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 Leviathus wrote:
Looking very good Azazelx!

Can't shake the feeling though that the warscythes are a bit too big, especially the wooden shaft. *shrug* the rest of the models look fine!

They are super-chunky. That's true. A bit more than I'd expected when I ordered them. It might be why they're being sold as "Warscythes" rather than "Scythes"?

Thanks for the kind offer Damo, but I've got plans for them. I'll be moving into a doghouse from Bunnings and letting the figure storage take over another room of the house - sorted!


More seriously, I'm up to 311 figures for this year, making it my most productive year yet!

Celtos weapons are absurd. I love 'em. Those scythers look very cool.

Thanks, mate!

As part of my "Clearing the Painting Desk" push that I've been on for the past few months, I'm also including "Renovations" as valid. Turning old models that have been sitting unused in cases for years into models that I'm once again happy enough with to display or game with is something that really feels worthwhile. Sometimes it just takes a rebasing, other times it also requires touching up, and other times it requires a significant repaint of parts of the model.



These two date from at least 1988, as they were both part of those waves of models released in conjunction with Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, the tome dealing with Khorne and Slaanesh. Both were originally released simply as Beastmen, but they're clearly a cut above most of their compatriots from those releases in terms of fancy-pants gear, and so I've always considered them to be Beastman Champions of their respective deities.

I originally painted both of these two many years ago, and aside from the rebasing (the Khornate champion receiving a new 32mm base due to his size), both also needed some repainting.



The Khornate beastman, a Kev Adams sculpt from memory had a few pieces of gear that were originally painted green (because contrast) were redone in cadmium red, the webbed ruff was reddened, the (badly sculpted) shoulder spikes were redone in black from their original "aged horn" look and the armour and metal parts were redone, with a bit more done to highlight and shade. Painting in the gems across his crown was the final bit of updating.

I never liked this Khornate sculpt, but the rebasing and removal of the garish greens have turned my opinion a little. It feels like a solidly ok figure now. Still nothing great, but decent.

The Slaaneshi beastman, which I believe is a Jes Goodwin model had much more of a repaint. Back in the day I thought that "Slaanesh" meant "lots of garish colours" apparently. The leather legging (originally a pale, bright blue) was repainted to match the corset. The grinning face shoulder pad was originally pink, and repainted a dark gold/brass to match the sword's furniture and foot guard on the legging - which also features a grinning face. The leather straps were changed from a deep blue to a Deep Purple(!) to better match the tone of the figure set by the corset and legging, and the bag - which was originally a horrid garish yellow was also turned into a Deep Purple. The studs on the leather strapping and legging were also changed to a pale, pastel yellow to match those originally on the corset. I deepened and highlighted the yellow-green of his fishy head-crest to define it a little more, and highlighted his pale skin further, though it's a little washed out in the images here. The sword was originally a deep, dirty metallic blue, which I turned into a brighter metallic green. As with the Khornate, the brass was highlighted a little. The red crab-claw remains untouched, as does the pink panel on his right breast. I'd have repainted that one, but I decided to leave the freehand Slaaneshi rune untouched.

A fair bit more work, but it's turned this figure from what I've always thought of as a "trash model" into something I really quite like.

These guys will eventually be included in armies for Kings of War, but exactly which armies remains to be seen. My Beastmen (Herd) army will be much more of a "Bestigor"-type army, while these two (and many of the others that are part of my renovations of my older models) are deeply Realm of Chaos-style Beastmen rather than the more feral Bestigor-style.

Oh, wow. I remember the Slaangor, but I don't think I've ever seen that Khangor (Khornegor?) Every once in a while I think I should go back and revisit those old Chaos minis. Maybe I will once I get through my current batch. Thanks for sharing!

I like it, very nostalgic for me. Both Gors remind me of reading WD 135 as a kid. It was the first issue I ever read and there was a great article about a heavily converted Chaos warband with lots of beastmen conversions. Of course all the minis were metal so there was a lot of sawing, pinning and green stuffing which was very inspiring and intimidating to me. It's really nice to see you work through your catalog of minis you've got a lot of iconic minis and you paint them up well. It's a bit embarrassing how often this thread makes wish I could look through your collection and see what I can find since it seems like you've got one of everything stashed away. Keep up the good work.

Congrats on such a productive painting year. Must be a good feeling getting through the back log. Also with still 4 months to go you should be able to knock out 400?

I love those old beastmen, they were so wacky. Well done on the refurb. You are one of the most productive dakkites I follow, always something new (or old-new) to look at.

Thanks guys!

I'd love to see what you've got tucked away, Josh!

Thanks Prestor. I admit that I've got a hell of a lot of old, cool stuff unpainted, since I spent pretty much all my pocket money on collecting models back then from the ranges I found interesting. In the last couple of years, I've spent a bit of time chasing down figures I never had back then, so it just adds to the pile of old lead. I just need to get those suckers painted!

That's my hope, Archer. I'm aiming for the magical 365, then the following push will be towards 400.

Thanks Weety - your own blog of old, cool stuff is one of the things that helps motivate me to get my own stuff done.

Nice beastmen there Azazel. The Slaanesh one in particular looks freaky (as is customary with the Dark Prince)

I have a bit of a Beastmen thing going at the moment now I know where Warhammer Fantasy is going, so I will be integrating some of my Bones II minis into the herd as Gors, Un-gors, and Bestigors. This should save me a pretty penny or two and give the herd a bit more of a Chaosy vibe.

