Orc / Skaven Hybrid.

The hybrid painted. Sorry not the best pictures maybe I will replace them with better ones on a later date. In real he looks much better.

A little background I gave him.
His name is Skar. He suffers from a deformed neck.
Nobody knows his origins. They say that he is the product of a magical experiment that got totally out of hand.
Because he is an outcast he became a mercenary for hire. When you hire him be sure that you have the money and you pay him on time else you could become his next victim.
And don't think because he is short and deformed he is dumb and clumsy instead he's smart and agile. He know's how to handle his weapon.

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Repainting the first.

I have this mini laying around for many years. It is the very first miniature I ever painted. I think it was about 25 years ago or so. I was in a shop where they sold comics and comic books. There was also a little corner for gamers. When I came looking what they were doing they invited me to sit down to built and paint a miniature myself from a box full of bits.
This one is built using a Skaven body and an Orc head. After glued together I painted it fast and not to neat, thinking that it would be the first time and the last time I would paint something like this. Oh i was so wrong in thinking that.

As you can see the years have taken hold of the miniature. It is all battered up and full of scratches.
So it is time to give it some love and paint it up to make it nice and shiny again.

The first thing I had to do was to clean it up. Because I also wanted to add something extra I searched my bit box to see if it contained a big shield. After some searching I found one. It is a left over from a Confrontation mini. But as it had an forearm attached to it I had a lot of metal to file of before it fit. After that I put some woodglue to the base and added a layer of sand.

After the glue had dried I primed the helmet, shield and the base all black. I was not too careful with applying the paint because as said I am going to repaint the miniature completely.

Next the painted Orc/Skaven Hybrid (that will be his name).

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Battlegroup: Panzer IV ausf. H.

Miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018 part 5 final.
The Panzer IV ausf. H. Battlefront 15mm resin, metal and plastic.
I glued these together somewhere in 2017 but after that they ended up in a box until December 2018.
The built of these miniatures was a real hell and time consuming. It was not the tanks but adding the schürzen that gave the problems. First I had glue some tiny holders to the hull to which the schürzen would be glued. When I finally had the schürzen glued in place I found out that it wasn't very sturdy and stable. When picking up a model I had to be careful else the schürzen would break off. To solve this problem I made some plastic rods witch I carefully glued between the tracks and the schürzen plates, in such way that they can't be seen. This gave them much more sturdynes and now I can pick them up without breaking off the schürzen. All in all it took me several days to built these four tanks.
Halfway December 2018 I finally took them out of the box and gave them some paint. Using the same colours and camo pattern as the other late war tanks I painted so far. The result can be seen below.

This is the last post of Miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018. From now on all new posts with painted miniatures are newly painted or finished WIP projects.
After these were painted I carefully started to think of restarting my blog to show my painted miniatures. Which in the end still took more than a month to do.

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Battlegroup: Panzer VI ausf. E1 Tiger.

Miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018 part 4.
The Panzer VI ausf E1 (zimmerit) Tiger. Battlefront 15mm resin and metal.
Painted this in one at the beginning of December 2018. It was the first miniature I painted after a long time. The first one after I layed down my brush's in February. The time that the dark clouds slowly started to fade away. Step by step the need to paint something came back again.
I didn't want to start with an infantry platoon so I first began with some German vehicles, starting with this tank. The infantry platoon will be painted later this year.

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The Moloch Demons challenge.

A post between the miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018 posts.
When I looked through the many old Confrontation minis laying around collecting dust I decided to gave myself a challenge for this year: painting these 2 old Confrontation miniatures. Named Moloch demons.
Forget about the crappy quality of the pictures, they are just to show how the miniatures look. They are both already primed white.

These are, for me, pretty complex miniatures to paint. It will be a daunting challenge.
First thing I have to do is to find out which colours to use. As they are demons one thing is sure it won't be nice light happy colours.
As said I like to have these miniatures finished before the end of the year. My intention is to paint them between other projects. Looking at all the other miniatures I have to paint I hope I will succeed in this project.
I will try to post as much WIP pictures as possible.

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Battlegroup: Panzer V ausf. A Panther.

Miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018 part 3.
The Panzer V ausf. A or Panther. Battlefront 15mm resin and metal.
I finished painting these in February 2018. This time I spend more time on the details and camouflage. The camouflage is based on the Panzer Lehr Division I tried to get as close as possible. Hope I succeeded. I'm affraid that the base colour is not correct.
After these were painted I didn't touch any brush for a long time. Some months before I started to painted these I got some bad news, I had have another surgery. Sometime later I got the message that the surgery would take place in June 2018. This made me realize that thing's didn't matter anymore and didn't care much about the hobby. It took until December before I picked up a brush again.

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Battlegroup: Panzer III ausf. G.

Miniatures painted between August 2017 and end 2018 part 2.
This is some sort of a painting Panzer III part 2. It is the sequel to the painted Panzer III ausf. F post.
This time it is the Panzer III ausf. G. Also 15mm plastic from Plastic Soldier Company. The minis are built from the same box as the Panzer III ausf. F. The built of these kits can be found here. They almost look the same as the Panzer III ausf. F.
The minis are for my DAK battlegroup and can be used with the Battlegroup Tobruk and Battlegroup Torch books.
Just as the PANZER III ausf. F I painted these between November 2017 and January 2018 and thus are painted in the same way as the others. They still look okay on the table.

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Battlegroup: Panzer III ausf. F.

The first post of miniatures I painted between August 2017 and end 2018.
I begin with the Panzer III ausf. F. They are 15mm plastic from Plastic Soldier Company. The built of these kits can be found here.
The miniatures are for my DAK battlegroup and can be used with the Battlegroup Tobruk book.
After some searching I found out that I painted these between November 2017 and January 2018. I painted them very fast and quality could be better. At that time I wasn't in the mood to go full detail. But I think they still look okay on the table.

Next Panzer III ausf. G.

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