How about "Our mounts are bigger than yours?"

OoH! Or "Our mountains bring the boys to the yard!"

Can you due the runes in a paint that only shows up under certain phases of the moon?

Awesome banner.

i absolutely love that dwarf standard weety. so full of spirit and charm. like it was torn from an original copy of the hobbit...great great work

BB

All brilliant suggestions werkind and nevelon... I shall order the moon-paint immediately. And if you can come up with a dwarf joke no more than 8 characters long I'll think about it!

Hi beebopdrums, thanks. Good to see you around.

There aren’t a lot of dwarf jokes; six out of seven dwarves are not Happy.

(or grumpy, bashful, doc, dopey, sneezy, or sleepy)

Yes, 2 dwarves is an argument, 3 dwarves, a war... Pratchett quote from the book I'm reading

Hey that could go on the flag if I shortened it.
2dwarf, arguement, 3 dwarf, war.

I'll put it in runes and see if it works.

8 char short dwarf joke: short jok....

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
...Changed my mind about the tree. Too elvish. Mountains are what dwarves like...

I was about to say this when you posted it.
And gold, if you believe Sir Terry, Dwarves like gold.

Excellent painting on the banner. Loving that.

That's a really lovely bit of art you've done on the banner. Very evocative.

Psssst mantic skelly cav are peetty damn good /psssst

Loving the conversions Weety!

The difference the bit of extra detail on a skeletal horse makes is unreal. They look so much more full of character now.

Glad you liked them!

Here is a bundle of stuff I did this weekend.

A Necro-mage arrived in the post.



This ancient beast emerged from the fairy power spray. This one was truely lagged in paint and I've been soaking it for months. Does it herald a return to sci-fi?...



Quickly finished the eternal champion guy.



And finally finished my bright wizard. I'm very pleased with his everything.



I've just noticed that his coin-purses look kinda dodgy. I wonder if that's were he keeps the family jewels. Nudge nudge.

Went ahead and purchased more skeletal horses, Vallejo metallics and some vallejo metallic medium, so I'm not always doing NMM, it can get tiresome after a while.

Ah, perhaps I should have said 'bare' skeleton horses- the sort that you can do up in whatever scheme you want (like ancient egyptian, mongol, plowhorse, etc. etc.). There's plenty of skeleton European Warhorses out there.

Will be interesting to see you do a Dread'.

Champion (like his red and purpleness, metal is great too) and wizard (nice staff) both looking great.

Anvildude - its all sorted now I got some defunct tomb kings horses for a knockdown price.

Dr H yeah I think it will be the heaviest model I ever painted! Hands will get tired.

The wizards everything looks great weety, including his dangly bits

The champion looks nice as well, that was one of the models I wanted when I was a kid but never picked one up for some reason.

What chapter is the dreadnought going to be, something bright?

Good question! I used to do SMs white and green with a red stripe but I might just paint this one a vanilla chapter colour. Painting white marines is a drag.

Old plastic beastmen. Can anyone remember if these chaps are supposed to have shields?

I never saw them with shields. But that arm position-- with an early version of rage-fist -- makes me think that they could have them if you wanted to add them on. Units could not use shields with Halberds in 4th ed WHFB, which is what I was playing when I first saw those (1997?). I would not worry about getting them shields.

That bright Wizard had a mounted version too. All the Empire wizards did at one point. Purple is the perfect color for wizards Looks very good.

Great banner on that Dwarf. Very nice work.

I just had a quick look over at Stuff of Legends, and there are pics in different catalogs both with and without shields.

Cool I'll go with no shields as I might play 4th ed rules with them one day and anyway I need the shields for other things.

If I recall correctly they were originally for Talisman, but got repurposed (like a lot of Talisman plastics) for single pose Warhammer regiments. So when originally released for Talisman they did not have shields, but when released for Warhammer they did.

Cool - I thought I remembered him from somewhere board-gamey.

Here is a prototype. I might do them all with different coloured skin and hair - sort of a 'mixed herd' look. But I'm pleased with this one - this marks a reintroduction to metallic paint for me.

Well I had a fun day thinking up varieties of beastman. We've had the blond sunburned one already.

A grey-skinned variety, complete with a fiery mane



This one is obviously a favourite of Khorne.



Some more common beastman types






Three more left to paint. Maybe I should do a piebald one...
Here they are showing admirable racial harmony giving us human scum a lesson in beastmanity.

Elderly beastman:

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Ginger beastman:



Ruddy skinned beastman:



All the beastmen in a row.

I am a getting a strong vibe of either "You kids get off our lawn!" or a game of rock, paper, scissors and everyone chose rock.

Oh, maybe that is why Beastmen are so angry and hate humans, because Ole Farmer Giles taught them how to play Rock, Rock, Rock as a joke on the poor beasties.

Yes - I still have an urge to give them shields to cover up the mass fist shake.

Aw, I like them the way they are. They have such beautiful tones and look great together. Shields might break up that effect. Shields would also break up a great game of Rock, Rock, Rock.

Rock, rock, rock for the win. Wheres this piebald one then weety?

ROCK, ROCK, ROCK ALL NIGHT!!!!


Ahem. Sorry.

I now like beastmen. I think I might need you to stop painting, weets, since I fall in love with every model you paint.

Ok. Rock, rock and rock it is!

Girrafex I'm afraid pie-bald never happened... before I knew it I'd painted them all and there was no pie-bald.

Well thanks valhalla I will cease and desist (not really!)

That's beastmen out of the way temporaraly. Back to the skeletons methinks.

Rock, Rock, Rock, Lizard, Spock!

Great looking beastman herd there, Weety. I like the variations in skin and fur tone.

Skeleton horsemen now number 4. How to decide what colour to do the dreadnought? I was talking about doing some 'dirty' extra weathered marines a while ago... probably in biege with a highlight colour.

I always thought that the sons of Dorn, either Imperial or Crimson Fists, looked really good weathered up. But I’m sure you will rock any paint scheme you put on him.

A gigantic dwarf update for you; finally after slogging it all afternoon, not a single dwarf remains to be painted.

One rank



two ranks



Three ranks of dwarves



And its a good thing they are finished too because I'm bloody bored of dwarves and have a sudden hankering to repaint my platoon of rogue trader imperial guards. They are in the stripper already and I'm tying to order some auxiliaries and support.

Fantastic work, Weety. Banner works well with the surrounding detail.

The Dwarfs look excellent. Nice mix of colours.

edit: That should be DWARVES!

