017

Holly, Sue and I visited Hay-on-Wye yesterday mainly for a walk around the Festival, which this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but also to mooch the secondhand book shops. The weather was OK with some cloud but mainly sunny and the festival was its usual mix of different activities and exhibitions.

None of us came away with much, but we all enjoyed our picnic on the hill below the castle.

More details here.

Tony

Models For Wargamers Book - a further update

60 books have now been sold. 

The first 100 copies of Models For Wargamers are going to be numbered and signed. Should you wish to purchase a copy of this or Dampfpanzerwagon Guide No. 2 - More Wargame Terrain Please follow this link.

Once again thank you for the support.

Tony

Oldhammer Kickstarter - update

Here is an example of the painted Apothecaries Rest. The image was taken from the latest update on The Lead Adventure Forum, for details see this post.

The masters for most of the buildings were sculpted by me and cast in resin by Rob Alderman of Hysterical Games. Further images can be found here.

I think you will agree the painted example looks fantastic.

The Oldhammer Kickstarter is now planned for launch very soon and I will update the Blog once I have more information.

Tony

Paintbrushes for Christmas

This week, I received a late Christmas present of five paintbrushes. The brushes are sable or sable mix and range from No. 2 down through 0, 3/0, 5/0 to 10/0. The smaller sizes are a little unusual for me, but will be useful when painting eyes and super detail.

Thank you Nigel and Louvaine.

Tony

Westwind Dwarves for sale on e-bay

NOW SOLD

I have places a number of Westwind Metal Dwarves on e-bay. The miniatures were bought many years ago with the intention of painting them up as a warband and then as characters in a Frostgrave campaign but they have sat, un-loved in a wooden box for too long and I think I should be passing them on.

For full details see this link.

Tony

The Traders Shack for the Apocalypse Miniatures Kickstarter

The Traders Shack is yet another scratch-built master for the Apocalypse Miniatures  OldHammer Kickstarter due to be released later this year. I will be keeping the Blog updates with details once I have more information.

Tony

Spring Clean part three

With all the work I have done on the exterior of the shed, I thought it was only fair to clean up the inside. Here you can see my North-facing workstation with my (antique) paints. I treated myself to a new A2 Cutting mat with the old one being cut up to act as lining for the shelf and use as a surface protector.

I really should be getting on with the last of the scratch-built models for The Pen and Sword terrain book, but with weather this good, I think I can allow myself a little me-time.

Tony