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 21 - Grey Seer (Thanqoul)

Hello all - more Skavens!

This time it is "only" Grey Seer Lord Snik-Snak, the religious and factual leader of my old Skaven Clan Ressak. 

Although he is pigmentally-challenged he is a Grey Seer (as he will tell you in a very, very violent way). He suffered the change in skin after a failed ritual and was thrown out of the "guild" due to his lack of Greyness. As a result he has become even more of a religious maniac and has more or less taken over the entire clan as his own, leading it in a very fanatical way.

 
 I've always¨loved this model (I think it is an old Grey Seer - but very aggressive in its stance) but wanted one with additional handweapons, often a magic sword or similar, and had to do a few hand swaps.
EDIT: The cold must have gotten to my brain - this is, of course, the old Thanquol model (cool special character and brilliant rules).

 At the time I quite liked the horns (tyranidoid origin if I remember correctly) but today I would judge them as just a wee bit too large :-).

All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 17 - Skaven Master Gunner

Hello all,
More skaven? Yes!

 One of my favourite conversions because it is just a simple hand-swap but looks pretty vicious. 

The old but brilliant BloodBowl Skaven stole one of the infamous Dark Eldars weapons and is now a threat to be reckoned with. The Eldar carrying the weapon was free on the cover of an old White Dwarf and the weapon was ideal for use with Skavens.

I think he saw service with my Gutter runners (which included a fair amount of Blood Bowl Skavens converted to serve in the clans frequent wars), perhaps this is a modern version of the poisoned sling shot :-).

Simple but effective, and the weapon does have something Skaveny about it :-)


Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 16 - Skaven Sorcerer

Hello all,

Another Skaven character worked his way up from the basement and demanded being shown on the blog.

This time it is a warlock engineer with his trusted warplock rifle. Having little or no long range shooting as a Skaven army, I loved the option of giving characters these guns. It might just pick of an enemy model or two (wardancers or other troublesome skirmishers) and thereby paying for itself, but it also gave me something to do in the early shooting phases.

The model itself is the old "Skaven sorcerer with warplock pistol" from late 1988 or 1989. The barrel has been extended slightly (inexpertly) to produce a rifle instead of pistol but otherwise it is a brilliant model from the early waves of Skaven. That wave really defined the Skaven for me and still ooze of character, more than the modern models do in my opinion.

 "I'll Kill-Kill you now and all your friends-friends!"

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 15 - Deathmaster Snitch

Hello all,

A few pictures of another of my old Skaven miniatures - this time its the Deathmaster! Not only the best name ever in the Warhammer world, it is also one of the best Skaven models ever made.

He just incorporates the entire race and the evil assassin twist is always nice.

The upgraded Snitch - with warpstone flails :-).

For some reason this version of the model (I think I have three of these models) has been modified a bit. He served as a Gutterrunner champion or similar and if I remember correctly he had an option for flails - or else I just enjoyed flails at the time :-).

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 14 - Gutterrunner champion

Hello all,
Is there anything on the other side of the number 13? I guess there must be so another picture coming up of my old Skaven models.

This time it is part of the Clan Eshin wave; a Gutter Runner champion who must have gotten too close to the warpstone on a mission or two.

Six clawed arms - must be vicious in a hand-to-hand combat!

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 13 - Standard, Chieftain, and lucky charms...

Hello all - holy thirteen! What Skaven to show on this most august number?
I think I'll present another Army Standard Bearer - this time with a banner:

Army Standard Bearer

The clan name (Ressak) was the main clan I fielded in battle and have served me well. I think the Standard bearer is the old Maurauder one with an additional very heavy axe from the Chaos Warrior set - looks like he could take care of himself (which a Skaven ASB never could :-)).

Army Standard Bearer

A pretty sweet banner if you ask me :-). The head is an old dinosaur head from a competing wargame that never really took of but made some vicious dinosaur-like mounts for Orcs - I'll show some of them later. The central part of the standard itself is from the old Chaos Dwarf Tenderizer, I think. Edit: Nope it is the old "bow" from the Orc ballista or whatever it is called.

