Hello all. My blog is beginning to feel clunky now theres so many hundred pages so I though I would chuck out a showcase of finished and based work (there isn't so much as I'm a lazy baser). I mostly paint old rogue trader models and necromunda. I'm also a massive fan of hasslefree miniatures so hopefully we will see some of those based soon.

I love everyone one of these models and your paint does these justice. I love all the character they have.

Awesome work!

Bloody hell. What a great post! Really nice work on some classics.

Thanks massively for your comments squidbot and uncool villain. Oxygen for the fragile ego, it keeps me painting.

So I will continue to update this when things actually get finished (full painting to my satisfaction and a decent base). I'm working on some urban bases for my hasslefree civilians atm so they might be up soon. Oh and a delaque ganger jumping over a rusty sewage pipe is in the works.

In the meantime don't forget - THE INQUISITION IS WATCHING YOU.

Win. That is all

That Farseer is awesomesauce on a stack of pwncakes! Great work all around.

Love the models and love the modern execution. You so often see this era of sculpting painted a bit garishly, the subdued palette is refreshing.

Very impressive!

wow! looks brilliant!

Everything looks excellent. Love the old Genestealer Cult guys, such fantastic models. I really need to paint mine up.

Old School! Love it. Love it. Love it.

Absolutely awesome work. Your old models are some of the best painted old miniatures I've seen.

Neat to see the old genestealer magus again, sure has been a while.

Love this! The Term INQ is my fav model in the entire GW line ever! Well done!

Gahhhh! Nostalgia attack

This post took me right back to my first days in GW gaming. Thanks!

Great painting, the hybrid makes me miss my 2nd ed. genestealer cultists.

 Asuryan wrote:
Great painting, the hybrid makes me miss my 2nd ed. genestealer cultists.

I still have a few of them and know exactly where they are in my man cave. I'll dig them out for you. See, this thread is making beautiful things happen. Elton John should write a song or something

Genestealer hybrids are great but have you seen how much they go for. Damn expensive habit.

M4cr0Dutch I hope there's a magus in there somewhere

Here's a chap with a cool base - I'm using my old camera because the new one died so this image could be better. Oh well time to dig out the warranty.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Genestealer hybrids are great but have you seen how much they go for. Damn expensive habit.

M4cr0Dutch I hope there's a magus in there somewhere

There sure is

Ahhhh, the days you could take a converted limousine to a 40K game...

I wish I had finished my genestealer limo now - it is in my WIP gallery and is the main exhibit on the shelf of shame...


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Oh and P.S. I will probably buy that magus if you sellin?

Big update today. I had a busy day off.

Alyx from hastlefree



A mercenary - a bit of a wonky model this one.



Hybrid - One of my all time favourite models this



And these berserkers which I painted s years ago get some base love - you'll probably notice my painting style was a little more garish on these! The ones without backpacks are ancient - 1988 I think.

I love the hybrid, it is one of my favourites as well.

Below is the type of Magus that I have. You would have to strip it (I can't claim responsibility for the horrible paint job). Asuryan has given me permission to sell it or swap it for something, he likes it too much to give it away for free . This particular figure isn't too expensive on Ebay, so let me know if you are still interested and we will figure it out.

It's pretty neat seeing some old models before my time painted so well!

Love that termie Inquisitor, and the multi-armed genestealer hybrid, classic figures! All your stuff is awesome though. =)

 M4cr0Dutch wrote:
I love the hybrid, it is one of my favourites as well.

Below is the type of Magus that I have. You would have to strip it (I can't claim responsibility for the horrible paint job). Asuryan has given me permission to sell it or swap it for something, he likes it too much to give it away for free . This particular figure isn't too expensive on Ebay, so let me know if you are still interested and we will figure it out.

I remember that model, back from the days when every army had a colour scheme like an explosion at the rainbow factory. Not that it was bad mind you, sometimes I'd like to see a little more colour come back to the GW studio armies, which all tend to look quite grimy and bleak these days.

I love seeing the older stuff, that's when GW made real games

true that commissar80!

Scavtastic - I am constantly torn over whether to go garish or grim. So many colours to choose from.

Here is today's offering. I have no recollection who makes this mini - I think I snapped it up on ebay for a song.

I wish I had a nice desert background to go with this - Have to print one off soon.

