Legions of Iron and Steel, DIE HARD!

Lyrics from Venom songs will always make good post titles I reckon. I toyed with using a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, like "there are some who call me... Tim?". But this post isn't really about Tim specifically, so I didn't (but it is a bit). Lucky for me I don't care about SEO. Damn, that reminds me, got to do my meta descriptions...

I was reading the latest post by "Oldhammer" blog royalty, Orlygg, and saw a photo of a smiling Tim Prow at Salute. Now, I remember a very young, long-haired, Metallica T-shirt wearing Mr Prow in White Dwarf oh so long ago. I don't know if he was ever into Venom, but he definitely should have been if he knew what was bad for him. That aside, his miniatures company is called Diehard, and it's great, proper old school stuff.

Not too long ago, I bought some Diehard miniatures and on receiving the parcel I was weirdly happy to see Mr Prow's name on the return address label. It gave me "cottage industry" feelings and I love to support that by buying stuff from them. Not to say that Diehard are in anyway "unprofessional", they are not. Actually, it was just a great feeling to receive something direct from a guy whose work I'd grown up with in White Dwarf. Hail Tim!

"Kovach the Devoured". Or perhaps, "Kovach in the Process of Being Devoured". 

Floating up above you can see one of the Diehard miniatures I've almost too-lovingly painted. He seems to be heavily based on, or a tribute to, a Warhammer illustration from the early 80s around the time of the 1st edition. There was also a Citadel miniature of the same character called Kardos Bloodhelm, a very early Chaos Warrior. So, he fits in very well with my other 80s Citadel leadmen.

He's been painted with pinkish armour, as I felt like using him as a Slaaneshi Chaos Champion for Advanced Heroquest. Being an old-school follower of Slaanesh, I thought about adding some text to his shield, like "BIG COCKS" or "do you like me, sex-wise?". But thought better of it.

However, I did obtain a couple of Ral Partha Chaos Warriors as sidekicks, because as we all know, a big bad villain needs his stupid sidekicks to mess everything up. Here they are:

I love these goofy idiots, pure stupid sidekick vibes.

Of course, despite being accident prone morons in the best tradition of villainous sidekicks, in the brutally unforgiving world of Advanced Heroquest they'll no doubt prove unstoppable immortal killing machines capable of insta-killing heroes by posing seductively or something. Assuming a fully armoured warrior, even a Slaaneshi one, could achieve such a thing.

Mind you, I don't fancy the chances of lobster-claw man. His lobster arm has already been cooked by the look of its bright red shell (I mean, I could have painted it blue/purple/white, but you know). My dwarf would just break it open with his warhammer and the elf could eat whatever's inside. But again, he's a dumb sidekick, so he probably cooked his own arm while making a pot of tea.

That is all. For now.