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Those are some really nice pictures, great seeing the dwarfs and trolls in action.

The narrative stuff is great fun! I love seeing your terrain assembled like that.

Great stuff. Need to get the terrain set up to do that myself at some point

Awesome playtime with great old models. Love it.

Thanks guys - it was a fun way to "cap off" the batch of Trolls and Dwarfs. I appreciate the feedback and I'll start doing a bit more of that, especially when I finish off a batch of appropriate models. Had a pretty horrible and drawn out Sunday, so I crashed out and completely forgot about the WHFR models, which sucks since they went for a very reasonable price. I'll have to keep keeping en eye out on them now.

The warband group shots are really cool, Adding in the scenery adds so much to the set up. I've found that my phone has more mega pixels than my normal camera however does a much worse job.

A couple more of my old Beastmen from the Realm of Chaos era. As I’ve mentioned before, painting them in a unified army form was the least of my concerns or priorities back then. In fact, making each model as individual as possible was the focus for those models that I painted.



I ended up with three of this sculpt, and so naturally wanted to make all three unique by painting them in a way that they could be used either as followers of three different Chaos gods, or all as generic beastmen with a bit of colour variation and a spot of Brightly Coloured Fur. I’ve given these guys a bit of a touchup and minor repaint a few weeks ago both to clean/neaten them up a tiny bit and also to make them a little less garish. The shields on both the Pestigor and Tzaangor are Marauder Miniatures’ embossed shields. They were pretty exciting for the time. The one with the Marauder Miniatures Logo (Skull with dagger clenched between it’s teeth) was from the Undead sprue while the Skull over “Chaos Star” was actually a Dark Elf design.



These two were painted with Khorne and Undivided in mind (Sorry Slaanesh!) and while the Khorngor has been touched up, the Undivided fellow has remained untouched except for the rebasing. I’ve added this particular undivided model to this set of photos as he’s got the same facial sculpt as the other three identical models. Usually when you see “conversion” models from that era they share the same pose or body, so it’s rather unusual for models to share a face in this way (that I’ve noticed anyway!) Still, it’s a good face, and on the second body it gives a very Satyr-like appearance.



As with the Khorngor and Slaangor champions shown a couple of weeks ago, 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.

Love the Beastmen. Those old sculpts have got a lot of character to them that a lot of midern stuff just doesn't have.

Those old beastmen remind me of Calibos from Clash of the Titans (no, not the recent one... 1981 version)

Love all of the shield free hand work, it's good stuff.

I, too, love those old Beastmen. These pre-date RoC, don't they?

Honestly, I can't remember. I think these ones might, but only slightly. They were definitely (re?)released as part of the big RoC push with Slaves to Darkness, along with a lot of the Thugs and warriors that predate RoC. The catalogues from that pre-1988-era are spotty at best also.

I've got a few beastmen that are definately pre-RoC, and obviously tons that were part of the release, and post-RoC, but these two are from that "errrm...?" period right around RoC for me.


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Hrm. I think I know why I just stopped painting last October. I'm just so beat up, stressed, gakky and perma-tired at this point by work and three months of gakky winter weather that the thought of painting isn't nearly as appealing. Now there are the first rays of occasional sunshine (but still lots of gakky weather) and new, shiny videogames to play that generally involve less work than painting models. It'll be interesting to see if I can push through and regain my mojo instead of stopping cold this year. I doubt either the Moria Goblins or Gondor armies will be finished this year as I'd hoped, as the "finishing gak off and renovating old gak" focus continues to provide me with more than I can ever do...

I have always felt that if you need to "motivate" yourself to do anything then it may be time to kick back, out the feet up and take a well deserved break. Otherwise it can really start to affect your interest and quality. So I say plug into the video games and relax until the sun finally comes back.

Yeah, if you don't feel like painting, don't. It's far too easy to ruin minis when you're forcing yourself to work on them, and there's no shame in prioritising something else like video games. This is a hobby, not an obligation!

The retro beastmen are great!

Agree with the others, take time off if you wanna. We'll still be around

I was thinking the summer hasn't been quiet that bad and then remembered the whole internetty thingy has global communication doodads. If your having trouble to motivate your painting and still want to do some painting, spice it up try a different scale or terrain maybe a vehicle or something?

Take a break if you need too, we will still be hear when you come back.

