This miniature takes me back many years and holds a number of good memories -- largely ADnD roleplaying games that I had back at high school. It is an Earth Elemental (produced by citadel miniatures and still available through direct order from Games Workshop), based on a square Warhammer base and painted in different earthy and rocky tones. The paintwork is now chipped (see the forehead!) and the base has lost a number of its cobbles from the milliput that holds the miniature in place. I'm posting it for posterity and because it brings back happy thoughts of old friends when I see it.Hence today's general question is this: Do any of your miniatures in your collections hold a special place in your mind or evoke happy thoughts when you dig them out once in a while (inspite of their painting or age)?
4 comments:
Odd you shgould say that with this picture.
I had a grenadier water elemental, shaped like a curling wave, and it was the first thing i ever wet-blended. i was so impressed with myself.
Sadly I no longer have it, but I'd lay odds if i did, it would look terrible, so its probarbly best viewed through the dewey eyes of nostalgie :)
oh I think i was maybe 9 or 10 years old. and this was before 40k had any plastic models :)
Nice. I've got the full set, picked up and painted a long time ago. Never moved mine onto anything beyond the round bases they had as part of them. Looks good the way you have it based.
I still have the first space marine I ever painted. I was 10 or 11 at the time, and since my first hobby shop closed while I was off at college it has some sentimental value. He's the last of "Dragon Chapter", grey orange grey, and more of a indistinct blob with orange shoulder pads. Such is the sacrifice of painting an army in honor of Enders Game. Being too inexperianced to paint a dragon on the shoulder pad I went for a dragon eye as well, which now suspiciously looks like the Eye of Horus... Ah for the carefree days of not squaring my army with the fluff, lol.
Hi Durmacar - The Dragon Chapter sounds like it should be resurrected! :)
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