Wrap It Up c23 Ogres and MM40 Marauder Trolls

I've done some touch up work on the ogres and I'm getting their bases ready.  I decided to throw theses two beauties into the first group. The last two of my complete set of Marauder Trolls.  In my humble opinion the best of all the slots-base era trolls.  They were as close as the Ogres to being complete.  And yes that is indeed the fabled pink troll with purple polka dots of legend.  Not sure if I imagined the story of the drunk dwarf stumbling into the tavern ranting about running into a pink troll with purple polka dots or if that was actually a bit of Warhammer fiction that I read someplace but I thought it would be humorous.  Seems to fit in with the mentality of the Oldhammer era.  A few final adjustments and base work then off to the clear coating.

Weapons Selected

Picked out weapons and placed them on vehicles. I'm thinking of going more sanctioned ops on these since the weapons are pretty streamlined.  I took Tiny Basement's suggestion and didn't bother to strip the original paint. Just roughed it up a bit. I went with super glue instead of epoxy, I just didn't have the patience for epoxy today.  I'm thinking next round about going with magnetized weapons and giving them a try.

Weaponized and Primed up

New Project: Car Wars/Dark Future

I picked the Car Wars/Dark Future theme for the New Project thanks to the latest Mad Max movie.  I have a plethora of cars to choose from and I picked these 3 models.  Not sure if I will go to the extent of stripping them to bare metal.  I'm also trying to decide on clean sleek looks or wasteland look.  So many options

The winners

Disassembled

Weapons Options

Biggest question, do I strip the cars to bare metal or just prime over the existing paint? Comments and input appreciated.

WD Luck

I have always been a big fan of the White Dwarf (WD) since I was a kid.  I would sit in the local hobby shop and read it right off the rack!  This was the pre-subscription in the US days when the only place you could buy it was at a local shop.  I was blessed with one that was only about 30 mile from my home town called The Tin Soldier.  A great gaming/hobby shop that had everything Citadel, including WD’s.  I set out at an early age to collect them and stated getting a subscription somewhere in the issue 90-95 range.  I remember getting the flexi-disc insert issue back in the day.  I subscribed for about 15+ years and stopped around 2010 due to a cost vs value analysis I did and just decided it wasn’t worth it anymore.  There was little to no content.  The magazine had drifted a long way from their heyday of the mid 80’s issues up to about 200 or so.  That run was full of useful into like army lists, back ground, and who could forget the Eavy Metal sections!  It was a great value and visually stunning.  In the last decade or so it really wasn’t much beyond a publication that announced upcoming releases and had pretty pictures of them.  Don’t get me wrong I do like some of those pretty pictures, especially that run where they were putting in pictures of entire sprues.  Those were very useful. For the most part I just didn't look forward to reading it like I used to.

Lately with them stopping the monthly issues,  renumbering and going to a weekly issue I decided to try and complete my collection up through when they stopped.  By my best guess that is either issue 408/December 2013 or 409/January 2014.  I have everything from issue 11 (1-10 are way out of my price range) up to 365.  From there to the 408/409 mark I have a few holes.  I have had a lot of luck searching local used bookstores here in Ohio and typically get them for 50 cents to $1.00.  That is way less than the sticker price.  I have just recently closed the gap to 10 missing issues with this latest haul.  What a lucky find!  I will continue to slog away at it

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Decisions, decisions

Well after much internal debate, at least I don’t think I was talking out loud, I landed on the following: I'm going to do a Wrap It Up project and a New Stuff project. The Wrap It Up will be something that has just lingered around my painting desk left partially finished.  The New Stuff will be something starting from scratch.  Let the beatings, I mean fun begin.

 

Wrap It Up

Well these poor bastiches have been sitting for a while now and need to be wrapped up so they can join their brethren.  These two C23 Jes G Ogres are late additions to the collection.  Instead of re-painting them I simply enhanced their original paint jobs.  The Samurai Ogre got a white face and a paint up to look like Tujiro the Kabuki Vampire from Grendel Comic fame and a touch up of some other areas.  The other one is the Bounty Hunter figure, it was just a touch up and repaints of a few detailed areas.  So these are the first guys up.  Should be a quick project.  Then onto the trolls and demons in the background, but more on them when it's their turn.

 

New project!

I had to go Dark Future/Car Wars after catching the latest Mad Max movie.  I loved the original and have been stealing Hotwheels from my sons for over two decade now so it is about time to do something with them.  I have also sporadically been attending the Origins Game Fair for the last 8 to 10 years and have always made it a point to stop by the Iron Winds booth which is the Ral Partha company of my childhood.  As a side note living here in Ohio I was able to visit them in my early 20s and actually got to meet Julie Guthrie and Tom Meier while I was down there.  What a great group of people!  But I digress, I always hit their booth because they typically have loose bit and pieces from their Battletech line of mins for sale.  So I have tons of little turrets and missile pods and whatnot that I horded for the day I started converting Hotwheels!  Oh what a day, what a lovely day!

Epitome of Organization (well sort of)

This looks better, not exactly where I want it to be but it will let me ease back into the swing of painting.  I still have a lot of cleaning to do there was a ridiculous amount of dust on everything.  It has certainly been awhile.  I don’t know that I will get to the production output like Orlygg but I'm ready to get started.  And that is where the real dilemma lies; where do I start!  Ahhhhhh.  I want to dive into about 20 projects but we all know how that goes, I start 20 and won't finish any.  My vow is to start something and see it to the end.  Now that doesn’t mean that I won't have a couple of irons in the fire but I don’t want to get to the point where I cannot get something completed.  Maybe I suffer from a little adult ADHD but I need to have at least 2 projects going so that when I get bored with one I can jump to another.  So that is my goal; pick 2 and get going!