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More Glimpses of Valon Print E-mail
Written by Pete Barfield   
Wednesday, 02 December 2009 00:00

We take a further look at some of the inhabitants of Valon in four amazing new pieces of artwork by Pete Barfield, one of the illustrators of  Dirtside II and Stargrunts II.

 Dwarf Hussar by Pete Barfield

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Flintloque Goblin by Pete Barfield

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Zombie by Pete Barfield

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Undead Again by Pete Barfield

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Artist's Bio

A fan of gaming, history and drawing from an early age, Pete Barfield has played wargames and role-play games for most of his life, working from a large collection of rules books and a larger amount of lead figures - some painted, but most undercoated or bare metal.

Meeting Mac Coxhead at a model shop in Northampton where he had entered a painting competition in the Flintloque category, Pete was shown how to play Flintloque, a lesson and subsequent hobby that he enjoyed, realising just how much Mac loved the genre of the game in the process.

In his spare time, Pete always been a keen and talented artist, and for many years drew a variety of fantasy/sci-fi work for his own pleasure and gifts for friends. A chance introduction to Jon Tuffley of GZG gave Pete the opportunity to help illustrate Dirtside II and Stargrunts II.

Pete claims that he never really pictured himself as an illustrator, just someone who could draw. Now 44 years old, Pete works for Her Britannic Majesty as a civil servant, a full time occupation that he has held for a number of years.

Pete still draws and paints, mainly for himself, focusing more on historical themes currently. He still wargames and paints figures.

Webmaster's Notes

The above pictures were submitted by Pete Barfield for Orcs to use and like his previous work shown on last years advent calendar they were so good we decided to use them for day four of the 2009 Advent Calendar.

You can see Pete's earlier work on both Dirtside II and Stargrunts II on by visiting Ground Zero Games' downloads page where both rulesets are available as free downloads.