Skyrak
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Now there are many amazing and inspiring paintjobs on this forum, which i truly wish i was able to emulate (im realistic i cant!) but how about those old miniatures from your childhood that you spent ages painting and frankly look awful, yet nostalgia just wont let you dettol them to oblivion.
Here are a few of the paintjobs that i did in the early 80s that whenever i look at them i can still see me painting or have other memories attached.
To start with my Lone Wolf Giak Attack box set. Just how thick was the paint and im sure looking at them i must have used an old toothbrush to paint them with. I vaguely remember being pleased with the skull i painted on the banner.
To follow up is an old citadel harpy with a loverly gold body paint job, maybe i had watched a bond film before painting this but again the memories stop me scubbing it clean.
So your eyes dont melt from these abominations i finally have a pre slotta 1984 skeleton in a rather fetching arab esqe outfit. I remember how bad enamel white paint was yet didnt think at the time that i should try and paint more layers (probably would have obscured all the detail anyway) and the memory tied to this guy is from my cousin and i building a dungeon out of some polystyrene packaging and using cocktail stick as traps for each area. Suffice to say when your collection of adventures die on a roll of 1>3 on a six sided dice no one made it pass the first couple of traps all day!
Here are a few of the paintjobs that i did in the early 80s that whenever i look at them i can still see me painting or have other memories attached.
To start with my Lone Wolf Giak Attack box set. Just how thick was the paint and im sure looking at them i must have used an old toothbrush to paint them with. I vaguely remember being pleased with the skull i painted on the banner.
To follow up is an old citadel harpy with a loverly gold body paint job, maybe i had watched a bond film before painting this but again the memories stop me scubbing it clean.
So your eyes dont melt from these abominations i finally have a pre slotta 1984 skeleton in a rather fetching arab esqe outfit. I remember how bad enamel white paint was yet didnt think at the time that i should try and paint more layers (probably would have obscured all the detail anyway) and the memory tied to this guy is from my cousin and i building a dungeon out of some polystyrene packaging and using cocktail stick as traps for each area. Suffice to say when your collection of adventures die on a roll of 1>3 on a six sided dice no one made it pass the first couple of traps all day!
( I painted that when I was 11)
also note the uniformly goblin green bases for ultimate red period effect.
