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Do you want to see them even if they weren't painted by the person posting? I have a small number of excellently painted models that I bought online years ago that I could share. I even have two that are allegedly "pro painted" models. One from online and one came with a collection I bought off a friend who claimed he watched it get painted at some sort of official painting event, then won it in a raffle. The event had a cool name that I can't remember. I also have a LE 2003 Cadian Standard Bearer model that I partially repainted because I loved the way the flag was painted, but wanted to have the guy match my intended army color scheme. Most of them are actually already on this site from a thread I had up trying to figure out more about them. The two "pro painted" would be new though. Amusingly, they're both the same character, but one is much older.

Ha! I know exactly how you feel. Looking at pro painted models is always fun and a learning experience. Seeing things you might never have thought of trying before, etc. I feel safe linking the one I partially repainted. The disclaimer is that I only repainted the actual person and sword as well as touching up some minor spots missed by the original painter, such as the underside of the flag. I did not paint the flag or do the basing. If you're wondering why the base looks tall, that's because it has a washer glued to the bottom, I assume to keep the top heavy model from falling over all the time. I just wanna add, omg was it nerve wracking painting around the basing and flag.






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I feel I should also say that I'm not really that great at painting and he was one of my first attempts with drybrushing.

That's fair. Even if I wanted to claim they were my work, any pictures of my actual work would give it away immediately. I was better than average among my friends, enough that several asked me to paint theirs, but here I am but a novice still learning basic techniques. I couldn't hope to produce anything like the paintjobs on the models I'll be putting in here, at least for now. I do hope to get on par before the decade is out. xD

Here's some I posted previously in the same thread as the Standard Bearer:
These four were bought together and likely painted by the same artist.


These were part of a small collection I bought that seems to have ranged from RT to 3rdEd/4thEd as it included some current Cadians and Catachan. Also the closest ones to my own skill level. I could probably recreate everything except the power swords.

Not entirely sure if the one on the right is official GW as no one recognized him, but here are some closer pictures:



I can try to get some better pics of the other five if anyone wants a closer look or a rear view, but that's what I already had. I might have some pics of the two pro-painted guys on later today. I also have another very well painted Commissar that I used as I size comparison in another pic and a nicely done Stormtrooper squad. The Commissar has a really cool green power sword. Unfortunately, the Stormtrooper squad was never finished, with two painted but not based models and two extra primed models that were likely meant to be able to swap out for the special weapons. The paint is also starting to come off on some of these gems and I want to preserve them, so if anyone knows of a good seal coating I can apply that won't change the colors or make them glossy I'd love to know.

Yeah, I had questions about him myself, hence the thread I originally posted him in asking for help identifying some old minis. Though I haven't been able to confirm it myself, the general consensus was that he is actually an official 2ndEd Commissar specifically without the breastplate they are always seen wearing. It's now a bit hard to stop seeing that business casual dress shirt and tie as what they are all officially wearing under that armor and coat. lol

Here are the promised pics of the other models. I did not paint any of these myself. As previously mentioned, the two that are the same character are the two that are allegedly pro-painted. They certainly look good enough for me to believe it, but I can't be sure. However, I saw the name of the event that my friend told me he won the newer one at in another thread here about painting. If I remember correctly, it was Golden Daemon. I know I've heard about that event being a big painting competition, so it just might be an actual pro model or semi-pro. Could even have been painted by one of the contestants, but my friend said he won it in a raffle so that seems less likely. Then again, he claimed he got to watch it being painted during the event, so maybe? I really don't know enough about the Golden Daemon events to say. Either way, for now those two are kinda the pride of my collection all things considered. In no small part because I absolutely love the character in the lore. I hope they haven't ruined him in new lore since I last looked in 5thEd... All that aside, here's the pics!





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I find it really interesting to look at the two versions of the same character and think about just how much the style of GW models has evolved over time. The leaps and bounds it took in 3rd and 4th Ed are truly mind boggling. As far as I know, there is no other sculpt for this character and though the metal one is OOP, they still use the same sculpt in Finecast today. The early models all have a sort of flatness to them imo. Their stances are almost always using width rather than depth as it were. A trait I've always attributed to technology limitations of casting in the 3D plane back then, but I have no real evidence to that. Still it intrigues me. Perhaps it was just the preference of their early sculpting team. Perhaps it was related to costs, a real concern of a company branching into new and relatively uncharted territory at the time. To my knowledge, there were precious few table top strategy games back then, if any, and what GW did was a major departure and thus risky. I wish I could get a copy of each and every rulebook ever printed for the Warhammer universe, just to read the lore. See how it changes and expands across the editions. That's always been one of my favorite parts of WH. The way it's constantly moving forward and adding to the story. It's not a static world like some other universes, with each new addition just changing things around for balance or at best working new things into the old without really making a difference. Ah, I could go on for ages about this, so I'll just cut myself off here. Sorry for the wall of text.

