Hi Friends! I am clearing out a bunch of ebay stock this week to raise some extra funds for other stuff. I've got over a hundred auctions up in my Ebay store right now, mostly old school Oldhammery & D&D goodness from the 80s and 90s. Some historical and sci fi stuff too. Some new in the original packaging, some loose. There will likely be more stuff in the coming days and weeks. Over seas shipping is brutal right now, but what Ebay may be showing for your country in the auctions might be a a good deal more than what I can get for you at the post office. Message me for a quote if you are interested in something but unsure of what the shipping may be.
Another band of bold adventurers set off from The Keep on the Borderlands or Hommlet or Salt Marsh in search of the Caves of Chaos or the Temple or the Lizard Man Mound or wherever. Again, they are all old Ral Partha sculpts and at least mostly Tom Meier...
A very Nordic looking fighter and a female thief make up the first two members of our intrepid band...
Stalwart Norseman, Axe in hand, ready for Giant Spiders or Trolls or God knows what to emerge from the trees...
A female footpad flits noiselessly from shadow to shadow along the forest path...
A female fighter and a cleric stand ready to lay into the monsters of the forest with hard strokes of sword and flail...
Doubtless a devotee of some fierce cult stressing blood and fire, the Cleric calls up the powers of his vengeful God to support his companions and smite their foes...
A cold shield maiden of the far north, journeying far from the frigid wastes of her distant homeland...
Lastly, a barbarian son of the far, forest clad mountains and an enchanter of the broken hills...
Tried so hard not to screw up the eyes but couldn't quite pull it off in the end. He still looks ok on the table top...
Resolutely standing watch over tenantless ridges and mountain tops he calls home, frequently blasting them with fiery spells and always on the watch for the killer rabbit who haunts those lonely peaks, an Enchanter has joined the party to act as their magic user...
There are some who call him...Tim??
Deep in the trackless wilderness, our heroes cross paths with the evil cleric known only as the Zombie Master, who calls up his shambling, lifeless minions to destroy them! Will they survive??
At long last, I've supplied my Roguehammer Space Ork Commanders with some Gretchin Squads!
...one squad of close combat Gretchin...
...and another of blunderbusiers!
Either squad makes a fine meat shield for the regular Ork boys to advance behind!
"Ere we come!"
Sneaky git advances with blunderbuss...
...Veteran Gretchies!
My Rogue Trader Ork horde is very nearly complete now. All I have left to do really are a Dreadnought and a special unit of Giant Bat riding cavalry, The Dung Bat Boys...I'm still collecting the bats for those...
I am so fond of my Space Orks, however that I will probably never stop collecting them. I would like a Weird Boy, particularly one of those large models that incorporate the Weird Boy and his minders into a single casting, and an alternate figure to represent my War Boss...
...but that's about it!
I call this fellow Gonzo. Don't know why. Forgot to darken in the barrel of his blunderbuss though.
A handful of Imperial Guardsmen desperately attempt to hold back the Gretchin assault...Doesn't look like they're doing too well so far...
Heavy hoofbeats on a the gloomy forest path. a cloaked figure, mighty of frame...
His Face hidden by a sinister helmet...
...The Lord of Chaos!
Some say he is the child of a mortal woman and a demon, others that he is the right arm of the devil himself....Frightened rumors say he has risen again after years of sleep and is recruiting a warband from amoung the forest horrors which he will soon lead forth to spread murder and rapine across the land...
Still others, that he intends to go to war with the Wizard Kobel Yarr. Though none can guess the reason for the feud, they say The Lord of Chaos intends to lead his host of devils and horrors against the hordes of the Yellow Tower of Yugg, and to destroy that accursed edifice forever.
Already the forest lanes and glades are noisome with the clink of weapons and the rustling of great, sinewy bodies as Gnolls and floundering beasts come awake and heed the call of The Lord of Chaos...Liquescent Terrors glide forth from the depths of forest pools and winged, misshapen figures are seen passing across the moon, The Lord of Chaos is coming...beware, Lord of the Tower of Yugg!!
I bought these guys in 2007. I only know that because I know I bought them in the middle of my Iraq deployment. I naturally would have liked a whole army of them. Such a venture was too expensive for me, but I allowed myself one squad for my Inquisition army, which consisted of a weird and wild retinue of arco-flagellants, Sisters of Battle, half man, half machine retainers and converted armored vehicles. For some time they made up the bodyguard of my Inquisitor, the dreaded Simion Phang.
My choice of models made for a pretty wonderful looking collection, and even my conversion work wasn't too bad, but my painting wasn't there yet. Probably didn't help that I was trying to paint in a tent in Iraq with lousy light and crummy gear. In the end I wasn't happy with the army and I never finished it. There are a lot of great miniatures still sitting in boxes wondering why I abandoned them. I have a converted Rhino which the guys used to ride around in somewhere, too. I shall have to dig that out and paint it.
I pulled this sinister looking bunch out of a drawer a few days ago where they'd been sitting almost forgotten for about a decade and decided that they didn't look too bad, they just needed some re-basing and a little touching up, so here they are, Big Sarge out front, leading the assault...
These really are marvelously menacing and characterful models, with their blend of Dystopian Sci Fi and WW 1 trench warfare elements...
...I can almost forgive them for being plastic. They lack the goofiness of my more regular Rogue Trader stuff, though. I never made an effort to see if they would fit in with my Rogue Trader Imperial Guard guys. Maybe they could be a squad of elite shock troops or something.
Flame thrower guy.
The Grenadiers assault through the cactus forest...Space Orks beware!
Any game setting needs a splash of local color running around doing their day to day business. Most of that business would naturally be mundane, but a good deal of it would undoubtedly be nefarious, especially in a nest of adders like Little Cairo. Take William S. Burroughs' fantastical Tangiers, stir in a real life Cairo of the 1930s, smouldering with espionage and revolution, add a cup of H.P. Lovecraft, a dash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a teaspoon of Casablanca, and you've got an idea of the spirit I'm going for. These folks are a necessary part of the back drop that my Adventurers, Secret Agents and Cthulhu Cultists will be acting out their roles against.
Random citizens wandering about a market that has nothing in it for them to buy yet. I just got some Scotia Grendel fantasy bazaar pieces to use for the market stalls but of course I haven't painted them yet.
Ali from Pulp Figures gets the drop on a resolute fellow from Old Glory,
Random citizens. I bought all of these on the Old Glory Miniatures website, but I think they come from different lines...
Lovely Ladies of Little Cairo in outdoor and indoor wear...
Desperadoes three...
Fatima! (of the seven veils)....
...The swingingest, number one dancer in the Sultan's whole harem! (If you get that reference, you're probably really old.)
