Hellhounds!

A little something for an army I will probably never play with. The pictures are awful, as always...

These I did before the Ultramarines Rhino, and now I would do a few things differently on the weathering... I might come back to those at some point...

The imperial guard riding the second Hellhound is a very old model from the first IG infantry box issued by GW. Old stuff, but quite good for cutting and converting. The minis are made of a soft plastic that is a joy to cut. And I love the helmets...

But actually, what I have always wanted to convert for IG is something like this old Rogue Trader pic. Someday...

First Hellhound:








Second Hellhound

Small is beautiful

A quick post to put up two more "GUardsmen". Old GW (Citadel) "Space Dwarves" plastic minis, extensively remodelled to get more varied poses. Oldies, but definitively goodies. I am a squat fan, by the way...

Beauty, the Beast, and friends...

Intensive blogging days... More old school IG for the IG army. Mostly old GW imperial guard from the 1980s. Great stuff, with lots of character. The ogryn impersonnates a Heavy Weapon team of two guardsmen. I picked the idea from somewhere, just cannot remember at the moment where from... Ah, anyway. There you go. Pictures are dark and blurry, sorry. I need better light...

















And the army's big boss, Colonel Nathaniael Shatz.



This is one superb miniature. I hope I did it justice. The sculpt is just perfect.

More to come.

Where the wild things are...

In between painting ancient Greeks, I have been busy gathering an old school IG army as well. The idea was to pick everything vaguely sci-fish that is lying in my flat AND is not a Space Marines, and make an army of it for Warhammer 40k. That means quite a lot of old school IG, some tanks, and ... that:



I am the proud owner of a few of these old beastmen. I think they are old Grenadier or Ral Parha, and I bought them about 15 years ago. The series is now re-issued by a British company called Em4 miniatures. I do not know how they do that, but the sure thing is that I bought a lot of those. These are superb miniatures, with good detail and no flash. They remind me of Bob Olley's sculpting style. If it is indeed his handywork, then this is the very best he has done. I have often had difficulties with Olley's style, but this is just great.

Those guys will be added to the IG army as riflemen. The idea is to get an abhuman-human army, with ratlings, beastmen, ogryns and the like. Here is one more painted example, and a few waiting for paint.