twisted moon's 2023

[twisted moon]

here are the first figures of the year.



some lightly modified poisoned wind globadiers.



just head, and one arm, swaps.
i neglected my skaven in 2022, and was prompted to get back to them by some posts on the oldhammer discord.

 

[twisted moon]

another batch.



another globadier and a pistolier with head swaps and three gnawlocks with blunderbuss.



the latter will help to crew my heartbreaker mortars, which i painted well before i started recording my efforts here.

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Reminds me of the big box of Black Tree Design (nowadays EOE Orbis, whatever that means) Ver'Men I have in my lead pile, that I planned to paint in the style of Andy Chamber's Skaven army from back in the day - still have not figured out that recipee.

Please keep posting your progres, it will keep me reminded of my task

 

[twisted moon]

Please keep posting your progress.

it's a deal.
another five gnawlocks, this time with spears.



i was thinking about giving them fancier togas, but decided i was quite happy with them plain, and i'll continue to reserve such things as a way to distinguish between duplicate sculpts.



i'm continuing on with metal spear / polearm armed skaven for the moment.

 

[Fimm McCool]

I recognise those ratty bois. Lovely work. I imagine a humble clanrat would only obtain a decorative toga by murderising their leader, a skavenslave would have even less chance of embroidery so plain suits them just fine.

 

[twisted moon]

I recognise those ratty bois.

i wonder where you could have seen them before.

Lovely work.

thank you.
here's another couple along with three black tree design ver'men nest guard.



i picked up the latter cheap from a show sometime ago, it was probably border reiver, but i can't remember for sure.



i wasn't keen on the ver'men when they first came out, aside from the slaves, because of the spiky weapons, but they've grown on me over the years. if i see some more nest guard at a low price, i'll likely pick them up.

 

[twisted moon]

following a tip off, many years ago, on here i picked up these mark sims ratmen.



i'm led to believe they have not been commercially released, but mark went on to sculpt some similar figures for his own shatter isles range.



did mark sims sculpt the btd ver'men? the heads are very similar.

 

[ManicMan]

nice work ^_^

I think Mark Sims ... okay complex time, did some work for Icon Miniatures, who had brought Harlequin, which then became Black Tree before doing something to become EOE Orbis... and Some of the Ver'men started as Harlequin, some newer.. so... I'm gonna go with 'Maybe'

 

[twisted moon]

Some of the Ver'men started as Harlequin

yes, the harlequin and btd ones are stylistically quite different.
some more mark sims sculpts, this time from his own shattered isles range.



currently available from bridge miniatures.

 

[ManicMan]

^_^ also nice work.

i Kinda wish more companies listed the sculpters name. Probebly kinda going back a long time since credit is fairly important in various fields.. When Ray Kassar took over in charge of Atari in the late 78s, Programmer at Atari were getting a bit unhappy that they weren't able to have in-game (and box) credits.. one of the things that lead to the creation of Activision was Credits.. They saw how musicains had there name on albums so people could buy music featuring artists they liked, and felt the same should be done with Video games (this was back when you had, 2 programmers at most on a title). He fired back with 'Programmers are as important to the game as the person that puts the label on the carts... Atari was going into back areas in the late 70s.. Comic books had the same issue with wanting credits but got them earlier with most companies (though even when companies like Marvel and DC credited ALOT of the people, they didn't credit quite a few more).. some companies didn't pick up.. in the UK, credits for comics like the Beano is pretty new but they do have them now, for the most part

Credits on how sculpted some models is something I think really should be more of a thing.. some companies are quite good about it, others no so.

 

[twisted moon]

thank you.
a slightly more mixed bunch again.



on the left is one of the champions from the wfb3 command groups. then a couple of plastic island of blood skaven, first the beasthandler with his electro-prod altered to a spear (the other bits got used on the jokaero last year) and a clan rat with replacement (elven, i think) spear arm. an '80's clan moulder beasthandler and another gnawloch finish this group.



with the couple of mierce miniatures i painted a little while ago, i now have the number for another spear / halbard unit, although i'll be mixing figures around with existing units to create this.

 

[twisted moon]

i've also managed to paint up another five slaves.



from the left, another amazon miniatures amazon, lightly converted to be properly wearing her helmet, three lancashire games early german fanatics, and finally boudicca from belt fed miniatures, looking every millimetre the warrior queen (albeit in reduced straits) as she towers over the others.

 

[twisted moon]

a couple of ethereal undead.



these are wraiths from essex miniatures. i picked up most of the their skeletons at the same time, but i expect they'll wait until deadcember.



the three blobby things are my attempt at phasm mana tokens for necropolis. they're hot glue with a glaze and i think will do the job.
i'm awaiting delivery of more ethereal undead from cp models.

 

[twisted moon]

whilst awaiting delivery of my cp modesl order, i painted up another couple of scarecrows along with another batch of phasm mana tokens.



these two are from the silver bayonet range at north star military models.



the one on the right will be my entry for the 6th eyetoad challenge over on the weald discord server (https://discord.gg/srBXfhcP), hence the fancy coat.

 

[twisted moon]

the cp models order arrived on wednesday, but i'd already started on this next batch.



a crooked dice straw bear (purchased at battleground last year) and ral partha assorted weirdos scarecrow with shovel (from spirit games mail order, possibly two decades ago). also the first batch of homemade bone mana tokens for necropolis.



i found myself on a bit of a scarecrows tip, so there's another couple to come before i get back to ethereal undead.

 

[twisted moon]

a couple of graven images scarecrows and the final batch of bone mana tokens.



just got another couple of these graven images figures to go.



going to go back to ethereal undead for a bit though.

 

[twisted moon]

back to the ethereal undead and the first three blood mana tokens.



these are cp models witch and banshee; both have had weapons added. the axe is from the copplestone cavewomen pack and the flail from an island of blood skaven.



the corpses are iron gate scenery deadmen, which i picked up at vapnartak earlier on the month. it looked as though they came six to the pack, but when i opened the blister it turned out two were molded together; i managed to separate them with some careful cutting.

 

[twisted moon]

a cp models ghost and spectre with homemade flamberge are up next, along with the final batch of blood mana tokens.



i now have a complete set of mana tokens for necropolis.

 

[twisted moon]

the last of the graven images scarecrows and cp models ethereal undead; spectres with scythes this time, although they look like mast-beasts (albeit tenticled ones) with sickles to me.



that's the last of the ethereal undead currently in my possession, but i'd like to add the crooked dice mast-beasts, and maybe some hounds or the like.



i'm also approaching the end of the scarecrow supply, but need a few more to finish off their three units.

 

[Orjetax]

My favorite are the scarecrows!

Congratulations on a productive start to the year painting!


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