Loving the old school figures, and great paint jobs.

Brilliant stuff, weety!

FYI, the dude on the dino is (I believe) Viridian cavalry from I-Kore's Void line - it has been a while since I painted mine (a unit of 5), but they were used as cavalry for a fan-dex devoted to the Imperial corporation of the "Warzone" game universe.

I'm so used to seeing old school models with old school paint-jobs... Makes me remember the excitement I felt 20 years ago to see them painted well.

 M4cr0Dutch wrote:
I love the hybrid, it is one of my favourites as well.

Below is the type of Magus that I have. You would have to strip it (I can't claim responsibility for the horrible paint job). Asuryan has given me permission to sell it or swap it for something, he likes it too much to give it away for free . This particular figure isn't too expensive on Ebay, so let me know if you are still interested and we will figure it out.

I can claim responsibility for the crappy paintjob circa 1995, nothing has changed since then really . Macro, it is yours now mate, just wanted you to sell or trade for something you might like I am not fussed.

 Asuryan wrote:

I can claim responsibility for the crappy paintjob circa 1995, nothing has changed since then really . Macro, it is yours now mate, just wanted you to sell or trade for something you might like I am not fussed.

Bwah ha ha ha!! Yeah nothing much has changed. You're still 100% better than me. My Legion of the Damned circa 1997 looked like a mardi gras. Now lets stop hijacking the poor guys thread; I'm still trying to figure out where I have seen that dinosaur before...

I'm warming up for the infinity competition with a nice eldar guardian from way back. No Idea what my entry is going to be yet but I'm thinking of some Aleph assassin type with a downloaded and backed up mind and a body made out of nanobots.

eldar guardian from 1991

Love the old GW models, would love to build an army of rogue trader era stuff. they have so much character, and have a wonderful cartoony feel

My gosh, look at this bounty of old school models, awesome stuff!

Awesome stuff you have there , those rogue trader models are quite rare i think.

Yes they are quite hard to come by. Not much more expensive than modern minis but there aren't so many of them left.

Awesome Collection! Love the old minis. Do you use ebay alot to find these old school minis?

All the time! Occasionally someone on dakka does me a swap or a freebie but apart from that its all ebay..

Those bring back memories! Love that term inquisitor. Unfortunately I let my bro keep that one. Shoulda been more selfish.

I regret giving away old models too. Nostalgia

Here is my latest offering - an orlock from the hood.

Goliath juve looking pale and gothic.

Another fine young goliath. this ones obviously been working out.

There's an odd colour cast on the first photo - no idea why as they were all taken at the same timeand in the same light-tent. The mysteries of photography.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
I'm warming up for the infinity competition with a nice eldar guardian from way back. No Idea what my entry is going to be yet but I'm thinking of some Aleph assassin type with a downloaded and backed up mind and a body made out of nanobots.

eldar guardian from 1991

Very cool figure, always wanted that one and the others similar to it. I really like your paint scheme on him.

I've got a whole bunch of RT eldar guardians but they scare me slightly - they show up imperfections really easy and need a smooth paintjob so I keep stripping them and starting again! This one is the first I've been happy with. I've got 5 close combat guardians with pistols and 5 with shruken catapults and lasrifles.

Nice work!

 M4cr0Dutch wrote:

 Asuryan wrote:

I can claim responsibility for the crappy paintjob circa 1995, nothing has changed since then really . Macro, it is yours now mate, just wanted you to sell or trade for something you might like I am not fussed.

Bwah ha ha ha!! Yeah nothing much has changed. You're still 100% better than me. My Legion of the Damned circa 1997 looked like a mardi gras. Now lets stop hijacking the poor guys thread; I'm still trying to figure out where I have seen that dinosaur before...

Possibly an old Slann model?

Very nice paintwork and some interesting models

Couldn't pin down precisely why, but RT era Guardians, even the plastic ones, really do it for me. Now that I think about it so do Redemptionists. Is it the pointy hats? I'm not southern I swear.

I love a good pointy hat too - They are what distinguishes eldar from all the other sci-fi elder race stereotypes. Also cultists and redemptionists are just fun because they are crazy mad.

Old model gets a lick of paint. This is the imperial scout from the RT era space adventurers line.



link to catalogue page: http://solegends.com/citrt/rt601adventurers.htm

I have him, the space pirate, Scum(also known as the space eunuch) and the ventollin pirate.


