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Vintage: Grenadier Wizzards & Warriors: WW01 (q) Thief, 1979
Before Grenadier got the license for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons in 1980, they released some large box sets under the name Wizzards and Warriors, full of your classic dungeon inhabitants. The first...
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Finished: Oldhammer Mordheim warband!
It's taken me a few months and a bit of planning, but I finally finished up a modest little Mordheim warband, comprised of a eclectic set of oldhammer miniatures. I thought up a bit of an angle which...
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Jes Goodwin's Woodelves: the Bear handler!
One of my many long term, ongoing projects is the painting of an 80's wood elf army, using the classic Jes Goodwin sculpts. I have collected a couple of dozen of the min so far and whenever I feel...
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Ruglud's Armored Orcs part 1
image courtesy of Stuff of Legends Sometime ago, my great buddy SC John walked in with a shopping bag full of old orcs and said, "Here, have fun with these". There were some Marauder wolfriders in it...
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Vintage Miniatures: Citadel Spacefarers S42, 1980
Recently I received a big batch of old minis and one of them was the Security Robot S42 from the Citadel Spacefarer range. Most of that range was created in 1979 and 80, so they are old minis, but mine...
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Ruglud's Armored Orcs Part2
Here's a quick update on my ongoing project Ruglud's Armored Orcs...I have painted up a few more minis including Ruglud himself, his sidekick Maggott and Bambrag, the mucisican.First off, some more...
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Genestealer Cult Project: Part 1, the start
After reading White Dwarf 116 and the awesome 1000 pt Army list for the Genestealer Cult, I knew I had to do something with them. I gathered WD 114 115 and 116 together and went through all the...
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Vintage Miniatures: Citadel SH2 Cloaked Superheroes
One of the most obscure Citadel ranges nowadays is the Superheroes range from 1981. Described as a 'new range of defenders of humanity and avengers of injustice' (from Stuff of Legends), these minis...
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Expanding the original Chaos Beastmen troop with Runequest Broo...
Ok, let me start somewhere else: my favorite Citadel miniatures of all time are the C27 and C38 Chaos Beastmen miniatures, sculpted by Trish Garden in the first half of the 80's. The sculpts are quite...
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C38/C27/C22 and more: my Chaos Beastmen warband is growing
I am now more determined than ever to keep working on my merry band of mutated Chaos Beastmen and their friends and am really enjoying the old, classic and frankly crazy sculpts with a super colorful...
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More C38 Beastmen!
I have been absolutely loving painting old school minis from the early 80's over the last month. I have been tearing through my limited stock of C38 Chaos Beastmen minis: sculpted by Trish Carden in...
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Trish Carden about her classic Chaos Beastmen range
I am a big fan of the early eighties Citadel Chaos Beastmen, sculpted by Trish Carden. So I sent her a few questions, got some answers and figured it might be interesting for anyone who likes those...
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Custom movement/display tray for hex bases!
I have been steadily working on my big Chaos Beastmen project and decided to have some custom movement trays made for them. You cannot find trays with hex bases anywhere, so had to go to Warbases UK...
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C38/C27 Chaos Beastmen project: update
After 4 months I have reached a standstill in my Chaos Beastman Project: I have no more minis to paint....they are so hard to find that at this point! So I will start some other, smaller projects. But...
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Grenadier AD&D Wizards Project: part 1
With the rising costs of old Citadel miniatures a lot of us have looked around at other companies' miniatures like Grenadier, Ral Partha, Heritage and many more. There are so many great minis to be...
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Grenadier AD&D Wizards Project Part 2: the sculptor
Whenever I start a painting project, I get really obsessed about the history of the minis, like why they look the way they do, who sculpted them and why the company put them out in the first place....
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Grenadier AD&D Wizards Project Part 3: it's finished!
I finally finished the Grenadier Wizard project with the painting of the last two wizards - wow, it's all done! I also wanted to show the display base I created for it AND I shot a few dramatic scenes...
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Golden Heroes: History of a Forgotten Citadel Range
In 1984 Games Workshop published an RPG called Golden Heroes. It was not made by GW, instead it was created by Simon Burley and Peter Haines, who had published the homemade rules a few years before....
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2022 Single minis!
I mostly worked on bigger projects this year, like the Citadel Golden Heroes, the classic 1984 Chaos Beastmen and the Grenadier Wizards, but I also painted up some single miniatures and since the end...
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Citadel Imperial Dwarfs!
After sorting my Citadel dwarfs I discovered I had 10 Imperial Dwarfs, sculpted by the Perry twins and released in 1987. These are real fighting dwarfs and some of them look like little knights, with...
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C38 and C27 and C34 Chaos Beastmen project update!
Through some luck, some scouring the internet and generous donations, I have another 10 or so classic miniatures from the classic 1984-85 Chaos Beastmen ranges to get thru. This set also includes the...
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Oldhammer Terrain: Card Stock Buildings!
After running out of painting mojo I decided to dig up the old mid 90's Warhammer 5th ed. starter set and build the card stock buildings in this box. I did not realize how much fun it would be to cut,...
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Painting and framing a Bretonnian Sprue from 1996!
I wanted to create an original gift for a friend and got inspired by the sprue painting I see from time to time. So I dug into the Warhammer 5th Edition Starter set from the mid nineties and chose the...
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2023 ongoing Oldhammer projects
Last time I posted painted miniatures was in February of this year - I have been busier than ever with the hobby, but did not find the time to post them on the blog. So I figure I correct that with...
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A personal love letter to Talisman minis
With this post I want to give thanks to Aly Morrison for creating one of the most varied, rich, funny and scary ranges: the Citadel Metal Talisman miniatures designed for 2nd edition of the...
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