Ye Olde Inn

by **Seb** » September 28th, 2015, 8:50 pm

Hi All,

Long hiatus again as I settle into Auckland and start new work. However of late I've been adding new figures to my Heroquest collection!

I've taken delivery of more of my CAD designed bases:

Adding the Talisman Chaos Wizard, a Knight's Panther and Black Orc - soon to be Warchief with weapon swap; from 3rd Edition blood bowl - it is ridiculous how long it's taken me to secure one of those Orcs.

I've been distracted by the collapse of Warhammer and a growing interest in Lord Of the Rings miniatures:

And a recent commission to complete some classic Warhammer figures:

Next up will be the finished versions of the new additions and a Wood Elf I've been after for ages, mounted too

- Seb

Yah, theyre from Lord of the Rings - wanted to try and capture that green/gold as seen in the first movie. The technique is simple Shining Gold with a careful green wash - a lot of folks in LOTR are asking for my complex recipe chuckle. Been a great response in that community.

Currently working on the Black Orc tonight

by **Redav** » October 3rd, 2015, 5:35 pm

Gee, wonderful as always. Welcome back too!

by **Seb** » October 3rd, 2015, 6:03 pm

Thanks Redav

Good to be painting up some HQ for awhile.

by **Seb** » November 24th, 2015, 5:24 pm

Hi All,

My website, Eastern-Empire.com (based off Warhammer 40k Tau being an Eastern Rim 'Empire'), was hammered last night by hackers. I've been under attack for a little over a week and it is suspiciously concurrent with Anonymous announcing war on a certain demographic. So having a URL called Eastern Empire, is likely a bad thing.

Clealy despite legit hackerz skillz, they cannot bother reviewing a site, thus judging their time is worth it, before assaulting it. Plastic fantasy and spacemen guys, hello!?

I was contacted by my ISP (a large international brand) over the highly unusual bandwidth pounding my site was taking, and off the record, the support tech said websites with the most vague hint of middle eastern culture are being assailed, causing them no end of server issues. To their credit, they're not charging me for the usage given my account history.

For my part, it went from much much higher rate of brute force attempts from more regions than I've ever seen in my security review (Normally Russia and the Netherlands), to service attacks then an ouright code smash. I had rebuilt once over the weekend, then last night it got annihilated.

All my tiles, reports, tutorials and various art and modelling links are down. I have uploaded as much as I can to specific URLs but largely, Eastern Empire is wiped.

Thank you for your interest in my work over the last nine years, I won't be rebuilding in any major way for awhile until this unfocussed hate fades. At the most a basic resource site for fans of my Tiles and Warhammer figure work will reappear.

- Sebastian.