Almost a year ago, I posted that I’d got a few models from Spyglass Miniatures. They weren’t for any particular game, just really nice models to paint for the fun of it. One of them I painted up fairly soon after getting them, but the other two I left untouched, distracted by other painting projects, until the end of last week, when I finally got around to starting another.

It was seeing a picture of this model, the 28mm version of ‘Shae’, the half-elven archer, that first drew me to check out Spyglass. I was struck by how nicely posed and simply but beautifully sculpted it was. Eventually, I bought this model, along with the 54mm version of the same character, and another 54mm model, ‘Anastasia’, which I painted last year. I have yet to paint the 54mm Shae, but the other Spyglass models are two of the best paint jobs I’ve done, and count among my favourite models.

So here they are. Firstly Anastasia, which was painted last October:

And here’s Shae, mostly painted on Monday, but with some stuff done on Friday and Sunday.

Spyglass Miniatures, incidentally, no longer exists under that name. The man behind Spyglass, Steve Buddle, has switched from making metal models to resin ones, which he now does under the name of Eolith Miniatures instead. Happily, several of the old Spyglass sculpts are now available in resin from there.