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There's a lot of funk value in that model. If I were you, I would find a way to get him in any and every game I could.

He almost looks like a precursor to the Fimir model that appear in the Heroquest board game.

Not seen that chap before - Quite characterful, and yes I can see that he could have been an early proto-Fimir

Yeah, he's certainly got the pose and "feel" in common with the early Fimir, though there's a lot of interesting writing around their origins on the web:

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2014/04/07/bizarre-bestiary-fimir/
http://realmofzhu.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/origin-of-species-fimir.html
https://graemedavis.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/the-truth-about-fimir/

Sadly I don't have any of the original Fimir, but I've got some of the FW ones around here somewhere. I was going to paint them to use as Ogre Berserkers in KoW, got them out, put them somewhere safe, and I don't think I've seen them since...

In other news, I got thinking about Terminators for the Iron Warriors. I've found two sets of CSM Terminators, and as I think I mentioned I may have a third (if I can find the Chaos Army box from 3.5). Plus original metals. I was holding off on turning any of those into IW, because I may need them for other CSM armies, so I started a list, Archer-style to work out what SM/CSM armies and smaller forces I actually plan to build - so I can then work out where to allocate those Chaos Terminator models..

I've worked out that there's basically going to be three tiers - "Armies", which will be decently large and have lots of mans and toys. "Detatchments" (not the 40k rules term), which will be 2-3 squads plus maybe a dreadnought and a character or three. Maybe one vehicle. And then "Squads" which will generally speaking be 1 or maybe 2 squads - they'll be rolled into other armies in practical terms and simply give me an excuse to paint something a bit different. So like an Imperial Fists squad assigned to fight alongside/as part of the Crimson Fists army.

There's also 30k and 40k, though I want to be able to use whatever 30k stuff in 40k, whenever I get around to playing it.

Traitor/Chaos Armies:

Sons of Horus Legion
Black Legion CSM (SoH variant)
(Traitor Raven Guard Blackshield CSM)
- Basically, a Black Legion splinter "Army" in SoH Legion colours rather than in black and gold. This is where I'll also throw random individuals or squads from CSM Legions that won't make the grade for full armies or even detachments.


Iron Warriors Legion
Iron Warriors Traitor CSM
- "Legion" stuff will be played as CSM when needed - just the hardcore non-chaos corrupted, but "betrayed by the Emperor and Imperium and holding a huge grudge" element of the IW Legion.


Death Guard CSM/Traitor Legion
- I'll just mix everything together. Some guys will have MKIII in dirty green and white, some will be actual Plaguemarine models in greens and browns. Some will be Rogue Trader-era models. I think it'll look good/work.


Thousand Sons Legion
Thousand Sons Traitor CSM
- Again, I'd like to have some in red with the and some in blue. Because I think both look awesome, and would look good on the table together.


Detatchments:

Word Bearers CSM/Traitor Legion
Alpha Legion Traitor CSM
- Both of these guys have some cool looking models and I have some fun ideas for models, but I'm not interested in full, large armies. Word Bearers might end up with a lot of the really chaosy 40k models, while the Alphas have MKIV and a mixture of pre-heresy look along with some non-chaos-looking MKVII with some specific other markings on them..


Squads:
World Eaters CSM
Emperor's Children Legion Squads - sword guys and noise marines/kakophoni
Night Lords Raptors CSM (Black Legion)
Fallen Raven Guard Raptors

Basically, interesting bits and pieces. Some (WE? I have a fair few models!) might end up as more than a couple of squads or even detachment sized depending on model numbers, but I don't intend to make any of them especially big.


I've got no interest in the other traitor legions, or the Red Corsairs, or the Crimson Slaughter, or the.... and pretty much any original warbands I come up with would be incorporated into paint schemes for the above forces. I honestly don't have any interest in the Night Lords, but I've got that Captain/Champion model, so I may as well paint him a squad to go alongside - and probably a couple of raptors. But it'll be low on the priority scale.


Loyalist Armies:

Dark Angels Chapter (GW, DW, RW)
- I've got the core of a DA army already painted. I just need to rebase them, add some extra models to complete some squads, and then work out what to add.
Also, many models bought for DW and RW but unassembled/on sprue

Space Wolves Chapter
- I started a Long Fangs Squad long ago. I never finished them. I've also got lots of 2e metals and tons of mode recent plastics.

