Kober's Skaven Hoard - Plague Monks 236 points

The lingering stench of the polluted air is a warning to all who wish to battle the Plague Monk unit. Leading the Skaven Hoard is the advanced unit of 20 Plague Monks. Hidden within the unit is two (2) Plague Censer Bearers.

Details: I painted two additional troopers as part of this unit (points not included in the 236) . This way I can field the unit with or without the Censer Bearers to surprise my opponent. I attempted to keep my color choices close to the old White Dwarf and 4th ed printed examples. The colors are bright with a mix of Yellow, Purple, Blue and Red. Paints : The army was spray primered Army Painter Leather Brown. I brushed on Citadel foundation paints, Vallejo Game color, Game color Air, and Army Painter washes. I paint with Zem brushes (3200 Kolinsky sable) and a synthetic brush for washes. I tried two new techniques with this unit. First, using a gloss over gloss technique on my washes. Second, to get the highlights bright I first highlighted with bleached bone and then painted on the Game color Air covering the bleached bone. The swords have a final edge highlight of Vallejo model color fluorescent green.

Pete's Empire 3rd Ed - I Really Should be Painting pt2 (205 pts)

Month 1 effort

Well, month 1 is coming to a close and what a learning curve it was!  I have just managed to crawl over the line with 205pts but it was definitely a struggle and I have nothing but respect for all the brave generals out there who have managed to produce so much more and of higher quality.

I have managed 1 ogre, 3 halflings a wizard and 15 townsfolk armed with a variety of things but that shall be called "spears" :)

In terms of what this means on the table it is:

15 Ersatzsolder, Light armour and Spears - 120 points

1 Schwartzmantle (Level 10 Wizard) -85 points

I have taken some liberties here for appearance's sake, for example 1 Ogre is representing 4 spearmen and the Wizard is flanked by 3 Town Officials and Merchants who whilst not carrying their own spear are clearly financially responsible for equipping this militia unit.

Wizard and the Wealthier Burghers

Some of the spearmen in back ranks

Ultimately this unit will also be equipped with shields and number 30 troops....well, by ultimately I mean by the February deadline.  For that to happen , I really should be painting so thanks for reading.

Mike's January Nurgle (310pts)

Happy end of the first month of painting! As I said before that I've wanted to do a proper Nurgle army from Lost and the Damned which in my opinion is the best of the 3rd edition era books. But my favorites are Nurgle and Tzeentch so I may be a bit biased...

  So much Nurgley goodness

 So for January I decided like last years challenge to get the biggest unit out of the way, so I painted up the Nightmare Legion that had been gathering dust in a bin. I have been sitting on them in the faint hope that fantastic eBay deal on a vintage skeleton horde or army box would appear, but as that is not to be then the next best thing is to field them as Plague Skeletons of Nurgle. This is one of my favorite units from the realm of chaos books and pretty much was the deciding factor in doing Nurgle for the challenge, and should I ever get that damnable box then I could use them as regular undead.

So luckily I had exactly 21 of the skeletons which fits perfectly with multiples of 7 rule for Nurgle. I painted them with my Coat d'arms paint using chainmail, goblin green, and citadel khemri dust as the main colors with red and blue for the gems and some of the belts and drum. I also luckily kept the original bases when I had stripped them when I got them so was able to reuse those since I am rather short of 20mm squares. In my hurry to make the list I failed to notice I needed a champion or hero to lead the unit so I redid the points to include a champion and musician in the unit as well as light armour, spears, and a shield to come in at 310pts for the month.

Dustin's January Goblins (198 points)

The first month draws to a close, and I've managed to knock out a solid number of models:

36 Night Goblins with Short Bows -- 108 points
3 Night Goblin Fanatics -- 90 points

 

Pretty quickly after starting the challenge, I decided to deviate from my intended list (likely to be a recurring theme over the coming months). I added more archers, figuring that I could field them as one big mob or a trio of smaller, nuisance units. Hopefully they can inflict the occasional casualty, or at least release their fanatics, before running away.

The figures are some Kev Adams sculpts from Black Hat Miniatures' now-defunct "Shattered Isles" fantasy range. They're nice, simple sculpts, not much ornamentation compared to the 4th edition Citadel Night Goblins or the more recent Greenskin Wars Doom Goblins, but that just made them easier to paint. I felt that painting a big chunk of infantry at the outset was key to maintaining momentum. Plus, I want to play some games at Cold Wars in March, so it was best to start with the rankest of the rank and file.

A trio of old-school Fanatics rounds out the January submission.

See you in February.

Nathan's The horde is coming - 217 points

Well slowly coming. My January output is a pretty low 8 figures. But that was the plan as I’ve also made a decent start on the 16 figures I need to complete in February. On that note I reckon the next two months will determine if I manage to complete the challenge as my plan for March is another 12 figures. Do all those as planned and the remaining months (with a mulligan thrown in) will be easily managed unless something totally planned arises. Anyway here is what I completed this month:

Sorcerer - 155 points
3 hobyars (+1 elites) with double handed weapons - 30 points (I deducted a point for the lack of shields on two of these!)
4 mourngul renegades with shields and light armour - 32 points

And here they are - arse shots and all!

goblinpaladin's Wood Elves - a January update (203 points)

It is nightmarishly hot in Australia. Canberra, where I am cursed to live, has been smashin' records and breakin' hearts. This mostly means that I haven't been able to get undercoating done, and when I have, I haven't necessarily been able to get any painting done.

