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Loving all of the old skool. Some really good paint jobs too. Most of my stuff is old skool, so here’s a smattering of my favourites;








Here’s my current WIP, all old skool if you excuse the BSF Explorers

@Gobert. Wonderfull collection! Thanks.
Sharing my favorite old skool...the Empire (really miss them.) I also miss when I could paint. Age has destroyed my eyesight, patience, and dexterity. These are stolen from my other webpage gallery. Sold them long ago like a fool.
First up...the Ice Queen of Kislev



And my favorite sculpt, The Tilean Sorcerous (think she had a name....can't remember)

Lucrezzia Belladonna. Lovely!

Multiple Leman sightings. Must be the Wolftime.

Great minis, gobert!

I think the issue with Squats is that they were not the best miniatures at the time...(which probably didn't help sales). Whereas some older GW miniatures are really nicely sculpted, there are some absolutely dire sculpts. They may have a nostalgic charm, but there are a lot of absolute turds floating around with regards to early GW miniatures.

Some more old metal:

One more for the Phoenix Court because they're all icons. Love the elbows collection. So beautiful and fresh.



Nice collection Gobert, love those boxy bolters. And the sea of 2nd ed box set grots brought a joyful tear to my eye.

Fine, you asked for Squats.


I don’t have many., but there you are.

Since Squats were specifically requested...

@Nev...I knew you'd come through.
@Pariah Press: Names on the bases is such a classic thing. Back before number of miniatures in an army blew up.

Thanks guys, I'll sleep a little better tonight.

Yeah, I mostly play Kill Team, so it's downright useful to write the names of the miniatures on their bases!

Here's a few less familiar faces.









My painted Confrontation Wolfen and Kelt Sessairs. What a time.

And some possibly more obscure models.



Koralon Broodmaster from VOID and my Razorback Growler Chief from VOR.



More goodies from Cell Entertainment. A selection of Ronin and two cars from KRASH.

Man, Rackham made some pretty miniatures.

Some old school models from my collection...

Old Ork Commander, and leader of my first 40k army... I kept him around when I got rid of the rest of my old Kev Adams Orks because I just like the figure.



My old Ork Speshulists... From left to right, Runtherd, Mek, Weirdboy, Ork Renegade (with added multi-weapon), and Painboy



Marauder Miniatures Dark Elf Sorceress on Cold One. I realized after I’d sealed her that I forgot to paint her staff... Still I loved those Trish and Aly Morrison-sculpted Dark Elves...



And then some of my favorites of the old quirky 40 models, the “Round Shoulder” early Terminator variant... Ended up with 4 of these guys, but never got the fifth to build a squad so I never painted them up...



Vale,

JohnS

@elbows love the old school eldar.
Got some old walker of my saim hann warhost.

Poking around to see what else I have that's oldish and metalish...

Some of my all-time favourite 2nd edition sculpts, the Techmarines (now serving as Renegades for my CSM army)





My CSM lord is a later (mid 2000's) metal limited edition figure from a Games Day I think

 Pariah Press wrote:
Since Squats were specifically requested...

I'm not sure if this is allowed. But it is OOP?




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Some lovely old space wolves on the go.

I'll add a pic of one of my own. A big one.



His wolf tails broke off within hours of building him and his banner was rejected outright as I didn't think my dreadnought needed a mast and sail. Love the heft of a solid metal dread.

 cygnnus wrote:
Some old school models from my collection...

Old Ork Commander, and leader of my first 40k army... I kept him around when I got rid of the rest of my old Kev Adams Orks because I just like the figure.

You sold the Orks? Man, that army was a piece of history-- I don't think I could have done that.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 cygnnus wrote:
Some old school models from my collection...

Old Ork Commander, and leader of my first 40k army... I kept him around when I got rid of the rest of my old Kev Adams Orks because I just like the figure.

You sold the Orks? Man, that army was a piece of history-- I don't think I could have done that.

Yeah... I kept a few models, but just kind of lost the “love” for the army and figured it could do more than just sit there and collect dust on the shelf. Plus it was increasingly unfieldable as a 40K army with how the line had changed over the years.

