of the influence of Japanese culture on my view of the Grim darkness...

Sometimes you just work on too many projects to finish any. Such is my hobby right now...

A full plate of miniature goodness, just needs to be dealt with in the right order... Can you spot some things you recognise?

Well amongst all that I've finally decided to give my models some real playground in the hope that all the effort will eventually result in me getting back to gaming more regularly than every other 10 years.

And I just remembered that after all this time I actually had half a box of that plastic imperial city I had bought with a friend long time ago. This seemed like the perfect way to start.

First to come up, some sort of temple ...

Made modular  for easy access (I removed tha tcardboard base after some thinking), I'll add balcony parts and other fancy stuff but this is a base.

And I followed using all the bits I had to make other buildings .

With modularity in mind too :

 I've ordered a lot of spray can from Urban painters for a good price and will give the buildings a go soon.

I've also received this model form theresponsibleone from a challenge on teh Oldhammer forum. I nearly felt like keeping it as is but after some thoght and help, I stripped it clean and will rveisit the concept in a slightly newer way. Those who love Fallout as I do, may have an idea of the way I'm going to go with this one. Let's just say it will be gruesome and perfectly grim dark... (the original model is already all that).

But then I found myself painting some more vertically challenged goodness aka Space White Dwarf. This model right here is absolutely splendid and a real pleasure to paint. I was progressing very rapidly until I realised one thing... Do you see what I mean? Have a look :

No? maybe a rear shot will help you :

See what I'm talking about ?

And guess what is on my night table at the moment?

I have to say this was totally unintentional... it just happened. Now the real question is , how do I paint that beard? Do I go the full Naruto way and paint him blonde hair? or do I try to hide this, but then what colour ? Black would have looked cool if it were'nt for the black parts I already painted... ginger? no way, I don't want a space carrot .... Brown? BOOOORIIIIIIIIINGGG...

Don't know really, could use a hand here really...

This model was the perfect occasion to try blister foam weathering on the backpack. "Before" shot :

All smooth and clean, straight from the factory and now after hours of working in the workshop :

 Probably overdid it a little if I'm being honest but I loved the technique and will try it on marger models next time (Robots? who said robots ?)

And since Robots are always a popular topic, here's one I found in a pretty bad shape but which should soon be back...