The Oppo: Bonehead's Lost, Damned and in all likelihood Disappointed

[Bonehead]

Thanks for saying so, Brother A. Much appreciated. I'm pleased to report that it's also pretty easy too, and somewhere in the log is a guide. 

Also very grateful to notice you've made your own log. Loving it so far! 

Your vehicle conversions are just amazing. Got to bow to your skill there; masterful work. 

[Brother Anderson]

On 7/19/2025 at 9:30 PM, Bonehead said:

Thanks for saying so, Brother A. Much appreciated. I'm pleased to report that it's also pretty easy too, and somewhere in the log is a guide. 

Also very grateful to notice you've made your own log. Loving it so far! 

Your vehicle conversions are just amazing. Got to bow to your skill there; masterful work. 

 

Ooh that's great news, I'll look back through the archives! 

 

Thank you that's very kind of you to say, I think with traitor guard a pathological inability to stick to the instructions comes with the territory 

[Bonehead]

I'm beginning to suspect old Papa Nurgle might have claimed this one some how.

Or to put it another way, God F****** ***n it, how in the sh****ng f***holes does this manage to come back again? It's even worse than it was before!

If I fix this a third time and it comes back, I'm drop kicking the bas**** thing out the window.

[Bonehead]

Went to Bring Out Your Lead today for a change of scenery and a distraction from my varnish bloom woes. It was fun to see a bunch of old models in their natural environment; that is, being stared at by a bunch of nerds. Bunch of games going on all over the shop too, it was good to see.

I had a sneaky ulterior motive, I was hoping to find someone who might be persuaded to buy my old RT/2nd ed orks, but it wasn't really that kind of do, so they stayed in the car. You're not allowed to trade on the premises, but there's no rule against doing it on the street outside, which is not unusual, but I didn't feel like trying.

Instead, I picked up some Foundry models. I've been looking for extra models to go with the scavvies I already have to make a rabble of nurgle cultists; it's hard to find better models than scavvies for the job that fit the scale, but they're not easy to come by and not cheap when they do turn up. In particular the zombies, which are in my opinion the best zombies GW ever did, can be very hard to get more than one or two of without spending a fortune.

Among these lot are some civilian looters/rioters; with some part-swapping between these and some scavvies, it should be possible to bulk up the mob by a little. Similarly the cowboy zombies will largely do pretty well as ordinary zombies once the cowboy guns are got rid of. One or two of them might be a bit too wild west, but at least five of the seven will work.

Meanwhile the plague doctors are the foundation for an idea I have; I was thinking I needed Vraks-style Enforcers to go with the Kur Guards. Faceless, draconian authoritarians who enforce the Kur strict anti-mutation policy. Any Guardsman or -woman found with visible mutation is sent in disgrace to the Punitary Corps to be used as expendable shock troops, in the hope of atoning for their sin of indiscipline. I'm particularly happy with that bit of lore because it embodies the moronic double-think hypocrisy of true fascists; the way complete sh**heels like Mussolini's lot had to have almost a collective psychosis of self denial in order to believe they were the good guys.

I think the doctor-association of the models is going to hopefully give the right flavour to the otherwise sinister weirdness.

Cheers everyone

 

 

 

[Tallarn Commander]

Yes, groupthink is a key component in many totalitarian societies.

 

I had forgotten about Scabbies. Those were good sculpts—very fluid and dynamic. I look forward to seeing the Cultists and Enforcers.

 

 

Edited Monday at 04:39 PM by Tallarn Commander

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Some really neat models you picked up there - looking forward to seeing what you do with the ladies in Edwardian dresses in particular.