Warhammer: The Old World – Page 6 – Lair of the Lagomorph

Gotrek and Felix

The latest Gotrek and Felix novel to be released as an audiobook, Giantslayer, came out late last month and I was pretty excited to listen to it as I’ve been thoroughly enjoying them so far. The stories are fun and the voice actor does an incredible job. This felt like a good time to paint up the titular characters!

These models are almost 30 years old now (released in 1993!), and sculpted by Michael Perry (one half of Perry Miniatures, and sculptor of many great GW models). They have the classic flat pose of the era, but are really nicely detailed and were tremendous fun to paint.

While not trying to do anything like paint to a display standard, I wanted to spend a bit of time on these and do some detailing I might not in my usual army standard. This included some attempt at forcing light and shadows on the metallic paints (TMM for the initiated!), and toning the faces with some reddish hues and stubble.

Here’s a close up of Felix’s face to show the extra work I put in the face

Stubble on Gotrek’s shaved sections of head

For the basing on these I used some old GW resin basing bits, designed to fit on the old standard 20mm square bases from the Warhammer pre Age of Sigmar era.

I thoroughly enjoyed painting these models, and am really pleased with how they turned out considering they were painted on and off over the course of a week. I still haven’t finished the audiobook, but so far so good and I look forward to them releasing the rest of the series! In the mean time I hope to have these hit the tabletop at some stage in the future. I went on a collecting spree a few months ago for 6th edition Warhammer books and found one of the old annual collection of articles that contained the rules for Gotrek and Felix to be taken as Dogs of War (effectively Mercenaries/Allies). I now have the models painted up and the rules to field them!

Thanquol and Boneripper

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I previously mentioned that I’d been reading the Gotrek and Felix novels while painting my Skaven, and as a result had an eye out on eBay for the models of the protagonists and of their nemesis: Grey Seer Thanquol! I managed to get a pretty good deal on the models and have had them for a few months now, ready for a coat of paint. A few public holidays lined up nicely over here and I decided to get the Skaven side of that equation painted.

I had a lot of fun painting these models, they’re classic metal Games Workshop models with their exaggerated features, and are really satisfying to paint. While the rest of my Skaven have some blue greens on them, I wanted Thanquol to stand apart so I painted him to match some of the art that graces the book covers. The basing was done to match the army however, and I find that usually does a good enough job of making a model belong.

I decided to go for a classic Warhammer green crystal sword on Thanquol. It could have come out a little smoother but I’m happy enough for an army model.

I’ll have to paint up Gotrek and Felix themselves at some stage, but for now at least my Skaven are bolstered by the most infamous Skaven of them all!

Keeper of Secrets

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After saying hobby time might be short over the next few weeks in the last post, I found a couple of hours today and finished up a model I’ve been working on on and off for a few weeks now. This is an older Warhammer model, and a solid chunk of pewter!

I’ve pulled this model out of the unpainted pile as a result of my recent dive back into older Warhammer books. It was a relatively quick paint job, I used the airbrush to get a quick zenithal sketch for the skin, with a reddish purple from underneath and a pale pink from above. After basecoating the rest of the model I did an all over purple oil wash, followed by some quick highlights on the skin, the red cloth, the black horns/nails and the metal.

I decided to try something I haven’t done in a while for the basing, and do some snow! I went for a spring thaw look, with the snow turning to slush. I think it looks about right, it was a simple mix of bicarb soda, snow flock and matte medium applied with an old brush.

Overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, and I have quite a few more old Warhammer models needing a coat of paint for when more nostalgia for that era kicks in!