Month number 4 Ranks and troops - Albion's Regiment of Renown [395 points]

 Hello everyone,

just a couple of hours before the end of the months... I'm just in time to log my blog post before the deadline.

Now let's get back to the lore :

"It s said that KukulKan the giant blooded came through various feats and victories as he was growing ; but once full of pride he mocked the horned God to show the Island that he was beyond the reach of the Gods ... A beautiful lady offered him a golden necklace that was more beautiful than Kings' Crowns. It was his doom, a council of Druids came to him saying that he had to redeem himself in front of the horned God! Full of Wrath Kukulkan rushed them to destroy them but the necklace squeezed his neck !

He had to go through 12 laboors to be spared ..."

One of the laboor was to triumph of the Wights Isle's King! When he arrived in the Isle he saw the draugrs were already fighting some hybrids between wolfs and men ...

Beastmen from the book "Cranach of Morganloup"

So for these month I chose to paint the wolfmen aka the Faoladhs! 

As the lore of Albion is a bit blurry i took a lot s of freedom in making my army. When I was a young lad, the bearmen of Urslo were one of my favorite DOW regiment. I was willing to get them again in my Albion's Army.

Here is the group with a Druidess

As I was building them, I remembered the beastman from this old french comic book "Cranach of Morganloup" here are a couple of pictures:

They really have a look of medieval Moreau's island monsters. So as I was listening to the Moreau's Island audio book, I was more than inspired to paint them, here there are:

I made them some shields a bit like the one of Urslo but with wolf paws.

The heads are from Maximini miniatures (normally for Wolfens curse company i guess)

I really like the whole aspect of them as a full unit. They're looking good. I kept a really simple paintscheme in order to give the regimental appearance.

Kukulkan and the command Group

I really didn't know what to use as the werebear and was willong to go with a wendigo like creature, like werewolf with skull head ... but I didn't find something i liked. Then in my bitbox, this old ogre was here for years and I was like he s just the right size and the story of Kukulkan came to my mind.

Anyway, how did he get the feoladhs to follow him? You're asking me.

"Kukulkan rushed in battle against the undead. After a quick triumph, the leader of the manbeast attacked him and a fierce battle ensued. Kukulkan destroyed his left eye and left him bleeding on the ground. The other beasts told him the Law!

You won, you must be the new leader! This is the law!

Kukulkan refused and didn t need to be followed by such creatures but as he looks through the land of the island, he was surely going to need some helps to defeats the undeads army so he accepted.

The whole crew answered as one "None escapes the Law!""

From this moment, the former leader is carrying the banner and Kukulkan and his retainers travel through Albion to complish all the Druids Laboors ..."

I also did a small wizard Druidess with a brownie familliar.

Pointwise for the month:

20 wolfmen of Kukulkan 335 points

1 Druid level 1                 60 points

A total of 395 points.

From the start of the challenge 350 + 395 = 745 points

Let's run away!!!!!

CopperOracle II. 3. Rank and File 3 - Orc Archers

"Arrers to me!"

the large Orc bellowed as the Severed Hands started to move out of the rocky pass and spread out into the lowlands beyond. Orc archers emerged from the massed ranks and gathered round the shape of the large Orc, his high knotted bone acting like a beacon.

'The chief wants us out in front, all cunning and seeing what the rest of the boyz is gonna be hitting. But we gets first poke and first eating!

Arzan surveyed the eager Orcs and then pointed to the front

"Now get out there and don't forget your sticks!"

Harboth had taught him well and now it was his turn to lead and pass on the Good Stuff


Month Four and sadly I am only month three for my Army as I had to take last month as my WildCard and use it to cover an absence of figures! Real life got in the way and between other commitments and feeling a creative low as a result I didn't touch my painting table. My Bloodbath Project is a passion project and I didn't want to just slap some paint on after a couple of last minute all nighters, thankfully this month has found me in a much better place and working on the classic citadel Orcs has inspired me again.

The orc Archers are mainly from the classic Harboths Orc Archers release as well as a savage Orc Arrer Boy who I have given a shield to help him fit in a bit more. I have picked up the Orcs over many Years and hadn't realised I had amassed so many of the Harboth Orcs so will now have to try and pick up the command figures so I can field them as a Regiment in regular battles!

The End of March, based and movement tray done but not much else

Finally started!

Severed Hand Orc Archers

The bowstrings were a last minute addition. I thing bows always look far better strung but I couldn't find the right material. thread was too thin and always ends up sagging and the wires I had were too thick until I found some jewellery copper wire which worked perfectly. Next time I will be adding this before the painting starts!

I have only attached shields to some of the Archers, this is partly due to needing to source some more but also so I can make some adjustments to them on the tray.

I based them all pretty much in the middle which has meant they don't fit in the tray that well, I have another set of archers which will be added to the next Orc tribe set ( the Kwae karr ) which I will base up so the two units can sit better and then add the shields for each.

