0ldman Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Hi all, I've just joined the Forum and wanted to take the opportunity to say "Hi" and show you some of my models. I've been playing GW games since before W40K was released and so was in at the off when it came out. As such, a lot of the models in my collection are pretty much antiques and I thought might be interesting to you (certainly more interesting than my paint jobs!). Here are my Commissars: With a close-up on Yarrick (the original Yarrick - not much resemblance to the new one): One of my squads - look closely at the first image here - the model on the left is a Beastman (not a conversion - these guys used to be in the lists) and a couple over to the right you'll see a female trooper: My Rough Riders: My Ogryns (all converted from WFB Ogres): There are more and better photos of the rest of my army up on my blog if anyone wants a look: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/ Cheers, all! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azekai Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I love the vintage stuff! I have never seen gas-mask commissars before, outside of FW; are those just old GW minis or have you converted them in some way? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3325657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Great painting and it's so nice to see those old minis! I also love that you use the original unit marking style. Those Ogryns look great too. How easy were they to convert? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3325934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0ldman Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Hi thanks for the positive comments - much appreciated. The commissars are all regular minis - no conversions. Citadel produced a set of plastics about 1990 which had interchangeable weapons, heads and arms. At the same time, they produced a series of metal minis that were sculpted without arms and bundled the arm-sprues from the plastics with them. The gas-mask chappy 2nd from right is one of those. The guy 3rd from left is actually the plastic tank-commander model from the Baneblade kit just painted up as a commissar. Everything else is "as sculpted" by Citadel, and is metal. As for the ogryns - there's very little conversion work taken place there at all, really. One of the aforementioned weapon sprues had a shoulder-mounted lascannon on it (which bears no resemblance to the current lascannon model in shape or size). Most of the ripper guns are actually made from those with a small disc of modelling clay added to form the ammo-drum (IIRC I've actually mounted them backwards so the gun-stock is facing forward as I just thought it looked better that way). The rest of the work on those minis is just Milliput - some berets, a WWI-style british helmet and a flak jacket for the Bone'ead. Very, very simple (and very, very cheap compared to buying the GW minis at £10 each). I'm very happy with my Guard on the whole - they've been a labour of love for a very long time. I'm not done with them yet (though I've painted almost 200 models for them so far) as I've got a bunch of Sentinels to add, a Valkyrie still in a box and a half-painted Baneblade to finish off. At the moment, however, I'm on a Guard-break and am working on some Siege equipment for a WFB game I'm playing in a few months time. That said, I will probably repaint the bases on the whole army at some point as I'm finding the green a bit garish these days. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3326236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 :D I've got the second guy from the left on my shelf. Sadly his face appears to have been carved off at some point. :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3326245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baddaawg Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I have those models except for the conversions. My army is all rogue trader era. I have 3 regular platoons as well as one all squat platoon Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3326677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idlem Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I can't help but to think of Dr. Zoidberg whenever I see old Yarrik. Wonderful minatures. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3327510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0ldman Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 If you think old Yarrick looks like Zoidberg, you should see my scratch-built Warriors of Chaos Hellcannon. It's on my Blog about half-way down the page: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk I decided that the WoC could really do with some ranged firepower, but didn't like the Hellcannon model much. I had three Chaos Dwarfs in my bits box from years back who could serve as crew, so I decided to make one from scratch. Since the Hellcannon is supposedly posessed by a Daemon and the coolest and most Daemonic thing I could think of at the time was Cthulhu, I got stuck in and that's what came out. Not strictly speaking authentic, but fun. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3327712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Cthulhucannon, awesome. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3328041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0ldman Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 Thanks - I like chopping stuff up and messing with it. It's mostly motivated by cheapness - I object to the cost of this hobby, but enjoy the hobby. So I try to do stuff in the most fun and cost-effective way possible. As such, I buy lots of junk from ebay and fix it up and build anything I can't buy (or don't like the official model of). At some point over the next few weeks I'll upload some of my other scratchbuild projects to my blog (incuding a Warhound Titan and an Ork Stompa - the Titan was a struggle, the Stompa was so easy it's laughable). I'll post an update here when I get an update done, in case you're interested. Cheers Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3330406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Marvelous selection of models - can't wait to see more! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3330603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0ldman Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Hi all, as promised a couple of days ago, I've uploaded the old blog I wrote when building my scratch-built Warhound Titan to my blog: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Titan I could do with getting back into that project and tidying it up a bit, but I've got too much stuff on to worry about it right now. For anyone who's interested in building one of these, you can download the plans from here: =][= Link edited out - Brother Lorien =][= I would estimate the complete building costs for this project to be around £10 - £15 / $15 - $20. Waaaay cheaper than buying the Forgeworld model Cheers, me Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3331662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Nice work Oldman, it's good to see the old style figures getting some fresh air. Like the Ogre conversion - will have to give it a go sometime :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3333272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0ldman Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share Posted March 22, 2013 Thanks Elmo9141 - much appreciated. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/272632-0ldmans-imperial-guard/#findComment-3333308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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