AdamH’s Skaven - Wrap-up – Indelible ink and ravenous rodents

Another OWAC down and another mass of metal painted by me. I mentioned it to our glorious overlord over messages at the start of the challenge but without a doubt this is the most productive period of the year for me painting wise. Furthermore I have painted more during the three OWACs I have been a part of than pretty much the rest of my (long) painting history. There is something about group challenges and the motivation of everyone pushing themselves together that really jells with me. I don’t think I have said it before but I am really thankful to be a part of this challenge each year and I honestly enjoy seeing all of the wonderful models everyone comes up with.

Anyway, enough soppy stuff, I know what you are here for, to see my awesome bod:

So had a bit more work done on the tattoo, top was finished minus the background and had the lower part added with a bad-ass assassin kicking some empire dude in the head. Next up is joining the two pieces together and then adding some background.

And yea the force looks great altogether, love how the big blocks of troops look, especially the screaming bell unit. Although to be honest I always planned to have the screaming bell inside a unit of Stormvermin.

Here are the totals for everything painted during this challenge:

UNIT	EXTRAS	#	TOTAL
CHARACTERS
Vermin Lord (600)		1	600
Warlock Engineer (56)		1	56
Grey Seer (340)	Screaming Bell (200)	1	540
Battle Standard (77)		1	77
UNITS
Rat Ogres (40)		8	320
Packmaster (10)		8	80
Stormvermin (9.5)	Halberds (2) Shields (1)	13	123.5
Giant Rats (2.5)		60	150
Packmaster (10)		10	100
Slaves (2.5)	Musician (2.5)	25	65
Clanrats (6)	Standard (6) Musician (6)	37	234
TOTAL			2345.5

I resisted the urge to get all of the models out at the same time during the challenge, including those I painted in a previous OWAC so getting everything together for some group shots was actually really exciting! Check out this mass of diseased fleebags:

Pretty much as soon as I finished in June I started planning the next (and possibly final) expansion to the army. I still have enough clanrats, slaves and plague monks for additional units as well as a few other units I haven’t painted any of yet (mostly Skyre), so probably not next year but the year after you may well see the return of the rats for one last squeak.

So all in all this has been another successful challenge, I have painted almost exactly what I set out to at the start and I am super happy with how the army looks altogether. Now I just need to crush some stinky greenskins with them soon…