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Life in the middle ages: Nasty, brutal, and short.



Nice report, did you have fun playing the game?

lol Go Zinfandel. Sounds like a fun time was had.

and congratulations on page 200!

hmm that seemed to take longer than the first hundred. Yeah I had fun playing the game and so did the GM who was utterly heartless in singling out weak heros. If I'd been playing on my own I'd have been tempted to re-roll.

Next up on my painting list is a batch of 15 skeletons (some of them really old). Should give us some fodder for an undead crypt mission.

200 pages!!!! damn that went by fast! :-) well done weets, here's to another 200.

Great looking old-skool guys there Particulary like the goblins, although I'm very fond of that chaos champ sculpt.

Sounds like you're having a great time with Heroquest - actually using your minis, who'd a thunk it?

Grats on 200! Need a massive old-skool colour-fest to celebrate.......

I have got to get some better lights, its hard getting clear pics especially this time of year when the sun is no help. Anyway skeletons! Really old ones. They needed a lot of rescuing as they were all broken. If anyone has any broken 1980s plastic skeltons in need of a rescue then I will accept them in trade.



Next up some metal ones:

Nice work on the skeletons.

I can see the one on the right saying "why do I get the scythe, I wanted one of those shields"

Yeah I've been scrounging those coffin shields especially so I could have a regiments worth. They are so perfectly morbid. I might have a go at painting a thorny rose on the next one (if there is a next, better pop over to ebay and see if I won more skeletons).


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Damn, outbidded at the last minute! I must struggle on in life without more skeletons.

Skellies are great, nice work on the shields!

Word up dakkanaughts.

'Member this?



And this?



Going to be a skelington horde.

Also this



And finally my favourite topic of the day "what can I do with a box of militia to pass the time"



My beautiful gang of villianous cutthroats. Ragged vagabonds, brigands, highwaymen and outlaws takes shape

If only I had more militia, nothing left but arms and heads now. Hmmm maybe should learn to make torsos and legs from putty. Hmmmmm.

Oh lordy... I remember those skellybobs... ack, the feeling of being old has set in again. Thanks Wheets...

I remember those Skeletons, they made up the bulk of my first Fantasy army. Very fond memories indeed that army got me to Games Day and won me a trophy.

I remember building a small horde of skellies, then later on going back and ripping most of their heads off because I needed skulls for various things

I’ve got a block or two of those skellies lined up on the undead shelf. Spindly buggers, but they were what we had to work with at the time.

Good memories, nice to see someone else using them! You have any of the chariots from that era?

Nice work, Weety. Liking the outlaws.

Look forward to more skeleton action.

Two hundred pages. This is going to take some clicking to get up to date from my last read

Haha I knew that would get nostalgia flowing amongst the elders. Yes they made them skinnier back then, but they are very good for something from the 80s. One of the first proper multipart kits. I think I actually prefer them skinny, they look more like they could actually fit inside my human models.

I'd love to find one of those really old chariots Nevelon. Its hard to tell as they look very much like the newer ones. Anyway I don't really have the space to start collecting chariots! Priorities and real life...

Linsay40k I'm glad you think its worth it. To be honest the first 100 pages are old hat now. You can always look in 'blog view' don't forget and it will compress it to like 5 pages

Old school Marines, cool!

Yes, somewhere in the first half of this 200 page blog there were old school marines, although it feels like a lifetime ago. Glad you liked them!

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Haha I knew that would get nostalgia flowing amongst the elders. Yes they made them skinnier back then, but they are very good for something from the 80s. One of the first proper multipart kits. I think I actually prefer them skinny, they look more like they could actually fit inside my human models.

I'd love to find one of those really old chariots Nevelon. Its hard to tell as they look very much like the newer ones. Anyway I don't really have the space to start collecting chariots! Priorities and real life...

Linsay40k I'm glad you think its worth it. To be honest the first 100 pages are old hat now. You can always look in 'blog view' don't forget and it will compress it to like 5 pages

I was thinking about the old, flat ribcage ones, not the “newer” ones. Should be reasonably east to tell the difference No idea when they stopped making them. I think the old skeletons were phased out at the end of 5th, with the breakup of the old “Undead” army into the TK and VC halves. I just remember that we undead players were lucky to have more then just one unit option available in plastic. Toss in a few characters, and you could go far with horsemen, foot troops, and chariots.

