Joe's Compact Chaos Company - April - Minotaurs (208 points)

I did fear that I might be on my way to the field of bones this month. I haven't had the weeks of enforced idleness that some have had (thank goodness, as I'm self employed) and I've been teaching the kids most days too, but I did manage to take this evening off and bash these lads out at the eleventh hour.

3 Minotaurs with light armour and double handed weapons @56 points each and a standard for 40 points.

The standard bearer is a relatively recent Bob Olley that I got from Forlorn Hope, the other two are old Citadel. I did a couple of weapon swaps to replace broken parts. To add height to the middle one I stood him on a skull from a kids' anatomical model from a magazine.

I'm blown away by the standard of the entries- some absolutely gorgeous armies taking shape! Keep safe everyone, keep going with your armies and give Nurgle the swerve...

Adrian's April troll mailing service (226 points)

-Has been permanently cancelled

I wanted to keep this month a little bit simple so I focused on the biggest (point-wise) units. This is also my first time painting monsters, as my main armies have been dwarfs and eldars. While the later has some especially big units like the old school wraithlords, it is by no means a monster.

For the black orcs I tried also to get some experimental instead the usual greenish/pale orc skin and thought about starting from the purple to more pale-green. In the end, I tried also some purple skins and I quite like the results.

8x more Giant Black Orcs

Light armour + extra weapons
Banner and musician

[96 points]

I loved the old witch design. However, instead of the old iron lady I selected a local witch. It took me an entire afternoon and I am getting to the proper contrast around the freehand for such small scale. It was fun and helped me to continue improving, so objective accomplished.

Also: more checkers for the for the checker god.

Next, the two trolls. Initially I wanted to have a red skinned troll, but I ended doing a mess or "unintentional blanchitsu" with the red ink. so I kept going and it is now delighteously ugly instead of red.

Guest star of the month: a poor militiaman

2x Trolls

with trolly things

[130 points]

Pretty much that's it.

Stay tuned for the next month mental meltdown as I only have left a million of goblinoids for the last batch.

Adrian's out!

Brennan's April Post (253 points)

Oh this regiment!  I was tickled pink to have a go at it!  I have always wanted one, even when I younger and the RoR box sets like this were going away.  I was lucky enough to get the box and a set, I've added a few figs, in a bulk buy a couple of years ago. I thought they would be a great edition to the army challenge.

First the negative.  They are absolutely horrible to rank up.  I really like my figures facing the enemy head on and not looking to the side when in line.  To get these guys to do this was tough.  I got there.  I have to use the three fig unit bases with the tiny round piece.  I only had 2 of these so the use was very strategic.

Other than that I kept to the pallet I have been using all along, but I muted it a little.  These guys aren't elites, even if they are festooned with pistols...  So I wanted the unit to be a little toned down.

I also added a very similarly uniformed chap with a pistol in a dramatic pose.  I though it fit.

A few more pics...

And the command...

And some shields

So that's 21 warriors with musician and standard: 253pts!

Andrea's Sword Masters (260 pts)

Hi OWACers,

Here we go with April post!

This time is for Sword Masters, the central unit of the army: they are my favorite High Elf unit, worth to build an army around it! All miniatures of this unit are from the 6th edition, they already show many modern traits, with respect to the previous version, but I think they still retain an oldhammer flavor. I enjoyed really much painting them, as expected! ;-)

As for archers unit, I have prepared a proper banner: this time I have modified a classic banner from High Elf army book, changing the phoenix with the Saphery tower. I hope you like it!

So, here is the Sword Masters unit, all clad in their mithril and burnihsed gold heavy armor:  I used the same scheme color of the army General, to makes them as fiery and shiny as their lord.

The front rank, with command.

The second rank.

This month,  I added 208 (Sword Masters with command) + 52 (the unit champion)* points more to the list. This is also my half-challenge post, so the grand total so far is 712 points. And, here is the family picture at this point of the OWAC:

 

Well, I really looking forward to paint the rest of the army, which include Teclis: I am super-excited!

So, see you next month,

ciao, A.

