Some more figures painted

I finished a couple of figures over the weekend.

First. some retro scifi miniatures from Hydra Miniatures:

Saturnite Infantry from Blue Moon Manufacturing:

2 Chaos creatures from Eureka Miniatures, and "Dulle Griet", a promotional figure from the CRISIS convention in Antwerp:

And finally, some Victorian Horror figures: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Jack the Ripper, and a ghost Lady. Manufacturer unknown ...

Game for Crisis 2017: Oldhammer WFB1 scenario, Ziggurat of Doom (6)

The summary cards for the Dwarves in the Ziggurat of Doom scenario ...

Game for Crisis 2017: Oldhammer WFB1 scenario, Ziggurat of Doom (5)

As part of the "Ziggurat of Doom" scenario during CRISIS 2017, my plan is to pimp the scenario a bit and allow for the appearance of random monsters, which can align to either side. I selected a few of my 80s-era miniatures, which also have entries in the WFB1 rulebook.

The cards listing the statistics, and which will be used during the game, are shown below.

Game for Crisis 2017: Oldhammer WFB1 scenario, Ziggurat of Doom (4)

In preparation of our Crisis 2017 game (a replay of the scenario "The Ziggurat of Doom"'using Warhammer 1st edition rules), I decided to make some cards as a quick reference to the various statistics of troops involved. SInce the whole idea is also to use vintage miniatures, a photograph and some info of each of the miniatures is included on the cards as well.

Below you see the cards for the Goblins that will attack the Ziggurat.

Some items from the recycling shop

I scored a few items at the local recycling shop (""kringloopwinkel" in Dutch) this weekend. Apparantly they had a sale, and managed to get a large number of train sets. There wasn't too much that could be used for wargaming purposes (most of the sets were modern trains), but I bought a few items, shown below. Two freight cars, and a hay wagon, both in HO scale.

Game for Crisis 2017: Oldhammer WFB1 scenario, Ziggurat of Doom (3)

A few more paintjobs have been finished for our CRISIS 2017 game.

The idea still is to play the Ziggurat of Doom scenario from Warhammer 1st edition, using vintage miniatures that were available during the early eighties, and could have been used to play the scenario when Warhammer 1st edition was published in 1983 or shortly thereafter.

Earlier, I already reported on 12 Minifigs Forest Orcs that were finished.

Fellow wargamer Wim VdB (check out his blog) has now finished the dwarves (including Thorgrimm Branedimm), and some goblins and orcs.

First, we have the dwarves:. These are pre-slotta Citadel, and you can see the Thorgrimm Branedimm model as well.

 Next we have Chronicle Orcs:

And finally Ral Partha Orcs:

Some chaotic conversions (2)

Earlier I reported on some conversions I was working on ... chaos knights with mutated slithering insect bodies. Here they are painted

The base is kept rather simple - green grass as I use for all my fantasy figures. I had to contrast the green body of the snake-like figure, so I decided to surround him with a glossy shade of greenish blue. I also had 2 Nurglings lying around, so I added them also to the base of the figure.

Gandalf and Hobbit Children

When you're in a bit of a painting funk, which I definitely am at the moment, one of the things that can help is to radically change what you're painting. In my case, I switched from historical figures to something more fantasy like:

That's the old Gandalf and hobbit children from Mithril Miniatures. I bought it decades ago in our Lonely Mountain period in Leuven and it has been laying around unpainted ever since then. Now it's painted :).

Some more Aegyptus figures

It seems I'm on a painting spree lately. Four more figures finished from the Aegyptus range from Crocodile Games (see also this earlier blogpost).

Also, don't be alarmed by the high frequency of fantasy or scifi topic on this blog lately. We're still firmly entrenched in historicals as well!

Large insects

Another victory over the unpainted lead pile. This time some giant insects.

First are some giant termites, originally 15mm Demonworld figures. They came with goblin riders, but I think they can serve my wargaming needs better without them.

Next a humanoid mantiss. This is a "Mantis Krieger" from Excalibur Miniatures. No idea how it got in my collection, but it was there, so I painted him. Could be the general for an insectoid army, or an alien, or a Chaos creature, or ... anything really.