Waill and Roll's whole lotta little bugs (1083pts)

 It's 6mm Warhammer 40,000, NOT Epic 40k!

>Astropathic comunication detected
>Translating
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>Ordo Xenos report
>Tyranid Bioform codename Exocrine
>Threat level attached
>High Priority
>Emperor save you.

Well... Only hours after my last post was published I discovered a very ancient document. These incredibly low resulution images are my only evidence of rules, for 2nd edition, for the Exocrine I painted last month. This shred of paper would have been packed with the 28mm version from Armorcast Miniatures and while it is pixalated beyond all use, we can at least see that the beast was 165 points.

It's not pretty to look at, but there it is.

So, that out of the way, what's new this month?

1 Hive Tyrant with Venom Cannon, Bonesword and Lashwhip 219 points,
3 Custom Ripper Swarms 60 points,
10 Hormagants 80 points,
10 Gargoyles 160 points,
1 Trygon N/A points
1 Harridan N/A points
Total points this month = 519 points

Which, added to last months beasties brings us to a tatal of 1083 points

That's the bulk of my smaller bugs painted (excluding some Genestealers) so the coming months will shift focus to bigger monsters, titans and perhaps some terrain. Hitting 1000 points is quite a landmark so I shall also spend a portion of March on a Battle Report for my next post.

Taking a closer look at this months additions, I started with another Hive Tyrant and three more bases of Rippers.

I've always love Hormagants, I remember the old metal ones appearing in my first issue of White Dwarf as a kid and have loved every iteration of the kit that has followed. These Epic scale Hormagants are pretty big and in my opinion out of scale, but they ceirtanly have a charm. The Gaunts are followed by a Trygon, there are no rules for this one in 2e so it's just here for moral (Synapse?) support.

Last of the new additions are the air wing of this force. Ten Gargoyles and a Harridan Bio Titan.

And here's the family so far. It's looking like quite a lot of bodies, there's a lot more to come.

Adrian February rank and file: Linden Way militia and dwarf engineers (192 points)

Rank & File month #2

Linden Way is a small frontier settlement and trading post that has grown around a garrison posted to watch the crossroads. However, the garrison moved South to defend Ortar from the goblin hordes. The small militia formed when the orc horde was spotted moving towards Meledir.

While the menace seems overwhelming, they shall not fallback, as they must buy time to organize the defences of Meledir. The fate of their families is at their hands.

A fun collection of militias that I have been collecting for years. This batch are made of Perry Miniatures, Midlam Miniatures and Armalion/Ral Partha armed peasants.

Yeah, I know, if I wanted to recreate exactly the two peasant ilustrations from the campaign book there were two citadel peasants exactly like those. But... I'm not expending silly money in this project and I do not have in mind complete a Citadel villager collections.

I've seen the one with the hay pointing with the fork at Nuln spearman level price and it's completely absurd. I'm happy with my fellow peasants here.

I went for a colorfull display of villager clothes, with mix of greens, browns and pastel colours. They will be complemented in the future with a small set of city guards to represent the militiamen with slightly better weapons and the bows.

I would have loved to include the Linden Way militia standard. However, I couldn't get the lot I've in mind from the old Citadel mercenaries, still in production by Foundry ex-citadel.

This month couldn't be complete without a bunch of the dwarf engineers from Ashak Rise. They're the old citadel engineers, and they all are lovely miniatures. I'd recommend that anyone that love dwarfs have a set of these fellas because they're a joy to paint and blend perfectly with all the editions.

In terms of points.
13 human militiamen: 117 points
5 dwarf engineers: 75 points
Gives a total of 192 points, 18 miniatures.

Next month I'll be in a work trip so expect that it is more light in terms of miniatures but I will try to get the terrain done as part of my Wildcard. Fortunately, the package I was expecting arrived and with that, all the remaining villagers for Linden Way. And of course, the tribute to our beloved Overlord.

Until then,
Adrian’s out

ChrisP's Orks - February - Leader Month

 This month I've painted my warboss, and also a little diorama.

 

 

 

 Like I hoped, Thrugg Bullneck works well in Evil Sunz colours.

