Vermis wrote:

 Don Qui Hotep wrote:
If people like I'm happy to share a few more Specialist games over the next week or so.

Absolutely. Especially any other Inquisitor minis. That range was a great and characterful look into the 'back alleys' of 40K. Gregor Eisenhorn is a particular high point. Thanks!

Ask and you shall receive. Here's a few more, with a Catachan for scale. First up is Witchhunter Tyrus. Whatever you do, don't look at his mold lines!




A never-quite-finished Delphan Gruss. Not sure what happened to his maniples, he looks a bit naked without them.




An unpainted Eversor.




And a generic Bounty Hunter.





I've got to dig through a bit but between my brother and I we also have the Desperado, the Acro-Flagellent, the Imperial Cultist with Eviscerator, the Chaos Magus, and the Daemonhost. I believe the latter two remain in San Diego where I was planning on turning them into daemon princes. @Waaagh_Gonads, yer Magus is out of the park. Such exciting, bright colors. He looks properly scary and unhinged.

 Nevelon wrote:

Sorry, this just reminded me so much of this old thing:

Wow Tin-Boyz. Those are very old...

Odds and ends that don’t fit into armies. Not even sure I could muster a troupe out of the harlis there. Might have some more unpainted in a box somewhere. My metal Pile of Shame is a lot more segmented and untamed than the plastic side.

Holy crap, the Tin Boyz are awesome!
There is no other cybork body for me now!

My input to the tread...












I have three RT era whirlwinds in bits being stripped but they aren't in a photogenic state right now



Keep up with the OOP stuff, this is a great thread!

=][= Eversor. Don't see those every day. Tin Boyz 4 life. Thanks for sharing, everyone. Keep it coming.

I can contribute some more Inq54.

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Helldorado Demon Dog, rebased for 54mm Inquisitor.
The flesh in its mouth is toilet paper, PVA glue to cover and red paint with blood for the blood god to finish.

Well, since we seem to have come to the =][= portion of the tour, I may as well put these guys up. When Inquisitor came out, I was all on board. Awesome models, sweet fluff, open style character creation and gameplay. Then we realized what sort of investment that meant for terrain, planning, and one of our group went out and bought 5 Space Marines to be his force. Aaaand...that was it. For myself, I was still quite into the models and enjoyed converting them, but then, as used to happen more often back then, I didn't have the stones to carry through with painting. So these remain in their unpainted state, and others are still unassembled. One day, maybe.

 Elbows wrote:
There is a large after-market/third-party market for notInquisitor54 miniatures. I've seen some shops selling whole lines of alternate 54mm "Grimdark" style miniatures.

Which in particular? I know Reaper and Hasselfree have both done 54mm miniatures on occasion, but it seems to me to be a bit of a neglected scale.

Appreciating all the old metal here, especially the Inq minis. And yeah, those tinboyz are a treat.

 SirDonlad wrote:

Any chance of a closer look at those guys?

 youwashock wrote:
Well, since we seem to have come to the =][= portion of the tour,

I bought the only =][= miniatures I ever saw. Not the one I wanted, the SM, but I thought 54 must be easier to paint than 28. I was going to kitbash them but the parts were too hard IMHO. I've still got them NIB in the garage.

 Vermis wrote:
Appreciating all the old metal here, especially the Inq minis. And yeah, those tinboyz are a treat.

 SirDonlad wrote:

Any chance of a closer look at those guys?

I’ve got the 2 on the right kicking around somewhere. The far right guy in the robe in part of Ral Partha’s leveling up character line. Cleric. Mid level guy in chainmail, mace I think. High level guy in plate with a bigger weapon.

 Vermis wrote:

Any chance of a closer look at those guys?

Sure, but a pity i do not have a macro lens.

All four are from the 1983 dragon catalogue
http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983dragon/index.htm



thats the best i could do with this camera and light.

 SirDonlad wrote:

Spoiler:

C02/4 (d) evil wizard reading from spell scroll


http://www.solegends.com/citcat1983dragon/cit1983004-01.htm

Tim the Enchanter! Is that you?

Sorry for putting you to the trouble, but much appreciated SirDonlad. (And Nevelon) Nifty minis, some nice cloth sculpting going on there. I especially like 'Wizard casting a spell'.

Some 3E Grey Knight Terminators I recently finished!





These are among my favorite models GW has ever made, and I basically built the army just for them over the course of...several editions

I've got one squad of the newer plastics that I use as Paladins since they're visually distinguishable (there's a blurry partial of one in the lower right corner of the bottom pic), but I really like these older 3E dudes a lot.

I am also *really* over painting purity seals.

Hot damn! They look fantastic. I am also very fond of those models - the first game of 40k I ever played was against a beautifully painted Grey Knights army. Needless to say I got stomped pretty badly, but I've always loved their look.

Here’s a few from my gallery as I’m far from home where most of the cool stuff is.

Put together a 1,500 point list for a game today. With the exception of the one HB gunner (who is in full Mk VI armor) the entire list is RT era minis.