Thanks!

Couple of overhead views here

Blown away the banner and the shields especially impressive!

Dwarfs are sweet ! It's like the 80's again , only done really really well !!

OMG Weety, your guard platoon are stuck in the stripper ???
That is WRONG

Yeah but I'll always have pictures.

For some reason I really want to paint them in the old RT vanilla scheme - grey with yellow and blue stripes. Red is too cheerful. And they need dirt, lots of dirt, and scenic basing.

Also I broke the bank and got a couple of original sentinels for support.

To be honest, dirty grey with some contrast somewhere would look really cool.
Use the origional 90's colour scheme but with a more modern, weathered twist.

Great work on those Dwarves. They look really good.

The dwarf unit looks great weety, nice colourful shields.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Yeah but I'll always have pictures.

For some reason I really want to paint them in the old RT vanilla scheme - grey with yellow and blue stripes. Red is too cheerful. And they need dirt, lots of dirt, and scenic basing.

Also I broke the bank and got a couple of original sentinels for support.

Bold and classy at the same time. I am curious to see the old Sentinels.

No sign of them yet. But I did get a command squad! the proper one with the goggles, cavalry helmets and carapace armour:



I seem to remember that you could give two of them boltguns or other special weapon, and since they look neat shortened I decided to go for it.

That was my recollection as well, but I looked them up in the old RT compendium, and it turns out not to be the case.

An IG command section consists of a medic, sergent, orderly, and two guardment each with a lascannon.

They do look cool though.

Maybe I'm thinking second edition.

two lascannon! Blimey.

Love the dwarves Weety! The individual shields gives them the impression of a "part time" war band rather than a standing army... Lovely stuff...

Really loving the conversion work too - wish I had the vision to see the possibilities of bitz...

Hi archroy!

Well after an epic amount of scrubbing, the whole cast are assembled.

Squad one



Squad two



Psyker, medic, arbite and assassin



I'm slowly buying up models for a squad three now. Painting will follow shortly...

That’s a lot of old lead. I was thinking you were digging up some old plastics.

Nice haul.

Yeah when I think how much these are being sold for these days I'm glad I bought them years ago. Plastics would be great, more opportunity for conversions.

Those old guard are too cool. Looking forward to seeing them done.

Awesome retro goodness I may have done rt jetbike bits somewhere if interested?

That is a wonderful group of minis. The assassin needs to eat more. He's just skin and bones and spandex.

He also appears to sing soprano.

Well assassins only exist for the killing. I seem to remember some fluff about them being kept in suspended animation tanks until needed. Maybe that was just the insane ones?

But this guy is obviously a ninja as he is wearing the special shoes, so he can probably do that thing were he absorbs his special parts to protect from attack... I'm sure that's a thing they do, ninjas.

I thought it was Swamis? Or Shaolin masters... That is a very old assassin mini too. Never had that one. The old commissar, the one holding up a book, have you seen that one?

Dwarves look very good.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Well assassins only exist for the killing. I seem to remember some fluff about them being kept in suspended animation tanks until needed. Maybe that was just the insane ones?

But this guy is obviously a ninja as he is wearing the special shoes, so he can probably do that thing were he absorbs his special parts to protect from attack... I'm sure that's a thing they do, ninjas.

Well...that last bit is not part of GW's fluff but I am never gonna be able to look at a Vindicare assassin the same way again.

 JB wrote:

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Well assassins only exist for the killing. I seem to remember some fluff about them being kept in suspended animation tanks until needed. Maybe that was just the insane ones?

But this guy is obviously a ninja as he is wearing the special shoes, so he can probably do that thing were he absorbs his special parts to protect from attack... I'm sure that's a thing they do, ninjas.

Well...that last bit is not part of GW's fluff but I am never gonna be able to look at a Vindicare assassin the same way again.

I'm pretty sure GW ninjas could absorb anything !
On a slightly similar note , does any collectors of the old citadel samurai and ninjas have a copy of the rules produced for them that came out in a really ancient journal years ago ? I read it as a kid but can't find it anywhere.
Sorry to hijack your thread Weety !

I have some metal Guard of this era I can send you, Weets, if you want them. Let me know, and I'll dig them out and post pics.

I can't say no to that Briancj! Looking in the second edition army list to make up a platoon I need 3 trooper squads and an auxila squad (5 veterans, ratlings or ogryns). So I'll work towards that. Please do post those pics.

Big H I hope you find your ninja rules.

Red Harvest I remember that one, but haven't seen him. I've got some commissars.

Graven - what kinda bits?

Prototype update! This trooper seems to have been caught in a blast and survived.

Nice scheme, Weety. Liking the grubbiness.

Very cool. Very Rogue Trader, but with a bit of modern dirtiness thrown in which compliments him perfectly.

He's number 2? When you paint number 6, be sure to paint it to look like Patrick McGoohan.

It does have a nice grizzled veteran look to it. Good job.

They are all number 2 I'm afraid.





Getting real good at painting 2s. Hopefully ones will be easy, and I've done 3s before.


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One more - sergeant Velasquez.



And this is probably all I can paint today.

Group shot:



A sentinel arrived today! Excited. I need some big bases though.

Those sculpts are just so full of character

Hiya Mymearan thanks for looking. They were a bit more original and sci-fi than today's guard weren't they. The sculpts are a little gritty though and reward a dirty, weathered paintjob better than a clean one.

Here's two more I painted. Its getting the helmet stripes straight that's slowing me down.

They look great and so individual. SGT Velasquez and the plasma gunner really catch my eye. The sergeant is a really nice sculpt and the plasma gun looks like a big bug. The way he holds it kind of contributes to my visual dilemma.

Really nice work on the RT era Imperial Guard

More today. And sentinels! If the postman will bring me my bases. Have to rely on the postman down here. The local model train/airfix shop has started selling spez marins but precious little else. At least I can get flock and glue.

Sentinels! These guyz are infinitely pose-able thanks to ball and socket joints and three part legs, also almost impossible to stick together thanks to a stupidly heavy body! It takes Green-stuff, drilling and patience. Probably understanding center of gravity helps. I cannot imagine everyone in the 80s having these skills which helps explain how horribly mangled and covered in weird epoxy glue these were.

As someone who just put together a RT era wraithlord, I feel your pain. Tall and spindly and lead do not go well together.

Love the old egg though. Silly, but classic!

I'm tempted to give the pilot arms, he does look a little silly all straight-jacketed in his cockpit.

