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 Ouze wrote:
I had ever Necron lord ever sold except this one.

Really? Can you get a pic of them all lined up? I loved the old Necrons and I'd love to see them.

 chromedog wrote:

 Don Qui Hotep wrote:
Is that a laspistol second from the bottom there? Didn't realize that Marines could take 'em!

Back in the RT days and 2nd ed days, weapons were less restricted than 3rd ed onwards.
But mostly it was there because it was a single PLASTIC sprue with many of the weapons on it in one place.
Hell, back in RT, Marines could end up with shurken catapults (until the storm bolter came along, it was a better gun than the bolter).

Ah... good old Following Fire!

Valete,

JohnS

 insaniak wrote:

 Don Qui Hotep wrote:
What was Delaque's shtick? They weren't the technological ones, that was Van Saar, right? Was there as much difference back in the day on how the gangs were specialized?

Delaque were the sneaky ones.

But no, there wasn't a lot of difference between any of them. Your choice of gang limited which skill tables you could roll on for some advancement rolls. But because there were other advancement roll results that let you choose from any skill table, it only really made a practical difference very early in a campaign.

I found my Source Book and I was partially wrong previously. They did have differences, as others have said they were the sneaky ones. Stealth was their tabletop attribute, but as others have said as well you can cross train with good throws.

Thanks for sharing those! I actually had a Redemptionist gang in the mid-2000s but that was in the tail end of Specialist Games, and there wasn't a community to support it, so we never got an actual campaign going.

'twas suggested I share this here in this thread.



More of this model here - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/788851.page#10819762

Excellent work, again! I actually missed that you had painted his hoofs to be shod the first time around. Great attention to detail on that.

Both my last entries into the monthly comp have been retro-tastic.




And the first test beds for a swarm getting ready for contrast paints. Two of them have been painted and stripped since this shot. I’ve got a plan, time to start executing it. Or I will once I get enough stuff in the primed pile. Some metal biovores will join them, and possibly some other old nids.



Aren’t you glad you don’t need to do horde armies in metal any more?

Wow, metal termigaunts! There's something almost indulgent in that. Like a solid gold golf tee. They look cartoon-nasty. Very cute.

 theCrowe wrote:
Wow, metal termigaunts! There's something almost indulgent in that. Like a solid gold golf tee. They look cartoon-nasty. Very cute.

And not even the oldest ones I own. But the really old ones don’t even vaguely fit with the modern aesthetic.

Old lads with a fresh makeup.

Love those old Slayers! And in striped pants to boot!

Valete,

JohnS

I am a proud owner of a plastic WHFB dragon

BONUS it came with asarnils original banner. All I need now is to get the rider bits..

 Argive wrote:
I am a proud owner of a plastic WHFB dragon

BONUS it came with asarnils original banner. All I need now is to get the rider bits..

There really is just something about having a dragon model, isn't there? I won Imrik in a store raffle, but I never actually did anything with it. When WFB was still WFB and not AoS I wanted to play HE and have lots of dragons. XD Unfortunately, WFB ended right after I got my first models and I never finished any. I had primed and started painting a squad of spearmen when I heard it was being discontinued and lost the motivation to continue myself. I don't know when AoS was announced, but I didn't hear about for at least a year after I heard WFB was ending. If I don't end up selling them, maybe someday I'll finally build and paint them up.

And now to get my post back on topic, here's a couple quick shots of some old models that I own, but did not paint myself. I have no plans to repaint them anytime soon as I think they're already at or above my own skill level. Nothing too special paint wise, but nice enough for me. Unfortunately, the Ogryn came without the original left arm. It had an odd robotic looking replacement that fell off in the mail and I don't know if I'm going to glue it back on, leave him one-armed, or try to find a better replacement of some kind. The odds of finding someone who has a left arm for an original Ogryn just lying around are about zero.


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Oops. the pictures got turned upside down somehow. I'll try to fix that. Edit: Success! All I did was open picture edit, use the rotate option to spin it 360, and save a copy. I don't see any difference on my computer, but they sure show up different on this website.

These are all fantastic! I'm on a proper nostalgia trip scrolling through these!

 Argive wrote:
I am a proud owner of a plastic WHFB dragon

BONUS it came with asarnils original banner. All I need now is to get the rider bits..

Plastic? Lucky dog. Back in my day, we had METAL dragons. Build this guy before I heard about pinning, much less knew how to do it. He’s held together mostly by habit. Every time I fielded him, or even touched him, I expected him to explode in a storm of shrapnel. Never did. <knock on wood dragon>

 Nevelon wrote:

 Argive wrote:
I am a proud owner of a plastic WHFB dragon

BONUS it came with asarnils original banner. All I need now is to get the rider bits..

Plastic? Lucky dog. Back in my day, we had METAL dragons. Build this guy before I heard about pinning, much less knew how to do it. He’s held together mostly by habit. Every time I fielded him, or even touched him, I expected him to explode in a storm of shrapnel. Never did. <knock on wood dragon>

Well the plastic talisman dragon formed the basis for that entire era of dragons. I love the sculpt.