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Also I have entered the two tickets to paradiso competition which is open for voting on monday so please vote for me, a vote for weety is a vote for ordinary people everywhere who don't have an airbrush yet and still use a drybrush. Ask not what dakka can do for you but what you can do for dakka. If I am elected best painter I promise to improve education and slash taxes. Etc.

Please go to http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/537266.page and vote. I would be very happy if you voted for me (if you want too of course) but you will have to guess which is mine.

Hey Weety, great to see your amazing old school minis in the P&M Showcase... Must get back to the blog; been unconscionably absent of late!

I voted for a couple of entires - hopefully one was yours! Was hard to pick it out, despite your recognisable style!

I probably altered my style a bit for this one. Trying out new things for infinity because I've never painted them b4. I'm totally going to loose the competition but for just a few hours yesterday I was 5th!

More paintings





The gang so far. There's more to come, I've got a whole gang of them.

Time to bring out some oldschool fantasy. Here is an Orc Campion from the citadel fantasy starter set 1985. Old as the hills.

thank you for starting this thread! such a great feeling I get looking at all these older mini's, some I forgot I had seen until i spied them again! :-) not to mention you can paint like a legend! everything is not only excellent quality but on a scale of 1-10 coolness-o-meter you be crackin' a 12 man!

Thanks! I like the sound of that - you should go vote on some! You are a pretty damn good painter yourself. I enjoyed your slaneesh swirly peach n purple paintjobs. Very psychedelic.

Urban Mammoth makes simular models for the dino rider.

http://www.urbanwarthegame.com/store-ecwid.php?PHPSESSID=7af613ca3f44d88f680fef2e319c3e16#!/~/category/id=3789375&offset=0&sort=normal

But not that same one, which is a shame because it's very cool.

Overall awesome thread!

Now I have two threads to awesome your stuff on. LOL

All I can say is. Amazing work. It is good to see how well a lot of the older stuff holds up with a pro paint job and some good photography. I got rid of all my RT stuff when I took my 10 year hiatus. A lot of these guys I used to own but never pained as well. Keep it going sir

Thanks for looking everyone!

Slaanesh beastman 1991




Evil Goblin 1985

Love the RT models! I would love to see more Squats

More squats is always a possibility. I have great heaps of unfinished ones. Mostly just the rank and file but there's some officers and a couple of bikes.


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Anyone seen this one before? I am at a loss as to who made it and when - it just says orc on the tab.

Cool stuff.

This last one´s a crewmember fro a citadel warmachine from the eighties.

Must be one of the first spear chukkas, like Notlob´s, whereas this one looks like a variant as the spear is actually a maze type weapon here.

Must look that up. Will post what I found when I find something.

Oh I put the mace head on myself because the original end was missing and It looked right. Thanks for that, he makes sense now.

Anyone know any good NNM tutorials? Steep learning curve here.

There you go:

In the center of the pic.

Very good tutorials on nm on coolminiornot.com
They have something for everyone, from noob to expert level.

Keep it up!

Cheers buddy. I think when I was trying to find out what mini he was I neglected to look at war machines and was just looking at rank and file troops.

ill go check out coolminiornot.

beastman with NMM cuirass. Sort of a corroded brass colour. C. 1988




and here is Ruglud from the regiments of renown 1988. His armour looks very human-like because in the fluff it says they stole their armour from human remains in a tomb

Beautiful work as always

Mor Beastmen for your viewing pleasure.

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Simply amazing minis! Love to see some models from before I started.. or was born for that matter!

Hey Gretar thanks for visiting and commenting. They are getting pretty old now huh. I will have to open a museum.

My infinity competition entry. I didn't try hard enough I must try harder. I think I ranked 10th out of 19 so I didn't fail too badly. The idea of the piece is that she has been flitting silently through the jungle to do some important mission and she has just stopped at the waters edge for a rest and suddenly noticed the beauty of the forest. I spend days making the base and only a few hours painting the miniature because deadlines make me panic. Don't get me wrong I'm really pleased with it but when you are in a competition for a hundred quids worth of models you get serious opposition.

Weets, you make me feel wholly inadequate at this hobby.