Anyhoo, I finished another three guardsmen to make up the next half-squad.

Heavy bolter - did Iforget to dirty this guy? damn I think I did.



Coms guy. His helmet was the wrong shape for stripes.



Squad sarge.



The Squad:

The squad is looking really nice weety. I know you said you were doing an old sentinel but didn't realise it was the really really old one.

Brilliant stuff. Nicely random and characterful models. I probably still prefer the Nineties metals but still nicer than either the Cadian or Catachan plastics

Ugh, that reminds me of building 3 Penitent Engines... "Hey! Lets put a 2 pound hunk of lead atop two freely spinning axles, which are then atop 2 inch long chicken legs!"

When I finally knocked one off the table and broke it, I didn't even care. It had it coming.

Yes, this is one of the disadvantages of metal. But they never let that stop them! Oh no. What I need is a zero G environment in which to assemble the little blighters. Book me on the vomit comet I have a sentinel to assemble.

Actually I've done the next best thing and rested them upside-down on their heads while the glue and GS dries.

Yeah these are the really pre-historic sentiels Girrafex. Its amazing I can still find them for under a tenner.

I loved those 90s imperial guard Llamahead. Especially valhallans. What I love about the RT stuff is its sci-fi look. You get the impression that these are dystopian future warriors with lasers, not just ethno-military stereotypes like the 90s guard(especially valhallans).

Looks great, Weety. I'm still sad that I didn't hang on to my Original Sentinels and sold my old, old IA/IG army back when I was a teenager.

Very sad. I'd of loved to see you repaint that. Hope you got a fair price!

The sentinels are on their feet, for now...

I think the subtle differences in how I stuck these two together illustrates its flexibility. If only they had made the body plastic it wouldn't have been such a pain to assemble. All I need is a third one to complete the squadron. I could make it sprinting with enough wire and patience.

Looking good! I remember the typical way to assemble the Sentinels back in the day was with a kind of "Z-shaped" layout.



I got about $500 for my large infantry army, made of RT models as well as the carapace/plastic arm-era guys and a decent sized detatchment of Squats on and off biked with a Warlord and Hearthguard in "egg" armour. I bought a Commodore Amiga with the money. At least I've managed to pick up a few of the RT guys again since then for eventual strip and repaint.


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..or was it $200? $250?

Good thing that the Amiga is still cutting edge. What?

Love the Guard squad Weety!! The old skool sculpts are amazing - how did they recruit an aging hippy and a bloke with chronic constipation!

"Hey, Velasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No... have you?!"

Amigas were pretty cool. I recall friends having them (we had the BBC basic computer, anyone remember 'Granny's Garden"?). Well worth a RT army. I'm not sure which would be worth more now. Depends on condition.

That sentinel is headed for a face plant...

Archroy: The "old hippy" isn't old. If you look close you can see that he had a full head of hair, but one of his squad mates has run a clipper down the center of his scalp as a practical joke

 JB wrote:
Good thing that the Amiga is still cutting edge. What?

It's one of those things, I guess. While I regret selling the IG, but I don't regret getting the Amiga - aside from just spending a lot of time playing games, I used it for a hell of a long time since I learned how to type, and bolt more things onto it which helped me learn about computers and how to use them to the degree that they're part of my work today - and it was a great piece of hardware for friendships and bonding with people and other such fun that came out of it.

I only got around to binning it earlier this year. Unfortunately more work than it was worth to me to try and sell or resurrect.

Hey! I love my ethno-military Valhallans, Praetorians and Mordians!

Seriously, I understand what you're saying. Hey, you want an old sentinel still in the box? Not the original egg model that you have, but the newer chicken walker from the 90's? I just like the newest ones too much to still use the older ones. I bought this one right before the newest plastic ones came out.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The "old hippy" isn't old. If you look close you can see that he had a full head of hair, but one of his squad mates has run a clipper down the center of his scalp as a practical joke

I stand corrected... That wacky guard humour eh?!

I loved the Amiga to I have to say... Me and my mates spent many hours crowded round it - still have fond memories of Sensible Soccer, Flashback, Chaos Engine, Speedball 2...

There's a man with a cultural history!

Anyone remember creatures and creatures 2? So funny...

Looking at the 2nd ed army list it says imperial guard used to have assault squads! So I'm making one from the armless men. Check them out. Running very low on RT era plastic pistols now. Better go shopping...

Still digging, Weets. I'm doing a large re-org/purge, which means everything is in little plastic baggies, in bins and boxes.

While I'm digging, any other things on your wishlist?

Well I'm always interested in squats. I basically collect everything from the 80s but there's no need to go crazy, Imperial guard is whats getting painted at the mo. After them I was thinking of getting the traitor chaos marines out again.

Thanks for asking! The market for 80s minis is so overinflated at the mo - maybe its in a stock market bubble!

2nd ed had IG Jump squads with jet packs and bikers! Pretty much copy SM list, but normal soldiers in the lesser armor of the IG

Page needs a picture, first layer done, mix of pale grey, black, blue and umber.




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Don't worry I'll take that mold line off the top of the bolt pistol...


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Number 1 has a cut down space crusade power sword, number 3 has a shaved miltia falcion sword and Number 4 has a shaved down 2nd ed space marine chainsword.

Great stuff got a Rogue Trader Biker and Jetbiker Commissar for myself a while back. Incidentally I have plenty of the old style Bolt Pistols. PM me if you fancy a trade. May have some other RT bits I don't have much use for as well.

The Assault Squad is looking good.

Other stuff to look out for for a RT 40k 1.5-era Imperial Guard army are: Medics on Bikes (Vincent Black Shadow!), Jetbikes - both the 1st and 2nd variants, Ogryns made of the Bob Olley "Ogryn Sergeant" and regular Jes Goodwin/Olley Ogres (which was one of the drives behind the start of my own Ogre Collection). Old-skool Rhinos, Thudd Guns, Rapiers, Mole Mortars, Penal Legion, Whiteshields, Commissar training squads....

I think I have a vincent black shadow sans rider somewhere.

I have been resisting the urge to pick up some of the RT Imperial Guard, you have just made that task more difficult!

Great thread, will be keeping an eye on it, well done.

Hi inspector #264 thanks for stopping by.

Resistance is futile, the borg used to say.

Hey thanks for the offer Llamahead. Another dakkite has already stepped up on the boltpistols. The offer is appreciated.


