Back in the game!
January was a packed month for me with the family... and I saw it coming! So in my head, I needed to start with an easy pick, and one that would let me get back a painting routine.
Here they are, my firt 1260 pts of flamers!
Back in the game!
January was a packed month for me with the family... and I saw it coming! So in my head, I needed to start with an easy pick, and one that would let me get back a painting routine.
Here they are, my firt 1260 pts of flamers!
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| Pict Capture of Hive Tyrant on Chordelis |
"Reiksguard Knights, your Emperor is calling! Death or glory await us, but if we die, we will die as warriors, with swords in hand, and there can be no better death than that." - Kurt Helborg motivation call - from Warhammer:Armies 8th ed
Kurt Helborg - Grand Master of Reiksguard Knights
Plans for January:
I decided to take one of the most iconic units of Oldhammer Empire - Reiksguards on foot. They are slow, they don't have good offensive or defensive skills, but they look impressive.
I started month with huge entushiasm, although after week of paintwork I had two weeks of other activities.. And it means that last week was really busy ;)
Sorry for quality of photos, taken in very bad light in last evening..
Weather: Yuck
Mood: Efficient
Music: Grimdor
http://Welcome back to "Gnomes, but dead this time," where we follow the painting of an army of gnomes, who are this time, undead. Since the backbone of the army is mostly skeletons on foot, the manager of the project took ten of them to task, creating a hopeful dent in the sea of skulls.
"Since this is my second go at painting these clowns," says Ben, "I wanted to try something different. Originally they'd been painted with a ochre-heavy scheme to play into grimdark aesthetics (which were the style at the time,) but this spin I had set to work with the Gallagher palette in mind. I'm quite pleased with how they've turned out, with the high saturation halberds and the blue from within boniness."
While there's a lot to say about this batch now, there'll be thirty more skeletons just like them in the coming months. Rumor has it that the project manager may play with an inversion of the base colors, which is to say that some bones may be red, and some halberds may be blue, likely to help differentiate the units and break up the monotony. Another way to distinguish the sections could be changing the color of their hats, a tactic which we saw in OWAC 7 for the Alpine Gnomes.

Whatever strategy Ben ends up using however will eventually have to answer to the gods of lore. Where are all these bone-gnomes coming from? What do they want? Why are they so cute? While the word is still out on all of those questions, we do have a statement regarding the history of this force, and elements that may resurface as the project progresses.
"In 2024 I hosted an event for my LGS called Gnomemageddon where the earliest iteration of the skellignomes invaded a small village on the orders of Gneil the Gnecromancer. While story has it that he died that day in the shadow of his Abomin-umpkin, maybe that's not how the story ends. As far as I know, gnomes in Warhammer are quite longlived, so its not out of the question that it might take a little more than a sour fistfight to end the career of such an illustrious sorcerer."
Maybe that's true, and maybe its not, but there’s no time to dally since we've sunk all of our time into taking a really sweet picture of the unit as a whole... minus the frontmost, leftmost skellibob.
He was not ready for his closeup, and we will shame him later.
The warband crested the ridge at dawn, tired, hungry, and down to numbers Rugluk could count without taking his boots off.
Smoke rose from the valley below.
Rugluk narrowed his eyes. “Dat’s a camp.”
Hope stirred. Maybe a tribe. Maybe deserters. Maybe lads wot hadn’t heard about the whole “failed siege, mutiny, near-death” business.
They marched down, weapons ready.
They stumbled into a circle of snotligs arguing with a cooking pot. One snotling kicked the pot. Another tried to wear it. The only weapon in sight was a spoon. Bent.
Rugluk stared.
“…Dis is wot fate sends me?”
One of his orcs scratched his head. “Dey’s enthusiastic, boss.”
A snotling looked up, saw Rugluk, and pointed. “Oi! Big un! You 'now how ta make stew?”
Rugluk’s eye twitched.
They heard loud noises and the ground shook.
THUD.
THUD.
Two trolls stood behind the snotling mob, blank-faced, drooling, watching the fire with empty eyes.
One sniffed a snotling.
Rugluk’s grin spread slow and mean.
“You two - you’re hired.”
I decided to start the challenge with snotling bases and trolls. I caught a nasty flu and didn’t achieve quite as much as I would have liked, but I’m really happy with these guys. I managed to paint five bases of snotlings (with 28 snotlings) and two trolls. A third troll is nearly finished and will join the force at a later stage.
Enough talking, let's move on.
Hello everyone! Let's go for our first posts of Owac 9!
I started with one of my two big units : The Berserkers!
This unit of 20 fighters are ready to take care of monsters units and won't break easily.