Mentor Legion
- My first 3e army. I need to print transfers and finish them, and then work out what to add.

Crimson Fists
- The eventual repository for a bunch of RT-era miniatures for a very RT-book feel. Plus some more modern extras with fists embossed on them.

Minotaurs
- Have been working on them a bit over the last year. I've got more resin bits to use, so I need to make more squads and paint.

Blood Angels Chapter } - Combined
Flesh Tearers }

Ultramarines Legion } - Combined
Ultramarines Chapter }
- Will include my original RT-era models and army, brought up to 2017/8 spec, and an attempt to un-feth the models I fethed up in my hubris about 10 years ago.

Grey Knights
Deathwatch
Black Templars

- That stuff is all pretty straightforward. I've got armies worth of the special snowflake models for all of the above, and so it's simply a matter of assembling, painting and in some cases, restoring and completing.


Detatchments:

Raven Guard Legion/Chapter Squads

Dark Angels Legion } - Combined
Fallen (Dark Angels) }
- I've got some RT-era models for this, that I've had earmarked as Fallen since the AoD codex in 2e, and just never gotten around to compelting. I'll supplement them with some HH models, probably the ones painted as DA Legion because that's what they'd look like...

Legion of the Damned
- I've got a squad or two of these guys painted. They need to be rebased, but I've also got lots of their specific models. Their rules are kinda a complete mess, though. Still, worth painting!


Squads:

Imperial Fist Squad(s)
- Will be added to the Crimson Fists as a painting variation.

Salamanders Legion/Chapter Squads
- No army, just a chance to paint some cool specific models. They might get bumped to small detachment based on the number of models.

Carcharodons
- Tyberos plus a squad or two. Mostly (all?) in MKV armour, because it fits them and looks very cool on them.

Astral Claws?
- Lufgt Huron model plus a squad or two. Again because they look cool.

Plan looks solid. Would definitely look amazing when they are all grouped together.

Speaking of Death Guard... you may wish to go check out the little YouTube video at the Warhammer Community page .

That's an impressive painting plan, dude!

Iron Warriors are looking fantastic man. Really great work

 Archer wrote:
Plan looks solid. Would definitely look amazing when they are all grouped together.

It'll take a few years at this rate, I reckon. On the other hand, I'm at least getting gak done lately. And there's enough solid variety there to keep me interested for quite awhile...

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Speaking of Death Guard... you may wish to go check out the little YouTube video at the Warhammer Community page .

Yeah, I just saw that. I'm really starting to hate the "new" GW. The one we had 2-4 years ago was much, much cheaper for me.

 Ian Sturrock wrote:
That's an impressive painting plan, dude!

It'll be impressive if I actually manage to start getting it done. Of course that doesn't count any of the other Imperium or Xenos forces, or the Fantasy/AoS ones, or the LotR, or the Historicals, or....

 Januine wrote:
Iron Warriors are looking fantastic man. Really great work

Thanks Jan. I'm going to get the Dread's base primed tomorrow so I can get to work on it, as well as a 10th for the Tactical squad who I've just built and another character model and the 2 vehicles I got back in the day. Nothing super-exciting, but I'll be happy to get the base of the force "completed". Then I can target another thing from the big list of Powered Armour above.

Following on from those dreadful greenskins, we have a pair of heroic dwarves. This time, another duo from the Stonehaven Miniatures Dwarf Kickstarter. These are the Dwarf Fighter (Female) and Dwarf Paladin (Male) – though let’s face it – either of the pair could fill either role.



As I’ve noted before, these aren’t the very best dwarf sculpts on the market, though they do fill in a nice alternative source of non-standard and RPG-ish dwarves with a solid old-school charm to them, along with enough character to endear them.



I’ve painted the pair of them with a touch of blue in their armour and similar enough blue cloth so that they can fit in with the Dwarves I’ve been painting for the KoW army. They also make a decent enough pair for any other RPG or adventure game. I kind of get a father-daughter vibe from the pair of them. The headstrong young dwarf woman and her grumpy old man father. Both quite adept in caving in the heads of greenskins.

