Interesting

Plasmablast games is cutting out the middle man. You can buy painted versions of their figures direct form them for 3X the cost of the mini.

They have a nice 6mm sci-fi line.

Secret Weapon introduces discount for commission painters

Secret Weapon Miniatures is offering a discount on orders from commission painters.

From their announcement:

Secret Weapon Miniatures is happy to announce a 10% discount for commission painters. This discount applies to all purchases made but cannot be combined with other promotional discounts. There is no minimum purchase and the discount will be applied automatically on all of your future purchases.

Visit our website for more information on how to sign up.

My Valks are done

More
http://picasaweb.google.com/BKArmyPainting/AdamCImperialGuard2?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGMzefykvaWcA&feat=directlink#

I am really liking this service

Decisions

I am looking to get some things painted, but cant make up my mind.

I need:

Heavy Gear/Battletech Thats 2 five man HG squads and 100 battlemechs.

2 Malifaux starters, cult of december and lady justice

15mm sci-fi

I also want to buy into WWII skirmish.

Thoughts?

Arcane Legions

http://www.arcanelegions.com/
is a psuedo pre-painted minis, psuedo CMG. It is now available in stores.

I have had the demo unit for it for awhile but havent played it.

It looks like instead of skirmish, they went for a army-type game.

Miniature Building Authority

I discovered this company at GameCon: Memphis.

They sell terrain from many genres/years/scales and have excellent 15mm, WWII terrain. This is the best choice for Flames of War.

The quality is fantastic and the buildings "broke apart" to be damaged, with detailed interiors.

All pre-painted. They are a bit pricey, but worth it.

They are available at discount from Noble Night Games. I got my Heavy Gear from them. They are also availble from thewarstore.

Paintedfigs.com now offering Dipping

Paintedfigs.com are now offering a dipping service and are having a contest with a Battle of Skull Pass set for the winner.

From their announcement:

A small contest: can you guess which, and how many, of these six minis have been dipped, and which haven’t? Guess right and there’s something in it for you (see end of article).

As you may have just realized, we’re now offering dipped miniature painting, which come in at half the cost of our standard painting rates. Painting starts as low as 99 cents per figure. You can check out our dipped pricing here on our prices page: http://www.paintedfigs.com/prices.html

One of our clients asked us to look into dipping as a way of offering painted Wargames Factory historicals at low rates. Assemble, basecoat, dip in Army Painter or Minwax, treat with matte varnish, and voila. In our search for the 99 cent Roman, we found first that we could do night goblins, gretchin and gnoblars for 99 cents, and most other infantry for $1.65.