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Oh and I see also thankyou vallhalla for the offer of 2nd edition sentinels but I'm sticking with the egg shaped ones for asthetix. Save it for another decade, by then it will be worth a mint in its packaging.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Hi inspector #264 thanks for stopping by.

Resistance is futile, the borg used to say.

Many thanks for the welcome, and on your other point....

I kinda ordered an old RT guardsman.

No probs, weets. Just thought I'd offer. I can't get rid of the one I painted, but this one will find a good home one day.


EDIT: I can't bear to get rid of it, is what I mean.

Surely you cant have just one, Inspector...

No worries valhalla thanks for the kind offer. I could say yes but that would be cheeky as I wouldn't be using it for this army.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
No probs, weets. Just thought I'd offer. I can't get rid of the one I painted, but this one will find a good home one day.


EDIT: I can't bear to get rid of it, is what I mean.

If Weety doesn't want/need it, I know someone who might be interested...

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Surely you cant have just one, Inspector...

I fear you may be right, he is looking rather lonely standing here on his own....

If the illustrations in the old rule books are to be believed you need several thousand. Its a marketing gimmick but I like it.

I'm dawdling on the painting I know. Bit busy with fee-bay at the mo.

You could well be right, some of the old art is packed full of them, but I did manage to find a pic to base my force size on:



Looking forward to seeing what you come up with once your dawdling is over with.

 Inspector #264 wrote:
You could well be right, some of the old art is packed full of them, but I did manage to find a pic to base my force size on:

Spoiler:

I'm halfway there!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with once your dawdling is over with.

I love their giraffe skin pants! A bold fashion statement indeed.

Plastic guardsmen to the rescue. The old guard never had a model for a flamer so I stole this one from the beaky marine kit. I'm waiting for pistols to finish the others and I've got two more torso's in the post. I really am going to have a whole assault squad!. Now all I need is ten jetpacks...



Got some old orlocks for fun and conversions.



Imperial guard squad two is basically done, they are waiting on their helmet stripes, again.

A little sneak preview; WIP command squad. They are cleaner than the other guard, maybe I'll keep them that way. I imagine they consider themselves a cut above with their fancy gilded armour. Needs flag. I think I will carry on the black and yellow checkers on the flag.

Going to do a classic RT flag, or something new-ish?

Good question. I need to research! Whatever it is I want black and yellow on it.

They look really nice weety, I remember having some of those when they came out.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Good question. I need to research! Whatever it is I want black and yellow on it.

The red WD compendium had a section where you could photocopy a few banners and then paint them. Here is a link to mine as an example. Page 155 if that helps. They are specifically for the 5th Arcadian Regiment, F Company, but follow the same pattern as the ones flown by the 9th Necromundian.

Excellent I can see where the Scion models came from now!

I can never quite believe how nice you make those older models look. With your paint, weets, the easily stand up to any modern fig.

Girrafex, showing your age there! We were the great generation... or was it GenX.

Thanks for the link nevelon, I'll probably do some variation on that design.

Llamahead yes they do look just a bit sciony.

Thanks Valhalla.

Well heres the second squad, squad 1. Well they are the second squad I painted but they get a 1 on their badges... erm.

I have to hold my breath when I paint the stripes.

Outstanding work on these old RT models. You've really captured the look, feel and spirit of the era, but with a nice modern, weathered touch. Great stuff!

Thanks Azazelx, It was fun.

Squad 3 is next, The assault squad. And sentinels. I've got two more but with missing parts. I'll try and think of a way to replicate them. I only have one foot. Maybe I can press mold it.

Argh! I'm extremely jealous. I've got a bag full of those old plastic guys, but I just can't find the time.

The pedant in me demands that I point out that two of those guys with bolt pistols haven't bothered to take them out the holsters, but other than offending my OCD, they all look good.

Ah well I didn't have enough bolt pistols, and I figure no-one would notice if I stuck a barrel on the end, but looks like I'm rumbled!

Ah, RT days nostalgia! those old IG look good!

Hi Shas!

More imperial guard painted. These guys are assault troops. I chose lots of swords to give them that gothic look.



These three are (from the left) medic, artillery captain and another mercenary I never got round to painting.



Another medic, with arms from empire militia, and assault trooper, this time with guns from a forge world steel legion dude - they look right for RT.

They look great. I also like the facial expressions and poses of the three gentlemen on the left side of the top photo. They appear to be distracted from their pistol shooting by something coming at them from the direction of the viewer. I like to imagine that something funny is happening in front of them that they haven't quite figured out yet.

They do look a bit distracted from what they're shooting at.

This guy is never distracted from shooting, ever.

I went all out on his highlights. He has a base coat of the same blue-grey mix I've been using for the guardsmen. I wanted to tie him in, visually.

I love that old assassin. The blue-grey looks really nice, and very different from the standard black.

I think blue-grey is a more realistic camouflage colour than black. And more fun to paint!

Beautiful work on an icon of RT history. Love it.

Ah! The classic Assassin model. Outstanding work on it, Weety!

Thanks!

Today its the psykers turn.

Looks like an old gene stealer magus...

Sure does. But he is a psyker. If you can't afford a magus then he is a good sub.

Here he is ww.solegends.com/citcat94/cat1994121-02.htm


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I have a damaged spare one... I reckon he has magus potential.

Great looking melon-head psyker, Weety. I think I might have that guy somewhere. Unpainted, of course.

Well I look forward to the inevitable day when you paint him then!

There's a new judge in town...

Love the Arbites, I wish GW would re-sculpt them at some point. Such amazing models especially for the time. He looks awesome, I love the badge with the blue glow almost.

He turned out great weets. His IS the law!

Love that Judge. Looks real mean!

Ahhh!!! I love the Arbites!!! I always wanted some of them, but didn't want to pay ebay prices.

I know valhalla! I cannot believe how much he is worth now. I wish I had bought more back when. I would like a whole squad. Warhammer seems to be approaching a tulip moment on feebay...

Thanks for stopping by all. I totally copied this paint scheme from judge dredd,

Good job on the paint scheme. Once again, you make an old mini come alive.

Lots of nice work, Weety. Liking the not-Dredd.

Loving all the new models Weety... You seem to have been on maximum painting overdrive... The command squad is particularly sweet, and the Arbites (I thought it was actually a JD mini at first - made me contemplate stripping and repainting my old perp minis - I got a few of these lying about - http://www.solegends.com/citjd/jd3perps3.jpg)

I love my repaints, think of it as a second chance to do a model justice.

I find fairy powerspray is the best for stripping. Monkeytroll recomended it and it smells of lemons unlike dettol, which to my mind smells like whiskey mixed with vinegar..

