Every now and then I find it's pleasant to have a figure in the panting queue that isn't part of a project or an army I'm buildi...

On 21 March, the first day of spring, Curt Campbell (aka The Snowlord) called Time on this year’s Painting Challenge .   I’ve taken part in ...

Have you ever painted figures just for the fun of it, without a really clear idea of what they were going to be for?   That was my motive f...

  This post picks up where Part Two of The Rockies Ablaze left of f. Part One can be found here . Near Camrose, Alberta, February, 1937. T...

On his blog recently, Dai, a good friend of this blog and a good mate, was lamenting the tedium of batch painting .   Having almost finished...

As the year winds down, I’ve been finishing some small and large batches of figures. Here are four more heroes of the north for my Rockies ...

Near Camrose, Alberta, February, 1937.   It took Frenchy Lamoreux a day and a half to snowshoe down from the mountains and into town.   No...

Hello and Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving. Here are two Very Good Doggoes (are there any other kind?) for my 1930s pulp project, The Rockies ...

R Racing down a gravel road, her trusty dog Fred in the sidecar of her roaring Indian, it’s Crash Callahan, intrepid girl reporter / secret...

<I’ve been going on here about my pulp project for a few years with precious little to show for it, so here goes.   Narrative fluff to st...

Hello friends! In the time since my last post here, I’ve been busy with work and also had the chance to travel to Africa and back to some c...

Hello friends. My pulp project set in Western Canada in the 1930s needs some baddies, and I found the perfect pair in two of Bob Murch...