Category Archives: Finished Work

Squad Aden, Space Marine Assault Squad

11 Wednesday Oct 2017

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Another quick update, from big marines to littler marines.  The old RTB01s look piddly next to many of the new miniatures.  I have to say that while I am not wedded to any particular scale I think that some of the modern miniatures are too big.  I am not so much thinking of the warmachines, the super heavies and all that, but instead of the AoS giant figures, Nagash, for example, or the Verminlords.   Too much going on, too big compared to the other models… and that’s quite apart from the price.  Magnus and Mortarian are lovely miniatures, but £80+ is too much for me.  Of course, the quality of workmanship is completely different, there’s no denying that.  The RTB01s were the best they could do at the time and are really quite rubbish compared to the modern stuff but they were my childhood rubbish and that’s that!

This squad is a mixed batch of Oldhammer marines; you can tell these were hand sculpted, but that just makes them better!

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Sgt Aden

Converted Rogue Trader marine

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Rogue Trader marineTwo RTB01 marinesRTB01 assault marines

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The Primaris thing…

10 Tuesday Oct 2017

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One can’t help but notice that there have been some new Space Marines about.  I’ll come out and say that I think that the new stuff, miniatures and fluff are great.  Part of the allure of the WH40K universe is that it is stuck at a permanent 3 seconds to midnight, technologically and socially moribund,  hatefully fascistic in every way, whilst the sharks circle and none of them are any better.  But Guilliman is a goody, or at least not as much of a baddie as most of the Imperium, and the Primaris marines and all that lot are new technology, new discoveries, etc etc.  Guilliman can undo most of the bad stuff, except that he hasn’t got the time because the Eye Of Terror has turned into the Great Rift and he’s needed everywhere…  The balance is maintained!  Anyway, I bought the 40K box set, and started on the marines, as if I don’t have more minis that I can ever paint already.

I’m pleased with these.  I think I’m getting better as a painter, learning new techniques, my fine motor control is improving, and in general my marines are looking great.  Of course, I’ve already painted the entire 2nd Company, some of which are my earliest paintjobs for the Steel Guard and looking a bit crap… So I’m going to try and spread out the company colour trim, so that all the companies will contain a mix of squads over time, and no one company will be so much worse than all the others.  Except of course the 2nd Company, but maybe they can disappear into the Great Rift…

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the flying bases on these are a f**king nightmare. one of them is attached by green stuff, because neither glue nor pinning would do the job.

The Inquisitorial warband of Leontien Ramgarh

09 Monday Oct 2017

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So this is a first for me,  but so many other people were making such amazing warbands that I wanted a go too.  Instead of the intricate grimdark of Blanchitsu and its devotees, I’ve tried to start gently and playfully.  I actually finished these months ago, but forgot to take any photos at the time.  I’ve got quite a backlog of updates to get through!  I hope you enjoy these pictures.

The Inquisitor herself is a Hasslefree ‘Power-armoured Libby’, which I’ve done in blue because I’ve never painted anything vaguely Ultramarines-esque before and wanted to try it out.  It’s a lovely miniature, full of life and movement, and I enjoyed painting it.  I think that I should have painted some insignia and glyphs onto her armour.

Other miniatures in this group are from Blind Beggar’s Outlander range, Lead Adventure’s Astropolis, and of course Citadel – we’ve got a Chaos Familiar, an Adeptus Arbites, a Commissar, and a Battle Psyker.  Finally the robot was sculpted by Drew Williams.

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Big Sal’s Dakkagurlz – Human Mercenary mob / Necromunda gang

13 Thursday Jul 2017

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One of the lesser-remembered Ork mobz from the Rogue Trader period was the Human Mercenary mob.  I am not sure I ever saw one painted or used.  When I pulled an old metal Escher ganger out of the lead-pile I knew what I needed to do.  With the release of Shadow War Armageddon getting everyone hot for Necromunda action, I thought that they could double as a Necromunda gang, should I ever decide to play it….

