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A poignant fan-sculpt

29 Monday Mar 2021

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Greetings Terrans, a bit of a strange post today – a sombre affair in many ways. As you probably know, I’ve been working my way through my existing mountain of minis over the last year or so, trying (and mostly succeeding) in not buying anything new… (or more importantly, in not buying any oldhammer goodies from ebay). Instead I have been picking things out to suit projects that have had me excited, or occasionally painting something I just fancied painting!

Last month, I found a gorgeous fan-sculpt of an undead version of Jes Goodwin’s famous Hrothyogg Ogre Captain from 1986, (itself inspired by a Blanche piece I think). Now I don’t recall the exact circumstances of me getting the undead version – I suspect it came up in the OldHammer group, but I confess, I don’t remember for sure… What I do know is that it screamed out to be painted & here’s the result:

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Now for the poignant bit. I went looking back through the story behind this mini, knowing that I would want to do a good job in this post. I learned that the guy who sculpted it was called Justin Coutange, and sadly, that he passed away back in 2019. It sounds like he was a similar age to me, and while I didn’t know him personally, he sounds like my kind of guy. It made painting this mini much more of a reflective experience than it usually is for me – enjoyable as a painting project, but more melancholic perhaps… it was an absolute privilege to paint.

There are some very nice words on Justin here if anyone wants to check it out.

A kick in the Ghoulies

22 Monday Mar 2021

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Greetings Terrans, I have another short post for you today – again, this is showing off some minis that were finished incidentally to my Fembruary efforts… Remember this lil’ lady?

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She’s from the Grymwatch warband for Warhammer Underworlds, and I couldn’t very well leave the rest of them in the box, so they got the same treatment:

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I’m not a fan of all the daft bits that AoS Ghouls seem to be obsessed with these days, so I trimmed all the guff off & sculpted on some rudimentary clothes. There’s a bit of subtle reposing in places, and the dude with the massive bone-club had his weapon replaced for something a bit more reasonably proportioned. The only mini that had no work done was the stupid pair of bats… I mean really, there ain’t much you can do with them is there? Here they are in smaller groups:

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I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out – I didn’t have anything in mind other than to have that female mini for my RPG campaign, so to end up with the whole lot done is a bonus. I doubt I’ll ever get to play Underworlds, but if I do, I have a warband ready to roll.

Zombies of Karr-keel part 2

16 Tuesday Mar 2021

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Greetings Terrans, how goes it? Quick post today to share some incidental minis finished during my Fembruary efforts. You may remember this pair of female Zombies that I painted as part of the challenge:

Well, I couldn’t not paint the remainder of the set while I was at it, so here they are!

This is the second set of Karr-Keel zombies, (I painted the first set waaaay back in 2017), and like the first set, they were a joy to paint. The sculpting was done by none other than Kev Adams & the minis have all the humour & quirkiness you’d expect from the Goblin Master himself. I painted them in my usual non-fussy Zombie stylee – the minis are entirely done with washes, with the addition of some diluted Contrast paints here and there. I used base paints for the metals, and then technical paints were used for blood, gore, corrosion & Verdigris, and that’s about it! All in all, a very loose, quick and easy paint job, and all the more enjoyable for that.

Ok, so next up is a weird one – IRO has been asking people to post their favourite t-shirts in March… I think it’s creepy, but it’s IRO so whaddaya gonna do. Here’s my current ‘feeling crabby’ fave:

Aaaand that’s it for this post – the next one will be a similar affair with another February project expanded on, and maybe another t-shirt if the one I have in mind cycles through my pile of clothes.