Warhammer SF & Fantasy. Marines, Chaos & Friends

Not all of my readers will be familiar with the Games Work Shop Warhammer ranges. Basically there is straight Warhammer which is a game of massed battles Renaissance era and magic and Age of Sigmar, a more recent variation grown out of this fantasy world and then there is Warhammer 40K which is a dark, futuristic Gothic style which  has psychics as well as high technology.

The Space marines have various 'chapters' with their own ethos and color schemes but all have loyalty to the god emperor. This was the group I initially started collecting many years ago until I realized that orks were a lot more fun. The following blue plastic figures and the green Nurgle I got in a bag at a Sunday market for $4.

The only issue was some lacked arms and weapons but I delved into my spares boxes to rectify this.

        The marine at far right was provided with an arm and weapon that did not quite line up

  This one lacked a head. I happened to have a soft plastic ACW figure of the same scale and used his head; his hat was cut down and is now a rimless cap or helmet.

  The following two figures are Age of Sigmar hero supadupa type warriors. I find them interesting but don't like the little heads! I suppose the armor is meant to be so massive it dwarfs the characters. They wore gold armor. I am not familiar with the back story but someone might want to add a comment.

                                                          This one was missing a weapon.

            Below are some Warhammer 40k Nurgle. They are followers of the Chaos god, Nurgle, a putrid puss dripping type. Second from left has been given a Tryanid arm and weapon. (Tryranids are vicious horde and hive creatures).

                                           Here is the fantasy warrior given a Dark Elf sword. 

                           The gap in the Space marine's arm has been filled with Green Stuff.

    Here is the Nurgle gang with some old Warhammer fantasy shields added.

                     The one at right front has been given a spare 54mm scale axe, a bit over scale really.

                                                 A view of the Tyranid arm and gun

    The last figure is not GW and is from the Adelaide company, Inquisition Miniatures, unfortunately  

no longer in production. Inquisition did metal figures in series similar to GW ones but completely different sculpts. Their figures were much cheaper than the equivalent GW figures. I think GW might have taken legal action. Anyhow this is one of their SF Chaos type figures. he looks like he has the really heavy 'terminator armor' but is not subtantially bigger than other figures, unlike in the Warhammer versions. I actually liked the ork range as much as the the GW figures and recruited some of them into my Space Ork armies. This figure tended to overbalance because ot the small base so I added a tiddlywink.

                                I am planning to paint these at some stage over the next few days.