Original punk orks and other lads

The oldhammer hobby is a mixed bag of fun painting, hard to find models and nostalgia. For me one of these nostalgia moments is the original plastic orks from rogue trader which were given to me as a child from an older cousin.

Specialist hair squigs really bring out the green skin complexion.

These orks were already painted up when I was given them and have remained that way. I never really thought a lot of them once I got my own orks from the 2nd edition box, however they did have cool sunglasses and mohawks so remained in use as another squad. Only now after coming back to my ork army and looking through my collection am I beginning to appreciate these guys and the variety of faces they have.

Orks or Fist of the North Star goons?

Having said all that they still needed a fresh coat of paint and some alterations to there arms and weapons. The result of which you can see above.

"Right where are the rest of the goff ladz at den?"

Also in the paint pile has been some more Goff Orks. If the last lot needed some repairs these guys needed saving from horrible painting cataclysms. You can't see it now but the ork on the left has a weird bobble effect from some spray paint from 20+ years ago.

"Ere to fix ya up, what do ya mean ya need dat leg?"

Now this Ork Painboy has actually appeared before on this blog. Way back in 2017 he got in on a photo with two other orks. (Check it out here!) However I was never really happy with him. I felt the colour scheme was too similar to all the other standard ork boyz. So he's had a new lick of white/bone paint to imply he is some sort of doctor.

"Forgot Doc's toolz, never a grot around when ya need 'em"

A bit of red/green stains on his apron add a little character to the miniature. The back has always had this blue eyed skull logo and I decided to leave it on him.

Dungit is much better now. No I didn't just hit im wiv a hammer!

A final shot of all the orks together including another madboy. I took some solo photos of him but hey came out blurry. Guess you will have to wait for me to paint some more for a closer look at that ork.

Until Next Time :)

The dreaded leadpile and the need for motivation

 Ah yes the blog I knew there was something I hadn't updated in a while :) 

The reality of many an oldhammer hobbyist, unpainted miniatures!

I'd love to say it's been because I have been super busy painting models, gaming and other activities but honestly it has just been lack of motivation probably due to a combination of very hot weather, work, wedding planning, Fall Guys (an amusing video game) and that virus Nurgle dropped off at the start of the year.

On the positive side let's talk about what I have planned and anything I have done hobby wise here:

1. "Ork Battlewagon" - You managed to get an original! You lucky bas-- Nope I acquired a Genestealer Cult Goliath Rockgrinder instead which I have been slowly building and converting into an orky battlewagon. It's current status is built with an ork driver. Stay tuned for more on that once I decide what to do with the heavy weapons :P

2. Tzeentch, Lord of Change - A recent ebay purchase means I now have one of each Greater Daemon. The Keeper of Secrets was painted fairly recently and can be found here - Keeper of Secrets - My great unclean one is painted but it was done about 15 years ago so it's quality is dubious (he certainly needs basing). he Bloodthirster is in bits and semi painted. Hopefully the bird lord will get painted first and I will be looking at doing a theme based off the Dark Crystal.

3. Other Chaos - You may remember me mentioning a chaos warband ages ago, you may even remember me painting a chaos sorcerer. Well I still hope to get that done and I have a few things in the pipeline including this chaos thug and a doomrider from the pantheon of chaos guys.
I have to say that after a metal lictor the doomrider is possibly one of the most horrendous things I have ever had the pleasure of trying to glue together!!

 

4. Orks, lots and lots of orks - I have a small shelf of various orks that are just waiting to be painted. They are all at the least undercoated. They range from early plastic orks a couple of which have been painted up to a squad of snakebite orks that look like they walked off a wild west native american reservation.

5. Ogres / Ogryns - When one final ebay order eventually arrives I will finally have the squad of classic Jes Goodwin ogres I always wanted. They will be doing double duty as a group of ogryns in my ork army.

6. Terrain - A small terrain piece made of household recycling has been created, just needs a few finishing touches.

7. Gretchin and Big Guns - Yep the grots get there time to shine and not the monopose 2nd edition ones which I am completely putting off painting. A smasha, splatta, squig catapault and pulsa rocket are all waiting for the paintbrush.

