Some of my yesterdays

[Niibl]

I think it is time that I show my old lead too-well (at least it is time for me to learn how to do it).
I dug up some old miniatures and even scanned some photos.
They were taken in 1991 when my brother got a good camera.
Now I just have to get this internet-picture-linking-thingy going...now, that should do it.

My chaos Ogryn (now stripped) and my ogryn hybrid (lost)

My GUO (lost)

My Plaguebearers (stripped)

My Nurgle-dreadnaught (lost)

my first Ambull (probably stripped-I have now 4 halfpainted as chaos spawn so it is hard to tell)

my Inquisitoress - I think the sculpting was still done with car putty.
The hybrid was the first one after I got my hands on some (old and rotten) miliput.
But the hybrid is lost and she is still there, so she wins. The base is cracking up though.

Some giants I recently found in my dungeon.

The last one was photoshopped to avoid hurting anyones religious feelings.

 

[axiom]

Great classic paint jobs; shame so many are MIA. The ogryn hybrid is a great idea...worth resurrecting?

 

[clownshoe]

Love the inquisitoress! what heavy putty mounds you have my dear -

 

[mbh]

very nice


why don't I know that last giant? My lack of Oldhammer giant knowledge is criminal.

 

[Niibl]

Here are some more:
My Bowmen of Bergerac from the time I wanted to play Bretonians (in the end I was so fed up with painting knights that I dropped the idea).

 

[Chico]

I'm interested in knowing what was photoshopped heheh

 

[Niibl]

Re: AW: Some of my yesterdays

Let me quote from "Life of Brian":
[quote ]Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each.[/quote]
Now it is just a giant with some foilage in his hair.

 

[mbh]

where is that giant from? Is it citadel?

 

[Niibl]

The first one is from citadel, die other two are from Ral Partha.

 

[Giant collector]

Great painting Im a little partial to those giants,beautiful. Gc

 

[Count Von Bruno]

Oooh err, the granny tits on the Inquisitor

Wicked collection, LOVE the giants and the Nurgled Eldar Dreadnought is very cool too

 

[symphonicpoet]

Great work there Niibl. I bet the giant is as lovely and funny as Life of Brian. Would love to see him unedited. (I promise. I will not attempt to stone you for saying Jehovah.) I particularly like your Ogryn-stealer hybrid. Losing lovely old miniatures is terribly frustrating.

 

[Suber]

Some real tiny treasures there, great!!

 

[Con-fusion]

Great minis. You could do a book Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Stripped.

 

[24_Cigarettes]

Wonderful all round but that nurgle eldar dread is something special . Really.

 

[daddyorchips]

that ogryn hybrid is a great idea. i might try and make one of them myself. it's an area that should have been explored before but never has been so well done!

 

[Asslessman]

that ogryn hybrid is a great idea. i might try and make one of them myself. it's an area that should have been explored before but never has been so well done!

I'm pretty sire if we ask Diego/Obscure Creator kindly enough he could give us a hand, an ogre hybrid seems just right next to a space mino right?

 

[Niibl]

that ogryn hybrid is a great idea. i might try and make one of them myself. it's an area that should have been explored before but never has been so well done!

I'm pretty sire if we ask Diego/Obscure Creator kindly enough he could give us a hand, an ogre hybrid seems just right next to a space mino right?

That would be wonderful...no!-that would be horrible.
I would start fleecing ebay for more hybrids 'n stuff. My family wants to eat, dammit!
(although some people proclaim that constant hunger makes you live longer-hmmm ...and without food they will not block the kitchen table )

Well, here are some more of my yesterdays:
The two slayers that remained unstripped when the storm of chaos army list hit the shelves.

The slayer army never was built though. I think it resides somewhere in my dungeon in an original GW transport case.

Next comes a nurgle marines medic (of course, he never fought any infections. I promise):
It was one of the characters for my Nurgel marines in the late 80ies that went to war with my plastic nurgle marines which were only painted bottle green with red rims (with a few mutations). I sold the last remnants of those to a boy at the last BitBox.
I must have a landraider from that time somewhere. I have to look.

I think I will continue with this family dia show tone I think i am old enough for it.
The next picture will show you how much Niible likes Skaven.
He really would have loved to have a skaven army since he had that Lichemaster Citadel Journal in his hands.
Sadly Ravening Hordes told him that he needs 80+ slaves for an army. At that time this could never be. Pocket money. No internet. No chance.
Still, one of my first conversions was a skaven (you see that it still was the car putty time)

At that time someone left quite a lot of stange symbols drawn or scratched on various school desks along with some Alien Sex Find iconography
Well, I still like Skaven. The next conversion I did years later. it was my first experiment with tobacco as flock.
It worked so well that I used it for my whole (ill fated ) beastmen army. Tobacco as flock? Dont!
I still do not dare to open the transport boxes of my beastmen (maybe i do it for this thread though).

Now, here comes a picture of a mortheim/Averland group.
I'm pretty sure that I did those after we stopped playing the game.
It was just a good excuse to convert stuff after looking at too many Blanche illustrations.

And here is a ship I sculpted after a visiting "the sea of claws" Yahoo-Group.
They made up rules for Admiral Class ships in Man o'War. I could not resist and developed the Bastille for Bretonnia:

It was a great modelling spree. I tried various greens stuff mixtures and how they could be cut, sawed, filed and sanded.
I learned quite a lot, including that scyringe needles are really cheap, come in various sizes and can be cut easily with a dremel.
For BOYL2015/Ahoy! I was shortly tempted to build it in big but 48 cannons, 6 catapults and a Bretonnian crew would have been too much to accomplish.
It would also have been somewhat broken rulewise.

 

[symphonicpoet]

I'm still fond of at least a little of my car putty era sculpting. I could do it better now with better materials, maybe, but for some things that spot putty basically worked. I'm actually still not quite comfortable with green stuff. I'm comfortable squash casting with it, but I've not fallen in love with it as a sculpting material. Too sticky to my tools, but not sticky enough to the models. (Sometimes.) Anyway . . . thank you. You have some neat stuff, Niibl. You really do.

 

[Niibl]

Well, here is some more stuff. Not as old as before, but I think they are still nice to look at...
My 40k halfling conscripts-I just love Hornet heads as they have so much character and in a world of heroic scale they often fit 28mm miniatures, especially halflings (I need to get those chewing heads!)