Thats the Wood Elf - Forest Dragon (with plastic wings) correct?
Its on my list. Just haven't been able to find a good one yet.

My fav was the OG dragon master metal dragon they used to sell on their website back in the days of bit selling. (DRAG7 Dragon Masters) Wish I never sold it for pennies beer money as a student..

So far I have one of the warmaster ones, the sisters of twilight forest dragon, The latest Imrik dragon, and now the plastic one ready for asarnil when I can hunt down the model at a rasonable price so far going by favourites

Its just something about the talisman dragon and citadel dragon minatures I find appealing. I always wanted them all and am slowly hunting each down. None of its painted yet sadly.

Don't mean to derail the thread. But couldn't resist talking about OOP dragons..

Hope to have some photos to share one day soon.

 Argive wrote:

Its just something about the talisman dragon and citadel dragon minatures I find appealing. I always wanted them all and am slowly hunting each down. None of its painted yet sadly.

Don't mean to derail the thread. But couldn't resist talking about OOP dragons..

Hope to have some photos to share one day soon.

I know how you feel, except for me it's IG Commissars and the RT officers. There's something about them that makes me want one of each. Much the same for all the RT IG honestly...

I have a small collection of dragons myself. Not many of them are GW.

If this topic is open to old manufacturers like Grenadier and Ral Partha, I might see about taking a couple of snaps.

I'm fairly certain it is and has seen some non-GW already.

 Vermis wrote:
I have a small collection of dragons myself. Not many of them are GW.

If this topic is open to old manufacturers like Grenadier and Ral Partha, I might see about taking a couple of snaps.

I would gladly see your snaps. I have come across Ral Partha and Grandier on ebay. Big fan of all things dragon.

 Vermis wrote:
I have a small collection of dragons myself. Not many of them are GW.

If this topic is open to old manufacturers like Grenadier and Ral Partha, I might see about taking a couple of snaps.

A few sculptors that GW hired back in the day also worked for other companies.
Mark Copplestone, for example, did some great work for Grenadier back in the day (as well as GW). His "Future Warriors" stuff is still pretty mint.
(He did some of the older Commissars for 40k).

Old Grenadier, you say?

I have a decent sized force of grenadier barbarians from a long time ago. I stripped and had started repainting them when I came back to the hobby, but they are still unfinished. I'll have to dig them out and take some pictures.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Old Grenadier, you say?

Those are beatiful. Love em! So much character in old sculpts

Some sweet old minis as usual around here. I’m very jealous of you guys with lots of old dragons, I never managed to get one that’s said having acquired my brothers collection I’ve now got a zombie dragon and a manticore up in the loft storage. Maybe they’ll get some new paint at some point.

These guys were also my brothers originally, but I’ve been giving them a new coat of paint and a bit of modernisation.

They’re the minis that got me in to 40k WAY back in the day. I can still remember the rainy trip to Sheffield in hammering rain taking all sorts of detours in the dark because they were building SuperTram. My poor dad! When we got them home they obviously got one THICK coat of paint applied liberally and without control. I think I’ve done a decent job to make up for my dad’s suffering!

No marine more retro then a Crimson Fist marine. Nice job on bringing them to life.

On my to-do list is paint the new store opening TDA captain that takes his inspiration from that old guy.



Not the first old TDA captain I’ve panited, did one as a BA first.

You two are killing me. I could roll a tear seeing those old Terminators. Awesome boxed set. I suffered for mine, too. Went without food on a day-trip to California with friends so I could buy it.

 gobert wrote:
Some sweet old minis as usual around here. I’m very jealous of you guys with lots of old dragons, I never managed to get one that’s said having acquired my brothers collection I’ve now got a zombie dragon and a manticore up in the loft storage. Maybe they’ll get some new paint at some point.

These guys were also my brothers originally, but I’ve been giving them a new coat of paint and a bit of modernisation.

They’re the minis that got me in to 40k WAY back in the day. I can still remember the rainy trip to Sheffield in hammering rain taking all sorts of detours in the dark because they were building SuperTram. My poor dad! When we got them home they obviously got one THICK coat of paint applied liberally and without control. I think I’ve done a decent job to make up for my dad’s suffering!

Nice paint job, love the bold highlights! Out of interest, which brand of static grass is that on the bases?

I just finished off this 'unit', 20 assorted minis from Citadel's Oriental Heroes range, nothing later than '87 in the photo.

Thanks all!

Nevelon, Crimson Fists were the only choice for that extra blast of nostalgia! I hadn’t seen that new version of him, I might have to track him down. My version of the set were painted as Blood Angels too, but I’ve no idea what happened to them. I like how the camo chap has a flamer in his power fist, it must have a HUGE grip and trigger!

Youwashock, that’s serious commitment to a hobby! Not sure I could go without food for a day even for RTB9!

Sniffer-squig, thanks, the bold highlights were the other big part of why I chose Crimson Fists. The grass is Army Painter Battlefield Moss Green flock and the tufts are Summer Tufts from Warlord Games. I think I got them both from Mighty Lancer Games

Great (Very) old school oriental minis Juxtimon!