This diorama is my attempt to re-create this classic artwork:

 Of course, it's not a one-to-one copy of the art, but I think I captured the spirit of it. I used a modern Horus Heresy marine because it's so large, making it easy to arrange all 3 orks around him. The orks were bashed together out of all kinds of bitz, from plastic zombies to chaos warriors. And yes, that's a marine shoulderpad on the screaming ork's head. For the colour scheme, I wanted something grimy and earthy to contrast with the marine, so I chose a "pre-clan" paint scheme for the orks. This was inspired by another artwork, the cover of the classic supplement 'Ere We Go.

Byron's Invasion of Ulthuan - foraging mission (395 pts)

An army marches on its stomach. And, goblin stomachs are often full of mushroom. 

While waiting to hear back from his scouts, Grom turned to the next important business for his army, Food. Nearly all of the food packed onto the rafts had been eaten during the voyage or was already spoiled. The goblins were hungry and needed grub in their bellies before they turned on each other. 

Night goblins shamans are skilled connoisseurs of mushrooms; it is a key ingredient in their spells and nogs. So, Grom sent Madlum the Shaman in charge of a foraging mission to find Mushrooms. 

Cimrond Joyriver greets the morning with a White Lion stretch,
while the brothers Kurwyn and Dolryll share their latest groovy jam.

Madlum, was smart enough to know that he didn't know where to find mushrooms on Ulthuan. But, he was also keen enough to know what kind of elf would. Those kind of elves always made themselves known by their particular kind of music and their proclivities toward stretching on rugs and breathing funny for a long time. As silly as they were to him, Madlum knew their mushrooms made the best ingredients for his magic and to get his fanatic friends all worked up. 

Kalerond lightstoned, standing wide in mountain pose,
tells of his recent retreat at Tor Elyr

Just as Madlum had told them, the elves made themselves known. Grobbit and Gribbit spotted the unwary elves from their vantage point in the underbrush. 

Grobbit peaks over the underbrush

Grobbit spies on the elves while formulating a plan with Gribbit. 

Teamwork makes the dream work - at least so says Grobbit.

Grobbit and Gribbit lower down a bit and wait for their buddies to spring the trap - with the say so of Madlum, that is. 

The attack is begun! Grobbit and Gribbit prod their squigs out of the bushes toward the elves. 

Eadrihyr Joykeeper grabs the reins of Shadowprancer
but the horse is startled by the unfamiliar monsters approaching

One of the elves tries to mount up and escape to raise the alarm, but he is caught by a second group of goblins that emerges from the bushes poking squigs toward the elves. 

Madlum is gleeful. These elves will undoubtedly know where to find the mushrooms he needs. If not they can make a good stew for Grom and the others. 

Now for pics of the minis:

The new lot all together.

Goblin Fanatics (30 pts each). The fanatic on the right is a converted Bequest goblin.

Madlum, Goblin Shaman Champion (83 pts). Madlum is a harlequin goblin sculpted by Kev Adams.

Squig Hunter Teams (8 pts each). The herder team on the left is another bequest miniature, but their pitch fork was swapped with one of the other hunter teams. The bequest team is giving "Goblin Gothic" vibes. 

Squigs (20 pts each). Mostly bequest miniatures, except for the dragon squig in the back. The Squigs are mostly good sculpts, but many of the other bequest sculpts have very soft details. 

Total: 395 points.

Finally, pics of my progress toward covering the entire shelf. Despite easily meeting the 200 point goal, and the minimum threshold for a rank and file month, I did not get close to my goals for February. 

My goal for March is to focus on models with bigger bases in hopes that it will close the gap. Lots of trolls, wolf riders and chariots are lined up for March. 

JohnR's Month 2 - Rank and File (195 points)

God I hate February - might just mulligan it next year 😜

Did get my painting quota done though :)

 Mutant Space Pirates!

These are more BigMrTong minis and were great fun to paint. I used a similar palette to January's space pirates to give the force so far a cohesive look.

 

 Mutant Troopers - armed with lasguns.

 Special Weapon Mutants - 3 boltguns and a lascannon.

 

Mutant Champions - lead by the Hero 'Butterbean'

Points:

Mutant Minor Hero - Plasma Pistol, Power Sword, Refractor Field = 49 points

Mutant Champion - Mesh Armour, hand weapon, Laspistol, Frag and Krak Grenades = 17.5 points

Mutant Champion  - Refractor Field, Laspistol and Hand Weapon = 16 points

9 Mutants - Mesh Armour, 5 Lasguns, 3 Bolt Pistols, 1 Lascannon = 112.5 points

Initially I was going to list all the mutations but they don't count for points values and are pretty obvious on the minis.

