A few of my old minis. New battle report added. (well the start of one 29/02/12)

[abhorsen950]

excellent stuff.

[Thantsants]

Thus proving that like many arms manufacturers in the real world, GW are quite happy to supply hardware to both sides!

Double-crossing swines!!   

Its the children I worry about... 

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Grand stuff.

I love the old dwarves, but then, I do love old dwarves.

Yellow and red... Nice colour combo, mine have always been blue, white and red... Tempted by red and yellow now.

The dark elves ain't that bad, you're being harsh on yourself! The purples are excellent!
Just add a highlight here and there and they'll be fine!!! 

[Erny]

Yep Red Orc has it same bolt thrower many different crews, you can see them being used by skellies at the front of the 3rd edition rules too. These are the ones with winding handles.

I went through a reasonably prolific part of my life now gone but for good reasons. I made quite a dent in my lead mountain painting an army every 3-4 months perhaps so there is a fair backlog of stuff to post. Quite a bit was Sci-Fi and WW2 though so won't get on this thread.

Glad you like the red and gold Rob, the whole army is either red, yellow or red and yellow. I must get Uthers and Bugmans units photographed soon.

[Thantsants]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Bugman's... 

Mmmmmmmmmmm Ulther's... 

Never noticed the skellies bolt thrower - I'll have to investigate!

[Erny]

I think the skellies are just plastic ones they used to crew the bolt throwers rather than a set they produced but a bolt thrower is a bolt thrower so anyone can crew it.

[Thantsants]

Ah yes - spotted them!

Must admit I've always been intrigued by the big orange giant in the same set of shots... and the big orange cyclops a few pages further!

[Erny]

I believe they are 60mm plastic Fighting Fantasy Ogers used quite frequently as Giants in 25mm.

http://www.solegends.com/citfightfant/fly8505-bfx-33.htm

I've heard they often come up on Ebay, but I've never seen them.

That huge battle has always inspired me. Though I think it may have been a nightmare or at least a bit of a slog to play with 3rd edition rules.

[phreedh]

I believe they are 60mm plastic Fighting Fantasy Ogers used quite frequently as Giants in 25mm.

http://www.solegends.com/citfightfant/fly8505-bfx-33.htm

It's where everything started for me... =) Should still have a few tucked away in my folks' garage. Maybe I ought to dig them out. Don't remember if I had any of the ogres, or if those were my cousin's.

[Thantsants]

Brilliant - that's solved a little mystery for me!

Can't imagine it would have been a slog - 3rd ed. rules are very concise and user friendly! 

Should still have a few tucked away in my folks' garage.

Get 'em out and get 'em painted...

... bright orange! 

[Erny]

Thought it worth resurrecting this old thread since I’m resurrecting the blog.  For such Threadomancy I appropriately have a slightly converted Marauder Vampire, chuffed because I’ve been meaning to do this conversion since the early 90’s and just got round to it. There should be some more new paints on the blog very soon and a battle report but for now I give you Lord Micka Ston just one of the reports many stars.

[phreedh]

Good to have you back, Erny. Like that vampire a lot!

[Blue in vt]

Yeah...that dude is creepy!!!

Well done!

Blue

[Erny]

I’ve added the first post in a narrative battle report to my blog. Just the introduction for now but full of very bad puns based on British culture as all good old school miniatures WD homage articles should be. It’s quite long so I won’t paste the full text here but please do check it out. To wet your appetite here is Xispa Kerm and his kinband ready to face Bald Rick and his master Lord Micka Ston who you met just the other day.

[JollyBob]

Great stuff. More old-school love.