The Brave's madness: oldhammer, kitbash, toys and conversions

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**Wirecat**

Masterpieces! They both need a noserub in a good sense!

**Camkierhi**

Love them, excellent work all round, but last 2 are cool.

**The Brave**

I raided the bits box to add some men to this old band of elves.
Some are good elves, some are evil, I don't care, they all wear red now.

**gobert**

Elves is Elves! They look great theBrave, the common colours work well to bring them together as a single unit

**The Brave**

Apparently sculpting faces is hard.

**The Brave**

In the end I went this way.

**Camkierhi**

Good solid work.

**The Brave**

More kitbash.

**gobert**

Cool BattleMasters conversions, really effective in making them Unique

**The Brave**

I saw a lot of tutorials on the argument, so I wanted to try.

I have one of those free stormcaster and a discounted set of 3 metallic sharpies, so let's try.

The only thing I conceded was a black undercoat and some touches of black where I slipped.

First of all, the silver was dry out of the box. Now I know why the pack was on a discount.

The results are meh, but consider this: no glue, no paint (except the black undercoat), it took 20 minutes and it is tournament legal.

Food for thoughts.

**gobert**

That’s pretty impressive results for a few pens and 20mins! Could be an option for freehand projects I suppose?

**The Brave**

From ork to orc, 40k years of evolution gone in an instant.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Good job on that old bugger. Wow those 2nd edition starter models were bad, just terrible, much worse than the RT models they replaced.

**The Brave**

Squig & Squig.

Incorporated.

**The Brave**

Squig & Squig.

Incorporated.

**Camkierhi**

Merry Christmas bud

**The Brave**

Thanks

**The Brave**

Here we go with another project, because I have not yet enough.
I want to make a mordheim Kurgan (marauders of chaos) warband.
But only with old models. I'm looking for old Talisman or heroquest-like models. Possibly without breaking the bank.
Do you know other barbarian-looking monopose models from the 90s?

**The Brave**

Yes, I'm still alive.

I'm also in a very old school mood lately, so I bought some very old models and here the first test for a small band of humans.

**Eilif**

Nice halberdier! Battlemasters?

As for monopose Barbarians with a similar aesthetic and size to 90s GW, the best option is probably Fantasy Armies barbarians. I think they were sculpted by Mark Copplestone in the early 90s and they are carried today by Merliton and EM4. A nice deep range with all manner of weapons options, leaders, shaman and even mounted options. Very affordable too.

**The Brave**

Yes, battlemaster, with a couple of modifications.
Thanks for the tips.

**Eilif**

The Brave wrote:
Yes, battlemaster, with a couple of modifications.
Thanks for the tips.

You're very welcome. Where is the shield emblem from? It's a great addition.

I used WHFB shield emblems to improve the shields on the Battlemasters figures I used as the core of my Chaos army.

Chaos warriors and knights got emblems from the Skeletons set and the Beastmen shields got Skaven emblems.

**The Brave**

Not sure about the emblem, it was in the bit box. Someone suggested it maybe be from a Black Templars kit.

**gobert**

Those old BattleMasters minis hold up well I think, the Black Templar icon on his shield is a great idea. Good luck sourcing some more barbarians. I’ve bought stuff from em4, they were really fast and very well priced!

**The Brave**

I made this band last summer, but I never took decent photos of it.

These photos are not decent, but at least they are new.

The miniatures are a mix of GW and Kings of War stuff (I think) and they should both work as Cult of the Possessed and Carnival of Chaos bands for Mordheim.

Even if they are very Slaaneshy.

The paintjob is nothing spectacular, but I'm particularly happy of the 2 demon clowns.

**Llamahead**

Great stuff really nicely painted I personally prefer this more detailed realistic style to a lot of what you've done

**The Brave**

Another band is done.
More pictures at https://www.instagram.com/p/CqN_NxstMyE/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

**The Brave**

Battle. Master chaos archer.
Not bad, but he's missing something.

**gobert**

Loving the Chaos and Empire bands, cool bunch of minis nicely painted. The BattleMasters archer is fantastic too, I see on the Empire lads you modelled the bow string and an arrow too, fine work!

**The Brave**

I added the string in this guy too.
And I also painted this awesome guy.