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Yes its so easy to cut through GW plastic neatly.

I added a whole bunch of shadows and dirt just now. I can definitely see the difference its made. I just spotted another mold line! Arrgh the curse of perfectionism.

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They're looking rather spiffy. And now I'm hankering after some to cut up for my boyz

I don't know. Those look a little too hi-tech to be GW orks.

Nice work Weety. I like the little splashes of colour.

Monkeytrolls orks are more high tech than most orks though vallhalla,

More splashes today I think. Time to finish the boss.

In other news picked up a nice bunch of old school orks at the carboot sale with an old school paintjob that I'll have to show you before I strip it. its so vibrant and bright and early 90s. I want em dirty and dark as befits a dungeon ork though.

I got 7 arrer boyz and a command section for a pound each, and a nice catapult and crew for a fiver(I'm not sure what they need that for in the dungeon, maybe they are sentimental about it and just keep it in the corner). Factoring in the saving on postage that's a saving on internet prices. Pics laters

Here is what I got from the carboot!

I DID NOT PAINT THESE!! Sorry to use caps but I just know someone will be congratulating me on my new retro style shortly. Check out the 8 ball catpult ammo. Whoever painted these back in 1991 or whenever had style and a steady hand.

I just couldn't resist the princess. I saw her in a box of junk and thought I'd take her home.

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Nice find Weety. Looking forward to seeing your work on the princess.

Nice retro style you're using these days weety! And love the weathering on the princess!

Look forward to seeing how you deal with these....and Leia is a great find, no sensible geek should be able to resist that....

I knew it monkeytroll! Nice weathering, yeah it looked like she'd been in the carbooters trunk for many years rubbing around in a box of old coins and keys. That'll weather your Leia a bit.

I'm sure this was just supposed to be the trash compactor scene Leia! I mean if that's not the face of impending doom I don't know what is!

Hooray I got it finished! This was fo sure my favourite faction. Lions with chainsaws, hmmmm. I went with the paint scheme off the box cos I couldn't decide what the right colour for lions with chainsaws in their mouths would be (sharks with fickin lasers on their heads homage there I think?).

Anyway some pictures.

...Lions with chainsaws...

What...? Oh, probably some kind of team/squad name or something...

...lions with chainsaws in their mouths...

Wha...? Holy... There are lions...with chainsaws in their mouths... *mind blown*

Great job Weety. Looking really nice.

Oh my, that bunch looks like fun now that you made them all so pretty.

Much love for the carboot treasures too. I still like that style of paint scheme for Orcs and Goblins. Over the top? Perhaps, but you zoggin' know wot yer dealin' wit, dontcha!

I. Love. That black and red uniformed ork.

Hi thanks for stopping by. You may wonder why I'm up at five in the morning... that's because its CARBOOTSALE day! Do Americans have carboot sales? There's nothing quite like it for modern antiques. And you can try out the lost art of haggling. It's fun, try it with me "What? Ten for that? You must be mad!"

Thanks valhalla it was a complicated scheme to get right. Black is tricky.

Yeah JB I'm still in two minds about stripping them even. The guy I got them off didn't do a half bad job and it gives them period charm (aaahhh the 90s, my decade, now long dead, when I could still believe in the future, whatever happened to the future??), maybe I will just zing them up a bit with some wash and highlights, make em look like an old 'eavy metal job.

Dr H its good to know that there are such things in the world and that you can buy the whole faction for just 19 euro's and have them for your armies of entropy. What could be better than lions with chainsaw mouths to reduce order in the universe? Do it Dr H you know you want to...

We call them Garage or Yard sales, but yeah, we have em You do wonders with those Mantic Orks weets! Seriously!

The sheer amount of goblin green on those OG Orks burns the eyes

I've heard of those but i'd always pictured them being small affairs, maybe I'm wrong though? Probably got the wrong impression from the name. Being in america its bound to be bigger than I would expect.

Our local car boot sale might have several hundred cars full of junk for sale out in a field and several thousand happy junk buyers like myself wander the ranks of folding tables. Its like some moden bazaar, a market fair for the 21st century. Its where playstations go to die. There's treasure in them there car boots, buried under mountains of tat, junk and obsolete machinery. I do love it!

Hoping that the guy with the orks will be there again so I can do him a deal on the rest. He also had a chaos champ on a gryphon, that stupid giant skeleton thing (nagash?) and some boar riders.

Wish me luck

Ah, when it is a large consolidated event like that, we call them "Flea Markets". In Germany, they call them "Flohmärkte".

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/08/living/tl-flea-markets/

I suppose the difference from a carboot is the absence of cars though some American flea markets have people selling stuff from the beds of their pickup trucks.

or "Swap Meets" I suppose

Its great that these informal markets still exist. I keeps people in touch with the original systems of commerce, bartering and haggling. And everything from everyones childhoods is there, today we found the osbourne encyclopedia of the world circa 1980 - so many memories, that book taught me everything I knew.

Also got a few more orcs, some large fellow gazumped me on nagash and the griffon, I couldn't get close enough to the table. He saved me from making a horible mistake to be honest, its one of the daftest looking things I've ever beheld.

Some folks think that old Nagash model is one of the ugliest models that GW ever made.

Then there is the beauty that is the Razorgor.

Well I had to look that up. Its not pretty... it is supposed to be a giant mutant warthog though, so I'm going to give it a C-.

I was just trying to describe to a Canadian what a carboot sale was the other day, she was quite baffled!

Great finds though, when you repaint that catapult you should keep the 8 ball (or at least paint it again as homage to our mysterious painter)

Loving the marauders! You even managed to make the chainsaw lions look good. I threw mine straight into the bin after chopping off the useful bits...

.... Where are these carboot sales that actually has GW stuff?

All I could find at my local one is unbranded batteries and Sweets which are "only slightly" out of date.

Nice find!

Hi I'm back! laptop trouble. I'm still running XP.

Well I have a break from commissions for however long it lasts. I wonder what to paint? Hunters? A knight maybe? I could go for it with a really bright and colourful knight on horsey.

I wish I had a good source of villagers. Villagers are a problem, it seems they are all rather expensive for an unarmed model, and frequently lacking detail. I think hasslefree do the best villagers, but they do want an arm and a leg for the best ones. Also I have a hankering for granny weatherwax in an opera dress but thats a tenner with postage. One day...

Car boot again tomorrow if its dry enough. Got my junk sack ready and my lucky haggling hat is dry. I want something by faberge for under a pound preferably but I'll settle for a Dvd

I think a nice bright knight on a horsey sounds good.

Helldorado has some peasants. I'll have a rummage!

Are those the oriental peasants with the straw hats? I can't see any others. I was looking more for unarmed npc types to fit in with Adv heroquest. Barwench, blacksmith, cleric, random people with farm impliments etc.

I didn't find any minis at the carboot but I did get bioshock infinite so I didn't get around to painting a knight yet. Fun game.

I was thinking of these two guys (middle and right):

I've got them somewhere...

An oar and a rolling pin... hmmm. Not farm impliments but close. Is he a baker? And maybe that's not an oar, maybe its a bread oven paddle. Yes, It must be, why else would a baker have an oar.


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And the other guy might qualify as a back alley thug.

But I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. And every village needs a baker and a mugger.