AHPC XII: From Mike W - 28mm Warhammer Saurus Oldblood Unit

 So here is my last post of the week, the weekend is looming and I have a lot of baby sitting and granddaughter hugging 'duties' lined-up, meaning that the other posts that I'm working on will need to wait until next week now. Hopefully they will get finished off relatively quickly and I can see if I can catch-up on my planned schedule?!

However to this post - 20 x Warhammer Fantasy Saurus Oldblood Lizardmen. The previous Lizardman foot unit that  completed were of the more modern plastic boxed set, whereas these guys are from Games Workshop's first edition plastic lizardmen.

The completed Saurus Oldblood Unit

My aim with this unit is to try and reflect that these guys are from an older more primitive Lizard line by giving them a darker colour palette, so I went for a dark green body with light blue scales to form their natural protective armour.

Close-up of some of the Lizardmen, slimy, wet skin effect is deliberate!
Yes I know that lizards a not really slimy but hey - this is fantasy wargaming!

To try and tie them into the more modern figures I did their weapons in a similar black and grey finish, albeit with leather bindings and grips. I mixed a base coat of medium green with some salamander green - about 50:50 and applied this over a grey undercoat. When dry I applied a strong tone wash before picking out all the armoured scales in Sky Blue, over which I applied a blue wash to give them shading and depth.

First of the Saurus Roll Call 

Claws and horns were added in appropriate colours as were the leather loincloths and weaponry in black and grey. Jewellery was added using Bright Brass paint and mouth, tongue and teeth details were added before a Satin Varnish was applied - to give them a slippery, wet look.

Five more mug shots

And another five

Figures were based in my normal manner. You'll notice that there are no command figures for this unit, I'll be starting a search of eBay to get some in as soon as I get some time!

The last group of five

The same five from behind, to show the detail of their armoured scales

On reflection I should maybe have done these guys in blue with green scales but they're done now and I'll not be changing them! Watch out for some supporting Skink Archers next week, when I get them finished...

AHPC XII: From Mike W - Classic Warhammer Goblin Archers

 Second post this week is another Warhammer classic batch of 25 x Goblin Archers.

The completed unit of 25 Goblin Archer

These guys seem to have been the first outing of Night Goblins in plastic, with their iconic hoods and here a cheeky 'mini' robe, cut-off at the knees. I decided to try and do this unit in a midnight blue coloured robe, to be a little different from the black robes of almost all of my other Night Goblins.

Close-up of some of the Goblin figures

I used a grey undercoat an then blue washes on top of this before a couple of Dark Tone washes to darken the overall effect, this has definitely given the figures a blue tint and I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome.

Figures awaiting undercoating

Skin was Army Painter Goblin Green - what else would it be! With a green wash over the top and highlights applied in the base colour. Equipment, straps, bow,  quiver and arrows were painted as appropriate and these were washed in Nuln Oil to give shading and all was finished with Matt Varnish when dry.

A close-up of the other end of the unit! If you squint you can see the blue tint in their robes.

Bases were finished with fine sand and electrostatic grass.

And just to show that I painted all round these figures - here's the back view of some of these little guys!

AHPC XII: From Mike W - Classic Warhammer Orc Warriors

This week my 'Production Line' suffered a significant down-time - although there is a very good reason for this! My latest Grandchild (and third Granddaughter) arrived last weekend and I have been engrossed in this new little bundle of joy all week...

That said I am pleased to present here 2 x Classic Warhammer Warriors, dating back from the 1990s, as a companion for the Classic Orc Archers I completed last week.

Completed Unit of 12 Classic Orc Warriors

These guys were already undercoated black and had three figures with damaged swords in the group. As such I was able to convert one figure into a Standard Bearer, utilising an old Beastman Standard I had in the spares box.

Undercoated figures

Another was converted into a Musician by taking the Horn from a Goblin Rider, again found in the spares box, whilst the final figure had a Goblin Sword added. Luckily the scale creep in Games Workshop figures over the years has meant that these spare parts were not seriously out of whack.

The Command figures of the unit, all converted / fixed to lesser of greater extents

The figures were painted in the same style as the recent Orc Archers, trying to keep that old school uniform look but I did add a red wash to their clothing hoping to give them a red hue, I had ideas of calling this unit the 'Red Guard'. Unfortunately this did not work very well so black washes were applied over this.

Close-up of some of Da Boyz

Skin was given a green wash and then highlighted with the original Goblin Green Army Painter colours.

