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Bane Knight






When I am not painting commission, I very occasionally get to paint my own stuff.

Recently, I have been on a nostalgia fest, and started painting some of the 4th ed one part plastics that I am sure many of us got in to the hobby with.

Five of your english pounds used to buy a box of ten minis (or twelve skeletons), they were all mono pose, but most had a selection of around six shield sculpts to jazz them up.

I love the 90's era GW style, its fun and characterful, which I feel lacks a little in today's miniature style (not just GW). Models are technically better, but are they as charming?

So far, I have done an Orc Warrior and a Skaven Clanrat.

I've got a few more lying around, but need to grab the ones I am missing I think, as this will make a nice little series to sit and gather dust.

What do you folks think?

[Thumb - Orc1.jpg]

[Thumb - Skaven2.jpg]

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Powerful Phoenix Lord





Wonderful work. There's little wrong with old plastic sculpts outside of a different aesthetic, and mostly important - lack of options.
   
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St. Albans

Bases should be Goblin Green! Other than that, lovely painting, although I think the transition on the Skaven's sword could use some work.

 
   
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Bane Knight






 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Bases should be Goblin Green! Other than that, lovely painting, although I think the transition on the Skaven's sword could use some work.


I've been going back and forward on doing the goblin green. Maybe for the next one.

Totally agree on the sword, I used some of the new gloss GW ink on it, and it was rubbish, so I had to scrape the sword back down. Got lazy when I patched up the damage. Still, no model is truly finished right?

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Love them! Old School is COOL!

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Love it. I have a bunch of these old guys, beastmen, orks, etc
   
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Bane Knight






Time for another entry in the old models series.

This guy is near and dear to me, as Dark Elves were my first love (I think I have owned four Dark Elf armies over the years), and I painted a whole bunch of these very badly early on in my gaming life.

Hope you like.

[Thumb - DarkElf1.jpg]

[Thumb - DarkElf2.jpg]


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Gorgeous stuff I forget how good they are. Part of me still wants a squad of 2nd Ed Stormtroopers. Personally I reckon these are the gap that Mantic now feels and I've seen similar paint jobs elevate their sculpts to this level as well. Lunchbox marines for every chapter as the next challenge (for some reason that's what me and my mates at the time called the 2nd Ed plastics).

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Powerful Phoenix Lord





Fantastic work. Short of the single poses, a lot of these old plastics were pretty good sculpts (often poorly translated to plastic though with very shallow undercuts etc.). Nicely done.
   
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Great painting, there is something to be said for the Old School simple figures.


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Love these. Amazing work.

I really wanted to get some old GW Chaos Dwarves but I see they're really rare now and surprisingly expensive. I used to have loads from back in my distant childhood (unpainted ofc) but they don't seem to be in my parents' loft anymore.
   
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If you guys want one-offs of these figures, look up 3rd edition Talisman figures. I have that clan rat and a similar orc. I LOVE the old school models. They truly are what got me in.

Fantastic paint job, OP!!

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 timetowaste85 wrote:
If you guys want one-offs of these figures, look up 3rd edition Talisman figures. I have that clan rat and a similar orc. I LOVE the old school models. They truly are what got me in.

Fantastic paint job, OP!!


I always wanted the Dark Elves from Talisman :(

Should have bought those LGS only box set re-releases they did back when I was at uni... sadly money was tight (still is I guess).

Hoping to round out the collection with a few more of these, as I have a great nostalgia for them, and with a reasonable paint job, they seem to hold up pretty well.

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 Elbows wrote:
Wonderful work. There's little wrong with old plastic sculpts outside of a different aesthetic, and mostly important - lack of options.

And the fact that many of them were impossible to rank up in units.

I never knew those old monopose models could look that good!

   
 
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