Old Stuff Wednesday - February... Beastlord...Let there be War

Almost forgot to do an Old Stuff Wednesday this month, but I didn't.  So this month we have one of Beastlord / Wargor's from back in 2003 or so.  One of my favorite models from my tabletop beastmen army. I wanted the armor a bit heavier, to arm him with neat scratch built sword and big khorne symbol on the shield.   Back then you could mark your beastmen. 

So I sculpted some add on armor.  I sculpted the Khorne symbol on a chaos warriors shield.

Added a few trophies to the back of the model.

The writing on the sword, does say something profane in the Dark Tongue, can't remember what.

And a wip shot, collage showing the conversion work.  You will need to click on the picture to see it close up.  The sword blade was made out of plasti-card.

So there, the first of four Wargors.  I really need to do this figure again for my Chaos warriors army as a mutant.  Fun miniature.

Release the Hou......Errr....Wolves

Uh..oh...just saw the pics of the new GW Fenrisian wolves floating around the internet.  GW finally hired someone that apparently knows how to sculpt wolves.  Their previous incarnations have been absolutely terrible, these though, each one looks like its caught in mid lunge or jaunting through the woods.  Sick.  I absolutely love the flowing movement.  I plan to get some these, but not for space wolves, but for my goblins, don't really care if they are possibly the same size as the boars.  If they are too big then I'll have orcs ride them.

WAB Skirmishers...WIP

Originally, I had planned to use some skirmishers with my Imperial Romans, but after looking at the newly released AoA and knowing that it will probably be used for most future tournaments, I noted the lack of skirmishers and allies for Rome.  So plan B, Viking Skirmishers, another project from late Friday night converting.

These are Warlord Games Barbarians with some Gripping Beasts Viking bits such as the long knives and swords and such.  GB's heads don't work, but the other bits will.  They do have a sort of berserker look to them.  I added a bit of hair to some, probably need to add beards to most of them, along with a bit of fur.  Probably need to change some swords to axes.  I also need to come up with some bucklers for them, I will probably sculpt this and then mold it.  More to come on these guys.

So now I have a deficit of painting, 52 models built and converted, but a big fat 0 for finished painted.  Hmm.....need to work on that also.

A Roman Irritation of Sorts....

I bought some Warlord Games Auxiliaries a long time ago.  I originally thought they would be great to use with me Warlord Games Early Imperial Romans.  When I opened the box though, I found they were giants in comparison.  In the picture below on the left is a Foundry Roman that also makes the Warlord Games Romans look like dwarfs.  The one on the right is a plastic Warlord Games Roman, close to the same size as the Foundry.  I have a bunch of the metal Foundry guys that I bought a long time ago also.

This Warlord Games kit, is one of the worst plastic kits out there that I have worked with recently.  Don't get me wrong the details are great, and the models have a good look, but for being a multi-part plastic kit its horrible when it comes to options.  Not enough poses, nor head variations, nor armament, didn't even come with a banner or musician or command model.  May as well just spent my money on the Foundry stuff instead.  So instead of doing them up as Auxiliaries, I'll probably build a smaller second Roman army and combine them in with the Foundry Romans.

I assembled the whole box of them Friday night, they also rank up horribly.  I'm use to converting stuff and having issues with ranking, but these were box stock.  Nice looking miniatures, but a Terrible kit, yes with a capital T.  I don't recommend it to anyone, but to those people that I dislike.

Small Chaos Marauders...WIP

A rowdy group of chaos dwarves and midgetgors.

They ought to fit nicely with the rest of the mutant marauders.

A new Chaos Dwarf Bannerman for the Mutant Marauders

Definitely needed another banner man for my mutant marauders so I have this little guy in WIP more, need to clean him up a little.  Another of the Avatars of War, Dwarf Berserker conversions.  Little and a few gaps, But he'll work.

Thought on this one that I would try the chaos helm as the AoW heads are smaller than the Chaos helms.   The banner will be Slaanesh all the way.

Gave him some hair and got him up in the air so that his big sword clears my movement trays.  I'll come back with rock and ballast later to fill that ugly ledge in.

I'm still under the weather and my cold came roaring back.  Working and deadlines and stressing over work this time of year is never a good thing.  Too many pressures.  Hopefully things a slow down soon so I can rest and get better.  Also checkout Avatars of War's Warriors of Apoc.  I'll definitely be picking up a unit or two of those for my chaos army which continues to expand in model count.

The Whole Shibang....The Big Batch of Converted Chaos Space Marines

That's right the whole dug-gone batch of converted chaos space marines over the past couple of months is wrapped up.  Each one converted with what was left of my bitz box pieces (not to say there won't be a couple more, it was a deep bitz box).

Every last one of that group is currently up for auction on Ebay, starting at a relatively paltry sum to clear them off of my desk.  Discounts in shipping will be included if multiple models are won.  I normally do not ship internationally, but will make exceptions for these as listed.

If you are interested you can find them by putting in the Madhouse Workshop in the search engine or at the following link. 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/madhouse_workshop/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686

http://myworld.ebay.com/madhouse_workshop

I've also listed some additional things and included some more of my bitz box.