This splatta kannon didn't have any wheels so a cork came to the rescue :P

So there you go a breif update of what to look forward to from this blog with lots of nice photos :)

Until next time.

Bad Moon Orks, they got all the Teeth!

Social distancing and self isolation feels alien to some, but to the miniature hobby enthusiast this is the best opportunity to get some painting, solo gaming or terrain projects done. With that in mind and putting down the How to Make Wargames Terrain book here is a photo of some Bad Moon orks who have been sitting about on the to be done shelf for quite a while.

Der Goffs got nuttin on us Bad Moons! (edited the image quality on instagram)

These orks come from across the range and although some are classed as being from other clans they are now fully integrated into the Bad Moons.

We av all da teeth to buy all zat good gear!

The main joy from creating this squad is the chance to add a bit of much needed colour and brightness to my ork force. It has also provided me with a challenge of trying to paint a proper yellow and blue paint scheme.

Quit messing around, need to show off our flash yellow and blue clan!

Burly and Mean - Gladiator Ogre

If you enjoy oldhammer and especially the late 80s early 90s era then you almost certainly have seen the amazing Ogre models that were produced at the time.

An ogre shaman meets two trollslayers in a dungeon.

There was a large range of varied sculpts from a mercenary to a berserker, I happen to own four in total and I am looking for one more to make a nice group of five (possibly use them as ogryns in my ork force or for a warhammer fantasy chaos warband). Today though will be about the first of the four I do have. It’s the gladiator ogre. This guy was more of an impulse buy rather than one of the actual ogres I originally wanted but it is still an excellent model and easily worthy of my painting time. I'm not up to spped on my old warhammer fantasy lore from the time but I don't remember any coliseums or other gladiators in the old world.

Are you not entertained? Look at my finely toned musculature.

 One thing I have changed with this model is the base. Normally I am fine to just have a base witha little bit of flock on it. However my bounty hunter ogre I bought on ebay came with a lovely base that someone made which wouldn't fit witht he other ogres. Fortunatley I recently bought that starter age of sigmar kit from the newsagent with the three sigmar knight guys. The bases those three have are very detailed and so one went to this ogre. No fancy marbel though, this got turned into ruined paving slabs in a marsh. I think it came out quite well as a n alternative to my normal basic basing style. 

I earned enough in my last fight for some nice new green hair dye!

To paint this ogre I first started with a white undercoat and then a heavy wash of rhinox brown. This then followed with some elven flesh . The gauntlet and flail were boltgun metal and mithril silver with some black wash for the crevices. The hand is a combination of brass scoprion and gold on top of those previous colors. I decided to be a bit bold and go for a lilac purple loincloth, why is he weaing only a thong loincloth the world will never know. Lastly the leather straps are black with a grey highlight attempt.

Mine's several pints, or do you want a smack?

As with all Jes Goodwin ogres the faces are the best part. The mohawk is a mix of greens with putrid green being used as a highlight. The nose got a light wash of red gore to give the look of a heavy drinker and the eyes and mouth were done using rakarth flesh.

Grrr, think I'll just duff you up for yer gold anyway!!

One oldhammer ogre down several more to go. I hope you enjoyed looking at these pics as much as I painted this guy.

Until next time :)

..Breaking News!.. new Gaslands competitor spotted!

Maybe it's the constant state of being inside during the virus outbreak but sometimes you have to create something bonkers just for the hell of it. Which is how a toy car from eBay bought for Gaslands last year took a turn for the bizarre.

Gaslands as I have mentioned before is a game of car mayhem where you either race or destruction derby your way around a track. Cars have guns, oil slicks, flamethrowers, rams and an assortment of other tools with which to aid in this destruction. The main cool factor is you can use any toy car you can find; Hot Wheels and Matchbox being the most common choice.

Once upon a time a child got this as a present.

This is the car I acquired from ebay for a bout 10 pence. On looking it up, it is a Woosh'n'Push matchbox toy car from the 70s. It is possibly one of the ugliest toy cars I have ever seen and has no driver.