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Being a 3rd generation mini painter I actually have a few gems that have been passed down to me, mostly from my grandmother who has impeccable taste in getting an impressive number of Grenadier dragons. I need to get to the ones I've finished to take pics but here's a beautiful wrist-breaker my grandma never got to painting and has been taunting me for a few years now:



Grenadier special edition 2528 Giant Griffon, sculpted by William Watt.
Identified via base markings and the “Lost Minis Wiki”. Current GW Cadian grenadier for scale.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Here’s a few from my gallery as I’m far from home where most of the cool stuff is.

Spoiler:

Ooh, lovely. I always loved Long Drong and his pirates, their pantaloons and beards reminded me of Asterix the Gaul.

 Nevelon wrote:
Put together a 1,500 point list for a game today. With the exception of the one HB gunner (who is in full Mk VI armor) the entire list is RT era minis.

Wow, thanks for sharing Nevelon! Really happy to know that whole armies exist out there, and great painting to boot. The one Mark VI marine looks like someone who showed up to the wrong costume party but everyone's too polite to turn him away. Any shots of the game?

That’s one awesome Griffon ChaoticMind! Your grandma clearly had taste in minis.

Loving Vaktathi’s Grey Knights too, really cool minis, painted excellently. A great old school army!

 Don Qui Hotep wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Put together a 1,500 point list for a game today. With the exception of the one HB gunner (who is in full Mk VI armor) the entire list is RT era minis.

Wow, thanks for sharing Nevelon! Really happy to know that whole armies exist out there, and great painting to boot. The one Mark VI marine looks like someone who showed up to the wrong costume party but everyone's too polite to turn him away. Any shots of the game?

About to start turn 4 now. Took a break for dinner. I have pics, will post later.

The new guy was part of my army modernization project, circa 5-6th edition. Almost all of my tac squads were the classic ML/Flamer loadout. I wanted to update, so I didn’t need to change guys out from the swap shelf every game. But I also didn’t want to have a “modern” mark mixed up in the RT squads. So his squad got a HB and a combi flamer sarge both meticulously assembled in classic beakie armor.

 Nevelon wrote:
Put together a 1,500 point list for a game today. With the exception of the one HB gunner (who is in full Mk VI armor) the entire list is RT era minis.

You should get an old RT heavy weapon marine and a heavy bolter for him to truly complete the list.

Thanks for showing off, all. Howard, love that headless ghost!

 ChaoticMind wrote:
mostly from my grandmother who has impeccable taste in getting an impressive number of Grenadier dragons.

Ooh.

I need to get to the ones I've finished to take pics but here's a beautiful wrist-breaker my grandma never got to painting and has been taunting me for a few years now:

Ooh!

 SergentSilver wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Put together a 1,500 point list for a game today. With the exception of the one HB gunner (who is in full Mk VI armor) the entire list is RT era minis.

You should get an old RT heavy weapon marine and a heavy bolter for him to truly complete the list.

I do have spare RT guns kicking around, and bodies in parts/soaking. It would not be hard to do.

If I put my mind to it, I could also get another 5 man terminator squad done, and have more HQs in the wings. Not sure if I could do a 2k list. It might be stretching it a bit. It would get harder and harder to deal with hard targets, as the bulk of my firepower is assorted missile launchers. I put this list together because I noticed that I had enough bodies to do a battalion, 50 guys on the table.

I’ll upload the pics later and do a write up in my blog. It was a very close game. I was in the lead for most of it, but at the end of the game, it came down to a single die roll.

Edit:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/3210/528437.page#10838790

Link to a rough battle report

Thanks for sharing, Nevalon!

As promised, here's my Redemptionists. The one on the far left I painted on Saturday; every other model probably has a twelve or thirteen-year-old paintjob. Boy howdy, but paints must have been thicker back then!




In retrospect, I don't think I ordered the Redemptionist starter box - I seem to remember ordering them piece-meal. The priest I have is different from the one in the starter box, I believe.

Since we seem to have reached the Inq54 part of the thread, and surprisingly nobody has posted this guy, have mine...

ooh I love inquisitor. aside from my eisenhorn conversion, I have 2 original metal krieger thrax (which are like rocking horse excrement nowadays) unfortunately both are unassembled and unpainted currently. I also have cherubael and barbaretta unpainted, although these are slightly naughty resin versions...

I think this is one of the first citadel miniatures I ever owned, it's certainly one of the only ones to be still with me after 30+ years. It was badly chipped and most of the paint had been worn away so last year I stripped and repainted in the same colour scheme I did when I was about 13. The shield was long gone, so I made him a double bad ass with a demon weapon. He deserves it.

Love this thread! I love seeing old models. Got a few OOP Guard tanks in the works. Currently working on an old school hyrda.

Here's a nice little photo shoot of my destroyer I took in the garden last summer. I have just realised that the Cadian shotgun bodies have been discontinued too. So there's two in one pic.

 CatachanDevil wrote:

Spoiler:

Correct me if i'm wrong here, but is that guy in the cupola an OOP tank-commander/commissar?

