Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well. It has been a while, but I have been chipping away at a wee side project these last couple of weeks, and now I have a ‘still only counts as one!’ special to reveal. This is ‘Swampboss Skumdrekk’ from the Kruelboyz flavoured Orruk (i.e. Orc) sub-faction, who I gratefully received as a Father’s Day present:
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It’s quite an imposing model, and is fiddly as hell to paint once assembled… yes, I’m an idiot when it comes to getting carried away at build time & forgetting to do sub-assemblies! Still, while awkward, it was a really nice model to paint, with loads going on across the whole piece. The monstrous mount is particularly characterful:
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The rider is also pretty nice, but in my opinion, he does get a bit lost in the overall busyness of the model. I tried to mitigate that by converting the helmet to have a raised grill & showing the face off, but to be honest, it’s a pretty bland mug for an Orc! Still, I’m glad I made the effort:
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Colour-wise, I stuck with the green/yellow/brown look that I had used for the Orcs in my Nurgle warband, so this guy can slot in to that Nurgle crew, or he & his fellows also work nicely as a small Orc warband by themselves:
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That’s it for this post, of to BOYL next weekend to soak up some OldHammer vibes – looking forward to it :-)
Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog this year you’ve probably got the gist of this Realm of Warcry thingy I’ve gotten in to, but as here’s a quick recap.
Firstly, the (late 80s) Realm of Chaos books are awesome books, especially for randomly generating a Chaos Warband, but the period models are expensive, the rules of that era clunky, and basically I never got around to doing RoC warbands back in the day. New rulesets like Warcry are very slick, and suitable models are readily available and easy to convert, so I figured a mash-up of the old books for warband generation, and the new Warcry rules and minis would be a winning combo. My first warband using this method was that of Scynir the Architect, Champion of Tzeentch, and was an absolute blast to work on.
I’ve taken Scynir as far as I want to for the time being, so I wanted to start a new band, but this time I managed to convince 3 friends to join in with me! We’ve borrowed a bit from the whole ‘tale of 4 warlords’ thing, and have agreed to roll up one Champion each, along with 5 rolls on the Followers tables. This gives us six ‘rolls’ to paint, one per month, starting in September. We agreed to not be super-strict on sticking to the rolls as we’re all busy people & didn’t necessarily have the time or energy to make and paint anything too weird and wonderful, but we did all stay fairly close. We all either rolled or chose Nurgle as our power, and we all rolled up our total warband so we could split boxes of minis, kick around ideas and so on. The rolling ‘rules’ were that the Champion got one roll on the ‘Attributes’ table and one ‘Gifts of Nurgle’ roll. The five ‘Followers’ rolls could be rerolled if it got repetitive or if you rolled something you just didn’t fancy doing. The scene was set for the fun to begin!
First things first, this is what I rolled up:
Champion: Chaos Dwarf Wizard, Moronic & with Biting Tongue
Followers: 3 Human deserters, 3 Pestigors, 2 Pestigors, 6 Orcs, 1 human mage with 3 cultists (full disclosure, rolls 4 and 5 were also Pestigors, but I rerolled because I wanted some variety)
Next step for me was to buy what I needed, & get things built & primed. The 6 month challenge spans winter, and I didn’t want to risk a crappy undercoat. Then it was just a case of painting my Champion in the month of September…
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Morbin Festertongue, the Thrice-Infested Corruptor of the Secrets of Sigyorn!
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I converted this guy out of a Fyreslayer ‘Auric Runemaster’ with bits from one of the Wurmspat warriors & the Plaguebearer kit, plus some gribbles from the old Possessed kit. The Biting Tongue (gift of Nurgle) was easy enough to represent, but the Moronic attribute was a bit of a head scratcher… In the end I kinda settled on him being infested with some nasty parasite that exerts a measure of control over the host, essentially putting poor Morbin in the passenger seat at times. I’m not sure if that eye-tentacle thingy really gets this idea across, but that was the intent :-/
Believe it or not, this is the first Nurgle thing I have ever painted up, and boy, did I have fun! I do enjoy a messy painting style as most of you know, so this was right up my street.
Anyway, that’s all for now, plenty more to look forward to on this project! Cheers :-)
Greetings Terrans, I have another short post for you today – again, this is showing off some minis that were finished incidentally to my Fembruary efforts… Remember this lil’ lady?
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She’s from the Grymwatch warband for Warhammer Underworlds, and I couldn’t very well leave the rest of them in the box, so they got the same treatment:
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I’m not a fan of all the daft bits that AoS Ghouls seem to be obsessed with these days, so I trimmed all the guff off & sculpted on some rudimentary clothes. There’s a bit of subtle reposing in places, and the dude with the massive bone-club had his weapon replaced for something a bit more reasonably proportioned. The only mini that had no work done was the stupid pair of bats… I mean really, there ain’t much you can do with them is there? Here they are in smaller groups:
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I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out – I didn’t have anything in mind other than to have that female mini for my RPG campaign, so to end up with the whole lot done is a bonus. I doubt I’ll ever get to play Underworlds, but if I do, I have a warband ready to roll.
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