So who is to crew this oddball car, well after discarding some vague notions of using an ork or an imperial guard model. I found shoved at the back of a cupboard this chap.

"Ey 'up there lad"

For those who don't shop in Lidl this is a Stikeez, a sort of promotional collectable plastic toy encouraging children to eat vegetables. They all have this suction cup part so they can stick to windows or flat surfaces. Our green eyed friend above I believe is meant to be a potato, although he could be something else entirely...

Blood Axe Kommandos: Stay Alert behind enemy lines.

Lockdown is no fun for those who like to be out and about exploring new places. Which obviously means I need to paint the ork equivalent. The Blood Axe Kommandos

Now those who have been following me online here may have noticed the occasional photo of some Blood Axe Kommandos appearing here and there. (The Kill Team Battle report had a couple) whilst I believe this photo below also appeared at some point

The snotlings are just pleased the trollslayers are looking the wrong way.

On and off I have tackled these lads but never made a serious attempt to get them all done (still have two more somewhere but they can wait). That is until the quarantine came along.

Kaptin Ezee Fearzug and his squad of Kommandos

Kommando models from 2nd edition are so full of character you never quite realise they are finished. Much like a Rob Liefeld comic from the late 90s they have so many pouches, kitbags, knives, ropes it's a treat to paint them. One of them even has a grappling hook.

We iz az kunnin as Mork himself!

Terrifying scream, enraged and full of anger - Tyranid Screamer Killer!!

Hello everyone. For those who have been reading this blog you may remember a post about my top ten miniatures of all time (You can read all about it by clicking this link). Those that have read it will have spotted that number 3 on that list was ...

THE TYRANID SCREAMER KILLER!!!!!

Run for your lives!!

This is the model that sealed my love for the hobby. Others may claim it was some cool space marine terminators, a dwarf on skis, that amazing John Blanche undead bridge diorama or even a giant spined dragon but for me it was the Tyranid Screamer Killer or Carnifex to it's science friends.

Hivemind has consumed an ork.

I love how alien looking this giant battering ram looks. With its four massive scythe arms, that disturbing head and gaping maw, the fact it also had some amazing stats to go with it was just gravy to an already delicious roast dinner.

Mad Boys for life!

Easter time means more painting time, especially when you can't leave the building. What should hop up next on the painting schedule, why a depressed ork Mad Boy.

You may remember I painted one of these expressive orks before, if not follow this link:
(https://oldhammer40kquest.blogspot.com/2019/09/mad-boys-mad-boys-whatcha-gonna-do.html).

Apparently this one is known as a melankolik according to the white dwarf 'eavy metal showcase. To me though he looks more depressed what with the hangman's rope around his neck and sad face.

This was a nice little miniature to paint up in between other bigger or multi model projects.

Anyway that's it for this small update.

Until next time :)

Painting the minis from Drakon the Board Game.

Now you may be wondering what sort of title this post is all about. By that I mean, have I just spelt the word dragon wrong or something?

She wants her treasure back!

Nope, Drakon is a board game made by the fine people of Fantasy Flight Games and designed by Tom Jolly. Within this game there are several adventurer miniatures looking for gold and a dragon who is not too happy about these wizards, warriors and thieves trying to steal her gold.

The tiles are nice and sturdy, good as they move about a great deal.

The premise of this game is tile laying to gain variable gold coins until you reach a value of 10 on which you win. Sounds simple but some of these tiles are nasty, the heroes all have a one shot ability they can use and if you meet Drakon herself back to the centre you go minus 3 coins. Games are usually quick, dastardly and above all a lot of fun.

All seven models lined up for a photo.

This leads nicely to the miniatures that come with the game. We have a Ranger, Sorceress, Thief, Fighter (dwarf), Druid & Knight trying to get away with as much loot as possible and then Drakon herself the Dragon. The issue is that they are all a pale grey plastic which sometimes makes telling them apart slightly tricky. Have no fear though as here at oldhammer40kquest it is time to paint them all....

More Goff Orks get painted

This will be a very quick showcase post on the blog. With the dreaded Covid-19 Virus lurking out there in the streets like some sort of abomination spawned from Papa Nurgle himself, it has been a great time to get the paints out and work on some miniatures.