At least, not without sticking to my chair. It's gross. I should've gone with goblins or trolls.

family photo! like every family, there's a surly goth

Still, I did manage to break 200 points. I threw the plan out the window a few days ago (when I had seven archers painted, six halfway done and weekend plans) and instead decided to paint up a couple of wardancers to make up the points.

This gives me:

13 archers. At eleven points each, that's 143 points.

3 wardancers. At twenty points each, that's another 60 points.

A total of 203 points. Mathematical!

(As wardancers have such idiosyncratic equipment choices and I haven't painted the shields anyway, I'm just pricing them as nudes.)

three wise kings. no, wait, that's different.

You might have noticed that these aren't what you might call traditional wardancers. I originally wanted to collect what I nicknamed 'elves with axes', as I noticed a couple of Oldhammery Jes Goodwin sculpts I liked (one is in this project, still to come). But as I started delving deep into the Mines of Oldhammer-ia, I awoke the Balrog of Elves are Really Cool. I rapidly expanded my initial 'couple of neat elf sculpts' into a full-fledged Third Edition army. As I scrolled through various wikis and old catalogues, my list of fun miniatures strayed from those labelled 'wood', including a few 'dark', 'high', 'sea', and 'Melnibonean'.

block of ten

I began to conceive of a more pluralistic approach to an elf collection. As the wood elf realms drifted away from the tedious civil war of the lost home islands, it makes sense to me that you would still see those primarily dedicated to Khaine, or to some of the other elven deities that are regarded in Ulthuan as less than savoury. You've obviously still got 'sea' elves (although I think that mine will mostly be river-dwellers, fisher-elves of the lowlands); even the wood elven courts should still retain some trappings and fancy things.

we three elves are warriors tall

So, yeah. There's a witch elf in there. She's cool; she's just really into Khaine. Some of the Glade Runners are really into Kurnos, you know? She makes a great wardancer when goblins invade or those tedious human horse tribes get a bit uppity. Really intense, yeah? Anyway, I've got to introduce you to my cousin. You'll love him, he's got an eyepatch.

two by two hands of elf

As for the other two, they are just some of the wood elf sculpts I like. I'm planning for the army to have lots of archers, a block of spears, some cavalry and lots of wardancers and animal handlers; no elves fighting with hand weapons in traditional blocks. So the elf sculpts like that get promoted to wardancers. I'm sure it'll all work out.

it is real hard coming up with captions

hey was there a limit on how many photos we were supposed to post

i just really like the flowers

i think this is all the archers?

Thanks for scrolling through all those photos of plastic wood elves from 1987! My partner took these photos, and so I wanted to use all of 'em.

that has got to be super uncomfortable

Next month, I'm planning at least another 12 archers (which would take me to 25/29 that I currently own), and a small group of 5 glade runner scouts. That would be 212 points. Let's see what the weather does.

Friday 18 Jan 2019; The Guardian

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Jeff's Dark Elves - Januaary - 210 Points

January's contingent is complete! (and there was much rejoicing)  I've continued with the predominantly Slaneeshi feel for the army.  I struggled a bit with the Dark riders, until I hit upon the pink manes and tails, after which everything seemed to fall into place fairly smoothly.

For those keeping score, we have:

5 Dark Riders @ 22 Points (110)

1 Level 5 Wizard riding a Cold One (100)

for a total of 210 points. 

January was unexpectedly busy, so I didn't get to the Hero on the dragon horse, as I had hoped.  Next month holds more cavalry and the first ogre. (and perhaps that hero)

Here are some more shots of the models. I hope you like them.

Skal's Blank canvas (205pts)

Month 1 or the adventures of finding a cohesive army color!

This month was a challenge, not because of the prep time on models or the time involved in getting the basing basing done. The real work was finding the colors I needed to match the vision in my head.

I had this idea of a force use to violence and guerrilla tactics, attacking the enemy . Emerging from the woods at dusk to scare the ever living crap out of the force they were about to punish for getting close to their homelands. The dark woods at dusk was what I wanted for my vision.

With this in mind I started with a few miniatures from each unit to establish how I wanted to paint my force. Of course my first unit had to be Wardancers. After all when I think back to when I first laid my eyes on Wood Elves in the 80's I remember the Wardancers and that article in White Dwarf 111.

Wardancers for me were the guys that mothers told their children at night to scare them to sleep. I dove into my Vallejo Panzer Aces line of paints and started pulling out the grays and greens till I found the colors that I thought would work. My starting unit of 5 Wardancers worked out to 115 points.

I wanted to use warpaint to tie the entire force together so I went with the bluish eye bar as a thing to carry from unit to unit. I also read a lot of the older fluff to figure out what hair color was prominent inWood Elf culture and the color that I kept coming across was silver/white, so I used that as a tie as well for my entire force.

I wanted to make sure my Warrior Kin band stood out a bit more from the rest of the force so I did the main portion of them in a uniform green. This small group of 4 Warrior Kin came out to be 48 points.

Next up was my unit of Lords Bowmen. These guys are going to be a unit of roughly 10 bowmen with a level 5 hero when I am done with them. This group of 3 is 42 points.

Here is a shot of my effort for the month.

For the first month I completed:

5 Wardancers 115 pts

4 Spear Warrior Kin 48 pts

3 Lords Bowmen 42 pts

Total: 205 pts

Some of you may have noticed the lack of shields. At this point I am still trying to figure out 1) what type of shields I want to use and 2) what I want my army symbol is going to be. 

I have a few Ideas of what I want to paint next month and I guess we will find out next month what I finally decided on. Till then I will leave you with my hero Bob Ross. 

Skal