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Thanks gits. All ways of painting zombies are valid but I thought the pale look would give my zombies a good gothic look. I saw some good ones in the gallery that were bright green!

Well I got a bit carried away with the chaos warrior... I'm not sure he looks nurgle anymore... But when I think 1980s chaos warrior this is what I think of:

Zombies look suitably rotten, and the chaos warrior is very retro Great job on the sword and the shield.

Fantastic zombies! I particularly like bone club zombie. Retro chaos warrior is excellent too, you channel that old school GW vibe so well.

Chaos warrior is brilliant for Zombies and Ghouls the Mantic stuff is actually better than the GW models but lovely bright job regardless

Punctuation is important Llamahead! I had to read that a few times. I will check out the mantic stuff though as I hear they are cheap.

Thanks chaps I'm glad you like my retro chaos guy. He won't fit in with the butch macho chaos warriors though! It'll be an eclectic regiment.

Well yesterday I ploughed through the skaven. Once I've painted up the plastic ones that came with adv heroquest I'll almost have an army.

Great looking ratmen there, they even have bases I notice Must dig out my warp-fire teams someday, I'm sure they can be re-purposed into my muties.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Punctuation is important Llamahead!

The irony being you've missed an apostrophe in the title

Skaven look scab-tastic, btw

It's...

I hang my head in shame. But I stand by the assertion that a certain amount of punctuation is necessary, even if it takes the form of orkmoticons.

Back to work today. Gordon Bennett it's like being in an episode of 'Are you being served' but re-imagined by Franz Kafka.

Next up on the table are the rest of the chaos warriors and some more plague monks.

OK... can you please explain the "Gordon Bennett" reference? I heard Holly say that on Red Dwarf and I never understood it.

It's an exclamation of surprise or wonder, generally thought to be a minced oath version of 'gor blimey', which came from 'God blind me'.
I seem to recall hearing that there was an actual Gordon Bennet who had a preposterous lifestyle back in the 1920's and so the name became interchangeable with the oath around that time - not sure of my source for that though.

You nailed it mt. This from "Phrase Finder" (which I'd never heard of before)

"The expletive Gordon Bennett appears to be a minced oath. It is a version of Gor blimey, which is itself a euphemistic version of God blind me. That, combined with Bennett's famously outrageous lifestyle and newsworthy stunts, is sufficient to explain why his name was picked out. "

They had quite a good summary of Bennett, who was an American newspaper reporter and eventually mogul, though he eventually moved to Europe after... "James Gordon Bennett was publicly horse-whipped this morning, by Frederick May, brother of the girl to whom Bennett was engaged to be married."

Apparently, he'd gotten drunk and mistaken the fireplace for a urinal during his soon-to-be father-in-law's New Year's Eve party.

Publicly horse-whipped for peeing in a fire-place at NYE? Nice
Was never sure he was real, have to file that under Fact now

Fascinating stuff. I only found out he was real when I got the internet and could google stuff.

Well today I have a choice of many chaos warriors or a pirate or a black orc leader. Maybe I'll try and paint them all?

In acquisitions I've bought some skeleton sprue from the 80s. I love those old skeletons so I've taken a chance on a job lot of old sprue that I think I can get 5 skeletons out of (and a lotta spare skulls).

Also picked up this damaged lord of battle for a song. I'll get a picture of what he is supposed to look like and try and remake him, better than before, we have the technology.

Hah, I have the exact same figure with the exact same damage - I think I replaced the Axe head with an even bigger axe head !

Even bigger axe sounds good. I've got tons of different plastic axes so we'll see what fits.

Well I didn't get so much done today. I had a lot of xmass drinking to catch up on.

This guy is worth photographing though. Not quite done with him. Shield needs neatening and the breastplate is a bit half baked but you can see where I'm going with it. A much butch-er style of chaos warrior than the last one.

I love that model - I got one in a box of bitz from ebay - I think he's in metallic blue. I really like the checkerboard effect on the shield, and the red "bunny ears" add a great spot colour - awesome paintjob, on an awesome old model

Good work on the rats and the warrior, Weety.

Have a good Christmas.

Merry xmass to all the people of dakka. I have many things to show you soon. I'm too busy watching filums and drinking to operate a camera right now though.

Enjoy Weets, Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Weety!

Your blog of miniature goodness continues to spread a lot of new and retro joy. Wait, is "retro joy" a real phrase or am I just making stuff up as I go along?

