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WD 183 lol,, blood and shekels

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It's important to remember Blanche not just for his 2d work, but his massive contributions to miniature painting and conversion as an artform. He was very much at the forefront of pushing miniature painting as a serious thing, getting it away from basic flat colours toy style painting, and using everything to hand. "Blanchitsu" wasn't a style, it was an educational column in White Dwarf, where they also happily solicited tips from readers to try out and add to the collective knowledge base.

And importantly in the oldhammer context, he is directly responsible for bringing together all of the definitive artists of the era, setting the visual direction of everything, which is pretty huge.

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>>98151367
Anything else Blanche I should add to the memorial gofile?
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>>98151512
Hopefully Trump doesn't become King and I can someday afford to import the old Jes Goodwin Asgard minis without eating fake and gay tariffs.

>>98151477
To say that Blanche shaped how tabletop games look and feel would be an understatement. He brought an artistic vision to a nascent industry that saw art as decoration rather than atmosphere. There will never be anyone else like him, yet he will live on through his work and those he has inspired.

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Stinking up the thread

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I know another anon already made a set of refined 2e scans, but I wanted to get some practice in myself. I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them. Will need a fellow 2e enthusiast with a printer to presupport and troubleshoot them, though.

>>98152417
If you share them, I could probably give them a test print in the coming days

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>>98152417
Ignore the bolt pistol - yet to be done. Here's a before and after.

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>>98152417
>I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them.
Some of the Second Edition arms were angled in such a way that it was difficult to get an era-appropriate gun in the hand *and* a pauldron on the shoulder. The Phobos-pattern bolt guns came with a stock you could just snip off, but one shouldn't have to shave away pat of the gun or pauldron to make everything fit.

>>98152543
Yes, I noticed this with the pistols. The right arm is at a right angle, and there's no room for the pauldron and pistols to fit comfortably. My solution was to mirror the left arm to the right so you can have either arm carry a pistol or chainsword and have everything fit nicely. Another solution would be to fit it all together with the pauldron attached to the arm too, but I want the pauldrons to be separate, personally.

>>98152417
Are you proper merging the two meshes together? (Booleans) Otherwise, clean work.

>>98152543
We need a return to nubs. The posability of nub shoulders destroys flat butted shoulders. We have the technology.

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>>98152723
They will be a proper single mesh once done.
>>98152735
Gotta love the 1mm thick coat of gloss varnish. RIP, John.

Johnny resculpting anon can we get an update please?

>>98151132
>Where do you guys buy your oldhammer minis?
>eBay is expensive
Look for lots of random bits. You'll often find RT parts or even whole minis mixed in with the conversion fodder. Check other auction sites for mis-labeled "toy soldier" and "figure" auctions. Be prepared to strip a lot of dogshit paint jobs and salvage blown conversions or damaged models.
>Locally
Check antique stores, thrift shops, and garage/yard sales. Estate sales too, these days. There may be a local auction house. Check for wargaming clubs and trading meetups in your area, especially on facebook; people are often willing to let models go for a lot less if they're going to someone who's planning to play with them.

>>98152656
Normally you trim off material at the flat on the shoulder to get it to fit, and/or use a small amount of Green stuff or Miliput under the pauldron and potentially in the armpit to get the proper offset with the rest of the armor.

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>>98152735
I appreciate his dedication to THICK gloss varnish.
Preserved the fuck out of everything.

I'm gonna go paint a white haired woman with loads of bionics and a big gun in tribute. And some clothing or weapon on there is gonna be RED as fuck in contrast. With a tiny bit of black/white chequerboard if I can manage it.

>>98152915
Still here. As I said before beginning, time isn't always very generous to me, so I can't exactly sculpt daily. I'll try and get some more work done today, but can't guarantee to finish this week, sorry!

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>>98153074
Sadly, Hasslefree is dead so Kev White's tribute Amazons went with it. This model was so much fun to paint

>>98153485
Yeah, they had a bunch of cool stuff. I bought a bunch of minis from them and wish I could've bought some more. Really wish someone would pick their stuff for production. I've seen companies sell their ranges to other companies.

