Civies and Commissariats...

 Greetings once again fellow Oldhammerers...

I have managed to maintain some painting enthusiasm and painted up a couple of more figures to add to my (tiny) Imperial Guard force (now dubbed the Foederati MDCCIst, or "The Redshirts").

First we have a boltgun armed trooper who will form part of Commander Tzerchov's Command section.

Nothing too special here, just the same scheme I have used on all the other troopers I've painted so far.

Next up to maintain discipline (in their loyalist incarnation at least...) I've also painted up a Commissar. It took me a while to find one of these at an acceptable price but I finally found one. He was missing his laspistol barrel which has been replaced with a slightly more modern (and chunky) plastic example (also my first attempt at pinning!).

Anyway here is Commissar Rötenborg in all his glory.

Sometime ago I found a blog post where someone had painted several commissars in vibrant colours instead of the traditional black. I decided to go a similar route (although I didn't go quite as vibrant) and also tie him into the Redshirts a little better. Unfortunately I can't remember who made the original post and a few searches have failed to find it again, so apologies to whoever that was, but thanks for the inspiration!

The only suitable place I could find for the hazard stripes I use to tie the members of the force together was the chainsword, but this seems pretty appropriate (although originally I went with more thinner stripes which didn't work as well).

Finally there are actually a few other models I painted ages ago but then never got around to posting on here, so I'm just going to throw those in here.

 First a small group of additional civilians to fill out my growing collection.

 These are a set from CP miniatures. I didn't put a lot time into them but they've come out ok I think.

Also I actually painted some terrain, these were some cheap 3D printed bits I picked up at a model show earlier this year.

I still have a second one of the crates to paint at some point but I'm sure they'll come in useful at some point.

Till next time...

Cap'n Smyrk

Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun.

Orktober Returns!

 I have once again returned from the wilderness to paint something Oldhammer related, this time I actually remembered that it was Orctober and have painted some Orks!

This is also a first attempt to actually paint a whole unit (well mostly, I do intent to add some more members later) in one go...

 

These are mostly models from the original Ork Raiders boxset including Thrugg's right-hand Ork, Hrukk, from the Battle of the Farm in the RT rulebook. I'm pretty happy with how this lot have come out and think they'll match up well with my existing Orks.

As is normal for me these were painted with a mix of Citadel, Vallejo and even Humbrol acrylics.

And few images of individuals starting with the Nob. He has some shinier brass and bronze detailing that the other lack to mark him out a bit.

 

 

The 'eavy weapon Boy.

 

  And the rest of the boyz.

The last two have Bad Moons symbols on their shoulder pads, these were a bit of a last minute addition, I struggled a bit to paint it between the scratches.

 The eagle-eyed may have noticed that unusually for me I have actually based these! A very basic job, will have to go back do some more work on them since they are still a bit glossy.

That's about it for now, hopefully I might retain this recent enthusiasm.

Till next time...

 

Cap'n Smyrk

No Disintegrations...

 The wind whistles across the desolation, whipping up swirls of dust from things long undisturbed...

A tumbleweed rolls into view, before slowly bouncing off into the distance...

"Uhhh... Hello? Is there anybody out there?"

So its, uhh, been a while...

Been some time since I did anything Oldhammer related either. However there are a couple of things I've had done for a while but had never got around to photographing.

Now I've finally got around to getting some pics I can show them off!

First up we have another addition for my Star Wars inspired scenario idea.

Festa Bobb, chief minion of Nurglite Cultmaster Bolja d'Gutt, in pursuit of lapsed cult member Hanz Ollow.

Fitting the colour scheme to the model was a little tricky but I'm pretty happy with how it came out, especially the tentacle arm.

The second model is also Star Wars inspired although not for the scenario idea, I just happened to have the model and I thought it fitted quite well, maybe as a future development.

As for the inspiration, well I'll just leave this here...

Till next time...

Cap'n Smyrk