Max Bialystock
Member
Some would say 'I've hoarded enough, when are you going to do something with all your old figures?'. The pressure has ratcheted up now that my 7 yo lad has started collecting and painting his own space marine army...
This is the first time that I have ever had this many of them out at one go, and has allowed me to size up the problem / sort them out a bit. To my eyes it's a pretty well balanced force. I'm now resolved to get a sizeable chunk of it painted to a battle ready standard... then who knows what - maybe I can take them to a battle!
There are about a dozen or so original figures purchased by me in the 80s. Then College/ Uni took away the 90s. Hoarding truly began in the in the mid 2000s; starting out as buying a few of the things I liked but couldn't afford when I was younger, it steadily grew... About 10 years ago I started painting a few bits on a green/ black colour sheme, but then buying a house/ getting married... Whilst the majority has been stored in boxes since, I've occasionally added the odd piece here or there.
I'm currently practicing my painting and working up a colour scheme on a few 2nd Edition plastic marines, but have become rather attached to the camo look for the vehicles, so will keep that for the future.
Mostly RT era, I have acquired a few bits from the 90's in job-lots and small collections. I can't help but like some of the newer models. My two main criteria is 'do I like the figure?', followed by 'does it have knee pads?'. RT marines, with a very few exceptions, had no knee pads. Some of the newer figures I plan on converting into personality figures.
The more modern chaps who have got knee pads (not pictured - there wasn't room) will probably end up in a separate company of the chapter/ or absorbed into the kid's collections.
So here are a few pictures
Terminators, Librarians and a few heros/ leaders/ candidates for conversion.
Medics
Tech marines and a modern rhino (I had to! cos I liked the dozer blade but it dwarfed the old rhino!). There is some kind of plastic model in there too that's gonna get hacked up into something...
Chaplains
Tactical Squads
Devastator Squads
Assault marines
Land Raiders, Rhinos and Dreadnoughts
Robots
Bikes
Jet Bikes/ Land Speeders/ Anti-Grav stuff
Rhino projects / Support
Scouts
Old Marines
My thoughts are to chunk it into four companies, with a HQ entourage, each with variations on whatever colour scheme I settle on.
Two companies will have fairly straightforward Orders of Battle: tactical squads, terminators, devastator squads, assault squads, scouts, with a land raider, a rhino or two, dreadnoughts, and a few bikes.
The third company will be 'strike/ recon' specialists with an ORBAT comprising: jetbikes, land speeders, Grantula (tarantula on a anti/grav platform), Land Graider (anti-grav land-raider-esque thingumy) and other anti grav stuff that I have visions of kit-bashing.
The fourth company will be tech marines providing, Razorbacks, Rhinos, whirlwind, robots, etc.
I am under no illusions this will keep me going for years (three young kids, yadda yadda ya), but having recently joined this Oldhammer Community, and seeing other peoples work and ideas, I feel and hope that my interest will be sustained.
This is the first time that I have ever had this many of them out at one go, and has allowed me to size up the problem / sort them out a bit. To my eyes it's a pretty well balanced force. I'm now resolved to get a sizeable chunk of it painted to a battle ready standard... then who knows what - maybe I can take them to a battle!
There are about a dozen or so original figures purchased by me in the 80s. Then College/ Uni took away the 90s. Hoarding truly began in the in the mid 2000s; starting out as buying a few of the things I liked but couldn't afford when I was younger, it steadily grew... About 10 years ago I started painting a few bits on a green/ black colour sheme, but then buying a house/ getting married... Whilst the majority has been stored in boxes since, I've occasionally added the odd piece here or there.
I'm currently practicing my painting and working up a colour scheme on a few 2nd Edition plastic marines, but have become rather attached to the camo look for the vehicles, so will keep that for the future.
Mostly RT era, I have acquired a few bits from the 90's in job-lots and small collections. I can't help but like some of the newer models. My two main criteria is 'do I like the figure?', followed by 'does it have knee pads?'. RT marines, with a very few exceptions, had no knee pads. Some of the newer figures I plan on converting into personality figures.
The more modern chaps who have got knee pads (not pictured - there wasn't room) will probably end up in a separate company of the chapter/ or absorbed into the kid's collections.
So here are a few pictures
Terminators, Librarians and a few heros/ leaders/ candidates for conversion.
Medics
Tech marines and a modern rhino (I had to! cos I liked the dozer blade but it dwarfed the old rhino!). There is some kind of plastic model in there too that's gonna get hacked up into something...
Chaplains
Tactical Squads
Devastator Squads
Assault marines
Land Raiders, Rhinos and Dreadnoughts
Robots
Bikes
Jet Bikes/ Land Speeders/ Anti-Grav stuff
Rhino projects / Support
Scouts
Old Marines
My thoughts are to chunk it into four companies, with a HQ entourage, each with variations on whatever colour scheme I settle on.
Two companies will have fairly straightforward Orders of Battle: tactical squads, terminators, devastator squads, assault squads, scouts, with a land raider, a rhino or two, dreadnoughts, and a few bikes.
The third company will be 'strike/ recon' specialists with an ORBAT comprising: jetbikes, land speeders, Grantula (tarantula on a anti/grav platform), Land Graider (anti-grav land-raider-esque thingumy) and other anti grav stuff that I have visions of kit-bashing.
The fourth company will be tech marines providing, Razorbacks, Rhinos, whirlwind, robots, etc.
I am under no illusions this will keep me going for years (three young kids, yadda yadda ya), but having recently joined this Oldhammer Community, and seeing other peoples work and ideas, I feel and hope that my interest will be sustained.