Welcome to Slave to Paint!
This website is dedicated to the craft of painting miniatures,
and a chance for us to show people what we do in the little spare
time we have! As slaves, we mainly paint 28-30mm models, but also
try our hand at larger scale miniatures. We also have a some talented
sculptors in our midst.
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01/06/08
Another month passes and another model show!
This time it was the Torbay Military Model Show at Torquay Town
Hall. The difference with this show is that Toosh and I 'exhibit'
as part of the Jolly Bodgers model club. The Bodgers is a small
club made up of 5 friends with similar interests (Tracy, Dave
Knowles, Brad Wells, Dave Pratt and myself) and every year we
have a stand at the show and compete with some very good military/historical
painters.
We met loads of great people this year, and there seemed to be
a real buzz around the stand - we were the only real fantasy/sci-fi
miniature painters at the show! So now we have been invited to
display our minis at Bugle Call in Bath at the
end of November, and also have been pointed towards a great hobby
site SFM:uk
which looks like it is full with great modellers and kitbashers
- so I shall be absorbing all their knowledge!! *grin*
05/05/08
Hello again!
We went to Salute
a couple of weeks back. That has to be the best show in the UK
- a large number of retailers, all quality, a fantastic atmosphere,
and also the chance to meet a lot of online buddies in real life!
This year was doubly special as we went up the night before,
had Sushi with my brother and then a few beers with the guys from
Heresy and Hasslefree Miniatures!
I also entered the painting competition with a number of minis...
the 'windy
mountain top' below, a Freebooter
Pirate Diorama, a GW Squig Hopper (which I have been struggling
to get good photos of) and Hasslefree's
Powered Armour Libby. The Squig Hopper came 2nd in the fantasy
monsters category, and whats more, my Pirate diorama came FIRST
in the misc fantasy/sci-ci cat!! So I now have a new pint glass
to drink from!
-Avicenna
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16/03/08
Blogging
I am sooo bad at keeping this news thang up to date, I have decided
to write a blog to document what I have been up to! That makes
sense right? (nope!) You can find my blog here!
In other news....
Rather belatedly, The Diorama of Doom competition finished and
Tooshy and I managed to do pretty well...! Toosh won first place
in the Diorama of Doom category and I came second! Woohooo! I
was pretty chuffed as the competition was really rather high,
and the deliberations of the judges long and tough.
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Tooshy's competition winning entry!
(WIPs found here) |
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Here is my entry |
Wyrd Games: Femme Fatale
III
Another competition Tooshy and I have entered, (this one much
more recently though) was the Femmel Fatale over at Wyrd. This
was single miniatures rather than Dioramas and we both chose Hasslefree
Miniatures for our entries - I picked an armoured dwarf girl 'Haela'
and Toosh chose the most recent version of Taxxis a near-naked
necromancer.
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Tooshy's 'A Bridge Too Far' |
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My 'windy mountain top' |
Toosh's entry was in the simply scandalous category as Taxxis
has her 'babylons' out and won a bronze! Haela was in the Fantasy
category (as she is rather better dressed...) and I won a gold
in that category...! So we did pretty well *grin*. The wyrd competitions
are interesting as they are voted on by the members of the forums
- so thanks for the votes guys!
What else have we been getting up to?
-Avicenna
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