 

Finally I have my offering for this year - a Skaven plague monk - Squeeg Pussboil.

 

I always do Goblin Green bases on my WFB minis but for a change I experimented with a non-goblin green base. I don't like it and will never do it again 😅

 

That's all for this month - see you all in 5 weeks time !

 

Pokrzyw's Empire Army - Month 2 - Fire and Arrows - Rank and File 2 - OWAC IX

 Pyromancers - masters of fire - are the most unstable and terrible wizards. Any time when something burns around, one of this strange magos is nearby...

Pyromancer

Plans for February:

Another month that I had different plans (January shall be month of halflings, February shall be a month of Halflings.. March would be ..).

But I decided to finish archers from group no 3 and bright wizard from the extra stuff.

Realization:

Bright wizard is iconic person in Warhammer world. Yellow-orange-red colours need to be used. From the other hand bowmans is rather connected with hunters or scouts - green/brown people from woods. But also I had in my mind that there were one unit of archers from Dark Omen game:

Why not try to do Helmgart Bowmans? But blue was to bright, whole models was too dark..


Gallery:

Archers led by wizard

        

Points:

• Bright wizard on horse (59)
• 12 archers (120)
  

This month: 179
This challenge: 612

Whole Army after two months:

whole army after two months

Plans for March:

halflings ;)

Frank's Great Task, Building a Daemonic Legion of Slaanesh - February (Leader)

This month I worked on my leader model, which was already destined to be a Keeper of Secrets. In a daemonic legion battle, greater daemons are free of cost to the legion. However, a chaos power can only field up to it’s sacred number of greater daemons in the same place. Players are asked to agree on the number of greater daemons, but, if the players prefer, Slaves to Darkness has a chart to randomly generate the number. This chart can generate five greater daemons at most. Five is quite a lot, even with the amount of combinations available to the old Keeper sculpts. So, I tried to make each of my Keeper of Secrets models visually distinct from each other through the use of colors and conversions. 

This last Keeper was given the theme of ‘brawler’. I wanted him to look brutal and more mutated than his brothers. To this end, I gave him multiples of the one armored claw on the downward hanging upper arm bit. I wanted four of that claw to maximize the amount of armor on the model and because that claw looks 'stronger' than the others too me. It took a while, but I acquired three more of that upper arm piece. I then did a bit of snipping and affixed those claws to create a quartet of heavy armored claws with no human hands at all. I then took a spare tail/body piece from one of the many fiends I rejected after assembling this year's batch. I used this to give him a convincing scorpion tail mutation. I also used a very special eyepatch head. As Keeper of Secrets heads go, this is not one of my favorites, but this head is all that remains of the very first keeper my teenaged self managed to acquire and paint. I did not strip the original badly painted blue but rather used it as a primer coat and pressed on. I think it works well here, making a vicious model look even more brutal.

When I sat down to paint him, I had a couple basic considerations to keep in mind. First off, he was not going to be the same skin color as any of his brethren. That ruled out orange, pink, green, and yellow. Second, most if not all of his cloth would be yellow to tie him into the rest of the legion's models. I considered jet black for a skin tone, but in the end, I went with a deep purple. Mostly because I liked the effect that scheme had on a Fiend, I did a couple years ago. I went ahead and painted right over the original head. I like that this ties the model, and the legion back to the same effort I began so many many years ago.

This Keeper constitutes my effort for Leader month. Although greater daemons are free in a daemonic legion, they are valued at 900 points in the Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness army list. Finally, here he is posing with his brethren in the legion’s command group.

Astute readers may have noted that the sacred number of Slaanesh is six, and while I have maxed out the greater daemons the legion chart could require, I yet have only five here. The sixth slot is reserved for a special final model. I speak of the long lost unreleased Keeper of secrets model. It is pictured in Slaves to Darkness and can be known for the distinctive unarmored rounded crab claws, hanging downward, as well as the open hand not balled into a fist. If anyone reading this has such as treasure, please contact me, I would pay handsomely to acquire it.

[Pic courtesy of 'Stuff of Legends']