WWI Germans, Mouth of Sauro, Oldhammer 40K Guardsmen, an Emperor's Spears, a Mercenary, and Oldhammer Empire Spearmen

Hello,

I have posted recently, but I have finished painting a number of minis.  First up are 16 Wargames Foundry WWI early war Germans.  

 These painted up quickly because I didn't paint the piping.  I've read that piping was reserved for more elite troops.  On TMP they argue a lot about what color the uniforms were.  I'm going to believe all of them are correct and use color variations to tell units apart on the battlefield.

Here is a machine gun crew firing under the watchful eye of Mouth of Sauron.  Its a unusually static model from Mithril Miniatures.

Some people paint unit insignia on the canvas helmet covers.  That's insane.  My helmets will look the same on the front as on the back, as you can see below.

 Here are twelve plastic GW Empire spear men.  I think they are Perry brother sculpts.  I tried to paint them in a Landsknecht style.  I will be pretending they are Landsknecht with training pikes.

Did you know Games Workshop destroyed the fantasy setting of the "Old World"?  Yes, it was destroyed, sucked into some demon warp plane of non-existance.  Everyone died.  It's gone.  The few survivors live in some weird other dimension and the human armies are magic dudes in space marine armor.

Here are nine old metal GW Necromunda Cawdor gangers.  I think they have "autoguns."

 The internet says they are religious zealots.  I wish I had painted them up in monk colors.  It would have been more fitting. 

 Here are nine of the original plastic GW Imperial Guardsmen.

 Only several hundred left to paint.  I must have painted over 800 in this same stupid paint scheme of Necromunda Spiders, from the Rogue Trader book.

 Pew, pew, pew! go the Spiders fighting Cawdor gangers, "Pew, pew, pew, to you bad naughty gangers, pew, pew, pew!"

 I also found and painted four more old Rogue Trader gunners/commanders.   

 I'm up to eleven of these standing around guys; I hope I don't find more.

Lastly one more space marine, in my paint one of every chapter project.  The internet told me he's an Emperor's Spear.

Someone on the internet said Space Marines don't have genitals.  This ball-less behemoth is next to an old metal Grenadier halberdier; he'll be signing on with my Burgundian mercenary company.

Till next time, when some of the terrain, Sarmatian cavalry, Burgundian crossbows, Bretonnian crewmen, tiny robots, blah, blah, might be done. 

Love and Kisses,
Baconfat

Dacians, Empire Archers, Rogue Trader, and Terrain Progress

Hello,

Firstly are four Foundy Dacian bolt throwers.  Sadly there are only two crew options, but I can't complain as they were quite a bargain compared to the nicer but far more expensive Warlord Games models.

I've recently finished some more models from the lead mountain.  Second are some metal GW Empire archers, from the 80's and 90's.  My rather large Empire horde was previously archer free.

 And a couple old Bretonians (I have no desire to learn how to spell that correctly).  The guy on the right apparently needs a little touch up already.

Here are some ancient Rogue Trader/40K models.  A halfling from the Adventures line, a penitent (now called penal legion), a old inquisitor wearing an elaborate toilet bowl around his neck, and a model labeled "Punk"from the Adventurer range.  They a posing on a terrain bit I've been working on.

Here's a few ugly pieces of furniture I made out of balsa wood.  Hand crafting furniture is tiresome and the results are blah.  I'll be making an order from Ainsty Castings, so my post apocalyptic models have proper furniture to sit on between battles.

Here's the latest post apocalyptic building I've been working on.  The sunlight was so bright outside that it completely blurs out all the rubble.

Till next time, pleasant viewer, when I hope to have some WW1 Germans done and maybe a LOTR Mumak.

Love,

Baconfat

Weapons of the Imperial Guard

I prefer historical miniatures over fantasy and sci-fi, but I have a very soft spot for Game Workshop's 40K Imperial Guard. I've been buying the little guys for over twenty years and have hordes of them.

I am posting pictures to show the evolution of Guard weaponry. You'll quickly see the technology is decreasing as the weapons are getting bigger, but you'll also notice the factories are making at least a better looking product.

First is heavy bolter. I have found eight versions of this weapon. Left to right: 1. this ancient little heavy bolter dates back from the days of the Imperial Army; 2. a metal heavy bolter, anti-grav technology allows a regular human to carry these large weapons; 3. slightly different plastic version; 4. an early Cadian heavy bolter, the grav technology is lost and now they have to have wheels to move these beasts; 5. Unless you're strong as a marine like this Last Chancer; 6. the new Cadian plastic, I don't know how two guys are supposed to carry it around; 7. a newer Vostroyan one with drummed ammo; 8. a tarantula with really large heavy bolters, I think they really belong on servitors.

Autocannons are not as common throughout the ages and I only have two pictures for you: 1. old metal Cadian; 2. new plastic Cadian.

Only two regular mortars and a mole mortar here. 1. metal; 2. newer plastic; 3. lost technology from a silly weapon called the mole mortar manned by plastic squats. The round would travel underground to the target. I glued a regular mortar to one of them so I could called it a "counts as" mortar.

Missile launchers. 1. Plastic launcher stolen from a plastic beakie marine; 2. actually a GW Rogue Trooper; 3. I'm only pretty sure this is a GW launcher; 4. Catachan with lighter launcher and stand; 5. Mordian version without face plate and stand; 6. Steel Legion version that looks more like what all these weapons really are, rocket grenades or just plain rockets; 7. plastic Cadian.

Flamers. 1. ancient model titled "ex-tech" whatever that means; 2. a beakie with flamer (none of my Guard with stolen weapons are painted); 3. Mordian; 4. plastic Catachan; 5. Cadian plastic; 6. Vostroyan version.

Plasma guns. 1. first metal version; 2. stolen plastic plasma gun from an unknown kit; 3. Catachan metal; 4. Cadian metal

Meltaguns. 1. Squat with early version; 2. Mordian; 3. Cadian

Demo Charges. 1. Catachan; 2. Last Chancer

Grenade launchers. 1. Really big Imperial Army version; 2. smaller RT version; 3. Mordian; 4. stubby little Steel Legion version; 5. plastic Cadian.

Lascannons. 1. Original metal; 2. original plastic; 3. a different (horribly painted) plastic on a tarantula; 4. metal Cadian; 5. metal Steel Legion; 6. longer plastic Cadian with converted wiring system.

Ripper guns. 1. older; 2. newer

Sentinels. 1. RT egg shaped walker; 2. Metal Cadian (modified for support role); 3. plastic with metal armor

Long lost Human Bomb. Politically incorrect suicide bombers of the Emperor.

Heavy Stubber and Hunter Killer. GW never made us proper man portable versions of these weapons, so I made my own. 1. Actually a Renegade Miniatures WW1 Vickers machine gun with IG bits; 2. Hunter-killer simply planted on a heavy weapons tripod.