 SirDonlad wrote:

 CatachanDevil wrote:

Spoiler:

Correct me if i'm wrong here, but is that guy in the cupola an OOP tank-commander/commissar?

Yes. The commissar one of the three.

Obsolete Forge World Hydra:








Toughest part of the build was straightening the barrels.

The long painting war continues...

CB

Nice looking tank, CB!

I immediately noticed how straight the barrels were. Good job!

Awesome diorama!


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An older picture of the core of my Kislev army. Modernized horsesm and Tzarina only has the crown and sword left of the original model, but otherwise lots of 90s metal

That Kislev army is really amazing. Love the attention to detail on the bases as well.

@Juxtimon, that is an excellent display piece. Love that model, love that he's got a target for the smashing.

Thanks for sharing the retro tanks, everyone. I am not much of a tread head but it's cool to see that there have been some pretty intense changes in their aesthetic through time.

Speaking of 90s metal, here's a before/after shot for a Necromunda deacon, first painted twelve or thirteen years ago and repainted yesterday (or I should say, finished yesterday - about three days of work, I think).

A topical one for the occasion.

League champions at last!

Hahaha nice!

I'm hitting the bottom of my paint barrel and am swinging around to the "repaint" section, so here are some of my earliest miniatures.

Mostly Space Hulk/Crudase {Edit - Space WHAT?) Space CRUSADE.
Gretchin


Eldar with shuriken catapults, heavy catapults, missile launchers and a las-cannon


My one Necron and his robot buddies



Twin linked las-cannon Rapier


Chaos Marines. Seems I'm missing one. :(


And now for something completely different, my Epic scale Warlord WH40K Venerable Dreads.


Edit resized some pics. I forget when I post from my phone they are 'Uge.

Digging around in the Pile of Shame for 3 more terminators to fill out a squad. Here are the guys that get to go back into hibernation, their eternal slumber interrupted briefly.


Might drag the inquisitors out for some paint. We’ll see how 9th treats them rules wise. Or if one of the monthly painting chalenges would fit them.

These guys will get a coat of blue paint and join the fight. Just a little late to the party...

Whoa, nellie. Those SC models are choice. Titans as Dreads looks like it works well.

Beautiful trove of Terminators, Nev.

Still one of my favourite threads on Dakka. Great showcase everyone.

Great thread idea! Here are my favorite OOP minis:

Skulz Adeptus Mechanicus



Close-Up Photos

Damn, I've been trying to get my hands on those guys for a reasonable price since I found out about them! They even better in your photos than the small or grainy pics I usually see.

They’re really cool, especially the baby servitors that looks like he attaches to the tech priest he’s with! Will they be making an appearance with paint?

That's a rare treat, Nodri!

I was very lucky to get a full set of those for a very competitive price from a fellow Dakkanaut a few years ago.

It might be my fav Ltd. Ed. 40K mini (or set of minis) that I own. A number of things from this group formed the inspiration for a few items in The Lathe Worlds book.

 Captain Brown wrote:
Obsolete Forge World Hydra:








Toughest part of the build was straightening the barrels.

The long painting war continues...

CB

I'm currently working on the exact same model. I can concur, getting the barrels straight is a pain in the . Also, the massive gaps at the back of the hull require a LOT of greenstuffing. Good job! I hope mine turns out as nice as yours!

Some old Deathwing Terminators looking to join the classic Terminator soiree. I should get a pic of my old GK squad and the guys from RTB09 at some point, too.

Edit: here they are. I have two more of the alt GK's, one painted, one unassembled and missing his halberd, but that can be dealt with should the need arise.

Like I have said elsewhere basically everything I own is OOP.

I haven't seen these guys represented yet. They are currently in my maybe re-do pile. They were the first models I got to what I considered a good standard, back in the dark ages. I didn't even highlight their armour, it was before hard highlights were popular.



Don't count the special weapons. I forgot about thr flamer and had a spare old school plasma from a Genestealer hybrid. Have to look for him I know he was around recently.

Legion of the Damned! Always loved those models, and the stories that could be told using them. Love that rib cage draped around the heavy bolter.

Wow, I just got some of those same models! Cool to see what they look like painted.

My finished OOP beauties have been extracted!

A relative young ‘un to whet the appetite as I get pics of the hand me downs:

 Don Qui Hotep wrote:
Love that rib cage draped around the heavy bolter.

Thanks. It is pretty cool. I had to modify it from a 2nd Ed over-the-shoulder stance. That always struck me as silly, but I wanted to keep the skeleton on top so couldn't just slap a more modern one on. Turned out ok IMHO. Kinda hard to reload but what can you do? :p

 ChaoticMind wrote:
My finished OOP beauties have been extracted!

A relative young ‘un to whet the appetite as I get pics of the hand me downs:

I want to stick a set of wings on one of these old carnosaurs and use as an elf dragon but conversions of dubious results potentialy it feel like sacrilege on these OOP models..

I painted this back in 2003. Even at that time he was outdated. I believe he belongs to the 1993 era of Space Marine sculpts.
He was apart of a 5-man squad, but I've lost/thrown-out/stripped any other models from my older days. I keep him around because he was my first paint job.