You've been on a roll recently weety, lots of lovely painted models, not had a chance to comment until now.

Oh on the fairy powerspray I was reading on another dakka post that they have changed the formula and the new one doesn't strip paint anymore. The picture on the bottle is slightly different.

Hmm. I'm still working with some I bought last year. I appreciate the info.

Damn you Proctor and Gamble!!

Great looking minis. I especially like the old school sentinels.

Very awesome stuff indeed.

D

Great work on the Arbite, Weety - I love the scheme.

Hi evildrcheese and azazelx.

Well I've been busy but I'm stalled on the assault squad due to needing two more torsos. I bought some but then noticed the seller was on holiday, so patience is needed.

Instead I turned to the sentinels. Here is progress so far on the first two:



In an effort to get two more sentinels on their feet, I've been experimenting with press molding. Here is a press mold of the foot.



Apart from needing more feet I'm short on assault cannons. I'll be using the one from the space crusade marines as its the same size once excess plastic is removed.

Also I need another pilot. I think I might have a tank commander somewhere who would fit.

Very nice egg walkers. Where are you getting incomplete models? That doesn't seem like something anyone would bother to sell.

Same place I buy everything - feebay.

all sorts of bits and parts are for sale on the internet. Incomplete just means cheaper.

Excellent stuff. I love these old school armies.

Hiya all. More painting will follow shortly.

But for now I have some things I should like to sell to you all. I scored a suitcase full of vintage warhamsters at the carboot sale (payed through the nose) and now I have to sell the ones I've got duplicates of to recoup funds. There are some real rarities here so I make no apologies for the prices. You can always make a best offer. Thanks for your consideration/

Link to fee-bay http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/weetyskemian44/m.html?item=181893085547&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

And some pics to get you salivating:
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Bloody hell - that was quick. Seems to all be gone.

Oh - maybe its because you are in NZ and I didn't specify any international postage? Definitely didn't sell them all yet.

Here's the link again http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/weetyskemian44/m.html?item=181893051496&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Yeah everything only shows up to UK postcodes so you you may want to tweak the listing is you wanted to ship overseas!

Great looking sentinels btw, looking forward to seeing more of them.

New Zealand? Pah. Australia!

Also, the only things I can see are four books. One Pratchett and three Banks.

Hmm. Apologies for mis-nationalising you. I'll try and put some postage options up for Oz and the US, see if that helps. Will let you know when I get that done - its a good idea though, lots of peeps from Oz like minis

Well. Its been a while. Busy busy real life has been getting in my way, boo.

I had trouble setting up international sales. E-bay seems to think its enough to set a blanket rate for the whole bloody world. Maybe they reserve a better system for business sellers?

Anyway I finally moved forward on the imperial guard, which is great because I have a hankering to do some RT space orks.

One complete assault squad



Third sentinel is ready for paint! Note his space crusade assault cannon. Its hard to find complete sentinels so I have to adapt, improvise and overcome:



A swashbuckling Medic and heavy weapon for the command squad. They just need a flag and some finishing touches:



I actually have enough guardsmen now for a whole other tactical squad, but according to the lists that means I need another command squad. Might paint them anyway and sd the list. Also managed to score 3 RT era ratlings, so very rare I can't find two more to complete the squad!

Wonderful work on the guardsmen weets.

Yep, nice work, Weety.

I'm fairly sure that Space Crusade is old-school enough to work with that.

I would be very suspicious of a medic with a heart-with-sword-stabbed-though emblem on his armour...
"Put the sword down first, then you can look at my wound"

Yes I don't think he has a great bedside manner. I imagine him doing triage by euthanasia with his sword.

At least that sword is going to give a clean cut. Other minis (plus some illustrations) show amputation via chainsword.

This guy!


The Guardsmen are looking great, Weety. How many squads all up now? Three plus command section? The SC AC works perfectly on the Sentinel. It'd be hard to tell at a glance once it's painted.

Yes three squads plus command, and the ratlings will be the auxiliaries if I can find two more. I've even got two RT tech priests to justify the sentinels. And two commissars which I painted last year. So basically a complete 2nd edition list imperial army! I don't think I've ever painted a complete army before. Technically two techpriests lets me take 3 more vehicles or support weapons, so room for expansion.

Group shots soon, I've started the flag and the first 2 sentinels are nearly finished.

Fantastic work on the guard. I think I've said it before but those Sentinels are soo cool!

D

Just wait till you see them finished! I'm just adding dirt now and then they need helmet stripes and some insignia.

I plan on getting that done today, after my JOB INTERVIEW! I'm terrified, but its time for a change.
I want to work for iceland because I love frozen deserts and getting paid more. I just hope they don't ask me what my main weaknesses are because one of them is strawberry cheesecake.

Excellent work on the guards there... Looking forward to seeing some greenskins get the Weety treatment!

Good luck with the job interview... Iceland do Greggs pasties too! Winner!

I would give you that job in a shot if you said that at interview. Your stuff is looking better than ever weets and I love the retro egg sentinel

Interview seemed to go well. Too drunk to paint now. Making bolgnaise.

Yeah I'm really looking forward to the orks. I can really go wild on the colours. This is a pic I will use as inspiration for them

Great stuff. Looking forward to the Orks.

The guardsmen are wonderful. I like your colour choices. My favorite model is either Mr. Hand Flamer drama queen or the Plasma pistol dude.

Yes! He is so hamming up his wound. If he can lift a sword above his head then its just a scratch. I was v pleased with the hand flamer. Resin finecast I think.

Best of luck with the Job selection, Weets. I don't know what it's like in the UK these days, but here it can be quite the achievement just to make it to interview.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I actually have enough guardsmen now for a whole other tactical squad, but according to the lists that means I need another command squad. Might paint them anyway and sd the list. Also managed to score 3 RT era ratlings, so very rare I can't find two more to complete the squad!

Which list are you using? I just had a look at the Imperial Guard Army List in the Red Book (the one that goes with the models you're using) and it asks for 1-4 Command Sections (plus 1-4 Lieutenants to go with them), 4-12 Tactical Squads and 0-4 Assault Squads, so you're good there.

I'm looking at the second edition list. I guess its not important but I like the idea that the army should be roughly correct, so it looks right. I'm glad it fits with one list at least.

Yeah jobs are a bit scarce over here. I bet there were dozens of applicants and I got to the interview because I have a decade of experience in retail. The average shmuck doesn't stand a chance.

