This blog is about an army that I have sort of painted badly on purpose.
That's not quite the whole story. Really, it's painted as a child might have painted an army in the early 1990s: quickly, in block colours, without shading or highlights, with gloss varnish and a green base.
The child in question is me, 33 years ago. When I was 11 or so, my older brother and his pals played Warhammer and I was able to paint a few of the minis they didn't need; namely, these ones-
I painted lots of these and sometimes I painted them in the colours of a chapter I invented myself with a blue and grey colour scheme with some yellow bits, like this:
The chapter symbol was a yellow lightning bolt. I don't remember what I called them, or how many I painted, but it certainly wasn't enough to call an army.
About 25 years later, I was looking for an army project and found a set of those old plastic marines cheap on eBay. I decided to paint them more or less as I had done in the early 90s, but aided by modern paint tech- yellow paint that actually covered other colours and blue spray paint in a can! This was the result:
I was really pleased with them! They looked pleasingly toylike, and the process of painting them was so quick and easy- it felt like painting did back in the 90s. I gave the chapter a name from a Jethro Tull album- the Stormwatch.
That was the start of this project, and it's grown from there. I think I have about 150 minis in the army now, with more on the painting table. The minis range from the '80s to late '90s, and the collection includes conversions, proxies and toybashes. I'll post some of them shortly.