I'm actually finishing an old Inquisitor Terminator right now - I'll be sure to post the results here when its done.

Being a big fan of OOP 40k models, its nice to see the work posted in this thread. Good stuff here.

I like the sheer randomness of this thread - I found some more to add to the party..
Apologies for the lack of paint and light and macro lens...



Also; jealous of the full skullz techpreist collection.

Ahh, the 2nd ed starter “I <3 my bolter” marines. Classic, and the back bone of many a force back in the day.

I had two squads of them filling slots in my battle company for years. Just a couple weekends ago the last was retired to make room on the shelf. They served well and with pride for years.


My son, while born well after they went OOP, inherited a couple squads from his uncle. This is his first painted mini:

Bolter huggers! Pretty sure I don't have any, anymore. I think they were purged with the majority of my RTB01s and other old Marines. Still, they bring back memories.

@Nevelon
When you say you've retired them from your shelves, what do you mean exactly? Do you box them up or do you throw them away?

Apologies for not posting the Inquisitor model as mentioned earlier. Ive been working a lot of OT this last week but Ill get pics up tonight.

 FragTheCommissar wrote:
@Nevelon
When you say you've retired them from your shelves, what do you mean exactly? Do you box them up or do you throw them away?

Apologies for not posting the Inquisitor model as mentioned earlier. Ive been working a lot of OT this last week but Ill get pics up tonight.

I sure it's not the latter as there are many here, myself included, who would be more than willing to take them in. Especially if it means saving them from a landfill.

Heh. I don’t throw anything away.

Classically I keep my battle company on it’s own space. Other supporting units and lone models live on other shelves. But even those were getting cluttered, so some stuff got bumped further down.

Right now they are in the drawer of the china cabinet that houses my spare bits. Hanging out in the back, but standing respectfully on a movement tray, not just tossed back there.

At some point I need to get more storage space. My plans to head to Ikea and grab some nice glass displays was canceled with the rest of my summer plans. I suspect that when I move my year to date progress shelf onto the main shelves, some of the stemware holding fast on the upper shelf is going to be displaced.

All my OOP models, some of these are older than others in terms of painting.










(excluding the middle one)






Non-GW:





I've got plenty more waiting in my cupboard of shame.

lol That one Venerable Dreadnought though. A true bolter storm.

 SergentSilver wrote:
lol That one Venerable Dreadnought though. A true bolter storm.

Heh, even more than you think, I built it pre- Deathwatch becoming a faction and I was using them as Imperial Fists to benefit from the bolt weapon bonuses.

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:
lol That one Venerable Dreadnought though. A true bolter storm.

Heh, even more than you think, I built it pre- Deathwatch becoming a faction and I was using them as Imperial Fists to benefit from the bolt weapon bonuses.

lmao That's fabulous! Would have loved to see that in battle as long as it was on my side. Considering I play IG and CSM, about a 50/50 chance.

Nice collection, Sockwithaticket. I don't think I've seen that dark elf before.

2nd ed. starter box plastics still going strong in 2020!
I called them pluga-bolters.

Here is the Inquisitor in Terminator armor I finished.

I am currently working on two OOP acolytes to join him at his side. I'll be sure to post the results when they are done.

Edit: My only real issue I have with this model is that I didn't drill a large enough hole for the barrel bore.
I certainly will not be making that same mistake again!

This guy genuinely looks happy:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This guy genuinely looks happy:

lol The more I look at his face, the more I feel like I'm witnessing a freeze frame from one of those comedic scenes where a character who has never smiled in their life makes their first attempt to do so at the urging of their friends. He just has this sort blank stare with a funky, full mouth, teeth bared, forced grin look going on.

You're making me realise that I turned the guy into a self portrait... I am also very pale, have black hair and don't smile very well. Yet to get a bionic eye, though my left could also do with that sort of replacement.

 Vermis wrote:
Nice collection, Sockwithaticket. I don't think I've seen that dark elf before.

Cheers. He was a variant of this chap.




Didn't make the transition from metal to finecast for whatever reason.

 sockwithaticket wrote:

(excluding the middle one)

I remember these! I voted for them and then got inspired to paint my own thanks to your glorious lenses!

Yours, of course, put mine to shame...

Really cracking job you did on those guys. was good to see.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
You're making me realise that I turned the guy into a self portrait... I am also very pale, have black hair and don't smile very well. Yet to get a bionic eye, though my left could also do with that sort of replacement.

 Vermis wrote:
Nice collection, Sockwithaticket. I don't think I've seen that dark elf before.

Cheers. He was a variant of this chap.




Didn't make the transition from metal to finecast for whatever reason.

lol Sorry, it is a great paint job though. Not your fault the sculptor gave him the Inquisition snarl/grin, you merely painted it. As for that bionic, well maybe some day soonish? I don't need full bionic replacements, but I would love some Adam Jensen shades with magnification capability.

I love seeing the old metal variants. Always fun to play "Spot the differences" with well painted pieces.