 

The galaxy is a big place.  Beyond the reaches of the Imperium are millions of Ork-held star systems.  Plenty of humans live in these systems.  Some are slaves toiling in Ork factories, others are (relatively) free, ignored as long as a massive tithe of weapons and vehicles are forthcoming (and the Orks have got better enemies to fight, of course).  Some of these humans are feral or semi-feral, living lives not much different the Orks themselves.  Some of them even seem to think that they are Orks, much to the amusement of Orks themselves, who reckon that these humans are cracked.  Nevertheless, when the Orks go off to Waaagh sometimes they bring some of these Kultured humans with them (normally as light entertainment or cannon-fodder); sometimes the humans come along anyway and just turn up, shouting in pidgin-Orkish and shooting at the same things.  Big Sal’s Dakkagurlz is one of those mobz….

 

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Space Hulk redux

09 Sunday Jul 2017

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I finally finished painting the Terminators from Space Hulk 3rd Edition.  They are beautiful miniatures, and I made the mistake of painting them in odds and sods as part of other Terminator squads or as individuals.  Mrs Plunger and I had a couple of games of Space Hulk the other week, so I thought it would be nice to finish them off and bring them all together as one.  The quality of paintjobs is variable, a couple of these are a bit shonky and a couple I’m very pleased with.  Better play some more Space Hulk now I guess.

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The red chap was my first attempt at painting Blood Angels. It wasn’t very successful, so I have rechristened him a Techmarine in Terminator armour.

Nazfug & Mugog’s Great Big Noisy Dredz For ‘ire: Freebooterz Dreadmob

21 Sunday May 2017

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Now this was a fun project!  The list in Freebooterz is for a Mek, a Dok, and a Dread.  I added another Dread (because I had 2), and seeing as i wanted to use the Bionik Dok mini I took a 3 rolls on the bionik bitz chart, rolling telescopic legs, stainless steel teef, and an extra set of bionik arms with a kustom melta.  For the Dreads I rolled to see how many modifications they got.  I ended up with the first having an extra autocannon, kustom force field and speakers.  The second though, whew!  I ended up with a kustom d-cannon, squig-injection, extra autocannon, speakers, kustom ff, and a scorcher turret…  In the end I couldn’t fit the speakers on it, but I think i’ve got the rest right.  The red one is Da Nipper, and the yellow one is called Hot Lips.  Enjoy!

 

Deathwatch Overkill! Deathwatch Kill Team…

29 Saturday Apr 2017

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I’m sure that I can’t be the only one who has piles upon piles of miniatures waiting to be painted.  A big box of sprues sits here, overflowing with untouched plastic miniatures waiting to be built and painted so that I can use them as they were intended, with boxed games.  Battle Masters, Warhammer 4th ed, Advanced Space Crusade, Space Hulk, Assassination Force Super Team (or whatever it was called), Deathwatch Overkill, Betrayal At Calth, and Burning Of Prospero are all unfinished.  So!  I will be concentrating on painting these minis from now on.  I promise!

 

These are lovely miniatures, though what they have in detail they lack in the charm of the older hand-sculpted minis.  In many ways they were a pleasure to paint, though sticking to the ‘official’ paint scheme was quite troublesome –  I find black hard to paint.  Still, I think they have turned out well.

 

Skarsog’s Wildboyz – Wild Ork Outlawz

17 Monday Apr 2017

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Pulling a plastic push-fit Warhammer Orc out of the leadpile,  I thought to myself “gosh, what am I going to do with this then?”.  I considered a few ideas… perhaps I could put together a Warhammer regiment.  Maybe I could use an arm with a gun instead of an arm with a sword and have it as a feral-looking boy in a boyz mob.  But I wanted to do another Freebooterz unit.  Wait a minute!  Is that a bit of my brain trying to alert me to something… I checked the book, riffled through the pages, there it is!  Wild Ork Outlawz, discovered by Freebooterz instead of proper Orks, who learn Kultur from them and are forever ruined for the Clans…  There were no proper figures for Wild Orkz, you were probably supposed to use Warhammer miniatures, with minor conversions.  So that is what I did.  Not a lot of Oldhammer goodness here, but Oldhammer in spirit.  Enjoy!