Warhammer: The Old World

[Grimfang]

Hahaha, yeah! Oh I traded my old Magic cards for the Space Wolf Codex and some models froma dude.. he had actually played that Wolf Guard nonsense.. Most were proxied but I know he atleast once had a Wolf Lord on the board with the rest of the army being Wolf Guard Terminators with ass-cannons and Cyclone Missile Launchers... lol

I got that stuff and made an army out of it like the stuff in the battle report in the Codex. Felt very proud of it! (Almost never used the Terminators but the Grey Hunters, Blood Claws and Long Fangs along with Wolf Scouts!)

I had my time making hard lists too but could not bring myself to the worst nonsense. Kinda weird to be honest.. Like in 3rd Ed, I ran full Packs of 10 Grey Hunters, 10 Blood Claws (they could be 15 then but that was new "nonsense" ). I felt following the background was, right.. But I also did not have to optimize more I think, I was pretty successful still. Being one of the few "vets" from 2nd Ed and did good. So not because I was an angel, hehe. But it felt good making "fluffy" lists that performed well (they did! Often running 20 grey hunters, 10 Blood Claws supported by other elements)

I did own part of an Ork army in 2nd Ed though, a smaller protion, and playing with that guy, we did some weird things.. Telescopic Legs, Kustom Shoot or Blasta on Meks. Popping up from behind cover and behind Gretchin screens..
then the buddy planned to buy 12 Pulsa Rokkits but thankfully I think all he ever had was one or two..

Good times and weird stuff.. I miss it..

 

[Grimfang]

Orcs & Goblins

• Grimfang
• Mar 10, 2025

Gobbo Artillery

Not sure how this works here but..

Edit - ah yeah, that works.. Had fun doing them.. The horde is growing..

 

[Grimfang]

Wolf Chariots

• Grimfang
• Mar 18, 2025

Built a brace of Wolf Chariots. Minus one krew in each (both are damaged..)

 

[Grimfang]

Big guy

• Grimfang
• Mar 31, 2025

My own birthday present to myself done!

Big dude.. Love that model, glad I finally got one.

 

[katfezza]

Great job on him. My favourite GW giant. I have the Marauder one too, but this is my favourite.

I needed to expand my Chaos marauders unit but the models I'm using are daaaaamn expensive so I've had to resort to a unit filler. I feel a little dirty but needs must...

Whole army is inspired by some Ian Miller artwork (attached) so I've given a nod to it. Takes the space of 6 marauders, so basically an extra rank of em. Big gribbly tree and a doggo.

 

[Grimfang]

Thanks. Yeah mine too. The Marauder is alright, I remember him as a kid in the stores.. But I like this one much more too. Can´t stand the plastic one! Those proportions - no thanks.

Ah yeah, the Chaos stuff, kinda apart from the Warriors (not really) felt very expensive. And then the Empire too..
More models in the boxes but.. Still just costs more. GW...

marauders are cool though.

Ah sounds cool! I like it!

 

[Grimfang]

As for the Giant, it feels kinda protected, the Halfling.. A little more brittle in resin. But should be good..

Might get a second one day, with the other head and maybe replace the weapon. But probably not.. One should be enough..

The Halfling..

• Grimfang
• Mar 31, 2025

Hope people´s stuff are growing nicely. I am working on my pig riders but got back into Necromunda painting too so..

 

[Tiny]

I've been working on my Ogres on and off.

Ogre Bulls Unit

• Tiny
• Mar 18, 2025

And also some Undead chaps.

Wight King BSB

• Tiny
• Jan 23, 2025

More pics in my plog

But mostly slowed to a crawl on the Old World stuff while I wait for my brother to paint his High Elves.

 

[Grimfang]

Oh wow, they look awesome, fantastic painting! Well done!

I have never, ever faced Ogres, lol.. Still feels like that "new army" to me.. And while i was never a fan of that "new" (6th Ed release) look. it is alot to do with the GW-painting. This is much better.

Great times for your brother now then, 2nd wave High Elves on Saturday and then should be some more in a bit?

 

[Tiny]

The last thing he needs is more Elves. He's got about 3k points from Island of Blood and other purchases back when 8th was new. He's just a very slow painter.

 

[Grimfang]

Ah cool, heard those ones from that box were pretty decent.

Ah tell me about it, lol.. I am slow and bad.. Bad combo. Getting faster when i actually sloppily do it now however.
Hope he gets some nice stuff done to face you with!

 

[Luke82]

I’ve been adding some slaves to my skaven horde (vermintide 2 got me good). I added some excess skaven heads to hobbit goblin town goblins and they worked pretty well as manky abused slave rats.

Slaves 1

• Luke82
• Apr 7, 2025

Slaves 2

• Luke82
• Apr 7, 2025

Hella slaves

• Luke82
• Apr 7, 2025

I’ve also retrayed some units with dragged along stuff inline with the Renegade packs… I hated these units mooching about besides the units!

What a drag (along)

• Luke82
• Apr 7, 2025

 

[Gdolkin]

Those nasty ratgoblins are genius heresy, very Clan Moulder, great job.

 

[Grimfang]

Yeah, great slaves! And Dragged along, alongside made my ass burn.. Like the Slann beside units.. No..

Looking great! I start to like Skaven more and more..

 

[MusingWarboss]

Ah, so this is where those converted Goblins are that @Punktaku mentioned…

 

[katfezza]

Had to do my first unit filler as my marauder regiment was already too darn expensive due to the models I've been using. Normally I try to avoid them but it wasn't feasible this time. I reckon it fits the theme at least.

Marauder Filler.jpg

• katfezza
• Apr 17, 2025

Marauders.jpg

• katfezza
• Apr 17, 2025

Miller green.jpg

• katfezza
• Apr 17, 2025

Anybody else resorting to unit fillers? Ole G-Dubs did an article a while back that encouraged people to do them so I guess it's not as heretical as I used to believe.

 

[MedMos]

I've done a unit filler for my grave guard, but haven't finished the unit itself yet... I always struggled with finding something thematic, without using more of the minis that I wanted to save money on in the first place, so never really got around to doing fillers.

 

[katfezza]

Yeah, that's the real trick with fillers. Trying to save a little money, but also avoiding looking like a cop out. Scenery alone can be okay if it's done right, but I've seen people have a couple of gravestones on a large base and that just felt lazy. If there was a dug up grave and a broken coffin or something it'd be far better. A bit more effort and style.

 

[Tiny]

I've got a few gravestones on individual bases for fillers, some with skulls / arms poking out of the ground. One with a crow on it. They make up numbers nicely in units of Zombies, Skeletons or Grave Guard.

 

[Ben_S]

I had a few fillers when I played WFB, but I mostly kept them small: often involving 1-3 models spread over a 40x40 or 50x50 base, so taking the place of four.