Just got home from DUZI 2011. To my surprise I won gold with my Han Solo :)

Gathered some other loot as well.

A full report of the event is coming very soon.

Bregan is done... don't feel like doing the "studio" pictures right now so I lined him up with the two other figures which will be joining him on the trip to the painting competition at DUZI this Sunday.

A few posts ago I blogged about the beginning of autumn, but the last few days that season seems very distant. It's been exceptionally warm lately, so I decided to get the most out of it and drove to the seaside today to spend some time with my family on the beach :)


As said before, Bregan is only a couple of hours away from completion, before DUZI. If you look carefully at the picture below, you'll notice Han Solo lying around. I decided to get this mini back for the competition at DUZI, as you might remember I painted him as a birthday present for a friend. Looks like he toppled over some time, because he got loose from the base. As a result of that there's some minor touch ups to do at the feet, but nothing problematic.

If you are subscribed to Corvus' Miniatures on facebook then you will already know I post interesting links now and then, ranging from articles to painted miniatures on CMON. But since the majority of the readers on this blog aren't on facebook, I'd like to make a post at the end of every month including some of the more interesting links I've stumbled upon during that month.

I'm not going to bother putting them in a particular order, I think each link describes its content pretty well. Let me know if you found this entertaining or not.

Mathieu Fontaine's blog: a huge gallery picturing all kinds of rust, great inspiration!

Space Wolf lord, mounted on a Scibor bear, great conversion and painting.

A new tutorial by Plinth Country, always a great resource for tips & ideas.

Amazing freehand combined with a very realistic transparency effect, especially the cloth lying on the floor. 

"The Taming", great concept, bronze Golden Demon at GD Spain 2011.

The Tuto-Thèque, a library of miniature painting tutorials, brought to my attention by Massive Voodoo. Quite a valuable resource!

Very good picture report of this years GD UK, by Cédric Lurkin.

Confrontation re-release by CMON. Great news, I thought, until I noticed the price :( Worth mentioning anyway.

Epic tutorial on how Raffa's 2010 GD Germany Slayer Sword winner came to be.

He's coming along nicely in my opinion, taken into account the little time I can put in him. Finished the base this weekend, very pleased with it.

Still two weeks until DUZI, I want to enter him in the competition.

This VoodooWorx resin plinth has been in my drawer for quite a while now. I always found the stairs too big for a 28mm figure. But since Bregan is a lot bigger than the average 28mm figure it perfectly suits the base. I added an extra touch to it with some skulls and plant roots.

The new layout of my blog is finally finished! No need to include screen shots or anything, you can see the thing for itself on http://corvusminiatures.blogspot.com.

The most important change is probably the menu bar at the top. Instead of relying on tags to to organize content, I have now created some separate pages for articles, reviews and event coverage. And there's finally a  real gallery now. I don't have put up all miniatures yet, just those from the past few years (they're not as many as I'd like), the rest will have to wait a little bit longer. The about page still misses some pictures, I'll add these soon.

On the top right there are links to social media sites I'm active on. If you scroll down you'll see boxes to follow me on blogger and facebook (still working to get that last one active). You can also like and share posts on facebook too.

I have also made some room for supporters. If you think your product or service can use some extra attention in the painting community then check out the details here.

Anyway I hope you like it. It's a big leap both design and content wise, I'm very happy about the final result. For some reason I always thought the previous design to be temporary, in the end it took 3 years before it was replaced :)

UPDATE: Added pictures to the about page, but they're still a problem a problem with the image sizes there. Failed to fix the facebook like button, so I disabled it for now...