A Taste of Things to Come....

No sexual innuendo intended, the blog (or rather the collection of pictures) is actually about my painted miniatures.

I've already posted two separate series regarding my Revenant and Avatar projects, and yes they will be updated soon, I've just been up to my neck in... well... it's better you don't know.

ANYWAY, I just wanted to post the quality I can paint at when I'm required to. The following selection was predominantly painted next week a year ago where I was sitting downstairs watching Myth-busters when I just said do myself "You know what Damien, I'm gonna paint!", and by God did I! The day was even topped off by a text from someone who I hadn't heard from in a long time, so I guess that was karma or the likes. So, onto the pics, I want to show you what I can do when motivated correctly (how Myth-busters motivated me to paint is still a mystery...even a year later!):

Autarch:

Dire Avengers:

Eldar Rangers:

Farseer:

Fire Dragons:

Howling Banshees:

Striking Scorpions:

Swooping Hawks:

Just looking there, I don't know why I didn't take a pic of the Warp Spiders... Oh well!

~The Damo

Gods of War, Football and Back To College

I don't usually do these kinda posts, but I'm in an unusual good mood today, so I'm going to try hit this one out of the ball park, you diggin what I'm laying down? I knew you could, slide me some skin soul brother!

Anyway, earlier this year, Forgeworld (a sister company of Games Workshop) released the Eldar Avatar, pictured below.

Forgeworld tend to make resin models of the stuff GW only touches on, stuff that would perhaps be too big for regular games of WH and what not. The original GW Avatar is pictured on the right. Needless to say, the Forgeworld one is vastly superior. Since I recognised the talent at Forgeworld, I had aspired to eventually purchase something from them, to add a kindof 'final touch' to my army. And about 3 weeks ago, I did just that. I purchased the above Avatar to replace the crappy one. It arrived about a week and a half ago and is currently sitting -unpainted- in front of me here as we speak, fully assembled. Hopefully when I catch, torture and kill the gremlin hiding away in my digital camera, I'll start up some sortof 'Project Log' or something here on blogger.

As a follow up, I decided that this year I would save up to buy one of Forgeworlds 'Mega' kits, this being the Eldar Revenant, pictured below. At €250 this is certainly going to rape my wallet, but given the complexity of the build, not to mention the vast painting time that will go into it, I'm just relishing the challenge.

The footy season is back in business, not just the Premiership but also my youth team playing again in Division 1 after finishing 4th last year, though there was only about 3-4 points between the top 4 teams. This day last week we had a friendly against Iveagh Trust, and I was pretty satisfied after about 50mins, given that we were 5-1 up.... Unfortunately, we ended up losing the game 6-5. I still don't know what exactly went wrong..... But today we've a friendly against Esker Celtic, the very club that play in the park just beside my house, hence how we got the friendly, so we had better win, if not, its back on the rack!!!

Finally, today I managed to enrol for all my modules for this and the next semester. It's looking really promising as at the moment, I will finish at 12pm most Mondays, 1pm most Wednesdays, 1pm every Thursday (and starting at 11am), and 3pm every Friday!! Yippee!!!

That's all folks!!!!

~The Damo