**Soda Pop Miniatures – Kenobo Greens**

Finally the greens for Soda Pop Miniatures “Kenobo Monk of Gomandi” have become available. Kenobo retains the consistent Anime sculpting style seen in earlier releases but is the first male, non humanoid character from the company. The basis of sculpt seems to be a Noh opera monk resplendent with ropes and prayer beads.

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**End of week Updates**

Big update for this week as lots of different things from my many hobbies have/are scheduled to arrive today. Lots of these things were early pre-orders and others just random purchases such as the wargaming miniatures.

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Happy New Year! Last update of 2009

Experiment on behalf as I tap away my wordress iPhone app. Please forgive me if it looks aweful! Firstly. Big thank you to everyone who have continued reading Distudios, 2009 was a odd year as this blog went silent for the better half of 4 months. So what’s the plan for 2010? More pictures for [...]

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Grey Lord Ternion

First figures to be completed in 2009. This was one of the last purchases I made before taking a break from model making 3 years ago, I was getting really tired of painting the Iron Fang Pikemen and was in desperate need of a change of figurative scenery, luckily on that day I had just [...]

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Man O War Shock Troopers

Man O War Shock Troopers, probably the coolest unit release in all of the Prime book. These steam powered were a real joy to put together and a nice change from the endless and mundane power armour I had been painting prior. The models are very static but look great when displayed as a group, [...]

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Doomreavers

At the time I really liked this unit, it has a great story line and worked well with my list (Butcher of Khardov Prime version). However I fully admit to bodging this unit up. The colours were really off and the tattoos looked really bad. I am hoping to find a place for them again [...]

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Manhunter

A great figure and real joy to paint, I put a lot of time into painting the skin tones to get a heavily muscled look. I did struggle with the furs a little as I was still experimenting with what were very new Games Workshop colours at the time (Commando Khaki etc). Some how over [...]

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