Stoof's Project Thread

Completed C03 Clerics, probably for use in Pillage.

Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric


Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric


Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric

The heater shield is anachronistic to Pillage, but we can probably ignore that.

Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric


Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric

I can't quite decide if I'm happy with the yellow robes or not, but being painted twice in about 25 years is enough repainting already so he's done.

Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric


Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric

The Chieftain's wife
The Chieftain's wife, turned to Christianity after a visit from a dreamy young wandering preacher.

Citadel C03 Cleric

Citadel C03 Cleric


Citadel C03 Clerics

Citadel C03 Clerics

Freshly repainted
The beginning of a warband of monks?
 
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Competition entry for I'm afraid of no ghost - a chambered barrow terrain piece.

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The basis is a stack of card cut into an arrowhead shape typical of chambered barrows like the one illustrated. The front indent will be stone lined with a small door and the rest a grassy mound.

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It's quite small compared to real barrows but we'll use the Rhino Rule and say it's bigger on the inside.

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Layers will be stuck together, smoothed out with plaster and put on a wooden base to hopefully prevent warping.
 
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🎶 Glowing, ghostly skeletons
Are coming
Out the ground... 🎶

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Trafalgar Law said:
Static grass in the 90s? What new fangled technology is this?
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My bag of static grass is probably from the 90s. It's Hornby stuff.

I looked it up - introduced in the early 90s mainly with railroads and diorama modellers. Possibly didn't hit GW gaming until later.
 
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Stoof said:
I looked it up - introduced in the early 90s mainly with railroads and diorama modellers. Possibly didn't hit GW gaming until later.
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Pretty sure it did as my grassy static grass came from GW in a plastic bag (now resting in a more secure tub) and I got it when the “new” Eldar came out - so around 3rd Edition (1998?). As I ended up not doing much with that project before I rested from the hobby a while I’ve still got plenty of it!

As with all that stuff it’s going to be repackaged model railway material.

Pretty sure they released some static grassed hills around that time and a mat.

Anyway… it’s still gloriously green!!
 
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SuboptimusPrime said:
The first few GW models I saw around 1995 or so still had some weird rubbery green flock stuff on them, but I think static grass came in pretty fast.
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I remember them using rebadged Jarvis green flock, which is essentially dyed sawdust.

I never liked that stuff as the colour always seemed to fade on it and you were left with a lot of obvious sawdust stuck to your scenery (or trees if you got the railroad types).

Often made me wonder how Model Railway enthusiasts stopped that? If they did! I assume they were often kept in attics/garages and rooms with no sunlight.

Painted sand for the win!!
 
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I assume they were often kept in attics/garages and rooms with no sunlight.
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Bingo! The sawdust flock faded on factory made trees on my first train layout. Annoying.

I just realised I should have done a third skeleton for my Necromancer because he could be a pretty neat counts-as Beastmaster for Necromunda. I do have another old lead skelly somewhere.
 
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Following on my Beastmaster idea I found two more lead skeletons, one (a 1985 Grenadier model - weird seeing clearly marked bases, the bases/tabs usually just have illegible scrawls) is much smaller than the other two, whilst the one which matches the two I've already used was squashed with his sword broken almost all the way through at the hilt.

Such a small contact area with superglue is often a failure, and it's really really thin for pinning, so I decided to be brave and attempt soldering the sword back on. And after a bit of trial and error it worked! This was probably fairly commonplace back in the day, though I don't remember reading or hearing anyone talking about doing this.

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So now Mr Skelly the 3rd has an incredibly securely attached falchion, and can be painted up to match my other two barrow ghosts.
 
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Excellent! Maybe the little skele either gets his axe turned into a shovel (long suffering necromancer assistant) or a massive hammer (long suffering necromancer executioner of any and all). "Come on! Put your spine into it!"
 
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Yep I’ve never heard of anyone soldering metal models before. I mean what could go wrong? hobby for kids, lead, hot implement etc character building none of the this namby pamby, social media using, coffee drinking instead of saving for a mortgage excuse Gen Z call wargaming!! Have you seen the mold remover tool? Use a sharpe knife man! oh wait where am I? Nurse?
 
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Surely soldering is no more dangerous than those hot wire foam slicers we used to make hills & delicious melty plastic fumes with. Or scalpels. Or the toxic ingredients of those really good bright paints where you could paint yellow directly over black undercoat. Or huffing poly cement in your unventilated bedroom.

Come to mention it it's a wonder any of us reached adulthood.
 
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