This blog is about my hobby: collecting and painting miniatures (mainly fantasy) and playing epic Warhammer battles (mainly 3rd edition). The blog's name is a contraction of Old Metal (lead miniatures referring to Oldhammer) and the famous song 'Metal Militia' from Metallica (yes, I'm a great fan of Metal music).
While waiting for some Greenskins to fall in my mailbox, I've decided to paint some big guys for my Chaos army: Minotaurs! These creatures are the true essence of Chaos and a Chaos army is not complete without them (I think).
I own two of them for too long. I should have painted them a long time ago. These are the Minotaur Lords Ox-Roar "Chaos Champion of Ultimate Slaughter" 😨 and Doom Bellow "The Warped".
The others have been purchased recently.
It's time to endow my O&G army with war machines so they can pulp their enemies from far away. I'm starting with a Skull Crusher (stone thrower). I have other war machines, but not necessarily the crew to man them. I need also to sort out the minis I have received recently. But I should be able to align at least two bolt throwers, an additional stone thrower and a lead belcher.
Normally, a skull crusher is maned by four crewman. Here I've painted five, so one will be affected to the other stone thrower when I will paint it. The minis are a mix of Citadel orc crewmen from the eighties and maybe nineties. The stone thrower itself is from an unknown manufacturer. I don't remember where I bought it from, I have it for more than 20 years.
I also painted three additional Goblin Fanatics that will join the four I have already painted. As I plan to have three of them in each of my Goblin units, I will certainly add others in the futures so I they can all arise from their respective unit at the same time 😈.
After 5 months of Blood Bowl painting I'm back to the Orcs and Goblins. I will certainly paint several units of them and war machines / battle chariots too.
The first ones are Goblin Wulfboyz. These nasty little guys are equipped with short bows and their mission will be to harass the enemy war machine crews behind the lines or any other vile things they can do.
The figures are a mix of last edition plastic minis (as I already said, I don't like their oversized limbs, head, etc., but anyway... 😬). The others are from Crooked Claw miniatures and I think they were sculpted by the Goblinmaster himself. I mixed the wolves between the two types of minis to try to obtain a kind of harmony... 😏
