Greetings Terrans, how goes it? I’ve got a bit of a photo dump for you today – I was looking to add a bit of a centrepiece to my Nurgle warband & found a zombie elephant from the Circus of Corruption Kickstarter (still available from Old School Miniatures). I figured that it would make an excellent base for a warband banner, and after a goodly amount of gluing & painting, I ended up with this beauty:

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The painting was really nice and easy, just Contrasts & plenty of drybrushing. I think I used just about every technical paint I own, as well as having a nice bit of freehand fun on the banner:

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Morbin also fits nicely in the howdah, so I have a readymade option if I roll (or chose) a Chaos Mount at some point in the future. I can even game with him in this guise by using the Warcry card for the Ogre cavalry leader, (such is the flexibility of Realm of Warcry!):

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Here’s a pic to show the scale of the thing:

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I decided to go with a three-eyed fly head on the big banner, and I really liked the look of it, so I went back and added the third eye to the smaller banner… It nicely mirrors the three holes on Morbin’s helm, and I will formally choose a third eye as a Chaos Attribute when the option presents itself :-)

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Anyway, that’s all for this week, have a good’un!

Greetings Terrans, how goes it? As promised, it’s a Realm of Warcry post this week – I was planning on tackling the Rotmire Creed, but November is already looking tight for time so I did the less numerous Beastman portion of my warband instead. I also managed to get a game in, but annoyingly failed to roll up any new followers again… (However, I did murderise a gazzilion Zombies, earned me some sweet sweet Chaos Armour & a spooky Halloween amulet of protection, and one of my Orcs got promoted too, so I can use that lovely store birthday model I shared a few weeks back, so still a great outcome).

Anyway, let’s take a look at the Beastmen. I managed to roll three and two back when the warband was created, so I’ve lumped them together for a total of five Beastmen. I decided to go for Ungors as a cheap option to pad my warband & went with three spears & two archers as a nod to my original roll and to give me some options at range. One of them also got the waband banner:

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I used a few spare Rotmire bits to hopefully tie these guys in with the humans, and I used yellow as a spot colour to link them back to the Orcs from last month. There are a couple of light mutations in there too, but nothing too overbearing I hope. Here’s the gang so far – see what you think:

Paint-wise, I added more yellow to Morbin’s beard just prior to this pic, and ‘m really pleased that the yellow is managing to bring them together and look like a cohesive whole. I’m really happy with the banner too – I wanted to reference Morbin’s ‘Biting Tongue’ mutation, and I reckon that might be what he is mutating into under his helm!

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I also knocked together a bonus Gor (aka a ‘big Beastman’) just in case one of my lil’ Beasties gets all heroic or something:

Hmmm…. I’m not in love with this guy to be honest, and he might get filed under ‘could do better’, but he’s ok I guess. He’s based on a Plaguebearer body with lots of poor quality oversculpting, and is just a wee bit messy really.

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Anyway, that’s it for this week, catch you all later!

Greetings Terrans, I’ve got a cheeky little Orctober / Warcry thing for you today. Back at the start of Orctober, I painted up 6 Kruel Boyz, as the first followers to join my Chaos Dwarf Champion. Since then, my local GW had their store anniversary, so I grabbed the special Kruel Boy boss & got him painted up as a final Orctober entry. Here he is:

He’s a brilliant mini – really nicely posed, and that lil’ vulture is a cool addition. I followed the same painting approach as I did for the first lot of Orcs, so no surprises there.

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As a happy coincidence, his pose almost perfectly mirrors Morbin’s… Bizarrely, this visually makes for a really strong pair, so this guy becomes an excellent Lieutenant for my Champion:

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And of course, he fits in beautifully with the rest of his kind:

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So that’s all for today – I’m still capped at 6 Orcs in my warband so this guy will have to replace one of the original six, but that’s fine by me. The Realm-of-Warcry droogs and I are meeting on-line tomorrow for a game, so I’m hoping that one of my Boys will manage to distinguish themselves enough to earn a promotion!

That’s all for today, I’ll be back tomorrow to share some seasonal undeaders :-)