Christmas Sale - Miniatures Advert

We are participating in the Christmas Sales! Our miniature bundle is now available to buy with 25% off RRP until 1st January 2016. We also sell a small selection of hobby supplies, if you have any suggestions on what you'd like to see in our store. Let us know!

Available to buy on our website - Mountain of Metal

Review by Mocha Minis

Recently, we asked Mocha Minis to review our new range of miniatures and she kindly accepted. Mocha painted our model, Havan beautifully and wrote an insightful honest review of the miniatures which you can read on her blog; Mochaminis.com.

"This miniature has lots of great metal detail sculpted in-- buckles, thin armor edging, and studs that were fun to paint and practice the gold NMM (Non Metallic Metal) technique." - Mocha 

Havan; painted by the talented Michal (Mocha Minis) 

Our miniatures are available on our online store - Mountain of Metal 

Mountain of Metal Miniatures - A closer look

We are pleased to announce that we have finally released our own range of miniatures in our online store now, here. 

Originally the miniatures were conceptualized and cast back in 2007 by Adam Cooper (Mountain of Metal), Stefan Ashwell and Ross Knill-Macarthur under their company Mini Painters.  However, university and life took over and the miniatures sat in Stefan's garage until 2015 when Adam and his wife, Joanne decided to re-release the models under Mountain of Metal. 

Our minis are true 28mm scale models cast in white metal. So far we have three models in the range Havan, Nenqua and Volac;which were sculpted by the talented Gael Goumon, 

but we are hoping to expand the range from 2016. 

Volac

"Desperate to cling onto life, Volac swore pacts with ancients beings of unspeakable evil. Once a proud wizard dedicated to healing and caring for the weak, his fear of death drive him mad. Shunning others, Volac hides away in dark places practicing his arts; Necromancy and other vile magic in a vein attempt to banish death."

Volac

 Below shows a size comparison of Volac when compared to a Gripping Beast viking and North Star Barbarian for Frost Grave. 

Volac Size Comparison

Havan the half seen

"Known across the civilized world as a mythical hero that comes in the dead of night to aid those in need. Havan earned the name 'half seen' through his eery ability to move unseen or appear from the shadows unannounced. To those that have witnessed his war craft, his reputation is well deserved. Armed with an ornate long sword and savage hand axe, Havan is more than able to deal with any who oppose him." 

 Below shows a size comparison of Havan when compared to a Gripping Beast viking and North Star Barbarian for Frost Grave. 

Havan

Havan artwork

Below shows a size comparison of Havan when compared to a Gripping Beast viking and North Star Barbarian for Frost Grave. 

Havan Size Comparison

Nenqua

A beautiful yet deadly seductress, Nenqua would be perfect to use as a rogue or thief in your role playing games such as Frost Grave, Dungeon Saga and Mordheim. 

Nenqua 

Nenqua artwork

 Below shows a size comparison of Nenqua when compared to a Gripping Beast viking and North Star Barbarian for Frost Grave. 

Nenqua Size Comparison

An article of our miniatures also appeared on Beasts of War which gave a positive and insightful review of the photos we released on our facebook page. If you are interested in reading it, please click here.

New Website and Paint set Giveaway.

Hi everyone! Joanne from Mountain of Metal Painting Studio here. In our long absence both myself and Adam have been working hard editing our website and starting to setup our own online store.

We will be stocking mostly The Army Painter paints and hobby supplies but if we get a high enough demand we will start to stock other lines as well.

We've been very lucky and have managed to finish some brilliant commission projects with many more lined up. Adam has also managed to sneak in some of this own personal work; Necromunda gang and Malifaux Hoffman crew. 

Malifaux - Hoffman Crew

Necromunda - Gang Leader

Necromunda - Gang

Also, not to forget we are currently hosting a giveaway on our facebook page. Like our page and comment with the hashtag #mountainofmetalgiveaway for a chance to win one The Army Painter Mega Paint Set RRP £85. Once we reach 1000 likes we will randomly draw a winner.

Good Luck!

Salute 2015 - Japanese Boards

We came across some fantastic looking games whilst at Salute. One of the games was Daishō – Skirmish Wargaming by Craig Cartmell and Charles Murton, authors of In Her Majesty's Service.

The other game; Defense of the Keep by Oshiro Model Terrain was a much larger table but looked amazing! The terrain and models looked fantastic.

Salute 2015 - Cold War Gone Hot (Wargames Illustrated)

One of our close friends, Nick Ayres has just released his new rule set at Salute 2015. Nick's rules are being used in the participation game on one of the Wargames Illustrated stands (GD04). The game is described below (taken from the Salute Website).

"Cold War Gone Hot - It’s the 1980’s and the Cold War has turned into World War Three! Take charge of a unit of Warsaw Pact or NATO troops as the battle for one of the main autobahns into West Germany becomes a chance to turn the tide…Participation Game, drop in and out as you like. 20mm figures, vehicles and more from the Leicester Phat Cats Wargames Club."

The board was created by both Nick Ayres and Philip Lewis and it looks amazing. If you are visiting Salute 2015, please check out their work.

For now, here are some photos of the game.

Salute 2015 - Alien Vs Predator

We were extremely lucky as Prodos games had contacted us and Leicester Phat Katz to help create two demo games for Salute this year. Overall our task was to create two boards and paint all the models for the games. Both of us at the Mountain of Metal, were tasked with painting the marines, commandos and power loaders. Photos of these will follow in another blog post.

For now, here are some photos of the two boards before the doors opened.

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We want to thank Prodos Games for all of their hard work and dedication to getting this game
released. There has been a lot of hard work from the guys and they still have a long way to go but the models are outstanding. So if you are visiting Salute today, please come to the Prodos Games stand to take a look!

TUTORIAL - Painting a Basic Log Cabin

Hi all! During display games at various war gaming shows I've received a few comments on the buildings I've painted so I thought I'd put together this tutorial on how to paint a basic log cabin which will look great on your board.

The  building I started off with was fine but some of the colours were a bit off for a log cabin; notice the grey in the roof which you normally wouldn't find in wood. 

I start off by base coating the entire building except the chimney with a java bean; a Wilkinson tester pot, although any dark brown will do.

For terrain and buildings, I recommend purchasing tester pots or standard acrylic paint as it's much cheaper than wasting your favourite pot of 'chosen brand' miniature paint. It's surprising how much paint you actually need, especially the more detailed, textured varieties. 

Once dry, I use beasty brown to dry brush the entire building. You only need a little colour so remember to dab off excess paint. 

I then dry brush again but with a lighter shade. This time I go for a orange/brown called scrofulous brown.

I also base coat the chimney using German Grey. 

Finally, I dry brush the chimney a lighter grey;in this case I used Luftwaffe Uniform WWII.Then I used a slightly watered down ink; Strong Tone, to wash the entire building. This helped bring back some of the details from dry brushing and toned down the colours. After these stages, you will be able to add more weathering or plant details if you'd like to make your building fancier but I hope this has helped cover the basic steps. 

As a recap, these are the paints I have used: 

Wilkinson Tester Pot ~ Java Bean (102)

Game Colour ~ Beasty Brown (72.043)

Game Colour ~ Scrofulous Brown (72038)

Model Colour ~ German Grey (70.995)

Model Colour ~ Luftwaffe Uniform WWII (70816)

Army Painter Ink ~ Strong Tone