This month
genuinely almost killed me, I had almost three weeks of travel for work and the
holidays that resulted in only a week’s worth of painting plus a couple of
evenings here and there between travelling. However I am writing this blog post
at 23:30 GMT on 31/01, so technically I succeeded!
I totally took the easy route though, as
soon as it was clear I wasn’t going to get 20+ Plague Monks painted plus a
character I switched gear and painted a couple of high point
weapon teams to make sure I crossed the points threshold for the month.
So onto my
actual entry this month. Well as you can see it is pretty low on the model
count, first we start with two Warpfire Throwers. Some of my favourite models
both visually and in-game I love these guys. I have slightly modified them to
connect the barrel slave and the gunner by cutting some guitar string to
connect them.
All of the
slaves in my army will have similar paint scheme, dirty brown cloths and rusted
metals. I want them to look as downtrodden and stripped of any unique aspects
as possible to show their status in Skaven society.
The clans
however will all share a bright colour pallet (in this case yellow) and their
clan colour, which for Skyre is red.
Next up we
have the start of my Plague Monk unit which is just the first rank. A pretty
standard mix of the original 80’s models and the updated 90’s sculpts that I
think mix well together. I wanted them to be bright and sickly looking so went
with a very putrid green again with rusty, filth encrusted metal and weapons.
So this
month’s entry is:
Plague Monks
x7, Additional Hand Weapons (Inc. Standard and Musician) [61]
Warpfire
Thrower x2 [140]
Total – 201
points
A whole one
point over! Smashed it…
Team Skaven is on a roll! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThe red and yellow palette for the warp fire thrower teams works well and that sickly green really fits the plague monks.
Hope you have less travelling in February and a more relaxed experience with the next batch!
Looking good! Really like how the colors pop!
ReplyDeleteA great start for team Skaven! I really like the guitar string idea, it is a great touch. Also nice paint job as well.
ReplyDeleteThey look awesome. nice colour choice.
ReplyDeleteSecond the greatness of the guitar string, and your rats look really striking - neatly painted but still rusty and grim :)
ReplyDeleteI was looking forward to seeing these, and am not disappointed! Well done! Looking forward to next month's offerings!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I find your choice of colours for the plague monks really outstanding. Hope to see more next month!
ReplyDeleteThey look great
ReplyDeleteGreat ratz! Like the color schemes!
ReplyDeleteYes boi, looking good and glad you made it dude. Really like the green on the plague monks, don't remember seeing that when I was over, a full unit will look fab
ReplyDeleteGreat post - love the intro and the pics. The colour choices really work :)
ReplyDeleteI really like plague monk, nice work!
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