Very nice. I love the rogue trader stuff

Don't worry vallhala its not a competition... oh wait, except for that last bit, that was a competition. I wish someone would do a "paint a really old mini" competition and have huge prizes. That'd be right up my alley.

Thankyou Sgt. kell.

Me too!

Awesome stuff. A trip down the ol' nostalgia highway.

Great contest entry, I'd have voted for it if I knew about the contest soon enough. I really like the colors, nice pastels, great basing and overall presentation.

Best sculpts of the 80s. All pre 1987 going back to 1985.

Non metallic metal is coming along well. I'm really on a roll with the fantasy - I think it is freeing up my style so I can explore new techniques.

Really cool man. Love the Eldar on the first page.

Nice NMM! I've never had the courage to try that on any of my models. How hard is it to do?

I would say its not as hard as I thought. There's probably a tutorial out there that can explain it better than me. I like to do mine with vallejo white paint, P3 armour wash and vallejo pale grey with a hint of blue mixed in.

Oh and I did a brass bangle with snakebite leather (you cant get it anymore but I still have a fairly full bottle), shaded with vallejo sepia wash and highlighted with white with a hint of yellow ink. Here is a better picture. I think it needed a sharper contrast looking at it now:



Thanks paint_to_redemption.

Thanx for the trip down memory lane. The genestealer hybrid model is great.

These three goblins are a kill team - first the little one shoots you in the back of the knee, then the crazy looking one with the big rusty ball comes rushing out of the darkness and wacks you. Finally grandpa goblin serves the coup de grace and shanks you with his sticka. I call him grandpa because he is wearing slippers - he also has magic mushrooms in his belt!



Pics of the chaos champions



Group shots of the dungeon horde

Whew. I have a lot of those old skaven models I painted back when I was like 11 and 12. You've done them much more justice than I did. Nice Greenskins and chaos dudes too, Weety

Do I spot an OOP Dark Reaper?

ThouShallNotHeal, Yep - I just have the one sadly.



Hi moltar thanks, long time no see. I will always remember your orangutang/chimp marines!

Haha! Awesome!

Love your work, especially those squats I spotted at the start of this blog.

Keep 'em coming. Man, we had a number of those models back in the day. Yours look far better I assure you. Very nice work.

Glad to hear you're all enjoying the nostalgia and the paint-jobs. I strive to improve my painting all the time and these old models deserve a little love for old times sake.

More pics - first here is a chaos sorcerer, probably 1985 (I really should check the slotta tab before I seal them in) displayed in my handmade dungeon floor tile. Made of milliput, cardboard, PVA glue and sand. I hope to make molds some day and sell casts on ebay (an idea that needs more thought)



Here's some dwarves - these were kindly donated by inmygravenimage. Drunk dwarf is 1998 I think. And thats the warhammer fantasy quest dwarf that. Very rare and beautiful.



And just to be different here are some models from marauder miniatures. Dark elf assassins 1990

These are beautiful overall. You've achieved pretty positive grimy look with the old sculpts, and natural schemes makes them justice. Great!

Thanks TurskanPerkeet - I enjoy your work also.

Hengis the druid. I also have one of his giants. The one holding the tree. Its going to take a while to strip and assemble though. I was going for the getafix look with this paintjob.



This is Vangart Soulspiller, chaos champion 1987 I think.

Chaos Champeen! He looks awesome, I really like the subtle, muted colors. Looks a hell of a lot better than 1987 painting standards.

I've just noticed that the camera has focused on the background not the mini! Damn camera. But its only a teensie bit blurry so t'hell with it. I'm glad you like it! It was fun to paint.

The WH Quest Dwarf is one of my favorite GW models ever, you definitely do it justice

You for sure have brought the character out of this old school figures. Great job

Hi thanks for commenting.

Back to sci-fi momentarily.

This is a 'mutant psychic scrunt' by veteran sculptor Bob Olley. I'm pretty sure he still sells these from his garden shed (mail order). Go to http://www.olleysarmies.co.uk for details.

Bob olley used to do the "Iron claw" range for GW back in the 80s.

This ones more recent and to get round copyright he calls it a scrunt. It not a squat, oh no.

The model appears to be drinking from a diseased hairless cat. Reminds me of that scene in Dune.

Bob's Scrunt ranges are great, I'm just disappointed that he discontinued the cowboy ones :(

Yes the cowboy ones were my fav too. they sometimes crop up on ebay.

