by Nord | Feb 14, 2019
Dear Mariella, I am a grown man who really should know better. I keep trying to kick the habit, but try as I might, I cannot stop painting beards. I love hairy guys - axe wielding maniacs from frozen lands, grumpy old sods from underground realms, even silly gnomes...
by Nord | Feb 6, 2019
It's sheer coincidence that I have painted these metal versions of the Three Hunters, just as a new set in plastic has been released. I have had metal figures representing the members of the Fellowship of the Ring for a long time, just never got round to painting...
by Nord | Jan 31, 2019
Just about squeezed this in before month end - the last of the viking bondi. Another interesting sculpt, it's not very often we see a miniature wielding his spear two handed, though I have seen many a re-enactor fight in this fashion. I would think that wielding a...
by Nord | Jan 23, 2019
These are the first of the January tidying up projects, things started last year which I want to complete before moving on to pastures new. In fact, some of these dwarf warriors were actually built back in 2016, all the more reason to finish them rather than put them...
by Nord | Jan 14, 2019
More progress on the viking longhouse - I have replaced the mdf roof supports with twigs from the garden. These were leftover from a prune of my birch trees. The twigs were dried in the microwave, then roughly cut to size. I trimmed off the bark as I figured it would...