Mustafa’s OWAC VIII intro post. The Beakies Ride Again!!!

 Evening everyone :)

It was 5:20 am here in Japan and I was just about to leave for the airport, but as I posted this in the wrong blog and only just realised it is now 8pm here in Singapore and I’m now waiting for my return flight to Japan so this’ll be short and sweet (much like me! )

I’ll be doing beakies again this year, but it’ll be a fast moving force of jump pack marines and cavalry, plus a land speeder for a bit of support.

 The plan is to do four squads of marines, 2 squads of 3 cav (forgot to put the 6th guy in the picture), 1 HQ, and the land speeder. Plans may change of course, but this is what I’m hoping to get done.

All of that clocks in at just over 1900 points. Still not decided on a chapter though!

Cheers!

 

John B's Dwarfs 1407 points

 welcome to 2025

This year is no surprise. Its dwarfs!

High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer on his throne of power 300 points

Runelord Kragg the Grim (once I find one. Im pretty sure he ran off with a tavern wench never to be seen again) on his anvil of doom  309 points

Longbeards x 12, 180 points

Warriors x 24, 264 points

Miners x 12, 156 points

Slayers x 18, 198 points

Total 1407 points

Troops 798 points

Characters 609 points

 

And of course the tribute 

A rather grumpy wizard and his frog familliar

Looking forward to seeing all the amazing work this year. 

Best wishes to all

Chris P's Chaos Space Marines - OWAC VIII Intro Post

 It's my third year here, and frankly I'm loving it. OWAC has been a fantastic excuse to paint models I've had since my childhood, or just wanted since my childhood, and I've really enjoyed watching everyone else's project come together too. This year I'm returning to Chaos Space Marines, with a new force which stand on it's own or complement my 2023 army. Expect 

more of the things that I do - kitbashes, eye-watering Red Period paintjobs, and finding joy in fusing new and old.

First up, the general and his cackling chief advisor. I took two incomplete Abaddons from my bits box, mashed together the best parts of each, and replaced the missing parts with appropriate plastics. An even bigger sword than usual came from some old Greater Daemon, the claws of the Talon were heated and bent for a little extra drama, and a plastic spacer helped to repose the head. The sorcerer gained some wibbly bits (technical term) from a plastic Burning Chariot to replace his flying base.

Some champions that I plan to fit in as time and theme allow - Kharn the Betrayer (again, missing parts replaced with plastic) will be appearing as an anonymous hero. There's a very standard standard bearer, and a terminator champion that came into being because I stumbled across the classic terminator daemon sword.

 

A squad of Chaos Marines tooled-up for close quarters, led by a Realms champion who beautifully straddled the line between sci-fi and fantasy.

Ten Khorne Berserkers, bringing together 1990's and 2000's models with a smattering of resin, AoS parts, and whatever else seemed to fit. Khorne cares not from from where the bitz flow!

 

 Nine Thousand Sons and another sorcerer, again a joyful jumble of the last 30 years of Chaos.

This Land Raider is a brand-new model from the Horus Heresy range, chosen for how well it echos the original raider. I've seen some gorgeous 90's style loyalist paintjobs on these, but not a Chaos one yet. 

I painted the metal dreadnought in 2023, and this time I wanted to continue my trend of incorporating a Space Crusade model. After all, as the old Epic kit showed, it's a recognized pattern! The weapons were a bit of a challenge, since the Space Crusade defaults didn't match the 2nd edition codex at all. My solution was fairly simple - the lascannon from the SC expansion is enormous, easily big enough to count as twin-linked, while the Blood Angels librarian dreadnought provided a close-combat arm which fitted the static weapon hardpoint better than a typical fist. I replaced the force-lance with a Daemon Prince axe, although I may swap that for a hammer later.

Talking of Daemon Princes, I'm planning to fit this one in as a wildcard - I always liked this design, and it was nice to see it made available again last year. The 2nd Ed codex allows for a prince, although amusingly it's heavily discouraged. Still well worth painting I think.

 

 

And here's the whole force, ready for the adventure. Provisional army list is as follows:

 

Chaos Lord in terminator armour - 128pts

Chaos Master Sorcerer - 151pts

Chaos Sorcerer - 52pts

2x Mighty Champions - 116pts

Army Icon Bearer - 55pts

9 Chaos Marines with aspiring champion - 255pts

9 Khorne Berserkers with aspiring champion - 345pts

9 Thousand Sons - 270pts

Chaos Land Raider - 220pts

Chaos Dreadnought - 135pts

Daemon Prince ???pts (it's complicated)

 One final piece of business is the tribute model that I've painted for the contest organizers, and I've chosen a Heavy Weapon Renegade. This will be mailed in January.

 

Paul D's intro post - Asgard Green skins and associated tribes

I recall purchasing these miniatures from Games World, Kings Street, Hammersmith, just down the road from the original Games Workshop store, Dalling Road, back in 1985 as I wandered between Games people play, Gamers in exile and many other London wargaming stores. Back then I was heavily into Warhammer second edition and thus seeking alternatives to GW's Fantasy Tribes and C series, as I considered Asgard of far better quality and much fairer priced, even back then, GW were expensive for my humble pocket. But it was a slow process of purchasing five to ten figures a week, until I had enough to consider actually painting them. 

I'm unsure who the sculpted them, but Asgard were a starting point for some of the best Bryan Ansell, Jes Goodwin and Nick Bibby who found their way to GW and other manufacturers in and around Nottingham. 

Unfortunately, painting them was the worst mistake, following my initial efforts, I considered my efforts and the results just didn't work! Below are a few which have not yet taken a bath. They and all the others were consigned to a storage box in various cupboards as I moved home, as I was loath to sell them, in hope that my painting would improve to a standard where I could do them justice

So, here I am, almost forty years on, considering having another go at splashing a little colour over these truely classic figures. I know there's enough of them to paint ten figures a week, surprisingly, there's almost enough to reach the target of a thousand points with troops, what will take me over the target are my leaders, but just in case to make up the numbers, I have a few Games Workshop Fantasy Tribe and C series green skins, which I'll drop some colour over. But the priority are the Asgard Orcs and Goblins.

As tribute in taking part in this years OWAC - I offer this fellow, which I picked up at Salute two years ago, in a spares box, really didn't deserve being placed there in my opinion, which I've quickly spread a little colour over.

My intention is to paint the following list, but that's very much dependent upon how well the cleaning operation goes!

Type	Description	Number	points
Month One
Goblin Hero Level 5 Scout	Short bow, light armour	1	26
Goblin Scouts	Short bow, light armour	9	90
Month Two
Goblin Hero Level 5 Elite 1+	Short bow, light armour	1	36
Goblin Scouts	Short bow, light armour	9	72
Month three
Goblin Hero Level 10	Spear, javelin, light armour	1	30
Goblin	Spear, javelin, light armour	23	115
	Banner and musician		20
Month four
Goblin Hero, Level 5, Elite 1+	Spear, javelin, light armour	1	53
Goblin	Spear, javelin, light armour	23	172.5
	Banner and musician		30
Month five
Orc Hero, level 10	Spear, javelin, Heavy armour	1	97
	Spear, javelin, Heavy armour	23	241.5
	Banner and musician		42
Month Six
TBA

 Here's looking forward to the journey.