digging the archeovaults of GW

These are awesome!

...And you were going to not post these

well ... it's a small bias i guess !!
i play and love dwarfs ... so posting orks is NOT natural for me !!
after some post i'll make a special squat ... disapeared race destroyed by the Tyranids !!
and that will equilibrates the equations
Aubec

Dwarves are cool too. Maybe GW will make 30cm(1') dwarves to decorate your front/back yard gardens. Imagine large models, the opposite of Tiny Epic games called Yardhammer 40k, where you can move models like human size chess in Marostica, Italy near Venice (Venicia). Sorry, I had too much coffee.

Hah! It seems that is the only good purpose for a squat now

Just kidding, as I think squats are pretty cool (although a bit superfluous to have included in the game).

GMKDynamis wrote:I had too much coffee.

I know exactly how you feel brother!

a full Kev Adams' box of 17 boyz (called raiderz)
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2082orkraiderz.jpg
the plastic ones
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2083orkplasticz.jpg
orks on byke (i really love this one) : Riders on the storm ... of battle of course !
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2085orkwarbikez.jpg
the buggy
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2084orkbuggyz.jpg
the scorcher
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2086orkscorcher.jpg
wartrak and hop splat field gun
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2087orkwartrak.jpg
the first (plastic) battlewagon
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2088orkbattlewagon.jpg
http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2089orkbattlewagon.jpg

that's it !
Aubec

today i'm digging in the 1991 red Catalogue ... highly WHFB-oriented i found some material usable for 40k though ... from Realms of Chaos ... our archenemy : the Deamons !!
the first blood thirsters : 6 heads (some superb, some awful), 2 bodies, 3 left arms and 3 right hands ... a lot of possibilities !!
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20246rcbloodthirster.jpg
the keeper of secrets (one of the best done, i regreted its change for a more bovine head successor, and then the one with less bovine head)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20247rcksecrets.jpg
the Great unclean : with 8 pieces it's the more modulable one
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20248rcunclean.jpg
the Lord of Change : it's the ugliest of the 4 and one of the ugliest model i ever saw (imho), i can't find anything to defend it against the GW more recent one, or against the FW one !!
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20249rcchange.jpg

that was the time of Realm of Chaos were the frontiers between WHFB Chaos and 40K Chaos weren't so clear

Aubec

the bloodletters (not my favorites, though very similar to the drawing concept)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20250rcbloodletters.jpg
the Flesh Hounds (i love their famelic bodies)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20251rcfleshhnds.jpg
Chaos Juggernauts (i like the possibility of human or deamoniac rider)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20252rcjuggers.jpg
the deamonettes (every model with a name)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20254rcdaemonettes.jpg
fiends of slaanesh
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20255rcslfiends.jpg
Mounts of Slaanesh (very characterful with the riders)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20256rcslmounts.jpg

the minions of the 2 other Gods tomorrow

Aubec

Those aren't bad looking Bloodletters, but I think the current ones look MUCH better. However, those Flesh Hounds are a different story. I wish they would have stuck with that look for the current models. I honestly don't notice too much of a difference in the old and new Slaanesh Daemon models, but that may just be me.

I still wonder how they created the molds to make these. At least you have to give GW some credit, they didn't let japanese anime designers go to town. Large eyes, too lanky and robotic looks for space marines is just not right. Thanks for the pics brother Aubec... knowing you, you probably have more... much more.

in fact ... yes !
but you'll have to wait til tomorrow !!
Aubec

I like the old bloodletters more than the new TBH. I think it is the fact that they are skinnier and some how more "Daemonic" looking.

