My Old and Old-ish Hammer Stuff

[Padre]

Part One: Arrer Boyz

1980's Citadel

(Some crazy-eyed loons in the back row!)

And more of the same

How does this guy close his mouth?

Really old, pre-slotta

Also pre-slotta (and my favourites of this batch)

'Home-made' as in molten lead poured into Prince August moulds

Alternatives (for the failed alternative to WFB, I think called fantasy Warlord)

TBH, I like them (They're still available somewhere, and cheap as chips)

 

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Part Two: Dwarf Missile Troops

First some Mid-Hammer Plastic Thunderers. Except they are not - I am so cheap I would not buy metal and so I bought bits of 'Plastruct' rods (etc) and made my own handguns ...

Old GW

Old GW

1980's Asgard Miniatures

Probably an old Wargames Foundry range

The cheap Quarrellers (non GW, originally for Fantasy Warlord?)

Pre-slotta GW

 

[twisted moon]

Probably an old Wargames Foundry range

no, those are old crusader miniatures, they were still available from rapier miniatures (following a couple of changes of ownership), but their website seems to be down.

 

[Padre]

Thanks. That is of course why I utilised the qualifying word 'probably'.

All I had to go on is that they looked (in style) like some of the dwarfs Wargames Foundry has listed now, and a comment that they might be from a Facebook post. I couldn't find images of any of these anywhere on the web, but I only looked for 10 minutes.

I am afraid that if I continue this thread, there will be a lot of guesswork on my behalf, awaiting comments from those who know, if they can be bothered. I was always focused on the games and the game-worlds, and what I wanted for the stories, armies and roleplay scenarios. I never paid much attention at all to manufacturers and ranges! A Facebook comment meant I knew about the Asgard dwarf handgunners, which once I heard it, I did at least vaguely recall.

 

[symphonicpoet]

^I see what you mean about how does he close his mouth. Geeze, that's some teeth! Lovely stuff as always, Padre.

 

[Padre]

Thank you Symphonic!

Part Three: Skullcrusher!

(Printed pic from the Warhammer Armies Book 1988)

I loves me a leering goblin!

 

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Part Four: Gob Lobber!

Official pic from the old Siege book

My attempt to recreate the above. I have most of the crew painted. The chef I have found (plus his roasting pig) but the guy with two hands up I can't find in my boxes. He's there somewhere.

The guy who is supposed to be sitting on the netted goblins ready for lobbing next is the King of Karak Borgo in my campaign, so I hacked off the goblins to make him able to sit on his throne! (Here he is sitting on blu tack!)

The reason the crew were never painted as one is because for decades I actually used the engine for my greenskins!!!

 

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Part 5: Plastic Regiments' box dwarfs

 

[Sleepysod]

Isn’t it strange that the war hammer armies book refers to the skull crusher crew as being orcs, but the actual box set clearly indicates they are goblins. Great models nevertheless.

Also, for my monies worth, I think the plastics dwarves here were much better than the mono-pose miniatures that came out for WFB4e

 

[Padre]

I was confused by the orcs/goblins thing too.

A friend painted the dwarfs, back in the 80s, I only painted the standard bearer and musician a few years later.

 

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Part 6: Boar Boys

GW (mid-hammer)

Black Tree Design

Black Tree Savage version

Modern GW version

 

[symphonicpoet]

Sweet! And dee-licious! Who wants pork steak?

Well, you might have to serve the riders first. Just . . . 'cause otherwise they might try to serve you. Anyway, lovely stuff.

 

[Padre]

Part 7: Skellie Riders

Ancient, pre-slotta Citadel

Grenadier

1980s Citadel

Same, but weird scaly horses for some reason

Mystery manufacturer

Mystery manufacturer and Citadel Mix Up

 

[symphonicpoet]

You really have an incredibly neat mix of stuff. And you manage to make them all hang together very well. I love your style. You mass things together in these absolutely enormous groups that my eye can kind of just drift lazily across, but you've kept them all just individual enough that things pop out like vignettes and you pause on a crazy skeleton smile or a handsome chestnut horse. Good, clean, bold . . . I really love it and I can't wait to see it in a report.

 

[inchmurrin]

Very scary great movement on the weird scaly ones.