 SergentSilver wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This guy genuinely looks happy:

lol The more I look at his face, the more I feel like I'm witnessing a freeze frame from one of those comedic scenes where a character who has never smiled in their life makes their first attempt to do so at the urging of their friends. He just has this sort blank stare with a funky, full mouth, teeth bared, forced grin look going on.

Very pretty! Love the violet sword and blue/grey combination.

 Mistresspaige wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This guy genuinely looks happy:

lol The more I look at his face, the more I feel like I'm witnessing a freeze frame from one of those comedic scenes where a character who has never smiled in their life makes their first attempt to do so at the urging of their friends. He just has this sort blank stare with a funky, full mouth, teeth bared, forced grin look going on.

Very pretty! Love the violet sword and blue/grey combination.

This is very true. Purple being a long time favorite color of mine I love that blade and may emulate it's colors on some of my own power weapons.

Just finished these chaps...

Nice colours Crispy. The chap on the left looks familiar.

Frag: an underappreciated mini, both then and now.

 Vermis wrote:
Nice colours Crispy. The chap on the left looks familiar.

Frag: an underappreciated mini, both then and now.

They're the hero models from the original Hero Quest

 Frag The Commissar wrote:


Here is the Inquisitor in Terminator armor I finished.

I am currently working on two OOP acolytes to join him at his side. I'll be sure to post the results when they are done.

Edit: My only real issue I have with this model is that I didn't drill a large enough hole for the barrel bore.
I certainly will not be making that same mistake again!

I have an unpainted one of these in my stash somewhere. Although he has a pointy power fist left hand instead. Also have some retinue types to go with him. One day they might even get painted.

Just finished basing and taking formal lightbox pics of my Biovores and Spore Mines.




Extra tentacles from GS on the mines, as 1/3 of them had snapped of their bases, so needed mroe support.

SergentSilver wrote:

 Mistresspaige wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This guy genuinely looks happy:

Spoiler:

lol The more I look at his face, the more I feel like I'm witnessing a freeze frame from one of those comedic scenes where a character who has never smiled in their life makes their first attempt to do so at the urging of their friends. He just has this sort blank stare with a funky, full mouth, teeth bared, forced grin look going on.

Very pretty! Love the violet sword and blue/grey combination.

This is very true. Purple being a long time favorite color of mine I love that blade and may emulate it's colors on some of my own power weapons.

Cheers, both. I did similar on the non-GW Inquisitor model, but the angle doesn't show it all that well,


Also with you might be interested in these non-OOP models and different colours/weapons for a sense of the technique/effect:

SirDonlad wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:

Spoiler:

(excluding the middle one)

I remember these! I voted for them and then got inspired to paint my own thanks to your glorious lenses!

Yours, of course, put mine to shame...

Really cracking job you did on those guys. was good to see.

That's really great to hear, thank you so much.

Joining my Hero Quest heroes... There's only one way for a child of the 80s to paint the Hero Quest evil wizard...

Skeletor makes my day.

Great stuff, everyone!

 sockwithaticket wrote:

I did similar on the non-GW Inquisitor model, but the angle doesn't show it all that well,


Also with you might be interested in these non-OOP models and different colours/weapons for a sense of the technique/effect:

Spoiler:

Very nice! I love the black blade with various color highlighting. As much as I like purple, I have to say that blue really pops.

I have an old Commissar model I bought years ago with a green power sword. I think I posted a picture or two of him here, but I'm not sure. I'll check and if not then I'll be sure to share him. Edit: Yup, they're there. Just a few pages or so back. They look terrible from the sample size in the post. Still don't know why they look like they're covered in reflective material since they don't look like that in person.


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Crispy78 wrote:
Joining my Hero Quest heroes... There's only one way for a child of the 80s to paint the Hero Quest evil wizard...

Don't forget to paint the Barbarian as Conan!

 SergentSilver wrote:


Don't forget to paint the Barbarian as Conan!

It's pretty much unavoidable isn't it?

Scroll up a bit for mine...

Crispy78 wrote:

 SergentSilver wrote:


Don't forget to paint the Barbarian as Conan!

It's pretty much unavoidable isn't it?

Scroll up a bit for mine...

I'm sure I saw it. Been following this thread for a while now.

I was thinking more He-Man than Conan but the world don't move to the beat of just one drum...

Classic Empire army there.

Yeah, I've got that Jade Wizard in the front somewhere...

That army kicked me right in the nostalgia. Nice collection.

Those banners look great, they really snap. Bonus points for the war altar in the back.

That set of wizards really draws the eye.

So, this thread is so full of win. Here are my offerings. Apologies for photography!

SM Terminator Metal division (One on left is for scale)

SM Power-armour Metal division 3rd ed. Old std. bearer, vt sgt, apoth & Helmed(!!??!) Librarian.

Dark Eldar/Drukari Metal raiders - Old female Archon 3rd ed.- converted to Haemunculus. With her ex-boyfriend in the background.

Ork RT specials

Ork Shokk attack Gun 2nd ed, converted to be more in line with the rest of the range.

