After all that Slamboing, I wanted to give it a shot myself
I wanted to paint a Slambo in a low stakes way. I’m going to work up to painting one of the originals. He’s resin printed and turned out pretty darn well for probably an hour and a half’s worth of work. Sure, he’s just a mirrored Heroquest Chaos Warrior, but I think he looks good! He’s going to go on the Hero shelf, not down with the rest of the Chaos horde. I think he’ll be a Chaos Warrior character for my Warhammer Quest set. Big thanks go out to Soundwave810 for the design!
Slambo Collection
Here’s the Slambo family photo. Well, of most of them. I have one of the finecast versions as well. Though that one needs a bit of work. It’s my first finecast and I have to say that it will probably be my last. No explanation needed. These are from left to right: Dual Wielding Chaos Warrior by Soundwave810 Two legit real Chaos Warriors (Slambo Original) by GW Heroquest Chaos Warrior with Double Axe by Rockgnome I have to say, that Rockgnome’s Slambo is VERY true to the original. Great axe angle, armor and everything.
The world of mini painting is incredible
Check out this AMAZING Slambo by Adam Wier at Between the Bolter and Me. So awesome. Those horns are freehand! No texture on them. Love it! Just a leathery old Chaos Warrior, down in the depths of a dungeon.
Re-Cursed City
It’s coming back! But you already knew that, the news has gone around the world and back. I’m glad to hear it. I even already have a copy, though I haven’t as of yet finished putting all the models together, so that means I haven’t given it a play yet either. It’ll happen. All in good time. No rushing something like this. Yeah. I’ll definitely do it.
Spindly vs Game Pieces
The 1990s are starting to be a long time ago now. That was my first run of interest in miniatures, wargaming, dungeon crawls and the like. Now with the pandemic still going, I’ve picked up the paintbrush again. I’ve definitely noticed a difference in miniatures, new miniatures are AMAZING. But as beautiful as new sculps are, I prefer the game-piece-iness of old models. Sure, new models are more proportionate, sculptural, etc. But these are game pieces! I’m looking a them from across a big table! And the spindlyness! I’ll really get into get-off-my-lawn territory there. So I guess what I’m getting at is that new minis are beautiful sculptures, but they make poor game pieces. The pictures below (not my paint jobs, clearly!), demonstrate robustness vs frailty. It is a bit funny though because I was getting out of the hobby by the time 1995 was rolling around. They were…
Coming Soon: My DIY Warhammer Quest
2D and 3D printed DIY Warhammer Quest is on it’s way!