Warhammer Fantasy special edition Chaos minis

Over the years I have gotten my hands (and brushes) on a few of the special edition chaos minis.  They are usually pretty fun to paint, with lots of extra stuff!

For whatever reason, whenever the topic of chaos comes around, everything ends up being Tzeentch.  Even my 40k choas army is Thousand Sons.  Remember Prospero... Death to the False Emperor...

Some Celtos minis

This Arianhrod diorama was the first of it's kind for me way back in the day.  I have a few other dioramas built around Celtos minis as well, so I will gather images for those as well!







This has been a favorite Celtos mini of min... one that I have painted several times.



And another bigger diorama:

Uncovering some Dark Sword minis

Once again, I seem to find large collections of minis that I don't even remember painting!  After looking through the dragon pictures yesterday, I discovered these :













Dark Sword was alway more of the 'true scale' with the tiny hands and such, but you see many more companies adopting that style now.  To be honest, I would prefer the heroic scale, as it is a lot less fragile and a heck of a lot easier to deal with!

Dark Sword huge metal Dragon

Given all the talk about resin replacing pewter these days, here is something  that was one of the most difficult pieces I ever attempted, for a variety of reasons.

This massive dragon is all metal... including the wings!  I spent several days creating the display base, and a few more painting it.

Then it was time to attach the beasty to that display base. :-)

So, a few images:









Oh , yeah, and it was less fun to ship as well.

More Confrontation Minis

Here is the next batch of Confrontation minis.  This ogre set was quite the project, since the ogres are pretty daintily posed in some cases.  There were a lot of fragile parts, given the softer metals used in the casting.  They certainly are unique!







The little snotlings that went with them were pretty wild as well.

A few Blood Bowl stadiums

Here are just a few of the blood bowl stadiums which I have built over the years.  The orc field was made in 2004, almost entirely out of pink foam.  The scoreboard had moving counters on it.

The Glacier Dome was made in the 1990's... probably '96 or '97.  I had no idea what I was doing back then!  I have painted several Ice Bergs teams since then (usually chaos dwarf).  I am painting the newest incarnation now.  I am trying to match the colors of the original 1990's team as closely as possible, which is very fun.  The penguins were made from sculpey, and most of the board of foam core.  It is hard to believe that it has survived all these years.







This is one of a few action shots I took between a Dwarf team and a norse team converted from Celtos minis with some Crocodile Games Wendigoes as Ulfwerners and Snow Trolls.



A shot of that dwarf team made from Confrontation minis:

A gallery of Confrontation minis

As I pour through several old galleries, I came across the Confrontation archive.  They were a very innovative mini company, with a whole new approach to sculpting and painitng.  Their catalogue alone was seomthing to behold!  We still have one of them after all these years.

 Here is the first batch:





















I will post the crazy ogre figures I found later today, and then the Moloch and Apostates tomorrow!