Angry Griffin's Oldhammer

Author: The Angry Griffin

  • Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Potter

    Metal Rogue Trader Space Marine Brother Potter

    This guy was Brother Potter in the early catalogues, later shown as Bionic Eyes and Bolter 070106/4. He’s a 1987 sculpt.

    He was seen in White Dwarf #117 (Sept 1989) converted by Richard Kernick:

    My paint job:

    Paints used:

    Undercoat: Vallejo Mecha Black

    Blue: Scale75 Artist Cobalt shaded with Prussian Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue and then a mix of Primary Blue and Art White

    Skin: Light Skin mixed with Artic Blue, highlighted with Golden Flesh and Art White, shaded a little with diluted Dark Brown Ochre.

    Red: Light Skin followed by Primary Red, highlighted with a mix of Primary Red and Orange. Washed with Nuln

    Silver: Black Metal, with Nuln oil wash, then Heavy Metal, Speed Metal and White Alchemy

    Varnish: Vallejo Mecha Matt Varnish

    Black: Art Black, highlighted with Artic Blue

    Green: Sap Green, highlighted with a mix of Sap Green and Primary Yellow

    Leather: Burnt Sienna then Burnt Skin, highlighted by a mix of Burnt Sienna and Orange

  • Vintage Metal Space Marine in Crusade Suit Mark II 070270 8

    Vintage Metal Space Marine in Crusade Suit Mark II 070270 8

    This guy is one of the Armour Variants sculpts by Jes Goodwin. He’s a 1990 sculpt.

    As far as I’m aware this would be the first Mark II armour sculpt (some 32 years old at the time of writing).

    Work in progress:

    Paints used:

    Blue: Scale75 Artist Cobalt, built up to Primary Blue, down to Prussian Blue, highlighted with Primary Blue/Art White mix.

    Gold: Necro Gold, Viking Gold, Elven Gold, Citrine Alchemy then White Alchemy. Shaded with Chestnut Ink.

    Black: Art Black, highlighted with Artic Blue, shaded with Nuln oil.

    Leather: Burnt Skin, shaded with Garaghak’s Sewer, highlighted with Burnt Skin mixed with a little Primary Yellow.

    Silver: Black Metal, shaded with Nuln Oil, highlighted with Speed Metal

    Red: Primary Red highlighted with a mix of Primary Red and Orange.

    Green: Sap Green highlighted with Spring Green and Primary Yellow. Small light dot in Art White.

  • Dirty Down Rust over a metallic base

    This is undiluted Dirty Down rust roughly applied with a cheap brush onto a Necromunda base which had been prepped with a mid silver, drybrushed over with a light silver (in this instance Heavy Metal brushed over with Speed Metal):

  • Garaghak’s Sewer contrast over a metallic paint

    Testing out the new Garaghak’s Sewer contrast paint over a metallic paint, drybrushed with a lighter metallic (in this instance Heavy Metal brushed over with Speed Metal). Starting base:

    End result, undiluted and heavily applied with a cheap brush:

  • Metal Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Captain Huron Grimm

    This guy was Capt. Huron Grimm initially, and seen as Chainsword 2, part number 070119/36 in the 1991 catalogue.

    Marked as GW 87 on the back – nothing on the front on this guy.

  • Magnetising a Games Workshop Warhammer 30K or 40K Kratos Tank

    Here are my experiments with magnetising one of the new Kratos tanks from Games Workshop for Warhammer 30K or 40K.

    Magnetising the dozer blade came first – I did this after assembly, though it’d be easier to do it beforehand. Taking a power drill to the built tank was somewhat hair raising – if you do this be careful that the drill doesn’t bite the plastic and pull sharply into the hole. I went with 6x1mm magnets as a decent fit, and they are enough to hold the blade up:

    I picked the outer aspect of each mount point on the chassis, as there was more plastic at that point on the blade mounts to drill into.

    On the blade:

    It doesn’t look it from the angle of the photo but the magnets are only just sitting higher than flush to ensure good contact with the other side.

    Magnetised and in place:

    The body guns don’t strictly need it as the guns push fit into the socket, but… well, I got a bit carried away. 5x1mm magnets – done before assembly:

    More to come!

  • Magnetising a plastic Games Workshop Deimos Rhino

    Here is how I magnetised the new Games Workshop plastic Deimos Rhino kit so that the hatches could be interchangeable.

    You just need the sprues that came with it and some magnets. I used 5x1mm magnets but 4x1mm, 3x1mm or even 2x1mm would work as well – they don’t need to be strong magnets as they’re not really fighting gravity here.

    On the underside of the top section, cut a section of sprue and glue it in place. You can do this after it’s been assembled if you are careful and use tweezers/small pliers to guide the sprue in and pull it against the underside. Then just turn the tank upside down to let gravity keep it against the underside.

    Alternately, do it before you assemble…

    I used four pieces of sprue – you really only need one, but since the sprue was being chucked anyway I figured why not.

    From the top:

    Add a magnet at the front:

    The front is easiest for the hatches since the lowest point of the hatches is located there. On the underside of the hatches:

    You can see that the 5mm magnet overhangs the area it’s glued to – that’s not strictly an issue, but if I had smaller diameter magnets it would have been a good opportunity to use them. The 1mm depth is important here – two 1mm deep magnets align perfectly with the gap available.

    The missile launcher hatch requires a single piece of sprue to be glued under it to achieve the same gap – photos to come.

    The gunner/commander will require something across the gap at the front – I used this with a 3x1mm magnet underneath:

    For his gun mount I used a 2x1mm magnet on the gun end and a 3x1mm on the handle end – it would be easier to use 2×1 on both ends.

    Will need more of part #15 – the arm that the gun mounts to – but something compatible shouldn’t be hard to come up with. More on that to come…

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Jump Pack

    I haven’t found these in a catalogue yet!

  • Metal Limited Edition Warhammer 40K Space Marine Riding Lizard TSF33

    This was apparently available via mail order only for a month in 1988! I can’t find any literature to that extent.

    That’s how it arrived! They were designed to fit with the RTB01 plastic beakies.

  • Metal Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Space Marine Gunner 3 with Conversion Beamer

    This guy was part number 072129/20 as seen in the 1991 catalogue, and the conversion beamer is 072129/15.