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freebooterz, oldhammer, Orks, Orktober!, Rogue Trader, Runtherd, WIP
This is my WIP Orktober! submission.
Orktober!
24 Saturday Oct 2015
Posted in Oldhammer Challenges, Orks
Steel Guard II Company – complete SM company!
10 Saturday Oct 2015
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I finished painting the whole 2nd Company of the Steel Guard. Actually, when I laid them all out to photo them I discovered I’d actually painted 11 squads! Not sure how you can miscount squads of Space Marines but I achieved it.
I posted the pics of the Rogue Trader period miniatures already, I think they make a wonderful little warband. But here’s the whole lot. Warning! Modern Space Marines included 😀
The whole lot!
This is the newest squad. I have started making scenic bases for them.
This RT chap makes a great assault sergeant.
Based around a damaged mid-period Calgar miniature I converted this captain to be a close-combat monster.
The gulf in quality between the earlier and later marines is huge. One of the best things about this hobby is being able to watch yourself improve.
This sergeant is from Dark Vengeance. Next to him is a Rogue Trader plastic.
This techmarine is one of my earliest conversions. I found painting red really tricky.
In the end I fixed upon using the astronomical icon for ‘comet’ as their insignia.
I tried out different iconography as I went along.
Rogue Trader Marines Warband
26 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
I’ve recently finished painting the final squad of the Steel Guard 2nd Company. Well, I finished it a couple of weeks ago but I didn’t get around to photographing it until today. But if you want to see what an entire company looks like you’re going to have to wait another day or two. First of all I am indulging the spirit of Rogue Trader and Oldhammer.
Presented below is a Rogue Trader Marine Army (with a few 2nd ed. marines hanging out too). These are all the RT-era Marines in the company. I know the photo isn’t very well taken, but I reckon this would look damn fine on the tabletop. I hope you agree!
Oh, a squat warlord and a servitor have slipped in there too. Just because that’s what happens in Rogue Trader.
Snagabog’s Bugz – Ork-Genestealer Hybrids
17 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in Finished Work, Orks
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40k, citadel miniatures, conversions, freebooterz, oldhammer, ork-genestealer hybrids, Rogue Trader
Now this is a squad I’m pleased with. As part of my ongoing project to create an army of Freebooterz, one mob of each type, I present Snagabog’s Bugz.
These were a lot of fun to paint, and aside from the actual Genestealers that I think I should redo, I am well chuffed with how they turned out. I enjoyed making use of various Gaunt bodies from my bits box to make these, I’m sure some purists will argue that termagaunts and hormagaunts aren’t Genestealer but to them I say piffle! 
excuse the purestrains, i was trying to learn about zenith painting!
Model picked in homage to another OG hybrid freebooter!
The Tyrant Of Badab!
16 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted in Chaos, Finished Work
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This is an example of a miniature that I gave up on. Huron here was sitting on my painting desk for weeks. After the initial layers of boltgun metal and gold I was quite happy, i thought it looked good. But as I painted on the various details I felt that it was getting away from me, and I never recaptured it. So I did his face (also not happy with that) and based him and decided that I’d come back to it another time!
Despite not being an oldhammer model, I’m still a fan of this model, but painting it… well, it’s a bit too busy!
The Tyrant Of Badab
Battlemasters Chaos Lord
14 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in Battlemasters, Chaos, Finished Work
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It’s been a while since I’ve completed anything I’ve liked enough to post here, but I’m happy enough with this. I think the horse is better than the rider, I enjoyed learning to do the horse. I’ve never been happy with any horses before but this time I looked at a How To Paint Horses from an old White Dwarf and this is the result.
The Alpha Legion warband of Thorfinn The Bloody Furious.
28 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in Chaos, Finished Work
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40k, Alpha Legion, army, chaos, cultists
I am currently working on another unit of cultists. Over the last couple of years my cultists have become more like Traitor Guard and less like the first 10 miniatures out of the box painted as cultists! I am increasingly interested in making a proper traitor army using oldhammer models, and less interested in using whatever models are to hand to make a meatshield to go alongside my Alpha Legion marines. Of course, if I stop making that side of the army, I might as well try a different flavour of Chaos Space Marines too. And lo! it was decided that my Alpha Legion army was complete
The next twenty or so photos show off this army in its completeness. I’m pretty pleased with it, but there are some problems. First of all, and most obviously, quality control. Included in this army are many of the earliest miniatures I ever painted and so the quality of painting is simply pretty low (even by my standards). Secondly, I never found an Alpha Legion colour-scheme that I was entirely satisfied with, so there are lots of variations on blue-with-green-and-silver-trim. Thirdly, the style of the cultists is all over the shop. Early in my painting hobby I liked the idea of the cultist gangs being a mix of soldiers, civilians, mutants, human chaos champions and magicians, etc etc. So basically it was a bit of an anything goes, lots of fantasy miniatures with guns. Later on I decided that this style wasn’t really working and so the cultists became a bit more themed, with only the odd mutation here and there.