Retro joy is totally a thing! I get it everyday when I see that my shop still has chewits and tizer. People who thought such things were unobtainable come in and say "wow I never knew you could still get that"

I still have the same number of great things to show you and I'm still unable to operate a camera because of booze and filums.

See you in the new year. Hopefully 2015 will be a year of joy and stuff. But I am predicting it will be the year the mucus hits the blowdryer.

Happy New Yeat weety, looking forward to seeing what you have instore for us.

I'm ready to show you some of the things now!

Badass oldhammer orcs.



Cunning goblin netters.



A Vampire Lord to lead the skeletons and zombies, with his personal ghoul servant.



Chaos warrior! I love painting these fellas.

LOVE the Orcs - (l-r) Yaskin & Harboth of Harboth's Orc Archers plus one of the Boyz from Ruglud's Armoured Orcs if I'm not mistaken (I have a close affinity with Ruglud's Armoured Orcs ) Those two Regiments of Renown sets where amongst my first GW purchases back in the late 80s - fond memories...

I've got the rest of harboth's archers in the wings waiting for a rainy day.

Hopefully that rainy day is soon

For what it's worth, this is my Harboth, re-painted mid-90s, hence the green edged base. The green chest plate was going to be a stylised orcy type face, but never did finish it ! Have to see if I can find my Yaskin.

Lovely as always, Weety. Good job all round.

I see you went for gaudy trousers too Ruglud.

Thanks again doc!

Gearing up for a game of adv heroquest. This time we have a new band of Heros featuring the lost wood elves from before. I've renamed them zinfandel, sauvingion and shiraz because its easier for my booze addled brain to comprehend. They are joined for their first mission by Rioja the Teillian mercenary and his band of crossbowmen (basically unarmoured henchmen with crossbows and daggers). The first mission is to clear out an orc and goblin sewer infestation. The city council believe that a more dangerous foe than orcs is mustering these dark forces and thus are bankrolling the mercenaries to help root out the evil.

Primary mission: locate and distroy the forces of chaos

Secondary mission: Kill 50points of orcs and goblins.

Its a one level mission as it's set in a sewer so all stairs down are re-rolled, one quest room full of chaos chaps and everything else is greenskinned. So long as the dice roll low it should be a cake walk of slaughtered goblins but there is a slight chance of a troll!

If the heros manage it in one go they all get 1fate point and 200 gold each from the city. If they take two missions to get it its just 200 gold and if they take three then just 100 gold. If they have still failed after three the city fires them in disgust and any remaining henchmen leave to find less jinxed employers.

Should be fun. Wish them luck.

Oh disaster! Sauvingion's been stabbed to death by a lucky goblin. All was going well in the long narrow tunnels of the sewer, until the heros discovered a statue of an armoured man with a rare and beautiful gemstone set in its chest. Upon trying to remove the stone the statue came to life and set too with its great axe. One henchman had his head lopped clean off before the statue was subdued (the stone however is worth 400 gold!) Sauvingion must have exhausted his luck and favour with the gods surviving that fight for he was cut down cruely within sight of the stairs out by a lucky wandering goblin.

Attrition was high overall with only zinfandel the bow elf uninjured. 3 of the four crossbowmen are dead and the group has only killed 22pts of orks and goblins. Better luck next time.

We roll up a replacement hero and get a beast of a man who I have called Lieutenant Merlot. He has a massive sword, is brave, strong, skilled and stupid. Should be ideal so long as we don't find any complex puzzles.

Loot was divided out amongst the 3 survivors - 200g each! pretty good going. So I got them some armour and training to increase survivability. Our random event was a henchman pledging his sword to us. Nice. I give him a day tops.


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The heros ventured forth into a part of the sewer as yet unexplored. After much searching of empty chambers they discovered the lair of the chaos champion! He was guarded by a warrior and he had time to rouse a rabble of goblins before Lnt. Merlot cleaved him in two with his greatsword. The heros basked briefly in glory and discovered a treasure map. Unfortunately in the subsequent clearup operation Shiraz was killed by an orc champion. RIP shiraz you will always be remembered. Of the original elven posse only zinfandel remains, due no doubt to her habit of standing back and shooting stuff.

At the end of all that the three survivors have 400 gold each to spend. I think they need training.

Overall impression of the game is that life is short. What you might call 'selection pressure' may eventually give me a better quality of hero. Maybe its time for a dwarf?


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Oh and the henchman died... at least I don't have to pay him.