Heh felt that one myself. Work in construction and went through a lot of project specific short term jobs equally things have started looking up and I've been in steady work for well over a year now. So good luck! It's improving out there!

Well first things first, I GOT THE JOB!! Yeeeehaw!

Day off today. I decided to try my hand at flags. Damn flags are fiddly. Anyway after many corrections I got it down. This one is based on the pic from the front of the imperial army box (see below). Notice the bullet holes.





finished the sentinels, maybe they need more dirt?

Congratulations on the job.

Guard are looking amazing.

Well done m'dear! Enjoy your frozen bounty!

Mmmm I love frozen food. Obviously I defrost it first (unless icecream).

Well just one more sentinel and that's the imperials done and ready for a group shot. Obviously there's the other other tactical squad but I may leave it for another year. Space Orks are calling me from across the starry void.

Also I've got a mole mortar plus crew for the squats. Hard to get hold of, mole mortars.

That flag looks sweet. It really captures the feel of the era. The sentinels' feet look fine, in my opinion. They don't need any more dirtying up.

nice IG, weets. Love the egg walkers and the flag.

Good job on the flag and the walkers.

Congratulations on the new job too.

Ok, I've got some days off before my new job starts, and a big pile of freshly fettled and primed 1980s space orks. So I'm gona paint some orks. make heaps of curry, and play skyrim as an orc.

Gone get some onion and garlic, blend them into a thick paste, chuck it in some gently sizzling butter and BAM! hit it with the spice weasel. Mmmmmmmmmm.

So what skin colour should Orks be? I've seen them done other colours and was wondering what you all thought?

I've always been partial the the classic Goblin Green orcs/orks. I do my Mantic orcs and gobbos in AP goblin green (or is it greenskin? I don't recall and I'm at work so I can't check...)with a homebrew dark green glaze.

Spice weasel... lol!

Looking forward to the orks. I am always amazed by what you do. And congratulations on the new job, weets.

Congrats on the job.

That flag looks great too, and I'm loving those sentinels. Just brilliant.

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i painted my RT Orks in really bright colours. Keep in mind that I painted them when Rogue Trader was new. The colour palette is out of style now.

Well thanks evilcheese and valhalla

JB we have the same warboss!

Joshin japan I'm probably going to go with the green. But maybe some coloured war-paint here and there to liven things up.

Here's the ork warband.

I like the idea of giving Orks "realistic" green skin; tinting a normal skin tone with greens instead of reds/browns. See the couple of Orks I've painted or the many that Nerdfest has painted for examples.

Also, whatever kind of green you go for, vary the tones as you would with normal squad skin tones, rather than making them all the same, identical, green.

That's my opinion, might not be old school, but there you have it...

The flag looks great, as do the Sentnels. I wouldn't add more dirt to them, though you could perhaps add some rubble or bigger rocks (or flock) to break up the larger bases, but the walkers themselves look fine.

As for the Orks... if you're doing RT-style then there's really only one choice...

This color?
Something bright and cheerful at any rate. Orcs are the embodiment of the power of positive thinking, y'know.

And coincidence of coincidences... just the other day I found some RT orcs buried away in my basement.

Well, green at any rate. There are a few variations that fit the RT ethos, which is actually a little darker and duller than people tend to think. 2nd Edition is where things really brightened up - before it all darkened again a fair bit with 3rd Edition.

There are a few versions of "Goblin Green" floating around, but Vallejo's or Army Painters both make good starting colours.

Well I'm going with what you said Dr H and experimenting with different skin shades washed in green. I think they need more pink around the lips n cheeks n warts before I wash with green.

Red harvest - Its a sign from Gork and Mork that you should paint them!

Thanks Azazelx. Yeah it was less dayglow in the beginning looking at the catalog pics. Maybe the paint was just a different colour back then?

If you want to stay true to the period, don't forget to paint their bottom lips pink.



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Which I see you already mentioned. Oops.

Cool. I'm liking the one on the left in particular.

I think you're right. I must paint them. I think like Christmas Elves in bright red and green. "Tis the season, at least judging by all the stores around here. Geez. Can't even wait until after Halloween to get the decorations up.

The paints were different colors. Much brighter. I think Mike McVey was the one who was in charge of that. The grimmer palette came when the Company switched to those abominable hexagon paint pots with the domed lids. The ones in which paint dried out readily.

Looking great so far, Weety. Can't wait to see how they turn out!

Orks in progress:



Nearly finished orcs:

Well I'm going for a really big army for my space orks, because I just scored 38 rogue trader era multi-part plastics! I'm gona have a death skulls, snakebites, goffs and bloodaxes squad. I am going to make these wonky old bits look better than new.

If anyone has any of those tiny RT era ork bolt pistols I would be interested in them for money. I'm a little short on them and using any newer pistol would be inauthentic.

If you can’t find any locally, I can check the bits box. I have a box of those plastic orks that have been sitting partially painted/assembled for over a couple decades now. But shipping them across the pond can’t be cost effective.

But if you are truly desperate for the real bits, I’ve probably got a few.

A lot of those orcs look familiar as well, nice (as always) to see the old RT stuff getting some love.

I will have a look, been meaning to sort out anyway, should have some at least.

Cool, well let me know how that goes cam. Nevelon I may get that desperate.

Well no updates today - first day on the new job. But tomorrow lots and lots of orkishness.

The wOrks in progress are looking great. Hope the new job is treating you well. Dreaming of the new work stuff every night for a week or so?

First day went well. Looks like I'll be driving a van. Not quite what I signed up for but it pays better wages and affords a little more status than checkout staff! Happy days.

Meanwhile in the world of rogue trader, an ork waargh is coming together, many clans congregate under a powerful warboss.

The blood axes will provide tactical mid-range fire with trademark discipline.



Snakebites, they are supposed to be primitive so I didn't give them any wargear. Just the axe, stikbomb and boltpistol for them. They will provide cheap close assault cannon fodder:



The Goffs are scarboy veterans and so get the the best killykilly stuff, enough to take down the toughest opponents up close and personal:



Deathskulls take on the role of long range support. They need more big guns I think.



Got lots of bits left over so I'm not done yet. Also I may add some GS details to give them more character.

Finally the army gets some tunes to stir them to battle!

Congrats on a great first day, at least you are your own boss on the road.

Pic below, posting soon I hope, please bear in mind that these are all "not my work" ie they have come in job lots and some are in poor shape, but you can work some magic, what you can't use ditch. Just hope it is of some help to Waaagh! Rogue Trader...


