The Farseer Trilogy or 'There and not back again.'

I picked this trilogy up on browsing through Amazon's review lists. I'm trying a few 'epic'(?) fantasy series, not generally my normal fare but Game of Thrones brought me in. Normally I like the posh stuff, classics n' that but general recommendations were positive and Robin Hobb was on a number of readers' 'best' lists. This trilogy was up there or there about on many lists too.They're books I thought and I like books. I'll give them a go.  Nice metallicy covers.  Inititally, it took me couple of efforts to get past the first five pages. Not sure why. Perhaps having just finished reading George RR Martin's 'progress' in The Game of Thrones series, I guess I wanted something with the visceral immediacy of Westeros and...

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The end of The Mangler - PP Mercenary madness!

And here you go. The just finished Mercenary Mangler, painted and ready to go. In actual fact I think I found it easier than many 40K minis that I've painted, though it's not very 'mini'. It's a decent size. Not too complicated to put together, nice and sturdy. Enough detail but not too much! I did lose patience with some of the highlighting, so some of it was a bit rushed and a little rough round the edges. I also didn't clean the flash off very well, this was my first PP model and I missed some of it in my enthusiasm to get going... I also struggled a little getting a balance between using Devlan Mud wash and keeping a cleaner feel to the paint job. In the end I washed then overbrushed. I used both P3 and GW paints. Basically  -...

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