British Trench Raiders

 The first band of soldiers. Brigade Games miniatures from the US.

Sculpted by Mike "Artizan" Owen. I think the colours and leather jerkins are historically correct like this.

Very pale skin done with contrast paint and medium.

Captain and pug dog.

The Last War

 This week I'm going for Weid War 1. A Gothic Horror take on the Great War.

Forbidden Psalm: The Last War was released a while ago and it really triggered something I was experimenting with a decade or so ago when I made the command for Freikorps Rorschach and the Deutsche Archeologische Institut.

My idea was post-war revolution turmoil, trench wars in the collapsed Austro Hungarian empire, dimensional shamblers, ghouls, Ucrainian cannibals, occultists...

I understand the Last War is different. Like the film Deathwatch in overdrive. Eternal war in an infinite labyrinth of thousands of miles of nightmarish trenches. Gothic, grimdark setting with small bands of insane and mutated trench war veterans fighting each other and facing supernatural apparitions. 

I dug up this old conversion of an old Blood Bowl Starplayer with a Renegade Miniatures german head and gun. The Renegade germans were sculpted by Kevin Adams who of course did the original Blood Bowl and Warhammer orcs.

I really need to finish painting these Renegade Miniatures ' germans

An old Space Ork runt-bot becaomes a walking grenade launcher.

My unpainted gangs and apparitions for now.

Germans, British trench raiders, Russian revenants, a Trench Wolf, some ghouls and two Mole Men.

you can't do a trench war without barbed wire. No need for expensive GW products.

Get yerself some seal wire, or sealing wire.

Gaze into the Eye of hte Warp and Despair!

 I had a shortlived skaven mania a few weeks ago. I painted the ones shown here below and I stripped all my old original skaven of their 1990's paint jobs. I have enough to make a small chaos warband.

I want to paint them all like albino lab rats. Pink skin with white fur, including the snouts. Like the old Revenge of the Liche Master painting by John Blanche.

Wolftide

 Some weeks ago I painted these goblin and halforcs. After
my succesful experiment painting wolf pelt I wanted to see if it worked the same on cloaks.

I stripped and repainted this old Grenadier barbarian. A Fantasy Warriors miniature by Mark Copplestone painted as a half orc beastmaster of some sort. The werewolves got a touch-up too.

Goblin shaman with fox pelt.

Goblin shamans aren't real magicians. Their sorceror overlord would never tolerate that. 

Using smoke, pyrotechnics and hallucinogenic herbs they serve their goblin king. Pretending to be soothsayers they provide special effects to impress their subjects and help keep potential usurpers and other rivalling and over ambitious goblins in line.

Copplestone goblin for Oathmark.