The Fimir of Albion - out of the mist

[Santawraith]

Cant wait to see more my freind. Looking great

 

[Mr Saturday]

Cheers Santa, should have him done tonight.

 

[Nikos]

Very impressive, your sculpting skills are great. How long do you think this unit is going to take?

 

[Mr Saturday]

Cheers Nik. Well, it's a unit of 30. I have enough components for all 30, but I would say a good month, if I was hammering at it constantly, but I'm jumping between this, 60 ghouls and 30 chaos dwarf obsidian guard, so, perhaps a couple of decades then.

That said, I finished this guy tonight, so he's ready for painting once the green stuff has cured.

 

[Mr Saturday]

Here's the assembled fimm. He just needs some filing and he's off to the painting table.

 

[Trevy the Great]

That model is looking awesome, Mr. Saturday. I can't wait to see it painted!

 

[Mr Saturday]

Cheers Vekarin. Looking forward to that myself!

 

[Mr Saturday]

The second fimm, this time the musician.

 

[Cuzzy]

Great job on the head Mr S. Also a cool idea to make him drum on a giant skull, makes him look more savage.

 

[Mr Saturday]

Cheers Cuzzy. It's from the savage orc sprue, but fits right in with the fimir.

 

[Mr Saturday]

This time a standard bearer, which give me my first rank of five fimir. Huzzah!

 

[Mr Saturday]

I've started the fianna fimm, a six man unit. The first two are ready to paint. They're the original Nick Bibby sculpts.

 

[Mr Saturday]

Here's the first fimm helmet, based mostly on the only other fimir helmet, on Nick Bibby's fimir noble. It still needs a little work. I plan on a second leather helmet, and an open-mouthed face also, so I can cast a number of variants. I'll work up the mail on the neck after the head is attached to each torso.

 

[Cuzzy]

:|
Head looks awesome. I wish I could do that much detail with greenstuff.

 

[Mr Saturday]

Thanks Cuzzy. Here's the next head, this time wearing a ragged leather cap, studded with iron rivets. I intend to do one more head, then we'll see if they produce decent results when I make the moulds.

 

[Rochie]

Lovely stuff mate! The leather cap one is screaming texas chainsaw massacre!

 

[Mr Saturday]

Splendid, that's what I was shooting for, that 'chainsaw massacre-ness'

 

[Rochie]

sound! now all ya gotta do is make the meargh as a decrepit old bugger(ess?) in a wheelchair with a lump hammer!

 

[Mr Saturday]

There's something of the unsavoury granny about her, isn't there?

 

[Rochie]

just a wee bit....

 

[Mr Saturday]

The last of my head variants for my fimm units, this time a shouting head. It took a couple of attempts to get it to this stage, and there's a bit of work left, mostly smoothing and filing, but it's still curing, so one must wait. The teeth were a pain, I re-did them a couple of times. I considered doing some tusks on the top jaw, as in Paul Bonner's fimir illustrations, in the end I quite liked the bottom jaw tusks. They match the heads I've done already. SO! Once this is cured and finished I'll crack open the instant mould and get making them moulds. I'm dying to see how the heads look on the finished miniatures. Anyhow, thanks to Mr Paul Bonner and Mr Jes Goodwin for inspiration for these heads.

 

[Rochie]

Alright saturday(if that's your real name), this is gonna have to stop, you're gonna give the Irish a reputation of being very focussed, talented and industrious hobbyists, and i've far too much farting about to do to even come close to matching that stereotype!!!

Seriously mate, top notch.

 

[Mr Saturday]

Don't worry Rochie, I've been working on my VC for about a decade and they still aren't finished, so I'm flying the flag high...

 

[Nikos]

This is a breathtaking army, your dedication and hardwork is mindboggling. Cant wait to see some of these
cyclopean(?) freaks painted up. Keep it up

 

[Mr Saturday]

Cheers Nik! You sure know how to make a guy blush. I currently run out of greens stuff, so it's all on hold for now, Arrgh! I might take the opportunity to indeed paint some up.