Recent content by calabdark

nearly finished george r.r.martins a feast for crows, not sure what i think of this one, i think its probably the weakest one of the series so far, but still an excellent read. seems to me there must be another book to come after dance of dragons unless a lot of plotlines get tied up in a very...

just finished a chaos giant for my beasts of chaos army, its the most ambitious conversion ive attempted to date, thought it was never going to be finished at one point. would love to get some feedback on it, as im about to start painting the old chaos dragon with rider, so any tips on painting...

just posted my second mini since my long painting break, its a albion truthsayer i tried to convert into a marauder chieftain, ive actually only done a weapon swap with him but i think ill add a shield at a later date, ive tried to paint him in a much different way than my beastlord my previous...

ive recently been studying senmm and nmm in general, and have found imo that the examples ive seen first hand as it were, seem more convincing in photo than they do in rl, the senmm/nmm looks pleasing to the eye and pretty but just isent as convincing in the flesh(pewter) as it is in a 2d...

hi, been away for sometime and took a long break from painting, however ive just posted my first mini ive painted for about 18 months and would love some feedback, im also a little concerned the pic might be a bit to dark, if u could take a look and post some feedback here or on the pic it would...

ah its that time of year again, my annual session of getting swept away with the British media saturation of henmania, hopes built up that we may have a possible wimbledon champ after centuries of british finest being the likes of jeremy bates only to have them savagely crushed as henman meets...

ive just got around to assembling my champion of slaanesh on daemonic mount(snake like thing) but cant remember which base size it was supplied with 40mm or 50mm , its been in pieces in my bits box for months and the bases have all got jumbled, does anyone know, thanks

hi, i was wondering if anyones got any really good wood color recipes , the sort of colors im looking for are like the wheels of victoria lambs gael chariot http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=23130&c=All&m=All&nm=none or any others that give quite a realistic and pleasing effect...

hi all, ive just posted a new mini , female commisar, i was wondering what people thought, ive tried a bit of freehand on the skirt, although its a bit dark in the pic. http://www.coolminiornot.com/?id=29390

can any one tell me what the standard equipment is now for beastmen chariots, in the preview list crew had hvy arm and shields and the wheels were scythed, ive got four chariots and i dont know whether to convert them or not. thanks

hey all i was wondering whos entering or just going to UK games day this year, im thinking about entering because i think it will add a bit of spice to the day for me, i dont expect to win anything but who knows, maybe my next mini will be 10 times better than any of my previous ones and the...

i was wondering if any one had any clue as to what recipe rackham do their human flesh in(fiannas) ive been experimenting with mixing basic skin colour with golden yellow and gold brown and smoke but i just cant get it, anyone got any ideas thanks

hi there, i recently bought and used vallejo smoke, i noticed that there are a lot of quite large flakes in it, is this normal or have i got a duff batch, or does it need more shaking although i thought my hand would drop off with the amount of shaking i gave it.

hi there all, i was wondering if anyone can give me some advice,today i received some vintage minis 1980\'s citadel kaleb dark mounted and on foot, having been made aware about fraudelent minis in an earlier thread ,these bear all the hallmarks of fakes, who should i contact about this does...

earlier this evening on 26 votes my mini was scoring 7.7 now ive just checked my account and its now had 3 extra votes and its down to 7.3, now i dont think my mini was as good to be a 7.7 but i was wondering what happened to cause my mini to drop .4 with just 3 extra votes, does this happen a...