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Dark Imperium Poxwalkers

16 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium, Finished Work

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Death Guard, nurgle, plague zombies, poxwalkers, WH40K

Finally finished these tricky bleeders.  I’m not very happy with them.  Like the Death Guard, they are lovely minis that I think really encapsulate the Nurgle plague zombie look.  They are heavily detailed, and you can see by looking at them how much time the poor sculptors must have spent looking at icky pictures of diseases and weird infections and gross skin conditions.  But they are blinking hard to paint.  There’s just so much there, so many different textures, so many tiny details.  In the end I had to accept that there is only so much a boy can do!

 

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The Ninefold Square, Tzeentch Thrall Wizards Warband

04 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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C02 Casslin Spellweaver, C02 Smantha Phox, C02 Spectalus Lorewise, CH5 Chaos Familiars, Hero Quest Chaos Sorcerer, LE7 Wizard with a Machine Gun, Mormo Jabberbinder, Oldhammer Weekend Mini 2017, Realm Of Chaos, Thrall Wizards, Tzeentch

One of the bits of The Lost And The Damned that is often overlooked is the section on Tzeentch Thrall Wizards.  Instead of a Champion and warband, you can have nine wizards instead.   The wizard champion is enhanced by their followers and becomes more powerful in the game.  They can all receive chaos gifts and rewards and all that stuff.  This has long appealed to me, and so I finally got around to putting a warband together.

 

There are some fantastic oldhammer miniatures here, all of which were a pleasure to paint.  Probably the one I’m least happy with is the Samantha Phox, which is an atrocious mini really – not for the sexism (though it is mildly sexist), but the terrible anatomy of the arms and head (and boobs).  My favourites here were the wizard with the staff and bare feet, and the Hero Quest evil magician, but they were all a pleasure to paint.

I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed painting them.

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The whole warband.

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The wizard with the biggest staff must be the champion, right?

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Oldhammery goodness

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Wizard with a machine gun!

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Gondolf the purple

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Early Orc Shaman becomes human wizard easily

Dark Imperium Death Guard

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium

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40k, chaos, chaos marines, Death Guard, noxious plaguecaster, terrible stinky poo men yuk

Sometimes a hobby can feel like a chore and trying to get this lot done was one of those times.  I found them very difficult to get looking this good, and I don’t think I did a very good job at all.  Beautiful minis but there is so much fine detail!

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Death approaches

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The Noxious Plaguecaster

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The unstoppable march of death

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Ring-a-ding-ding!

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Plague Marines in the house

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More Plague Marines.

Merdigera the Spawn

12 Thursday Oct 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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chaos, lead, oldhammer, spawn

Merdigera started walking the eightfold path as a wizard’s apprentice who couldn’t wait to learn more.  Leaving his master behind he wandered into the Wastes Of Chaos in search of knowledge and magical powers.  At first all went well, and the gifts of Tzeentch turned him into something more than a man.  But like most chaos worshippers, he faltered, unable to master the winds of magic in such a way as to please his malignant god.  So it was that he ended up less than human, a jumbled twist of flesh dragged around by his former warband as a mascot. Let that be today’s lesson!

 

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Need any blood today, missus?

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work, Oldhammer Challenges, Uncategorized

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beastman, blood, challenge, chaos, oldhammer

Meet Nigel.  Nigel is a door-to-door blood salesman.  He has been painted for the Oldhammer Forum’s annual painting challenge for 2016 – “Chaos Villagers”.  Nigel has a bestial face mutation, and an extra arm with a beweaponed extremity.  Obviously I used a plastic beastman and glued a tyranid arm onto him!  He’s got a bucket filled with lovely blood and carries a banner advertising his wares.

Quite pleased with this, enjoyed making him.  Won’t leave it so late next year!

 

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horny bastard!