Now I'm headed outside to spray some Iron Warriors Bits...

I really like those Dwarves! They would be very good for RPG purposes as they have plenty of character.

Also I'm jealous that you're able to go outside and spray prime right now. The weather where I'm at has warmed up nicely but for the last week or two there's been 15+ mph winds.

If you need any bits to make up some termies dude let me know and I may be able to help!

@ZS - Yeah, it gets really windy here quite often. I tend to prime and varnish n quick bursts when it briefly dies down when it's like that.

@nerdfest - thanks for the offer mate, but it seems it's Chaos Termies I'm short of, at least for the moment. I'll let you know if I'm short of loyalists at any point, though.

Another quite old model today – one of the 2-part Zoats for Warhammer Fantasy circa early 3rd Edition. There were at least three designs of the original Zoats – this one, the “Mage”. “The Warrior” with a mace-axe and also the original one-piece casting, which was a fair bit smaller. I’ve just read about the existence of a “Baby Zoat“, though I’m a little dubious, as the sculpt looks a little …modern? There are certainly more modern takes on the concept though, especially with the popularity of “Oldhammer”.



While the paint here is nothing special, this guy was actually painted back in the 1990’s, and I’ve learned enough by this time to know when to not strip down the models from my youth – especially when I’m sure I could find another on eBay if I want another go ’round. I don’t think it’s terrible – the drybrushing works on the rough, lizard-scaled skin, and I gave the more coarse scales on his back and flanks a slightly more pale/rough look. All I’ve done “today” was to tear him off the old green-flocked horse base and cut a slotta into a modern AoS-style cavalry base, and add some base clutter. I think it adds a huge amount to the presentation of this old model.



For anyone wondering “WTF is a Zoat?”, they were Bryan Ansell’s attempt to add some uniqueness to Warhammer, back in the early-ish days. Not a terrible motivation, especially given just how cribbed Warhammer is from everything else and how generic it was back in those days of 2nd and early 3rd edition. The story goes that the Design team of the day hated them and instead came up with the almost-as-ill-fated Fimir who were also lost and forgotten, but made a small, Forge World/Warhammer Forge comeback a few years ago. After all, what’s “Dark Fantasy” about a ripped, lizard-rhino-centaur sorcerer who looks he could tear the limbs off your torso without a second thought? Uh-huh.



Sure, the concept art looks a little goofy and weaksauce, but the models certainly don’t! It appears that the design team won out, and quite quickly as I cannot find the Fantasy Zoats listed in the old Catalogues at all, even the ’88 and ’89 catalogues list the Fimir, but no sign of the poor old Zoats! (Aside from the 40k ones.) Their genesis and demise is discussed briefly here as a side note to a discussion on Fimir. Worth a read.



I did at one point have the 40k Zoat models, which were tied in as larger Tyranid creatures and which recycled the same body piece as the fantasy models, though I thought they were fairly poor executions of the superior-looking fantasy versions, I do at this stage wish I hadn’t traded them away back in the mid-90’s. In fact, after writing the previous sentence, I took a moment to have a quick look, and in a couple of weeks now, I should have two of the three 40k models arriving in my lap. So that’s going to be a thing, then.

Absolutely love Zoats. Thanks for sharing yours.

Love the nostalgia kick and history lesson! Zoats I first discovered were the 40k variety whilst reading Ian Watson's 'Space marine' that pivotal Novel that firmly entrenched my mindset in this hobby and I still have a hope that the Zoat will make a return perhaps with the Genestealer cults?

That sculpt for its age is actually pretty good, details are clean and the musculature looks imposing, i'll be waiting for your next 'toys' to arrive.

Zoat is looking pretty great . Certainly one of the better paint jobs I've seen for this model.

Now that's what I call nostalgia

Reminds me of leafing endlessly through the WFB 3rd ed rulebook and Warhammer Armies dreaming of the day I could buy any model I wanted

Zoats - You don't get many of them to the pound!

The Zoat is very cool, I've not seen one of those for years!

Thanks guys! I'm also hopeful to see them brought back in some form or another. I've got plans to work out a card for WQ:ST for that very Zoat model. Eventually.



Dark Elf Assassins, WHFB 7th Edition Khainite Dark Elf Assassin #2, 4th Edition WHFB Dark Elf Assassin, 1995

The two models being shared today are a pair that have been around for some time. The older model on the right, skulking with the rather chunky sword is from WHFB 4th Edition, circa 1995 – just when huge chunks of WHFB were getting a bit too chunky and Morley. I never especially liked this model, having picked him up to use with my 3rd Edition Blood Bowl Dark Elf team (which I still haven’t painted) and so he sat in limbo for… you know… twenty years. (feth, I am getting old!)

The much nicer model on the left is from 7th Edition. Apparently known as Khainite Assassin #2. I probably got him secondhand from eBay as well, and Stuff of Legends becomes useless the further into the 2000’s you head. He’s pretty clearly the precursor to the current plastic kit of an Assassin (Shadowblade?) leaping off a spire-rock because dynamic posing.



Despite being purchased for Blood Bowl, this guy had actually gotten to the point of being almost-painted. I’d painted him with D&D/Pathfinder in mind, and so he had been given dark blue (Drow) skin, and deep red-browns for his leather gloves and boots. When he got reassigned to the Dark Elf army, I needed to redo the deep blue shading I’d started on his cloak with a more sea green, and change his leathergoods to Aqua/Turquoise shades – and obviously redo his face as well.



Nothing fancy on his cloak. He’s an assassin, after all – and his cloak is there for practical purposes. I think the Turquoise shades have worked better than the dark blues that were there originally, and having come up this pleasingly, I know of some other purposes I’ll be using the same highlights in the near-ish future. The flowers are a feature that I intend to use on figures from all of my Elven armies, which will be a small, unifying factor across the Dark, High and Wood brethren. Despite my snide remarks about Gary Morley, this model is actually an Aly Morrison sculpt.



The second model was started way back in 2013, shortly after we moved into this place and long before The War Room was converted into such, featuring a light box. A much more dynamic model, but without going to the point of ridiculousness, it was also a pleasure to paint – and the impetus for the repaint on the older model as well. I’m not 100% sure of the sculptor (Chris Fitzpatrick?), since GW stopped crediting their artists by this point. If anyone knows for sure, please do LMK and I’ll edit it in! Since he’s a 7th Edition figure, and GW released most of the models for an army alongside the Warhammer Armies volume, I’d say he’s pretty safely a 2008 release.



Having said that, the two of them sat on my painting desk for literally years until earlier this month, when I looked at the pair of them, each three-quarters-painted and made myself pull my finger out and get them both done. Which I managed to do in a very reasonable amount of time. That’s the trouble – I’m not playing Warhammer or KoW, etc very much at all these days, and so then my desk is covered in models – none of which have a particular pressing “need” to get finished and so I flit between a few minutes on this or that, and taking the 30 minutes or hour to finish a particular model or two becomes “too hard”, despite the pleasure that comes from completing a model.



Most of my Fantasy work over 2016 was focused on the Undead and Gondor armies – both of which now have tons of painted models and units, yet have tons still unpainted and unassembled – and two units of cavalry each half-painted). This year, I’ve made inroads on getting a Dwarf force to the point of functionality while mucking about with Orcs. I’ve got to get some lists written up again and focus on completing units to have more “finished” fantasy armies for Kings of War. Maybe then I can have the Elves up and running, even if only as a combined, pan-Elven force to start with.

In the meantime, if we need a Druchii or Drow Assassin for anything, at least we’re covered…

KoW maybe isn't the best game to aim for to begin with due to the huge model count.....Maybe try for Dragon Rampant or something then move up to KoW?

You can play KoW without as many models, though. When my son and I play, we generally use standard size movement trays but put only half as many minis on each. If you take one wound, you replace a mini with a casualty (or lie him down if you don't have a casualty mini).

Our main reason for the tweak is practicality -- most of our minis are on round bases for aesthetic reasons, and you can't fit the full amount on a standard size KoW movement tray...

I actually like the older assassin slightly better than the new, though I agree that his sword doesn't look very subtle.

Awesome cloak highlighting.

Huh. I don't recognize either of those models. The various blues work very well-- much more interesting to look at than the standard blacks/greys.

 Llamahead wrote:
KoW maybe isn't the best game to aim for to begin with due to the huge model count.....Maybe try for Dragon Rampant or something then move up to KoW?

