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I said I wouldn't show you half finished squats... I lied:

Yowser. Osl is tops!

Me likey!

Moar....moar now!

Yes, at last a good opportunity for OSL.

Monkey I might have some squat bikers to show you later. They are nearly almost finished too!

Such a quirky little model. Nice paint job weets... very fitting.

I thought it was time I finished the army as its been bugging me and more commission work is on the way (mantic deadzone plague faction this time).

So here it is, a 1000 point space midget army:



Close ups:

Command


Outriders


Assault


Thunderers


Veterans


Tactical

They look fantastic weety! I haven't see a squat force done in many, many years and they were always one of my favorites. Warms my heart to see you give them such an outstanding treatment. Congratulations!

The squats look fantastic. Wish they were still in 40k. Particularly like the walker, excellent OSL. As always, amazing stuff weety.

Great job Weety. Look superb.

Awesome looking force! They need to storm a certain place in Nottingham and regain their rightful place in the lore!

Wahaay!!

Lovely job on some lovely minis my dear

Is that your entire lot, or are there reinforcements to come later when you're not all commissioned up?

They totally need to bring them back in some form! yours are really great, so much personality and your paint just makes them look exactly how they should :-)

Well its great that you all want the squats back, they would be touched! An army of blushing squats, like in that scene where Galadriel gives Gimli a peck on the cheek. I cant think of any logical reason why space dwarves are more stupid than space orks or space elves. But on the other hand being outlawed by GW central gives the remaining old models a rarity value and a certain rebel cache.

Monkeytroll yeah I'm slowly building up a second wave (very slowly as I don't like to spend much on this). I have an engineer, a warlord, a guildmaster, a hearthguard, some exo armoured dudes (sans arms) and a couple of troopers with bolters. I'm always on the look out for a couple more. Its the arms that are the hard thing to find. Going car boot today, so fingers crossed.

My goal is to one day have a full ten man squad of Squats for my IG. I remember back in 98 when I first started getting into 40K and thought how horrid the armies were that lots of different models of all different colors...

And now I have mostly Valhallans, but a bunch of the old storm troopers, some Praetorians, some Mordians, some Steel Legion... and a penal squad of older Necromunda and RT models, including one squat trooper.

I never realized how much I liked all those older models and now that they are pretty much almost unobtainable, I really want some so I can remember them. And I think it would be pretty neat to throw down a squad of stunties and have folks ask about them. "Oh, they're what's left after the 'nids nommed on their homeworlds."

They are very hard to get. The cheapest way to buy them is to get the ones without arms and then kitbash some arms. Empire troop arms would work.

There were no warhammerz at the car-boot-sale. We have snoorkle gear now though! I love big flippers they are like engines for the feet. Going to hunt for treasure this summer.

I'm going to experiment with blue and yellow eldar today. But I might not finish it as there is a Jacobean Fair up the road with archery, falconry and crafts demonstrations. You don't get many of them to the pound so I'd better go have a look.


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Here we go. I think gitsplitta posted me this one - thanks!

He never looked better weets!

Yeah, nice work Weety.

Could not get the hang of snorkelling when I tried it. There was always a little water left in the snorkel for me to inhale... Scuba though, that was fun.

Have fun at the fair. Archery, that's also fun.
Not tried falconry.

Well we didn't actually get to try any of it. But I did have an american kestrel on my wrist briefly! He also had a falcon, a european kestrel and a barbary owl. Owls are the best, I could watch them turning their heads all the way round all day.

A clue to what I'm painting

Great Sqaut stuff, loff that retro stuff

 weetyskemian44 wrote:

A clue to what I'm painting

The Lone Ranger?

That horse looks really lovely. One day I will finish my Rough Riders. Probably about the time a new codex comes out and they are finally useful.

I'm just a mite scared to try them. Horses for some reason seem really intimidating to paint. Good job, Weets.

Yes I was intimidated too. I suggest you check out some common horse colours for inspiration. I went with dappled pale grey. It'd make a great natural camouflage scheme on Valhalla!

Monkey that's spot on... HI-HO SILVER!!!

Hiya Jehan-reznor, I loff the Squat stuff too! You'll always find retro stuff here.


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I just realized this is my first cavalry unit. I've never done one before. Does anyone know, is this Karl Franz or has he just got Karl Franz written all over his horse because he's a big fan? Clickable if you want to zoom in and spot all my mistakes...

Yes, yes, I've seen this before. Note the "KF" on his jersey, and the "Karl Franz" on his horse's barding. I believe he's a junior varsity ball player at Karl Franz University.

Obviously, he's out for a weekend LARP event, but he's got too much school spirit to stick to historical accuracy.

THAT'S the kid that knocked over my mailbox!!!

Oh wait, it's just an emperor that looks like the kid.

That's a very good looking model and paintjob, Weety. I'm not sure which bits I like best, probably the soft purple shades on the armor of the horse and the realistic skin tones on the face. The whole mini has nice color choices and soft shades that are very appealing.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
Yes, yes, I've seen this before. Note the "KF" on his jersey, and the "Karl Franz" on his horse's barding. I believe he's a junior varsity ball player at Karl Franz University.

^Yes you've cracked the mystery! Lol.

Thanks JB. I'm fond of the shield myself.

I've got models incoming, halberdiers, advanced heroquest henchmen, swordsmen. Soon the army of Karl Franz junior varsity ball player will be ready!

Nice blog, subscribing, love the squats by the way, I do 40K in 15mm, and hadn't considered doing squats, but may have to now.

The horse looks fantastic weety. I especially love the shading On the horses neck armour. How did you do that?

 Imperial Templari wrote:
Nice blog, subscribing, love the squats by the way, I do 40K in 15mm, and hadn't considered doing squats, but may have to now.

Because if there's one thing you need to do, it would be custom model even smaller 15mm models.

The Cap'n looks good. And yeah, he's part of the KF Fanclub, as KF himself rides a big scary Gryphon of some sort. Hellclaw? Deathclaw? Murderhands? Something like that.

Nice horse work Weety. Looks great whoever he is.

That horse tastes like raisins.
Fantastic work.