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Thanks for your comments JB. I used to find it too easy to slip into just painting everything red myself. but its my favorite color. I have forced myself to be adventurous with colour and thats part of why I'm trying to paint slaneesh chaos at the mo as its such a bizzarely colourful army. There has been a lack of painting recently and I put that down to it being brass monkeys cold in my flat - I spend my evenings huddled in a duvet. Time to get the heating fixed - I do this every year I swear. But I got 2 chaos marines pinned, glued and undercoated this morning and I have two old-school traitor renegade marines and a possessed marine conversion arriving soon

Wow! Those are some classic pages! My first issue was way up at 136. It changed my whole attitude about role-playing and minis.

weetyskemian44 wrote:Thanks for your comments JB. I used to find it too easy to slip into just painting everything red myself. but its my favorite color. I have forced myself to be adventurous with colour and thats part of why I'm trying to paint slaneesh chaos at the mo as its such a bizzarely colourful army. There has been a lack of painting recently and I put that down to it being brass monkeys cold in my flat - I spend my evenings huddled in a duvet. Time to get the heating fixed - I do this every year I swear. But I got 2 chaos marines pinned, glued and undercoated this morning and I have two old-school traitor renegade marines and a possessed marine conversion arriving soon

It's getting colder here too but not like you have it over there.

I've never painted any chaos marines. Back when Rogue Trader and Marauder Minis were the norm, my friends and I divided the various army types. I got Orcs and Orks so that's why I have a lot of those old minis. The chap that got Chaos...hmm...I don't think he finished many and he doesn't collect them now either. I think I have one old Chaos marine with a plasma gun lurking about but he's not painted. I don't think he has a backpack either. He's probably a 1990s figure. I looked him up on Stuff of Legends but I don't think he was on there. A variant like him was there though. Perhaps GW had variant heads. They did that on models back then.

I finally did something. However I think he makes the other one look tasteful and restrained. also he doesn't appear to be completely dry looking at this photo




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the chaos warband - a small but growing group of cultists and ancient heretic marines who follow the teachings of slaneesh and take pleasure in pain and enjoy the sufferings of others. they are a bit kinky too.

Subtle

subtle?
speaking of subtlety, here is my alternative background I've been wanting to get out

and this came in the post - someone made it out of a metal space marine and some gubbins. I will see about making it my own before painting though - maybe I will do some GS on his armour.

Nice exploding volcano background And I notice that this time you didn't need to resort to the Chuck pics to avoid auto-append .

they are a motly looking crew. certainly not wall flowers! the mini at the far left looks very old , is he beastman or hybrid?

He is a mutant Iron Claw space pirate! http://www.solegends.com/ironclaw/ic301spacepirates.htm
His name is ooglorg the cruel. I've go a few others of these guys - they are pretty bog standard sculpts but full of individuality.

arhh thought i recognised that style iam sure the same sculpter did the genestealer primach and some of the hybrids
i used to have on of those space pirates , painted him all gold lol even his gun, your right about quality and character though , i think every model in your collection was an individual back then , i suppose thats one of the reasons the plastic conversion kits are so popular. everybody wants to be unique , nice tidy little warband you have there!

I have the two guys next to him and the guy with the shotgun in the row above. I will paint them one day!

anyway - I did another ganger/cultist. he could do with some tattoos maybe

straight out of madmax beyond the thunderdrome! Mel gibson would be proud , to tie him to the back of his interceptor i am sure.

You have the most incredible collection of classic Rogue Trader minis ever! This is a glorious restoration and return to the spotlight!

Latest ganger sweet as always. I agree that bare shoulder seems to be crying out for a tattoo

Thankyou Ambull!! I'm glad your enthusiastic about it. I shall bring back the old school.
So to start I've got another necromunda cultist dude - note the tiny slaneesh symbol. He has a pink rubber trenchcoat - which is the best look this season for slaneesh cultists


Then there is that standard bearer I converted with the GS. I wouldnt mind feedback on what kinda flag I should do - any links or anything to flags you have liked. The regiment is meant to be some kinda martian tech-guard unit - they are going to have some servitors and techpriests soon


These guys are an Iron claw pirate and a mercenary who I think might be a counterfeit as the slotta is completly blank

I like the pink coat a lot, in general I always thought the Necromunda stuff really cold have gone places, now that the early 90s seem like an eternity ago it makes me ache for that short-lived cyberpunk style.

I love a bit of cyberpunk. necromunda is on my list of thinks to obsessively collect - but they sure are pricey these days. Got the rest of the metal goliaths arriving soon. do some conversions maybs.

Heres the chainsaw warrior dude with his reaper cannon. he is a member of my mercenary troop


These are the mercenaries. They will fight for creds.

This force is unstoppable! I LOVE the variety of colors, that is the key here to making the whole very dynamic.

thanks
I decided that as mercenaries they would have picked up armour here and there with different shapes and color schemes, and probably decorated their own - but I'm trying to throw a few reacuring themes in such as go faster stripes and stars (which incidently gives them a slightly confederate/rebel/biker pirate look). I'm not sure about the guy at the back who looks a bit like a cop - think I might strip him and give him more of a biker feel

Gotta love a man wearing a pink rubber trenchcoat and wielding a shotgun Nice symbol on the coat, and excellent freehand details on those mercs too, really brings them to life. I'll do some thinking on the flag.

These are the latest squats from ebay. A peg-legged biker pirate with a laser-axe, converted plasma pistol and nose ring helmet. A dude in a leather hood with a bolt-axe and a lascannon gunner with a smug grin. - might be able to paint them all tonight - just need to build up the momentum to put down the laptop and pick up the brush

Nice acquisitions there weety, looks like the pirate has looted his helmet from a bloodaxe ork

Although it's sickening that you plan to paint 3 mini's (even if they're short-a$$ ones) in one evening. What happened to good ol' sloth? Well, look forward to seeing them later/tomorrow depending on my connection.

ooh like the look of that biker squat

good luck with the painting,

I like that one legged squat! And I've never seen him before...must be fairly rare!

Incidentally...you shouldn't have given me that link! I can see a whole in my wallet about to be created.

yeah I reckon he is rare - but I got him for 99p due to him being covered in a thick layer of paint and having a heavy bolter stuck to his shoulder - he just didnt look right - looks ok now he has a more appropriate weapon.

I've decide to paint 6 squats at once instead of three so I might not be finished till this evening or tommorow morning
thanks for all your nice comments! the biker squat is blushing, he is not very good with compliments...

Absolute bargain!
Now what's all this rubbish about twice as many figures taking twice as long? Inconceivable!

well I got 'sleepy' and had to lie down so I didn't get very far. I think if I had something resembling drive and ambition I could paint 6 in a night! I don't believe in it though. Might do something today - might not...

Jive and rehabilitation - they kind of resemble drive and ambition, well, if you squint a bit..through a mirror..in a darkened room.

I like to think I could get a figure done in six nights - don't believe it's true, but like to think it anyway

But you do need to find a little of that drive and ambition to sort your studio out, have you tried looking behind the sofa, stuff always accumulates there.

Yes - I've been thinking just that; Not much point paying for a studio if i cant even speed paint six tiny squats - But in fact I have nearly finished.
I dont have a sofa I have a sofa bed - I will try looking under it. In fact I know whats down there - glaze chemicals, clay tools and a 5 kilo block of well wrapped clay!
so its all good, I just need to convince people with money that they want to own my sculpture/garden ornaments.

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