Five of the twenty old style wardancers I posess. Most of them (16) are one of four poses, which is .. unfortunate. Later I picked up a blister which had several different looking dancers (eg the first and last of the pics above) which were painted a year later. I have something like 16 new wardancers and a similar problem. In an age of plastics with interchangeable multiposable parts, it looks a bit silly. Like a lot of my old stuff, not that fussed on the paint scheme which is mostly GW standard. But back in the day most figures were painted rather gaily, it’s only later that Warhammer took a turn toward a more gritty and dark nature.
All Fantasy army’s start out bright and gay in colour scheemes.. look at the dwarfs.. even they had bright colours.. now they are tanned and have bargk blue body washes/paintings. (Very Braveheart)
Even the Lizardment are tending toward dynosour colours with the only bright stuff being the gold and jewels which they wear.
Tau did the same thing in WH40k.. boy did those tank enthusiast get into wethering those.
True, true. going back over the old books is quite interesting. Very cartoonish, lots of bright colours. Not that that’s bad but I do prefer the later, darker more proportionally realistic