Been testing out a few things including my new air brush and some instabond accelerator for superglue - which, by my eyes, is the greatest invention of Western Civilization. It's miraculous. So I've been on a tear gluing together a bunch of old models that I can never seem to keep together. Some of which are these old school skeleton chariots back from the days when GW models were called "Citadel". While I was assembling, I also figured out I'd do some painting as well.
C22 Plague Cart
This is the old Citadel "Plague Cart" from the early 80's. A funny little model, sort of a precursor to the current plague cart. The ox cart is driven by a wraith, but I'm not partial to wraiths or other ethereals in my army - nothing but bone! But that's solved with an easy conversion. I just clipped an appropriately sized plastic skull in half and glued him into the void in the hood. Now he's a Grim Teamster!
In the original set, the hero was a bull-headed beast man by the name of "Longhorn". But Longhorn is doing duty in a beast man unit in my Undead Chaos army so I had replace him. I wanted to keep it in the Oldhammer Citadel family but most of those models are already in units. But I did find this model loitering around, and early 90's Citadel wraith/banshee.
Normally, I'm not a banshee guy because I'm not into ethereals, but she's pretty skeletal so I picked her up at some point. And when looking at her the idea hit me.
Long haired woman hero in a chariot? Boudica!
I've been listening to the British History Podcast, which is a fantastic show, and that turned me on to the story of the Iceni queen who led a rebellion against the might of Rome in the 1st century A.D. This would be a lovely representation of the doomed queen who I could plop down in my 1st century A.D. Undead Roman Legion. Romans... defeated enemy... all winding up in service to the dark arts in the end!
C22 Plague Cart
This is the old Citadel "Plague Cart" from the early 80's. A funny little model, sort of a precursor to the current plague cart. The ox cart is driven by a wraith, but I'm not partial to wraiths or other ethereals in my army - nothing but bone! But that's solved with an easy conversion. I just clipped an appropriately sized plastic skull in half and glued him into the void in the hood. Now he's a Grim Teamster!
Assembled, primed and painted with the zenithal highlighting technique.
Grim Teamster taking shape!
Pile of corpses washed with Agrax Earthshade.
This is a chariot from the Citadel Skeleton War Machines boxed set released in the mid-80's. In addition to the chariot it also came with the "skull chucker" catapult, and were the first chariot and artillery piece in my Legion.
I always found this big hunk of metal to be a bitch to keep together however, but using the instabond it fit together easy peasy. So here it is assembled, primed and zenithal highlighted.
In the original set, the hero was a bull-headed beast man by the name of "Longhorn". But Longhorn is doing duty in a beast man unit in my Undead Chaos army so I had replace him. I wanted to keep it in the Oldhammer Citadel family but most of those models are already in units. But I did find this model loitering around, and early 90's Citadel wraith/banshee.
Normally, I'm not a banshee guy because I'm not into ethereals, but she's pretty skeletal so I picked her up at some point. And when looking at her the idea hit me.
Long haired woman hero in a chariot? Boudica!
I've been listening to the British History Podcast, which is a fantastic show, and that turned me on to the story of the Iceni queen who led a rebellion against the might of Rome in the 1st century A.D. This would be a lovely representation of the doomed queen who I could plop down in my 1st century A.D. Undead Roman Legion. Romans... defeated enemy... all winding up in service to the dark arts in the end!
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