New Space Dwarfs by Kev Adams

These soon to be released Space Dwarves by Kev Adams ( of GW Goblin fame) have just been painted and annouced by Asslessman on the Oldhammer Forum. So, if you're into all things squat these will be right up your street.

It's also the case - that I really like Kevin's work (as can be seen from my vast collection of goblins, and he's also a really nice chap, which I can attest to - after being thrust bodily towards him by Orlygg/James at Salute a couple of years ago to engage him in conversation!

Any way, the pictures look really good, so if the miniatures are half as good as his usual stuff you'll be getting yourself some quality.

Paul/Golgfag1

Another daubing of paint! ( A steady progression towards a New painted army)

OK, I've kicked off with daubing basic colours to the first twenty to thirty miniatures of  my new Thunderbolt Mountain, Wood Elf Army, which is all well and good, but it's not really going to cut it when it comes to the detail of these excellent figures, as it'll be soul destroying to not see any significant progress over time.

So, I've broken them down into smaller groups, based upon the poses and started high-lighting and adding base colours for the detail.

I know my camera skills do neither my painting or these miniatures any favours, but here's a couple of 'close-ups' to give an indication of how things are progressing.

Hope you enjoy the journey.

Paul / Golgfag1

First coats of many colours

Well obviously, I wasn't going to wait until Christmas to start painting the Wood Elves, so here's their initial preparation, priming (as I'm going to try something different with these miniatures - washers) with white Halfords white primer spray paint.

I've then done a general wash of MP miniature Paint, ration of one paint to two water to get into all crevices  and to 'lift all the fine pieces of detail to a level where I might actually see it! Also, there's nothing worse than painting a figure and spotting a small fleck of white which you can do nothing about without touching the surrounding area (I normally use black matt or satin spray paint).

The rank and file

As ever my pictures do me or miniatures any credit

  I know they look like nothing but let me assure you their coming along just fine.

Initial coats of colour

My intention is to use a broad range of greens & browns, given that there's only three main poses, apply those colours to different parts of the miniature so that there's no uniformity in the way their painted, apart from the colours used.

Hope you enjoy the journey half as much, as I am.

Paul/ Golgfag1

New Arrivals!

Following a sad post on the Oldhammer Forum informing me that Thunderbolt Mountain were going to cease trading.  I've been promising myself for years that I'd purchase an army of these beautiful miniatures at some point but I've always borked at the price, well this has been my push to pursue that wish.
So with credit card details in hand - I did the deed and brought myself an early Christmas present, which following another exchange of cash with the excise man - a package arrived yesterday.

Inside the box, safely wrapped in plenty of padding: sixty archers, forty foot, twenty cavalry and a mounted hero type and as a bonus, another twenty armoured foot as I hadn't realized that the cavalry came with dismounted riders and another figures added as a thank you for the order - happy bunny.

Here's a sample picture of a few of the figures - they've a minimal amount of flash, given the detail on these miniatures, but nothing a bit of time with blade and file won't cure.

Until these arrived, I was planning on packing up my painting/work station for Christmas to give a bit of extra room for the festivities, but that plans now on hold - as I've opened the box and the first unit has already been under the knife & file and are heading for their primer coat!

Watch this space, as I'm hoping that I can do these miniatures justice as their everything I was hoping their are - tall, graceful and unique given their rarity this side of the pond!

Paul / Golgfag1

Can I have too much stuff, I don't need?

Well, today has turned into a day of not doing particularly anything due to snow which fell over night and continues to fall. So, I find myself with time to contemplate - never a good thing in my opinion!

The view from my Dinning room window at about 09:00am.

 So, what do I have to say for myself today and thus, what am I going to write!

I recently read a  post on the Oldhammer Forum  - that one of it's members had collected over a thousand Orc and Goblin miniatures. To which, I responded with a rather half-hearted - well done, for showing such dedication in collecting so many and how the real work now begins in painting them all. I've also read a recent rant on Mark H's Blog about The Fall of the Oldhammer Empire which has set my mind to contemplating my ever increasing collection and why am I doing this!


Thus, I've found myself looking at my own collection of O&Gs and consider my own purpose in having such a large collection of unpainted miniatures (I also, have in the region of a thousand unpainted O&Gs, I'm sorry to say!), made up of various Pre-slotta C' series, Marauder, Citadel and Asgard etc. most are all "classic" miniatures in their own right, collected over the last thirty plus years. But, I balanced this out in my own mind by the painted O&Gs in my collection, for which - I've been described as having 'more Orcs than Sauron', I jest not.
How did I get to this - simple, over the last thirty years or so I've played a game or two and has the rules and my thoughts on how I wanted to play the game have changed I've added units, put others aside, and not developed ideas as far as I originally intended - thus my collection has grown or I simply liked the miniatures - the Asgards O&G's are some of the best miniatures I'm ever likely to have, but, in my opinion - my style of painting does not suit them - they simply look awful and I'd be embarrassed to put them on the table! So, I keep them - just to admire their design and hope that one day, I might consider my meager talents with a paint brush worthy.