I'll have to keep my eye out

A copplestone militia man. More to come, I picked up 7 of these for 99p each.

Great looking models, love your panting style.

Thankyou!

Here's some more copplestone.



I wonder what this guys story is - he looks like he has been through the wars since he got up and dressed for work. I wonder if he has something vitally important in that briefcase or is it just his lunch.



Grizzled biker dude. The tattoo was painted on and the defined with a micron pen.

Man, I never thought those UGLY old school models could look good...but your painting is absoultely phenominal! I only started playing 40k about two years ago, so I'm "spoiled" with the new, fancy plastic kits.
I do own a few 2nd-4th ed. metal Marine models (most of which I absolutely hate because I just can't make them look good). Paint them for me? Please?!

Seriously, though...you've got some real talent. My hat is off to you, sir!

I hope his suitcase carries his shirt. Biker dude looks simply awesome!

^ There's also a sewing kit in there to repair his pants ^

I love those post-apocalyptic figures, Weets.

spectreoneone is that a serious request? I'm guessing not, but I would like to make it clear that I will consider commissions now that I'm running out of thinks to paint. I don't know if I have the equipment for anything large but If you want a model or a small squad painted up nice I will do it for low low prices. I don't know if I'm good enough yet.

moltar, squatkid and valhalla, glad you like them. Maybe mr shirtless had to travel trough time but he could only take things in a briefcase and go naked like in terminator - then when he gets there he realises he forgot to pack a shirt?



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Another dark elf - this time from citadel in the 1980s. I don't like citadels 80s dark elves, they look slightly squashed and their crossbows are very badly sculpted. But I did my best to drag him up a notch.

That's my problem with old Citadel miniatures. They all look squished. That was because of the way they made their molds, but once I see the plane through which the mold lay, I can't unsee it. I have an Imperial Fists sergeant holding a bolt pistol to his right, that jsut looks flat, even with the backpack on.

This one is a bit more rounded. I think I went OTT with the blood maybe.

Damn this is some impressive work. Normally I don't care for the old RT minis, but most of what you posted have more character than I remember lol. Keep it up, I'll be watching for sure.

Man those 80's dark elves! Memories! They were terrible and I totally remember hating their crossbows. You have made them look far more impressive than I remember them being, though!

The marauder ones were way better! They were 90s models though - I think sculptors had got their act together by the 90s.


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I love a good crossbow and it is a total shame that they made them so wonky.

the Marauder beastmen were great. I bought a box of them when I was in high school and painted them up. The box came without the unit champions weapon (or the hands which were attached to the weapon) so I made a set of hands out of poster tac, but a coat of glue on them to harden it up, then added a "solid steel mace" made out of a steel-painted toothpick for a weapon.

Sadly, the paint jobs are horrible. They're on my list to strip, though.

Do it! Seriously it will be fun to give your old models a modern paintjob, and get that guy some arms.

I find bringing an old model to life makes me feel good. Its like restoring an old antique.

I felt pretty awesome painting that space skeleton model.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
spectreoneone is that a serious request? I'm guessing not, but I would like to make it clear that I will consider commissions now that I'm running out of thinks to paint. I don't know if I have the equipment for anything large but If you want a model or a small squad painted up nice I will do it for low low prices. I don't know if I'm good enough yet.

It was in jest, and thank you kindly for the offer, but I feel guilty about others painting my models, as I want my models to be a reflection of my skill (which is why I stripped down half of my Tau army when my skill started improving). I have a friend who hates basing his models, so he offered to edge and highlight some of my models in trade for my (supposedly) good basing skills. He's done great work, but I feel sort of cheap for letting him work on them, because I know that I didn't make them look really awesome. All of that aside, I am just so utterly impressed as to how you make these models look awesome. I'm so used to seeing the old pictures of these models done up in loud, obnoxious colors that rarely mirror realism, that your work just has me blown away.

As a side note, you could definitely make some good money doing commission with work on this level. Again, awesome models!

Thanks for getting back to me! It looks like I have a commission anyway now.

I keep doing that - when I get better at painting I have the urge to strip everything that doesn't measure up and start again!


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The last dark elf - I think I am fed up with dark elves now for a while.

Regardless of how you feel about the model, you are making those dark elves look mighty good.