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	Machinators Two machinators, things are heating up...
	Heavy Machinator Or whatever...
	Machinators Hey, they have guns. No one told they would have guns. Not fair!
	Creeping around Hiljaa hiljaa hiivitään nyt Kaardemumman yössä...
	Rent-a-bots Guarding an important installation.
	By the fence Rather nice fence, actually.
	Close encounters Whoopsie, where did that come from?
	Group meeting My name is 010100111 and I'm a robot...
	Gunfighter I should have taken a photo of the other side, because I a little trick with the hat.
	Gunfighter I call him Mr. Beans. Note the moustache again. Do these guys all have the same barber? Oh, wait, there is just one barber.
	Gunfighter Note how clean he licks his plates. Those beans sure are mighty tasty!
	Gunfighter Macro focus depth is very shallow. The downside of automatics is that sometimes they don't do what you meant, like this one focusing on the revolver.
	Gunfighter Ok, this is better. Note the sickly yellow skin color. These were the first figures I did after a long hiatus, and some things like shading flesh color took some time to relearn.
	Gunfighter Would you like buckshot with that, sir?
	Gunfighter Pinkerton man. I actually resisted the urge to paint these in Technicolor pink. Unfortunately, the black wasn't so good either. Black is surprisingly hard to do well.
	Gunfighter Another Pinkerton man. Should have given him a colorful vest for contrast.
	Gunfighter Mounted indians from Geronimo's band.
	Gunfighter Keeping the focus off the horse's head took some work.
	Gunfighter These are the old Foundry western range.
	Gunfighter From this angle, he looks like a celtic fanatic on horseback.
	Gunfighter's horse See the horse's head.
	Gunfighter's horse It's a really nice horse, honest. The owner used it only for Sunday raids.
	Gunfighter Okay, here's the rider too.
	Gunfighter Again, a more colorful vest would have been nicer.
	Gunfighter Black hat, white duster... is he good or bad? Argh! Can't tell!
	Gunfighter The red shirt is pure coincidence, honest.
	Gunfighter zombie He's seen better days.
	Gunfighter zombie These are actually Foundry figures. They did one pack of these around the time Deadlands debuted.
	Gunfighter zombie Funny, I was better at shading rotten flesh than healthy.
	Gunfighter These shots are also the first test of my new Nikon Coolpix 2000. My previous brushes with digicams have been disappointing, but this one blew me away.
	Gunfighter zombie More undead menace straight from boot hill.
	Gunfighter zombie I tried to do all of these in earthy tones, as if they'd been buried for some time and got dirt and mud all over their clothes while clawing to get back above the ground.
	Gunfighter zombie I like these poses, they're rather zombie-like.
	Gunfighter zombie Is he angry because someonle stole his boots?
	Greek peltasts Part old style Foundry, part Essex, some with old Grenadier plastic shields. Can you spot which is which?
	Greek peltasts These were actually meant to be unarmored hoplites I think, but I needed peltasts so I painted them as such.
	Greek archers Again, mostly old style Foundry with the odd Essex figure thrown in.
	Greek archers I liked doing the tunics.
	Greek javelinmen These are all old style Foundry.
	Greek javelinmen Back when Foundry was moving to blister packs, they had a dump sale, half price for remaining stock not in blisters. I bought a big bunch of figures, which started my collections of not only these Greeks, but Imperial Romans, 19th Century Africans and Bronze Age Europeans. Half of these are still unpainted.
	Gunfighter Ha! Crossdraw holster!
	Greek slingers Old style Foundry again. Surprisingly nice considering there are only three poses.
	Greek slinger I did most of these in standard off-white tunics, but two got red ones for leader material.
	Greek light infantry Too small to really see anything.
	Greek centaurs These are old Ral Partha. Not very good figures, stiff two-dimensional pose (just one), but it's surprisingly hard to find centaurs that fit a mythical theme (instead of anything-goes fantasy).
	Greek centaur This one had a miscast shield, so I carved it into something of a crescent shape. I also bent the sword to make the figures just a little bit different.
	Greek cavalry The ones with the crests are from Black Tree, the Boeotian helmeted one is Essex. Frankly, the BTD figures are not among their best, but they were easily available and ok.
	Greek cavalry Not known for horsemanship, nevertheless a few cavalry is necessary for any army.
	Greek cavalry When I started painting these, I realized I didn't really know what horses looked like. I used to paint them all kinda brown all over.
	Greek cavalry So I went out and bought a book on horses... (I was actually planning to buy an issue of Hevoshullu (a magazine for horse-crazy pre-teen girls), but couldn't find one)
	Greek cavalry ...only to realize that pretty much anything goes. Still, I think these are much better than my earlier monotone horses.
	Gunfighter Two gun action.
	Greek hoplites The phalanx is here!
	Greek hoplites As you might notice, I ran out of real Foundry shields, so I substituted old Games Workshop plastic Dark Elf shields. Can you tell which is which?
	Greek hoplites Overhead view.
