Revisiting Warmaster - Spring Clean 2024

Like quite a few people, my hobby journey is a tale of two halves. Imagination captured as a youngster, but drifting away from the hobby around the time I headed off to university, before rediscovering the joy in collecting, painting and gaming quite a few years later.

Warmaster was pretty much the last game that captured my attention before I stopped my first hobby era. The smaller scale figures and design of the game was really interesting at the time, but came a bit too late as I was already losing general interest in the hobby. The army that appealled the most was Chaos, and I got as far as buying a few packs and painting up one unit of Knights. That unit was pretty much the last thing I painted before resuming the hobby 20-odd years later – it marked the end of the beginning of my hobby journey.

Fast forward to about a month ago, OTT community member Nogbadthebad posted up some packs of Warmaster Chaos units for sale on Discord. I noted the post, thought nothing about it, but a seed had been sown. That seed grew over a couple of days – this was a chance to revisit the last abandoned project of my younger self. Nog’s post was responded to, and I had a Spring Clean Challenge ready to go.

This project is all second hand original Warmaster figures, all being given a second chance. I’ve got ten units to paint, including my original Chaos knights. I hope I can work through them at a rate of about a unit a week, so it shouldn’t be too much of a challenge to wrap this project up within the Spring Clean window.

Here’s a list of the units that I’ll be working through over years next few weeks: