little men

I got into painting miniature figures a while back. I have to admit I was a little curious about the war games and the people and the nerdy huddles of dice-throwing gamers, but my real interest was in building little cities of people and setting them up at home to photograph. Ok, I admit, I started hanging around my local comic shop to learn more about the war gaming – but I never really got into the game play. I did buy a bunch of Ragnorak lead figures to paint… but I actually liked painting junk figures and old toy men more than the special leads. Regardless, I developed terrible arthritis after painting them and carving with my x-acto so I had to stop.

Well, it’s on my list of hobbies to get back to again -especially after seeing Steve Carell painting minis in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Yesterday I took a few photos of some of the figures I’d painted… I’ll post ‘em here. The first two are pics of normal army men size toys. The third pic is of three HO scale train people.