Monday 19 September 2011

Squeak Little Piggy

Two of the grunters from the Airfix Farm Stock set painted up to look like Tamworths..a rare breed that is as close to medieval pigs as you can get..and the Bacon is bloody wonderfull!!
Here´s a pic of a real Modern Tamworth...BIG PIG Eh!!?

 Here´s a pic of a medieval one becoming a bacon sandwich. 



12 comments:

  1. I like bacon...
    Oh yeah, the bods look great.

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  2. Man that's a lot of bacon

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  3. Great miniatures and the real thing looks wonderful!

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  4. (Lisa) “I’m going to become a vegetarian”
    (Homer) “Does that mean you’re not going to eat any pork?”
    “Yes”
    “Bacon?”
    “Yes Dad”
    "Ham?”
    “Dad all those meats come from the same animal”
    “Right Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!”"

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  5. Great work, never thought I would be praising such a good approximation of a pig! top stuff.

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  6. Wee, wee, wee all the way home!

    I love the way you've textured the base a lovely, shiny pig-sh*t brown, too.

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  7. Pretty sure that last picture is illustrating the earliest form of Croquet ;)

    nice pigs!

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  8. Nice pigs. I like the muck beneath them too. Very realistic :-). I don´t want to see it on my soles :-))

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  9. Love bacon!! Oh and your painting is pretty good too Paul.

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  10. Pigs are great - I was looking some good porcine minis over recently too. Hard to go wrong.

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  11. Squeee! Squeee!- must be the feast of Porcus Crispie!

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