Old Skaven Madness - part 27a - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all.
The Mordheim plastic sets really made converting easy and allowed for much more dynamic Skavens without the touble of pinning and sawing through metal.

Great fun.

All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 27 - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all,
A few more skavens - this time some clanrats or nightrunners. I really loved those plastic sets - it was so much fun putting those rats together and the diversity was brilliant.

Beware the flailing rats!

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 26 - Wounded Skaven 074406/14

Hello all,
well if 13 is the sacred Skaven number - would not 26 at least carry some importance for the little critters? If so I guess we should feature something special for the 26th post in this cavalcade of old models...

 A dead skaven! That must be pretty special - something not seen everyday in Skaven society. Oh, wait, actually there would probably be more dead skaven lying around than cheesy Lizardmen armies at a large tournament. Anyways, I have no idea where this casulty model is from but I have always appreciated that instead of just being dead, the rat is clearly dead in battle - he is missing his right arm and clutching the remains of a spear in his chest.

 The scavenging vermin move in to feed on its larger and more evolved cousin.

Not that special I know but I am running out of pictures that have been uploaded. I guess I will have to bring up a new batch from the basement soon.

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 25 - Skaven Heroes

Hello all,

A few heroic (if such a thing is possible?) Skavens today.

The rat on the left is (apart from the rather huge Skaven head, which makes me regret not having known about Green stuff at the time :-)) mainly one of the oldest models I own. It came with the first roleplaying Game I ever read and owned (I think it was called "Drager og Dæmoner" (Dragons and Demons) and was made in Sweden?).

With the starter set came this rather small fighter. the head was terrible but I have always loved the pose - so I guess that was enough for me to give him a new head, and let him be a unit champion.

 The other guy is again a Harlequin model and once again a brilliant model. A lot of character in him and I love the epaulettes on his shoulders. The sword.... well apparently it wasn't only GW who sculpted massively over-dimensioned swords :-). With one of the newer barbed swords he would look excellent I feel.

 Oh - and just for fun - here is an old cowboy model - probably the first human I painted. Not the best skintone, looks a bit zombie-ish...

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 24 - Skaven Sorcerers

Hello all,
A few more Skavens today - two more of the sorcerers that I think are from the old Harlequin fantasy line, now apparently sold by Black Tree Design. "Ver'men" they are called. I cannot find them on their website so perhaps the moulds broke or something similar.
These are small but very nice models and, at the time, provided a cheaper alternative that also provided some diversity to the Skaven.

 Pretty gloomy characters, but very nice. Unfortunately one of the horns have broken of.

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 23 - Gutter Runners

Hello all,
as the weekend disappears so do the Eshins performing their evil deeds...

Wasn't that an artistic introdution? Let's just see a two more of my old nightcrawlers and a group shot:

The one with a club and net has always been a favorite of mine - looks more likely to maul someone in a backstreet than to sneak around. Even the eyepatch is cool :-)

Brilliant models.

Best regaards,
Kasper