Less talk and more pictures. At 6th ed. prices there’s just over 4000 points here. HYDRA DOMINATUS!
The whole army – mutants and assault squads to the front, cultists next, then CSMs, with the bosses and the artillery at the back.
Tsunami of mutants! The eagle-eyed might spot a genestealer hybrid in there.
CSM Assault! Chaos Terminators, Chaos bikers, and loads of (incredibly hard to paint) Possessed Chaos Space Marines. I’m also very pleased with the Vindicator with it’s dragon skull on the barrel.
Chaos Rough Riders! My first conversion work, very rough but you gots to learn somewhere.
Frenzied Mutant Mob! You can see how I just threw everything in there. I’ve now decided that if I’ve got a couple of e.g. Dark Elves they can be part of a ROC warband rather than shoehorned into a 40k one.
Possessed and Vindicator. Both are very differently challenging models to paint.
A dastardly psyker and his cultist retinue.
A Sentinal, piloted by a crazed cultist. I love these egg-walkers!
A commissar has turned to chaos. Oh such heresy! His quad include an Heroquest elf and a Blood Bowl Chaos Cheerleader!
Another Chaos Sorcerer and his bodyguard of foolish cultists.
Alpha Legion Tactical Squads.
Uncle PusHugs, my Great Unclean One.
Big Moo. Big Moo is a Chaos Spawn, made huge and idiotic and deadly by the warping power of chaos. I really liked painting and converting this model.
“DIE YUPPY SCUM”
The Bosses: Muriel The Cancerous, Great Megarhyssa, Thorfinn, and the Slimequeen.
Thorfinn and the Slimequeen, beloved of Nurgle! The bunker behind is a card Battle Bunker from White Dwarf magazine in about 1994.
Mark IV Chaos Dreadnought. One of the first miniatures I painted!
Chaos Sorcerer Magdi and his familiar Vissel The Possessed. Confession time, Vissel is a conversion that came in a lot I bought on ebay and i liked him so much I didn’t touch him.
More Chaos Space Marines. I love the early Rogue Trader Renegades and in the next army am going to try and increase the ratio of early CSMs to modern ones.
CSM Chosen from the Dark Vengeance box-set. Fantastic models but this is a shonky paintjob.
Colonel Clichy’s ‘C’ Force!
26 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Finished Work, Imperial Guard
When you’ve got a task and only the best will do! If no-one else can get their man and kill the baddies! etc etc.
The last few weeks I have been painting up the Last Chancers. Col. Shaffer’s Last Chancers were a late 90s WH40k gang that allowed you to recreate movies like The Dirty Dozen, or play Action Force “GI Joe” with your armies. The idea was that this squad were hand picked by a tough old Colonel from a bunch of prisoners, picked because of their unique skills, and were offered the chance to embark on a suicide mission (or be executed). Each character isn’t really a character but an action movie cliche. Especially the two women, “Warrior Woman” and “Rocket Girl”. I guess being female is a character trait in Nottingham.
I really enjoyed painting this lot. I put a lot into it, and whilst my critical eye sees now lots of things I could have done better, I’m still very pleased with them.
‘C’ Force
Rocket Girl, Brains, Shiv
Scope, Demolition Man, Rocket Girl
Hero, Warrior Woman (I am particularly pleased with her neon orange leggings), Grease Monkey
Grease Monkey, Animal, Fingers
Battlemasters Goblins!
09 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
Golly, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Since I last posted I’ve completed a couple of squads but I’ve not been happy enough with them to post pictures. Here’s the first complete thing in ages that I’ve been relatively happy with. It’s a tray of Goblins for a Chaos warband. Not perfect but they’ll do!
Squad Nisista: Steel Guard 2nd Company V Tactical Squad
17 Friday Apr 2015
Posted in Finished Work, Space Marines
I know a lot of the Oldhammer fans don’t approve of the whole Insignium Astartes thing, seeing it as a way of dictating how you paint and play. For me though I enjoy trying to get the squad markings right! It has an added bonus that you don’t need any further markings to work out which miniatures are a squad, so that if they get mixed up there’s no guessing what toys go together! When I first started painting I used coloured splotches on the bottom of the bases to indicate which marines went where, but as I became more confident and started painting squad markings I found that there was no longer any need. Of course, I couldn’t tell you why it’s important not to confuse Marine With Bolter A with Marine With Bolter B, but there you go.
This latest squad means that I now have painted (and named) 9 out of 2nd Company’s 10 squads. One more tactical squad and we’ve got a full company. Expect that sometime this year :p
I’m pretty pleased with this squad. Slowly I’m getting better. I reckon I’ve done maybe 500 of my 10,000 hours – the 10,000 hours you need to spend on something to become a master!
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