Sardaukar, the emperor's finest.
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Sardaukar
Wednesday 14 February 2024
Last War squads and personalities
I finally painted these renegade Miniatures late war germans. I bought these Kevin Adams sculpts years ago.
Renegade suspended business a decade ago which is a big shame as Kev Adams did hundreds of historicals for them.
I also painted these Copplestone Turks.
The other five already go butchered some time ago as I bought them to convert them into German Freikorps, with press moulded pputty helmets. it didn't quite work out as I wished and the project got abandoned. The other day there was a discussion on LAF about the Dutch in a Weird War timeline, getting sucked into the war as the Doggerland raises from the sea. Effectively expanding the country's territory and the border with Germany.
I decided to go for it using germans with added breast pockets and French Adrian helmets. I found the old turks in a box and remembered Copplestone also did Chinese with adrian helmets so I'll get me a nice birthday gift.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
The lady of Ypres
I made a new, trench themed, photo backdrop.
The first test picture I did with this old GW banshee that I painted some years ago. The Lady of Ypres, a terrifying manifestation of the anger and despair and tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the Belgian front.
Contrast paint, Vallejo pale grey wash and white highligts.
I finished painting this Crimean War russian officer. Swapped heads with a plastic Oathmark elf head.
A revenant. An undead or half-dead type. He could even be a vampire but I don't think so.
Thursday 1 February 2024
Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long Legs.
An old walker from the great war, from Graven Images. I got this one from the late Jim Bowen himself, in 2008. Before smartphones and Facebook when we only had forums and yahoo-groups.
Never officially released and only 8 sets were ever cast.
It was part of the Weird War II Götterdammerung setting.
Sculpted by Mark Fuller I think, who did all the amazing Great War vehicles for 1st Corps miniatures.
Wednesday 31 January 2024
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.
Thursday 25 January 2024
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.