How should I start the posts featuring August’s models? Wy not with the first model completed in August? This model is (was?) an original Necromunda pack-in Goliath, who I trimmed off the mohawk and added a couple of pouches. I also painted some scarification marks/brands around his eyes and on his shoulder. The Mark of Grendel. I’ll write some more about that in a later post, but it’s something you’ll see in some form on most of my 1990’s Necromunda models.
So why is he here? Well, new base means newly finished to 2019 tabletop standards. I decided not to do anything further (a little touch-ups aside) as I want to preserve this guy mostly as-is for the time capsule element. There’ll be more old Necro-use models coming soon, with a variety of more and less modern work done on them in the days to come…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
He’s come out very nicely indeed! It’s a fairly “uncluttered” figure as far as equipment is concerned and the colours all work well for me! 🙂
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He’s a pretty simple figure, and solidly from the days when plastic (almost always) meant a distant second place to metals. Oh, how far we’ve come…
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Completely agree!
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Those Goliaths have come a long way haven’t they! Still good work though, nice to see him resurrected for the modern era 🙂
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They certainly have. This is actually the only one of these that I ever painted, and even then it was essentially a token model to have a boxed set Goliath in my gang…
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The removal of the mohawk, has changed the whole look of the figure. The ritual scarring is a great touch as well
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Yeah, they look a bit less dorky and more like “big” lads without them. His African skin tone also makes him look a bit tougher with the sculpt. If I’d painted him white he would have looked like he was just made of dough!
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I like the personality of these old Necromunda models (many of which I’m seeing for the first time on your site). While GW has really evolved their look in the newer edition, there is something charming about the old ones. They have a lot of personality and your paint job and conversion work are definitely a big reason why.
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You’re too kind, mate. A lot of the metals certainly have a lot of character and charm in the sculpts. My only job is to simply try to being it out, and in the best cases, enhance it a little.
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Mission accomplished! 🙂
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Wow. Taking off the mohawk really makes it even more clear how weird the proportions are on those guys. I do like the way he’s one-handing the shotgun like it’s a pistol, and I can see how most of the issues are a result of the necessities of 90s mold tech, but that sculpt is pretty dire. The scarification/branding effects in your paint job are really cool, tho.
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Yeah, some plastics of the day may not have been amazing but they weren’t all this dire by a long shot. The right arms on the Goliaths and Orlocks were modular with a choice of several weapons. The Orlocks at least weren’t the greatest but you could fit them in with a metal gang (not that i actually did), but these Goliaths would have stuck out quite ridiculously amongst their metal brethren, which were chunky but decent models..
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Yeah, I have a set of the Orlock plastics, and they work fine mixed in with my various Culties. The Orlocks were at least holding their Lasgun/Shotgun option in both hands, across their bodies, like regular people would. The Goliaths just went with basically the same arm and pose for pistols and long guns.
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Yeah they were overall better models. Having said that, I never actually ot a single one finished, and I’ve got no idea what happened to them. There’s probably a few surviving ones somewhere in some bits box or another. If I ever find them, I’ll have to paint up at least a couple of them for shits and giggles. 🙂
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Nice job there mate – obviously not a great mini, but you’ve made him as good as he can be with the hair removal & scars!
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Thanks Alex. All too true. He was an example of “I have these, so I may as well use one of them”. Not too dissimilar to my motivation behind a lot of those Brimstone models in a lot of ways…
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I always like seeing the stuff I missed during the 90’s when I was too busy for any hobby except seeing lawyers and getting divorced! Thanks for sharing this brute.
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Sounds like a painful few years. At least you’re long past it, and from the look of things – much better for it all in the end! 🙂
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Nice work- it takes me back…
… Grendel as in the comics?
Cheers,
Pete.
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That’s the one. Well, they’re the ones! 😀
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