Oh wow indeed, the Slaaneshi champion in particular looks good without going over the top.

Thanks guys - I've finished renovating some more old Beastmen which I'll be showing off soon (and a few more to go as well). At some stage I might even start some more from scratch.

Anyway - another set of questions for the people who follow this blog - suggestions on what to do with these two?



My Blood Bowl team's colours have variously been Red with Black and Yellow, and also Red with Black and Gold/Brass. I don't mind the look that the yellow has when shaded down with orange and up with pale yellow. But.. I'm just not entirely convinced. The Jes Goodwin ogre looks decent still, but the yellow (still unshaded and un-highlighted) on the Olley ogre just doesn't work for me right now.

NMM's not a preferred option at all, since these guys are part of a team - which at this point has both "yellow" and "brass" in the "golden" slot. NMM would require a bit too much to potentially work on all of them.

I feel that either the skin tone or yellow needs to be darkened or dirtied a little. Too much bright and light especially for a bloodbowl team.

Personally I would go a thinned out brown wash on the yellow to take the really bright hint off it. Unfortunately that is just about my answer to almost everything. So don't pay too much attention to it.

I agree with you. Do you think grimy "Imperial Fists" style, (though without so much chipping) or darken it down with orange?

Maybe some blood on the punch dagger and some blood splatter all over the fist too

I like the bright red and yellow scheme as many a football team has used bright and vibrant colours for their clubs

Therefore, I personally feel brown and dirty is the way to go as
orange would probably tie the yellow trim into the red plates better than brown And you may lose the contrast between the two.

Just my two cents though. I would hold out for better opinions than mine on this.
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Maybe a really light Sepia wash?

Hey it's McOgres

Dirty it up a bit. I'm not as sure about the orange thing, maybe just some grime?

Minimal amount of grime should do the trick yeah, Blood Bowl minis actually look better in brighter colours, in my humble opinion.

I might photograph a couple of models where I used orange to maintain the "clean" look - so you guys can see what I mean in practice rather then in theory. I'll be keen to get rid of this pair from my paint desk, as they'll take minimal work to complete and then get them the hell out of the space.

Anyway, here's a couple of figures I updated about a week ago.



Back in the olden days, when I was just a pup, I played a bit of the Chaos Warbands variant of WHFB. My very first champion was a Skaven. Since at that time I had a Skaven army (which I later sold, keeping only a few figures) I did manage to pluck out an appropriate figure for use, with the sword, dagger, and a crest of evil-looking spines. This guy had a very, very old paintjob, and so I've gone over most of it as well as rebasing him. The biggest changes were reversing the colours on his Skaven-style lorica segmentata, and a repaint over his clothing in order to brighten it a little, and getting rid of his yellow pouch.



I don't remember the story behind his little mate, but I do remember having Khorne in mind when I painted up his shield, so I figure he can stand in for now as a follower of the first guy. he just needed as bit of a touch-up and tone down to bring him up to scratch. For the time being, I'm still a long way off building and painting my Skaven army, which will see the field under the Kings of War "Ratkin" list in the future. Until then, the odd Skaven that I may paint will be dropped into either my "Chaos" Army with my Realm of Chaos beastmen, or my "Beastmen" Army for any "cleaner" looking Skaven.

Looks good, pleasant surprise to see some skavens

And now for something completely different....

This figure was one I painted many years ago, and found in a box recently, beaten up and nasty. I'm sure that I'm far from the only person who as a teen decided that their metal Citadel Judge Dredd figures needed some more heavily-armoured backup and found that backup in the form of a plastic RTB01 Space Marine.

After seeing the Mega-City One project going on over on Sho3box, I pulled it out and thought to myself that I should repaint it. Last weekend, Marouda selected it as a figure for me to finish off to clear the paint desk, and so I set to the task. Kind of a complete repaint, and kind of an overpaint. The eye lenses are original, as is the numeral on the power fist. Everything else used the original paint as the base coat, and added modern highlighting and shading. The exception is the gold work, which was originally painted a bright yellow, and was simply plain. I decided to go for metallics, and freehand a MC-1 Eagle of Justice onto the pad. Because I can.

I also stuck him onto a 32mm base, because apparently I'm also doing that now.





There's a second one of these guys as well. Unfortunately he's in the kind of shape that C-3PO was in about three quarters of the way through The Empire Strikes Back, so he'll require a bit more work in order to recover.

One day I'll use him in Judge Dredd games, and also as an Imperial Adeptus Arbite in 40k/Rogue Trader/Deathwatch/etc. And in games like Frag!

Awesome, that freehand symbol is smashing!

Dude!

He looks the part alright, you could probably use him as a Mechanismo, or if you really want to let rip, as a Judge in a Holocaust suit.

Long time follower, first time writer... Have to say your P&M blog is my favorite on Dakka. Great painting skills, a wide variety of minis including a lot of old or odd stuff, very regular updates, and interesting blog-length text accompanying each picture. Great job, and that Dredd Marine looks awesome!

The 32mm base really works on that Rtb1 Marine, I never would have expected that. That paint job is the epitome of cool.

That really works, surprisingly. Groodalicious freehand.

He looks really great, that freehand eagle though

Awesome

Eagle is great, I also like the lightning bolts on the eye lenses

There is just something about the old school models that I really like. I know a guy who almost has a complete 2,000 point army of them and they look really good.