Gallery: Darklands Fomoraic Belech by Sven

This special miniature was one of my favourites since the day I saw its artwork during the first Darklands Kickstarter. As usual most art by Danny Cruz intrigues me, but Roberto Chaudron did such a perfect job when sculpting it, I was just blown away.

Monday Previews!

Greetings all, I hope you had a productive weekend! It is Monday, which means time to see what the writers here at Send The Eighth are working on.

Chris/DiStudios

While Trolls are still at the forefront of my mind, I have decided to start looking at the larger models in the collection. While all the models are fantastic, I have decided to single out the Blood-Maw Vore as my next painting project. There are a couple of reason for this choice, in terms of clean up, it has the least to do and right now I need something I can really just jump into painting. Secondly, I was originally going to do a joint article with Sven as he works on his Blood-Maw, however due to illness, we have both decided that I should go ahead with my one.

Also sneaking into the photos, is a project from my new Oldhammer Sundays series and amusingly a lone Space Marine for a new upcoming Dark Angels project! So quite a variety from next week onwards, a little bit of something for everyone as they say!

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Sven

After the short holiday my two servants of the King are nearing completion and I've laid my eyes on yet another Kingdom Death piece which I have lying around for quite a while. The Butcher!

The model has already been built for several month, but I always pushed it aside, because all those lanterns look like a pain to paint and I couldn't fully recall how I painted the Forsaker armour (a Butcher is basically a Forsaker gone nuts). Luckily I had the awesome idea to read it up in my own article. So I guess it's about time to tackle it.

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Hellstrom

This weeks Mierce model is Talos, Colossus of Bronze.  At the moment he is the only member of the Alalantes faction, although  other figures should soon be available if you have Kickstarter access.

  

I have long been a fan of Jason and the Argonauts, the old movie featuring Ray Harryhausen's special effects. So when I saw this I had to have it.  At just over 14cm high it is a lovely model and as its one of the earlier sculpts there aren't too many parts making it a very easy piece to construct.

So there you have it, lots of hard work that should result in some fantastic battle reports in the future. Still no sign of AvP for the team, but here is hoping that next week has a nice surprise.

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios

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Oldhammer Sundays: DRAG5 - Great Imperial Dragon #1

Welcome to the first article in a new series - Oldhammer Sundays. In this series I will be revamping classic Citadel figures from my collection. Today I take a look at an old favourite of mine: DRAG5 - The Great Imperial Dragon from 1987.

Gallery: Darklands Norse - Unnolg, Troll Warrior By DiStudios

Unnolg is the latest Troll to be completed for my collection. Sporting a very mean looking cleaver, he exudes nastiness. Having now done a lot of research into the Mierce Troll range, it turns out that the weapon load is pretty much an accident. At the time of design, there was no game being developed, as a result, sculptors had a free reign as to how to equip the trolls. With a game now in works, it seems that Unnolg will actually belong to a unit exclusively armed with two handed weapons...that will look simply brutalicious on the table! Below is Mierce Miniature's background for him.

It is said that the Thurs, what others call Trolls, do not travel well over the seas. It suits neither their temperament nor their bellies, these people say, and if they are to be fought it should be when they are upon the shore, recovering from their journey, their stomachs queasy and their minds ill-brought. Perhaps these tales have a grain of truth in them. Perhaps they are told simply to give courage to those warriors who would confront the Norse. Whatever the truth of the matter, few who tell the tale have fought those such as Unnolg, a Thurs of slime and wart, of immense strength and unflinching brutality, for even as their ships are beaching the Trolls leap to the shore, bellowing and howling, charging into the weakling men sent against them and scattering them like leaves in the wind. Unnolg and his kin may indeed travel poorly across the seas; but they care not, for they would sail to the end of the world if there were blood to be spilled.

Product Review: Feldherr Maxi Logo Case

First off I would like to say a big thank you to Sven of Feldherr Figure Cases, the team and I were simply blown away by the range of samples provided for us to review. Due to the number of samples we have received, I have decided to split the reviews over three separate articles. In today's article, I will be looking at Feldherr's Maxi Logo Case, a soft case with capacity for skirmish to medium sized armies.

The Maxi Logo Case, is a fabric soft shell case useful for carrying armies of skirmish to medium sized armies, depending on foam load out. At first glance, compared to main stream miniature carry cases, the Maxi Logo Case looks deceptively small. However it can hold a surprising 180 infantry figures when given the infantry foam load out option; more than enough for those Warhammer Fantasy armies or 40K Green Wave Orks; additionally each miniature gets it's own separate compartments in the tray, as opposed to smashing everything together like the GW Crusade foam...By choosing more balanced foam combination of vehicles/monsters and infantry, you could quite easily fit a good sized 2000 point army for Warhammer Fantasy, 40K or other systems.