Hi, I am something of a long beard and was around in the 90’s to be able to actually buy a lot of my chaos dwarfs in blister packs in GW for what seemed like an expensive £3 or £4 a time.
I also have a clear memory of the days the stores stopped stocking the metal Chorf figs and the great sell off which happened at the time and leaving that day with armfuls of discounted minis.
i’m now much older and looking at the ebay prices as i try to complete my collection i wish i had grabbed more at the time.
I sort of fell out of the hobby as I got older. I moved out of the house and got into girls and drinking and going out and the general things that young adults of that age in the late 90s and into the naughties tended to get into.
After I moved out, my little brother decided to ‘borrow’ my mini’s during which time they unfortunately sustained some abuse.
Many (many) years later, as lockdown was coming to an end, that same little brother persuaded me to join our local game club to play some BloodBowl, he even printed me a Chaos Dwarf team and I dug out my old paints.
After this I went for a dig in my brother’s attic and managed to find my old Chaos Dwarfs, a little battered and missing a few minis but for the most part still present even if ashamedly only partially painted.
What a great start to a blog! welcome to cdo. The printed team was a good apology by your brother. So many of us lose interest around uni years and come back years later.
I really love the Lammasu, the colour choices are great and he really pops. I’m envious of the collection as a whole, you’ve got a lot of exciting minis in there!
The blood bowl team also looks great, you’ve really nailed a vibe with it.
Thanks for all your kind comments. i was very happy to find this place and discover that there is a community who still appreciate the best faction in the old world.
Since the last post I decided to fix my Lord on the Taurus. Long ago he was given a very thick undercoat of blood angel red and glued together with whatever Jelly super glue 13 year old me had managed to pilfer from Dads toolbox. The lords banner has also unfortunately gone missing to the mists of time.
This meant that a lot of detail was lost and he was coming to pieces so the first step was to get him cleaned up. At the same time I had managed to pick up some of the classic 80’s chorfs on ebay for a pretty good price. The petard and bazooka teams were also suffering from a bit too much paint and so they too went in the tub.
And him painted, at least enough for the battlefield. I’m hoping that if i keep with this then eventually i’ll get better and then maybe go back and touch up his paint job.
But the big project for the last few weeks has been the Hellcannon. I managed to pick up a metal cannon on ebay but it was missing the crew and a few other parts including the demon skull, it’s crew and the skull piles. I managed to pick up a crew separately and for the rest of the bits it was time to crack out the 3D printer.
it had already had a couple of coats of paint the last being a thick coat of gold, so the first step was to get it clean. Whilst it was soaking i fired up the 3D printer again. After the Hellcannon i’m sold on custom bases so tried for a street scene here. Doing so taught me a valuable lesson. Don’t try and print bases flat or you’ll get resin pooling. I managed to pass this off as a puddle and rebuilt the bottom using green stuff…
The banner is from the Horns of Hashut Warcry gang.
As well as the cannon, I also have another rank of the 80’s boys finished. As their shields are long lost to time it was back to the 3D printer to print some shields from Titan forge. I’m a big fan of Titan forges stuff and may flesh the army out with them once i’m done with my mad quest to get all the GW chorf releases (or at least the feasible ones, i fear the Juggernaut and some of the Forgeworld bits may ever be beyond reach.)