>>98153269
Never apologize for working for free.

>>98153572
Allegedly Kev's wife and (goddamnit) Artemis are spending two years dead for tax purposes and then reconstituting. According to them
> Sally's mom died, she crashed out
> She says Kev couldn't do shit because Forge World has him chained in the basement on a non-compete and he's refused to go online for years anyway
> Artemis went in for surgery to help with the TG Neuralgia. He'll totally recover and not spend that time playing Blood Bowl on Twitch
>all those new hires that Artemis was training to replace him have of course left
My money's on them stringing it out for 2-3 years more, then selling out to Crooked Dice when they can't pay for the storage anymore. CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts. The company bought up Apocalypse Isle models, Otherworlds Skirmish, and Golgo Island, as well as commissioning Kev several times for other lines. They actually have the infrastructure and dedication to pick up 500+ molds, including a bunch of multiparts, and a very large line of "parody" models that fly particularly close to the sun. So their lawyers are primed and their staff are functional.

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>>98153638
>CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts

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Things are coming along well

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Got a little work done today. I think he may be done, but I'll need to sleep on it and see if I find any new mistakes later.
There are some areas that I find really rough, but either I don't have enough of a reference to resculpt them or they are warped in a way that would require a lot of resculpting/polymodeling. Particularly the pistol is still a bit blobby and uneven, but the alternative would be remaking it from scratch and that would lose the organic unevenness of the original, I think my rough resculpt will be a little bit more faithful, even if only in spirit.
Any c&c?

>>98154330
Honestly it looks great anon! It's come a long way and the lines read much more clearly!

>>98154330
The bottoms of the pouches on his belt are all flat/squared rather than angled. The center pouch is slightly higher than the bottom of his buttplate, which confused the scanner on the scanned model. Other than that it looks pretty good

>>98154486
Thanks, do you have any image I can reference there?
I'm literally working from blurry photos and whatever details I can parse from higher res—but harder to look at—unpainted metals.

>>98154518
I'll see if I can get a better pic of my Johnny later, dealing with chores right now

>>98154715
No rush anon, I probably won't be able to work on it again until Friday, so it's all chill.

>>98151367
okay reading through John Blanche's Wikipedia page and it mentions he worked as an assistant to a taxidermist for a time in his youth, and in retrospect I can definitely see how that likely had some measure of influence on his art

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Love this for the use of epic scale minis for the forced perspective.

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>>98155439
You can also use Inquisitor scale models with regular 40k scale models.

>>98155492
lmao

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Good morning, anons. Took a break from cleaning arms and pistols to de-damn (or un-lost, re-find?) a LoTD torso. Would be cool to produce a whole set of of these. Grenade and pouch added. I think they match the aesthetic, no? Really, posting to help keep the thread active. What is everyone working on hobby-wise?

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>>98156687
Old school Beakies vs old school metal hormaguants

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>>98153485
>Sadly, Hasslefree is dead

That's a shame. At least another site is still releasing the existing minis. Hasslefree did some cool stuff and I've got a dozen or so of their minis in my collection.

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>>98156719
Old Armorcast Exocrine from before Forgeworld was even a thing. GW let Armorcast float the idea of large resin models to see if there was a market and the hose Armorcast by revoking the licenses and starting Forge World.

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>>98156772
Armorcast Dactylis with an old 2nd Ed metal biovore.

>>98156772
>>98156795
Dang that's nice anon

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>>98156795
I want to play wherever these games are happening!

>>98156673
very sexy anon

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>>98156095
That's humorous, as the 3rd edition LoTD were stock minis with extra bits carved/sculpted on.

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>>98151458
if they'd said "sand dollars" it would have been a mixed metaphor; in any case shekels are a couple of thousand years older than the jews

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Hello

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>>98160392
>Apothecary! I am wounded!

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>>98160900
The Mk VI beekee medic with the angel flag who appears in the Second Edition rulebook used to be in a glass case at GW Hammersmith. That was more than 20 years ago. I wonder where it is now...

