r/OldWorldhammer

I know he hasn't been used in The Old World, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time...

Back in my 'Eavy metal days I painted a lot of the miniatures in the first ever Warhammer Armies: Undead but, as it was still early in my time there, I wasn't given any of the main characters to do. I have most of them in a box, waiting for paint, so I'm planning on making up for not getting to do them at the time, and old Heinrich is the first out of the box.

I hope you like him and, if you really like him, he is for sale, just drop me a PM. I'm also available for commissions if you have a classic character you'd like to see given this treatment...

Twilight is the hour at which you are most likely to find the Silver Daggers at work, with blade and torch and shovel to rebury the restless dead.

As good folk hurry home to bolt their doors and stoke the night’s watch-fire, Morrslieb’s wan light shines forth, and all manner of vermin start to slink from their lairs.

Then do the stout-hearted warriors take up their shields and their swords, and with lead and steel and silver begin the thankless task of ensuring that the citizens never learn what lurks in the dark places that encroach ever closer to their homes.

Took me a week painting these 😅

I don’t often show unpainted sculpts or kitbashes “in green” as it were. Most projects have leaped ahead to the painting stage by the time I think to take a photo, and I’m more likely to gap-fill and build up a model using spare bits and plastic shavings than I am to actually reach for the putty!

But this little band of Empire soldiers seemed to warrant mixing up some of my last remaining batch of Greenstuff. I think the sculpted details have really helped add a bit of personality to some of the more by-the-numbers troopers, while the three heroes are all developing a unique style and loadout that should help them really stand out on the tabletop.

They’ll remain a warband-sized force for Warhammer Skirmish scenarios, among other things, with no intention to expand them into a full army. Now that I have all the figures built I can work out how I want to base and paint them. Beyond the warband’s name, make-up, and sort of overall mission or purpose, I don’t really have a good sense of what they ought to end up looking like, so I’m open to suggestions!

To move merchandise, you have to bring it to the market. Customers want all kinds of things. Some of them are even legal!

The boss says that the customer is always right. Why worry yourself about what they want? You just bring them the goods, provide the service, don’t ask too many questions… that’s business. Money makes everything move. It’s a beautiful thing — in the right hands it can people sing, or it can make them clam up. Sometimes the wrong person talks, though, and then the law gets wind of what’s going down.

When the Arbites show up, that’s when things really start to move. You should’ve seen how quickly the boss got out of there! We followed, taking a bit longer to make sure we had the goods — whatever we could snatch up. Left a few bodies in the dirt, too.

Boss explained it to me once. Price of doing business, he said. Had a big word for it, too: amortisation, something like that? In the end, he said, it’s all about profit and loss. Our profit, and their loss…

One random Space Crusade Ork, finally painted after all of these years! Now that I compare him to the in-game art there are definitely a few stylistic cues I could change up on the next one I paint, but I had fun and he was an interesting change of pace from my usual Blood Axes.