	Greek hoplites The trumpeter is Essex because I didn't feel like buying bunches of Foundry command packs.
	Greek hoplites Hmmm... this phalanx seems to be a few guys short.
	Greek hoplites United State of Athens!
	Greek hoplites It's a mask, honest! That's a Ral Partha figure, and unlike the centaurs, very nice. Except that I totally botched the shield. Well, ok, it's supposed to look horrific.
	Greek hoplites Spartans. Yes, I know their shields should be polished bronze but this looks much better.
	Greek hoplites Closeup of the Spartans.
	Greek hoplites Hey, the trumpet guy took my place in the front rank. Let me back in!
	Gunfighter Red jacket, green vest... any relation?
	Greek heroes These are actually the newer Foundry Greeks sculpted by Mark Copplestone.
	Greek hero Ok, I did not name him "The Finn". I do maintain some semblance of historicity.
	Greek hero It took me about 18 months to finish these Greeks. If someone tells me I don't have enough figures for a game, I'll hang him by his pteurges!
	Greek hero Argh! The sun is shining in my face! I actually got the idea for this color scheme from how Foundry did their argonauts. Nice contrast to the mostly white regular hoplites.
	Greek hero To shave or not to shave...
	Greek leaders I tried to paint this trio like they're done in Foundry Compendium, but sadly failing ofcourse.
	Greek leader After I took these pictures I learned that you can actually turn off the flash and get good macro shots even though the camera is complaining about lack of light.
	Greek leader I have nothing in this hand... the dagger is hidden under the cloak.
	Greek leader Somehow Kevin Dallimore did this yellow and green scheme much better... After these guys I was supposed to have finished all of my Greeks (a very rare thing) but then Black Tree gave me some free sample Greek figures with my WAB Alexander book, aaargh!
	Gladiators Another useless group shot.
	Gunfighter This guy looks like a show-off, so I painted his gun silver. My daughter insisted on putting the rock on the base.
	Gladiators These are from Black Tree. I little more poses would have been nice, but very good figures nonetheless.
	Gladiators I tried to give half of them gold-on-silver and the other half silver-on-gold schemes, but unfortunately the gold-silver contrast isn't that good.
	Gladiators Not entirely historical, perhaps, but nice anyway.
	Gladiator Laquearius, or the guy with the lasso to his friends.
	Gladiators Gone fishing...
	Gladiators Hoplomachus and a barbarian. Note how the spear is tied to his wrist? I guess they learned something from Spartacus reruns.
	Gladiator Dimachaerus, aka him with the two swordsies. Doing the bootlaces was not fun.
	WWII Russians These are all from Black Tree. Personally, I think this is one of their best ranges.
	WWII Russians I read painting guides, bought the Osprey book, browsed websites and in the end I just said: Aww, whattaheck, they're all kinda brown.
	WWII Russians I gave them all brown boots. I have no idea where I got that info from...
	Gunfighter Looks pretty much like the other guy with moustache... well, they were all inbreeding anyway.
	WWII Russians Maybe his bag fell into a tub of green paint, ok?
	WWII Russians Wait, this thing jammed again!
	WWII Russian Look closely at the sling. I like how they did the real dog collar -slings.
	WWII Russians Onwards men, for the greater glory of communism!
	WWII Russians Argh! Ivan, the fascists are trying to blind us with a searchlight! Shoot! Shoot!
	WWII Russians Degtaryev LMG... not surprisingly, we Finns called it "Emma". The actual magazine is bigger though, it's roughly the size of a LP record.
	WWII Russians Ah! Much better Ivan. Now if you could only store that setting...
	WWII Russian Black Tree does packs of kneeling and prone soldiers. The kneeling ones are nice, but the prone ones are a bit hard to use in gaming... even though it is a very realistic pose.
	WWII Russians The DP ammo can is also too small.
	WWII Russians Can you spot the differences between PPD and PPSh in this scale?
	Gunfighter Some time after painting this guy, I realized the clothes are actually cavalry uniform or something like that. Oh, wel....
	WWII Russians I gave them gray blankets for some contrast.
	WWII Russian Coming at you!
	WWII Planes Newly painted Japanese planes ready to take on the opposition.
	WWII Planes Ki-84 Hayate. The hinamori should be further out on the wings.
	WWII Planes Zero. Can't tell if it's A6M2 or A6M5. These are all H&R planes, I bought them long ago and they were in plastic bags with no identification. Sooo... I compared the miniatures to silhouettes in reference books: "Is this just a bad model, or is this supposed to be something else?"
	WWII Planes Zero top-down.
	WWII Planes Ki-61 Hien. Tried a camo scheme with this one. Messed up the lightning symbol in the tail.
	WWII Planes Frankie-boy from below, showing the flight stand mount. I got tired of those plastic flight stands, made some from wire and alligator clips and glued map pins to the bottom of the planes.
	WWII Planes Zeke again.
	Gunfighter I named him "The Finn" for some reason.