I know that although there are a couple nice enough amongst it, I would probably never really see the benefit that you will get from them, so they are going to a better future, that's me happy.

Wow, thanks! I'll try and do something with all of them.

Two more orks are ready thanks to random bits, I think the heavy stubber is from wartrack handlebars. The snakebite has gone extra primitive and not even bothered with smithing an axe.

Wow, those plastic orks are unmistakably from a different era. What the models lack in technical terms, they more than make up in funk value. Are you planning to run them using the RT rules?

Ooo, look at you, Miss van driver, you. I used to dream of driving a van when I was on the till.

Looking forward to seeing you paint these up, Weety.

Oh! A white Van (Wo)Man!

Well, I know that's a thing in the UK, just not really sure what kind of thing. Generic term for delivery people, I assume?

The old-school Waaargh looks like it's really going to have some potential. Can't wait to see it with paint!

Azazelx; White van man is a legendary uk stereotype. He will read the sun, but only page three, he has a skin-head but only to hide his balding patch and he always tailgates the car in front and swears in a cockney accent. Not the ideal role model for a new job!

Joshinjapan I'm building the army according to second edition rules as I have a copy. Probably never play with it, but wouldn't rule it out.

Dr H, you were on a till? I always pictured you as a teacher or other professional.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Dr H, you were on a till? I always pictured you as a teacher or other professional.

Well that was back in school. My first job at 16, up until my first year of Uni; till tart in Somerfield. Then I worked in Weatherspoons during Uni holidays. I think everyone should have to work in one of these kind of jobs; would probably make them better customers to know what it's like on the other side of the till or bar.

Teacher, no, not for me. Although I did do some demonstrating during my PhD and Postdoc (that's watching the undergrads perform experiments, teaching them how to use equipment etc.).

But until I find something to do with chemistry research, I'm an artist... of sorts.

Enough about my CV though, back to Orks.

Back to orks...

Bad Moons are done!

Nobs and warboss:



Boyz:



Grotz:

Brilliant stuff always liked these quirky ladz

So this is my collection of those old models...

And this is my pile of 30 bolt pistols.

How many do you need? Just pistols?

Great job on the Orks. Like the face paint.

Hi fifty. Impressive amount of old guns there. I could do with ten more of those to complete the plastics, and I'd be happy to reimburse you. PM me, thanks.

Hi Lamahead and H.

Well I drove the van for 8 hours today and I think I'm beginning to pick up some inside info on this van thing. Life is good.

Hi dakka! Long time no post. New job hard on the hands. I've got shoppers finger times a thousand.

But I did manage to get these rather flashy looking blood axe boyz ready!




And I'm sending a big shout out to Camkierhi for the donation of some very old orks, including but not limited to these:

Beautiful work on the RT Orks, the checks really add to the effect.

WARNING: NOSTALGIA OVERLOAD

Amazing work, da' boyz iz grayt

Great work, Weety. I haven't been around much due to work as well, but these are great and really fit the old-school vibe.

Da boyz look fantastic weets! Very appropriate.

Nifty liking the fact they seem to be wearing your guard scheme!

Well you know blood-axes, always aping the guard. I like that about orks, I get to paint all the clans. Next is snakebites... lotsa leather and snake tatoos.

Look after them fingers, Weety. They do lovely work.

Speaking of which, good job on the Orks. Look great.

You are quite right Dr H. I got quite upset about my fingers at first. Now I'm trying to break up my shopping drops into smaller sections to spare the fingers, and they are getting us folding trolleys soon. So don't worry, my painting will continue!

Snakebites are nearly ready for freehand patterns and other details.

Those Blood Axes look amazing.

EDC

Snakebite time!

Fantastic work, especially on the tattoos!

These orks are phenomenal!

Hi bbb thanks!

inmygravenimage Tattoos? they've got tribal clothes but I chickened out of tattoos because I liked how the skin worked out and didn't want to ruin it.

Hoping for Boarboys as well!

Ah, I assumed those were tats on their knees. Look smashing though.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

inmygravenimage Tattoos? they've got tribal clothes but I chickened out of tattoos because I liked how the skin worked out and didn't want to ruin it.

I know that feeling. Just gotta dive in and go for it! Totally worth it

Excellent work on the classic Orks - I love those guys. My favorite on this page is the blood axe standard bearer with bare feet. That guy is classic! He seems to have the outline of a bandaid on one foot though - if it is you should definitely paint it in. : ) I think the snakebite skin is very good, especially the open mouthed screaming one. Great job picking out their gear - one of the best things about classic orks is the random crud they lug around.

Those guys look pretty fabulous. Great work

Whered the feathers come from?

Hey thanks kestrel thanks - I hadn't noticed the sticky plaster!

Hi cam, the feathers are the small leaves from the GW brass leaf sprue.

I really want to paint more orks but the people need their turkeys delivering and I'm very knackered. Hope to get a day off soon!

Awesome snakebite.

Much better than a combo of cider and beer.

EDC

I'm actually quite fond of that bitter-sweet mixture, although the froth it generates is monstrous looking so pour it real slow!

Anyway glad you enjoyed the orks.

Try a pint of diesel some time.

Have to keep an eye out for that brass.

Hello dakkites. I'm still slowly grinding out orks. Here are some deathskull klan heavy weapon boyz. Made the weapons out of various old bits stuck together.

Looks good! Nice work on the tats/war paint.

Terrific work! I like that they are not just blue, but still recognizable as deathskulls.

Thanks wherkind.

High Novasetri, it was the style in the 80s for deathskulls to be multi-colour, with only the facepaint being definitely blue. I think the new style is for everything to be blue or white, which looks a little sad to my eyes.

Nice Deathskulls. The blue face paint is great, I really like how they've all got a different style too.

EDC

Great work on these old plastic Orks. The snakebites and deathskulls both look great. How many are you planning to do of each clan?

Somewhere between 10-20. Depends what I can rustle up.

I'm taking a break from orks now to do a horde of zombies! Its a commission job which is nice, and the regiment is made from a mixed undead/empire kit. A regiment of the fresh battlefield dead risen to fight again! Should be fun.

Merry Xmas everyone!

The long hard slog to provide the people with frozen turkey and prawn rings is finally over. Now the heavy drinking and movie trilogy watching will commence.

Hoard of zombies is coming on.





The back rank are a bit more rotted than the first two...



with colour:

They're looking great weets! Merry Christmas to you too.

