2400 Points Painted

I've finally reached 2,465 points finished, no really finished; painted, varnished (by hand) based and with movement trays.

I even managed to get a standard finished:

Well pretty much finished, greenstuff still has to cure but meh. I'm happy with it, it's all done by hand (obvious).

I was up at 6am to get it all ready for today's encounter, after all, it is rather rude to not put as much effort into your army as your opponent has in theirs. I have rather large boots to fill as my opponent's greenskins belong in the heavy metal pages. 

Battle report to follow; onwards to victory Clan Scourge!

Beast Tyrant Skriva of Clan Moulder

Today is my birthday so what better way to spend it than at the painting table? I picked this fig up off eBay awhile ago thinking he'd be a great beast master character, I know he's from the old screaming bell but I think he's turned out just fine:

I wanted his mask to resemble that of an executioners hood, but I should not have painted his top blue as it washes out a lot of the colour:

Ah well it's not so bad when viewed from above:

Best part however is his warp stone double handed weapon 

Unfortunately the back looks better than the front. 

Oh well

I'm very happy with the base, I think it's the best I've done on a 20mm base, making him fit on it alone was hard enough.

Anyway thanks for looking and for all you Ontario Canucks out there enjoy the paid 24_Cigarettes recovery day off aka Family Day.

Verminlord Xerxes Ascended

In my last game Verminlord Xerxes, my army 2nd in command did an outstanding job slaying all orcs set before him and as a result earned the name: Orc Hewer. I've never been one to give a hero a title, besides the one which comes compulsory with rank. (Chieftain, Warlord, Verminlord etc) until he's earned it of course.

As a reward for his efforts in my next 150pt game he has been promoted to 2oth level, earned the snazzy new title Sewer Tyrant and has earned some fancy magical upgrades. Of course, most importantly he's been replaced with a much cooler fig and paint job;

I'm very pleased with how his base turned out

The cloak took 2 cracks at it to get it as I wanted, quite chuffed actually.

The green 'warp stone' inlay was a bit of a bugger to get right but clearly (to me) indicates its' magical origin.

Of course one side had to turn out better than the other, ah well such is life

I initially attempted to paint a cloudy warp gas effect on the poison globes but after a couple of tries I settled for this. I still quite like it.

My initial plan called for a lightning patern on the 'warp blade' but in the end I settled on a fine line highlight; not my best but I've learned if I touch something up more often than not I'll bugger it up and so I say job's a good 'un.

I've been desperately trying to figure out if this bloke has an official GW/Citadel name at his time of release. If anyone can help me out that would be great. 

Hopefully this post will garner some comments as my last two submissions went tits up as it were. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Cheers, and thanks for stopping by.

Chaos Bipedal Ninja Ratmen

I replaced the opening lyrics to the old TMNT cartoon from the 80's/90's with this post's title and I've had it stuck in my head off and on for two days now. Yay.

Up until recently I've underestimated the Gutter Runners; but now I am a Clan Eschin supporter for sure and why not? Skirmishing units with poisoned attacks, slings, and access to a fairly comprehensive equipment list? Who's going to say no to that? 

They're pretty much the Skaven generals only hope for taking out enemy war machines and ranged troops without relying on magic.

As scouts they can also engage enemy regiments at a whim and are actually quite decent at harassing flanks. 

These are from the original Mordheim box, I assembled them years ago and finally got around to painting them up. They were actually quite fun and were my first attempt at highlighting black.

I'm rather pleased with how the black turned out for a first attempt. 

I kept the skin, fur, weapons, nets and wrappings the same as the rest of the army to help tie them in. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Continued 24hr challenge

So i was relieved from work only 2 hours late made it home around 1:30am

Straight to work, step 1 stripping (heh):

Here's the goop after 12 hours of setting 

I then put them straight into a cup of wash detergent 

From there I'm at work. For tough jobs I use sand just dip a toothbrush into detergent then into sand and start scrubbing it will peel most paint off.

But these guys turned out aces, no car primer used here, came off like butter; no need for dental picks or blue tac on crevices. Five more mins of work I could sell em as brand new.

Step 2 basing:

Gaps are filled with blue tac

Glue a 20mm base down on your thinnest sheet of plasticard because in 3rd ed jezzailachis are on 2x20mm bases, and count as weapons teams, so better they rank up.

Get a steel ruler, glue down another 20mm base and line it up flush.5

To save time we sand the base now 

A thin strip of GS melds the gap and we paint around where the gunner model is to be placed (I used a green paint it shows up shit in photos) around which we glue and apply sand. 

Step 2: base coating 

I used the army painter leather on the crutch bearer and white on the gunner.

First models I've primed without my lucky priming box but seemed to work.

Step 3 paint; broken down by colour:

Step 1: Eyes mech rite red followed by old blood red to "pop" after the wash coats.

Two: Pale flesh for the skin tones, I used to use elf flesh but it was too orange

3: Calthan brown for any fur touch ups 

I was going to bitch out and paint these guys up in my plague monk scheme but after reviewing this photo

I realized I gotta do the right thing and keep them in the clan scourge colours. Means more work. 

Fuck.

4: Tamiya for the blue clothing, love this colour used to mix with water to dilute but switched to lahmian medium, works really well, even without a wet palette.

Time now is 2:15 most of that has been drying time. 

At this point I'm just trying to get shit done:

Time now is 5:38am model is based, painted and still very wet. 

Once it's all dry I'll finish by 12pm then off to victory (not) for the Underempire! 

24 Hour Challenge

I used to do these all the time in high school and college, essentially you sit down with as much untouched product as you can, your preferred stimulants and attempt to get as much work on your army done in 24 hours. I've seen people crank out 40k ARMIES in 48hr challenges but that likely involved liver and kidney damage. Well today is the grown up version: 

I've a game planned for tomorrow and was counting on an ebay win to come in quickly, well it came in today here's a before shot:

So I've got 24 hours in which to strip, paint and base this little darling for use in tomorrow's game.

Oh and I'm off to work now until hopefully only 11pm and I get relieved on time. Ya right. But I will not be deterred 

So step 1: Stripping! (Heh) 

That's them in their own private bath. They've been in for about 5 minutes, see the paint already lifting? Lovely stuff!

See you all after work, wish me luck etc. 

Today's Progress

Third Warpfire thrower done, start to finish, took all night but its done

Fixed the bases on my chaos hounds, two of my faves:

Grippa 

Gnarles

Nice 200pt unit 

Up next Clan Scourge goes ninja styles