Old School Cool

I grew up with the Games Workshop/Citadel 'old school' figures and there is a soft spot for them in my heart.

I do get a bit of time every now and then to do my own stuff and here is a selection of the old school figures I've done so far over the past few months.

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Old school Guard

These are quite possibly are some of my favorite figures. Copplestone Rogue Trader Imperial Guard!

I've collected quite a few over the years and finally feel confident enough to paint them. So far I've got one squad, a rhino, a sentinel and a commissar. Not a massive amount so far but there's plenty in boxes just waiting to get paint o them :-)

I've gone for one of the original looks, grey fatigues, black flak armour and standard boltgun grey for the weapons. The weapons on the troopers have been changed for the modern Cadian plastics as I'm not keen on the original lasguns (too eighties, if that makes sense). The sentinal and rhino have been done in codex grey and have had suitable weathering. there's also a modern gun on the rhino and I'm thinking of losing the lascannon on the sentinel and changing it for something smaller (I've got three sentinels but no mutilasers for them).

Figure bases are red to try and match my Mars terrain as I fancied something a bit different rather than the usual green.

Some more Rogue Trader?

And why not :-)

Just a sentinel for he Imperial Guard for now but I've got a few metal troopers primed.

In hindsight I'm not to sure about the lascannon but it's on a peg and could do some work to it. It has bee suggested that t could be chin mounted but we'll see after I've had a play with it first. I've also got some vincent black shadow bikes, some dreads and a couple of rhinos that'll get the same codex grey paint job (nice and easy).

I also got some more orks done and a cyboar rider with a family shot at the bottom.

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Keeping it Old School

Having grown up with GW many years ago I am quite keen on the older style figures, particularly the Jes Goodwin Skaven, Mark Copplestone Imperial guard, the orks that went with them and the older metal Empire figures.

I have plenty of these (enough for very large armies of each) and I feel that my painting skills are up to the task of doing a decent job on them.

Here's a selection of said figures from all four ranges but hopefully in the near future I'll do dedicated posts to each 'faction' as and when it gets added to.

The steamtank was scratchbuilt quite a few years ago but I've got two of the original kits somewhere waiting to be painted

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