AdamH’s Skaven final month! - Rank and file month

Here we are at the end of another OWAC, or at least the painting part of it. This month was my Jezzails, as well as more Globadiers and a few random Stormvermin that I needed to finish in order to complete a unit.

I also decided that the base on my Doomwheel from a previous challenge was simply too large to be practical for gaming so I removed it from that base, put it on a new one and reclaimed some of the giant rats from the old base to make a small unit. I also repainted the driver in my new black and red Skyre scheme:

I’m not going to claim any points for painting these as all I really did was the bases but it took up hobby time so I thought I would at least include it as part of this month’s work.

Month six stats:

Models painted: 32

Total points: 746.5

Chance of the Jezzails hitting anything in-game: 0

I also had the opportunity to bring the army (and some bits from previous challenges) to Japan and play a couple of games of Warhammer Renaissance, it really is a pleasure to see painted models facing off against each other on the battlefield:

So that’s it for painting in this year’s OWAC. I have a few finishing touches, mainly varnishing and then adding grass and tufts to the bases which I will do over the next few weeks ready for the wrap-up post in July. I can’t wait to see the army all together and then with all the rest of my Skaven, I haven’t put it together myself yet so it should be interesting seeing what it looks like.

Until the wrap-up post though I hope you have enjoyed following my rats come together over the last six month, I always enjoy painting them and I probably have enough to do one more challenge but not next year. I already have something planned for that but I will save talking about it until the wrap-up post.

AdamH’s Skaven month two - Big pew pews

I’m busting out my wildcard early this year. As everyone who has done an OWAC before will attest February is a brutal month, you are off the high of starting the challenge in January and with it being a shorter month it claims a lot of victims to the field of bones.

There was a real risk of me being included in them this year since I had/have two trips in Feb, losing me over a week of painting time. Therefore I bit the bullet early and decided to use my wildcard early and paint something big in size but small in number.

So yea, I went for my Warplightning Cannons and Globaiders, the first of the Skyre reinforcements for my force.

But AdamH I hear you say, those models aren’t from WHFB 5th Edition, the edition you play, and you would be right. However I strongly believe that “oldhammer” is a mindset and a style rather than a time period. There are plenty of models released today from some wonderful makers that really capture that oldhammer style. However you would be right if you were to highlight the fact that there are no rules for Warplightning Cannons in 5th edition. Therefore I will be claiming no points for these in the challenge, but I will claim them as being two models that I painted 😛

Anyway, enough justification, look at my models!

Also I did some OSL that you can’t really see unless you are close enough to touch the model with your nose, definitely the right thing to have done when I was short on time:

These two cannons enable me to play later editions with my army, and I have even seen some fan versions (WHFR) that have ported the rules back to be usable in a 5th edition style ruleset.

Next up we have the Globadiers, these jugglers are some great models but there aren’t very many variations in the classic style, so I painted all of the ones I have (I have since bought two more on Ebay and will be painting them in a future month to bring my total to ten), but here is a shot of each of the sculpts:

And all of them together:

So that brings me onto my month two stats:

Models painted: 10 individual bases, maybe 16 if you count each piece separately?

Total points: 80, hey look at that, same as month one!

Pointless details you can’t see when the models were built: Lots

Next month I will have much more painting time so will be tackling one of the bigger units, the Plague Monks or the Clanrats, so look forward to seeing a big block of scurrying vermin coming from me next!

AdamH’s OWAC VII Intro Post – The rats are back in town!

Why do I hate myself... a question I have been asking for years without an answer. 

Here we are again, me plus over 100 rats. You might be thinking that surely I must have run out of Skaven models by now? Ha, I laugh, I could probably do the challenge another two times with what I have left in my box of shame.

But yea, once more around Skavenblight we go:

Just like my previous Skaven entry I am looking at filling out my existing force with missing units as well as bolstering the core:

Mainly this means some additional Clan Skyre units in the form of a unit of Globadiers and while not technically from 4th/5th edition a couple of Warplightning Cannons:

As well as a few Jezzails:

And who better to lead this part of the army but a selection of Warlock Engineers:

I am also filling out a few older units with additional options, mainly this means random command models:

and some more Plague Monks:

For this year’s challenge I am targeting the following list:

Every time I do Skaven for the challenge I increase the number that I plan to paint, and somehow I manage to get them done. This time is no different, this is the most models I will have attempted in an OWAC yet (as long as we don't account the many small Giant Rats from last time). But if I can get them done I think my army will be touching 5k points when fully equipped! (On a side note if anyone in the UK fancies a game hit me up!)

Best of luck to the rest of the competitors as always, and especially to my fellow #TeamSkaven!