I got some things done.

Kinda.

I dragged my arse away from playing Demon's Souls (so good) and painted some more things for you to look at.

Most of these are WIP, and some were finished a while ago and didn't get a chance to upload, so the more recent and relevant WIP models first...

Since everything else is going to be Infinity, I'll put this lone Warhammer miniature on the top of the pile: something I wanted to get in metal before GW went and CrapCasted it.

Still some left to do on the blue, red and skin, and I'll probably try to do something with the black (I hate highlighting black).  The model is also a must-add for one of my theoretical Druchii all-cavalry lists, but I mostly wanted to get it before Finecast and I wanted to support a LGS since I happened to be in the area.

Next, le Karakuri.  Like robotic geisha girls with lots of weapons.

This is the one I'm doing at the moment, about 66% finished I reckon, the other two are barely basecoated:

One will be a sort of light neon green, and the other will be some shade of purple, one hopes.

Next is the Hac Tao:

I thought the some yellow stripes were desperately needed to break the monotonous blue body.

That ends the WIP section, now here some things I did finish.

First are the last two Ninja I finished a while ago:

The Ninja Hacker.

Shinobu Kitsune.

Then there's the Shang Ji Invincible, which is an all-purpose Heavy Infantry who has an under-slung flamethrower on his gun.

And lastly a Tokusetsu Butai, a cheaper doctor/engineer unit with an inferior Ballistic Skill, which is fine, since you really shouldn't be using your doctor to shoot things.

That's it for now, back to the futile search for employment.

Dark Elf Spearmen

It may come as a surprise, but yes, I still do collect my Dark Elves.  They are still the only actual army I own, now excepting the Infinity Yu-Jing bunch, but I count them as more of a strike team than an army...

This is a unit that I actually built almost a year ago now, but only to 66% completion.  I finished the highlights for the blue armour and the skin, the highlights and insignia on the shields as well as the gold-ish pieces of bling and the bases in the last couple of days.  My next port of call with the Druchii would be to either finish off some characters that need finishing, or to begin the labourious task of repairing my badly chipped Black Guard regiment.  I'm either going to need a battlefoam-esque contraption to carry them or I need to varnish them thoroughly, the first's expensive and the second's undesirable.  Unless I bother tracking down the good matt varnish I saw promoted on some forums...

There's an Infinity hacker ninja in the works too, but there are still a lot of hard-to-reach pockets of metal visible on the model, so it's gonna need a bit of touching up before it gets uploaded.

That's it for naow.  Happy dice-rolling!

Black Dragon with Dreadlady finally finito.

As some of you may recall, I began a painting a Dark Elf Black Dragon from GW's Summer 'Storm of Magic' Expansion push.  Frankly, I believe that the entire shablang is a push in the wrong direction from Gw's marketing side, instead of creating new games they're trying to push people to play their existing games on a larger scale, which I think makes it much harder for new gamers to get into the hobby.  Dreadfleet is a push in the right direction in this regard, it's a pity that it apparently sucks.  But as a Druchii player, the option of finally owning a Dreadlord on a Black Dragon was simply too tasty to pass, so here I am.  It could have been a Sorceress of course, but I compromised by making a female Dreadlord by using one of the Sorceress heads.  Technically they do exist in Druchii society, even though in times of peace, the female highborn Dark Elves are expected to plot against their husbands' enemies and poison rivals and so on.  Looks like this one didn't fancy it...  Enough talk, now pics!

I am sorry that this took so long, I am an extremely whimsical person who often follows his urges instead of his brains, and sometimes I don't feel like painting, sometimes I do.  With this finished and out of the way, we'll see what I'll do next.

That's all folks!