Engineer, scavenger, administrator

Last of the current batch of kitbashed plastic sprues. I'd been hoping to use the Wargames Atlantic survivors bodies but the mix of different proportions and contorted poses meant that the blue overalled body was the only one I felt I could get away with, and even then it looks like someone skipped 'leg days'. …

Launching into sci fi

After another miniatures hobby drought, the bug has bitten again - I've been spending the last week or two distracting myself from the tele with glue and paints. Mrs Doodler has kindly allowed me the use of the coffee table. This time my attention has been drawn towards sci fi having stumbled across 5 Parsecs …

Humanities Professor

Another long-owned-but-never-painted figure, this one was either a birthday or Christmas present and has sat untouched for a long time. I had intended for him to be an Indiana Jones-esque academic, so obviously he needed a hat. The selection on the Perry Civil War soldier sprue proved to be close enough in scale - I …

The Dogs of War

Alas, I have very few of my first-painted miniatures, and they have all been mixed up together in a box. I may well take a plunge into memory pool in the future and bring up a couple of the early pieces, but I haven’t the stomach for it just yet. In the meantime though, here …