Name The Publication?

Quick post today, I was looking for some reading material and came across this really cool Rogue Trader advertisement 'The European Range', can you name the publication this image was scanned from?

I just had to share it :)

oh and here's another

Painting Resumes And Chaos Reigns

Hello Friends, 
As some of you know I had have a had break from blogger and painting due to the birth of my second son (18 years apart) so the painting and modelling room had to be swapped out for a nursery.  Things are slowly getting back to normal here so I managed to set-up my painting desk in the guest room over the Easter holidays and knock out a few miniatures, I still have a thirst on for Realm of Chaos Thugs and aim to paint every single one ever released, here are some of my latest efforts.

The first Chaos Thug I painted is 'Zarygor Bloodrage', this well fearsome looking Chaos Thug was originally from the F5 - Marauders range designed by the Perry twins before being incorporated into the Chaos Thug ranges. Being more armoured than your average Chaos Thug Zarygor would make a nice command miniature or a leader for you warband.

Zarygor Bloodrage

Next miniature I painted is 'Number 14' from the Chaos Thug range featured in White Dwarf 101, unfortunately citadel stopped naming rank and file troops so he is simply '14', the sculpt is a bit bigger than your usual Chaos Thug but he adds variety to a unit.

Number 14

Here we have another miniature from White Dwarf 101 Chaos Thug range 'Number 17', a bit of a strange individual who looks like he has been pulled straight out of a Conan the Barbarian story, the sculpts of the later Chaos Thugs were really fantastical and by so many different scuplters (Jes Goodwin, Trish and Aly Morrison, and Micheal and Alan Perry) and in so many different styles.

Number 17

Next I painted 'Haitch Shieldblow' from the Chaos Thug range in White Dwarf 98, he has a chain shackle around his neck so I imagine he was a escaped slave or convict that ended up in the chaos wastes.

Haitch Shieldblow

I then painted 'Number 19' from White Dwarf 101 Chaos Thug range, nice to see a Chaos Thug who does not look human.

Number 19

Next is 'Stoop' from the classic CH6 Chaos Thug range in White Dwarf 92, probably my favourite range released ever.

Stoop

And 'Rivet' another classic miniature from the CH6 Chaos Thug range in White Dwarf 92.

Rivet

I found out an Arcane Armorials shield transfer to make him truly Oldhammer.

Arcane Armorials shield transfer

This next miniature I purchased cheap from Ebay with the intention of stripping it and repainting it but when it arrived apart from a lot of scratches and chips to the paint work I thought the paint job was quite good so a bit of a repaint and repair was in order and I was pleased with the salvage job.

He is 'Nud Spinespittle' a C35 Chaos Warrior from the Third Citadel Compendium, a lot smaller than the Realm of Chaos era warriors and champions so I thought he would fit into my Chaos Thug regiment just nice, this is my plan for most of the earlier smaller Chaos Warriors.

Nud Spinespittle - Chaos Warrior

Then I got a bit bored and knocked out a couple of C11 Halflings, why? no idea, I might do some more as I have the whole range in an old dusty box .  I had to make some new swords for them and pin them on as the original swords were dark grey bits of lead wire thin. More Halflings can be seen here on the Collecting Citadel Miniatures Wiki.

Shield design was inspired by a baby grow I was dressing the little one in, the theme was counting sheep which is quite apt for a Halfling shield I think :D

Big Waist

Oh! I have just found a few photos I took at last years Oldhammer event, if you are pictured in any of these photos and did not get a mention let me know and I will put your name up as it was last August and a few of your names escape me now. 

The Realm of Chaos event board

The very impressive Wargames Foundry building

My Khornate Warband assembled for bloodletting

Orlygg's partner in crime Dan reading some rules to two leaders of Slaaneshi warbands

Orlygg and Ninja watching the action unfold

Warlord Paul leading Lord Savage's Slaaneshi Warband

Ninja dealing some death with his Khornate Warband

Lord Savage and that 'effing' Troll he was so stupid

Some Ogres beating up my Chaos Beastmen

A fantastic BloodBowl stadium

It's great to be back :D

Moving House or not

Hi Friends,
I must apologise for the recent lack of posts on my blog but I was completely snowed under packing all my belongings for my house move next month, I have been a fan of miniature gaming since the age eleven so as you can imagine I have had thirty years to acquire a lot of stuff, I shuddered when I first inspected my loft and realised it would take weeks to clear. 

*Update* The house moved never happened I sold it then cancelled, the pressure of the whole event lead to me breaking up with my long term partner so I am sitting here in a painting room stacked to the ceiling of boxes of classic gaming stuff, I still aiming to attend the Oldhammer event as I am fully booked for everything and only have one more miniature to paint for the RoC warband event and a squad of marines or renegades for the RT event.

I did want to show the throng of boxes packed with all sorts of goodness inside before the move but now the are stacked up neatly and are definitely not going back up the loft to be forgotten again.

No condolences please I am in doing OK and in a good place can't wait to meet all the guys I do not know in person this August, I shall try and post something worthy soon just having a brief hiatus, don't write me off sometimes real life gets in the way.