Vale,

JohnS

Found some more vintage pieces in my collection. Metal grimgor iron hide, not sure if they make him in resin now? An old metal beastmen, and a hero quest zombie which I painted when I first got back into the hobby 6 years ago.

Also got some vintage goodies on ebay, some more chaos dwarves, and a dwarf gatekeeper from 1985. Can anyone confirm that he's citadel? I also snagged a vintage gotrek and felix as a pair for the same price most people are asking for them individually.

Old champion of Tzeentch. The top of his techo staff was missing so I added an old Skelly spear.

 cygnnus wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 cygnnus wrote:
Some old school models from my collection...

Old Ork Commander, and leader of my first 40k army... I kept him around when I got rid of the rest of my old Kev Adams Orks because I just like the figure.

You sold the Orks? Man, that army was a piece of history-- I don't think I could have done that.

Yeah... I kept a few models, but just kind of lost the “love” for the army and figured it could do more than just sit there and collect dust on the shelf. Plus it was increasingly unfieldable as a 40K army with how the line had changed over the years.

Vale,

JohnS

Well, you're much braver than I am. I've Kondo'ed a few things in the past, and almost immediately regretted doing so. And I've never even considered getting rid of my Eldar (the painted ones, anyway).

Part of my High Elf army that was used from 6th to 8th eds. Although some of these models pre-date 6th ed and I still have all of them (I just won't sully them with AoS).

Silver helm cavalry on what were later to become "Bretonian" horses.


The metal (and plastic elf horses) tiranoc chariot.


My metal swordmasters. I have 40 of these guys all up.


2 eagle claw bolt throwers with crew.


and from my 2nd ed Eldar army, my Dreadnought.
The only concession made to it from 3rd ed, was to magnetise the weapon mount. So I could swap out weapons from my guardian platforms. Eldar missile launcher mounted.

Here's an old C23 Ogre, sculpted by Jes Goodwin back in the 80's, that I just finished painting.

Some of these old minis are so epic and compact I wld rather have them than a lot of the new stuff


Currently stripping this. I dont know if it's rare? I think it's my oldest. Wasn't mine originally.

I also have eldar avatar of Kaine in metal which I always thought was badass I remember buying it for £8 in GW

That's not exceedingly rare, but it's an early 90's Swooping Hawk Exarch.

An update on a mini I previously posted here (specifically the handsome marine on the left).



I decided I would try and rescue one of them (and probably more) by trying out new painting styles. Went from this....



To this...



For better or for worse I had a great time pushing myself into a different (comic book in this case) style of painting. The moral of this post is that, if you have some old mini's lying around, get them primed and use them, even if only for experimentation. All lead, pewter, and plastic deserves a coat of paint (not that white metal crap and don't get me started on resin ).

They look really cool in thy s comic book style guiness707. Nice job getting paint on the old lead. Will the other chap be getting a similar style?

Few more from my gallery...part of my old genestealer cult




I be the pirate captain and these be my trusty shipmates.




We scavenge and we pirate in the name of the patriach.




We also scavenge, and we like to show off our meaty hands. Some of us like to keep little ridges on our fingers for artistic reasons..




Three arms are better than 2, but two are good if you have 2 guns..




I seem to have lost my ...pet




We look rough, but we're mostly 'armless (I'm sorry....)


And while digging through the room of shame I came across 2 little beauties (not painted or assembled I'm afraid)



Old rhino, still on sprue..bonus!

and...



Not the best mini out there, but what really caught my eye was the price... A fiver for a metal special edition! Those were the days....

Oh man! one of the old rhinos with the strange top and bottom identical parts? One strange way to make a dual use kit without extra parts.

 gobert wrote:
They look really cool in thy s comic book style guiness707. Nice job getting paint on the old lead. Will the other chap be getting a similar style?

Been working on a secret project on and off for a year. This guy (the comic book painting part that is) gave me the inspiration to finally start getting the mini's together...