The "How to do Oldhammer" Thread

LeadAsbestos

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• Jun 15, 2014

• #241

A few more done:

The obligatory ramblings here:

http://leadasbestosblog.blogspot.com/

Hope you like them! I may just finish some day...

 

James Holloway

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #242

Hmmm! Is it too late to get in on this? I may have a plan or three.

 

whiskey priest

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #243

It's never too late to jump on board mate, I haven't even finished my 21 yet (he lowers his head in shame)

 

theottovonbismark

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #244

Never to late to join this one. It is one of those long-term projects that will probably ramble on for a good long time yet.

@ SpaceCowSmith - very nice work on those tiny Slann

@ LeadAsbestos - cool looking Norse.

 

area23

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• Jun 25, 2014

• #245

 

James Holloway

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• Jun 27, 2014

• #246

All right, we're going in. Plan is to do some Orcs who are falling to Chaos -- the kind of thing you could easily get in Realms of Chaos but are unlikely to see in modern Warhammer. To begin with, I have converted up a Chaos champion to be the leader for this little force. Obviously, he is the most advanced in his adherence to Chaos. His followers just think he is a bit eccentric, but well 'ard.

He is mostly bits from the bits box -- the model I started him with is a Mantic Orc and costs 99p direct from Mantic or, practically speaking, a lot less on eBay. I believe I got 15 of these guys on LAF for £8?

Anyway, here he is in his rough form. I haven't named him yet, and there's some filing and puttying to do, but you get the picture.

 

whiskey priest

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• Jun 27, 2014

• #247

Great start! Chaos orks are a rarely spotted beast so it'll be interesting to see how these turn out.

 

James Holloway

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• Jun 27, 2014

• #248

whiskey priest":owcx6ncu said:

Great start! Chaos orks are a rarely spotted beast so it'll be interesting to see how these turn out.

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I have actually decided instead to randomly roll him a 20-strong Chaos Retinue from RoC. Fortunately, it did produce some orcs, as well as humans, beastmen, Skaven and a sorcerer. Now I just need to find some cheapo examples of these (other than the humans, which I have got covered).

Oh Lord, the sorcerer's got Levitation. Time to get out those flying bases ...

 

snyggejygge

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• Jul 3, 2014

• #249

This is a really cool & inspiring Project, hats off to you guys, wish I had seen it earlier, would´ve join in on it.

 

whiskey priest

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• Jul 3, 2014

• #250

Get stuck in, this is an ongoing project, there is no start or end!

 

snyggejygge

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• Jul 5, 2014

• #251

God damnit Whiskey, I already have so much to do, but I am tempted!

 

James Holloway

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• Jul 14, 2014

• #252

OK -- champion and sorcerer converted, 5 orcs and 5 humans converted, 5 skaven acquired. Now I just need a rat skull to convert my skaven champeen and for the beastmen to arrive, and I'm good to go. Progress photos soon.

 

James Holloway

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• Jul 18, 2014

• #253

OK -- these guys are puttied up and ready for priming. This is the first half of the project.

Group shot.

Human cultists: Gripping Beast dark age warriors with a mixture of GB heads and GW flagellant heads, plus various shields and so on.

Orcs! Mantic Orc marauders with chopped up arms and weapons from various sources.

The GB models work out at around 50p a go, while the Mantic orcs are something around £1 each or maybe a little less. I personally paid even less for them, but if you were coming in cold I think you could do my whole entry in this thing for less than £20.

 

James Holloway

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• Jul 27, 2014

• #254

Paint on first cultists. Looking at the photo, I think the faces need a little something extra. Still, I'm pleased with the shields, particularly my first proper Oldhammer faces on shields.

 

whiskey priest

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• Jul 27, 2014

• #255

Those are looking great, brilliant work on the shields. That'll a cracking little Warband.

 

theottovonbismark

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• Aug 6, 2014

• #256

whiskey priest":2t3axggq said:

Those are looking great, brilliant work on the shields. That'll a cracking little Warband.

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+1

 

James Holloway

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• Aug 15, 2014

• #257

Thanks, guys. I have since added some orcs:

Another cultist:

And the champion:

 

phreedh

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• Aug 19, 2014

• #258

Looks great James! Love the crocodile headed orcs. Remind me of some of the great old orcs of '88 catalogue fame.

 

whiskey priest

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• Aug 19, 2014

• #259

You are doing a great job of showing what can be done with easily available plastic kits. I can't wait too see them all ranked up in units.

 

James Holloway

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• Aug 22, 2014

• #260

First squad is complete. I have finished the champion for the human squad, so he's ready to be painted as well, and I'm at work on the Skaven squad. My standard bearer is going to take a little while longer, though, as I've decided that it's not proper Oldhammer Chaos without a really exciting standard. Anyway, here are the completed Orcs. Each squad leader has a skull for a head -- at least, all the ones where I can find a skull. I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find a good Skaven-sized rat skull bit?

Their bases are not done yet -- I am going to wait until the end and do everyone's bases together in order to create more of a feeling of uniformity. I have so many different types of model here that I really have to force them to be similar using the paint jobs and the basing. The Orcs are the hardest, but I've tried to use the leader's armour to echo the shields of the human squad.