Skaven, from deep in the backlog

[Gnomemad]

Do you ever find you have some minis hiding unpainted in your collection, just waiting for the right time to spring out under the painting lamps? A friend announced we would be doing an oldschool Warhammer Fantasy revival with our choice of skirmishers. My first thought was, I have nothing to bring! My collection is heavily Rogue Trader. But then I remembered a dozen fantasy Skaven I had primed and forgotten... in about 1990. They've been through eight relocations and never complained. Now was their moment.

For the game I had to go with a few plastics I had painted years ago. But the game was a blast and we all agreed to do it again soon. Therefore I set myself to painting the old metal. I found my prep 20 years ago wasn't the best. I had to file and sand mould lines and reprime with better paint. I now have six of them lined up to complete, and one entirely finished:



I have a second one underway and hope to finish one every week or two. My question to you Lead Adventurers is: what do you have lurking in your collection that you've always wanted to paint? It's never too late!

--Gnomemad

[Mr Tough Guy]

Beautiful work, inspirational, I love those old Skaven, I have some lurking in the lead pile that need to get painted too,
looking forward to seeing the next one

[Garanhir]

Most of my collection's less than two and a half years old (at least, in my hands- some are pretty old second-handers), but amongst my original collection from the 80s and early 90s lies an old Harlequin Elvis-dwarf.

I've promised him that one day he's going to get the full Vegas treatment.

[dijit]

Lovely painting. Recently I've been stripping down. My old minis from 20 yrs ago and repainting them, it's both fun and satisfying.
Oh, and welcome to the boards!
Duncan

[DeafNala]

After seeing innumerable diseased Rat Guys, one with a healthy, glowing complexion is a shock. GREAT color choices & brushwork...VERY WELL DONE!

[Brummie Thug]

Fab looking Skaven. Please rummage in you boxes and produce more of such loveliness

[Blue in vt]

Agreed!! this guy looks fantastic!  More please...

Cheers,

Blue

[Spooktalker]

Now that the rats have a proper leader I'm sure there are many more intrigues afoot between the rats and the Old Skull Tribe.

And he keeps looking better and better each time I have a look at him.

And I don't know what this is you're talking about having old lead lying around.    I guess the hard part for me is which do I want to paint *more.*

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

he looks super! Looking forward to seeing the rest.

[Glitzer]

This one really looks great... and it even makes me want to paint old warhammer models again. And for that suprise miniatures in your lead-pile: Yes I know that moments way to well 

[Mason]

Great looking ratboy, Gnomemad!
 

And a great way to introduce yourself too.
Welcome aboard!
 


As for lead piles: Mine is just so damn scary at times that I have gotten all organised and boxed them all up together for different projects.
One of the advantages of having recently moved house.

My question to you Lead Adventurers is: what do you have lurking in your collection that you've always wanted to paint?

Two of my 'mini-projects' have been nagging at me for years to paint, Iron Claw Space Pirates and Asgard Dwarves.

I had used the excuse that I couldn't paint them until I had the entire range collected.
Now that I have both, I have lost that excuse.....

Therefore the Dwarves have been added to my imminent LotR project and should see some paint soon.

Hopefully......

[Glitzer]

My question to you Lead Adventurers is: what do you have lurking in your collection that you've always wanted to paint?

Oh didn't read that question when I first looked at the thread. Well there is always SciFi Sophie (from some Reapercon of the past)

But I always want to wait till I can paint it better (that's actually the reason for most of my lead pile).