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All those Fanatics swinging their big balls around look fantasic.

If you were fielding them for a regular game of Fantasy I'd call you both mad and entertaining, as such a large number of them are bound to hit something, either the enemy or the regiment they got tossed out of!

 GiraffeX wrote:
All those Fanatics swinging their big balls around look fantasic.

...said the Duchess to the Bishop...



But yes, the fanatics look brilliant. Awesome trip down memory lane, this blog.

Fantastic Fanatics!!

I love fanatics and yours look great. I ran 6 of them in my last army list. They killed all sorts of things! ...mostly my own...

Heh, it'd be mad fun to run that many in a WHFB game. Pretty much certain doom for their parent unit(s) and probably anything else that was close enough as well. In other good/bad news I found a starter set worth of WHFB 4th goblins in a small box yesterday...

Careful with the spears - those things are sharp!

Today we have just a few models. All three were painted recently, though the standard was completed last (week!), since I was a little uninspired by the cloaky nature of the sculpt and struggled to find a way to finish it to my satisfaction. In the end I decided that there wasn't a lot I could do without getting unnecessarily ornate with the cloak which is really just supposed to be a darkened rag-cloak and that the head(skull!) and banner itself would serve suitably as the focal points


These Skeletons are from at least 1989, and I believe that all three of these were sculpted by Aly Morrison. I've kept to Marouda's overall Undead army colours of Black, Red, old Brass and Steel (and bone!) Shields can be a bit of a challenge, in that I like to keep to smaller ones that don't overpower/hide the rest of the model too much, but want to make them interesting in their own rights. I went with an era-appropriate smaller shield and gave it a half-skullface design, with a bit of an attempted depth painted onto it.

The unit they will lead does not yet exist, so rather than hold them back I decided to show them off now. The Standard bearer could potentially end up as one of the ASBs in the bigger undead army, but we'll have to wait and see after the new KoW rules come out in a week or so. Of course, I can always use them in AoS in the meantime.

Ha! That's proper old school Azazel! Wow. I feel old lol.

Wow. just been through all 25 pages of the thread with enthusiasm. Really nice to see what you are doing with all the old stuff. Will be watching this

Nice skellies!

Awesome retro collection. Excellent painting as well. Keep it coming!

Whoa! Those are old-- I don't think I've ever seen them. I like those old metal skellies-- lots of character. You did a nice job on them.

Last week I read a post over on Hobgoblin Orange that reminded me of a project that I'd started and actually managed to finish back in the late 2000's. A couple of units kitbashed from Chaos Marauders, plastic Catachans, and whatever other bits I found to suit (plastic Goliaths, bits from the Kroot Sprue, Mordheim guys, etc). I couldn't even remember why I'd put them together at first, and it took digging them out and looking at some of the other figures near them for me to realise/remember why I'd started them - they were to be a part of a smallish Lost and the Damned force from Codex: Eye of Terror. The idea was that they were to be vaguely Nurgle-themed, but without the specific pustulence and decay that we typically see on Nurgle models. This was to keep them a little generic and flexible for potential use in other games, forces and scenarios. Besides, every cult needs some cleanskins ...right?



I went with US Desert 3-colour camo and a military green for the armoured plates for a few reasons - I wanted to keep to the general colours of Nurgle, but also retain a kind of Military (or Paramilitary) feel to the models. Brass fixings because Chaos (and it looks good against the green) with red spot colours for leg wraps and headbands. As well as that, I enjoy painting real-world camo patterns, and the 3-colour desert both looks good and is also pretty easy to replicate. I also chose to paint them with plastic-looking pseudo-wooden furniture on their weapons in imitation to the garish look of those AKs we all saw plenty of throughout the '80s and '90s. The flamer guy naturally got the cigar-chomping head from the Sentinel kit. And flames on his bandanna.



By keeping the "Chaos" on them slightly subtle (and even moreso compared to recent kits!), I figured I could also use them for various techno-barbarians, space pirates, deserters or even a militarised Body builder's club-cum-Citi-Def/PDF unit (which is more of a weird Judge Dredd vibe kinda thing - but then, pseudo-Dredd has always been a core part of my 40k ethos going right back to Rogue Trader.)



The Viking Muscle Power Gym Militia, ready for hot, buff, sweaty, oiled-up action. Or Nurgle Cultists. Whatever floats ya goat! - These guys are the Ranged "squad". There's also the Close Combat-themed "squad" which I'll get a post up for soon. I've got to say that even now I remember how much I enjoyed building and painting these guys. Aside from the choice of kits and "one special weapon, one heavy weapon" IG squad thing, it was really liberating to just have a bunch of kits and bits, and to give myself free reign over how I put them together.

