Byron's Army of Zargon - Wrap up post

Having dabbled with the ruinous energies of Chaos in his pursuit of Power (and trolling his Girlfriend's kids in quests), Byron became Zargon.

Before I can get into the wrap up stuff, I first have to share additional rank and file models I painted for this month:

Orcs with shield x3: 25.5 pts

Zombies x4: 16 pts

Goblins with shields x3: 9pts

Link to the Fan Army Book I made so I can play Warhammer with my army.

And, with that I have fulfilled my Oath to paint all of my HeroQuest Minis from 3 boxes of HeroQuest and the Return of the Witch Lord expansion. 

But, before I can share pictures of the complete army and talk about my travails and struggles, I have further additions for the final month: terrain!

Bone piles to liven up the battle field! (pun intended)

I also added stalactites to this terrain piece. I also positioned
minis on it to convey an allusion to the box art :) 

Okay, Now for the big pictures of the whole army that you have all been waiting for!

2925 Points

The whole army in one shot on my custom-made HeroQuest bookshelf (link for how I did it). 

15 Chaos Warriors bearing the Black Banner of Zargon and flanked by 2 warlocks

9 Fimir shading themselves from the midday sun with their shields.

3 Gargoyles guarding the catacombs of evil.

10 mummies lurching forwards, spreading their dire graverot.

21 Goblins chittering away.

27 Orcs ready to march on Zargon's enemies

16 skeletons (one is not in the picture since he was on Zargon's castle)

10 Zombies shambling in the dark corridors.

Terrain from the Realm of Zargon:

A small mountain range with a walkable pass.

A small mountain range with an entrance doorway.

Castle Zargon.

Reflections

Last year I noted about moving in with my partner and her kids and how my free time evaporated. That still largely holds true. I had to get assertive about carving out times in the evenings after the kids had gone to sleep to hobby. 

Prior to beginning the project I was playing HeroQuest with some friends in Portland. This really helped with my enthusiasm. However, we finished the game fairly quickly into the Challenge and this really sapped the creative energies for the project. 

I tried to keep up the pace of painting minis to match the quests to make my posts more thematic, but this was a hard pace to maintain. 20-30 minis a month is rough. 

Interim

Last year I speculated "Between now and the next OWAC I need to finish the remainder of my Gusseldorfers, sculpt up some more Gusseldorfers (knights, and a queen). I might then start sculpting some nordic dwarves." Frustratingly, this is the same interim plan this time around because I didn't get around to doing these tasks since everyone got dire sick and we had to relocate to a new home in December.

Next OWAC

Just like for the interim, last year I speculated 

    "I am very enthusiastic about the next OWAC. I have an odd collection of old citadel and marauder         wood elves. I have so many ideas! My plan is to paint them up like hippies from the 60's! I'm gonna     sculpt extra flowers in their hair. I've created a random name generator that pays homage to the             naming conventions of Forendron's last stand. I've gonna give them some banners with toxic                 positivity slogans on them like "We gave peace a chance!" "Good Vibes Only!" as well as some             alterations of beloved hippy songs! And, if the timing works, I'd like to recreate the famous Olley         "Pint Pals" with elves smoking."

This goal stands the same except that I have since accumulated even more elves for the project. :) 

My girlfriend took this pic of me after dying my
hair for the Zargon pic; I include it here to show that
 I am, in fact, not an evil wizard.