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Scynir redux pt.5 and done!

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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Greetings Terrans, I had a bit of a spurt of enthusiasm since my last post, and actually managed to get the last minis painted up for my OldHammer iteration of Scynir’s warband. Back when I first rolled up the warband in 2022, it was mostly Beastmen and a few humans, but I also allowed myself extra rolls following various games I played with the plastic incarnation. As a result, I got some pretty interesting followers to add, including the Chaos Dwarfs I transitioned to lead a few weeks ago. Here are the OldHammer iterations of some of the more weird and wonderful warband members, starting with these feathered beauties:

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These Harpies are from Foundry, and are really nice models and great fun to paint – not sure why one random has human lady legs, but hey, it’s all good. I used the hair and wings to display the warband colours of orange and blue, and I thought this was effective enough to not need extra blue from warpaint. I’m really pleased with how they turned out!

Next up is a trio of Skaven:

These guys are also from Foundry, but are much less fun to paint than the Harpies… I think the sculpts are a bit ropey, no lovely long ratty tails and they look a bit well-fed to me – I prefer my rat-men to be more gaunt and feral looking! But still, these ratbags do add some charm… and some range!

Finally, we have a big ol’ Minotaur, and what better job for such a big beefy boy than being a big beefy flag waverer!

Again, this one is another Foundry model, and he really is very nicely posed for some top-drawer flag wavery. I removed his right hand weapon & sculpted in the banner pole over some wire, while the finial was made from the Horror that donated its arms to Scynir. The main body was painted up as per the earlier Beastmen, including sexy warpaint to bring in some Tzeentchian blue. I really enjoyed painting the banner itself, but with hindsight, I wish I hadn’t put a hole in it!

And that’s it – warband complete for now. This group will form the pool of minis that I use to pick out my 600 point warband for the event in November – looking forward to it immensely!

Next on the painting table – Eldar…

Scynir Redux

12 Friday Sep 2025

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Greetings Terrans, last week I mentioned a project to create a 600 point WFB 3rd ed warband for an OldHammer event in November – a Norsca adventure as rival warbands compete to push their claim for the recently vacated crown of the Kingdom of Arsenduvnaewar. I decided to use this as an opportunity to do something that I have been planning for a while – paint up a lead version of my Tzeench Realm of Chaos warband, with Scynir at the head. The reason for me doing this is that even though I really like the warband as is, I’m much more likely to play an OldHammer game these days, and doing so with modern plastics just doesn’t sit right with me. Stylistically, the warband is going to look and feel very different – lacking the technical excellence of modern GW minis, but hopefully full of 80’s/90’s RoC charm. Most of the minis will be from Foundry, but with a bit of GW and others sprinkled in there for good measure.

So, every good warband should start with the leader, and in this case, I already had my leader defined – a Human champion with the Gift of Magic and Overgrown Hands. I also had the colour scheme worked out, thanks to my original version of Scynir, so really it was just a case of sourcing bits & making it happen! I used an old lead elf mage for the body, while the arms were donated from a Horror – pretty much how I approached the plastic version! The long hair of the elf hides any telltale elven ears, while the body is androgynous enough to work as a female human… I also added a small Familiar to balance out the base a bit, and this is what I ended up with:

Painting was pretty straight forward. I went with pink/yellow for the mutated hands rather than the blue/green of the original, but otherwise I used broadly the same orange/blue scheme as the original, (the blue came out a bit darker, but it’s close enough). Here they are together:

So that’s it for now folks, more to come as I start adding followers.

The Temple of the Golden Frog

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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Greetings Terrans, it feels great to be writing this after a 7 month break from the hobby! I have been up to my neck in studying an MBA, but have now happily finished & that’s it – I solemnly swear to never ever do any academic learning ever again. I actually wrapped things up in April, but I had to wait until last week for the results and I found I had no motivation to do any hobby at all during that time. It wasn’t just painting – I’m way out of date with following and commenting on other blogs, and I honestly just can’t see me getting caught up with that side of things… Fresh start and all that.

Anyway, with all that in mind, I really needed something to get my juices flowing again. Luckily BOYL is around the corner, and Aidan was cooking up a lil’ WFB game and was looking for some 20ish-strong Old World warbands for a trip to Lustria. Aidan always puts on amazing games, so putting my hand up was a no-brainer. I thought about buying some new minis for the occasion, but thought it would be a good idea to raid the mounds of unpainted lead first… I found I had enough assorted Fantasy minis to put together a force. You’ll see over the coming weeks that the group is somewhat eclectic, but I think it’ll all come together in the end. The gist is that a wizard has come to Lustria to raid the Temple of the Golden Frog for some wizardly reason, and has hired a rag-tag group of pirates, natives, trackers and mercenaries to keep his wizardly ass safe in the steamy jungles.

This first group forms the backbone of the warband – mercenary Spearmen of Nuln:

Now, anyone who knows OldHammer knows about the near mythical Spearman of Nuln from the C-series Fighters range… I won’t get into all the background but suffice it to say that the original was unreleased, and so the actual mini is as rare as rocking horse poo… Luckily I had a slack handful of fan sculpts that I assume I picked up at BOYL, though I can’t for the life of me remember who made ’em… (Pop in a comment below if you know please!)

The minis are very much on the nose in terms of capturing that OH vibe – sure, the proportions are crazy and some of the casts are pretty bad, but they just ooze character and joy – they actually remind me a bit of the monopose Nightmare Legion, and that’s no bad thing in my opinion. More importantly, they weren’t a daunting paint job, which is something that I definitely needed to think about after such a long hobby break! Here they are in smaller groups:

I checked the interwebs for suitable colours and a banner design – black, red, yellow and cannon imagery were very much the order of the day. I challenged myself to practice my freehand a bit & while the striped trousers were frustrating, I’m really glad I did them… I’m bloody delighted with that banner!

So that’s it folks – onwards and upwards! :-)