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Nagash, Supreme Lord of Undeath. Even did a goblin green base!

Old Nagash, my beloved. How I have longed for you and now you are mine.

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!

More basing project getting done. Here we have Oglala Khan’s Hobgoblin Wolfboyz and Ghazak Khan, 10 goblin wolf riders with bows and a kitbashed Gitilla da Hunter, 10 skull pass forest goblin spider riders, and Harboth’s Black Mountain Archers regiment of renown!

More of my basing project. Two Arachnarok spiders, a snorting pump wagon, and six goblin chariots including Grom the Paunch!

And here is Gorfang Rotgut and his unit of 25 classic GW orcs!

Continuing on basing minis while I catch up on YouTube videos. Here’s the 6th edition WHFB Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs. A unit of 20 Marauder Minis (the GW sub company founded by Aly Morrison, Trish Carden and Bryan Ansel) Orcs plus a couple extra command units and Ludruk from the original Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs.

Continuing on basing minis while I catch up on YouTube videos. Here’s the 6th edition WHFB Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs. A unit of 20 Marauder Minis (the GW sub company founded by Aly Morrison, Trish Carden and Bryan Ansel) Orcs plus a couple extra command units and Ludruk from the original Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs.

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!

Contest season is upon us, time to paint 80’s and 90’s minis to a higher standard in anticipation of going hard on a single mini!

Went for the moon from Soul Eater!

I’ve been properly basing all of my orcs and goblins and some of these paint jobs were done myself as a teenager or in my mid twenties.

Sometimes you need to let the teenage you be part of the you of today that has the big green army like in the warhammer armies books that he always wanted back then. Proudly rank up his paint jobs alongside the minis painted after 20 years more experience.

Include yourself in yourself.

An oldhammer savage orc chieftain I just painted up! I’m super pleased with the pelt!

Chaos Warrior from Battlemasters! Painted up for Olden Demon season!

I just got a bunch more kitbash material this last week for the bits boxes!! Including this bag of metal riders!

Look at this Mordheim Warband waiting to be given lore!

I love my Orcs and Goblins army but this is the Greatest of All Time.

I did some touch ups on my old Grom the Paunch mini!

Some of my Warhammer Books!

My Warhammer Dwarfs army! I’ll add more photos to this when I can get them out and take better pictures!

And more!!

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

And some more!

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

Some updated shots of the Waaagh! With some closer shots of the named characters I have as well!

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

I found the first Warhammer thing I ever painted, these Eldar Warp Spiders, in 1995 or 1996. I didn’t even know what they were! I would get the 2nd edition 40k big box with the beloved mono pose space marines, space orks, and gretchin, as well as the ever infamous and tournament legal cardboard deff dred in 1997 which is when I consider my actual start in Warhammer. Here they are next to the last thing I painted for a competition, a Chaos Daemon Prince, in late 2024.

Throgg the King of Trolls and Harold Hammerstorm! I was lucky enough to buy Harry the Hammer for Games Workshop’s 25th anniversary in 2000. And Throgg I paid way too much to get in box on eBay. It was worth it to paint him though!!

The Mysterious Exalted Champions of Tzeentch! Aekold Hellbrass and Vilitch the Curseling! How long ago did this meeting of the minds take place? Or is this yet to come? Irrelevant in realm of chaos! I have a tendency to paint older miniatures more vibrantly than the modern counterparts, I’m hardly alone in this, but I kind of wish I had made Vilitch more old school looking. Tzeetnch looks better in oldhammer paint schemes.

Here are my Exalted Chanpions of Khorne! Valkia the Gorequeen and Scylla Anfingrimm! How many battlefields have these two bathed in blood and broken skulls for their father? Countless! I’d love to get my hands on the other versions of of Scylla as well. Both of these minis are Finecast models and here’s the thing…. Finecast…. Was fine by the time they discontinued it in favor of Forge world resin. But the original Finecast was garbage. I say this in case you ever come across a Finecast model on eBay. An Age of Sigmar label is usually a good sign that your Finecast is the better stuff.

Here his is! The big man himself! Archaon the Everchosen! The Grand Marshall of the Apocalypse and all his other final fantasy final boss titles! He really was everything a big bad in fantasy should have been and he had to fight with Grimgor, Malekith, and Mannfred for that spot. I bought this mini when he first came out and boy is he heavy. There isn’t a lot of empty space inside all that pewter. Archaon the Grand Marshall of Paperweights!

I needed someone for Grimgor to fight after all!

I’m going to start showcasing more of my Warriors of Chaos stuff for a while. Starting with this converted chaos champion who rolled particularly peculiarly on the Realm of Chaos tables.

I love this guy.

Harboth’s Black Mountain Archers! This is one of the oldest Regiments of Renown along with Eeza Ugezod’s Mother Crushers. I’ve also got both versions of Ruglud’s Armored Orcs. I’ll show those at some point! I’m considering whether or not to put flock on the bases because they are rather unique for GW stuff as seen below. I’m not sure how much I want to obscure such a curiosity!

A Fimir shaman that rolled particularly well on the old Realm of Chaos mutation charts!

Skullvane Manse! This is the third of my big trio of Warhammer Fantasy Battles big towers. This came with an option to make the tower into an observatory and at the time I thought that was less cool, but these days I think the observatory sounds pretty rad and I still have the dome so I might be due to make one sticking out of a mountain or something!