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These are beautiful overall. You've achieved pretty positive grimy look with the old sculpts, and natural schemes makes them justice. Great!

Thanks TurskanPerkeet - I enjoy your work also.

Hengis the druid. I also have one of his giants. The one holding the tree. Its going to take a while to strip and assemble though. I was going for the getafix look with this paintjob.



This is Vangart Soulspiller, chaos champion 1987 I think.

Chaos Champeen! He looks awesome, I really like the subtle, muted colors. Looks a hell of a lot better than 1987 painting standards.

I've just noticed that the camera has focused on the background not the mini! Damn camera. But its only a teensie bit blurry so t'hell with it. I'm glad you like it! It was fun to paint.

The WH Quest Dwarf is one of my favorite GW models ever, you definitely do it justice

You for sure have brought the character out of this old school figures. Great job

Hi thanks for commenting.

Back to sci-fi momentarily.

This is a 'mutant psychic scrunt' by veteran sculptor Bob Olley. I'm pretty sure he still sells these from his garden shed (mail order). Go to http://www.olleysarmies.co.uk for details.

Bob olley used to do the "Iron claw" range for GW back in the 80s.

This ones more recent and to get round copyright he calls it a scrunt. It not a squat, oh no.

The model appears to be drinking from a diseased hairless cat. Reminds me of that scene in Dune.

Bob's Scrunt ranges are great, I'm just disappointed that he discontinued the cowboy ones :(

Yes the cowboy ones were my fav too. they sometimes crop up on ebay.

I'll have to keep my eye out

A copplestone militia man. More to come, I picked up 7 of these for 99p each.

Great looking models, love your panting style.

Thankyou!

Here's some more copplestone.



I wonder what this guys story is - he looks like he has been through the wars since he got up and dressed for work. I wonder if he has something vitally important in that briefcase or is it just his lunch.



Grizzled biker dude. The tattoo was painted on and the defined with a micron pen.

Man, I never thought those UGLY old school models could look good...but your painting is absoultely phenominal! I only started playing 40k about two years ago, so I'm "spoiled" with the new, fancy plastic kits.
I do own a few 2nd-4th ed. metal Marine models (most of which I absolutely hate because I just can't make them look good). Paint them for me? Please?!

Seriously, though...you've got some real talent. My hat is off to you, sir!

I hope his suitcase carries his shirt. Biker dude looks simply awesome!

^ There's also a sewing kit in there to repair his pants ^

I love those post-apocalyptic figures, Weets.

spectreoneone is that a serious request? I'm guessing not, but I would like to make it clear that I will consider commissions now that I'm running out of thinks to paint. I don't know if I have the equipment for anything large but If you want a model or a small squad painted up nice I will do it for low low prices. I don't know if I'm good enough yet.

moltar, squatkid and valhalla, glad you like them. Maybe mr shirtless had to travel trough time but he could only take things in a briefcase and go naked like in terminator - then when he gets there he realises he forgot to pack a shirt?



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Another dark elf - this time from citadel in the 1980s. I don't like citadels 80s dark elves, they look slightly squashed and their crossbows are very badly sculpted. But I did my best to drag him up a notch.

That's my problem with old Citadel miniatures. They all look squished. That was because of the way they made their molds, but once I see the plane through which the mold lay, I can't unsee it. I have an Imperial Fists sergeant holding a bolt pistol to his right, that jsut looks flat, even with the backpack on.

This one is a bit more rounded. I think I went OTT with the blood maybe.

Damn this is some impressive work. Normally I don't care for the old RT minis, but most of what you posted have more character than I remember lol. Keep it up, I'll be watching for sure.

Man those 80's dark elves! Memories! They were terrible and I totally remember hating their crossbows. You have made them look far more impressive than I remember them being, though!

The marauder ones were way better! They were 90s models though - I think sculptors had got their act together by the 90s.


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I love a good crossbow and it is a total shame that they made them so wonky.

the Marauder beastmen were great. I bought a box of them when I was in high school and painted them up. The box came without the unit champions weapon (or the hands which were attached to the weapon) so I made a set of hands out of poster tac, but a coat of glue on them to harden it up, then added a "solid steel mace" made out of a steel-painted toothpick for a weapon.

Sadly, the paint jobs are horrible. They're on my list to strip, though.

Do it! Seriously it will be fun to give your old models a modern paintjob, and get that guy some arms.

I find bringing an old model to life makes me feel good. Its like restoring an old antique.

I felt pretty awesome painting that space skeleton model.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
spectreoneone is that a serious request? I'm guessing not, but I would like to make it clear that I will consider commissions now that I'm running out of thinks to paint. I don't know if I have the equipment for anything large but If you want a model or a small squad painted up nice I will do it for low low prices. I don't know if I'm good enough yet.

It was in jest, and thank you kindly for the offer, but I feel guilty about others painting my models, as I want my models to be a reflection of my skill (which is why I stripped down half of my Tau army when my skill started improving). I have a friend who hates basing his models, so he offered to edge and highlight some of my models in trade for my (supposedly) good basing skills. He's done great work, but I feel sort of cheap for letting him work on them, because I know that I didn't make them look really awesome. All of that aside, I am just so utterly impressed as to how you make these models look awesome. I'm so used to seeing the old pictures of these models done up in loud, obnoxious colors that rarely mirror realism, that your work just has me blown away.

As a side note, you could definitely make some good money doing commission with work on this level. Again, awesome models!

Thanks for getting back to me! It looks like I have a commission anyway now.

I keep doing that - when I get better at painting I have the urge to strip everything that doesn't measure up and start again!


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The last dark elf - I think I am fed up with dark elves now for a while.

Regardless of how you feel about the model, you are making those dark elves look mighty good.