Not exactly current affairs, but the third issue of Spearhead was three Rat Ogres. Although I’ve done loads of ogres before, rodenty ones were a first.
Assembly wasn’t too bad by modern GW standards. I ended up with a bit of a gap in one, but it was my fault rather than the kit, and not very obvious in the end.
They had a base coat of Colour Forge Dead Animal Bits (great colour, great name), and white drybrush, then I made wide use of contrast paints and washes.
That looks sore!
It’s that time of year when GW publish a part work magazine, this time Age of Sigmar based.
I often pick up a few of these as it’s a cheap way to try painting something I wouldn’t usually buy. This time I’m a bit more invested though - in September the (not so) Little Miniature will be off to secondary school, and she’s quite excited to find out they have a Warhammer Club. However I suspect they’re not going to be playing Old World so it won’t hurt to have a few Age of Sigmar models around.
Issue one had some sort of Stormcast Dude and his pet, and a Skaven Grey Seer and Engineer, and I got them painted a couple of weeks back.
I wasn’t sure what I’d make of the Skaven. Last ‘modern’ GW model I attempted was a tech priest, and I hated it - loads of fiddly, hard to paint details and bits that snapped off. I was worried these would be similar but actually really enjoyed them and I’m very pleased with the result.
I started with a base of Colour Forge Desert Sand, the dry brushed with white, and made extensive use of contrast paints.
The Stormcast was lovely and quick and simple: gold armour, blue cloak, done. The Griffon thing ended up a bit too dull looking, so I used different contrast paints to give some of the black feathers a sheen - inspired by magpies and starlings. I think it worked relatively well.
I’m still unsure about aspects of the modern GW style though. The move to 3D sculpting results in clothing having too many sharp folds for my taste, and I’m not keen on how many models end up with long swirly ends on cloaks or flaming whateveritis’s all over them. I nearly trimmed the ends of the Grey Seer’s cloak off on principle.
Next up, my first ever rat ogres.
A quick job for both using sprays, washes and contrast paints.
Oh, so many genestealers! I couldn’t do a Tyranid army, it would be too painful a painting exercise!
And whoever designed the hormagaunts back in the day did not think about balancing them!
Old GW Bretonnian Damsel. Another of those models that has been sitting around for paint for a long time. Inspiration was my daughter asking if I had a model she could use as a sorceress in her D&D games. Colours were her choices, and very fine they proved to be.
Great way to break my recent painting drought.
In my previous post I mentioned I was spending some time completing unfinished projects. This is another one.
Around two decades ago I picked up the set of Colonel Schaefer’s Last Chancers (probably from the Derby GW store on Sadler Gate). I don’t even recall why, I knew nothing of their background (other than the obvious Dirt Dozen theme) - I think I just liked the models. I painted a few at the time, but never finished them. Now I thought it was time I got around to it.
Colonel Schaeffer, Demolition Man, and Hero
Scope, Brains, and Ox
Rocket Girl, Fingers and Grease Monkey
Shiv, Warrior Woman and Animal
If you can, have fun guessing which ones were done recently, and which are now roughly twenty years old.
Just painting random odds and ends the last few weeks - stuff that’s been laying around too long waiting for paint. Particularly models from almost complete projects I started years ago.
Copplestone Neo Sov banner bearer. Still needs a banner. Last of the Neo Sov models I have, all the others were painted years ago.
Similar issue. Painted some metal GW Cadians almost twenty years ago, but had one left over. Quite fun trying to replicate a decades old paint job, with different colour ranges. Chap on the left is new, one on the right is old. Not bad, new one’s a bit darker, possibly because I used a black rather than white undercoat. I now have enough of this range to field a 40k 2nd edition fully ‘legal’ platoon.
Some Scavenger/gang types. Having fun with leftover parts I had laying around, including sprues from magazine freebies. Bodies are Frostgrave Soldiers kit, with other parts mainly from Wargames Atlantic and Konflict 47 Fireflies. The BFG was painted with a battered look, to hint at something that might have started life as mining equipment. Guy on the right is fielding a cut down BAR.
