Impact Treemen

Finished painting the Impact Treemen for my Halfling team. It took a lot more work than I first imagined, there is lot of detail in these guys that isn't really apparent until you start painting them. The colours look a little flat here, I'd like to blame the camera/lighting/something but I just don't have the skills to take those spiffy photos you see on all the other sites. It is something I'm working on.

So here they are (left to right) Gildamesh Bloomberry and Gumpwise Talltree. Remember to click on the images to see a bigger version.


One thing that really annoyed me is that the miniatures were hollow. They came with a back piece and a front piece but were hollow down to the hips. Since you look down on the miniatures for the most part of a game it just looked silly. So greenstuff (actually I use Milliput and it's white but you get the idea) to the rescue. I'm pretty happy with the woodgrain sculpting on the inside, I actually forgot to do it and only remembered the morning after putting these guys together. Thankfully the greenstuff hadn't hardened completley so I was able to put some lines in with a scalpel and a pin.


I still need to finish painting the bases off and add some static grass. The Halfling team is pretty much complete now. I just have this guy to paint up as my team coach. He's a Reaper mini (03261: Bergo Ironbelly, Halfling Pirate) and the detail on this miniature is just amazing considering his size.


I'm still looking for an apothecary model so if you know of any good ones leave a comment and I'll have a look, thanks.

Impact Order

The last of my Christmas purchases finally arrived today, an order from Impact! Miniatures.

First up is some treemen for my Halfling team The Moortown Flinggers. Up until now I've been using two Heroclix Swamp Thing miniatures. The fit between the two halves insn't all that great but it's nothing a bit of greenstuff can't fix. Also in the order is a Goblin referee, my little green guys will take all the help they can get. Remember to click on the images to see a bigger version.

Next up are some tokens to help with game play. I've got a couple big guys that are huge, my Reaper treeman is over 80mm high, and I don't like laying them down on the table. The weather tokens should help those games where I remember we're playing in a blizzard only after I've set up a long pass play... it happend twice in the same game. And pictured last are some 2.5mm base magnets to stop the ruddy ball from falling off the base all the time. I'm also thinking of using them for my Warhammer armies to allow weapon swaps.
The tokens are a little on the small side, well compared to what I expected anyway. But they are pretty distinct and should easily fit into my BB dice/token box. Here's a shot of them next to a lineorc for size comparison.

The text on the tokens are etched into the surface so you can use a crayon to "fill in" the text. Takes me back to the days of the Dungeons and Dragon basic sets, the first two boxes came with etched dice and a crayon.
And a shot of all the tokens completed. The yellow didn't come out at bright as I'd hoped but it will do.

Now I'm off to put the treemen together.

Timbo

Distractions

I should be painting... I know. And I was... when these guys turned up in the mail a couple days ago.

I did resist the temptation to start painting these guys. I was getting a little tired of painting Orcs but what was I going to achieve by switching over to Goblins? A different shade of green?

Well it appears it was enough... for a while. I got as far as undercoating and base coats of flesh when, I don't know why, but I started to paint these guys.

They're Impact Imps and I've had them for quite a while now. I really can't use them for BloadBowl quote yet as I don't have any Ogres to go with them. I had originally bought them to use as Goblins but I didn't really read the description on the website very well. I was both shocked an amused when the envelope they were shipped in turned up. I think a photo can explain it better than I can.

Ok so upon finishing the Imps you think I'd go back to the Goblins, or maybe even what I should be painting: the Orcs.

No of course not... I headed out into the shed with my powertools and some MDF and ended up with this:

Which when painted and flocked looks something like this:

I'm getting things done... but I need to stay more focused. Which may be difficult as two boxes of WW2 minis arrived the other day.