Altheim Part 11: The Docks

 Ok, so, time for a bit more Altheim. I've made a start on the docks area, so these are warehouses in the Dutch style, so narrow and tall, designed to fit side by side facing the docks, with living and working space above the storage area.

First up is the Becker Import Company warehouse, left to dereliction after being sealed up on the orders of the Guard due to irregularities with the quality of fish. Of course, the other story is that Old Man Becker wasn't paying enough in bribes to the Red Hand, a shadowy group of criminals that have high level connections and may or may not be secretly a chos cult...

Next up is the Limmarra warehouse. A relatively recent arrival, Avon Limmarra's main business interests are in the Riding further down the river, but they've expanded into Altheim hoping to increase their riches. 

Avon Limmarra is an Elven Trader and one of the characters from "The Riding", a scenario booklet that came with the "Blood on the Streets" cardboard buildings pack for 2nd Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle that some of my Altheim buildings are based on. The last photo shows Avon themselves, but it's such a bloody awful figure with a balloon head that you're not getting a close up as it's that bad! 

One side of the building also gets used as an impromptu jobs board for the docks area:

And the infamously terrible Avon model: 

The finished buildings, side by side:

And here they are in their unpainted state, along with a couple of others still in need of paint:

Enjoy! 

The Changer of the Ways!

 Something a bit unusual for me this time as I don't normally do bright colours on models, but here's the original model of the Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, the Changer of the Ways that came out for 3rd Edition WFB and Rogue Trader 40k. 

As you can see, I've also gone for a neutral backdrop this time instead of a scenic one, I'm not sure which I prefer tbh. Anyway, more pics after the cut:

Bringing Dark Future artwork to life!

So, I'll start by saying that Dark Future is probably my favourite GW universe, Carl Critchlow is one of my favourite artists, and that this piece of Dark Future artwork by Carl is probably one of my favourite pieces of GW art: 

So, as a follow up to this post (also all the way back in 2018!) where I copied another piece of Dark Future art to make a vehicle, I thought I'd do the same with the pirate radio truck, and here it is!

All the details after the cut....

Is this the World's most expensive Ork Warbike?

 

In my never ending quest to create the most pointless conversions known to Warhammer, I knocked up this monstrosity (in the centre, between some of my other Warbikes!)  a while ago but never really got around to documenting it. So anyway, here it is, in all of it's limited release, Bob Olley, Iron Claw, Rogue Trader glory, the Vincent Orkshadow!

More details after the cut...

Time for a super-sized big special boy!

Don't talk to me or my son ever again!

So, here's a fun experiment in 3d printing, I bought a digital fan sculpt of the limited edition 30th anniversary Space Marine figure, and thought I’d see how far I could push the size. This is 500% over standard, it stands well over 6” tall, and this was about the limit of what my 3d printer could manage to fit, even in pieces. He was pretty fun to paint, as I really don’t usually work on anything this large!

More photos after the cut...

Back with a bang, and a big one! The DRAG5 Great Imperial Dragon.

OK, here's a big one as my first return to blogging after about 18 months or so!

As I'm sure you're all aware, it's the Citadel DRAG5 Great Imperial Dragon, also known as Mordax, a Chaos cursed dragon that can never die, and also the mother of Kegox, the Chaos Dragon. 

Lots more photos after the cut:

*Taps Microphone* Is anybody still here?

 Ok, I'll be honest, I've neglected this blog for the shiny lights of Facebook groups and Instagram for a while now, but I've come to the conclusion that it's all so transient and impermanent, so I'm thinking about getting back on here and posting a bit more often. 

That does, however, beg the question, is anyone still on here? I can post all I like, but if no one actually sees it, I may as well just print out a scrapbook and read it at home! 

So, what have I been up to? I've been learning 3d sculpting, printing big things and doing more Altheim buildings mostly, with some ww2 and Trench Crusade in there as well, with a few commissions along the way. I've actually been pretty productive in the last year or so, So here's a few bits I've got done recently: 

More after the cut....