"Ahh, turn dat flash off ya git! Bright enuff up here in dis snow!"

As is always the case when it comes to dusting off the brushes, I am always drawn to something simpler to paint. Often the classic Goff Orks from the 2nd edition box get the honour. Anyone who has been following this blog will know I have already painted quite a few of them and today four more join the ranks.

These four are the kind of plastic goff ork that got raided for parts back in my youth. Arms, weapons and even helmet spikes got removed for some other project or idea. The rest of them then got dropped in the bitz box where they remained until recently.

Right ladz, better now we can see.

On fishing the four main bodies out it was clear not one of them was complete. Three had issues with there left arm, whilst the last one was entirely 'armless (Ere' dat not funny!).

A quick root around and some new arms and weapons were found and attached. Even if one was part of a damaged lasgun and the mace end of a heroquest orc.

Chain-sword party at the ready! "Grrzrrzrrz!" "Cut it out Nogzub"

I painted them up with the standard technique I have been using which can be found in the Links and Showcases bar on the right of this blog.

Hope you enjoy this little painting trip, stay tuned for more regular blog posts now we are all inside.

Until next time, stay safe.

Encounters at a Cosmic scale!

Mwahaha!! Our evil planet conquering crusade is almost complete, this planet looks lovely, wait these natives we just encountered are so adorable we can not colonise their homeworld, let's go take over that Traders system instead.

Yes are cuteness will help us conquer the cosmos!!

Welcome to Cosmic Encounter where in the depths of space, the alien races of the Cosmos vie with each other for control of the universe.

Alliances form and shift from moment to moment, while cataclysmic battles send starships screaming into the warp as ancient tech is deployed. Players choose from hundreds of alien races, each with its own unique power to further its efforts to build an empire that spans the galaxy.

If that all sounds a bit over dramatic then blame Board Game Geek.  Over the last weekend (25th Jan) I managed to get two games of Cosmic Encounter played between 4 players. Even though I lost both games it was always entertaining and still very close. But which aliens did I encounter and who did I use to try and control the universe?

Game 1: The Fury, Ethic, Sorcerer & Will

My Alien Species

The Fury

Ah yes the very angry space archers. Did we lose an encounter or lose some ships during an alliance? Then suffer our wrath!! Although it seemed like a decent alien threat, the Fury ended up not doing a great deal as the Sorcerer ran rampant.

Game 2: Guerrilla, Trickster, Lightning & Oracle

My Alien Species

Trickster

Do you like 50-50 odds then the Trickster alien is for you. Got a terrible hand, there is still a 50% chance you might win. Got a great hand but think the opponent might have some sneaky way of winning, it's still a 50% chance for them to lose. Will we use the power will we not who knows when it comes to the Trickster.

In this game I had more success but ended up using flares more than the actual Trickster power.

Until next time when I will have actual oldhammer painting stuff to show.

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Nemesis: On the Tabletop everyone can hear you scream!

What better way to ring in 2020 than with a tabletop board game where death lurks in every room, ventilation shaft or even your own crew.

Nemesis from Awaken Realms

Welcome to the starship Nemesis. You have just woken from cryo-hibernation the ship is unknown to you, there are strange noises emanating from the corridors, an odd slime is on the floor and warning lights indicate a fire is in progress. More concerning is the dead body on the floor; she looks like she was torn apart from the inside!

After a quick debate the Captain heads to the cockpit with the soldier while the engineer (who has been oddly quiet) goes looking for tools. The Pilot heads off to check on the engines. You ease out of the hibernation pod into your motorised wheelchair, panels blink into life showing various medical charts, scientific graphs and other data. The pilot may need help as he has headed off on his own so you follow after him into the Hatch Control room... (screeesh)

It's over 10 foot tall and mucus drips from it, this alien intruder is a nightmare given life. Looking at your pistol you decide to escape rather than fight. It slashes at you but only catches the back of the wheelchair damaging various systems keeping you healthy. You race into the Comms room in panic and slam your hand on the lock door panel. The pilot doesn't believe you as he wanders off down a different corridor in search of the engine room ...