Still going strong

Yes folks - today Officio Concvertorum celebrates its 2nd anniversary! 

I've had a great year - if not quite as intensely productive as the blogs opening annum. Still, with about 80 posts posted this year, around 260 followers and close to 400.000 views I feel its safe to say the Convertorum is very much going strong. This little sideproject of mine has certainly grown into something not quite so little at all...

And how better to celebrate this than with a picture of something I received in the mail from Nottingham a few days ago: 

That, my friends, is a genuine John Blanche original. 

And I think that is the best thing about the Convertorum: all the friends I've made. Among those the living legend whose remarkable scribblings now adorn my wall. 

Huzza!

Blanchitsu

Finally it's out! 

It's been a long wait (I've been keeping the articles existance to myself for half a year) but in this month's White Dwarf, John Blanche's column "Blanchitsu" focuses on my creations. Not only is getting my minis featured in WD a childhood's dream come true, but on top of that John's also written a very heartwarming introduction.

It's also a delight looking at proper photos of the mini's (instead of my cruddy iPhone camera shots)...

Thank you so much for this John. 

I'd also like to thank Peter Hudson/PDH for bringing the minis to GW HQ and a for his splendid repair job on Prokofiev (who lost some of his studs while in the hands of the postal service). 

Assassinatrix Mk II

I just couldn't resist buying the new Witch Elves (despite the box being...well, let's just say "a tad overpriced" and leave it at that...).

Anyway - here's the start of my first conversion using the kit:

I took a lot of inspiration from Mikko Loumas "Death Walks On Stilettos" sculpt and, of course, the John Blanche painting that in turn inspired that model.

http://spikyratpack.blogspot.se/2013/03/death-walks-on-stilettos-part-iii.html?m=0

Carte Blanche

To put things in perspective:
There's this guy I once saw a documentary about. He paints miniatures. Like miniatures of  miniatures - tiny tiny sculptures, fractions of a millimetre high.

Some would fit in the eye if a needle. Some are smaller. He paints between heartbeats - the extra blood in the fingertips during a beat makes the brush wobble. A brush made from the hair from the leg of a mosquito no less...
True story.

Now. This canvas is a whopping 9 times 12 mm. Huge by his standards - he could probably fit the entire roof of the sistine chapel there.

However, I'm not that guy - so I struggled quite a lot getting this at least vaguely right.

I don't think it's going to get any better than this. At least I'm taking a step back at the moment...
I'll try try to get some better shots tomorrow though.

Anyway - I give you the illustrious mr. John Blanche.