Plaguebearers - Work in progress

Waaaaay too long since I've posted. I've actually been painting a fair bit but for whatever reason completed minis aren't on my blog yet but I'll sort this out shortly.

   So some work in progress shots of my pestilent bunch of Nurgle's lesser daemons the Plaguebearers.

  The one holding his fist in the air can be found in the Citadel 1991 Red Catalogue and that range is the best range of plaguebearers in my humble opinion (even though he is well smaller than the rest). The others can be found in the 2004 Chaos Collectors' Guide so it's likely they are far younger.

   I have a horrible secret to divulge -  the younger ones are recasts but in my defence I did not buy them.  I was given them buy a friend who in turn was given them and so in no way do I feel I have contributed to the reselling of recasts. Seems a pity to waste them! They had no slottas and the mould lines and excess metal were horrendous and so I feel all that extra work means I have paid my penance.

One of them had his most of his arms chopped off and one leg and so he was destined to become …. 'The Slug Demon'!

Had quite a bit of fun with the green stuff on this one although he is going to be way to slow to ever do anything in a skirmish! Unless they let him out beforehand to slime up the battlefield.

Vapnartak 2015

Today I had the pleasure of going to Vapnartak 2015, the self-proclaimed top wargaming event of the North. This is my first event of this type having rediscovered the hobby when in Oz which is a bit lacking in these type of the things.
  It was great to be able to pick up and browse minis face to face as opposed to online which had been my only option previously. I'd been wanting to buy something from Foundry for a while and got my chance today (excuse the pesky public in the pic).

There were some demo games being played on sumptuous boards as well. My fave had to be this Shaun of the Dead game.

And for the goodies I got...I acquired a bunch of Escher and Necromunda creatures, lotR Galadriel, Celtic women warrior from Midlam, Foundry Street Violence blister and bunch of old White Dwarfs and old Gorkamorka Da Uvva book. Good haul 

Bikini Babes

Yep sorry about the long between posts. Moving country and job, finding a flat to live in and Xmas all got in the way. Normal service will be resumed.

  Anyhow what does a guy when his girlfriend is away? Why paint semi-nude female miniatures of course! :s

  I feel I've progressed a long way with painting skin. The minis are made by Copplestone. Now I've found a new wargaming club in my new town they may just find their way into a game of Judge Dredd.

Dogs of Law

Below is my contribution to the Dogs of Law, a lawful warband taking shape as a result of a challenge on the Oldhammer forum. Each participant commits to painting up a member of the warband in the shared colours (cream and olive) and everybody should get their submission in by the end of the December. The winner wins the whole darned lot (bases are undecorated so the winner can do that him or her self to retain coherency).
  There is some brilliant inventiveness stinging forth as a result of this challenge including a space-suited  Slann and an enchantress riding a knight giant. I sincerely recommend checking it out here…

http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2460

Anyway introducing my entry, the paladin Lord Thesoponius...

Ma latest boootay….

Sometimes it just feels proud to boast and I just wanted to show off my latest 'haul' as a number of orders as all came in at the same time.

  I recently got myself a bunch of imperial guard I acquired across a couple of lots - mid to late nineties metal and a horde of plastic. Recently did a trade for stuff a lot more characterful and closer to my tastes - selection of metal including Gaunt's Ghosts, Last Chancers, Escher, an Underhive Scum for Necromunda and a broken plague bearer. I am a happy bunny :)

Next bunch I bought was from an Australian war gamer trading forum. On the face of it I bought a bunch of Mordheim cultists but I wasn't annoyed when I noticed a couple weren't and are probably far older. I may use the guy in the KKK hat in my chaos cultist squad…Just stick an auto pistol on him and voila!

Number three is of the book variety rather than lead. I have been hunting for the Mordheim book for aaaages finally I bought it with Town Cryer from Ricky Hartley on the Oldhammer Trading forum for a very reasonable price (along with a free Mordheim coin). Top guy.

And lastly not Citadel or GW related at all but I recently participated in the Kickstarter for Johnny Lauck's Salvage Crew miniatures. They have a real Oldhammer feel to him and could be happily used as inquisitor acolytes, cultists, necromunda gangers or general rogue trader types. The personality really shines through in the sculpts even if some of the gun sculpts are a bit dodgy but can't really complain. I even have sentry droids :)

Full pictures for the (unfortunately expired) Kickstarter are here….

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/967512676/salvage-crew-28mm-humans

And now back to that knight I promised to paint…….

The Good, The Bad and the Decidedly Neutral

For some reason I can't seem to get my painting mojo on recently and minis are lying around unfinished. However I have some minis to display that may be of interest. The long awaited Necromancer I used in my Mordheim game with Captain Crooks, Radagast the Brown and a buxom pub landlady from Reaper Bones.

Radagast the Brown ('The Good'). I don't use this guy for gaming and so the reason for his getting the brush was that one day I decided I painted too much ugly and evil (you may notice this is a tendency of mine). I asked my girlfriend to pick a miniature for me to paint and this guy was chosen. I tried the technique where you mix the same base colour with every colour used (obviously brown). He was quite frustrating to paint as he was first metal miniature I painted in about 16 years and I was annoyed the paint didn't seem to hold. I have the more recent Sylvester McCoy version of this miniature too which I want to paint. I intend to paint ever Lord of the Rings character as some point.

My Mordheim Necromancer ('The Bad'). A lovely mini from Reaper. I like it that someone produced a voodoo necromancer as opposed to the crusty old men most lines produce. The base is fairly big but it did allow me to put on a mini diorama of a recently resurrected zombie scrabbling out of the earth ('Braaaains….').

 The Wench ('The Neutral'). Reaper's name for her not mine! I just bought her on whim after Captain Crooks mentioned he likes to buy something every time he goes to the FLGS we play at - the excellent Gamescube in Paramatta. I echoed the sentiment. She was fun and easy to paint and a handful of dollars. I imagine she is welcoming once your enter her establishment but trucks no nonsense once inside. The Reaper Bones line looks to be excellent for use in roleplaying adventures in particular.
 
  'Til next time :)

…And the Goliaths are finally here!!

Later than promised and they did make it into the Necromunda game with their base coat and shading and glazes at least. After a couple of weeks, I finished the rest with highlighting, dry brushing etc and the all important eyes. And yup, I got my light box up and running at last :)

(Any light box camera tips humbly accepted…)