Melvus returns to the hobby after 17 years
Feb 1, 2022 8:32:28 GMT
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Post by melvus on Feb 1, 2022 8:32:28 GMT
Hi all! I'm a returning player after a 17 year break without touching a brush. I initially thought I'd just repaint some of my old Chaos dudes but of course I very quickly started to browse all the possible opportunities that the used miniature market has to offer. Now I'm deep down the rabbit hole and I've spent more on miniatures in the last couple of months than I did in a year or two when I was a teenager. I decided to make a thread here of my painting progress because my wife is not that interested in my new cool minis and I've got to show them off to someone.
These Chaos Warriors were Khorne-aligned, I just repainted their armor and got 6 more dudes to bring my original 12 to 18. In retrospect I regret changing the colour scheme, but at first I thought I might be playing 6th ed and I just had had enough of frenzy management. In 8th frenzy is not that big of an issue, so I'm probably going to run them Khorne after all. I'm thinking of going with an undivided look for the whole army and choose the marks later on, although I'm only interested in Khorne and Nurgle anyway.
Archaon was the coolest model ever in 2004 and I still think he's really cool. I never could justify buying the model back then though, because I generally disliked fielding named characters. Now I could just buy this for the joy of painting it and I did have fun! This model is actually a recast that I got off ebay. I botched the horns, I already repainted them once and got similarly awful results. Oh well. The armor is really simple and could use some improvement. I'm satisfied with the helm, cloak and horse though.
These sword-and-board warriors are my latest project. I've got plenty more waiting to be painted but I think I'll take a break from them and paint something else.
These Chaos Warriors were Khorne-aligned, I just repainted their armor and got 6 more dudes to bring my original 12 to 18. In retrospect I regret changing the colour scheme, but at first I thought I might be playing 6th ed and I just had had enough of frenzy management. In 8th frenzy is not that big of an issue, so I'm probably going to run them Khorne after all. I'm thinking of going with an undivided look for the whole army and choose the marks later on, although I'm only interested in Khorne and Nurgle anyway.
Archaon was the coolest model ever in 2004 and I still think he's really cool. I never could justify buying the model back then though, because I generally disliked fielding named characters. Now I could just buy this for the joy of painting it and I did have fun! This model is actually a recast that I got off ebay. I botched the horns, I already repainted them once and got similarly awful results. Oh well. The armor is really simple and could use some improvement. I'm satisfied with the helm, cloak and horse though.
These sword-and-board warriors are my latest project. I've got plenty more waiting to be painted but I think I'll take a break from them and paint something else.