Army Standard Bearer

Might as well show the Chiefftain standing next to the ASB (weighing the base down).

Skaven Chieftain

 
He is one of the old models and still a favourite of mine (my general is also based on this model) - there is just something commanding about the model that I have always liked.

Skaven Chieftain

 and finally just for fun:

Skaven Archers?

 These little buggers (half old goblin archers and Skaven heads) used to be my lucky charms - guarding my dice and being useful for remembering stuff. They might be a little bit wacky :-).

Skaven Archers?

Anyways - hope you guys are enjoying these models (a few comments would be nice :-) ).

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 12a - Army Standard Bearer

Hello all.

Just a quick look at another Skaven from my collection. This time it is the (almost) finished conversion that was meant to be my army standard bearer. Apart from the standard itself he is done, and looks pretty vicious ;-).

The bits? A lot :-). The lower body is one of the old Maurauder Stormvermin standard bearers, the upper is an old Chaos Warrior while the tail is from the horrish gargoyles (I think).

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 12 - Mutated Grey Seer

Hello all,
What rats should we view today?
How about a heavily mutated Skaven Grey Seer? He probably took one too many warpstoone token and got a bit more mutation than he hoped for.

 
He does seem to function and his scary appearance should help keep those pesky skavenslaves in line.

The bits are the old head of the a beast of Nurgle - I love the bizarre cross between a snail and an octopus and how it reflects the creation of the demons as mirrored by the old fantastic tables of mutation and animal types in the Realm of Chaos books.

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 9 - Skaven Knight

Hello all - we must have more Skaven madness!
So todays old Skaven is a knight chieftain - who seems to have stolen the armour of a poor Brettonian knight. There used to plenty of options for mounting chieftains on monsters (which was not such a great idea) and I have made several mounted heroes but this guy always brings a smile to my face - he just looks so pleased about himself.

I´ll have to paint one of my old monsters for him to fit onto. 

He deserves it, having waited so paitiently in that awkward position :-)

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 8 - Rat Ogre Warthrone

Hello all,

Returning to the ever devious vermen I give you: The ratogre war-throne.

Rat Ogre War Throne

Even though this was before all the nice updates available in this edition of Skaven, I always felt that my general could use a little something extra. He always looked a bit wimpy compared to the vampire and chaos lords he encountered.
So I made him this war-throne to stand upon and yell at his hordes (preferable from behind the lines).

Rat Ogre War Throne

The parts seems to be (apart from dusty...) the backrest from a doomwheel, a very old dragon head (with green stuff one horn broken off) as well as a few bits and pieces.
Still looks good and when I manage to find the old general I'll let him ascend and grab a few pictures.

Rat Ogre War Throne

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 6 - Skaven Sorceror (Soerik)

Hello all - more skavenatious pictures today. I think I will show my Skaven sorceror - apparently he got trained by some Dark Elves instead of the normal vermin road to magic. Thats why he dresses a bit funny, compared to your normal, everyday contraption-wielding engineer.

Skaven Sorceror (Soerik)

 Pretty cool little rat :-).

Skaven Sorceror (Soerik)

Again - if anyone knows what company produced this I would love a link or other information.

EDIT: Thanks to Dreadaxe I've found out that he is a "Zahranian Ver'men Shadow Mage" and is named Soerik by the company selling him (Black Tree Design). Still a cool little guy.

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 2 - Plague Priest

Hello all!
Continuing down memory lane with a revisit to my old Skaven - Clan Ressak.
Today's vermin is my plague priest - I used to love these characters as they were the only ones that could actualy fight and kill something...

Plague Priest

Im really not sure what parts were used, but I think I can identify a Grey seer (maybe the one from the Screaming Bell?), Lord Skrolks staff and the gun hand from a Doomwheel driver. He is sporting the last uniform version that my "Monks of Madness" (my main Plague monk unit) were painted in and the yellow was hell to paint on top of the black but looked pretty good with thrity of them lined up.

Plague Priest

Check back as we continue with more Plague Monks before deciding what else to show :-).
Best regards,
Kasper