{"id":4019,"date":"2020-11-08T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2020-11-08T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T19:40:20","slug":"svala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"Svala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First off, check out all the amazing entries for Old Man Paint’s <\/a>#oldorcs challenge, <\/a>over on his blog. There are some really talented painters that took part; some of their work is truly stunning! (You can also see my entry: it’s the one that looks like shit compared to all the others! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another year, and another missed opportunity to again host Dwarvember<\/a>. I keep telling myself I should bring it back each year, but I was kind of busy last month between #Oldorcs and The Vamp for Vampifan stuff, and I plumb forgot about it. Maybe I’ll bring back WizarDecember<\/a> next month instead. Subconsciously, though, Dwarvember must have been working on me, because the first miniature I painted after the Red Duke was this one: Svala, from Hasslefree miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regular visitors to this blog will be familiar with my love of all things Dwarvish; but for those who are popping over from Instagram or who happen to have come here accidentally, suffice it to say that I find two things coolest above all else: dwarves and bagpipers. And if you put both those things together, you may very well bring tears of joy to my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I like Hasslefree<\/a> miniatures a lot; but I usually purchase Kev’s Modern adventurers and martial artists rather than his Fantasy miniatures (even though they’re really good). That’s when I purchase Hasslefree at all; shipping rates are utter bullshit right now and have been for quite a while, so I don’t often “buy British” nowadays. That sucks for me, as there are some great miniatures to be had from companies like Crooked Dice<\/a> and Heresy<\/a> (not to mention Wargames Terrain Workshop<\/a>, a company I just discovered I am powerless to resist, shipping be damned. Hi, Dave!). While looking for something fun to paint, I stumbled across Svala here. I must have tacked her on to an order somewhere and forgot. The last time I ordered from Hasslefree was at least four or five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, I decided to paint her up as an older, experienced Dwarf woman; someone who hung up her adventuring gear and now spends most days at the forge. Of course, she’s still a Dwarf; so her warhammer is never very far away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She seemed like a good enough reason for a post as any. Hope you like her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insanity Pile Progress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miniatures Purchased: +49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miniatures Painted: +55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total: +6 ( I went on a bit of a spree, as I usually do this time of year. Better make up some time!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, check out all the amazing entries for Old Man Paint’s #oldorcs challenge, over on his blog. There are some really talented painters that took part; some of their work is truly stunning! (You can also see my entry: it’s the one that looks like shit compared to all the others! \ud83d\ude42 ) Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[50,40],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-miniatures","tag-dwarvember","tag-hasslefree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}