Ork Metal OOP Warboss with Face-eater squig 4th/5th ed.

Ork Heavy metal, (No, really , really heavy... like half a pound...) Mega armour. 3/4th ed. Nob on left for size comparison

Ork RT special Runtherd with OOP Grots, plus an old 3rd ed fantasy (face-eater) cave squig

Ork Oddboyz more recently OOP

Ork other metals (3/4/5th ed.)

Ork Fighta Bommer. Runs as Burna Bomma. (Was an Ebay reclamation project.)

Heavy metal 4th ed Female Inquisitor.

Time for a bit more non GW:

Just finished painting up all of these Koralon for Void (which may be coming back), these recently got made available again from Seb Games but these sculpts have got to be at least 20 years old by now.

I like the Green/purple colour scheme on these. Very Hulk.

They also have some funky looking weapons.

 Rinkydink wrote:
I like the Green/purple colour scheme on these. Very Hulk.

They also have some funky looking weapons.

Cheers. Was going for more Devastator/Scorponok vibes (particularly the former with the very bright green), but Hulk works too.

The Araktons look awesome, Grimtuff!

Brilliant showcase Rinkydink! Liking the orks.

Nice paints Grimtuff. Are those metallics or canny highlighting?

 Vermis wrote:


Nice paints Grimtuff. Are those metallics or canny highlighting?

I specifically went with using zero metallics on those, wanted to see if I could and have everything be natural. They're undercoated black then the coral parts are based warboss green and highlighted with vallejo yellow green and washed with CDA green ink. The flesh is vallejo royal purple then a drybrush of that mixed with valljo bronzed flesh then pure bronzed flesh. Weapons are vallejo medium sea grey then highlighted with vallejo Iraqi sand. Whole thing was then washed with Druchii violet and certain bits highlighted up again like the coral to get that lovely bright green like a Constructicon.

Always loved these minis, it was those that broke me out of the GW ecosystem (cannot remember what happened to my original ones, sod's law says I'll find them one day) so when I found Seb Games had them in production again I snapped them up PDQ.

Do you think I had too many Immolators?



CB

Never!

I've followed your long painting war CB, I dare not think how many pts worth of stuff you have lying around!

I am expecting a full squat army at some point!!

Here is an OOP model I rescued from an eBay bits box, not quite the grandeur of previous posts

Great Assassin, maxwin!

Cap'n, that's a hunk'a-hunk'a burnin' love for the Emperor.

 maxwin wrote:
Here is an OOP model I rescued from an eBay bits box, not quite the grandeur of previous posts

Looks pretty good IMO.

Great job on the Eversor! Love the liquid effects on his drug compounds and the scanner/scrambler bit on his back.

I didn't start playing till 4th edition, but I tracked these guys down unpainted on ebay and tried to give them a suitably retro look.

Nice red on those Bangels.

 brushcommando wrote:

I like the different designs across those rocket launchers.

Awesome Blood Angels brushcommando, really captures the 2nd Edition style well.

 brushcommando wrote:


I didn't start playing till 4th edition, but I tracked these guys down unpainted on ebay and tried to give them a suitably retro look.

Love that Mantis Warrior!

a few years ago I dug out my old blood angels, my boy now plays Necrons

Love seeing those old rogue trader beakies. I almost managed to get my hands on an unopened box of them for around $50.00 but some scalper outbid me in the last second of the sale. Saw it relisted later for almost $300.00. I think I was most offended that he didn't even want to open them up and put them together...

Good thing my armies have many old models!

Those are awesome looking old models. Nice paintjob as well. What are the third and fourth things from the top? I recognize a lot of the old tyranid models but I've never seen those before.

 brushcommando wrote:
Love seeing those old rogue trader beakies. I almost managed to get my hands on an unopened box of them for around $50.00 but some scalper outbid me in the last second of the sale. Saw it relisted later for almost $300.00. I think I was most offended that he didn't even want to open them up and put them together...

That's rude, rest assured that my guys still get on the table

I have more of them now, as those in the photo are just the ones that hadn't fallen apart in their almost 30 year storage.

Beautiful Blood Angels and Tyranids. Love seeing the old Terminators, Tyranid Warriors and Armorcast beasties.

My high elf blood bowl team;



Lots of black eyes, bloody noses and skinned knuckles in there.

Really like those Tyranids. Can't beat the gopher teeth warriors for a real nostalgia hit.

Those tyrants were new around the time I got started and to this day I prefer them to the current model in terms of design.

 brushcommando wrote:
Those are awesome looking old models. Nice paintjob as well. What are the third and fourth things from the top? I recognize a lot of the old tyranid models but I've never seen those before.

Thanks! Those things are Armorcast (pre-Forgeworld) Tyranids monsters. Basically up-scalled Epic models to fit in 40k back in 2nd edition

First one is a Malefactor that I converted (I made the mouth up front) to be used as an Haruspex.