That's awesome! I love how the Mk1 looks like someone took the Leman Russ/British MkIV body profile, squished it horizontally, stretched it vertically, and then thought "what if we flipped it backwards?"

 Nevelon wrote:
I prefered the short stubby fire prism to the new long one.

And yes, a little melted in the sun.

On the one hand, that's a crying shame end for a classic model. On the other hand, it would be a hell of a job fixing it and it still might fail no matter how careful you are. On the cult acolytes' third hand, it would make for an awesome piece of terrain as is. Could be the centerpiece of an old battlefield, no matter the terrain set used. A burnt out Landraider hull would look amazing in a junk field or a decimated imperial city. It could even be an objective piece with special rules, like it can act as a one squad bunker with only a few firing points (2-3 per side) where the hull has holes. Would make a cool Orks vs SM objective. The story could be that it was "recently" discovered by a passing Imperial ships Augers while they were doing a planetary scan and now the local SM chapter is out to recover it, only to find the planet infested with Orks who also have designs on the ancient machines remains. Even could be CSM vs SM with both sides hoping to recover it and bring the mighty Landraider to bear once more. If you have any of the guns, you could even create special rules for their use by whomever controls it. Maybe once every other turn a single weapon on the machine can be controlled by an occupying squad member, but on a roll of 1, the weapon fires as normal, but explodes from disrepair or damage and is destroyed, dealing d6 wounds to the occupying squad from the resulting internal explosion. Just an idea though. I love coming up special stuff like that to make the game more interesting, even though I've yet to actually put any of it into practice.

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
Here's tie guy on Stuff of Legends, second row at the very right: http://www.solegends.com/citcat1993usb40k/c1993us40kp0023-140121-00.htm
Looks like he originally had a las pistol?

Nice spot! It looks like that page also shows the rest of them as well. Someone mentioned that the arms were separate pieces in the second wave. Looking at the guy the far left, whose arms are also separate, they appear to both have the exact same arms. In addition, the Las pistol on him is actually another separate piece. It seems that for some reason, they made the arms and weapons separate pieces. Perhaps there was the option of a bolt pistol like the other tie guy in the second set of models or perhaps a plasma pistol? Now that being said, the weapons on tie guy #2 are both later conversions like many pieces had in that collection, so I'm just making conjecture.

Edit: Just want to apologize for taking so long to see your post. Judging by the time stamps, I think I must have been writing my next one when you posted and I just completely missed it until now.

Here are some pics I just took for reference. You can see that the Las pistol is glued on. Also, I'm not 100%, but that Bolt pistol on the other tie guy does not look RT or even 2ndEd. Doesn't quite look as new as 4thEd either. Maybe 3rdEd?

 Nevelon wrote:
The arms/guns were seperate at the time.

Thanks, that solves that mystery. Now to solve the mystery of "how do I get to paint like that?"

 Rybrook wrote:


It is a 2nd ed space marine bolt pistol, from the character sprue

Really? Learned something new today. Any thoughts on the sword?

 ingtaer wrote:


Same deal, there was a sprue of lots of different CCW, sword, axe, fist etc.

Ah. Guess it just looks off for some reason. I always feel like it's too large for the model.

 insaniak wrote:
Yeah, those weapons were designed for space marines...

The models are all in the same scale. Besides, there are Bolt Weapons sized for normal humans. You see them all the time in IG armies being used by officers and the like. The SoB use them, the Inquisition uses them, every force loyal to the Emperor has at least limited access to them. Can you imagine how big the regular SM model would have to be to meet lore? Or how small the humans? As long as they haven't changed lore since the Horus Heresy book series was finished, then SM are supposed to be ~8-10ft tall. I think Orks were something like 9-11ft for the Boyz. Obviously the Nobz and Boss were much bigger. The vehicles would have to be much larger as well. They're actually a little scaled down, even beyond being 28mm scale models iirc. Talking lore makes me want to get all the new books and read them right away. There's this lovely section in an Imperial Fists book were a SM scout squad get ambushed by Renegade Guardsmen and it describes how Lasguns actually have variable power settings and can be extremely deadly even to a fully armored SM if on the highest setting, but since the higher settings drain the power quickly -that highest setting drains the battery pack in three shots it says- the normal doctrine for Loyalist Guardsmen is on the lowest setting, because it keeps ammo near infinite. Which of course explains why the Standard Issue Imperial Flashlight is so wimpy in-game. My old 4th and 5th Ed books have it as a "24" / Str:3 / Ap:- / Rapid Fire" weapon. I highly doubt it's changed much if at all.

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 insaniak wrote:
Yeah, those weapons were designed for space marines...