Goblin shields were also liberated from the spares box, as replacements for the long lost originals, they were painted on the sprue and after gluing in place the whole figure was varnished.

AHPC XII: From Mike W - Odds & Ends

  I don't know about everyone else but I'm often trying out new figures to see how they paint-up or to add one or two additional details to existing collections etc.

Here are a few that have been on my workbench the last few weeks awaiting finishing and I finally go around to completing them.

First up is a 35mm Gladiator figure to add to my Jugular collection, this guy is in the Greek style, armed with a short sword and a small shield, with just his sword arm armoured.

Jugula Gladiator

I kept the paint scheme simple, with a red loincloth, brown leather straps and shield cover and brass and iron armour and fittings.

Rear view

The skin was given a flesh wash and coloured washes were applied elsewhere as appropriate before varnishing and basing

Another view

Next up are two Spartan warriors, not your historical kind but more akin to those found in the 300 films. These are 28mm 3D prints and were so much fun to paint. Red cloaks, a lot of brass work and a lot of skin tones!

The two '300' Style Spartans

Spartan spearman

Spartan swordsman

Next, some people may have caught a sneak peek of a couple weeks back, a 15mm mounted figure representing Captain Nolan at the Charge of the Light Brigade, by Eureka Figures. Not much to say here but a lot of gold braiding & bullion on show

Capt. Nolan charging headlong down the valley

Reverse view

Next two 28mm Ottoman Turkish Officers. These have been converted from the Perry Miniatures Afghan plastic set by adding resin heads and that's pretty much it! Painted to represent Ottoman Officers and to be used as markers to impart additional morale to units in upcoming games.

The Two Ottoman Officers

Without too much scrutiny, these simple conversions make passible Ottomans!

Another view

Rear view of the Ottoman Officers

Next is a Space Marine on a Motorcycle, I usually go for Ultra Marines but this guy was part of a set given to me some years ago and believe that these from the Deathwing of the Blood Angels? Anyway  have been playing with it for the last few weeks and finally gotten round to finishing it.

I counted the Motorcycle as a vehicle for 20 points and then added the marine for an additional 5 points. Not sure if this is OK but will allow Peter D to decide. If OK this will count as an additional Squirrel point for the Space Marines

AHPC XII: From Mike W - Classic Orc Archers

 One of the fun things about these challenges is sorting through old boxes of stuff and unexpectedly coming across items that you forgot you ever had. Such is a case here.

Not just old classic Warhammer Orcs, but very, very early plastic Orcs that I'd obviously gotten round to undercoating with black primer but next then taken the plunge to paint before packing them away to the oblivion of the loft for donkeys' years...

The completed unit of 12 Orc Archers, dating back to the 1990s I believe

By way of recompense, I have now painted them and a fine looking bunch of greenskins they appear to be!

The figures waiting to be painted

I kept the black undercoat and used this as a basis for their clothing, dry-brushing the whole with a mid grey before blocking in their skin with an appropriate green colour.

I picked out the details of the bow, chainmail, quiver & arrows, boots and hat etc as appropriate and then allowed to dry.

Close-up of the unit's left flank, I opted to go for uniform colours which was much in vogue back in the day

After repairing my mistakes, I applied green ink to the skin, brown ink to the bow, hat and equipment before applying black in to the rest of the figure.

Head on view of the unit's right flank

Once dry the figures were matt varnished and then based in my usual manner.

AHPC XII: From Mike W - 25mm Medieval Guns and Crew

This is another lucky find in my drawers, I remember buying these figures from eBay a few years back when I was doing a War of the Roses project, they looked just great online but when they arrived they were clearly 25mm figures and not 28mm as advertised.

The two Bombards in position 

They went straight into the drawer, only to be rescued last week with a view to painting them up!

There are two guns, each on wooden frames and three crewmen for each, plus an Artillery Train commander - who I have based separately.

Nearly forgot to take a snap of these figures prior to starting the painting work

Everything was given a white undercoat before painting up the gun frames and barrels separately. The brown wood frames were washed in Army Painter Strong Tone ink and the gunmetal barrels were washed in Dark Tone.

Close-up on the first gun and crew

Crewmen were painted in various, mostly muted tones and then washed with assorted Army Painter Inks to give some shading before I went back to highlight as needed.

Basing was achieved with fine sand and electrostatic grass.

And the second gun and crew!