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Veteran Squad Moleab

25 Wednesday Jan 2023

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, resin, space marines, Steel Guard

I’m still alive, as busy or busier than ever but still getting to slowly grind out some finished miniatures. Here we have a Sternguard Veteran Squad, intended as a part of Chapter Master Melmoth’s honour guard. I used Contrast paints mostly, and the grey is much lighter. I think next time I am going to use the normal Mechanicus Standard Grey and use the Contrast paints to shade it. This is the Armour Through The Ages resin reprint of old lead miniatures and has recently been on Made To Order. This surprised me because I hadn’t realised it had been taken off sale in the first place. Its a bit sad when things you’ve bought have been removed from sale and them brough back again as classic one offs! Nice to get it painted finally. I really wanted to paint the Thunder Warrior, a mini I had when I was a lad. Its a proper 80s mini that should really have been painted in neon colours! I hope you are all staying Covid safe still. Its not over, and it might cause your immune system to go crazy and disable you, even if you’ve been vaccinated.

Grinding out the cult (pun intended)!

25 Sunday Sep 2022

Posted by terryshithole in genestealer cults

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40k, citadel miniatures, cultists, genestealer hybrids, waiting for the star children

A vehicle for the cult. I have also bought a land train so as to add something oldhammery to the cult. Of that, later! I’m pleased with the mud spatter on this one, though maybe some weathering would have looked good too.

Corpse-Grinder Cult, the Cuttyboys

15 Wednesday Jun 2022

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work, Necromunda

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40k, chaos, cultists, khorne, newhammer

A digression into newhammer, I painted these guys because I like the miniatures so much. Full of detail and bursting with ideas. I like the idea that this is how some people slip into chaos worship, without even realising that they’re doing it.

Arbusculus the Bloody-Handed, Night Lords Captain

25 Wednesday May 2022

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Finished Work

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40k, chaos marines, night lords

Returning to the leadpile in search of a chaos character I find this chap, ideal! This is a great little miniature, mid-period GW, neither silly nor especially grimdark (given that he’s a Night Lord, for whom grimdark really means something). It was a pleasure to paint, although I chickened out of trying to paint lightning bolts all over him because my life is still hectic and my nervous system can’t handle the intense concentration that learning new painting techniques can take. It’s still an hour here or there really. Painting is like meditation in that the busier you are the more important it is to try and find some time to do it! I hope you’re all doing well and are enjoying the gradual return to normal. Remember that covid is still out there and some people are medically vulnerable so take care of yourselves and each other!

Zogarg’s Speedwaaagh! – Renegade Speed Freekz

30 Wednesday Mar 2022

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Orks

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40k, boomdakka snazzwagon, citadel miniatures, evil sunz, lead, oldhammer, Orks, renegade speed freekz, Rogue Trader, warbuggy, wartrak skorcha, WH40K

My final orktober offering is an oldhammer-newhammer combi. When the Speed Freeks game came out a few years ago I fell in love with the ork vehicles inside but I couldn’t afford the whole box. Later I picked up this Boomdakka Snazzwagon, which is a lovely kit, feels very old school, full of orky goodness. It could easily pass for a battlewagon in my opinion, especially against the tiny metal vehicles of old. Orks can buy heavy weapons to mount on battlewagons, so the weapon roll out here is whatever i roll on those lovely charts (heavy bolter, heavy plasma gun, missile launcher). Speed Freekz also get access to cheap vehicles, so I added a warbuggy and wartrak (skorcha). Poor tiny vehicles! The skorcha really needs a (full size) modern kit, by the way GW, hint hint.

Orktober, Orkvember, Orkcember, Januorky, Febuorky, and Mork!

28 Monday Mar 2022

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Orks

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40k, daemons, freebooterz, gobbapallooza, grots, nurglings, Orks, possessed warphead, Rogue Trader, snots

So yeah, its’s been a busy few months. Since going all out for Orks I have been sidetracked by my partner’s long covid flaring up again, an increase in my workload, and a decrease in my own mental health. Not as much time for painting as I’d like, but an hour here and there is better than nothing. So that messy pile of bitz from five months ago has turned into three more Freebooterz mobz. Up first is the simplest: Ugnob da Dribbla, Possessed Warphead!

