Friday, July 12, 2024

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.


Thursday, July 11, 2024

PaulM - Mórr's Wild Hunt (545 pts) - R&F Month 4

 I didn't forget, honest...


OK, I forgot a little bit. All month to draft a post and I seem to do it just before the deadline every single month. C'est la vie. 

Quite a productive month for me if I'm honest, didn't get 100% of what I wanted done, eh, done but did achieve a smidge more than the bare minimum. 

First up this month was Groth the treeman. A lovely Trish Carden sculpt that's part of her Harrrowhyrst range, and sold by Footsore Miniatures. This was a gift from my gaming group for my birthday as part of a wee Birthday Club that we've been doing for the last four or five years. I'm slightly ashamed to say that this is the only one of the lovely gifts I've received that I've actually built and/or painted...

Anyway, pictures:

Groth the Gnarled - Treeman - 280pts


Sticking with TC; next up for the month was another six Dryads. I'm straying a bit from the list present in the 4th edition Army Book, which only contained five Dryads, as I'm now up to 16! Which, if I'm honest, is a combination of them being an easy win as far as painting goes (zenithal, drybrush, contrast paints, done) and also the fact that I'm a fan of 6th edition Warhams and the smallest legal unit is one of eight, and if I'm going to do one small unit I may as well do two 🤷‍♂️

The Wizened Ones 3: The Vine'l Countdown - six Dryads - 210pts


Last for the month was five more archers (though they'll actually replace the figures I previously painted up as scouts in the army proper). These are, I think, Aly Morrison sculpts. Not ones I've ever really seen before (likely because everyone just seemed to use the monopose plastics for cost) and I must admit that I struggled with them a little. They are 99% complete, but I did skip the gems in this instance. I'll touch them up (and likely add some warpaint to cover for the fact that I flooded the eye sockets with so much wash I can't pick out their eyes), probably, before the final wrap-up post. 

Pine Glades Kindred - five Archers - 55pts


Now, those of you with eyes, may well have twigged that none of these are yet based. I will say that I'd not intended to leave it quite this long to do it, but I'm now £70 out of pocket on basing materials specifically for this project. Hopefully it doesn't look crap... but I do at least have a plan. 

See you in the wrap-up. Peace. 

Tom's Chaos Renegades - rank and file 4: 283points

So ... June. The last month of the OWAC. 
I should be feeling psyched, getting the last of the required models all finished but instead I have fallen in to a painting doldrum. I thought that maybe making more terrain would shake me out of it so I have made some movement trays a bit more Chaosy with the addition of milliput. Full pics of these next month with the full army pics🙂:





And then also experimented with some rocks made from foam - nice and easy. I've now learned not to put a rock onto another rock - it looks in these cases quite unnatural...

Sorry for the sideways pic. Some computer gremlins won't let me correct it :(




Then a huge portion of this month was put into Other Projects (oh the shame!).


I did manage *some* models though! 
Here's a Nurgle marine and his inspired fan sculpt from BeQuest Miniatures 👇







And the corresponding Slaanesh pair 👇







I'm fact I been loving the Tzeentch colour scheme, so I did another pair (again, GW and BeQuest) 👇







I then started on trying to round out the Pink Horror unit, and managed these two, to bring the unit up to Five 👇







Their respective Blue Horrors are currently sat in the base coat awaiting motivations...Hopefully they'll be done for the full army pics...


And then, the groove returned! But only for two miniatures. But daaang, what miniatures!


First up is Festimus from Knightmare Miniatures. I used one of Knightmare's resin Chaos banners to convert him into the Army Standard Bearer. I pointed the resin banner in place and created a tentacle from milliput to help hold it in place. Fingers crossed it never gets dropped! 👇




And now the finale! 
Drums roll, trumpets sound!
Behold, the Emperor in Alternate Chaos Colours👇: 






















I initially thought he'd convert to Slaanesh, so should be Pink to fit in with the rest of my Slaanesh. But, Tzeentch played a strong hand and influenced the other colours. I was really wary of ending up with a model with a scheme I was unhappy with (kinda like the undivided sorcerer), but I really like how vibrant he has come out. 
Motivation came from a paint set switch, so he's been painted using the Rogue Hobbies ProAcryl set, and a nod to Louise Sudgen in the prismatic sword blade (although I haven't yet watched the video, but I see it referenced a lot!)
I like the original Eye of Horus on the shoulder pad, and then the GW one on the kneepad to kinda show where the Emperor's allegiance lies...