(Apologies, I don't have the reference for the picture)

Now, dear reader you're asking yourself - this is all very self adsorbed and I'd like to be in such a position. Well, consider this, I'm also in the position of having in my possession - other miniature armies which I'd like to develop and play a game or two with. But, to be honest - I'm depressed by the thought of the task, as I have this dark cloud on the horizon of the unpainted O&Gs that am ever likely to get on a table large enough apart from the BIG games at BOYL. Hence, I'm doing nothing with any of it - but moving figures from one box to another as I break the whole into what I think are manageable chunks. So, what I'm say is - Is having too much stuff a good thing?

Paul / Golgfag1

The Horde

OK, my previous post have shown you some of what my current painting and long time projects are, with this post I'm going to show you some of my Orc and Goblin Horde. Its backbone is made up early slotta based orcs and Black Mountain Boyz, a Regiments of Renown. for the blunt hard edge I've a large force of Nick Lund's Black orcs for various manufacturer - Grenadier, Chronicle , Citadel's and another Regiment of Renown - Eeza Ugezod's Mother Crushers. Don't you just love Stuff of Legends website - thanks Orclord/ Richard.

A general shot

Black Orc spears, I tend to use them as Big-uns.

With their deep formations their very difficult to shift!

More Black Orcs

Half Orcs leading the way!

A closer shot of Nick Lund's work

Command group for the Mother crushers

The Black Mountain Boyz

General orcs, if ever there was such a thing!

Hope you enjoy the post, next time Goblins

Paul / Golgfag

The Swiftest cut!

OK, you've seen the troops, the big hitter and now here's the short, sharp, shock - a unit of seekers of Slannesh again these are designed by Juan Diaz, there are only four basis models within the group so to have a unit any larger the paint work has to be varied to given hint of variety, hence I've changed chopped and changes the same colours across each figure.

Pictures from various angles

In different positions

Just to give an impression of variety

Particularly like the red bodied Seeker, just breaks uniformity of the unit

The form and line of the models really give an impress of speed and movement in my opinion.

These girls are definitely out for blood!

Games Workshop currently describe these girls as:-  "The Seekers of Slaanesh are the outriders of the daemonic hosts, Daemonettes who ride upon swift and deadly Steeds. Seekers can cover vast distances at unbelievable speeds; they are an excellent flanking force, able to deftly outmanoeuvre almost any foe.
The Steeds are lithe, unsettling creatures with muscular limbs and long, terribly poisonous tongues - it is said a single caress from a Steed's tongue is enough to drive a man into a deathly rapture. The Daemonettes are no less deadly, with lethal claws to slash and slice at their foes." Fits the way I'll be using them pretty well!.

Hope you enjoyed the post

Paul / Golgfag1

Seductress Dragon

Here's one of the larger models I've painted over the last couple of years - a Ral Partha model from their Dragon of the month series - The Seductress Dragon, designed by Steve Saunders. Here's a picture of the original packaging, the miniature was painted by Jackie Prow.

Original packaging

The model came in four pieces - the tail, torso and a pair of wings, simply pinned everything together using epoxy resin and sprayed it with a satin black undercoat. Originally, wasn't too sure about how to proceed with the paint work, but was sure I would do some kind of scale pattern on the tail. So, set drawing out the diamonds, took a bit of time to get it how I thought it would look and then just began to build up the colours - yellow and brown on the underside and red across her back. Here's a few pictures of how this all progressed.

Early stages

Getting there

A bit more detail added

After all the work to get the tail looking good, I tried to keep the upper torso as simple as possible, so as not to distract - hence the grey. So, here's the final picture.

 Hope you enjoy the post

Paul / Golgfag1

More daubing of paint

I've since added Nurgle figures to the demon horde and some more Slannesh & Khorne giving me a units of forty, unfortunately I've not finished their bases, as I'm wait to finish more so I get a consist look across the army.

Changed the colour scheme slightly - green torso rather than blue etc etc. will gradually change the entire scheme every time I move on to the next batch - maybe yellow next time. Anyway, enjoy.

Paul / Golgfag1

The laughing boys - Nurgle join the crew!

A mixed bunch of Bloodletters & Deamonettes!

A daemonette, shows the resin to best effect.

All together now - charge!