As readers may have noticed along the way, I love random tables. I really enjoy rolling up combos of items and materiel and bionik bitz and mutations and then modelling it. I’m not a great modeller, but every conversion teaches me something, even if that something is how not to do it next time. Sometimes they turn out great and sometimes not so great. Occasionally the tables throw out some disappointments, and that’s what happened here.

So a Possessed Warphead is, as the name suggests, and Ork possessed by a daemon (or daemons). Orks don’t possess well, so this is a bit of a bad move by the daemon. You get a weirdboy that is way powerful and has some cool chaos attributions. At least you do if you manage not to roll badly. Ugnob here has been possessed by nurglings! He also rolled up nothing on his chaos attributes chart. I also rolled on the bionik bitz chart, got a dok’s surprise and then rolled fungus breff! So let’s say that he’s only just been possessed by nurglings, which has given him a tendancy to have ten-way conversations with himself, a weird sense of humour, terrible breath and incredible amounts of snot.

Possessed Warpheadz even give Madboyz the creepz, so he’s a lone figure on the battlefield, but I decided to make him some snot and grot sidekicks. This became a big base of sidekicks, but actually I regret this because it’s too big and unwieldy, it makes no sense. I should have made a scenic base that you can put Ugnob in, or put the sidekicks onto individual bases and scattered them around him.

This isn’t a very oldhammer beginning to Orktober, but fear not, there’s plenty to come!

Ugnob and sidekicks

Battle-damaged Steel Guard rhino

02 Tuesday Nov 2021

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, rhino, space marines

I got this rhino years ago in a joblot of battered vehicles and unfinished conversions that caught my eye. It was covered in mud-effects and patchily painted. I scrubbed off the mud effects, stripped the paint off it, added a space marine sticking his head out and a generic cannon that could be a counts-as for a storm bolter or even a predator cannon if I wanted. I then used a thinner mud effect to give it a bit of verisimilitude. I am quite pleased with this, it looks battle damaged but functioning, very Steel Guard-esque (Imperial Fists descendents with a touch of the Death Guard infantry slogger mentality).

Tactical Squad Kunze, first squad, seventh company

29 Friday Oct 2021

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, citadel miniatures, Steel Guard, WH40K

A quick Steel Guard squad, using a sprue of modern marines that I had lying around. They look alright but they’re not as characterful as the old ones, are they?

I haven’t painted sergeant helmets white before, but I think I’m going to stick at it, I think it adds a nice flash of colour. Of course, the first third of the chapter don’t have white helmeted sergeants, but it’s my goshdarned chapter and I declare it OK.

Wazgut Uzbog, Bad Moon Warboss

27 Wednesday Nov 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Orks

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40k, Bad Moons, Orks, warboss

You know how it goes, you have so many projects going on that none of them ever seem to get anywhere… so it has been with my Ork Freebooter army. In order to field a valid Freebooter army I need a warboss, retinue, and big mob to attach all the Freebooterz to. I did the big mob some time ago… https://leadmess.com/2016/07/02/waargh-dakka-dakka-its-grimsniks-ouseold-boyz/ so maybe I should get a shift on… therefore, here I present Wazgut Uzbog, Bad Moon Warboss. Wazgut is only a minor warboss at the moment, but he has some grand ideas, if only he had the boyz! So he’s spending teef like there’s no tomorrow in the hope of carving out a decent Empire for himself and winning some good scraps at the head of an army of freaks and outcasts…

The miniature is, I think, from Knightmare. The sculptor has really caught the essence of Ansellite Orkishness, and yellow contrast paint is really very good indeed. This mini was so quick to paint that I think I should go back and try and do some black and white checks or something… but i always fuck it up when I try to get too clever so maybe its done!

Imperial Guard Land Speeder

25 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Imperial Guard

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40k, conversions, imperial guard, land speeder, oldhammer, Rogue Trader

A relic of years passed when Land Speeders were a support choice for the Imperial Guard.  this is a lovely miniature that was a pleasure to paint.  I’m pleased with the way this turned out, I think the crewmen especially came out alright.  I was least pleased with the tiny repair job I did, replacing a missing under-slung bolter with a plastic bolter from a modern Space Marine tank.  I decided not to put any iconography on the Land Speeder so that it could be used as either a loyalist or traitor army, depending on my mood.

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“Hold this thing steady whilst I take a shot…”

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