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>>98161508
The Hammersmith store also housed the entire Ultramarines chapter, an exercise that all the GW stores in Bongland worked together on for Games Day one year. The display was so big that I couldn't back up far enough (GW Hammersmith was just a gap between two buildings with a roof over it, really!) to capture the whole thing with one shot from my camera!

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I'm like 70% through Ian Watson's Space Marine and Jesus H. Christ this book is hard gay.
Nothing could have prepared me for the amount of bulging loincloths, hot brands on clenched buttocks, sacred excrement relics, titan weapon bay womb fisting, flushed baboon vagina warp portals being presented for penetration, Tyranid fleet ass ramming, and all around beyond lurid prose.
Squats riding cyborg Ambulls is nothing compared to a quadriplegic Space Marine having his ass licked clean by a specialized servitor.
Assuming Watson was just giggling the whole time as he wanked out this psycho sexual bolter porn. At least now I am mentally primed to read Inquisitor.

>>98163415
iirc it came out around a major reissue of Alan Dean Foster's Alien novels which had coincided with Alien3 and was likely hoping for a segment of the same audience; they almost certainly intended Watson's books to simply be a weird tour of 40k as it looked at the time, hence he has Jaq Draco and Lexandro D'Arquebus on endless journeys that never change anything or really mean anything; even when Draco meets the Emperor, the Emperor basically shrugs and does some Pratchett-like Death bit where he stops just shy of going NOTHING MATTERS - OH BUGGER, MY ARM'S FALLEN OFF as the culmination to what three, four novels at that stage?

but it does its job of fitting in every faction and setting it can - even the Inquisitor cover art, if you ever see the wider pieces, is extremely weird with pre-1990s Chaos Space Marines fighting alongside Genestealer Cults against Draco, his entourage, guard and space marines - which is all it really existed for, as a showcase of the setting filled with gross descriptive detail to humanise these little metal mans

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>>98163685
Yeah, it's glorious.
And I'm down with the unhinged, anything goes setting. Rogue Trader had a far more interesting universe than later 40K.
It's the prurient prose where everything has a dick/vagina/asshole based metaphor describing it that gets me. The out of combat parts of the book are all pretty good, and the early Confrontation based life on Necromunda descriptions were excellent. Can't imagine how Watson is going to wrap this up.

>>98163685
He meets the Emperor at the end of novel 1 after a very long warp jump after the daemonworld and then years long slog to get across Terra (mostly unaccounted for) where he assumes he's classed as having gone rogue due to the whole "accidental" exterminatus business, and honestly, it's kind of perfect. He's just an insane amalgamation of too many minds that don't know what's going on except they have some kind of plan because they must do because they're the Emperor.

Like what else would the Emperor be in 40k at that point? This is the RT era one (post-invention of the Horus heresy/realms of chaos books to give a little detail), the one that's a mashed up bunch of druids and shit that were trying to enact some kind of long term plan to save humanity from falling to Chaos and well, got stuck being a lighthouse being fed psykers. The absolute monster creature that's seen thousands of years of the worst, of everything going to shit in his name, whilst all the bits of him are having to keep track of so much all at once with endlessly fighting chaos, answering prayers, influencing the tarot, empowering individuals, occasionally somehow giving out messages that dictate his will somehow, appearing on burnt toast...

It could never happen again (in an official capacity, fanfiction of course hell yeah I wish more were so bold) but honestly I think his work is some of the most absolutely bang-on to original intention interpretation of 40k as a setting. Just revelling in the madness, the brutality, the grotesqueness... and a bit of dark and juvenile humour even for good measure. If it were a 2000AD comic strip (though it's a bit adult perhaps even for that... maybe if it were in Heavy Metal?) it'd make perfect sense alongside Nemesis the Warlock or the like. Unsurprisingly.

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But a lot of the studio artists were also toeing the line, with Paul Bonner, Adrian Smith and Tony Hough all turning in works that would only be published heavily cropped or censored, if it all. Just edgy times all around.

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"STLs, Johnny, they're all STLs!"

>>98164612
Johnny anon here, I think he's pretty much done now.
It's pretty late, so I'll head to bed and once I'm back awake I'll check in lychee for errors and export a supported version. If the weather's not too cold, I may even be able to get a test print going.

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