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They look fantastic. I love the cape on the Dread. The detail work on the Terminator is amazing.

The new termies get bigger and bigger every time I see them

Amazing shot and very pretty minis. Is that dread wearing a cape??

Cheers guys. And he sure is wearing a cape... he nicked it from a Praetor who got distributed amongst a dozen bases as basing materials and wasn't using it any longer!

Painted something a lot smaller and easier than that dread - one of the 1988 Mark Copplestone Commissars:



Three pigments plus black and white for the mini - was nice getting it done a whole lot faster than the Dread.

Your painting is always impressive but it's your visors that really stand out to me.

The RT marines look superb, quite nice to see the comparison between the newest stuff.

Cheers! There's definitely something to appreciate about both the old sculpts and the new ones - the level of detail and crispness on the new plastics is just bonkers in comparison, but the sheer style of so many of the old sculpts is so much fun...

Without charming fellows like the Commisar there, we would never have gotten the crisp new plastics. Hats off to another classic!

Thanks!

Well, all of my painting time in the last month went into this guy:




...for Darren Latham's painting challenge. That's about as well as I can paint a mini at the moment! No decals, all freehand.

Wow, freehand? That looks amazing!

Thankyou! I just updated the image after making a change to the eye lenses... got a lot of feedback that the eyes were a bit >.<. Better now!

Painted a Satyr Studios sculpt:



Paints used.

Great sculpt to work with - I modified the left pauldron and put a backpack of my own design on.

Awesome mini. Fits right in with all the classic Marines.

Yeah I think Drew really nailed these sculpts! Such an Oldhammer feel to them.

I 100% would believe this is an official RT sculpt if you told me Paint work drags her right in with your other RT marines.

Got stuck getting a renegade done and did a Scout while I ponder the other model.





I'm not convinced about the cloak colour choice, but it was an interesting experiment nonetheless!

One for the other side tonight... a Chaos Space Marine:

Why the long face? (ba dum tiss...)

Really nice paint job, good work!

Ah RT chaos marines.

If any of the retro studios are looking for ideas I would love more crazy multi-headed (or no headed) mutant marines.

Loved this guy back in the day. Face of Pink Horror! Great work.

Great job on one of the weirder RT renegades

Cheers guys!

With barely any time to paint since then I have only just finished the next mini - Brother Holt:

Another winner. Sun's out, guns out. The RT range has so many oddities, I love it.

What a delightful bunch of rogue tradery yumminess here!

Beautiful paint jobs befitting such relics that I fondly remember ruining with all the overexcited enthusiasm of a nine year old first timer at the hobby. Thank god they were white metal cos I stripped and repainted them at least twice over the years. Alas sold them all some time ago to buy (what was at the time) new stuff. Stuff that I have since stripped and sold too! Lol thank god for nitromoors

Thanks guys!

Playing around with the base blue, I think I like the usual result better... but you don't know if you don't try!

A 1986 C100 Marine.

Great job. The blue does look good. Keep bringing the oldies out to shine!

You've painted lots of new stuff since my last visit! Love your paintwork on these old, weird but awesome models.

Cheers guys!

Another one for the opposition tonight...






Love the sculpt - Jes Goodwin sure did do some good stuff.

Metal!!

Beautiful color combo. One of the best Chaos minis ever.

Thanks! Yeah, he's definitely a favourite of mine... the sculpt really encapsulates a lot of what is fun about the Oldhammer aesthetic - definitely not taking itself TOO seriously.

I have to say that that it was a great sculpt to paint, too - makes me want to look for more of Jes' 1988 Champions. But then I have so many marines on the to-do list... so many cool sculpts, so little time.