And that wraps up the final working month of the OWAC! Hopefully before the final army pics are taken I'll be able to muster up the gumption to finish painting the last three BeQuest fan sculpts and their respective originals, and those four Blue Horrors. Unfortunately I have a sinking feeling that that might be too much of an ask, but it's good to have an aim and write it down anyway!

Here's the breakdown:


Intro - army list: link
January - rank and file/Khorne: link
February - rank and file/Tzeentch: link
March - leaders: link
April - rank and file/Daemons: link
May - wildcard: link

June - Rank and File
35...     2 x Nurgle marines (the previous Champion and 
FREE  2 x Slaanesh marines (I need to paint one more to be a countable unit)
70...     2 x Tzeentch marines
70...     2 x Pink Horrors
55...     1 x Nurgle standard bearer (counts as army icon bearer
58...     1 x Mighty Champion of Chaos
Total: 283

....

Final Army List as it stands at the end of the working OWAC....

Tzeentch:
52...     1 x Sorcerer on Disc
175...   5 x Pink Horrors
FREE  6 x Blue Horrors
240...   8 x Thousand Sons
FREE  4 x Flamers

Slaanesh
FREE...     2 x Noise Marines (need at least three to make a unit)
FREE...     1 x Fiend of Slaanesh
FREE...     5 x Daemonettes

Nurgle
40...     1 x Aspiring Champion of Nurgle on Palanquin + stand in
105...   3 x Plague Marines
FREE  1 x Plaguebearer champ

Khorne
FREE  1 x OWAC Champion
FREE  1 x Flesh Hound
175...   5 x Bloodletters
45...     1 x Aspiring Champion
315...   9 x Beserkers

Command + Extra
91...    1 x Chaos Lord
55...    1 x Army Icon Bearer
58...    1 x Chaos Champion
FREE 1 x Keeper of Secrets
52...    1 x Sorcerer
FREE 1 x Chaos Frog (the True Master)
FREE 1 x Tzeentch Familiar
FREE 1 x Propaganda bot

Models: 62
Points cost:1403

I'll probably mess around with the army composition a bit to make it feel like a whole army to me. Seems just like Chaos for me to go and paint Khorne and Tzeentch factions together...le sigh!

Full army pics, new pics of all the models, and an army composition breadown next month! 
Many thanks for reading and following along. 
This OWAC for me has been the toughest so far. 
Congratulations to all the Challengers who pushed on through and gave it their all!

🤘



Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Chris P's Rank and File Month 4 - The Bad Moonz

11 Bad Moon Boyz with 1 plasma gun and 1 lascannon: 168pts

Bad Moon Nob with mega armour, power klaw and plasma gun: 54pts

2 Gretchin Assistants: 6pts

Total 228 points



A mob of mostly Space Crusade boyz, with a chunky mega-armoured Nob, plus his personal banna waver and squigpiper. An awful lot of yellow to paint, which wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, but I'm very glad to have them done. And with that my second OWAC army is complete!


John B's Dwarf Force Ironbreakers and surprise 192 points

 Hello all,

We finally made it to the end. Congrats to everyone and be proud of all you have accomplished.


Dwarf Troops (Final Month)

Full Army shot 

Ironbreakers x16

Dragon Company x 20



Ironbreakers x 15 

Someone drunkenly staggered in to join the group making it 16


Dragon Company with a few modifications x 20

I want to say a big, BIG, thank you to Tom Young for giving me the opportunity to buy this amazing unit from him to paint for this challenge.


Dragon Company Standard




Ulther Stonehammer




Borri Forkbeard




Musician




Ironbreaker Standard



Champion



Musician



Drunk who decided to wander into the Ironbreaker unit




Of course I had to make some more terrain.

Pillers with Skull roses

Runic Guide stones

Wooden Mining Cart




Statue of Cannon and Crew




Sword rack and Telescope

You never know what you might find deep in the forest



Thank you all for following along. I hope you have as much fun looking at these pics as it was (as always) to be able to paint these dwarfs.


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