PROPER Retro 40k Pt 2

Done a bit more work on the old 80s Space Marines. Some of the models will definitely need another wash in fairy liquid, and I seem to have stuck some of them together with evo stick. I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to have that;  must have pinched it from out of the garage. Sorry parents. They are also going to need some trimming. I'm not sure I understood the concept of removing flash or mold lines when I was 15. Ho hum.
I have enough minis for 3 tactical squads I think, complete with (awesome old school) missile launchers, and (not so awesome old school) flamers and googly eyed sergeants. Some I think will end up being a 5 man havoc squad. If I can get all the bits together right.
And finally the first of the Furioso Destroyer Class Dreadnaught Armours are stripped. I really am fond of these guys. Used to win me many a battle I recall....

PROPER retro 40K

Once upon a time, back in 1988 in fact, a very excitable chap opened up a box of the first plastic WH40K miniatures ever released. He had got them for his birthday.
25 years later, that same boy (but older, fatter and balder. A lot of all three to be fair) was idly looking through a box of old minis with his mate Mark after getting a good thrashing from Mark's Tau, and came across those very same minis from his yoof, and both he and Mark agreed that they were pretty cool. Then he remembered another of his friends, Rich, had told him that dettol removes paint from plastic minis without affecting the plastic. An idea was born.

These guys were coooool. Rocket launchers looked awesome back then, and the Marines were definitely harder. I know because quite a few of them wore their beaky helments at a jaunty angle on their belts, leaving their oculum-enhanced heads exposed to the elements. And they had knives. Proper combat knives with none of your new fangled chain blade gubbins. That said, they did have weird chain-bayonet thingies on their slightly anemic-by-today's-standards bolters. And their dreadnoughts were, well, a bit odd-looking. But still cool in a misty-eyed-I-remember-when-all-this-were-fields sort of way. What with all this Horus Heresy stuff being a la mode at the moment, I thought that it was time for a true retro-revival: I want to make my quarter century old Marine army useable again. Hoorah.

Here are two of The Bloodblades' (I was 15, don't judge me) finest, pre-dip:

In they go....

They look at bit nurgley when they've been in there 24 hours...

Tune in soon for a proper retro 40K update, where I will be figuring out whose arms belong to whom.