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.

Great wolf-chieftain

The last couple of weeks I've been painting again.

I dug out my oathmark goblins and some separate sprues I got from North Star some time ago.

I finally assembled the entire box of goblins but I also made some half orcs and snaga.
The half orcs are from an Orc sprue but with Frotsgrave cultist heads. The models are too big for Middle Earth orcs but they're nice figures. With the headswaps I think they look great. I think it's a very versatile kit.
I used the leftover arms to toughen up two goblin characters. The heads will be used to make armourde goblin men with axes.

Sarumans goblin men scouts and woodcutters. Some who survived the defeat of Saruman maybe ended up as Sharky's ruffians.

The snaga trackers are frome the goblin slave sprue but with standard goblin archer arms.

Last year when I was packing up to move house I found this old G.I. Joe wolf in a box. It's huge compared to a 28mm figure but detailed enough to paint. I found a turorial how to paint wolves. I discovered they aren't grey at all!

Great wolf-chieftain Gmork. The orcs affectionately call him Two-socks.

The Zeon Heresy

 It's been a while since I posted here. I didn't paint any miniatures until last week.
Since january though I have a sperate Instagram account (@ferenczminis) where I post stuff. Old stuff mostly, reposting pictures from the last fifteen years on this blog. I quite enjoy it especially because there's a direct connection with people I know from Frothers', Lead Adventure and Blogspot.

On to the miniatures!

Here are the Zaku power armoured suits of the separatist Zeon Marines.

Of course these are ancient Space Crusade marines. I suppose I traded them with my mate in middle school about 35 years ago. they're weird sculpts. I remember I didn't like them at all when the game was released. I much preferred the beakies and I didn't get this new design. months or a year later GW released the mark 6 marines by Jes Goodwin, concept art by John Blanche and after 2nd Ed 40K had the monopose marines based on the same idea.

The idea of using these colours of the bad guys from Gundam I only got some months ago. Being slightly taller, with helmets and shoulder pads quite different than the 2nd ed ones, these could easily be the troopers of a small separatist empire. Using the same STC designs but slightly modified. I already had painted some of the mark 6 ones in Goldrake colours and they could by perfect enemies. Man against Man, Marine against Marine. The Horus Heresy with Manga colours.

I also finished painting their enemies the Grendizer Marines. Boring as hell paint-by-numbers but strangely relaxing. With contrast paint it was quick enough.

I also rebased some old conversions tu use shocktroops with the Grendizers. West Wind german falschirmjager heads I painted many years ago. Space nazis like the Zeon baddies but from the other side.

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Complete Renegade Army

 Yesterday I completed my second 40K army this year.
Apparently on the 35th anniversary of the release of Rogue Trader.

A Chaos Renegade army from before the Realm of Chaos release.

All miniatures from before RoC. Even though I don't think there was any mention of the Night Lords until Epic Space Marine and RoC.

Overall this looks like an ordinary Imperial army: Space Marines, Imperial Army/Guard, mercenaries, a Navigator and even an Astropath.
We all know though the Night Lords are Chaos Renegades. Vile traitors. The allied ordinary humans probably don't have any clue of the mess they're in.

Some close ups of units I don't think I showed before.

A Navigator with bodyguard of elite Stormtroopers:
 

Two renegade marine psycho's.
Starting out as non-chaos renegades a few years ago I decided to re-paint them as Night Lords loonies. One is waving the original 'Lords banner from the Epic box art. Strong Batman and Hordak vibes.

 

Traitor Guard

 I repainted some of my old Imperial Army guys.
Rogue Trader miniatures before they were called Imperial Guard.

Five of them were already painted in 2016, after 25 years. I initially painted them as Starwars rebel pilots but I got bored with that. I decided to do the armour in black, to make them appear more menacing and generic.

The main reason to paint them like this is because I wanted an allied squad of renegade army men for my Night Lords. 
As with the marines I don't want them over the top chaotic with mutations but more first stage heretics instead. Rebels, insurgents, convinced they're doing the right thing. The mark of Chaos isn't clearly present yet.

At the same time I could use this squad with any other army or faction. Loyal, renegade or even alien.