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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

AdamH’s Skaven month five - Leader(s) Month!

OK, so I went kind of mad this month. I had a plan, knew what I wanted to paint and had it prepared. Then saw a model that had been sat on my painting pile for ages and decided to add that to the mix. Then I remembered an old conversion I made and sold and decided to remake that as well.

What I ended up with is a huge amount of characters/leaders that I couldn’t possibly play in a single game but that now give me a bunch of options so that is nice.


So I am going to start small and build from there; first up we have some assassins. Up until now I had just been using some Gutter Runners painted in a previous challenge as assassins however I wanted to have some of the newer models ready to use:




Next up we have some Warlock Engineers. I wanted to try and have one model to represent each of the wizard level available to them, plus the Arch Warlock himself, Ikit Claw! This also gives me a few equipment options like the Brass Orb and Warlock Pistol:






Next up is the conversion I mentioned at the start of this entry. So many years ago (15 I think?) I restarted the hobby and built a Skaven army, it was mostly the then-current plastics, I ended up selling this army along with all my Warhammer during one of those phases where I was questioning what I was spending my time on. Well there were a number of conversions in that army that I miss and this is one of them. Therefore I decided to try my best to re-create it and got pretty close! Here is a WiP shot:



Plus I made it so that the “Grey Seer” can be removed from the top and put on a standard base should I want to run him on foot. There are magnets under the base, in the top of the “Bell” tower, and under the seer:



I plan to use this as a Screaming Bell proxy (since a bell can technically be put in a unit of Plague Monks I wanted a thematically consistent one), or if I play later versions of Warhammer I suppose it could also be a Plague Claw catapult. Anyway here it is all finished:





Finally we have the big boi that has been sitting unpainted in my pile for years. I’m just going to show the pictures here, not much to say other than I have two Vermin Lords now apparently, so that’s cool:







Month five stats:


Models painted: 9?

Total points: 1,934 (lol)

Glowy rocks painted: Many


Next up is the final month! Yay! I have the Jezzails as well as a few other bits I have been working on throughout the challenge and will try and get everything finished together for a nice big finish. Good luck everyone!


7 comments:

  1. That's a great month and represents loads of work on both painting and converting fronts. It bodes well for your 'big' finish! :)

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  2. Very characterful, nice colours, it all goes together very well

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  3. What an absolutely amazing month! I was immediately taken by the Assassin's poisoned blades and Ikit's armour. But the Screaming Bell is just incredible. Love it!

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  4. Oooh, Verminlord colour scheme is very striking. And the Screaming Bell, reposeable with magnets, is the sort of thing I absolutely *love* and might have done myself, only yours is way better. What a great month!

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  5. That's commendable quality and quantity, especially for a leader month. I love the screaming bell conversion and it's great that you got a piece of your old army back!

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  6. The screaming bell is awesome!!!!

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  7. Seconding all the comments here - the screaming bell is great work!
    The more modern sculpts really fit in well with your older ones - one of my favourite skaven models this month though is that Warplock Engineer holding the ball 🙂
    Congrats on recreating a piece of your hobby history - it's gotta feel so good 👌

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