Golgfag1's latest efforts in the Old World Army Challenge (May)

 

Well, after a cracking April which left me well in advance with my painting, where did the time go, I started with a load of good intententions which went straight out of the window! As a load of minor distractions accumalated (broken boiler, car, work emergancy trip to vets and dentist etc etc.) into one big time-sink, which I slowly had to work my way through (how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time). So here's what I have managed to splash a little paint over.

Another Grenadier giant - 3306, Yvette, Enchantress of the Emerald Isles, by Jannine Bennett. The original box shows a very scantilly dressed figure, just shows how times have changed, for a steady two hundred points.

 

 All  based and varnished with a scattering of C series amazons at her feet, which have all recently received a dab of paint, but won't be in this month's entry, as I don't have any bases for them.

 

 Next a selection of  Amazonians riding Sabre-toothed tigers, again from Grenadier, I spent a little time on these girls, providing a more tiger like appearance to the cats and replacing the soft spear shafts with piano wire to give a more uniform/military pose to the unit. Which at forty eight points each provides a total of three hundred and thirty six points for seven of them.

 

The next batch are a selection of female Centuars carrying bows there were to be more of them but my order of Shadowforge Miniatures turned up short so I added Chiral, Centuar captain by Reaper miniatures 14497 to act as a champion until my original order can be filled. Centuars carrying bows and wearing light armour and shields come in at  thirty seven points each and the champion carrying an additional spear and wearing barding, there's also a centuar level ten wizard - gives a total of four hundred and seventy points.

 

Reaper Dark Heaven Legends 02230 Gwyneth Roanmane  

 

Next up, a small Amazonian giantess from Grenadier for another two hundred points

 

Last but by no means least my army cooks!

So, altogether for the group shots.   

 

Is Oldhammer dying?

OK, I'm asking the question and I'm fairly sure there will be a howl of protest because some folks will be disconcerted that the question has been asked; but sometimes a question has to be asked:- Is Oldhammer dying? I'm not asking because of any animosity towards the Oldhammer ethos or any of its 'Leading Lights', but I'm concerned.

Relatively speak, I've recently started a Blog and thus started surfing other blogs to see what's happening out on the web and to be honest found - not a lot to be singing about, apart from either some dissatisfaction or 'old-hands' resting on their laurels -  As Their not posting anything on a regular basis, either on their Blogs or the Forum! If, they've moved their activity elsewhere - why am I not seeing or hearing anything about it? Or have they settled into a safe routine, within a 'safe' little circle of friends and their content with their lot; or have they found other things to occupy their time - Family, work or did they consider they'd done their bit, or found the Forum too hard an audience, as they'd be called to back-up their statements with reasoned conversation.

Now, don't get me wrong Oldhammer is alive and well in certain corners of the Web and being well publicized by the like of Asslessman, Zhu and Airbornegrove  stories of daring do are being crafted and dice rolled, with the rise of heroes and villians.

So here's to a great howl of protest to see if anybody's paying attention?

Golgfag1's April's contingent for OWAC - Heroes and Wizards

 

March found me with plenty of time on my hands to plough on with my efforts to give Mr Beales a run for his money, all due to Covid19, inclement weather and having to take holiday entitlement - found me completing my initial intentions, thus I posted a good week in advance of the end of the month.  Following the March post and a little light hearted banter between myself and Mr Beale, I decided rather than take a break over April, I'd push on with the next contingent of wizards and Heroes and then go off and do something else. 

 First up, a Colossal Lord lord from Grenadier  Miniatures  - Cassandra https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/3304.jpg 

 I wasn't sure on the colour schemce so plumbed for classic Wonder woman, be it Linda Carter or Gal Gadot - red, white and blue, where I could, with bronze armour (vambrace and pauldrons) and a chainlink hauberk. I apologies now - the miniature is from a time when attitudes were different, but I'm not a revisionist and accept it for what it is.

Quite happy with the way she turned out, will be using her as a giantess .

Next up a few low level wizards, Original Citadel C series Sisterhood novices/Initates, classing these as Warhammer third edition, level fives' .

Next up a Sisterhood Mage, I'll class her as a level fifteen wizard .

The mother Samatha figure's rather nice, so I'll run for another level fifteen wizard .

 I've also dabbed a little paint over four nobles, I don't have enough of these to form a regiment so will be using them as champions for my other units .

Last, but by no means least, the Goddess Rigg, now I'll be honest I consider this figure the worst of the C series Amazonian figures and thus I'm not inclined to use it as such, so am simply going to class it as a female ogre champion (I intend to expand this idea latter in the challenge, with a contingent of female ogres!).

Finally a group shot all varnished and based to match the previous months contingents.

 Next month - cavalry and beasties!

Third month of the Old World Army Challenge - Actual Citadel C series Amazons and a few extras

 

Rank & File month #3 

The idea of the challenge is to paint at least ten figures over the course of a month for six months this month I did a few more than ten due to - Annual leave, inclement weather and shear bloody minded-ness to give Mr Beale a run for his money! In fact I actually painted next months entry as well, but I can't show you those until they're shown on the OWAC blog page, sorry.

This month, I'm painting 'C30' series Amazonians from back in the day, originally designed by the Perry twins, produced as a foil to the Slann of Lustria. The first time they were promoted by Citdel/ Games Workshop was in the scenario Rigg's Shrine in the second Citadel Compendium, written by Richard Helliwell.

 

So, let's show you what I've been dabbing paint over.

I'm also going to add a few specialists from other manutacturers as I don't really have that many C series figures and my force needs a little something to provide a little bit of punch - Chariots, via Ral partha, the originals are pulled by human slaves, great for the story, but not much good on the tabletop.  So, I switched them for sabre-toothed tigers from Grenadier, which means they move slightly quicker and have a lot more bite when entering into combat.

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The second batch of infantry, a mixed bag of C series tribes women, berserkers and Koka-kalim weilding bows, daggers, swords, bolts-pistols and power swords.

Pygmie skimishers, weilding either bows or short spears/javelins.

Whilst trawling E-bay, I dropped upon this dragon, which I thought would add a little something to this months mix, I'll be honest attaching the wings was a complete pain, but the simply paint job was done in an evening.

Another find on E-bay, advertised as a living statue, thought it'd would make a nice addition to my growing collection, following on with the Rigg's Shrine - I'm of the opinion that this would make a better avatar for the scenario, than the original model. I've used magnets to make the parts inter-changable from a statue on the plinth to avatar.

 As the end of the month draws ever closer, dabed a bit more paint behind the ears of a few more Pilgrims of various manufacture and ages which shows how attitudes to figure design and nakedness as changed!

This months all based, varnished and ready to join their sisters!

My original intention was to take next month off, not because I want a break from painting, but I want to paint and post something else, but following a little banter with Mr Beale I've already painted Apirl's contingent, but you're going to have to wait to see the heroes and wizards.