Cheers
J

Warband Progress Part 10

Hi Folks,
Today's post is another Champion of Khorne for the pool of chaos miniatures to pick from for the OldHammer RoC Event, the classic Realm of Chaos Champions of Khorne can be seen here.

This is one of my favourite chaos champion miniatures, gifted with technology which makes this miniature great for use in games of Rogue Trader and Dark Heresy.

So what gifts and attributes doe he have?  I would say apart from is Chaos Armour and Bladed Mace, he has Technology - Combi-Flamer/Bolter grafted on to his biomechanical arm,  a hunchback, horns and a prosthetic peg leg.

This miniature was obviously sculpted from the same dolly as the miniature in my last post.

Champion of Khorne (front)

Photo of the back of the miniature to show the Gigeresque sculpting of the biomechanical arm.

Champion of Khorne (back)

I painted the arm of this champion red for ease and to represent The Hand of Khorne. (see Realm of Chaos, Slaves to Darkness, Page 48)

The Hand of Khorne

As my miniature has a peg leg, I have included the rules for prosthetic limbs and the funny thing is that you champion can only have one if you have Chaos Dwarves in your Warband else your champion may have to hop around the battlefield. (see Realm of Chaos, The Lost and the Damned, Page 74)

Prosthetics for characters

If you are really love your Realm of Chaos champions I would like to point you Asslessman wonderful blog, please join in and get following.


Ok, so what have I been listening too while painting miniatures this week?

Waiting Death Colonel 'Iron Hand' Straken having one of his adventures.




Lucifer's Hammer (Audible) A really enjoyable disaster and post apocalyptic story.



Thanks for looking and get joining my crew.
J

Warband Progress Part 9

Hello Friends of the blog, 
I would like to apologise for the lack posts on my blog lately, with it being holiday season I went away for my annual board gaming weekend with my mates to Wales and finally the weather turned nice so I had to catch up on making the garden look nice.

I have managed to fit in some painting and here are the latest fruits of my labour for my steadily growing pool of chaos miniatures to pick from for the OldHammer Event.

First we have another Champion of Khorne so I now have two to choose from.

He can be seen here, now the catalogue entry lists that he armed with a sword and attributed with horns but I can see a lot more going on here and I am sure he is gifted with the Face of Khorne, horns, a mane of hair, a mark of Khorne on his forehead and of course chaos armour, if you think otherwise I would love to here from you.

I would also like to thank Orlygg for making this miniature possible as he traded it to me.

Champion of Khorne

Close up of my abstract Khorne icon design

Again more Chaos Thugs, I well and truly have the bug for these guys and aim to paint one of each miniature in the range.

The range can be seen here 0210, 0211, 0212, 0213, WD82, CH6, WD92.

Mask

anyone know his name?

I painted Grimface below up about 15 years ago and had to spice him up a little, I was mooching around for more chaos miniatures when I came across a box of unfinished projects and he was one of them, I also found the beastman with skull mask and flail which is lucky as I keep on losing ebay auctions for him.

Grimface the Touchy

Then I got a bit bored and thought I would have a break from Khorne and all his bloodletting for an erotic encounter (ooer!), no this did not involve the missus, I had a mooch around my miniatures and found a few Slaaneshi miniatures and decided to paint a couple of Slaaneshi Chaos Beastmen.  I have to admit it made a nice change although I do have plenty of half finished Rogue Trader miniatures to be getting on with.

These miniatures can be seen here in the 1991 'red' catalogue.

I realised that I may have been getting a bit carried away as this pool of chaos miniatures seems to be developing into a bit of a chaos army as you can see below the ranks of Beastmen and Thugs arrayed that I have painted since the middle of March.

I almost forgot, this week I have been listening to Gaunt's Ghosts in Salvations Reach Audio book, which I really enjoyed, it had just the right balance between character development, intrigue and battles, read with his Scottish twang by James MacPherson which I think makes the characters far more believable. I suggest you give it a go.

Thanks for visiting

J

Warband Progress Part 8

Hey Friends, I am a bit busy at the moment trying to fit in painting time and trades into family life so has you can tell my blog is being neglected, I thought a quick post is in order to show of some of my new painted miniatures for the pool of chaos miniatures that I will be picking from for the OldHammer Event.

Some new painted Chaos Thugs, the range can be seen here 0210, 0211, 0212, 0213, WD82, CH6.



Cutter

Side view shot of 'Cutter' for illustrious reader 'Minitrol'.

Cutter sideview

Steel-Eye

Goatfoot

Here's another attempt at an 80's style shield . (See Orlygg's Blog for more inspiration)

Goatfoot with 80's style shield

Sicklesword 

Crusher 

Gorthar Chainarm

Markos Deathshead

The first Chaos beastman is a Bob Olley sculpt and can be seen here, not the most popular of beastmen sculpts, I think it is because the Olley sculpts are a bit 'samey'.

Olley Beastman

My second beastman today is an earlier miniature 'Swilefog' and can be seen here and the original range from the third citadel compendium.

Swilefog

Here's another shot of 'Swilefog' especially for the Boar-man mad 'Warlord Paul'

Swilefog sideview

And my third chaos beastman is a classic Khornate beastman with a gift of Fleshhound attributes. Here is catalogue page.

Khorngor Beastman

enjoy
J