* uhm... yes, in the introductory post of OWAC3 I forgot to include into the list the unit champion! ;-)

JamesG's The Frost Giant's Daughter's Father (200 Points)

April's entry is the short list with the tall guy.  

On paper, he's your every day run of the the mill Warhammer giant, but of course he's got to be a Frost Giant to go with the theme.  To that end he's rocking the Smurf color scheme to give him that hypothermia fashion appeal.  

If you look in the bottom left of the picture you'll see an interesting phenomenon; I woke up this morning and found that the basing substrate had begun to peel up from the base.  That's usually a sign that I've grabbed the kids' ancient PVA instead of the good stuff.  Nothing some super glue won't fix.

I gave myself the personal challenge to go back and try my hand at the ol' Eldar spirit stone technique, which was always a huge pain in the tookus for me.  This is definitely the best I've done on it to date, so  cheers to OWAC for giving me an excuse to get a little better!

April's highly detailed breakdown:

1 Giant: 200 Points.

AdamH’s fine upstanding rat-warriors – [213.5 Points]

“How are you liking your new home-box? Are your cells mates keeping you up at night? Oh that smelly green one? I don’t know his name, he doesn’t speak-speak much, I only know that he used to lead some smelly group of brutish Orcs, called the winter tribe or something, I think…

It doesn’t really matter though, just like them your furless race is soon to be gone bye-bye.”

A few more Gutter Runners make an appearance this month, they are the unit I am using to bulk out the points and I think you will see why I needed to do that at the end of the post.

So next up we have a new unit! The only unit in the army to feature non-rusted armour in fact. My force’s leader’s own bodyguards, the Stormvermin!

So, there is quite a lot different on these guys than the rest of the army. As I said above they have non-rusted armour and weapons which is mostly unique in my army (the Gutter Runners don’t really have armour but their weapons are clean). On top they have white (but a dirty-white) cloth. Finally their skin and fur are black/grey. Altogether I was going for a distinct but still unified look that doesn’t look out of place among the other units. I would be keen to hear if you think I succeeded?

Finally, we have the unit that I have been dreading the most, Skaven Slaves… why might you ask? Well mainly because the ten models you see below weigh in at a mighty 27.5 points! Considering that they are a useful re-directer unit and a very flavourful one for Skaven, you normally want at least a few units of them in an army. However the thought of painting 40+ models for less than 100 points wasn’t one I was looking forward to. Therefore, I am targeting a more reasonable single unit of 25 over the challenge and have started with the ten you see below:

To summarise, this month’s entry is:

Stormvermin x10, Halberds, Shields (Inc. Standard and Musician) [144]

Skvenslaves x10 (Inc. Musician) [27.5]

Gutter Runners x3, Additional Hand Weapons, Throwing Stars [42]

Total – 213.5 points

I’m pretty happy with managing to paint 23 models in a month, certainly a record for me. I think I will take a bit of a break next month and paint some high point models and maybe a few slaves. Hope everyone in the challenge and watching along at home is staying safe and healthy.

All hail the horned rat!

Jesse's Undead (1335 points)

This month was all lockdown so I got stuck into some painting. I was a bit worried after the earlier mulligan so I thought I would try and catch up on the plan I had come up with when I started. I ended up completing all of the units I had planned for the whole challenge so I am going to have to add in some extra units for the last two months.

The new characters, units and war machine.

I had a good time painting most these guys. The beast head champion and the beast pelt musician from the grim reaper unit were really cool miniatures. I had a couple of failures, my first liche and a vampire ended up in the stripping jar, which caused me to rethink my character choices. I painted a necromancer to see what trying to paint non-undead skin was like and it turned out ok so that gave me a necromancer. Next I wanted to try painting yellow so that turned into an army standard and resulted in all of the characters having a yellow element to make them stand out. Finally, the warhammer 3rd editition beastiary describes liches as 'power crazed weirdos' so I looked through my miniature trays to find something that matched that description.

Liche WIP

This miniature looked like it would work but I decided that a bone mask might make him look more liche and less chaos sorcerer.