I've got a Pan-Elven army built (and tons more models unbuilt/not started), they're just not especially finished. A lot is 3/4 painted, some is completed, some is undercoated black and blu-taced to movement trays. As I complete more Wood/Dark/High Elf models, I'll slowly move towards splitting them into three distinct armies.

These are the "big" armies I've got built and painted so far, though these pics are 9 months out of date. More pics if you click the pics.





Like Ian, I have my models based on round 25mm bases, though I just fit 12 onto a normal movement tray, which is legit as far as the official rules go anyway, and besides, I'm not playing in any tourneys! I just use a D10/12/20 to keep track of wounds.

I'm probably going to do a lot more on 40k models in the coming months - as well as finishing off various models on the desk - so there won't be a lot more in terms of Elves for a little while. Maybe I'll finally finish off those Swordmasters and Halberdiers Units, though...

Nice work on everything. You sure do seem to get through a lot of stuff between the times I drop in.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice work on everything. You sure do seem to get through a lot of stuff between the times I drop in.

EDC

I suspect he may be a painting robot sent back from the far future

Wow. That's quite the army you got there, Azazel

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice work on everything. You sure do seem to get through a lot of stuff between the times I drop in.
EDC

Thanks mate - I had a really productive January (off work), so between that and painting new stuff (and making myself finish things!) I've worked up a decent little backlog of stuff to show off.

 Slinky wrote:

I suspect he may be a painting robot sent back from the far future

That's a much nicer way of putting it than saying I have no life(!)

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Wow. That's quite the army you got there, Azazel

Cheers mate. Now I need to get them onto the table more now - and do something like that to some of my 40k forces.

Speaking of my 40k forces, can you say 2nd Edition with me? Can you say 1990’s? Can you say mining old blog posts for recycled content? *cough* Well, as I noted above, I’ve actually still got plenty of new stuff ready to show after I pull the photos from the camera, and go through the resize-and-crop process, but I was looking at the Detolf I have in the room where I do my painting and spotted this guy – and realised that the last (and only) time I showed this figure was on the Wordpress blog 7 years ago, when I made a total of 9 posts and had fewer viewers for the year than I have in 2 weeks today. That was also a solid three years before I started this Plog - So… not many people will have seen this one, comparatively.



This fine fellow is (was) a Slaaneshi/Emperor’s Children Champion. Converted many years ago for me by Dave M. The base is a Kharn the Betrayer body, with a 2nd-gen Daemonette claw (the only thing that range of Daemonettes were good for, in my opinion), a head from same and a RT-era Chaos Terminator weapon arm – the original Chaos Autocannon – which looked similar enough to one of the 2nd-Gen Sonic Blasters once the chaos skull shoulder pad was glued onto the base of it – from back when such things could be taken by Slaaneshi Champions. Backpack is from the metal Ahriman of the day.

In current terms, he’d probably be a Chaos Lord, Mark of Slaanesh, Shriekwave or Bolts of Ecstatic Vexation to represent the Sonic Blaster, Power Fist or Lighting Claw for the crab claw… I imagine it’d probably be a terribly inefficient combination, but all I can say to that is Second Edition, Rule of Cool, and Who Cares? 8th Is Almost Upon Us Anyway.



Painted in 2009, when I’d just gotten back into painting miniatures after a bit of a hiatus, these photographs were actually taken back in 2010. The only additon since then being a tuft of grass and a tuft of flowers – things not easily accessible back in the day. I certainly didn’t have any, anyway!



Looking back at this figure now, I feel like I might have overdone the pastel colours – I’d skip the baby blue and the pale green tassels. By the same token, I’m happy enough with the paintwork on this figure and… I guess respect it enough to feel no need at all to back in and touch it up. I actually added Prince’s “Love Symbol” as the shoulder badge, though it can’t be seen here. I thought it looked quite cool and felt the Androgynous nature of the symbol to be appropriate for this particular champion of Slaanesh. I’ll take a pic later and add it in (it’s 7am and rainy here atm!)

Anyway – I hope you enjoyed this blast from my past!

He sort of looks like he has tortured and killed a bunch of My Little Ponies, and cut bits off them for trophies. I approve.