I finally painted up one of my favourite miniatures of all time, the classic Citadel C23 Ogre “Skrag the Slaughterer – Ogre Renegade”.
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Sump-41: All Killer No (Rad Suit) Filter – A Classic Van Saar Gang
I painted up a classic Van Saar gang for a Necromunda narrative event held this weekend. 12 players took part over 2 days at Dragon’s Lair Edwardstown. I painted the gang in a scheme based off of a photo from the 3rd edition Imperial Guard codex, and the gang name (and names of the gangers) are based on the classic emo rock band Sum 41 (I don’t know why, it just seemed appropriate somehow).
Continue readingSci-Fi Civilians: Ships Crew
Some sci-fi civilians painted just for fun really; painted as Ship’s Crew for some sort of civilian space ship.
The figures are an OOP civilian model from Warlord Games, from their Judge Dredd 200AD range (the guy holding the brown paper package) and the other is the Ship’s Mechanic from EM-4 Miniatures, from the legendary Spacelords range. Painted to a basic standard, I have more of these sorts of minis which I will paint in due course.
At one stage I had dreams of doing an upper-hive Necromunda game, featuring various civilians getting in the way. I therefore collected various sci-fi civilians, many of which are quite fun models, and may even be useful one day!
Blood Angels Scout, GW Rogue Trader era
The first model from my Blood Angels army, a scout from the Rogue Trader era. Fun to paint.
Continue readingVastarian Weirdos
I started painting these weirdos some time ago for the Between the Bolter and Me Vastarian Painting Challenge and in my usual style finished them around 18 months late.
Continue readingCall me Santa!
In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. Santa has the Naughty List ready, and he’s going in.
Continue readingA Bitter Harvest: Fred Reed’s Old School Howling Griffons Space Marines Army
Everyone of a certain vintage knows of this legendary army. The iconic full army shot from the back cover of White Dwarf 179 is the stuff of legend. An (at that time) obscure chapter in a quartered (!) scheme featuring 2 of the (at that time with the paints as they were then) hardest to paint colours, across a full company of space marines…it was mind blowing.
Continue readingStorm the Trenches: Old School White Scars Space Marines – Dylan Martin – Wayne Bell – and… Paul Sawyer (a.k.a. “Fat Bloke”)
Some old school White Scars space marines for your viewing pleasure.
Continue readingSome games of 2nd ed 40K
Over the last couple of weeks I have played a couple of games of 40K with my regular group.
Continue readingMore thoughts on Warhammer: The Old World and an introduction to my High Elves project
I played another game of Warhammer: The Old world last week, this time a 4 player game run a 2 vs 2 with me and my regular gaming buddy (High Elves and Wood Elves) taking on two opponents who were running Vampire Counts and Chaos Warriors. We each took 1,500 points (so 3,000 per side) and ran a simple pitched battle. It was good fun and 3,000 points per side made for a good game, though with those points restricted to 1,500 per player it meant that there weren’t any truly overpowered characters or units on the table.
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Classic Warhammer 40K 