Hi guys, bit of a different kind of post today – I haven’t gotten anything painted this week what with one thing and another, but one thing I did do was get prepared for this year’s ‘Bring Out Your Lead’. For those of you that don’t know, BOYL is an annual get-together of the OldHammer community up at The Wargames Foundry in Newark. It is run by the legendary Ansell family – custodians of many a fine mould from the early days of Games Workshop, and has been graced many of the sculptors of the early days of GW, (Trish & Ali Morrison, Kev ‘Goblin’ Adams, Colin Dixon to name a few). You can check out more about the Wargames Foundry here.
Anyway, the weekend itself is basically a celebration of all things from the early days (pre ’92) days of WFB and 40k, plus all the specialist games, the miniatures of the era, the painting styles, the publications… you name it! There are a number of organised games, participation games, plus free tables for general use. There are so many games I want to see and try, people I want to meet, and miniatures I want to gawp at! That said, I’m only really geared up to play Rogue Trader, and I needed to prepare a force for a 1200 pt. rolling game… there was only one way to go for me – Praetorian Imperial Guard!
Those of you who have been following this blog for a while might remember my Praetorian force – the Dauntless 215th. Praetorians really were my first OldHammer crush, and I collected and painted them obsessively for quite a while! I’ve amassed quite a sizeable force of more than a hundred of the chaps, plus vehicles, support troops, characters, etc… All are painted to the best of my ability at that time, so no ‘table-top standard’ corners were cut… I’ve developed a bit of a Steampunk/Victoriana theme throughout, and I am really very proud of them all :-)
Feel free to go back and look at the early months on this blog (for more pictures, battle reports, conversions, etc.) if this has piqued your interest, but as I was doing the list, I thought it might be nice to set up my chosen 1200 point force for a quick photo shoot… So here we are – Lt. Bromhead and 1 Platoon, (mechanised infantry), plus a small sniper support section, have been conscripted by Arturo Lamina – a callow Rogue Trader of growing reputation. His mission is to investigate the mysterious forge world known only as ‘Foundry’… Departure countdown is 7 standard rotations:
So, I hope you enjoyed this post – I know I did! I had forgotten just how much I love my Praetorians, and I’m feeling the urge again… I still have a couple of platoons in the lead pile too, and I keep meaning to get back to them one day… Hmmm… ;-)
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I love love love them all mate!!! I would love to have an army of them one day. I’m very envious. Are they all GW sculpts? The steampunk theme is cool. I was recently very tempted to buy some Dystopian miniatures in the same theme. I love the Gatling gun? Where’s that from? Great paint work and the steampunk tanks are flipping awesome!!! More pix please sir.
Thanks dude, and yes, all of this lot are GW (though the tanks are spliced with Dystopian Legion parts, and the Gats are from Curious Constructs). Dyst Legion troops are a bad fit scale wise with GW, but the tanks are ace. Loads more pics in the early months of this very blog good sir ;-)
You know, you might want to check out Victoria Miniatures if you like this sort of thing – Australia based, very very good Praetorians plus loads of other goodies…
Thanks mate. Yeah Vic minis are ace and I’ve bought from them already. Nice sculpts lots of flash but that’s ok. Not bad price either.
Great army…. I would love a few squads myself to refight the famous battle report from WD222 – Last Stand at Glazer’s Creek….
Thanks mate, that was my inspiration too! I read that bat-rep over and over, (and over some more!). WD222 is still on my bookshelf to this day :-)
Daaaauuuntless!
:-D You knows it dude!
Just excellent – there is nothing quite like seeing an army of models which have been loved, which have been painted to the best of the painter’s ability, which have been personalised and given character until life has been breathed into their base lead and turned them into metaphorical gold! Gosh I’ve come over all philosophical – I’d better go for a lie down!
Tremendously cool, full of charm indeed! More, we want moooreee!!
Thanks Suber, glad you like ’em mate :-)
I always fancied doing a khaki uniformed Praetorian platoon one day, team them up with some Tallarn… I think that will be my next dip into Guard ;-)