Accelerating towards the end of the box of Hobbitoids, I have now got all the dwarves done.
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| Winkin |
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| Blinkin |
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| Nod |
I'm resisting the temptation to do full company shots until the whole lot is finished. You can't take photos of an unlucky number of adventurers, it simply isn't done, I need to paint the burglar first.
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But here's a sneak preview anyway.
It's really quite nice having painted scenery to pose them on, I've not had that in a long time. |
I'm just over half way on the scenery too, including some handy objective markers. Baggage and weaponry, so you can re-enact more classic scenes from the book like that bit where three of the dwarves split off from the others to get their rucksacks back I mean I don't know why they even bother making it a film of the Hobbit when they could have called it something else and not pissed off a lot of middle-aged nerds I'm sure I'd have lived longer with lower blood pressure [
discontinued - Ed]
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Hemmed in on all sides by snarky abuse,
the dwarves prepared themselves to sell their acting careers dearly. |
I remember Winkin, Blinkin and Nod well - the surnames of G.I. Joe biker antagonists, the Dreadnoks.
ReplyDeleteWell done on finishing off Thorin's company, although the speed of progress baffles me - I though impulse buys were supposed to sit in the corner, gathering dust for years, until guilt and a renewed desire to clear the painting list put them in rotation.
To buy something at Christmas and then steadily paint it right away is a new phenomenon - but I suppose you want to get them all done so you can get started on the Evangeline Lilly Battle Set (with extra Warg Riders!) next year?
I used to own one of the Dreadnoks, the one whose weapon of choice was a pneumatic drill. It was a younger, more innocent age.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised too. I'm actually at risk of having, for the first time in my entire life, a fully painted GW boxed game. I never achieved that before. I don't know what I'll do with myself once I'm done. Raise my daughter or something, I suppose.
The pneumatic Dreadnok would be Ripper, aka 'Harry Nod'. The other two members of the biker trio were Torch ('Tom Winkin', weapon of choice: flamethrower) and Buzzer (Richard Blinken-Smythe, weapon of choice: chainsaw and Oxbridge education).
ReplyDeleteSo yes, in addition to Blinken, Winkin and Nod as surnames, their forenames were Tom, Dick and Harry...
It was indeed a more innocent age, when violent sociopaths provided comic relief from international terrorists, who were themselves the natural villains for 8 year-olds.