Thursday, 1 May 2025

Cleanse and Burn in the name of the Emperor!

That well known indefatigable painter of miniatures and all round good guy, Lee Gramson, has been a busier beaver than usual and has made a humongous amount of progress on my 1st edition Space Hulk and Advanced Space Crusade collection. If you recall, this came about as a kind of a swap deal in that a copy of the ACW boardgame Battle Cry and a complete set of the Time Life ACW books went from me to him in exchange for the 60 odd figures he is painting. Lee is currently two thirds of the way through the collection and so he sent me a selection of photos and a video from his YouTube channel which can be found here:


Both his blog and his YouTube channel are worth a visit if you need some inspiration as his painting covers a wide range of historical periods and scales. His work is quite simple, stunning!

I had opted for an old school look to the Genestealers and as for the terminator marines I chose green as the base colour - mainly as it looks a little more military rather than the usual GW schemes. I fully intend using the collection for other games beyond Space Hulk and the first of these will probably be Xenos Rampant or possibly Grimdark, maybe even the Portable Science Fiction Wargame if that is even a thing! Anyways, enough of the waffle and onto to the pictures 


Marine Command group, a power sword wielding Captain and a pair of Librarians


Chainfist equipped Sergeants


Assault Cannons - the only way to be sure! The two Sergeants, the Assault Cannons and the Captain were conversions I made from the base figure.


Ready to face the alien horde


24 Genestealers and the first two of the 6 Tyrannids


Bio weapons to the fore!


“Bugs Mr Rico, Zillions of ‘em - I’m ‘a Burning them down!”

I am really pleased with these and Lee has done a superb job. As it stands all that are left are a further four marines, four Tyrannids (one more with the bio weapon and three with bio swords) and fifteen scout marines.

All being well I shall be collecting the whole lot a little later in the year and am looking forward to getting them into action.

Lee has done a superb job on these and I am absolutely delighted!

4 comments:

'Lee. said...

Oh David, that is indeed high praise and I thank you for it :) It is a pleasure to paint these for you in exchange for the ACW offerings, I'm delighted. I also appreciate the YouTube link, the channel has been steadily chugging along for several years now and covers a lot of diverse subjects. Really happy that you are pleased with results so far and I look forward to finishing them all off and handing them over during the Summer.
Cheers my friend,
Lee.

Maudlin Jack Tar said...

Great work by Lee. I particularly like the green colour scheme.

David Crook said...

Hi Lee,

It is worth pointing out that for me one of the reasons this has proven to be successful for me is the fact that you have involved me at every step so I really feel as though the figures are mine and not just acquiring a ready made article. Our collaboration has worked well for sure!

I am looking forward to getting these on the tabletop and letting the carnage begin!

All the best and thanks once again,

DC

David Crook said...

Hiya Maudlin Jack Tar,

They look very impressive and the green scheme is very effective. I wanted this rather than the more common red or blue as they look more ‘military’.

Lee has done an excellent job!

All the best,

DC