28mm Chaos warriors

Had a bit of a break from painting while working three jobs to get a new (old) bike. Now I have transport, I'm able to finish some unfinished projects and start some new ones, one of which is a chaos army, for HoTT or my own GRASP system which is currently being revised.

Anyhow, I have a somewhat disparate collection, from true 25mm to modern 32mm, and I'm trying to combine them so the  larger figures act as champions and the smaller troops are rank and file. My first base of chaos blade are a mixture of Citadel / Games Workshop pre-slotta and  later figures. All are hunched over in some way, the later figure having a very different style to the others.  At the back is a fighter with  some sort of seahorse themed helmet(!?). 'Whatever floats your boat' I guess for the troops of chaos. He has an integrally  cast shield so is probably the earlier of the three. The second figure has a Thulsa Doom  style fascination with snakes and a separate shield so I guess he's early nineties. The third and last figure is one of the  most boring figures, really lacking in animation. whatever he lacks in style, he makes up for with a curious fascination for decay. His armour is covered in verdigris. Whilst I suspect his helmet is a relic from his days with the Khorne clan, I'm not fussy about my troops allegiances, as long as they roll lots of sixes.

Normally, I'm pretty stingy with  the grass tufts, only issuing base decorations to  successful units, but this time I went overboard and covered the base. Actually , I had a bit of a grass tuft fest decorating some home-made shell craters and some Napoleonics which were within easy reach, much easier than dipping bases in static grass and getting the fibres everywhere.

28mm Oni for Mythic Asia

These are a couple of old Grenadier Oni which I remember painting when I lived in Edinburgh, around the time of the birth of my son who is now a  father himself. Time flies, and the Oni are based at last ready for  the clash of magical steel under the auspices of the Imperial Heavenly Court. Will they carve a red valley through ranks of ronin or be snaffled up by  capricious dragons? Who knows? Who cares?

They are based on 30mm wide bases for skirmish games, but can be combined to make one HoTT base of 60mm.

Dragons for Mythic Asian HoTT

Just a couple of old dragons for my Japanese HoTT forces. Both are elemental dragons for water and wind. The water dragon needs re-basing ( they both do) and is an old Grenadier model I suspect.

The other is an old Ral Partha? celestial dragon, which really needs to be on a flying base of clouds. I've just found another in  the lead box which i may be able to paint up as an earth dragon. I also have a massive Imperial dragon from about twenty five years ago, again by Grenadier, but way beyond my financial means today (100 US dollars on Evilbay!! ).

I also have a massive Imperial dragon from about twenty five years ago, again by Grenadier, but way beyond my financial means today (100 US dollars on Evilbay!! ).

GW 28mm Skeletons

These are my 'long in the tooth', plastic skellies. Had a few repairs to do after some pikes were damaged when they were too deep for the tray. On taking them out to repair them I dropped the box and damaged a couple more units. Nine bases so far, three more and I'll have an army. I found a small stack of metal skellies too, so they'll make up the rest of the army sometime.

 Auxillia and Blade 

Bows

Pike

General / Hero  Chariot (Knight) and Psiloi

Light Horse

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Nessie ( the Behemoth)

There are a few more bases of blades and a command base to come along with a wight, some  more gracile Ral Partha knightly skeletons plus a huge  skeletal mammoth. Don't hold your breath though, they're not likely to be finished this side of 2018.