The duo are the old Exocrine, used as-is

I also got the Haruspex (the Armorcast one, no link to the newest one really, just re-used name) that I modified a bit and will be a Tyrannofex with Rupture Cannon. But still unpainted for now (those are simpler models and very quick to do, so whenever I feel like painting it it'll be done in the same day!).

 Skywave wrote:

 brushcommando wrote:
Those are awesome looking old models. Nice paintjob as well. What are the third and fourth things from the top? I recognize a lot of the old tyranid models but I've never seen those before.

Thanks! Those things are Armorcast (pre-Forgeworld) Tyranids monsters. Basically up-scalled Epic models to fit in 40k back in 2nd edition

First one is a Malefactor that I converted (I made the mouth up front) to be used as an Haruspex.

The duo are the old Exocrine, used as-is

I also got the Haruspex (the Armorcast one, no link to the newest one really, just re-used name) that I modified a bit and will be a Tyrannofex with Rupture Cannon. But still unpainted for now (those are simpler models and very quick to do, so whenever I feel like painting it it'll be done in the same day!).

I really would not have guessed that the mouth on that creature wasn't an official part of the model. That's impressive work.

Was looking for my sniper scout torsos that I have misplaced. Found my old Wolf Scout that I never painted. Him and a couple of metal snipers were purchased on 2004.


With him is an old Gene Stealer Hybrid. I don't know where he is from. His single arm had a Marine shoulder pad on until it fell off. He used to have a Plasma Gun that I gave to my Legion of the Damned.

Some old oop terrain I just started painting:

well I found these today in an box..

So many dorfs!

Fantastic Teclis display. Thanks for sharing. Great way to centerpiece a classic sculpt.

Those nids Whaaaa!! They looked like that?
Man, so many cool old stuff here, I don't know about that elf fellow, but love those dorfs for sure!

I can appreciate the old models and the oldschool style
Even though do not have nostalgia because only found out about warhammer after reading MalusDarkblade in 2009, and year later played Dawn of War I on friends comp and bough my first miniature in about 2010.

But I got few of,,, I hope GW 's, old models from a good friend! I know Ungrim is out of print for sure.
I do not know about the plastic dwarfs warriors and crossbow guys, they seem old, but I don't know where they are from.

Also, the dwarf with the keg mug, keg my conversion, but the model I know is from GW, but don't know how old it is or if it is in print or not.

Old paintjob! mostly with that professional level wood stain finish
Sorry for poor pictures, will take better ones when launch my KARAK GARAZ_NGOL project.

Glad to participate

Oh, and these guys, how could I forget!

Dwarves? OK


One of these minis was painted a couple of decades after the others, can you guess which?

This was a try at Celtic freehand. Turned out OK.

But that angle doesn’t show off the boar on his helmet. Because Oldhammer, that’s why.


I know I’ve got one or two more kicking around, and a handful that still need paint.

So I finished painting those last 3 terminators. And put chapter markings on all of the battle brothers (I forgot to pull the HQs from the shelf when doing the project)



4 squads and some HQs. And about 20lbs of metal. (ok, slight exaggeration, but I did worry about breaking the little wooden tray I use to drag stuff around for photoshoots)

Nice, Nevalon! Both the dwarves and those marines. Did the tray start to buckle in the middle?

Here's another bit of pewter, an icon bearer of Slaanesh. In my ignorance as a child I painted him up to be a plague marine... oh what a simple summer child I was.

No worries. It's just a Slaanesh marine that's down with the sickness.

This 2e sentinel must the only legit retro model I have in my possesion.



Stripped the paint off and made some conversions to make it more up-to date loadout-wise

I forgot to post Manfred, Heroic Fighter of the Known World (circa 1985, painted 2020) here:


Catchya,
Arakasi

The last one was a model I painted as a kid and stripped and repainted after getting back into the hobby. The Orc Shaman is my favourite by far.

Crispy78 wrote:
Joining my Hero Quest heroes... There's only one way for a child of the 80s to paint the Hero Quest evil wizard...

I did literally the same thing earlier this year...

Yours is better though x

 MrH86 wrote:
The last one was a model I painted as a kid and stripped and repainted after getting back into the hobby. The Orc Shaman is my favourite by far.

I love that Shaman mini! And it makes me happy to see that Redemptionist Priest; I have the exact same model, posted a few pages back. I redid I think three of my old Redemptionists for a campaign I was playing over the summer.

I think what this thread is proving is that Jes Goodwin was lightyears ahead of his time.

Sweet box:


With perhaps the worst 'Eavy metal paintjob of all time on the boxart:


You are legally obliged to paint all 80s Eldar with orange Cocaine-era David Bowie hair:


My favourite guardian sculpts:


The very old Throt the Unclean model was great, and looked really '3d' in a time of very flat minis:



Skaven were great from day 1:


Severly overpainted Genestealer Ork Hybrids (!?). They are on Ebay at the moment if anyone is interested


Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Good Old Murray wrote:
With perhaps the worst 'Eavy metal paintjob of all time on the boxart:

Ha-ha! That gives me so much hobby confidence. Thanks for sharing.