"The Viking Muscle Power Gym Militia, ready for hot, buff, sweaty, oiled-up action."

Amazing! Ha!

It is always good see a good ol' bitz box raid. I cannot get over how well blended the flesh is too. So were they painted in the late 2000's or more recently?

As ever you blog is a journey where we never know where the next turn off the road will be, keep it up.

Good stuff!

Feel the BURN!!! They like to pump it I can see. Maybe their nurglishness is limited to not wiping the sweat off the gym equipment after they used it...

They would make a great Necromunda gang. The guy with the heavy bolter is my favorite. I've used that Marauder head on a few models myself!

I'm loving the wood grain effect you've done there . Really gives them that backwater sort of look. Are the lasrifles prone to exploding? lol.

Those cultists are awesome!

Nice kit bash. I am doing something similar, but using scout legs. I am using mine as a Necromunda gang and renegade marauders in a Tyrant's Legion list. (See my sig)

I love the wood panels and the camo. Great painting that gives them a lot of visual depth.

Now I want to see Magic Mike: Expendables.

Really nice cultists dude. Really like the heavy subber.

I am a fan of the chaos marauder/ catachan mash up I've been planning on using them to kit bash a Goliath Necromunda gang for ages.

Makes me sad that they are going to put the chaos marauders plastics out of production :(

I had to Google what the hell Magic Mike was/is, but good call there. These guys would have been painted in the mid-late 2000's, though exactly when I can't recall at all. They could even be from the early 2000's. I can't find exactly when the Marauders were released, but they're in one of the 2005 catalogues.

Weety - once I photograph and show off some of the others in the nascent force, you'll be able to see how they fit in with the others, through paint if not pustules. Though you've now made me think about re-finishing some of these guys with satin or gloss varnish on their bare skin. I shouldn't, though...

I've got to admit that the Stubber/Bolter guy is my favourite as well. The pose, silly-gigantic gun and that particular head with it's windswept ginger hair all work really well for me. I also like the unit leader but he's much more "typical" of this sort of thing. I imagine their lasrifles are being their equivalent of AKs. Cheaply made and nasty looking, but hardy as all hell. Thanks Fifty - I checked out your Plog. Now updates! Thanks Joe - like yourself and Fifty I probably had it in the back of my mind to use them as Goliaths in Necro as well as LatD. Makes sense as it fits in with the way I tend to think, and also the less obvious nature of the chaos iconography. I've got to take a couple more pics today and hopefully get the second squad of these guys up tomorrow.

What's that about the Marauder plastics going OOP? Or do you mean in terms of expecting most of the current range to go OOP/be phased out?

Great stuff, great nurgle cultists or goliaths. Any kind of technobarbarian works in my book.

Chiming in to say I like 'em too - Good kitbashing result

 Azazelx wrote:
I had to Google what the hell Magic Mike was/is, but good call there. These guys would have been painted in the mid-late 2000's, though exactly when I can't recall at all. They could even be from the early 2000's. I can't find exactly when the Marauders were released, but they're in one of the 2005 catalogues

SNIP

What's that about the Marauder plastics going OOP? Or do you mean in terms of expecting most of the current range to go OOP/be phased out?

It was a rumour on bell of lost souls that a number of the old fantasy chaos and empire kits (including the marauders) were going oop with age of sigmarines.

Which is a shame in my opinion.

I think they'll slowly phase the existing kits out. Hopefully not too quickly, though - as there's a lot of stuff I'd like to slowly pick up.

Following up on the post from a couple of days ago, here are the pics of the second "squad" of probably-chaos-but-possibly-bodybuilding cultists. These guys are kitted for close combat in the far future, which is why they're armed with axes, flails and swords (and a shield!)



The paint scheme on these guys (3-Colour US Desert Camo, plastic-looking, pseudo-wooden weapon furniture, etc) is pretty much exactly the same as that of their rifle-toting brethren, which makes sense since these were kitbashed and painted together. These guys got a couple with fur capes/pelts, which is to distinguish the Leader of the Pack (sing it!) and his second.



Swinging those things around in tight formation seems safe. What?
The "other half" of the squad, though in practice on the table top they'd all be mixed in together anyway. I wonder if I could use this squad in Kings of War without anyone noticing? I removed the horns from the one guy's helmet both for variety and for common sense. GW-sized "viking" horns and a flail is a clear OH&S-violating combination that's just asking to end up in traction on Cultist's Worker's Comp.



Here's the usual squad shot. This half of the group is what really makes them into a feasable Necromunda Gang - using Goliath Rules, naturally! Though as noted, there's lots of scope to use them as all kinds of generic bad guys and nutters.

These guys are great! I like both the ranged and melee cultists, excellent work.

I like those. Properly retro looking.

Awesome. Love the woodgrain on the guns.