1500pts Skaven Finished

Well I'm halfway to my 3k goal, it's been a long road going back to March of '13. 

Here are some close ups 

Jezzailachis

Warpfire thrower

General/BSB escort Clanrats 

And my personal (aesthetic) favourite: rat ogres! 

Here's the army list:

20 Hero: Magically Inscribed light armour, shield, parasitic spear

15 Wizard

10 Hero: Light armour, shield, spear

5 Hero: BSB, relic banner, light armour, shield

20 plague monks: light armour, mus/stn relic banner

24 Clanrats: light armour, shield, spear mus/stn

23 Clanrats: light armour, shield, spear mus/stn

40 Skavenslaves: slings, spears mus/stn

4 warplock jezzailachis

1 Warpfire thrower

3 rat ogres & 3 beastmasters with shields

All I've gotta do now are the shields, which I've salvaged from the bitz bin from an old Vampire Counts army that was stolen from me 8 years ago. 

I'm so shit with green stuff I can't even make small circles for f*cks sake. Oh well. 

That's it for now. I won't be posting anything else for awhile; I've thrown out my back yet again at work so no pronged sitting for me. Looks as though my trip to Baltimore may be off as well .

Time will tell. All the best and thanks for stopping by. 

Today's progress: Plague

My finished unit of plague monks, 21 in total, an extra in case I want to throw in a plague censer bearer.

May I present warp squealer Festerlice, 15th level wizard and unit champion. After reading the rulebook I learned unit leaders MUST be placed in the centre of the front rank, for years I've been doing it wrong and placing the standard bearer there.

I also finally managed to finish;

And from the rear

It was fun to scratchbuild the base from 2x 20mm slotta bases and a strip of 2mm plasticard, I'm happy with the results, the verdigris could've been better but for a first try it's not too bad. It was also a pain getting the hoses to connect. I suppose I could've just thrown them on a cavalry base but after reading the armies book and learning they can join units in the same fashion as characters I had to make em fit on the 20x40, and it's well worth it as they are devastating when they score direct hits.

That's it for now, back to work for a stretch, on the horizon though are

My custom unit bases, very happy with these so far!

Feel free to comment, thanks for viewing!

Army Progress

Without further adieu...

Clan Scourge army progress includes 

52 Clanrats

42 Skavenslaves

19 Plague Monks 

2 Plague Censer Bearers 

6 Rat Ogres & 2 Beastmasters

1 Battle Standard Bearer 

Here's today's progress

4 Giant Rats

3 ginger Clanrats 

7 Clanrats of the brown variety 

Well that's it for now, with all this progress you'd think I was cramming for BOYL... :/ maybe next year. Good luck to those attending, especially warlord Snikkit and anyone playing for Khorne! I'm back on shift the next 6 days unfortunately so I won't be posting anything but I'll be reading ravenously for everyone's BOYL goodness.  

Today's progress

21 Clanrats in various stages of completion. You can see my characters waiting patiently in the back with a pack of giant rats circa '96. I'd originally planned on a unit of 40 way back when but sadly only finished a handful. The rest are lost to the mists of time.

If ur familiar with these then you'll remember they come mounted on a strange oblong shape so I filled in the edges with green stuff and glued on the sand. They'll be used as unit fillers in my Clanrats and skaven slaves. I'm on a self imposed ban on eBay and I've got just enough figs to finish my 3k list. I'm going to try and keep the mojo going tomorrow through Thursday.

Laters.

Battle Standard Bearer Finally Finished

Emissary Skrillix is finally finished, after 15+ hours of work. This would've been my entry into Chico's heraldry competition but real life got in the way. 

Some close ups

The standard

The 8 sided star and the unfortunate victim(?) making this a relic standard. 

And a shot from the rear (heh) for anyone interested. I'm fairly happy with it considering I'm new to plasticard, pinning, green stuff, and converting. I think the base is one of the nicest I've ever done. The more keen eyed of you will see the Roman numerals for 13 emblazoned on the rat's forehead on the banner. 

The trouble I have is that the vulture piece weighs a ton so every movement tray he stands on had to have an earth magnet glued down to stop him from tipping. I want to give a shout out to Nico for his banner tutorial without which I wouldn't have had the jam to even dream of getting Skrillix started.

Comments more than welcome. 

Today's progress

 42 finished Skavenslaves with spears, slings, musician and standard bearer. I popped a couple giant rats in as well just for fun and a motivator (slavemaster) to keep them in line, just for flavour not that my list actually calls for this unit to contain a champion. Here's a couple more shots:

And

So 42 down and a bunch to go (I really don't want to think about it right now; I'm just happy to see the unit finished, really really finished because I didn't give the little meat shields their own. 

Here's some work on my BSB, not sure about the staff's wrapping it came out a bit fat but in the grand scheme I don't think it'll really matter:

Still lots to do, I'm very tempted to show my wip banner but ill resist hopefully sometime this weekend. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Today's progress

Nothing crazy just my last 8 skaven levy ready for basing, and a bit of work on my BSB, painting the banner itself has been about 2 hours of work already and it's nowhere near finished and is nowhere near as cool as Nico's, his tutorial is really great and u should all check it out. I'm off to the cottage so no chance of entering Chico's challenge, would've been nice to have gotten the banner finished in time. 

Ah well. I hope the finished result is worth the wait. 

Hopefully I will have some more progress for you all Sunday night. 

Have a good weekend