Yes no other army had that level of plastic. I remember seeing an army of them on display in the local toy store that the owner had made a diorama from, with paper mache towers, lichen for bushes and the whole gothic thing going on. Despite what I said I am bidding on a couple of these old chariots now! Who can resist skeletons.

Great stuff, Weety!

The militia box is loads of fun. You make such characterful ruffians with them. Of all of GW's sets, the militia box most reminds me of the innocent inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork.

I would wax poetic about the skellies too but then, someone would guess that I'm an elder.

Always been amused by the tails on those skeletal horses as horse tails are made of hair but excellent models none the less.

 Llamahead wrote:
Always been amused by the tails on those skeletal horses as horse tails are made of hair but excellent models none the less.

I think horses actually do have bones inside their tails. Perhaps not as long a skeleton-tail as GW models, but they have 'em.

Love the old undead models. Especially the metal ones from the 90's so keep them coming weetsky.

No problem Zywus there are more!

I agree on the tail having felt one back in my pony trekking days. There is a short section of tail bone that allows the horse to move its tail up out the way when it erm... unloads its horse apples. Apart from that GW tail bones are way to long as lamahead says, mostly hair!

Hey JB I suppose when they are in town to fence their stolen goods they would be most at home in the Shades. That's why they all have cloaks, so they can conceal their weapons getting past the night watch. Funnily enough I did think about the shades when making these.

So 200 pages aye?! I suppose I ought to do some kinda retrospective. So it was like 2010 and I'd started to have odd dreams about miniature people. Suddenly I decided that I should like to see a citadel miniature again. Thinking back to my dad's advanced heroquest games and stuff I saw at the toy shop etc and I thought, "why the hell not, why let gender stereotypes stop you" So I went over to ebay where I had been successfully selling books (buy em for 25p, read em and sell em for 99p, kinda like a library that scores you a profit, but you have to read fast or someone will buy it) and purchased this little fella, the first mini I could call my own.

I suppose I bought him because of how old and rare he is. Its always been a consideration when I'm buying models. I like to get ones with potential for resale just in case I suddenly need money. That's been less of a worry recently, but maybe as a retirement fund it has more potential than the prudential!

I don't know why I called the blog The Quest for Pefection. I wasn't a great painter when I started, but its been apt. I don't think I ever intended to be a pro at it, but it just has so many advantages on being a pro-potter! No kiln or clay required! Anyway this model I think marks a point when I really nailed it:


The final turing point I would like to mark is represented by this model from the 80s. The point where I realised that I love fantasy best and that Non-metallic metal isn't really that hard:



And I suppose my first commission pieces are pretty important! Thanks Gitsplitta! Not the best work I ever did but then they are only supposed to be tabletop standard level.



Anyway my quest for perfection continues. Many many painters can still claim to be better at this than me and I will not rest until they lie broken and defeated before me! MWwAHAHAHAHa!! Actually I probably will rest and other painters may continue to be better than me unmolested. But still I'm not done yet.

Well I for one have enjoyed the journey this far, but do expect greatness in the coming years...

Talking Old Skool though - if you haven't already, you should check this blog - lot's of inspiration and downright nostalgia to OD on..

http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/

This article in particular is jaw dropingly awesome - a tour of Bryan Ansells miniature cabinets on an 'Oldhammer Weekend' (these cabinets are anything but miniature though...)
http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/oldhammer-weekend-2014-bryan-ansells.html

Amazing to see those models close up again. Just points out the terrific skills you have.

EPIC website Ruglud, thanks! That'll give me something to drool over later! I bet he has more oldhammer than me as well.

Cheers gitsplitta I will gracefully accept that compliment. I will admit to having a steady hand and microscopes for eyes (my optician is worried about my long range eyesight, but who needs it).

I'd better get back to real life, we are watching Jaws.

Happy 200th birthday young lady!

Young! Lol. Only really old people think I'm young. But thanks graven.

A bit of eye candy for your appreciation. The advanced heroquest guy scrubs up well, incidentally I loved what monkeytroll did to this chap recently, turning him into a chaos champion! And there's a nice bit of freehand on the militia guys shield I came up with after poring over the heraldry guide.



I'm having the urge to get some townsfolk/villagers for my amusement. Reaper bones look do-able. Need more though.