Merry Christmas.

Great looking unit there. Great colours. Like the mix of levels of decay.

Mooooore progress. Need flag?

Looking Excellent nice conversions as well.

Great stuff, Weety - the (ex-)Empire Zombie horde has come up brilliantly!

The flag is nearly done. Needs a little more dirt methinks.

That banner looks great weets. Fantastic work!

Thanks gitsplitta. Looking at it I think I need to define the red stripes slightly with a darker shade towards the edges.

The banner is looking really nice weety.

Agreed. I also like the "in-between" nature of the Empire banner with the rather foreboding message on it...

That is one outstanding banner, fiddly work well done.

Its not even quite done yet... There I think its finished now.



To celebrate I knocked out some 80s era gretchin.

Those are some cool old-school grots. Well done, Weety!

Love the gretchin, especially the guy with the bandana.

Cool, I love a good gretchin, especially these old ones and the newer ones. the single pose autogun ones from 2nd ed are fairly awful, and space crusade made them lanky and they look like hopping frogs. Hey maybe I should lop off their ears and make a frogman squad?

Anyway I've been furiously batch painting the couple of dozen orks I had left to do so watch this space for pics. I'm doing goffs and yet more bloodaxes.

Lovely stuff any plans for Ork Specialists?

I've got weirdboyz!

Anyway goffs, my goffs are the elite shock troops of the army and have all the best weapons:



The bloodaxes form the rank and file of the army:

I just love the care and attention you give to these retro nuttaz

Hello back again... getting a lot of work in the new job. I'm back on tills again but now I have a chair at least. Retail, its a bee-atch.

Hey graven thanks! I enjoy making them special.

First day off in a week tomorrow and I am stoked about some multipart plastic kits that came today. I've got some frostgrave soldiers who will be ideal for adv heroquest or just for armed civillians. They are too scruffy to be proper soldiers whatever they call them. Nice models, good quality plastic, kinda skyrim-ish in style.

Also picked up a sprue of samurai from Warlord Games. Stuck them together already. People have complained that they have boring poses, I've tried to make mine as interesting as possible. One of them has taken a head as a trophy, I heard it was a samurai thing:

Nice work on the skeletons, love the flag barer.

and great work on the classic orks.

Hi Doc. The client is very happy with the skelly regiment. I enjoy painting undead so its win-win.

Frostgrave soldiers are stuck together. Might have to get another sprue of these, they are perfect for fantasy roleplay.

I've tried to give them archetypal characters:



Paladin, fighter, thief, rogue or barbarian, choose your adventurer!

Nice layout of them, Weety. They'll look good painted up!

You looked at the Frostgrave rules as well? They seem pretty good and it encourages a bestiary......

Had a read about it. It sounds like fun!


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Looks like a good balance between complexity and speed of play.

The more I see Frostgrave minis the more impressed I am, I'm not interested from a gaming view for for conversion fodder there's loads of goodies.

EDC

Love the old skool orks and the Frostgrave minis. Looking good as always.

Word...

Got some very wip frostgrave to show you. I'm experimenting with a more shadowy look that starts out very very dark grey and then I highlight it up to this

Ok I've finished the cleric/paladin type dude and the rogue/explorer type guy. Check out the neat heraldic cross on the shield. Did it with ink and a brush.

Good job Weety. Looking excellent even blown up huge on my screen.

I have good eyes... unless stuff is more than a meter away... then they suck.

Very nice. The lantern in particular is quite impressive!

Looking excellent nicely shadowy.

Hey thanks for stopping by.

Having a day off work so I faffed about with fabric patterns on the fighter, barbarian and thief/thug. The fighter guy has a vaguely eastern look and the other two are sporting tartans.

Nice patterns on the clothing there. Very impressive painting skills.

EDC

They look great weets!

Cheers for the compliments! These guys will be new heros for adv hroqst as the earlier lot are all dead as doornails.

I went ahead and bought the frostgrave cultist sprue as I was very happy with the quality. They can be chaos thugs or something. While I was at it I looked at the sellers other stuff and fell in love with some tiny dogs and a donkey. One day I shall create a diorama for them maybe... Meantimes they can be a dungeon encounter, hireable henchdogs or something like that.

I love that donkey. The wolf hounds are quite scraggly.

Love the tartan work, Weety!

This latest batch turned out great. The muted colors are especially nice.

Nice work on those adventurers, the tartan is very good, hard to do at this scale !

The adventurers have come up great, as have the Samaurai from the other thread. I'm interested in seeing how the dogs turn out, and how they compare in size to other models.

I have finished a commission! Some very old classic era orcs, 1981-1985.



A variety of skeletons ranging from 1985-2005

Nice work!

I’m quite fond of the not-quite old school wights and armored skeletons. I think that era is a sweet spot between sculpting quality and character. Modern stuff is technically nice, but often soulless. Ancient stuff is full of character, but often soft on detail.

Beautiful. My favs are the skeletons.

EDC

Coolio. I forgot to post these samurai here yet! Enjoy.

Excellent work on the lamellar armor and cloth patterns weets. Wow!

Nice job all round, Weety.

Thankyou all for your kind and constructive comments! I'm so busy these days I barely have time to respond. Well, back to work!

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I've got weirdboyz!

Anyway goffs, my goffs are the elite shock troops of the army and have all the best weapons:



The bloodaxes form the rank and file of the army:

Love them

Love the old school fantasy, really great work. Love the old figures so full of character.

Those Samurai are brilliant, Especially the very first one, his face paint is exceptional. Great work all round.

Lots of work posted here recently!

I like what you've done on the old-school orcs. I've got variations on a couple of the Kev Adams ones, and I see the hand of Nick Lund there quite a bit.

The Skeleton Halberdiers are great, I really like the wight-ish armoured skeletons as well, and I'm always a sucker for proper oldschool/oldhammer metal skeletons.

Samurai have come up really nicely as well. That's your February pledge done now?

Well I've got 8 days left so I might get my frostgrave cultists done as a stretch goal. But Im covering peoples holidays in work so have very little time.

When it comes to boring jobs there is never the right amount of work. Its always too much to cope with or too little to pay the bills!

After the frostgrave chaps I've picked up a box of modern plague bearers to practice diseases on.

Glad to like them fifty. That's what goffs were supposed to look like!

Camkierhi he has got a kabuki theater face!

My frostgrave cultists are done!

I love seeing these classic minis, and I especially like the skeletons. I think some of them where the first models I ever collected, which was some time ago now .