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A Trio of Classic Kev Adams Citadel Greenskins

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Just as with the dwarves I’ve slowly been cranking out, I’ve been trying to keep a few old-school goblinoids on my painting plate. I’ve tended to choose them based on the criteria of how easy they look like they would be to get painted, so simple clothing and/or lots of armour drives them to the top of the list when I browse my box of metal greenskins.

C12 Goblin, Oldhammer Orcs, Kev Adams

The orc on our left is one from that crossover period between WHFB2nd and 3rd editions. A Kev Adams sculpt with the fetching identifier of “Orcs with Dual Weapons 05”. Despite his rather awkward posing, it’s a decent model. I used some ochre brown in the skin mix of the two orcs here in an attempt to start varying the skin tones of these guys a bit. While it (obviously) adds more yellow to the overall look, I’m hopeful that it’s not too garish. I’ve opted to use a metal Foundry Viking shield instead of a plastic, though I’ve kept the design to simply block colour.

C12 Goblin, Oldhammer Orcs, Kev Adams

Speaking of garish… the Goblin is from the C12 range circa the mid-late 1980’s, though I’m not sure of the exact year as the catalogues are spotty from that era.the cast I have here is pretty rough, so it was a matter of doing the best I could within a reasonable amount of effort for a tiny model. It’s a Kev sculpt, but predates his “signature” goblin look, with smaller, tighter facial features and an integral shield rather than a boss for plastic ones. He actually sat in a case half-painted for many years before I noticed him recently and decided to get him done. Which also took awhile…

C12 Goblin, Oldhammer Orcs, Kev Adams

The central model on the 32mm base is the newest of this trio – a 4th Edition Orc listed in the Black Catalogue 4 (1994 filled with 1993 models) as “Orc with Sword 3”, though he’s a bit bigger in stature than his fellow, “Orc with Sword 3” painted awhile ago which is what led to me mounting him onto the larger base. He’s not as big as the actual Big’Uns, but he’s not far off.

…which kind of leads to my question for you, dear reader. While I’ve been working casually on these Fantasy Orcs, With the promise of 8th Edition looming, I’ve also been eyeing off my old-school RT Orks and the more recent 40k Brian Nelson Orcs that I started working on in 2005. (OK, recent is relative). The 40k plastics I mentioned, being larger certainly overhang their 32mm bases, though the “official” size remains 25mm. I feel that they’ll look better on the 32mm bases, just as their classic counterparts, Space Marines do. I’m not yet convinced either way on which way to go – the better aesthetic choice? The “official” choice? Wait and see what conventions on basing that 8th brings on release? At this stage it would not involve a terribly large amount of rebasing. Any thoughts?

TL9 Talisman Adventure Ninja (Feb ’87)

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Those of you who are regular readers may have noticed I’ve not been posting for a bit. The short version is that after several months of lining up a post every two days, I burnt out on blogging for awhile and needed a break. So anyway, I’ve still been painting, I’m back again, and I’ll attempt to get a post up at least once and ideally twice a week again. During my “time off” I haven’t really been following others’ blogs, either here on WordPress or over on Dakka, excepting the odd WP one that pops in my inbox. I’ll catch up, but I have been finding that just keeping up to date on other people’s work takes a good few hours each week, and when you’re tired anyway it can become quite draining. I’ll catch up guys, just give me some time. 🙂

Anyway, enough of my bitching and on to why people actually visit this page. Models!

Well, one model.

TL9 Talisman Adventure Ninja (Feb '97) Oldhammer

What we have here is the Ninja model from Talisman: Adventure, circa 1986. I picked this model up in the deep dark mists of time alongside several others that never got painted (or finished at least), including the TL9 Talisman Troll, who has also been showcased here a couple of years ago. Let’s face it, I probably got them all off Dave (who I still haven’t managed to track down!)

TL9 Talisman Adventure Ninja (Feb '97) Oldhammer

Nothing especially exciting about the paint scheme here. I’ve gone for black highlighted with blue instead of grey because that’s how blending in at night works, and painted his blade with a couple of dark metal tones from Vallejo. I’ve avoided the “highlight to white” look, because as awesome as it can be on other people’s figures, it’s generally not my own chosen look outside of hard armour edges on Marines, Eldar and such. There’s a sort-of zenithal thing going with more highlighting on his shoulders and hood than his lower half, but unfortunately for these photos, the satin varnish I chose to use on this model – which gives the model a really nice, subtle, look in hand – makes him look like he’s been swimming in gloss varnish in these photos, so these things are much harder to see here.

TL9 Talisman Adventure Ninja (Feb '97) Oldhammer

There’s not much else to add about this guy. He’s a Ninja model from an old edition of a game I’m not likely to spend much time with, because (despite owning almost all of the GW2e and most of the FFG stuff) Talisman is bloody tedious – and more a way to burn away an afternoon talking and such before deciding to pack it away unfinished than a good game, especially by today’s board game standards. With that in mind, it’s pretty much a figure that might be pulled out for the odd RPG or custom miniatures scenario, like that Scooby-Doo 7TV one I’ve had in my head for the past several years. Or… Imperial Assassin, anyone? Still, done is done!