Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Lost Metal Horrors

I have an idea. I'm painting up my Nugle forces, and besides making the Death Guard Army, I want to do a narrative campaign. Some brave Imperial types vs the horrors of Nurgle, I'm still hashing out what rules I should use for this adventure. My brain reminded me that I have some old metal dudes, long forgotten in the back of a drawer somewhere... 
 

After a fair bit of digging through the hidden pile of shame I found some excellent surprises.

A Chaos Spawn (built), a Very Metal Chaos Sorcerer, and the parts for three Beasts of Nurgle, back when they were better, if briefly, know as Slime Hounds.


Metal AF Sorcerer just needed a 32mm slota base and was good to go.

The trio of Slime Hounds...wow. They were, let's go with extremely challenging to assemble. Early '90s metal figures did not coddle the weak. The body is in two badly alined parts, two badly fitting feet, and three rows of tentacles that were an absolute nightmare to fit to each other and the top of the body.


After trying a few round bases, I settled on a newer oval one. A ton of work, but I like they a lot. Full of that whole "weird and pissed off," vibe. Now for paint!

Go Build Something
And Make it Weird


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  1. JeffDecember 1, 2022 at 9:24 PM

    Were the slime hounds better or worse than your metal ork dreadnought? You know, the one a cat (uhh... Christina, I think?) knocked off the shelf.

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    1. Marcus the BlackheartDecember 2, 2022 at 11:40 AM

      Christina the Destroyer! These were so much worse. Truly early multi-part castings. Just a lot of brute force to bend the bodies to mostly fit together.

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    2. JeffDecember 6, 2022 at 11:17 AM

      More or less brute force than that time you basically cut a Dark Angels captain model IN HALF -- VERTICALLY? I understand that sh_t has to be done (and that guy looked rad when you were done!), but it was crazy then and it's crazy now.

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