Several Generations Of Wood Elf Minis Join Together To Become My Waywatchers

Your Warhammer collection is awesome.

Thanks! I’ve been at it since the mid 90’s! I appreciate all the likes and reblogs!

Tabletop artist transforms the Golden Girls into Warhammer 40K supersoldiers

by Ian Walker - Polygon, February 7, 2025

Artist Adam Huenecke recently used his love for both ’80s sitcoms and tabletop wargaming as inspiration for a series of figures imagining the eponymous Golden Girls as battle-hardened warriors in the service of Warhammer 40K’s grimdark Imperium of Man. And while not the most obvious peanut butter cup-style pairing, the results are incredible.

“I’m a massive Golden Girls fan, so I can think of no better leadership for my Adeptus Sororitas,” Huenecke said via Instagram caption on Jan. 26. “I’ve been working through this concept for years and I’m excited to finally have it accomplished.”

Speaking to Polygon, Huenecke said the crossover was a natural result of being a lifelong fan of The Golden Girls and miniature painting. His dream was helped along by a digital sculptor at tabletop company Black Site Studios, who modeled the figures’ custom heads. Black Site Studios has since made the heads available as digital models for a small fee.

“Once I had the head sculpts, I printed out a bunch of reference pictures to try to do their faces justice,” Huenecke told me through email. “I had to digitally sculpt Sophia’s purse (carried by the cherub), which I’m not very good at so it took forever. Otherwise, I had to modify the miniatures a little to fit some of the characteristics of each Girl: I made Dorothy a little taller, Sophia much shorter, etc.”

Due to the Golden Girls dressing as nuns at various points in the series, Huenecke figured Warhammer 40K’s pseudo-religious Sisters of Battle were a “natural fit,” and went about choosing models he felt matched their unique characteristics. Sophia “runs the show,” much like a senior officer known as a Cannoness, Dorothy is modeled after the discipline-focused Dogmata due to students nicknaming her “Attila the Sub” when she teaches high school, Rose’s love for telling stories about her hometown St. Olaf made her a perfect fit for the inspirational Dialogus, and Blanche became a whip-wielding Repential Superior thanks to her often-physical guidance.

“It turns out there is a considerable crossover in the fandoms,” Huenecke said when asked about the feedback he’s received. “People were happy to see the loving detail put into some of their favorite characters. The Golden Girls holds up over time; their humor is based on brilliant timing and great writing, and their values are surprisingly progressive, even by today’s standards. I think that resonates with a lot of gamers who have revisited the series. And honestly, if you aren’t a fan of the Golden Girls, you’re probably not any fun to spend several hours pushing toy soldiers around with.”

2024 is coming to a close so here's everything i painted this year. 299 miniatures by my count. I'm not sure if I'll be able to match this pace next year but I'll certainly try.

hitting you with a massively oversized hammer

Kinky!

Is this supposed to be an Usopp thing? Or a Warhammer thing? It’s too cartoonish to be threatening, so it’s gotta be something else.

Some more goblins based!

Some non-GW minis.

Sexy orc and dwarf.

Sue me.

Skarsnik and Gobbla with retinue! 98 goblins including 3 fanatics, plus two squigs makes 100 units.

This can be broken up into multiple units of 20 which is why there are so many command units in there!

wild zero 1999

Some more trolls properly based! All three flavors! I do have some chaos trolls elsewhere! But for the Orc and Goblin army I have these three kinds and I have more of them coming down the pipeline from that big MTO they did a while back, plus the marauder giant and the orc shaman on wyvern, to get painted up so I’ll have six river trolls, six common trolls and 12 stone trolls plus Ripper Bolgrot from blood bowl. You might notice an interesting troll at the front center of the stone trolls. No, not ripper or the one with the river trolls head, the one with the sword! I have no idea where it’s from but it’s old, has GW design aesthetics all over it including dwarf scalp loin cloth, but it has a slotted base and tab! Wild! Let me know if you know where it’s from!