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).
Wielding the Sword of Justice in battle, Ludwig Schwarzhelm is the Emperor's champion and bearer of the Emperor's Great Banner. This miniature is the first version sculpted for the 4th edition. To be fair, the new version of this model is amazing, I'll probably try to get one to paint it.
Now that my O&G army has reached a respectable size, I thought it was time to give it a big impressive army banner. But first I needed to figure out who would be mighty enough to bear it. Some time ago, I painted a Black Orc Hero, it was meant to be an independent character. It is referred to as "Tusker Commander" and is produced by Knightmare Miniatures.
But then, I realized that Tusker has just the right body posture to hold this role. Also, he is so huge and massive that he is just perfect for that. And here he is bearing the grand banner of my O&G army.
Two weeks ago, I have painted a standard bearer for my Chaos Warriiors unit. It was meant to be undivided Chaos. But when I started to paint him, I couldn't miss the right breast on his armour, identifying him as a follower of Slaanesh. So I painted him and the banner in pale blue and purple.
Then it gave me an idea: converting other Chaos Warriors into standard bearers, one per Chaos God. And here they are. At the same time, I also painted five additional Chaos Champions. One of them was also converted into a standard bearer (undivided Chaos) and will probably be my Chaos army banner.