You are legally obliged to paint all 80s Eldar with orange Cocaine-era David Bowie hair:

"I'm thinking it must be love"

Hope I'm not necroing this thread by replying to it, but thought I might throw in some of my oldskool models - these ones are mostly unpainted:

tzeentch flamers:





and my old skool havocs











and this old chaos marine from... i have no idea. Any ideas?



CHeers
KT

That’s some classic Pewter and Plastic! Will you be chopping these guys up darkkt? Either way they are begging for more paint

Let’s see if we can’t revive the thread with some recently finished classic 2nd Ed Orks;

And why not some High Elves too

 darkkt wrote:
and this old chaos marine from... i have no idea. Any ideas?

Looks like the Space Crusade one.

Since everything I've been working on for the last year has been from the pile of opportunity quite a few things are OOP. My latest:

 darkkt wrote:


and this old chaos marine from... i have no idea. Any ideas?



CHeers
KT

beast_gts wrote:

Looks like the Space Crusade one.

Yup 100% the Space Crusade Chaos Marine. He's a line trooper or maybe a heavy weapon trooper, depending on what weapon you gave him, the Commander had more elaborate armour.

Kayback wrote:

 darkkt wrote:


and this old chaos marine from... i have no idea. Any ideas?



CHeers
KT

beast_gts wrote:

Looks like the Space Crusade one.

Yup 100% the Space Crusade Chaos Marine. He's a line trooper or maybe a heavy weapon trooper, depending on what weapon you gave him, the Commander had more elaborate armour.

Oh man, the nostalgia is palpable. My entry into GW right there.

gobert wrote:That’s some classic Pewter and Plastic! Will you be chopping these guys up darkkt? Either way they are begging for more paint

Let’s see if we can’t revive the thread with some recently finished classic 2nd Ed Orks;

And why not some High Elves too

Hi Gobert - these guys will def get some paint, but think they may stay 'original' rather than get the 'Mad Dok' treatment. I've got a few other conversion projects bubbling along in the back of my mind and sometimes its nice to just paint things

I'll link some pics here when they're done!

Kayback wrote:

 darkkt wrote:


and this old chaos marine from... i have no idea. Any ideas?



CHeers
KT

beast_gts wrote:

Looks like the Space Crusade one.

Yup 100% the Space Crusade Chaos Marine. He's a line trooper or maybe a heavy weapon trooper, depending on what weapon you gave him, the Commander had more elaborate armour.

Awesome - thanks Kayback! Now I have to figure out where the hell I got one of these from! I never had space crusade, and I dont recall buying it...

Mysteries...

Thank you gobert, darkkt, and Kayback, those are great pics! I love the commander, reminds me of Lucius the Eternal.

I picked up this model as part of a job lot a while back. He was missing his head, which I tracked down for a couple of quid on eBay. Finally got around to assembling him and putting some paint down. I don't have an AM army for him, I just liked the sculpt, always wanted to paint one since I was a kid and finally got around to it this afternoon.

I've never painted a "human" model before, and this is my first time painting hair and stubble. I really enjoyed myself.

Very nice job on the Ogryn, r_squared

I have a bunch of those guys, im saving them for an old school Blood Axe project, gonna see if I can orkify them a bit maybe.

I just finished these for my Guard, they are a bit bigger, like more heroic innit



I'm not very good at photos so you can't really tell, but re: hair, to get the effect of a shaved head I just did less/thinner coats of flesh over the black basecoat (im painting quickly with just washes, no highlights) - your's looks awesome though, must have taken a while.

Since I've been working exclusively from the Pile of Opportunity almost everything I've been doing is OOP and Retro lol.

A few bits and pieces that I've been re-photographing lately for my Workbench blog...

RT-era Squat Techpriest:



2nd Edition Ork Shokk Attack Gun:



2nd Edition Chaos Dreadnought, converted and painted back in 1996:



RT-era plastic Marine - the start of a new force for 2nd edition 40K games.



And a little something that I've been tinkering with, as a start to adding some of the newer army additions to the 2nd edition Necron lineup...

Very nice, is that freehand on the squat tech-priest shoulder pads?

Have some mid-80s GW Nippon figs...



Back then GW used to release multiple slight variants of the same base sculpt, this is every variant of the same Aly Morrison mini, from the OH4 Ronin Renegades and OH5 Oriental Champions ranges.

A grot bomb from Forgeworld's Ork range. It was an E-bay purchase so I don't have the wartrack-based launcher that went with it. I noticed that this kit is no longer listed on the FW website, so I thought it would fit in here.

My painting project for the month. Two of them were part of my BA army and getting transferred to my Ultras, but the captain has never seen paint.

Cleaned this guy a couple of days ago - I love the smell of Dettol in the morning!

Nice libby, but no impracticaly large banner pole!?

No, unfortunately it didn't come with the banner pole but one of the other Terminators I got had a banner pole which I might use even if it's not the right one.

 Nevelon wrote:


My painting project for the month. Two of them were part of my BA army and getting transferred to my Ultras, but the captain has never seen paint.

Very nice! Gotta love the old 4 foot bayonets on the original SM line.