Always glad to see your latest Scott, would really like to have a chance to pick your brain about the finer points of cutting and filing in your conversions. If you have the time one of these days, and we can coordinate a date/time convenient to all, I would like to have a chance to chat.

Anyone go to Baltimore Games Day ? Any word, sneak peeks, etc about a second wave ?

I think that the position of the draich and arms appears to suggest movement, either he just finished a swing or is preparing to charge. At least that what it looks like to me from the pics. Implied movement is always good and keeps the figure from appearing too static or posed, in that regard, I wo...

If it's possible, I think I like your BG conversions even better than I liked your daemonette/witch elf conversions....beautiful and inspiring work. I really like the dragon, the head and expression is very classic...along the lines of a brother's Grimm fairy tale dragon...looks great. Are you going...

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Some really interesting conversions and nice painting, please do something with the bases though, lack of ground cover really detracts from an otherwise very good job. Looking forward to seeing more.

GW should have offered a bushel of cash to Chris Fitzpatrick to come back and lead the charge.

Ebay is the best source for any older or oop minis. Every once in a great while you might come across old stock at a store that never sold, or maybe a local shop might sell older armies on consignment for gamers. The only other possibility I can imagine is buying older figures or an entire army from...

Nice job, very interesting presentation, understandable why you recieved best painted. I'm looking forward to seeing more, closer pics. My only real question is, considering the 3 dimensional aspects of your minis (more 3-D than generic spearmen, etc), how do you transport them ? After converting a ...

I had not thought of that beastmaster as my favorite, but Flanders you're right on the money for it being a perfect start for conversions. I'm very glad I picked up a few extra when bits were still easily available

If you take a look at the other dark elves gallery, you will get a look at the finished serpent piece, in order to guage relative size.

For those that are already jumping on the overpowered bandwagon, if the #2 player (vamp) had paited/based his army a little better, he would have won...look at the points breakdown. Regardless, congratulations to the winners, better luck next time to the rest.

They look beautiful, I generally don't like the older horses too much, but you've managed to downplay their their worst points and have brought them up to the standard of the rest of your army. Very nice work, you should be very proud.

Just as previously stated, use a dremel tool with a round burr bit to remove the metal in frony, hollowing out the sea dragon cloak from the front. Don't chop off any limbs or anything else until the cloak is pretty close to the way you want it so that you have something to hold onto while you're gr...

I like it, better than the dreadlord already released, but I think that the 6th edition corsair champions were better looking minis than this. I'll buy atleast one, convertability will determine whether I pick up more than that. Hope that the rest of the second wave provides more inspiration.

Campaigns can be a lot of fun, but sometimes can require more time and effort than everyone is capable of at any given time. Unless everyone is able to commit to a regular schedule of actual game time, don't start one. If you want to get a really good perspective of how a campaign can flavor your re...

Nice contrasts, the flaming red/orange against the dark blue/purple really works. Really like the antique gold of the undead BSB as well, how did you tone done the gold like that?

Looks like Georc has taken a page out of Soryama's art book, the armor is beautiful, especially the cuirass and shield. I'm not a fan of the face however...the skin color, the eyes, and the lips all leave me wanting, looks a little clown like, but I'm also quite sure that look is what you were aimin...

5th edition saw all kinds of beasts and birds available to the dark elves, so there's no reason why that couldn't be used as a proxy. It might get a little expensive though.

Arnold, after, glancing through your first and follow up posts I can only think of one suggestion for you...find the children's video tape of Sherry Lewis and Lambchop on which they sing "the song that does not end", by the time they've gotten to the fade you may well prefer death to such ...

There are many painting services around, most have scales that charge a set fee for infantry, that is then not quite doubled for cavalry, war machines and chariots are a little more expensive again, depending on complexity. Most services also have a defined scale for quality of work, ie. basic table...

Some times I don't automatically log in, even though I've got the box checked. I think the remember password function is maintained on my computer and has nothing to do with D.net though. More recently the scrolling recent topic list has gone missing. The site is back to being slow as well.

Simple Green, place minis in a small gladware container, fill container with enough simple green to cover, cover and let sit for a couple of days, take each one out and scrub with a tootbrush, and rinse under warm water. You may want to also let them soak briefly in a small tub of warm water with a ...

Here's a link to precision products, a company that manufacturers vacuformed styrene sheet in a variety of brick, cobblestone, stonewall, patterns. A 15" X 15" sheet should supply enough for almost your entire force, the biggest problem you would have would be to to cut out accurate circle...

The base looks like a regular base with a coat of acrylic modeling medium. After the paste dries it comes out a flat white, usually opaque unless it's too thin. It is possible to add paint, pigment, inks, or washes to the modeling medium while wet and paint/spread it on with color, or accepts acryli...