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Scynir Redux

12 Friday Sep 2025

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Greetings Terrans, last week I mentioned a project to create a 600 point WFB 3rd ed warband for an OldHammer event in November – a Norsca adventure as rival warbands compete to push their claim for the recently vacated crown of the Kingdom of Arsenduvnaewar. I decided to use this as an opportunity to do something that I have been planning for a while – paint up a lead version of my Tzeench Realm of Chaos warband, with Scynir at the head. The reason for me doing this is that even though I really like the warband as is, I’m much more likely to play an OldHammer game these days, and doing so with modern plastics just doesn’t sit right with me. Stylistically, the warband is going to look and feel very different – lacking the technical excellence of modern GW minis, but hopefully full of 80’s/90’s RoC charm. Most of the minis will be from Foundry, but with a bit of GW and others sprinkled in there for good measure.

So, every good warband should start with the leader, and in this case, I already had my leader defined – a Human champion with the Gift of Magic and Overgrown Hands. I also had the colour scheme worked out, thanks to my original version of Scynir, so really it was just a case of sourcing bits & making it happen! I used an old lead elf mage for the body, while the arms were donated from a Horror – pretty much how I approached the plastic version! The long hair of the elf hides any telltale elven ears, while the body is androgynous enough to work as a female human… I also added a small Familiar to balance out the base a bit, and this is what I ended up with:

Painting was pretty straight forward. I went with pink/yellow for the mutated hands rather than the blue/green of the original, but otherwise I used broadly the same orange/blue scheme as the original, (the blue came out a bit darker, but it’s close enough). Here they are together:

So that’s it for now folks, more to come as I start adding followers.

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 4 – Beginnings

18 Monday Nov 2024

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Greetings Terrans, I trust this finds you well. I’ve been looking forward to putting this post out because it marks the beginning of the end of my Realm of Warcry project… well, sort of.

So far, Chapter 1 has been focused on Tzeentch, and Chapter 2 on Nurgle. Both of those warbands have been expanded, and are both pretty decent sized forces by now. Most recently, I launched Chapter 3, dedicated to Slaanesh, and I certainly have more planned for that warband, but I couldn’t resist kicking off Chapter 4 in parallel… obviously, this one will be dedicated to Khorne.

So, as with all the other Warbands, this one started with a randomly generated champion and 4 rolls on the follower’s table in the Realm of Chaos books… and that’s where things started to get pretty weird…

For the Champion, I rolled a highly unlikely Lizard Man, and his ‘gifts’ were a missing limb, an extra eye, and Chaos Armour. His followers were no less unusual, with 2 Ogres, 11 Humans, 4 Hobgoblins and 5 Snotlings… yeah, Snotlings of Khorne! (I’m already reimagining the pump-wagon idea crossed with a Juggernaut of Khorne… Bloodling Pumpanaut anyone?). I haven’t built the followers as yet, so that will give me something to work on over winter, but I did build the Champ & got him undercoated before the weather turned. Here he is, K’horanak Dark-Star, Champion of Khorne:

He’s based on the newish ‘Seraphon Saurus Scar-Veteran on Aggradon’, who has quite a nice ‘come at me bro’ pose going on. I added some chunky Chaos armour, and I think the legs came from the old Possessed kit (with a slight toe-swap and a tactical rock to get the balance right). The right arm got given a whopping great mace from the Slaves to Darkness kit I think, and I modelled the left arm to be amputated but growing back, (because Lizards?), to reflect the missing limb ‘gift’. That little chaos badge on the right pauldron is his extra eye gift, but I’ve just realised that I forgot to paint it realistically! Don’t worry, I’ll get that fixed :-)

I went back and forth with black, grey and red for the scales and flesh, while the armour is a 3 part affair of steel, bronze and metallic red. The red was thinned Flesh Tearers Red over a gold basecoat if anyone is curious!

And that’s it for now folks, but I do have one last pic that I have really been looking forward to taking – the 4 Champions together!

I’m somewhat annoyed that Scynir is facing the wrong way, but meh – Tzeentch.

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 3 – part 5

10 Sunday Nov 2024

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Greetings Terrans, it has been a while again but I have made some more progress on my Slaaneshi warband – I needed 4 Beastmen to complete the band that I initially rolled back in April, so I decided to go big with 3 Slaangors, plus the OG Slaangor ‘Slakeslash’ that came with the Dread Pageant warband. Look at this for a bunch of sexy moo-crabs!

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Here they are as a group – a unit I’m unofficially naming ‘Surf’n’Turf’:

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These are very interesting models – they are big, (at least Minotaur size in oldschool 28mm scale), but they are slim and more graceful than any Minotaur mini that I can think of. The claws are a disturbing addition, and leave you in no doubt as to which power they belong to, though I find it strange that the one from the Underworlds warband has a ‘normal’ hand rather than a pair of claws… because Chaos I guess? All in all, I’d say these models are a hit.

Painting these took quite a while – there is a lot of detail to get your teeth into, and the full range of textures to play with. I stuck with the purple & the metallic pink, and used a slightly hotter pink as the basis for the claws. On that subject, the claws were particularly fun, with loads of scope for wet blending those lovely Contrast paints. There is loads of flesh on show, and I reckon a better painter would have a great time with tattoos and so on, but that’s all a bit beyond me these days! :-)

Here they are again, with Warband leader Keshala Glimmer-Tongue to show you just what big boys they are:

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Anyway, that’s it for now. I’m back on to studying again so things might slow down a bit, but with these guys done, I am free to start up my 4th and final Realm of Warcry band… Blood for the Blood God!!