Blue's Shame...Unplanned Mulligan...

Well, time to face the reality that I'm taking my Mulligan this month. 

Go ahead....heap on the shame...I can take it...

The month started off very promising and I got a ton of work started on a whole bunch of figures.  But as crunch time approached my house was visited by Papa Nurgle and I've spent the last week either taking care of sick family members or being sick myself.  It couldn't have happened at a worse time for my painting.  everything is 95% done...but I just couldn't get the last few layers applied or the bases done in time...

Sigh...

Here is where I left things...

...Close but no cigar.

Next month should be a breeze though...:)

Cheers,

Blue

Kober's Dwarfs - Its Hammer time: Dwarf clansmen (220pts)

Hammer time:   Dwarf warriors .   Points - 220

The core of any Dwarf  army is its Clansmen.  

This unit's equipment includes 20 Warriors with light armor (mail armor) , shield, and hand weapon.

  A mix of axe and hammers. 

The unit also has an eagle theme:  denoted by the shields , banner pole, and helm crest. 

Command group

Dave's February Mulligan

As mentioned in my previous post, my plan from the beginning was to use February as a mulligan month to get a head start on March, which will have be the month I paint the largest unit in my army. You will see by the end of March that this regiment is really not that big at all, in comparison to a lot of the other armies on this blog, but I am a very slow painter indeed and thought it best to be as cautious as possible with my March deadline.

I have actually run into an odd problem with my plans for the final two months of painting. Neither March nor April will quite add up to 200 points! This is simply because I had a few higher-point units in the earlier months and this left too few points for the end of the competition. I may end up painting some "extra" models for March and April that aren't really in the army to try and meet the 200 point threshold, including perhaps the alternate Sorceress that I was thinking of using. We will see... it will be a little surprise treat for the final months.

Now, I had every intention to show you this month a lovely work in progress picture of the entire force so far. That is, until I unpacked the models from our recent move... yes, you guessed it, approximately a third of them have been damaged from the move to the new apartment! Tragedy strikes! Luckily, no real irreparable harm was done, but to put them in order again will take a few days of gluing and painting touch ups here and there. The Dark Elves will ride again!

Ross: Less of a shambles

I've had a good and bad start to the year. Good in the sense that things are generally going well, but bad that I had to mulligan in January because I've been so busy working.

I managed to do some painting as part of my work, but it was for my own miniatures. Notably, these little guys.

But they're not Undead! 

These are:

5 Death riders with lances, light armour : 135 points

Bens High Elves---Tonight's the Knight (180pts)

The post for this month will be short and sweet. I painted 4 Silver Helm knights that come in at 45 points each for a grand total of 180 points. I'm on the fence regarding the shields, originally I liked the dark purple now I'm not so sure. The transfers are from some old Eldar transfer sheet I had lying around and match the banner I painted last month for a different unit. I think these might be some of my favorite Citadel minis and painting them was a real treat compared to slogging through 16 rank and file guys. 

As always, thanks for looking and I'm planning on filling this unit out next month with a wizard, the army standard and my general. 

Blake's Dwarfs - And the Thunder Rolls...(234pts)

Ok, working on the pikemen (warriors) and the Goblobber and these guys. These guys got done first, and I am just not happy with the Goblobber, so working on it some more.

So here is a unit of thunderers, mainly blue and red, with the matching colors from the crossbowmen unit. I tried to fit some stripes in there, and used an old banner I had though I added some paint to it as well.

Thunderers - 13 points a model x 16 painted (+ standard and musician for 26 more) = 234 points

Here they are

Mike's Waagh Grogguzzler

I thought I could get by without using it...... but I did. The shame, the defeat, the not so silent judgment of my peers. I choose to use the mulligan.......

Well I took the mulligan, such a short month and I really didn't get motivated to get much done other than a goblin shaman, which wasn't in my list or 200pts (though I suppose I could have loaded him up with war gear...) But hey that's what a mulligan is for, making up for doing nothing important. I sometimes suffer, as I'm sure we all do the urge to paint anything that isn't what I should be painting. Like that big box of chaos with its siren call or the dwarves in cabinets. But now thanks to the mulligan I can relax for a few hours then prepare to paint my one of my least favorite model types to paint, cavalry!