So my best friend calls be his “bestie”, my girlfriend thinks it’s soooo cute. We’ve been hanging around each other for, I don’t know, something like 25 years. When we met, I found out that he used to play Warhammer. I can say that I’m proud of the fact that I rekindled his interest in the hobby. That was way back in probably something like 1995. We both got disgusted and burned out with GW after 5ed WH and 3ed 40k. We played a little bit of both those editions but we saw the writing on the walls and popped smoke. GW’s corporate greed got too much for us and by the turn of the century, the Silver Age was coming to a close. Fast forward to about 4 years ago and we started talking about dusting off the old rulebooks and unboxing the old miniatures to play some of the old games. We had no idea that there was even anything called Oldhammer. Finding out there was a whole community/movement dedicated to the old games was like culture shock.
He has tons of painted miniatures from back in the day. I don’t. I have a giant lead pile that seems to keep growing! The only painted army from then is my 40k Dark Angels. I’ve always hated painting armies. The Silver Age was chock full of mono pose boredom. And it got worse...plastic is lame.
But, I digress, me any my buddy have always competed. May the best man win and shit, but we’ve always helped each other out. I turned him on to the wet pallet, he turned me on to airbrushing. There’s always that ebb and flow, the back and forth, mixing and merging that comes from a good relationship.
That brings us, I guess to the contest: when I first saw this miniature I thought of my friend. He’s got a thing for Khorne so I ebayed this beastman for him. I liked it so much, I got one for myself. Instantly the competitive spirit kicked into overdrive: who could paint the same miniature better?
So here’s pictures
Which one do you like better? And why?