The models are all in the same scale. Besides, there are Bolt Weapons sized for normal humans. You see them all the time in IG armies being used by officers and the like. The SoB use them, the Inquisition uses them, every force loyal to the Emperor has at least limited access to them. Can you imagine how big the regular SM model would have to be to meet lore? Or how small the humans? As long as they haven't changed lore since the Horus Heresy book series was finished, then SM are supposed to be ~8-10ft tall. I think Orks were something like 9-11ft for the Boyz. Obviously the Nobz and Boss were much bigger. The vehicles would have to be much larger as well. They're actually a little scaled down, even beyond being 28mm scale models iirc. Talking lore makes me want to get all the new books and read them right away. There's this lovely section in an Imperial Fists book were a SM scout squad get ambushed by Renegade Guardsmen and it describes how Lasguns actually have variable power settings and can be extremely deadly even to a fully armored SM if on the highest setting, but since the higher settings drain the power quickly -that highest setting drains the battery pack in three shots it says- the normal doctrine for Loyalist Guardsmen is on the lowest setting, because it keeps ammo near infinite. Which of course explains why the Standard Issue Imperial Flashlight is so wimpy in-game. My old 4th and 5th Ed books have it as a "24" / Str:3 / Ap:- / Rapid Fire" weapon. I highly doubt it's changed much if at all.

Sorry insaniak, I went a bit off the edge there. It was super late and I might have come across a bit hostile. Seeing it in the morning with a clear head made me embarrassed. I also rambled way off track towards the end. lol

 theCrowe wrote:
I thought what you said was really interesting.

Thanks, I have a tendency to remember random junk like that and spout it out on the rare occasion it becomes relevant. The bit about Lasguns having settings has always made me wonder if it wouldn't be too much to ask for them to have a special order where they could be a much stronger weapon once per game. Would be a cool way to make IG troops more than just a meat shield for the tanks. Could be an officers order that each squad can only be successfully given once called Fire Hot or something and makes each Lasgun in the squad a 24" / Str:5 / Ap: 5 / Rapid Fire weapon for one turn. Would make them more interesting and useful in the same way as a combi-weapon, except unlike combi-weapons orders can fail or even cause detriments on a catastrophic failure.

 theCrowe wrote:
Sounds like there would be a great Necromunda house rule in there somewhere.

And just to keep on topic. Here's some OOP Delaque.

Nice models, especially love the terrain piece. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Necromunda other than what I can read on GWs web store.

 Ouze wrote:
I had ever Necron lord ever sold except this one.

Really? Can you get a pic of them all lined up? I loved the old Necrons and I'd love to see them.

 Argive wrote:
I am a proud owner of a plastic WHFB dragon

BONUS it came with asarnils original banner. All I need now is to get the rider bits..

There really is just something about having a dragon model, isn't there? I won Imrik in a store raffle, but I never actually did anything with it. When WFB was still WFB and not AoS I wanted to play HE and have lots of dragons. XD Unfortunately, WFB ended right after I got my first models and I never finished any. I had primed and started painting a squad of spearmen when I heard it was being discontinued and lost the motivation to continue myself. I don't know when AoS was announced, but I didn't hear about for at least a year after I heard WFB was ending. If I don't end up selling them, maybe someday I'll finally build and paint them up.

And now to get my post back on topic, here's a couple quick shots of some old models that I own, but did not paint myself. I have no plans to repaint them anytime soon as I think they're already at or above my own skill level. Nothing too special paint wise, but nice enough for me. Unfortunately, the Ogryn came without the original left arm. It had an odd robotic looking replacement that fell off in the mail and I don't know if I'm going to glue it back on, leave him one-armed, or try to find a better replacement of some kind. The odds of finding someone who has a left arm for an original Ogryn just lying around are about zero.


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Oops. the pictures got turned upside down somehow. I'll try to fix that. Edit: Success! All I did was open picture edit, use the rotate option to spin it 360, and save a copy. I don't see any difference on my computer, but they sure show up different on this website.

 Argive wrote:

Its just something about the talisman dragon and citadel dragon minatures I find appealing. I always wanted them all and am slowly hunting each down. None of its painted yet sadly.

Don't mean to derail the thread. But couldn't resist talking about OOP dragons..

Hope to have some photos to share one day soon.

I know how you feel, except for me it's IG Commissars and the RT officers. There's something about them that makes me want one of each. Much the same for all the RT IG honestly...

I'm fairly certain it is and has seen some non-GW already.

 theCrowe wrote:
Also, Nevermind that caterpillar, he was just a bit hungry.

The hungry, hungry caterpillar!

It's a beautiful model. I can only imaging how good it would look in oceanic greens and blues, with a hint of iridescence on the scales.

 Nevelon wrote:

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

 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?

 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.

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 CatachanDevil wrote:

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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.

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.

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

 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.

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