I REALLY like the space marines riding the Slaanesh steeds! Those look cool

the plaguebearers... and their ears !!
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20258rcplagueb.jpg
beast of nurgle and nurglings
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20259rcbeastsnurglings.jpg
palanquin of nurgle (i love this one)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20260rcnpalanquin.jpg
the flying disks and the superb Champions of Tzeentch !!
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20261rctzdiscs.jpg
the pink and blue horrors (personally i like the look "we're bad but dumb" of those ones but i prefer the later metallic serie which look more "mutating" (and i despise the more recent ones in plastic that are a return to the old days but missed)
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20262rcpinkh.jpg
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20263rcblueh.jpg

and as i said the borders between WHFB and WH40K weren't so clear in those "realms of Chaos" days so here are Chaos Champions usable in both (it wasn't true for all the Chaos Gods though)
the Khorne Champs
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20264rcchkhorne.jpg
the Tzeentch Champs
http://solegends.com/citcat912/c20267rcchtzeentch.jpg

that's all Folks !! (for today anyway)
Aubec

I love those old horrors. I especially loved the rules where if you killed a pink horror two blue horrors came out of the body of the daemon.

Love going down memory lane!

i go back in the inquisition for a while cause i found today in the 1994 black catalogue superbs psykers with arbitrators (i've got 6 or 8 of them) with amazing space wolfs scouts !!
and ogryns ... i love ogryns and ogres !!
i couldn't wait til tomorrow !!
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93478-01.jpg
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93479-01.jpg
Aubec

I love the arbites.

As for bloodletters i actually like the beastmen styled ones inbetween the releases.
They were so big and menacing and had great artwork.

Love that the old palanquin is better thean the new

Those psykers look significantly better than the current ones.

I guess the ogryns never changed... they're still butt ugly!

GMKDynamis wrote:I guess the ogryns never changed... they're still butt ugly!

yes but compared to the old lord of change they are Alain DELON !!!
Aubec

For you none Alain delon fans (me included). He's a french actor that looks like James Dean with darker hair, some years after, like van damme, then much later like jack nicholson... he is the true lord of change. At least he has products named after him like: perfume(cologne), cigarettes, stationary, clothing, wristwatches and eyewear.

i should be precise ... Alain delon 30 years old !!
like this :
http://www.verylou.com/Public/Photos/Peoples/29/94bb1f62e5d287893da7384d19e971ef4152fdcd68337dbec1bd012d5a62d258f43ab7011b2771675_1.jpg
should i be 40 years older and homosexual i think i could have fallen in love with this guy ... but i'm heterosexual and a generation younger !!

today return to the xenos :

tyranids .... i found the first carnifex called screamer-killer (stocky, bulky but impressive i like) :
http://solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92398tyrscreamer-01.jpg
the tyranid warrior ... don't like much the head + squigs (i don't know why they are classified with tyranids ?? )
http://solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92399tyrwarriors-01.jpg

and to the orks
the super cyboar and the Bionik Boyz (love them)
http://solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92404orkboarsbionix-01.jpg
the heavies and Kustom Weapons
http://solegends.com/citcat9x3/c92405orkweapons-01.jpg

and Eldars :
the superb and gorgeous and awesome Eldar Lords from Jes Goowin (even the fireaxe is wonderful !! )
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93482-01.jpg
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93483-01.jpg
and the farseer with Eldrad and the superb warlocks (as said before they are the masterpieces of Jes Goodwin)
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93485-01.jpg
the warp spiders and exarch
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93486-01.jpg
and a new war walker
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93489-01.jpg
another avatar
http://solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93484-01.jpg

Aubec

These are some of my favorite models that you've featured here Aubec (the Eldar, that is). They look fantastic! I really like the way the Eldar fella' is sitting down in the walker as well. I could do without that Avatar though, but that's the same story for the current Avatar. They just have yet to get a good looking Avatar model IMO.

did you see the first one (the small one) some posts back ?
Aubec

Indeed I did. That's the best looking one so far, but I don't know, maybe I just don't like the way GWS envisions the Avatar in general...

IIRC the reason squigs and tyranids are together is that (according to my sources) in the beginning, the ork dna was used by the tyranids to create the squigs, apparently, an ork space pirate party boarded the tyranid hive ship, found the squigs and brought them home.

Since then, orks have had squigs...........

Yes, the story is sucks and i'm happy it's gone.

thanks for sharing though !
Aubec