While waiting for various washes from Maelstrom Games, I finished up the Orc boyz on my desk. Last year I had a grand ambition to build a Warhammer Orc army (or rather another one since I already have a very old Orc force from 3rd edition). The year before I was planning (and buying) a Warhammer 40k Ork horde. I guess I am attracted to green somehow. For once, I was prudent enough to make a small “trial” first: a Mordheim Orc warband. A modest 30 models to give me a feel for the drudgery of painting green skin. I finished the skin for all 30 and then stalled very quickly. A year alter, the core boyz are finally done. Not a very successful trial…
While taking pictures of Epic models I had to open some of the less frequently visited cabinet doors. This one is a blast from the past: A very old Dwarf army. They don’t make them like this anymore… sniff. I have vague plans to one day dip the entire army and redo the bases. The paint job is nicely “blocked in” without highlights so a bit of dip would go a long way. On the left we have some extremely old school Rangers and two units of crossbowdwarves behind them. In the middle is mighty Thorgrimm on his throne surrounded by three units of clan warriors (armed with double handed weapons, hand weapons and spears respectively). Next to him are the famous “Swedish Pikemen” dwarves including a piper! Finally same slayers and the infamous Uther’s Dragon Company in imperial purple. Oh, and all the old heroes and warmachines. Apart from the spears this might actually be a playable Dwarf list today…
A field-stone building for variety. This is a modified Octagonal Tower from Hirst Art. The floors can be separated. Like all my buildings, I sink strong magnets into the UltraCal casting material. This holds the floors together and also properly registers them each time. Click pics to enlarge.
Another fairly standard Hirst Arts design with a few bitz added from the Warhammer world. The statues are old Reiksguard models that I had lying around.
Many many nids are based and ready for painting.
The little stuff is hard to tell apart at this angle but we have 32 Termagants on the top, 18 Gargoyles below on the left, 4 Biovores in the center and 18 Hormagants on the right (and bottom middle). At the bottom of the tray are 15 Tyranid Warriors on the left and 16 Genestealer (with two Broodlords) on the right.
The heavier stuff is easier to tell apart but even more numerous. Top left are 6 lesser synapse nodes, 8 Spores and two major nodes. Middle top column are 6 Dactylis, 8 Malefactors and 3 Trygons. Right top column are 9 Exocrines and 6 Haruspex.
The small stuff one the bottom row are (from left) 6 Carnifex, 15 Lictors, 10 Tyrants, 8 Zoanthropes and 8 Raveners. Mixed in are two Dominatrix, a Dominatrix without Queen (to become a bio titan) and three bio titans (not pictured). With Tyranids I am never sure if the ratios between model types are “right” but there should be enough of everything for decent games.
Tyranid point values keep changing as the custom army lists evolve. Nevertheless, I am pegging this around 11,500 points. Enough to eat a planet… at least a little one.
Well, March was a miserable month on the painting front. My parcel from Maelstrom Games never arrived and hence I had no brown, blue or purple washes (needed to complete any one of the remaining Chaos models…). I only managed 1180 points and four objectives.
18 Khorne Land Transports – 180 points
22 Nurgle Plague Zombies – ~350 points
4 Nurgle Contagion Engines – 325 points
1 Nurgle Plague Tower – 325 points
1 Nurgle Objective
1 Tzeentch Objective
1 Slaneesh Objective
1 Generic Chaos Objective
Lack of painting supplies made me finish a few more grass terrain tiles (4’x2′) and finish a few Mordheim buildings (pics coming soon). But that doesn’t really count for ToEG. Will do better in April…
More objectives. The lack of painting supplies is really starting to hurt…
A quick “generic” chaos objective. I have a god-specific objective for each of the chaos contingent so I needed two generic ones to share between forces. This is the first one (one item, just two pics). The stones are from Hirst Art, the portal itself is a multi-layer optical film from a very old sample that I had lying around. It’s hard to tell from the photos but the film actually reflects light in different colours depending on the angle of view (across the entire rainbow spectrum). It’s also semi-transparent so models behind the portal will change colours when you look through it. Yes, I am a geek.
Wargaming Workshop 