08 Tuesday Nov 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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chaos, citadel miniatures, lead, minotaur, slaanesh

So I’ve been a lot more busy than usual.  I was hoping to have some Orcs done (for Orctober), but the only thing I’ve finished recently is this sexy Slaaneshi Minotaur for my ongoing chaos warband.  I had one of these miniatures when I was a lad but I didn’t really ‘get’ it.  Much more innocent times.  It’s a fantastic sculpt.  There’s such a lot to get your head around… bionic leg, jaw, and eye; that studded posing pouch without much in it; the long glove on its sword arm; the huge beefy pecs / boobs; pierced flesh; various cuts and scars across its back… definitely one of my favourite ever miniatures.  I hope that I have done it proud.

 

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Bring on the trolls!

21 Sunday Aug 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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chaos, lead, trolls

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten anything finished (apart from a squad of Space Marine Terminators that I completely forgot about), but I have finally finished a small gang of trolls.  These beauties were mostly sculpted by Drew Williams from the Oldhammer Facebook group.  There’s also a metal Citadel River Troll in there too.  I chose to paint them blue because it’s not a colour I use very often, and I am mostly happy with it.  I think that I should have gone a bit lighter, and I definitely should have remembered to remove the mold lines from one of the heads, but in general I am very happy with these.

 

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“Death From Below!” – Chaos Cultist Mole Mortar

14 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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chaos, conversions, cultists

A few years ago, when I first started buying miniatures, I found something interesting in a job lot.  It looked a bit like a Citadel Miniatures Mole Mortar, but upon examination it was actually homemade.  What a good idea, I thought, and then forgot all about it for ages.  Coming across it later I decided that the creator’s work should be honoured.  It’s a good job, if a bit rough around the edges, I’m not sure I could make a better Mole Mortar myself.

The original paintjob was a bit scuffed, but was suitably oldhammer friendly – with “death from below”, a winged bomb, and kill tallies painted on.  I didn’t change anything, just added a bit of shadow, some green lines for the control panel screen, and some rough edge highlights.

As I have lots of Chaos Cultists, it made sense that this was a repurposed Imperial mortar, and anyway, Cultists are always fun to make.  These two are well along the Eightfold Path, mutation stealing away their humanity.  I’ll leave it to the reader to identify the parts used.

Finally I added some fencing to cover up the least convincing part of the Mole Mortar, and to make it look more like an artillery emplacement.  Those two had better hope no Space Marine sees them using that old helmet, or there might be trouble!

 

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Newhammer Warning: 30K Death Guard

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Betrayal At Calth, Chaos, Finished Work, Space Marines

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30k, Betrayal At Calth, chaos, citadel miniatures, Death Guard, newhammer

I was given Betrayal At Calth for Christmas.  I can’t tell you yet if its any good as a game, but the miniatures are lovely. Whilst they lack the charm and crazy genius of the late 80s Citadel output, these really are beautiful models.   Deciding against painting the contents as Ultramarines vs Word Bearers (as Ultramarines are yuk, and Word Bearers similarly uninspiring), I had to consider other options.  The baddies were an easy choice really – I’ve already got an Alpha Legion army and have given up ever getting a painting technique I am pleased with for those snakey scamps.  I do want to paint a Night Lords warband – in fact, I want to make the warband from the Night Lords series of novels by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.  I was tempted to use these as a place to start, but I want to use these as game pieces in Betrayal At Calth eventually, not chop them up into individuals.  So Death Guard it was.  Nurgle is my homeboy.

 

The paintjob was loosely based on the Forge Word painting instructions for Death Guard, along with some making-it-up-as-I-went-along.  It’s pretty hit or miss to be honest.  I’ll be changing the recipe slightly for the next Death Guard squad.  Still,  I am happy with this first attempt.

 

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Make way for Big Hyacinth!

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Battlemasters, Chaos, Finished Work

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Battle Masters, chaos, ogre, oldhammer

Another step towards a completed Battle Masters set, this is the fantastic Ogre.  The Ogre is the single most powerful model in the game, but his effectiveness is determined by the cards.  I think this is a fabulous model – the scale is out compared to GW’s other Ogres (although I haven’t seen him lined up with the Marauder Giant Ogres), but that doesn’t effect how good it is.  I’ve got a few of these now, and hope to make up an Ogre mob!

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