Monthly Archives: September 2023

Realm of Chaos – Citadel Chaos Warhound (WHFB 6th, Beasts of Chaos, 2003-4)

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Another quick and simple one today – a Warhammer Fantasy Battle Chaos warhound from the final set of sculpts GW had on sale before they transitioned into the plastic range. In my opinion these were the best of the three metal ranges that they had over the years, over both the nostalgic-but-basic originals and then Trish Carden’s ones that weren’t bad but looked like everything else she’s ever sculpted with large silly scales added randomly all over them…

I do have several more of these to paint, but some of them arrived (from eBay) missing legs and still need assembly and repair, so… when it happens. This one I had for years before that, possibly as a random purchase from a blister pack.

This model is one that I started earlier in the year but then sat around on the desk since. I asked Marouda to pick a model for me to complete when she came out of isolation and this was one of the two that she selected. The other… well, it’s not yet finished, but soon!

Apologies to the other bloggers in the community on not keeping up with your blogs or my own comments recently, it’s been a wild ride here lately and will continue to be so until my surgery in a few weeks when I have an enforced 2 weeks off work. No idea how functional I’ll be for those two weeks, but I’m hoping to have enough painkillers so I’m feeling okay without being feeling doped up to the eyeballs so I can try some blog-catch-ups by then!

Colonel Schaeffer’s Last Chancers – “Fingers” and “Scope”

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Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers - "Fingers" and "Scope"

It’s been quite a while since I’ve completed any of the Last Chancers, and so I took the opportunity this month to get this pair of models finished and off the desk after having been there for a loong time. One of the two continues the historical aspect of this group of models. “Fingers” here, who appears to from the “Bushmen of Serica” regiment is inspired in my opinion by Australian WWII troops. Lore-wise, “Fingers is an expert forager and petty thief who can get a hold of just about anything for a price.” I guess this is because to an unfortunately large number of people in the UK and US, Australians are all petty criminals who ride Kangaroos to work and dodge man-sized spiders and drop bears on the trip. Much like all Americans wear cowboy hats and walk around with an AR-15 and all Brits wear monocles and walk around with a cup of tea, and all Frenchmen wear those stripey shirts, a beret, a necklace of garlic while halding a baguette, and all Scots are kilt-wearing drunkards… 👀

Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers - "Fingers" and "Scope"

Anywho, the second model, “Scope” is a trained sniper and expert marksman. “His crime was going AWOL, for reasons unknown, but it is suspected to be related to the assassination of Chief Arbitrator Abraxtes.” So basically, he’s a sniper who snipes and maybe he sniped someone a bit important. Basically a Tabula Rasa/blank slate. Since he’s a sniper, I gave him a nice camo pattern loosely based on Flecktarn.

Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers - "Fingers" and "Scope"

And that’s that for this pair. As a collection of models, Fingers has some rockets in his backpack so he would have originally functioned as a loader model for Rocket Girl, though when these models were released that woul dhave had no actual in-game effects as Heavy Weapon teams were composed of two distinct models, one of which was the gunner with the big gun and the other funcitonally just being a rifleman in the squad. Not sure how that works these days with the multibased weapon teams. I haven’t played 40k for quite some time and Imperial Guard for even longer.

Hopefully it won’t take another 14 months before I get the next pair of these painted! There’s just Rocket Girl, Ox and the Colonel left – so a chance I could get them done before the end of 2023!