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Peter Brett

I've been slowly collecting and painting 90's metal miniatures over the last couple of years. Here's a thread of some of my completed miniatures.

First up: , led by Phoenix Lord Karandras. I finished painting these in December 2021.

A squad of Eldar Striking Scorpions, photographed against a backdrop of a fiery lava planet. Their power armour is a leaf green, with bright yellow details and stripes, and each of them wields a slate grey shuriken pistol and chainsword. They are led by Phoenix Lord Karandras, with his improbably unwieldy giant scorpion helmet.
#minipainting#40k#retro
Peter Brett

I'm aware that those of you who used to follow me on the bird site will have seen many of these miniatures already. I hope you don't mind seeing them go past again!

Here's another shot, this time of just the exarch and Karandras.

Painted miniatures of Phoenix Lord Karandras and a Striking Scorpions exarch. Both figures have yellow tassels with black bands decorating their armour, but Karandras is more ornate, with many more red jewels and other adornments. Karandras wears a powerful power claw that looks like a scorpion's pincer, and has enormously oversized mandible-like blasters attached to his helmet.
#minipainting#AspectWarrior#40k
Peter Brett

The have always been my favourite classic miniatures, and they're what inspired me to start this collection. It turned out that Vallejo Light Turquoise was a much better colour for them than anything in the Citadel Colour line (and a really lovely paint to work with).

A squad of Eldar Swooping Hawk miniatures, in a variety of flying poses. They wear power armour in a light turquoise with white helmets, adorned with dark green feathers and red jewels. The feathers on their winged jetpacks alternate between blue and white.
#minipainting#AspectWarrior#warhammer40k
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Peter Brett

Jain Zar is an absolute badass Phoenix Lord. This was one of the very first minis that I painted after I restarted the hobby in 2021 (after a 20-year break), and she turned out much better then I was expecting.

Re-basing to the larger modern base size gave me space to do more interesting basing. Unfortunately she is still very top-heavy and tends to fall over…

Jain Zar steps down from some rocks onto an ancient stone platform, the waist-length red hair of her terrifying banshee helmet flowing behind her. Her bladed triskele is raised, ready to strike.
#minipainting#40k#warhammer40k
Peter Brett

I'm not a huge fan of the standard "orange jump suit" colour scheme for , so I decided to try something different with these metal ones. They came out… okay?

But I think that if I was going to try a colour scheme like this again I'd try to ensure higher contrast in the palette. There are areas where the highlights are inadequate, especially on the helmet. Grey turns out to be a difficult colour to paint convincingly!

Eldar Fire Warrior miniatures, in the original early-1990s sculpts. Their armour is painted in a gradient from red feet to yellow shoulders, with grey helmets and black plumes. Their cloth details and small helmet decorations are in a bright blue.
#minipainting#40k#warhammer40k
VirtualWolf

@krans Oh mannn, I love these! The Swooping Hawks were the VERY FIRST miniatures I bought when I first got into 40K in 1995! I remember I had just one of those starter paint kits with a handful of primary colours and so that's what I used, and i also remember I went back and stripped them quite a few years later because the paint job was AWFUL. 😂

I ended up selling them to a friend which I kind of regret doing now tbh.

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