My oldest original paint job and conversion!
Hi folks, just a quick post.
I just found something earlier that just exploded my head with memories and nostalgia and really wanted to share.
I was clearing out/organising some old bits boxes and found this guy! I've just been talking about it with my friend on the phone for the last couple of hours and we've realised that this is in fact a two-for.
My oldest surviving paint job AND conversion all in one! Some of my long time followers may remember something like this came up before HERE, but this has it just beat.
This guy will have been created around the end of 1994 to beginning of 1995 by 13 year old me! I really wanted to start a Blood Bowl team and didn't have much money at the time. But I had some plastic monopose chaos warriors already and picked up a £5 box of the plastic Beastmen with halberds to try convert and I guess this was my test piece (only piece actually).
It's been a fun night reminiscing with my friend about old times and old hobby nights. I'm really happy to have found this guy, a little piece of my hobby past that has survived. He's going to live on my inspiration shelf and remind me of where I started out.
Forgive my self indulgence, I got really excited after digging this guy out.
I've still got some more hobby posts in the middle of being edited to go up soon. So until then...
Take care everyone ;)
I just found something earlier that just exploded my head with memories and nostalgia and really wanted to share.
I was clearing out/organising some old bits boxes and found this guy! I've just been talking about it with my friend on the phone for the last couple of hours and we've realised that this is in fact a two-for.
My oldest surviving paint job AND conversion all in one! Some of my long time followers may remember something like this came up before HERE, but this has it just beat.
This guy will have been created around the end of 1994 to beginning of 1995 by 13 year old me! I really wanted to start a Blood Bowl team and didn't have much money at the time. But I had some plastic monopose chaos warriors already and picked up a £5 box of the plastic Beastmen with halberds to try convert and I guess this was my test piece (only piece actually).
You can see it was a pretty simple conversion, removing the weapon, repositioning the arm.
That paint job! Definitely Bronzed Flesh and Flesh Wash. The hair/fur was probably Bestial Brown and the loincloth/belt was probably Bleached Bone. The horns I seem to remember were a mix of Chaos Black, Skull White and Flesh Wash.
By the gods look at that janky anatomy! When I did this conversion I thought it looked amazing...
I didn't have any sort of putty to sculpt with. But I read in the Citadel Modelling Guide that John Blanche used Blu-Tac covered in superglue to sculpt hair. And that's what we see here, a huge lumpy oversized bicep created from poster tac and superglue :D
I didn't have any sort of putty to sculpt with. But I read in the Citadel Modelling Guide that John Blanche used Blu-Tac covered in superglue to sculpt hair. And that's what we see here, a huge lumpy oversized bicep created from poster tac and superglue :D
It's been a fun night reminiscing with my friend about old times and old hobby nights. I'm really happy to have found this guy, a little piece of my hobby past that has survived. He's going to live on my inspiration shelf and remind me of where I started out.
Forgive my self indulgence, I got really excited after digging this guy out.
I've still got some more hobby posts in the middle of being edited to go up soon. So until then...
Take care everyone ;)
