Father Brown

This chap was totally chopped up in a duel at Benno's recently. I had a very nice duel with Pascal http://samsminisworld.blogspot.se/ and lost. Huge thanks for a very fun and nice duel! His woodman is very good work and he really deserved to win this duel. I named my figure Father Brown after G. K. Chesterton's crime novels. Figure is from Valdemar's Life In A Teutonic Monastery-set, walls are from Prince August's Fantasy Build-moulds and the base is ... here comes the SECRET: Susofrick Junction! But without the houses! :-D So I could use the same base in two duels, winning one and losing the other! :-D Here are the un-edited pics of Father Brown:

And here is a link to Susofrick Junction where you can see the base in another setting:

http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2012/02/wild-west-dio.html


And here I also use the same base: :-D

http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2012/04/hobbits-and-more.html

Will use the base for more pics, but I plan to make more bases so I can get a little variety. I don't have that much space for dios or vignettes and this way I can use the same base for many many many dios. :-D If I just edit them a little. Maybe cheating, but I didn't have a chance to win so I can't think anyone will call it cheating. (I hope).

And here is what I wrote about Prince August's Fantasy Build:

http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2011/01/prince-august-fantasy-build-plaster.html

http://gataskog.blogspot.se/2011/01/little-update-on-prince-augusts-fantasy.html

Unfortunately I don't think you can find these moulds anywhere cheap. I bought mine late 80s and I haven't seen them since then in any shop.

Currently reading 1

I am a terrible reader. I start a book, take a break, start another, take a break, start a third, take a break, back to the first or second, take a break start a fourth and so on. Right now I've got six books going on at the same time (and I only read at lunch or at the loo, and that's just as well. That would be too many books at the same time). So I thought I could write a little about them here. The first one is a collection of short stories so that is easy to read, The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories compiled by Herbert van Thal. Many of the stories have dated badly, but some are pretty good. Second is a crime novel by the Norwegian author Unni Lindell, Ormbäraren (Snakebearer). Pretty good, but probably not issued outside of Scandinavia. Third is Waterloo by Swedish author Michael Tamelander. Since most of the facts in it is available elsewhere it is only published in Swedish. The fourth book I'm reading is a compilation of letters, and memories written by common people during WWI. How they saw at the war and what happened. This is compiled by Swedish Historian Peter Englund (secretary in the Nobel Prize commitee). And I'm still reading George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. I've reached part 5, Dance With Dragons. Have to go slowly with that one so he can finish the next. Also read Bernad Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles. Latest published part there too, but that is easier to catch up on so that one I can finish whenever I like too. Since music is a huge interest I read some music magazines too. ClassicRock, UnCut and Mojo are pretty frequently read, but also started to read a Swedish music magazine called Nostalgia Rock'n'Roll. Ordered some books for the Summer so if don't finish any of these there will be more books currently reading.

A hill

First a welcome to Alvaro, Steve and Elder. Nice to have you here. Bought a hill at the Petshop. Probably meant for lizards or spiders or something like that. Not for fish, cause it floats. :-D Pretty good size for these figs.

And for those that missed the birtday cake, here is at least a picture of it. It was very nice! :-D

Italeri's Country House with Porch

Been working a little on Italeri's Country House with porch. Couldn't decide on a colour on the house so I painted just as the box. Next house (only got two of them) could be read or yellow. :-D It is a pretty nice kit. Nothing of this is finished yet!

But if you want rooms you have to make the inner walls by yourself. But they won't be seen from the outside if you have the roof on so why bother. I painted the inside of the walls as if there were at least two rooms on the upper floor.

The kit got some smaller parts and they come in a bag. If they were on a sprue they would be much easier to paint, but no! That is what I don't like about this kit. Will probably use it in some dios.

When it is finished, that is. With all those small parts to paint it can take a while.

Hobbits and more!

Found some hobbits in the cellar. All of them from Prince August's Mithril range. Didn't like them that much at the time (late 80s, early 90s), but now I think they are quite nice. Threw in some ents, Beorn and a scouting dwarf too.

And a huorn too.

Also found some figures for a scene from The Prancing Pony at Bree. Crappy pictures, sorry. Just a temporary scene, don't know if I build it again.

Some of the followers said that I hadn't paint the furniture so I painted a chest. It was very fun and I think it turned out quite good. Even the missus liked it. :-D

And a table in metal (from the Valdemar set Life in a Teutonic Monastery). Very nice, too.

And I can highly recommend that chest from Fredericus Rex. It was great fun to paint and build. No wash! First one layer of GW Desert Yellow, the GW Scab Red and last GW Snot Green. The flowers are handpainted and small, so I had to guess where to put the brush (well, at least almost). :-D

Furniture and part of a dancing troup

Managed to do a little work on some of the furniture I bought from Fredericus Rex. Very nice and being made of balsawood they don't weigh anything at all (well, if you are 20-25 mm tall they probably weigh a lot). Very nice furniture, but it easier to work with metal furniture. They are not finsihed yet. Our old friend Galant George shows the furniture and a carpet from Crazy Cavan's Carpets.

Galant George also trains the dancetroup Trolls on Feet. They will probably join up with The SilverSinger in the future.

Furniture

Bought some furniture. Kits just like IKEA, only smaller and nicer! :-D