Marienburg, Undeadish, etc! (plague)

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I love the Lord of the Feast model, fiddly little bastard that it is! Cant wait to see what you do with him...
 
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Thanks. He was a bit tricksy to get together, but it really is a nice figure. I'm going to force myself to finish the black knights before moving on to anything else, though. I don't know what it is about them, but I just keep avoiding painting them. They're not that difficult to paint, and I love the figures and want to see them on the table. I just procrastinate when it comes to getting them done.




Stuff! In the Mail!

Traded with Death for some old figures.

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Now I just need to find a few more wights to round up enough for a unit...
 
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I've left the simple cork roads sitting on the table for a bit now, and I think I'm getting used to them. I think I will just leave them as they are for now, make a few more, and keep going with other things. I can always add more detail to them later.

So, in terms of moving on to other things, the road looked like it needed more bogs around it. At some point I hope to work out a way to tie all of the little bogs together a bit.

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I continue to procrastinate in regard to those Black Knights. I've made a rule for myself that I will not paint any more figures until they are done. That is why I now have a few road sections and more bogs (not painting figures!), and a few more miniatures prepped (not painted!) Joining the Life & Death Elementals is the Plague Elemental. It's the weak link in the otherwise outstanding Citadel Elemental series, in my opinion, but I'll see if I can do a better job painting it this time around. I just finished stripping the really old paint off of him. I finally managed to strip all the old paint off the Ral Partha Jabberwock as well.

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urion":2jdj7gwg said:
One day I will have the elemental everyone else hates. One day.
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Haha. If I wasn't so hung up on having the full set, I would send you mine. If I ever come across a second one, I'll send you a message!


I finally finished the Black Knights, and have the too-contrasty out photo to prove it.

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Do we get names anymore? Do we know who sculpted/designed these at GW? Whoever it is did a great job. My painting is just OK, but the figures are so nice they elevate a mediocre paintjob and look great on the table.


I recently (and unexpectedly) won a lowball bid on some of the really old plastic skeletons. They were already assembled, though they required some minor repairs & repositioning. Painting was quick & simple, and I worked on them as I finished the knights. So now I have some lighter cavalry as well as the heavies.

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I have also re-based a giant hawk/eagle that was on loan to a friend while I repaired his (newer & bigger) eagle. I believe this is an old Grenadier model, and was painted ages ago.

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Now that the Black Knight monkey is off my back, I can think about what to do next. I may paint a few of the individual figures I've prepped recently. Maybe I can think about the next unit (or large critter!) to paint while I do that. Maybe something with a bit more color...
 
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The trick will be getting my hands on some more!

I'm going to try sticking with only posting the old/vintage figures here, in keeping with the forum's purpose. If anyone is interested in seeing the newer stuff as well as the old, you can follow my blog, at http://www.zerotwentythree.com if you would like.



I finished the second Jabberwock. This is a 1980s Ral Partha figure. A pretty good match for the Citadel Jabberwock!


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Love those Jabberwocks. I need to get one for my chaos army. Great job on the painting and I love the mushrooms.
 
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urion":1pq81oov said:
Love those Jabberwocks. I need to get one for my chaos army. Great job on the painting and I love the mushrooms.
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Thanks. I love the oldschool look of mushrooms on bases, but I'm always afraid of overdoing it. So I usually stick with only putting them on some of my goblins, trolls, or other quirky figures of figures with bases that need a little extra something.



One last figure I was painting along with the last few, the old Citadel "Death Elemental." Turned out a bit dull with the usual color palette. But then, I'm not sure he should be any more colorful or exciting. Not a very good photo, either. He's on a 40mm base, to give an idea of scale.

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Some lousy photos of one of the next things on my table. A pair of old Marauder dwarf swivel guns. I bought them eBay ages ago, but the package arrived damaged and a few parts were missing. It's taken me years to finally get around to creating a few replacement parts (one and a half of the two frames) for the guns. My plan is to mount these on 40mm bases and use them to bolster my insufficient numbers (10) of Marauder dwarfs with handguns.


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They're cast in a very soft, presumably lead-heavy alloy. You can print pretty clearly with them on paper.

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This is 5 of the 10 I have. I hope to have the first of the two swivel guns (and crew) done soon, too. My goal is to get them all done by the end of November. Unfortunately, I have noticed something... my plan was to put the swivel guns & crew on 40x40 bases and have them occupy the space of 4 regular handgunners. But I don't think 40mm is enough depth to fit the gun frame and the crewman holding the back end of the gun. Maybe make them 40 wide by 60mm deep and pretend the extra depth isn't there for gaming purposes (as much as possible)?
 
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That's a nice little set. Great job reconstructing it, would have been a shame not to bring it back into the field. The base size is spot on for the model, I wouldn't bother with anything like 'counts as' 40mm.
 
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Slow progress lately. But I finally finished the second swivel gun.

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In digging around through old minis, I found a light gun on a Burgundian carriage (Old Glory? Front Rank?) that looks about the same size/caliber as these swivel guns. I also have somehow ended up with a lot of extra Marauder dwarf artillery crew. So I think that may get painted up as a third light artillery to go with these.

I have also recently acquired a small unit of the old Disciples of the Red Redemption. There are 11 figures, but I would like to bulk that up a bit. So I rummaged through the lead bins and came up with these as possible additions...

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The only one I am definitely including is the guy on the left. I think he will make a great addition. Not certain of the others. (Center-right figure has been Phnotoshopped a bit, to remove the crucifix from its hands. I would replace this with something else.)
 
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Thanks to some fortuitous trades, I've now got a coven of insidious cultists. I think I will leave these individually based, so they can be more easily used for smaller/skirmish games.

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I am still on the search for the champion from the Disciples of the Red Redemption (old RoR from which most of these figures came from.) That figure plus one more figure (probably the robed familiar I posted previously) will bring the total up to 24, which will be a pretty respectable number, allowing me to field two small 12 man units, a standard 16 man unit, or a large 24 man unit.

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Unfortunately, every time I plan to spend an evening relaxing at the painting table, some new work or family situation pops up, demanding my attention. I've also been fighting off a persistent case of (possibly) pneumonia since the beginning of November, so I've sometimes been going to sleep earlier than usual, too. So "Deadcember" has been pretty dead, in terms of painting. Maybe the new year will bring some painting time.
 
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