AdamH’s sneaky, skulking, smelly Skaven – (211 Points)

“I bet you wish-wish you had run when you had the chance? Now you are stuck in my den-warren without escape.

Perhaps you think you see eyes following you in the dark? Do you feel the weight of danger when you try to shut eyes? Then maybe you are not completely see-blind like most furless ones. My secret guards follow all who enter here and they have look-watched you for a while now, let me introduce you before they introduce you to a long, painful sleep.”

We have a new unit this month! Wooo I hear you say and you are right to woo because it is in my opinion some of the most characterful models in the old Skaven line, the Gutter/Night Runners:

In contrast to everything else in my army I imagine that the forces of clan Eshin have both the means and desire to keep their equipment in decent (for a Skaven) condition. Thus there is no rust in sight here, however you may be able to see some green hue to their weapons.

Yay more monks, this brings me up to 21 in total, or three ranks of seven. I will probably do at least one more rank of seven during the challenge but I think next month I will be taking a break from egg shell green:

Next up more clanrats! Woo again. This takes me up to 19 in total, why 19 you ask? Well that is because as I was painting the 10 for this month I realised that one of the models was in fact a slave and I didn’t think to build any more clanrats… so I will fix this when I start painting up more clanrats in a future month but for now they are a rat short:

Finally in my monthly tradition of painting something high value this month we have Lord Skrolk who is moonlighting as a regular Plague Priest:

I think I will be including at least one other Plague Priest in this force, one who will be a mage (this one) and another who will be a combat character.

To summarise, this month’s entry is:

Plague Monks x4, Additional Hand Weapons [28]

Clanrats x9 [54]

Gutter Runners, Additional Hand Weapons, Throwing Stars [56]

Plague Priest [73]

Total – 211 points

As is customary at the mid-point of the challenge here is a picture of what I have tackled so far:

So half-way and I am still going, honestly I am surprised as I thought if any army would kill the challenge for me it would be my Skaven. I think I have managed to keep the pace because as I think I said in my intro post, Skaven were my first Warhammer love and I genuinely love the figures. Normally I try and get an hour a night in painting then spend some time elsewhere but when painting my Skaven I have found myself painting pretty much in all my free time. If I can keep this pace I should hopefully have an impressively large numbered force by the end!

As always, I wish the rest of the challengers the best of luck, be safe in these virus ridden times (nothing to do with my monks, I promise) and stay inside painting!