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Realm of Warcry; Chapter 2, Part 6

23 Monday Jan 2023

Posted by Alex in Realm of Warcry, Warcry

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Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you all well. Sorry it has been a bit slow on the blogging front of late – it has been a hectic start to the new year with work & study pushing me hard, and the remaining time being spread thinly. Still, I managed to get the last of the originally rolled members of my Nurgle warband completed – three human ‘deserters’. The RoC tables make it pretty clear that deserters should be pretty basic troops, but I felt I had enough cannon fodder types & so went a bit more upmarket:

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These three fallen knights were all free, either given away or gifted over the years. The two Hammer lads, (‘Retributors’ I think?) , were pretty straight forward conversions, and just needed some Bretonnian bits, skulls and gunk to Nurgle them up a bit. I added a few trinkets to tie them in with the Rotmire Creed, along with the bone spikes, so hopefully there is a bit of visual continuity there:

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The sword’n’shield Knight Questor conversion was a bit more involved – he’s based on a bog-standard Liberator but with elements from Bretonnian knights, Space Marines, general odds-and-ends, and wherever that back banner came from:

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The paint job was a really messy relaxed affair – I really wanted these guys to look like they had been wading through a swamp for years, with some hints of faded finery still visible but very much decayed and corrupted. They actually turned out pretty colourful, but I’m hoping that the various touches of yellow and green cloth tie them in with the wider warband. Finally, I had some fun with the freehand on the Questor’s shield & back banner. The banner is that of Morbin of course, but the image on the shield is the Questor’s own device – whether it is a relic of his time as a Stormcast, or a symbol from an even earlier existence is unknown.

Here’s a final shot of the whole warband together – all the original rolls plus the 7 brigands I rolled after a game:

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This was a great little project, and I’m sure I’ll be revisiting these guys again, but I’m done for now. My next project will be the complete opposite to this – an Old Hammer lead crew for a modern sci-fi skirmish!! Watch this space :-)

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 2, Part 5

16 Friday Dec 2022

Posted by Alex in Realm of Warcry, Warcry

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Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well. I have December’s ‘warband ‘Realm of Warcry’ additions to share today – painting time has been pretty compressed so far in December, but I did manage to paint up the ‘Mage and 3 Cultists’ roll from my original warband generation. As soon as I rolled that back in September, I knew what mini I wanted for my Mage… Or should I say, Witch:

Officially this is ‘Fecula Flyblown’ from the Wurmspat Underworlds warband, and I don’t see any need to change that name for my warband. She is a fab mini so no conversion work needed, and she was just a really nice paint. I took it easy and muddled my way through in my usual way. A particularly nice touch is the weird Nurgle-Cat thing:

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Next up, Fecula needed three cultists to accompany her – enter some Rotmire Creed from the Heart of Ghur set:

These guys make for perfect Nurgle cultists if you ask me – deffo on the turn, but not yet the full-blown Nurgle schtick. Again, great minis so no conversions, and painted to suit.

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Of course, if you’re painting 3 Rotmire, you might as well do the whole gang, right? Here are all 10 from the Heart of Ghur boxed set, plus a bonus mook that was given away at the FLGS:

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Here they are in groups – mooks, Lieutenanty types, and the Leader & tank:

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I really like these guys, though some of the design choices do get on my wick… The leader’s weird froggy hat thing leaves me very cold, and the whole stilts thing for the more important members is just stupid, but I can overlook these gripes for the absolute quality of the mooks & the tanky ‘Bloated One’ (aka, Fat Wolverine).

Painting was very much business as usual, and was very enjoyable for the most part. One small note on the painting – for the first time ever I had to concede defeat when it came to painting the eyes… They are sooo teeny, and are really hard to get to! I gave up trying & just gave them glowy blue eyes because swamp juice or some shit, right?

Anyway, that’s all for this week folks, I’m hoping to get one more post out before Christmas, but in case I don’t, I hope you all have a good one.

What a load of Gnarloaks, (plus random dude)

26 Wednesday Oct 2022

Posted by Alex in Side projects, Terrain, Warcry

≈ 20 Comments

Greetings Terrans, second post in a week eh? Crazy times! This one is a bit of a cheat really, because all these bits were sort of lying around in various states of being painted. First up, there is this random Marine type:

I have no idea who this is, or why I have him, but he was a nice mini to paint! I’ve gone for an Inquisitorial vibe rather than painting him as a Marine, and, unusually for me, I went for a blue colour scheme. I’m really pleased with his cloak :-)

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Next up is all the terrain from the Heart of Ghur boxed set… I’m a bit hit and miss when it comes to enjoying terrain – sometimes I do, but I often don’t. This lot definitely fell into the latter group, but I persevered & got through the set:

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Phew!! Fair play, you do get a ton of stuff in the set, but it does get tedious from a painting perspective… All I can say is thank fuck for Contrast paints!!

I might go back to these and add some tribal markings or something to the bigger pieces of bone, but for now I am just glad they are done :-)

That’s all for now, hopefully I’ll catch you before the end of Orctober with a sneaky last-minute Greenskin!

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