A Long Term Project - My Deamon Horde

Following the Siege game at BOYL 2014, I began building a chaos host - made up of various models I'd collected over the years Citadel 'C' series( pre-slotta), Grenadier, Games workshop, and Ral-partha and whole lot else in between, but I wasn't sure which faction to follow Khorne, Slannesh, Tzeentch or Nurgle especially as I have models for all. So, I've decided the build any army containing all four  sects and mix my models as I see fit, and let the daubing of paint be the unifying factor, so here are my initial efforts (over the last three years, no body can say I rush things). More to follow in due course.

A Citadel 'C34' series Demon

Daemonettes of Slaanesh by Juan Diaz, really hit the Slannesh vibe for me

I started with a Nurgle theme, so added epoxy resin to the bases weapons and let it run to form drips and pool, which I've painted to give a putrid look.

Original Bloodletters by Alan Perry, I know their simple poses are limiting, but I hope from this picture you can see they can look dramatic.

 

Hopefully you can see here that I've mixed and matched the torsos and bodies to give a quite contorted look the unit - as I consider they'd be constantly fight between themselves, if, they weren't bond to a higher calling.

Recent additions to the Chaos Horde!

A couple of weekends ago I attended Warfare 2017 (WAR's annual wargames fair, held at the the Rivermead Centre, Reading), one of the largest such events in the UK, with a high proportion of  competitive wargames playing anything from WRG sixth ed. to 40K and anything in between. I would have like to have been taking part in any one of these, but unfortunately commitments elsewhere meant I could only attend for a few hours, which basically meant shopping for new toys and a swift chat to anybody I might know.

I arrived at the venue t about 10am on Sunday morning to find that all the parking machines weren't working apart from one! After queuing for ten to fifteen minutes I found a helpful young man willing to book my car into the parking area for a small fee! I continued to queue for a few minutes more, having a Scot for a father and born of a Yorkshire lass - I don't part with my money that easily.

Inside, my first port of call was the Bring and buy, there were bargains to be had, but nothing really grab my attention, so I begin my trawl of the main hall - all the favorites were there - The Perrys, Essex etc. etc. One particular manufacturer caught my eye - Aventine Miniatures , after a chat with the stall holder making appreciative noises about their miniature and painting of their display models I received a couple of useful tutorials on they achieve such fine figures and finishes, and with their details firmly locked in my head - I continue my travels around the venue, slowly made my way to the main gaming hall (I only held off making a serious purchase because I'd just ordered a sizeable force from Thunderbolt Miniatures in the States, because their closing their on-line store on the 25th; so be quick, I've been humming and arhing for the last few years about making such a purchase and this news made me make the leap! I say again - I don't part with my pennies easily. But, I've long admired Tom Meiers work - more on this purchase, when they arrive). This is where I spent the best part of the morning and early afternoon catching up with old friends and opponents - discussing life, tactics and figures.

Realising the day was slipping away from me and I'd not brought anything, I made my way back to the B&B and found a couple of small units of Chaos beastmen which I purchased, these will join my growing horde of devotees, and a curiosity - I don't know the miniature, but under close inspection there are a few fine details I can appreciate - the decapitated head, inserted fangs and long legs! It'll more than likely end up taking a bath at some point to then spend a year or two waiting to be painted before it also joins the horde! But for now I can appreciate it for what it is - a whim!

Enjoy

Paul / Golgfag1

Thanks for looking





      

Should have done this, sometime ago

Here's to my first foray into the world of blogging, hopefully it won't be my first and last. As this is pretty much a big learning curve for me - please be patient and hopefully I'll tell you a small bit about myself and my interests.

At the moment my main wargaming interest is Oldhammer - Playing early editions of Games Workshops Warhammer Fantasy Battle and similar games of that ilk with like-minded individuals around the country/world when the opportunity arises, with classic GW figures from their "Glory Days" (Late Seventies - Early Eighties) and pretty much anything else from then till now, as I don't hold to the idea of only playing with classic lead. Even though most of my figures are from that period. Hence, the background picture of a 'C' Series Chaos Spawn, graced 'some might say' with daubs of paint by my own hand. 

I've played, paint and model just about anything - Ancients, Lace Wars, Science Fiction/Fantasy and occasionally up to the WWII in many scales, so expect to see pretty much something for everyone at sometime or another!

So, here's a taste of what's on my camera at the moment:

A small selection of Esher gang members for GW's Necromunda game, which I've never played, as I used these has militia for 40K, hence, the flocked bases!

  A few of  Foundry's Samurai

A mixed bunch of 25mm Vikings, am painting up these for next years Bring Out Your Lead, better know as BOYL, held at Foundry's venue at East Stoke.

 Last, but by no means lest - Citadel's 'C' Series Amazonians.

Hopefully, a more varied selection next time of what's passing over my painting palette and better pictures as my skills with the camera improve - time will tell.

Thanks for looking

Paul / Golgfag1