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Chaos Warlord Titan of the Legio Audax

08 Monday Sep 2025

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The title says it all really. This Warlord was kicking around in my pile of potential and I thought I had better paint it up. Picking a colourscheme randomly from lexicanum’s list of traitor titan legions (it had to be a traitor because, well, it is a traitor, just look at it). I think this is the third old Warlord I’ve painted. One of the most fun things about painting things in different scales IMO is that you can use the bases to tell stories in ways that are much harder in 28/32mm. So here we have a brave knight facing off against some nasty plaguebearers… My favourite bit about this was adding the whipping tentacle coming out of one of its weapon mounts. I tried to make it look fleshy!

Rhino Restoration: Death Guard transport

04 Thursday Sep 2025

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This is it! We’re getting close now. Yes, I’ve nearly cleared a backlog of restoration projects. With this rhino there is only one more oldhammer vehicle sitting in parts in the small wooden trunk that hides my shame. Once a variety of badly converted Ork vehicles, these have gradually become, well, other badly converted Ork vehicles, a chaos warshrine, and another Death Guard rhino! No more will I buy damaged rhinos and pile them up waiting for inspiration to strike! Actually I probably will, although the price of damaged rhinos these days is incredible. I maybe should have just sold all these and called it a day. But that isn’t the oldhammer way! So you may remember I did some Death Guard last year and included a rhino. That was fun, so I did another! I used lots of glazes and layers of browns and greens and filth and rust. This was kind of necessary – the previous paint job didn’t want to come off in places, and the plastic was affected by the paint remover in others. All very Nurgly. Happy with my work here.

Fibrius Clustor, beloved of Nurgle, and his Begrimed Host

22 Tuesday Oct 2024

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I’ve been sitting on these for months waiting to have the time and energy to post. This horrible bunch are Fibrius Clustor and his warband. We’ve got Fibrius himself, which came from a Kickstarter, and is a lovely miniature. Fibrius could be a daemon prince, the magic using leader of a Plague Marine army, or a powerfully mutated human cultist well on the path to ascention. Then there is the big tube creature, from the same Kickstarter. These two are beautiful and were a joy to paint. Big Tube can be a Greater Daemon, a spawn, a daemon prince, or perhaps a Beast of Nurgle, depending on my feels. Up next we have some Oldhammer goodness, a Rhino and some original monopose plastic Plague Marines. The Rhino had already been converted towards Nurgle, I just tidied up the conversion a bit and repainted it. The Plague Marines are pretty limited but I made some conversions. In theory these are table legal in 10th edition, with a Plague Spitter and Plague Weapons modelled in addition to the missile launcher (Plague Launcher?) and flamer (Plague Flamer, i dunno). I think that they’ve come out alright considering how shonky the minis are. I hated them at the time because the Realm of Chaos branded Chaos Marines were so good and these are so basic. But they’re a step on the path that led us to where we are now, with amazing Plague Marines. The final bits of this warband I am not so happy with. Firstly, Newhammer Chaos Spawn, which were tricky to paint and unrewarding. In the end I did lots of layers of different shades to try and get a dusky bruised and rotting effect. This wasn’t especially successful. Finally a fansculpt Space Crusade style dreadnought. This was difficult to paint mostly because the sculpt is a bit of a stinker. It looked alright on screen but it doesn’t fit together well at all, and the detail is scrawled on with a point, and where it is sculpted on its pretty basic and has fingerprints in it and generally looks like a beginner’s piece. We all need to start somewhere, and I am happy to support enthusastic amateurs. It’s just hard to get a piece like that looking good, especially with my limited skills.

Until next time!

Nurgly gribblies: The Wurmspat!

13 Monday Nov 2023

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Now, I am not a Warhammer Underworlds player, but I do know some lovely minis when I see them, so I picked these up a while back when they were about to go off sale, and have finally gotten around to painting them. I don’t know that I have any use for them, but I never play any games anyway and aren’t likely to until Firestorm Games puts in a HEPA filter (which is probably the same as never), so it doesn’t really matter. I enjoyed painting this lot, lots of detail, lots of gribble. One thing that I really liked with this set is something you can’t actually see – the witch has three boobs! Only one complaint… there is supposed to be a sort of nurgly pet animal with this set, but as I clipped it off the sprue it went ping and was never seen again! I’ve moved every bit of furniture, lifted the rug, but no sign. It is as if it has never existed! I bet this happens to us all sometimes… that said, my citadel clippers disappeared too. I had a set of the metal handled ones and they were amazing, so much better, sharper and cleaner cutting, than the normal cheap ones i use. Then one day they were gone, disappeared. Now, we are a two adults household, and we almost never have guests due to living in a permanent self-isolation due to my partner’s health issues, and the dogs aren’t interested in metal things. So it all just disappears into a tiny wormhole that floats around the art room and sucks up things occasionally. Anyway, enjoy the Wurmspat!

where’s your god now? sigmarite war alter conversion…

26 Saturday Dec 2020

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This is a bit of a one-off project that I painted for the hell of it, though I suppose that over the last few years I’ve probably painted enough fantasy squads that I could put together some sort of Chaos army, especially if you consider all the Battle Masters stuff… which reminds me, I must finish that sometime. Yeah, a chaos army would definitely work, some beastmen, chaos knights, I’ve got some plaguebearers and some pink horrors, some tzeentch wizards, some chaos dwarf artillery. that would make a good army. Anyhoo, when I pulled a war alter out of the leadpile, I struggled to think what to do with it. It was incomplete, missing a horn, and I considered trying my hand at sculpting but in the end decided that it would be more fun to tell a story with it.

Recently captured by a Nurglish wizard, the alter is just beginning its descent into chaos. It has been desecrated in Nurgle’s name, and sacrifices have been made on it to Nurgle. The statue hasn’t yet begun to change, but is degenerating. When enough sacrifices have been made, our wizard friend is possessed by a demon of decay and his physical form changes. Then men will tremble and plagues will run free!

Happy Christmas everyone, hope 2021 is a better year for us all.

“What’s that awful smell from the enginarium?” Kill Team Gellerpox Infected warband

23 Sunday Jun 2019

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Hello again everyone, and welcome to another installation of Bastard Fat-hands Difficult Modern Painting! This month, the Gellerpox Infected are very difficult to paint. I actually got the Kill Team boxset because I wanted the Rogue Trader and entourage, but I painted the Gellerpox gang first because they fit with the Death Guard from Dark Imperium. I am happiest with the Nightmare Hulks, which were a lot of fun to paint. I am least happy with Vulgror, I struggled with necrotised/undead/zombie dark skin. Obv. I could have painted him differently, but I like to try out new things. The VoxShamblers were tricky, in the same way that the very-similar PoxWalkers were tricky. I tried to give them three different skin tones here, but it came out very samey. The sculpting is wonderful though, I love most the hospital-trolley leg club, that really tells a story.

The Gellerpox Gang!
  • Cursemites
  • Glitchlings
  • Gnasher-Screamer
  • Vulgror Thrice-Cursed
  • Nightmare Hulks
  • SludgeGrubs
  • VoxShambler
  • VoxShambler
  • VoxShambler

Dark Imperium Poxwalkers

16 Friday Mar 2018

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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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