The final breakdown of characters, units and war machines was as follows:

Level 20 liche 345
Level 10 necromancer 85
Level 15 undead hero, army standard, light armour 137
Level 20 undead hero, heavy armour 108
Level 10 undead hero, heavy armour 58
17 nightmare legion, standard, musician, spear, shield, light armour 266
Level 15 undead hero, light armour, double handed weapon 89
14 grim reapers, standard, musician, light armour 224
Stone Thrower & screaming skull ammunition. 85

Necromancer, Liche and Army Standard

The Grim Reapers

Knightmare legion

Stone Thrower

Brendan's April Clan Moulder - (214pts)

Bring on the Heat!

For April I think I painted the smallest number of models for my group of clan Moulder, but they all pack some punch.  To start I figured I would sell some rat mutants to the local clan Skyre to get a warpfire thrower.  Nothing invokes fear on your enemy like a fire rat!

Warpfire thrower team: 70 points.  Dousing your friend's Dwarves and Norse on fire?  PRICELESS!

Continuing with my Moulder theme I added three more rat ogres to the list.  I got a little off "old world" with these guys as I had two of the newer rat ogres.  But this would also mean that I would have 6 different sculpts of rat ogres.  So I talked myself into it.  Fee free to berate me.  I can take it. However, I do like how they came out!

And here is how they all look with my rat ogres from a previous month.  No two alike!

3 rat ogres: 124 points.  I also added some handlers for them as well.

2 pack masters: 20 points.  And finally, my army shot after 4 full months of painting Clan Moulder!

Lissanne's Undead- Riders on the Storm (336 pts)

First, let's get the mandatory points unit out of the way.  Here is the last of my 3 units of 20 skeletons.  These fine fellows have helmets, unlike their compatriots and also bat shields, and a last bit of scenery gravestones in back.

And onward to my month of distractions.  Useful distractions, but distractions none the less. ..
Did I do my Catacombs of Terror goal this month?  No.  But I only have 2 figs to go on that, and 2 months left, so I am in good shape.

 Once again, I got distracted by those Death Riders I found in my stash.  I painted 2 because I found 2 riders and here they are.  Looking through the figs for those missing undead dragon parts, I found a rider figure with a misplaced head, and thought a headless rider was perfect!  The other rider had been in the stash.

I intended to do one more death rider, the Zombie of Karr-Keel bandito rider.  But when I finished and cut the tab off, it turned out that the bandito had to go on the OTHER type of horse.  Didn't fit, no way.  The other zombies do fit, I checked all 3 remaining and matched them to horses.  So, he and presumably a friend will be good to go next month.  I love the burnt effect I got on the zombie horse! Points for next month, not this month.

And I got totally distracted by the OSM marginalia beastmen, of which I did six figures.  I chose the two jousters to represent my month of distractions.  I will likely finish the rest next month,   Here they are with a couple of the original marginalia.  But a unit of beastmen allies!  And what beastmen!

The snail and the fighter

And the nun-crow and snail deer

And lastly, my big zero pt contribution-  the Zombie of Karr-Keel plague cart,   I finished the cart I started 2 years ago.   I did do 2 Karr-Keel zombies this month (a goal) plus the horse.   Zero pts, as I already have a plague cart.  But I did  a goal for the month, just not in a useful place.  BTW, don't do lovely freehand on the sides of the cart when the wheels cover it! LOL!

So, as Dirge summons another unit of skeletons out of the ocean depths, she continues to convert the townfolk of Merchant's Reach to her cause.  The forces of Chaos have noticed her and are impressed, and send their aid by altering some of the townsfolk to join her mission-- to destroy her former temple.

So-
20 Skeleton Unit (20 shields, 10 spears) 230 pts
2 Death Riders  23 pts each  46 pts
6 Beastmen allies  60 pts
1 plague cart      0 pts
336 pts  total

Next month a wraith host, and definitely the two zombie riders, and hopefully the other 2 Catacombs of Terror figs and the rest of the marginalia beastmen.  Plus more Karr-Keel zombies. Fingers crossed!