Beastman with custom shield

I was in the mood for sculpting a putty shield, and picked this model out as a suitable candidate. The shield was sculpted in a single session, the model is an unconverted 80s Khorne beastman. When it came to painting, I tried out some more unusual metal effects, inspired by other people’s models I had […]

Three savage orcs

These were going to be my entry for Orctober, (see Oldhammer forum here http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4270&hilit=orctober), but I didn’t get them finished in time. I bought these three at BOYL 2014. They didn’t have shields, so I decided to scratch build something suitable. I’d been doing a couple of classic green putty ‘ugly face’ designs, so I […]

Nomad converted from plague doctor

Ash Waste Nomads seem very popular at the moment, so here’s my first one. He’s a Plague Doctor, plucked from the £1 bargain bin at BOYL 2014. The hat reminded me of that classic Blanche picture of some kind of wandering renegade (next to a short mutant with only one leg), and that image was […]

Scratch built tree spirit

This is a model I started a long time ago (for a 2007 Frothers contest), but didn’t get very far with, and it lay in a box as a tangle of twisted wires with a smear of green putty. Fired up with enthusiasm for sculpting, I dug it out again and finished it off. It […]

A gnome for Gnomevember

Gnomevember is the month for painting a gnome and posting it on the Oldhammer forum. I only had this one from the Citadel Adventurer Starter Set.

I tried to think how gnomes might be different from dwarves. On the whole I imagined them with brighter colours and fancier patterns than dwarves. This one was all […]