I think I just need a rest. More from work than anything else. The problem is being so burnt out from work and weekends just not being quite long enough to regain my mojo, combined with figures that are a pain in the arse to finish dominating the desk. You know those figures you look at and just don't want to keep working on either because they give you the gaks or a mental block. I've got some time off work after next week (just 4 days to go!) and then hopefully I can get more enthusiastic again.

The Good News is I've got probably a couple of weeks worth of updates of figures to post after I photograph. Stuff that I've either touched up or finished in the last few weeks. So by the time I've finished posting those, hopefully I'll be back on track.

Sounds good, take care of yourself. Stressful work is lame.

Yeah. I really think if I get a few solid days off without needing to think about budgets, budget planning, tracking down missing assets and allocation of resources and assets I can become human again. It's a beautiful day today - pretty much the first since the 1st of September - which was a work day and the first really nice day in ages before that. Four more days.... just need to survive that long, then I have an early finish on Thursday next week and 17 days off. Maybe I can even stop being tired by the end of it.

Anyway, enough bleating about my first world problems for now. Time to show off the model I plucked from the pile and finished last Friday.

This figure is one of Michael Perry's efforts that redefined the look of Warhammer Trolls back in 1992 for 4th Edition. So leaving that narrow era of 3rd that "purists" feel is "Oldhammer". With 4th Edition WHFB, the armies began to be overhauled and have their looks unified in many ways, putting an end to the "rough and ready" and slightly chaotic look that forces and their ranges had previously.



The old C20 trolls were retired and replaced with the new "Stone Trolls" and "Swamp Trolls", sculpted by Michael Perry. Although the Swamp Trolls were superseded a few years ago by the plastic River Trolls, four of the original six of these Stone Troll sculpts are even still available today, some 23 Years later, including this guy. (One of the rare times I don't mind comparing my own paintwork directly with the official GW paintjob!) Still, that's one hell of a distinguished time of service on this model.



I first started on this guy 5+ years ago, at the same time I started on the other blue C20 trolls. As with the "Hill Troll", this guy got "left behind" and was never finished. Since I managed to finish the Hill Troll a couple of weeks ago, it motivated me to pluck this part-painted guy off the desk and finish him off. All I'd done was the base, the basecoat in blue with a wash and drybrush on his cracked back texture - no details. I've gotta say that I really enjoyed finishing him off, and if I weren't in the midst of a self-imposed moratorium on starting new models, I'd be all over the rest of these which I've got tucked away somewhere.



As you can see, this guy is much larger than the older models. As KoW uses regiments of 3 and 6 in size for Trolls and I already have 6 of the older models ready to go, if I manage to use him in a game before I paint up some more, he can be used as a Troll Bruiser (Hero).

I like your addition to your trolls!

I actually like the 4th ed trolls a lot, they have a lot more character, compared to the 3rd ed Oldhammer stuff IMO.

They have a very "animated character" style to them, which is emphasised even more by the bright blue colour scheme that they used then - which admittedly, I've followed along with like a good little puppy.

Admittedly I don't have any GW trolls, but what I do have is this:

Not my pics obviously, but I currently use these as Clawed Fiends in 40K. The latter kind of reminds me of a Wampa from Empire Strikes Back.

Andy's stuff is great. I don't have either of those two, but they're solidly on my "maybe if I can afford it after I pay for the important things first before the dollar is totally smashed" list.

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Andy's stuff is great. I don't have either of those two, but they're solidly on my "maybe if I can afford it after I pay for the important things first before the dollar is totally smashed" list.

Yeah I read that the AU$ isn't doing too well at the moment. Why don't you guys join the Euro? lol. We can all go down together haha. Biggest mistake ever that one.

After 1-2 months (more) of mad shopping, I'll pretty much be stopping all of my buying except for a few things, at a massively reduced rate. Those trolls might make it into the latter category since I already got my Heresy KS stuff.

I have always liked the stone trolls and much preferred the metal swamp trolls to the new plastics. Almost made me get Throgg and do an all troll army. Almost.

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I have always liked the stone trolls and much preferred the metal swamp trolls to the new plastics. Almost made me get Throgg and do an all troll army. Almost.

Screw Throgg... THIS is a Troll King lol.

What on earth is that? I am almost needing one.