Painted Figures: Older Citadel and GW Miniatures, A Song of Ice and Fire TMG and more

My take on the old style Helblaster, ie metal with crew including the Leonardo type figure and what I think is an excellent Gun Captain and the big feather and flouncy stuff fits Averland style much better.

I have added the Philips Digital Photo Frame page to the online store. There are four pages of Philips Digital Photo frames with a variety of photo frame sizes from 10" to 7" frames. Philips photo frames are high quality products with excellent pixel quality. Below is the Philips 8FF3FPB

Old Citadel Barbarians or Norsemen from around 1986 which I now use in my Slannesh Chaos army as Chaos Marauders. This was before they got rid of the combined Chaos force with the release of Chaos Daemons. Talk about a backward step.

First generation of Empire army with halberdiers which had metal halberds that you had to put in. I think they are from the Medievals range by Citadel, so from early 1980's 2nd generation halberdiers, now painted in clear Averland colours following the release of the first Empire army book which had pics of all the main states. I chose Averland because of the strong contrast and Black Fire Pass Guard, which sounded cool. Also close to the Moot so I could use Halflings and close to the Mts so I could use Imperial Dwarves. I have some of those coming up. From the Battle Masters figures I think. Current generation of Halberdiers and these are a bit old, head swap on the plastic figure to make him more presentable. Metal figure in full flouncy bits and big Averland feather, and a really old Moon Duke. Latest Halberidiers that I have, though I realise that there is a generation after this. But the figures are getting so big. Those Militia figures which came from Mordheim were out of pro...

Having posted on http://www.warhammer-empire.com/ forums with some pics of my Averland General, then someone asked about old figures, so I had a rummage around for some. These are probably some of the earliest that I have that were used in an army when Warhammer 1st edition came out, as opposed to DandD figures. I still have the boxed set upstairs. They were from the Dark Ages range that Citadel Produced some time late 70's to early 80's. Worked as bowmen quite well and probably still could use them as Kislev troops. This is my current Averland Empire Halberdiers (just a sample) with the Moon Duke as champion. Metal halberdier and then a plastic one with a head swap to make him stand out from the crowd.  These are some of my current Averland greatswords. They include one of the F5 Paladins from 1986 (on right). I used a bronze armour on these guys. Rather than a simple steel plate armour.

I have added the new Kodak Wireless Digital Photo Frame, W1020 , into the online store under the Kodak Digital Photo Frames page. This is a 10" Digital Picture Frame and comes with an optimized KODAK Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display. One of the difficulties of Photo Frames is getting the pictures on to your frame as quickly and easily as possible. This new Kodak Frame uses Wireless technology so that you can access and share the pictures on your home computer with the Photo Frame using wi-fi technology. You can also use leading photo sharing web sites such as Flickr or the Kodak Gallery. You gain access to your photo collection on your PC no matter where you are in your home.

This it the Treeman I use in my Wood Elf Warhammer Army. It is a converted Quickbeam figure from Mithril Miniatures . I have moulded his feet more into the base so that it appears as if roots are being pulled up. There is also a skeleton on the base with tendrils draped over him, which was supposed to be the vegetation being alive. Of course GW have made the treeman much larger and brought in the tree kin which is more this models size. But fundamentally I liked the model when I bought it and it still has a nice feel about it, probably 20 years after I bought it. It was cheaper as well. My Wood Elves army is pretty clean with a Lincoln green feel to them. More models when the natural light improves, as it is more or less constant rain here. What summer?