Done. Now I like it.
weathering of a pre-painted house
I was always a bit unhappy with one of my medieval houses. I’ve bough tthis one years ago, it’s from “The Miniature Building Authority”. It came pre-painted and the photos depict the house just as it is, with pre-paint. I like the concept of the house but the painting is a bit too flat for my taste so I’ve decided to repaint it today. Will post the progress later as soon as I have some
in the backyards of Witchtown
Some kind of foul deeds are going on in the backyards of Witchtown…
but Witchtown without Witches? No way!
The big witch is from Westwind, they have a pack with three or four (?) witches, it’s one of the sets without photo on Westwind’s site, all the witches are typically big, have nice action poses and looks very cool.
Sorry, no idea where the cauldron with the unfortunate guy comes from. Also Westwind? RAFM? Anything else?
gallic allied cavalry
Another bunch arrived on my workbench, my recent ebay purchase, the Gauls. 12 of them. As soon as I have finished some more of the legionaries, they will be in for painting.
though it looks like the Gauls had better and bigger horses than the Germans, here is a comparison picture, both horses are Foundry, but the horse of the German guy looks a bit less well-fed..
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caesarian romans WIP (tribune and centurion)
Some progress on the Republican Caesarian Romans, Manius Dexius Corbulo, the Roman Tribune and Titus Salvius Flaccus, the centurion of the Second Century, of the Fourth Cohort, of the XVII Legion joined the party.
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a new thief in witchtown
Another shot of streets of Witchtown. The featured figure is an old Citadel thief, the mule is from Foundry’s Darkest Africa range.
more of the pics of Witchtown there – http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=32806.0
ancient german cavalry
These riders are a part of my current Ancient Germania project. Actually the last part for the time being, the rest of the German gang it’s there – click. I’ve bought these Foundry cavalry blister about 10 years ago, being a fanboy of Copplestone’s sculpting work and never gave up the hope to paint them one day. Now glad the day has finally arrived. I will try to make some new photos of the infantry and civilians and post them here as well.
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backofbeyond.de relaunch
My name is Alex Bews and I’m a miniatures painter, collector and wargamer. This web page is my personal project aiming to cover all aspects of my wonderful hobby. Perhaps some of you already knew my old painting blog - http://www.witchhunter.net/. The old version of backofbeyond.de (former my pulp adventure gaming blog) is also still available – http://archive.backofbeyond.de.
The reason for this complete relaunch was that the old version has been created back at the end of the 90’s. In those days we didn’t have all that shiny PHP free blog software and I had to learn HTML and to write my pages by myself. It was a great fun. But the time goes by and the things have changed and it was becoming too much complicated and it did cost way too much time to maintain this huge old site with about 1000 pages and several thousands of photos. Eventually I’ve decided to leave behind the old mountain of HTMLs and to cross the border of the kingdom of the WordPress blogging software.
For the new appearance I’ve chosen a very minimalistic design, some of you will find it boring for sure. Sorry, it’s not because I didn’t find anything more colorful or just better. How said the things have changed and I did too, nowadays I prefer easy, bright and quiet pages without animated pictures, colorful backgrounds and all the unnecessary and nerve-racking things. Content of a page is the most important part of it and the pictures of miniatures are offering more than enough colors. You know, less is more.
Probably I will make some changes on design and appearance of the site as I’m still learning handling of WordPress and all the aspects of PHP.
Due to some private circumstances and continual lack of time I didn’t keep updating of the old site in the last years but that doesn’t mean I didn’t paint anything. I surely did and I got used to post some of new stuff to my forum – Lead Adventure Forum. Who knows, maybe I will manage to put some of this stuff here as well.
Now there have been enough words, back to the painting table.
Keep your brushes clean and sharp.
Yours
Alex
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