This month also had the arrival of the basing material and I was able to finish the basing for them and go back and finish off the previous units

Completed Severed Hand Orcs so far

Warhammer Fantasy Battle Second Edition (Ravening Horde) Points Value: 75
Grand Total so far: 190.25

ZeroTwentythree's April Skaven (620 pts)

 April Skaven: Clan Skryre (Wild Card)

I thought I would get in the April Fool spirit and paint some crazy and/or dangerous things  for this month's entry. Thus, Clan Skryre month. As with many of my OWAC projects & entries, there's a bit of nostalgia behind it. (See below.)

At first I was going to paint 12 Clan Skryre models for my Wildcard month. Then I added "one" more model, a rat swarm. Because 13 is better than 12! But I got jealous after seeing big beasts in other people's armies...

I first started playing Warhammer not long after 3rd edition came out. After a bit of experimentation with various "armies" I eventually settled two, Skaven and Dwarfs. If I had to guess, I'd say Skaven were the army of choice 80-90% of the time. A unique army with a quite a few unusual options. However, I was always jealous of all the other armies that could select awesome mounts like dragons, griffins, wyverns.... hell, even horses. This was probably exacerbated by the fact that my second army was in a similar situation.

At some point I figured I would try summoning a monstrous host. I always loved Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and The Jabberwock poem in particular. I picked up three figures back then, two of the Citadel model and one from Ral Partha. Two ended up being painted in gaudy fluorescent Polly-S acrylic paints. Perfectly chaotic! A "brightly colored" mutation. Although the creature was borrowed, it always seemed like one of the most chaotic of the creatures of chaos to me.

So that was my choice for summoning. They were usually unimpressive on the battlefield and a waste of spell points. But I continued to use them on occasion just so I had an excuse to put the model on the table and surprise my opponents.

I still have one of the Citadel and one of the RP figures, but they have been repainted in more drab colors to serve another purpose outside the scope of the OWAC. But I recently picked up two newer Jabberwock figures, one from Reaper and this one, from Satyr Art Studio/Drew Williams (sold by someone else now, I think.) I can't help but think that Drew's figure is a tribute to the Tom Meier sculpt from Ral Partha, similar to the giant he did a few years ago. I had to bend the figure a bit to get it into a similar pose but a little more three dimensional

I prepped the figure before the month started, but then wrestled with the color scheme for weeks. At first I was going to try to emulate old color printings of the original B&W John Tenniel illustration from Carroll's book. Then I thought about ultra-technicolor-izing that into a vivid RGB color scheme. But I couldn't get entirely behind either option. I haven't been sleeping well, and one night in my sleep-deprived tossing & turning late at night, I had the idea to paint it red. I like the way it has a cliche meanacing "devil" look to it, but is still a Jabberwock and creature of chaos. "Brightly colored" doesn't have to mean fluorescent blues and oranges and yellows and greens.

The Jabberwock is a creature of Skryre because it is a summoned host.

But the clan has more direct yet equally chaotic and unreliable means and methods. I had to get a few different photos for clarity, but below are a poisoned wind globadier and the one non-Skryre figure I did this month, a plague censer bearer.

The plague censer belongs to Clan Pestilens, but as I am not doing any plague monks (I think the clan was underdeveloped in terms of rules and figures until later editions) I figured this fella fit well with the Wildcard entry.

Back in the day... as a kid, I had to request my FLGS (I didn't even have one of those for a long time, and just picked up whatever scraps of Skaven figures were available scattered model train and comic book shops within a reasonable distance.) I don't know how it was elsewhere, but the US catalog had one code, "Skaven." And whatever they sent was what you got. I was hoping for a whole great variety. I got a boatload of warpfire-throwers. Like six packs of fire-throwers, and six packs of everything else. Luckily "everything else" included 2 rat ogres and some globadiers, but almost no actual troops. For most of 3rd edition the only foot soldiers I had (clanrats, slaves, stormvermin, black skaven, plague monks, etc.) that were available were just plastic Fantasy Regiments clan rats painted with different color schemes. 

Back to the present. I wanted to paint a fire thrower for the challenge, and knew I had a few of the old six still lingering around. I could strip one team and give it a fresh look. But after searching for months, I couldn't find them! I ended up ordering a fire thrower  team on ebay, and as expected, about two months later I found the two teams (one of each sculpt) that I had been looking for. Not a horrible end result. I still have my originals, plus I got to paint a new team for OWACV.

There was only one jezzail team sculpted by Jes back in the day, but I used to use the hero with a rifle as my "champion" among my old jezzails. All of those old figures are long gone, but I managed to collect the hero along with a single jezzail team before the challenge started. I used a modern plastic figure in lieu of the jezzail (musket) brace holder so I had the required two figures. Unfortunately the actual jezzail team are among the figures I didn't get to finish in time this month.

