Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!
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This weeks miniature is from Hasslefree and goes by the name of “Earl”. This is a figure I have done before and not that long ago either but for some reason I had bought him again. Not entirely sure why but now that I have painted him again I suspect whatever idea I had for him will now come back to me and I will end up buying him yet again! That’s the ageing process for you!
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Well It Made Me Laugh
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The Wednesday Whinge
I love my hobby like we all do but there is one thing which gets up my nose (there are probably others too) and that’s finding a miniature I like but only being able to purchase it as part of a set of figures. I wouldn’t mind so much if the rest of the figure in the set were as equally good but all to often they are not and they end up in the unwanted lead pile. It’s much the same when buying a pack of socks from Marks and Spencer, there’s always a couple of pairs that you know you will never wear.
I’m no marketing guy and I expect from a sales point of view packaging the figures in this way works well for the company. To be fair they may even think their sets of figures are all excellent and compliment one another. Personally I prefer being able to choose the figures I want even if I had to meet a minimum price or figure volume to complete the purchase but alas that option doesn’t exist. Until it does if I like a figure that much I will just have to pay over the odds.
Such is life.
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Give Me Five
Lockdown continues to deny me and countless others simple indulgences such as having some friends round for dinner and spending the evening putting the world to rights. Reminding myself of this got me thinking who who would be my top five people, now no longer with us (we might do living people next week), that I would most like to have at a dinner party and have a jolly good chat with. I thought a nice mix of politics, music, film, comedy and sport would make for a very interesting evening. In no particular order I came up with the following guests.
- Winston Churchill
- John Lennon
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Robin Williams
- Brian Clough
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This week TIM has been listening to …
“Take it Easy” by the Eagles. It will be 46 years this June that I saw the Eagles live at Wembley Stadium along with a 100,000 other people, the Beach Boys and Elton John who topped the bill on his Captain Fantastic tour. That was 1975 and this track which was released in 1972 is as great now as it was then. Well I think so.
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This week TIM has been watching …
“Gangs of London” starring Joe Cole who can also be seen in Peaky Blinders. This was a series recommended to me by IRO who described it as romantic comedy 😉. I jest of course. It is a pretty gritty and violent but extremely watchable. Well IRO and I think so. Certain things didn’t turn out as I expected but a predictable drama would be less fun. Now I just have to wait for the second series.
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Remember …
Nine times out of ten when your wife asks “Do you remember what today is?” she’s just trying to scare you.
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TIM
The Imperfect Modeller 
Another ‘Earl’? Nicely done & why the hell not – he’s a lovely mini 😎
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He is nice mini but I think I came to buy him and several others again when Hasslefree had a sale on. I really ought to keep an inventory of some sort before I just go out and buy! 😂
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The model is fantastic TIM, the character in the face is spot on !
the 5 is an interesting one, top of the list would be Robin Williams, to get the party started, then probably Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse and Kenny Baker
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Thanks Dave, glad you like Earl. Sounds like an interesting group to have dinner with. 🙂
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Great joke! have sent it on via text.
Five dead people I’d like to have dinner with….
Boris Johnson
Donald Trump
Nigel Farage
Jeremy Clarkson
Dominic Cummings
What you say their not dead? Oh well a man can dream,,,,,,
The Eagles track is a classic!
Cheers Roger.
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Actually a kill list is a great idea Roger. The only problem I’d have is I would never get the list down to five! 😂
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Nice mini! 🙂 And, just for a change, I agree with your choice in music! Not sure about five dead people I’d like to have dinner with – they’d probably smell a bit and put me off my grub (as if such a thing was possible my wife’s shouting in the background)!
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I think to be on the safe side John you might have to go with fresh kills!
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Except the blood on the floor can pose a nasty slip hazard . . . so I’ve been told!
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You do have to be careful with blood . I remember when I went blood doning and the people there were insistent it had to be mine. Such a waste of the bucket load I had taken with me.
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That sounds like a cracking dinner party. Was a bit gutted you didn’t invite me though but then I noticed that living people are next week. 😉 I’m in full agreement with the whinge as well, although I actually end up buying quite a lot, perhaps even the majority, of my models that way. It probably goes someway to explaining the backlog actually, I end up painting the things I’m most excited about and putting the extras onto the pile to attend to “later” (whenever that is…). Oh and great work on Earl of course!
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Well if I ever get around to doing a bloggers dinner party you’ll be on the list for sure. 🙂
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Great figure- simple scheme but it looks the part.
Will check out that TV series too.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete.
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Earl looks great and kind of gives me Jason Statham vibes. Maybe it is the lack of hair and stubble giving me that feeling 🙂 Those are all great choices to invite to dinner. I think I’d invite some literary figures that I think were brilliant and who died too soon. David Foster Wallace and Christopher Hitchens come to mind, in particular. I do feel like it would be hard to manage a conversation with five really smart and talented people at the table but then again I’m an introvert and probably not the world’s greatest host to begin with 🙂
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Even as an introvert I reckon it would be fun just listening to the people that fascinate you. 🙂
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Excellent face painting. The beard work is sublime, really. And I’m up for the dinner!
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Cheers Mark. As for the dinner I reckon that could be one fun and very long and drawn out meal. I’ll start working on some of the questions I’d like to ask, just in case. 🙂
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Very nice the strips on the tie is a great touch
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Thank you. When I can I am trying to personalise minis, trouble is sometimes I can see something i can do and at other times I just can’t! 🙂
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Lol, I have yet to paint the same mini twice (well, I think so…), mainly because I am doing that all the time with teams! Though I do watch shows and movies now, remember all the characters, but can’t remember what happens to them. Same with books. Kind of fun, as I get to relive the story all over again! But yea, age..! 😛
Speaking of, that’s a great looking mini, got some studio level work there with the very natural cloth looking textures!
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With all the figures out there I guess it is a little odd doing the same figure twice. Sometimes I do them to sell, sometimes because the figure is versatile and I have another idea but sometimes it’s because I forget! 🤣
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It’s also cool to paint the same mini in a different way. I’m doing that right now with a team that includes Dwarves (which was the first Blood Bowl team I painted on the blog). I’m curious how the process and end results will compare. Will I learn anything, did I get any better? Stuff like that.
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