En avant... TUER!!!

Another project started in 2007 were my 15mm French Peninsular force.

This Picture is quite old, as I've since added to this with some Cavalry, Artillery and more Infantry. Me and Meninobesta did de "Battle of the Douro" using Shako rules and currently our sights are set on the "Battle of Vimeiro".

Click here to access the scenario as written for Shako.

I still have some Infantry to go before I can tackle that one. In our homebrew basing system 3 bases are a battalion, so the picture above represents 5 line (or Ligne) Battalions and 1 Light (Legere) Battalion (with a base to spare).

Some additional photos:

A "General de Brigade" (He's based on 2c EUR coin - gives you an idea of scale):

An Artillery Piece. Pretty lethal in the Napoleonic times. You wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a Grapeshot discharge:

French Dragoons. Real men wear pink facings with green turnbacks :)

My French Peninsular 15mm Gallery in an embeded slideshow (click play to start):


Full Gallery: 15mm French Peninsular @ Picasaweb

We come in peace

Still on the subject of catching up, this time in wargaming.

Last year I read some quick rules for using little grey men in Flames of War. On impulse (damn Paypal and Credit Cards and the Internets! And then again, maybe not :)) I bought myself some little grey aliens of my very own. They arrived in glorious all metal look about 1 week later. Some dabs of the paintbrush later I had a 2000 points FoW system 15mm Grey Alien Invasion force, complete with Flying Saucer and giant Golden robots.

I, for one, welcome our new 15mm high Masters

Top secret photos of the invasion force

How the horde progressed: From Metal to Glorious Grey :)

Illustrations for Children

Will try to quickly shoot out some posts that bring you up to date in some of the stuff I've been involved in last year.

This one was a fun one. It was fairly quick and I had just became a parent, so I had a critic at home to cry some opinions at the work in progress.

The general idea was that some squeaky clean dog would teach a dirty little boy about good hygiene habits. It was for a friend of mine (Pedro Rosa) to use in a school project envolving actual kids (I still have some left over copies of the booklet).

It was also a chance to get away from a much darker style I'm confortable in and try out a much softerpastellymylittleponycarebear style.

I did a Colored and a B&W all lines version (it was a coloring book)

An example of this is "Dirty Kid patting Squeaky Clean dog":

A complete listing of the colored plates in my Picasaweb Gallery

Well - lets get this going again :)

I got lazy about my blog.

Time to get it up on its feet again. Time... to REANIMATE IT!!! BWHAHAHA!!!

Ok. I just had to have my "Herbert West" moment. I'm all right now.

I'll be introducing some other subjects to the blog - so I'll probably almost always have something to post about.

I'll be adding my other hobby interests besides drawing, namely:
Wargaming
Military History

Maybe the odd computing post.

Practically no Star Trek or D&D though, so maybe I'm not an uber-geek :)

Live long and Prosp... I mean, er..., cya!
Torradas

Scared Ghoul

Losely based on a Oil on canvas I have hanging on the wall, that I did on my teens.

Still playing with colours and materials :)

More to come next week,

Torradas

Profile

Well, Monday will be "official update day" for some time now - this because I can only find time to do some drawing on Sunday...

This is just an experiment of layering different materials and colours.

One more to come today.

Cheers,
Torradas

Never trust a woman with bat wings and a big sword.

Don´t say you haven´t been warned :D

More to come.

"Comics" Style"! :)

Finally, some time spent with my new pen tablet, which I have not fully enjoyed for some weeks now.

I´m still experimenting, and I went "Comics-style" on this one.

More to come from this latest session.

Cheers,
Torradas

First delvings with my new WACOM pen tablet

I´ve spent the last few hours getting the "hang" of it - after about 1 hour installing Bluetooth Drivers, Wacom Drivers, and Corel Software.
The pen is quite intuitive, and I managed to get some presentable drawings done pretty quick :)
I produced some test pieces - but wasn´t quite happy with some colours I did, so I´ll post a black & white drawing I did to test the precision of the Wacom Graphire. I was quite happy with the result :) I can identify my free-hand technique much better than with the ones I did previously with the mouse... of course. :)

I do Miniature Wargaming, and for inspiration I had some 15mm Teppô (that´s rifle) Ashigaru (that´s the lowest ranks of Samurai armies in the "Sengoku Jidai Period" - AKA "The Warring States Period" - Circa 1400´s). Follow the links if you´re in to that sort of thing ;).
So it´s a Teppô Ashigaru -but with a twist - I gave him a futuristic sci-fi rifle :D.
The symbols on his banner mark him as a member of the Takeda Clan. Click the picture to get a full-resolution version. Blogspot´s compression blurs it up more than a little.



I can´t begin to say how lucky I am that I am now a proud owner of this pen tablet. I feel like a kid drawing in the math class all over again! :D

My friends pitched in...

...at my birthday and got me a beautiful 2000dpi, 512 pressure lvl sensitive, A5 WACOM Graphire4 Bluetooth... :D


I´m beyond myself with happiness :D

I have to overcome a small hurdle though - gotta buy me a USB->Bluetooth dongle today, and I hope to be "at it" tonight. Expect updates in the coming days :)

Thanks to everyone that pitched in - I hope I can draw a caricature of each and everyone of you (and I do have a list... :D)

Cheers,
Torradas