Not a terribly clear image, but I also painted one of the two "gas mask" poisoned wind globadiers I had planned for this month.

Lastly was the sort of "bonus" figures of the month. I never used a swarm host in 3rd edition. No one has in any of the games I've played or watched. This is the single most expensive figure (points wise) in the Skaven army and I just don't get it. But I had some extra swarm figures from 6th edition (I think?) which look pretty nice but are meant for a 50x50 base. Since no one I knew ever used swarms in 3rd ed. it came as a surprise to me that they go on 50mm diameter bases. Or 50mm radius bases. As discovered by the OWACV Team Skaven, there is a conflict in the rules, but I had already based mine on 50mm diameter. I think I will probably make a 50mm radius base with some additional rats for this swarm to fit inro so I can play it either way. Well... not exactly, because actually playing a swarm seems like a complete waste of effort. But maybe just so I can have it in my collection. :)

April Points:

50 pts          2 Poisoned Wind Globadiers

81 pts          Warpfire-Thrower Team

39 pts          Jezzail

200 pts       Jabberwock

250 pts       Rat Swarm

620 pts         April TOTAL

1,043 pts       OWAC TOTAL (so far)

Slaaneshchild's The disappointing rank and file month

 Hello everyone ! 

Just as I planned, I was too ambitious this month... I tried to paint many things at the same time and I didn't finish many.

I wanted to speed paint them to post them tonight, but honestly that's a pity. So it will wait.

Nevermind, next month will be very crowded !

For this month... Daemonettes month AGAIN ! 

6 mounted Daemonettes.

In order ladies, I said !

Ian's Mordheim - Johàn von Hallark the First and The Brotherhood of the Cleansing Bastards

 BURN!

     - Johàn von Hallark the First

Johàn von Hallark the First and The Brotherhood of the Cleansing Bastards are roaming the streets of the city of the Damned in search of bloody heretics and any human or non human scum. Their mission is straightforward: torture, burn and kill all warlocks, witches, sorcerers, fortune-tellers, necromancers, worshippers of the dark gods, deviants, mutants, blasphemers, sinners, utterers of profanities, servants of Daemons, or composers of corrupting music, among others (source: Mordheim rulebook).

Johàn von Hallark the First, armed with two pistols and sword - Witch Hunter Captain,100 GC

Gundolf Schildknecht, armed with sword - Witch Hunter, 35 GC

Günther Loos, armed with crossbow and sword - Witch Hunter, 60 GC

Wolf Felsenbaum, armed with sword, pistol and wearing light armour with Magnus - Witch Hunter and Warhound, 85 GC

Bernard and Wilburg, armed with flail - Flagellants, 110 GC

Gerwig Traube, armed with mace and fish, Norman Pfisterer, armed with sword and Archibald Weisgerber, armed with axe and puppet - Zealots, 78 GC

I tried to paint my witch hunters warband in a semi grimdark style to fit the setting of Mordheim. This was my last planned warband for the OWAC VI challenge. May and June will all be painting a few additional miniatures to expand some warbands. I will also complete the missing roster sheets and add them to each post that's missing one and maybe write a few more details for each post. Learning how to do good pictures of my miniatures would be nice too.

Cheers!

Ian

Ratwig's April OWAC VI WAB Romano-British Command Entry (229 points)

Presented this entry is Magnate Torquatas Novellius Atticus, Army General of a late Roman Army stationed in Brittania at the end of its days as a Roman province, and Decurio Gambinius Felix, his personal standard bearer (Army Standard Bearer). Torquatas displays his political connections by way of the purple stripe on his shirt and on his personal standard. To further tie him to his standard, the orbiculi on his cape is also displayed on his draco standard. He has two character advantages, "fabricae" and "born to the purple". Fabricae represents his having control of an armory which lets most forces under his command have the light armor option for +2 points each. Born to the purple extends his command radius from 12" to 18". He is not a fighting general, he doesn't mix it up against hairy barbarians personally, he stays behind the lines inspiring the troops and directing them during a battle. 

Magnate Torquata Novellius Atticus: 156 points

      Equipment: sword, light armor (+3), mounted on horse (+8)

      Special: Army General

      Character advantages: Fabricae (+15), Born to the Purple (+30)

Decurio Gambinius Felix: 73 points 

      Equipment: sword, light armor (+3), mounted on horse (+8), shield (+2) 

      Special: Army Standard Bearer (+15)

Total Points: 229

Inspiring the troops to feats of glory for Rome! Or at least not to run away at the first sign of the Picts...

These figures are by Footsore Miniatures, the general being modified by having his raised hand cut off and replaced with a Gripping Beast hand with sword molded to it so that he can now ride about the battlefield swinging it inspirationally!

That's it for this month, time for a Jack!

Ratwig out!