HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

I know it's been a while but hey I have been busy and so have you. Unfortunately back at work now but had a great time on the gold coast over xmas and back to Sydney in time for the amazing fireworks display!!! I hope you all had a great break.





I know I am long overdue an update but that doesn't mean I haven't been painting. Almost finished my first Halfling Bandit unit and after messing around with my camera settings I somehow fluked a couple of half decent photos for a change. Well it has helped me convince myself that my painting isn't quite as crap as my complete lack of photo skills have been making out.

HALFLING BANDIT












HALFLING MERCENARIES

Here is the next unit which is well underway, a halfling mercenary fighter unit.....loads of character here.





The first halfie of this unit complete




MORE RECRUITS


This is my undead unit, minis by Heresy.....I have a halfling skeleton and a halfling devil lined up to add.



Some cute old Citadel halfings...these are fast becoming my favourite halflings and I'm considering collecting the whole series.



And yes I finally crossed this guy off my wanted list

MERRY XMAS!!! LAST BLOG FOR THE YEAR

Well I would just like to quickly wish everyone a merry xmas and all the best for the next year where ever you may be. It's been pretty hectic of late so hopefully things will start to slow down a lil over the holidays. Off to the Goldcoast of Australia for a week in two days so all is good!!! YAY ME!!!!

Anyway just a quick update of a few more hobbits of the first bandit unit.



MORE REINFORCEMENTS


BILLY BAGSHOT



I couldn't resist this guy, he's an awesome sculpt by Victoria Lamb and I have absolutely no idea how he is going to fit into the scheme of the arm......well he is a halfling......vampire hunter maybe?




MAGGOT!!!





Farmer Maggot was scored cheap off e-bay primarily for the hounds and the guy on the right is a halfling but Eureka will probably be part of the Adventurer unit....yes.... oh no another unit.

FIRST HALFIE!!!

Well here he is my first lil halfie from my bandit unit. A nice Vendel mini. Was a nice change doing neutral colours like black and green which are so much more forgiving instead of the reds and whites of my British Naps. I actually did four layers on the black and tried to make them a lil Ring Wrathie looking!!! Overall I'm pretty happy although there is still room for improvement so any tips are appreciated.







Here is the Bandit unit all primed and ready to go.



Here are more of my recent arrivals

Halfling Fighters



The middle two are from Hasselfree miniatures (great customer service btw) and I especially love the Roman styled one probably one of the best detailed Halflies I have received so far. The far left is from Ral Partha which is also nicely detailed.

And Yet More Halfies



Three are from Ral Partha including the unusual leaf cloaked blowpipe sniper assassin guy thingy. I also plan to setup an archer unit.


VAMPIRE



This guy will form the basis for the Vampire/Undead unit, hes by Ral Partha also and looks very Vampirie or Vampirish if you ask me.


FOR INSPIRATION
I stumbled across these on painted by (permission to post here) by Johan, cheers mate. Stunning stuff, please note the following models are painted by Johan and not me.

Houston We Have A Scale Problem

The lil guys are really flowing in now but I seemed to have hit a snag with the scaling which has thrown a slight spanner in my works.



As you can see there is a rather noticeable size difference even with the three of the four being from the same maker Reaper. The majority of the Reaper Halflings are the same size as the one on the far right but the two in the middle are much smaller for some reason? As a result I have had to rethink the makeup of each unit more around the size as well as the theme but it still seems to be working out ok thus far.

So here is the start of the Halfling Bandit unit, the small female Reaper Halfling (she is a beautiful sculpt too) is actually a perfect size match for the Vendel models and the other small Halfling doesn't really stand out much either. The detail on the Vendel models aren't as sharp but the character and poses seem to get them by ok.



The next unit is the Ranger Unit which is made up of the wonderful Reaper models, the detailing on these guys are superb and the crouching thief is very dynamic and dark.








Next is more Reaper for the Vampire Hunter Unit, this will be more of a ragtag bunch of individuals who fit together based on complimentary skills, there will be a couple of gnomes and dwarfs in here for good measure.



The detail on the Reaper guys are great and should be more noticeable once painted. Hopefully the remaining 20 odd Halflings arrive safe and fit in nicely with the scale of these.

Now which unit to paint first? I'm thinking the lil bandits?