Talk Like a Pirate Day! brings you Captain Diamond Joe!

Arr ye land lubbers!! Me and Diamond Joe be wishin you a merry Talk like a Pirate Day, Arrrr!

It's an international event so everybody should be talkin like a pirate!! To help celebrate we thought we'd share a good piratey figure.

This is Diamond Joe from Black Scorpion miniatures. A fine amount of detail for a metal miniature. Black Scorpion has switched most of their figures over to resin earlier this year. Be sure to check out their entire line of pirates!

This figure was painted here at Battleground Hobbies by Josh.

Another fine job! Check out details like the salt encrusted edges of his coat.

Arr Matey,
Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow

Apache Indian Chief from Black Scorpion Miniatures

About a month ago we showed you what was on the workbench at Battlegroud Hobbies and said we'd get some images of the Apache Indian Chief from Black Scorpion. Well without further fanfare, here they are!

Joshua once again did a fabulous job on the detailing of this fabulous miniature. We wanted a natural looking base so carefully selected the stones for color so they would not need painted.

Medium tan ballast was mixed with our basing material and applied around the stones

We drilled a small hole in the base and stuck the brush into it and trimmed to suit.

All in all he turned out to be a splendid piece!

Til next time, Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow

What do Gripping Beast, Ral Partha, Old Glory and Black Scorpion have in common?

They are all on the workbench at Battleground Hobbies!

We have a batch of Old Glory miniatures needing painted so Joshua has been working on getting them done for us! You can see 5 Old Glory elf spearmen on horseback on the left and 5 on foot just to their right. These were purchased years ago when they were only 3.00 per pack. Nowadays they are around 12.00 retail. There are 6 Ral Partha elf irregular spearmen in font of the Old Glory guys.

On the far right are 4 Anglo-Danish Huscurls with the dreaded 2 handed Danish axe. These were built using components from the Gripping Beast Saxon Thegns and Viking Hirdmen box sets. In the middle are a couple miniatures from Black Scorpion, Diamond Joe and Ahiga Apache leader.

We also started experimenting with casting with hobby stone. There are a bunch of great accessories we've been trying out. More pics of all the above as we get them completed.

Here are a couple images of Joshua hard at work, in the early stages, on our Apache leader from Black Scorpion.

Adding some color. More, hopefully soon!

Til next time,
Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow