Chris P's Chaos Space Marines - Rank and File Month 4 - Ten from a Thousand

Chaos sorcerer 52pts
9x Thousand Sons 270pts
3x flamers 27pts

Total 349 Points 

 

 

The Thousand Sons occupied a peculiar position in 2nd Edition - you could take a small squad of 3-5 as a bodyguard for a sorcerer, or you could a regular squad of 3-10 with no option for a champion of any sort. Technically then, this "classic" line-up of 9 Thousand Sons and a sorcerer is two completely separate units. Most of them are built from the metal upgrade kit from the early 2000's, with a smattering of newer parts, and of course one of the original 1990 sculpts. The squad could take up to three special or heavy weapons, so this was a good chance to use some of the impressive modern flamers.

 

I have to admit, these were not a favourite unit to paint - a lot of very fiddly details to deal with. Still, I'm happy to have got them finished, and even happier to have completed my third OWAC!

Pokrzyw's Sisters of Battle - Month 6 - Leader Month [475pts]

 "A single man with faith can triumph over a legion of the faithless. Untold billions of the faithful can never be opposed."

Plans for June.

After Mulligan month in May my plans were around finishing inquisitors with retinue. Entry level for June is visible on picture below.

 

Finishing additional sisters shall be bonus. Sisters from Month 3 were chosen.

                                        

Finally lack of canoness makes me sad, so i take small kitbash - seraphim leader with huge mechanical wings acts as a general for whole army (on the right).

Realization

As usual - entering month with procastrination level master, but last two weeks was busy..

Gallery

Points:

• Canoness (jump pack, power sword, plasma pistol) 101
• Redemptor Kyrinov, Arch-Confessor - 121
• Missionary (shotgun) - 25
• Battle Sisters Squad (veteran sister superior, 4 sisters, specialist flamer, specialist hflamer) 228
• Wild card.. 10 models (2 inquisitors, 8+ henchmens)  ?
  
  TOTAL: 475

Whats' next?

I have still about fifteen ladies to paint. Maybe it would be a part of the wrap-up month. I plan also prepare some better photo session, maybe in the heat of battle.

JohnR's Dwarf Month 6 - Leader Month - Lord on Shield

Another miniature I've had for over 20 years. I was never that keen on the King Alrik miniature and I never use special characters so this was an easy conversion. Not sure what happened to Alrik - he wasn't in the box of dwarves; he may have ended up on evilbay somewhere in the distant past.

So this is Dwarf King Skarrengrim. One of the leaders of the twin holds of Stannaheim and Zimmerpeak. Born aloft on his shield-bearers.

 

Obviously the shield-bearers don't appear in 3rd edition, but I reckon the rules and points can be ported across without any changes; they're pretty simple and not terribly powerful.

Stannaheim and Zimmerpeak are relatively recent dwarf-holds, founded by refugees from Karak Eight Peaks around the time of the fall of the city in -513IC. Skarrengrim can trace his lineage back to the royal houses of that magnificent but doomed metropolis. 

 

 

King Skarrengrim - Level 25 Hero - Heavy Armour, 2 Handed Weapon, Shield-bearers - 263 points.

Well, that's it for another OWAC. I lost a lot of motivation for this one part way through May and never really got going again! I still have a chunk of Dwarf minis left to paint, maybe they'll make it into a future OWAC but for next year I reckon I'll return to 40K. Or epic 40K. Or maybe BFG.

Or Bloodbowl... 

 

Pablol - Imperial Guard - Month 6 - Field of bones

 Bones bones bones

Behold my pile of shame. I shouldn't have saved the best for last as June was much too busy. Off to the field of bones.

I spent the two first weeks of June painting walls at a nursery and couldn't really do any painting at night. My friend was commissioned to make an artpiece for this nursery and the time table was pretty tight. The rest of the month went finishing other work projects that were on hold for the two first weeks and preparing for my holiday that starts now. Summer has also finally started and the few free nights were spent out with friends.

This is one of the walls of the public art commission I was working on.

Sadly an army is nothing without a leader. Though I'm glad I saved most of these models for later as I feel like during this challenge I've finetuned my painting a bit and feel much more confident working on these centerpieces now compared to the beginning of the year.

Here are the last three models for the Mortar team. One is a Cawdor and the two are masked up Orlocks. I was really struggling to find any Cawdor gangers all of this year. I bought some last year, but didn't realise I would've needed a few more and passed on a few deals.

I started painting the Techpriest already in May. So far it mostly just has the main colours blocked in. I've never really liked any of the original Techpriest models so I had to find something else. The old 6th edition Grave Guard models have the capes, eerie poses and perfect Blanche hats. I even extended the hat a bit higher to give it more authority.

I armed the Techpriest with a Bolt pistol and a power axe.

The last Lasgun servitor is pretty straightforward and will fit in well with the rest of the squad. I had chopped both it's arms off sometime around 2005.

The Imperial Preacher was also ready in May and got some paint while I was working on the last month tanks. He's based on a 6th edition flagellant with a flail that is replaced with an Imperial eagle. I also gave him a backpack and some equipment.

Probably the only Rogue Trader model is this headless psyker that I converted into an Inquisitor. I really like his pose. He'll lead the Cadian command squad.

My army leader will be this command squad. The power fist Catachan Lieutenant is a really cool model, but his Bolter hand is a bit stiff and at a bad angle for photos. I think this position with the Plasma pistol gives a better dynamic front pose.

The rest of the command squad:

The standard bearer is only missing it's flag.

The Cawdor heavy is missing the end of his weapon.

The Cawdor leader is as is.

The Bretonnia pilgrim will fill the last spot of the command squad.

I even got a bit gready at some point around April and May and started painting these Ratling snipers that I never managed to finish.

Last but not least I have this tank commander to go on the Leman Russ Demolisher.

Most of these models are already based and ready for paint, so I'll be working on them as soon as I get back home from my holiday. Luckily I have one more deadline to motivate me to finish this army. Ropecon is one of the biggest roleplay and miniature events in Finland and it's during the last weekend of July. They have an Armies on Parade themed army gallery called Show of Force. I'll try my best to have the army finished by then so I'd be able to show it there.

A great thank you for the Old World Army Challenge and all the motivating comments and messages throughout this year. I don't know if I've ever managed to build and paint this much in 6 months. Next year I'll hopefully be better prepared and have less to build and more time to paint.

Good luck for everyone else! Can't wait to see and read about your completed armies!

Ben's Stirland Undead - OWAC VIII - Month 6

As I've completed my rank and file and leader months, this month was meant to be about chucking in a few more miniatures as a wildcard.  I finished the mummies, which were the last of the minis I'd primed and based in January, really early.  So then I started a grand plan, sticking together a bunch of Archers and undead Tileans, which turned out to be just a bit too much... so I'll be going back to flock the bases and do a few touch-ups before the final post - you know, the things you only notice when you're inserting the pictures, and realised you missed something important (looking at you, Liche with mysteriously blank scroll).

My favourite bit was painting up a couple more of the banners from Warhammer Armies Undead (which meant I've nearly completed the whole black and white page), and touching up another banner which was one of the only surviving parts from my original teenage undead army.  Just as skeletons can be raised, buried and resurrected many years later as part of some evil scheme, so can miniatures, I guess.

Foundry/Heroquest Mummies, led by Dark Art Studios Tomb Reaper (Mummy Tomb King):

GW/Mantic/Wargames Atlantic Archers, led by Mantic Necromancer:

Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Horsemen (long-lost Tilean Mercenaries, I imagine) with GW shields:

June total: 742 pts

5 Mummies, Standard - 270 pts
Mummy Tomb King - 100 pts
11 Skeleton Warriors, Bow, Standard - 120 pts
Necromancer - 68 pts
6 Skeleton Horsemen, Light Armour, Shields, Standard, Musician - 184 pts

Jaakko and Rugluk - Leader month

Act 6

Rugluk stood atop the hill, armour dented, bandaged gut still leaking a bit. Behind him, his bruised and battered horde gathered, grumbling and picking their teeth. The siege had dragged on long enough.

“Dis time,” Rugluk barked, “I lead da charge!”

A confused cheer followed. Some orcs clanged weapons.

With a mad roar, Rugluk thundered toward the gate, his boyz behind him. Ladders slammed against walls. Rocks flew. The ram finally broke the gate-and to everyone’s shock, they made it in.

“We done it!” Snagrat screamed. “We’z in!”

But inside, the fort was… quiet. Too quiet.

No dwarfs. No traps. No boiling oil. Just cold stone.

The place had been deserted.

Rugluk stormed through the halls, snarling at shadows. The warband followed, less triumphant by the step. Finally, they reached the hall of the dwarf king. Empty. Just a few smouldering torches and a broken throne.

Rugluk found the tunnel entrance soon enough. It was dug out behind the throne and reeking of stale ale and beard oil. The dwarfs had slipped underground like weasels.

No loot. No prisoners. No glory.

Just silence.

Later, Rugluk sat on the cold floor of the keep, cradling a dwarf skull he’d found in the rubble.

He stared at the skull, one eye twitching and briefly contemplated the very act of being.

“So… dis is wot I gets. No gold. No crown. No songs.”

The skull didn’t answer. 

"Er... what's da plan now, boss?" a goblin asked nervously.

Rugluk stood, tossed the skull over his shoulder, and grinned, blood on his teeth.  

“We find where da stunties went. An’ we knock again.”

And so the final mandatory month of painting for OWAC Season 8 is behind us. This season felt shorter than the previous ones, and I’m surprised we’re already at the end! I’ve really enjoyed working on this army and look forward to returning to the project in future seasons. While this month was less productive than the earlier ones, I’m still happy with what I have to show you.

I painted Ruglug, his bodyguard, the Army Standard bearer, a troll minder, a spider swarm, and three mantlets. I also started painting a shaman and some goblins, which I hope to finish in July and include in the wrap-up post.

 

Rugluk Backstabba, the leader of my orc horde and the main character of the story. I really like this "Giant Orc Chieftain" model and thoroughly enjoyed painting him. Naturally, he has to be accompanied by his bodyguard.

  

Drodab Ironbrow — the loyal bodyguard of Rugluk Backstabba (and Aruglid Longface). 

 

The Army Standard of Rugluk Backstabba. I decided to stick to a classic design, as with the previous banners, and I’m really happy with how this one turned out. The tankard shield was, of course, captured from my Bugman’s Rangers, and I plan to reuse the tree design in my Wood Elf army-if I ever end up collecting one.

I had some spare time, so I decided to paint a troll minder. For now, he’ll be looking after trolls from Slargash’s army, but I will paint some trolls of his own later.

As I still had some spare time, I painted a spider swarm. The base includes a frame that holds two small dice to track remaining wounds.

This month in points:

 

 

 

SIEGE

You can find three mantlets from the group photo above. The mantlets are simply covers that cost 5 points each. The ones I painted are from Wargames Foundry, but I also crafted three more from wood. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and haven’t painted them yet.

And that’s it for now. I’ll need to hurry and get more models painted, as I’ve got a game scheduled with this army in just a few weeks.

Frank's Great Work Continued, A Daemonic Legion of Slaanesh - Leaders - June

 Last month was a bit of a hobby letdown. I was forced to burn my Wild Card month to mulligan as I sliced through the tip of my finger in a freak accident. It took several weeks for the stitches to come out and for me to be able to get back to work. But, with such trivial issues pushed aside, I got down to June being my Leader month. 

I have only three models this month, but all are conversions, two of which were on the complicated side. 

First off we have what I have taken to calling the Golden Pair. I wanted an Exaulted Champion to ride with the mounted Daemonettes in the Legion. I took a classic Slaaneshi champion and removed his legs. To this 'rump' champion model I added the legs from the two piece Chaos knight. This was just about right to fit on the Mount of Slaanesh 'seat' where a saddle would go. This was not a pretty adjustment though, and some belt accoutrements and a slung shield were needed to hide the worst of the sins on display here.

I have searched for many years to find the unreleased Mount of Slaanesh to include in my Slaaneshi Legion. It was clear from 'Stuff of Legends' that a key difference between the unreleased model and the Realm of Chaos era Mount of Slaanesh was that it was a single piece sculpt. What I did not realize until I hand one in my mortal hand was the reason it was never sold. It is about 60% the size of the released model. Any normal sized rider, daemonette or otherwise, was going to look comical riding it. But what if the rider was not 'normal' sized, I wondered to myself...  

I decided that my mighty champion would have a familiar. Since he was carrying some dread spell tome it seemed only appropriate. I had a tiny armored combat familiar, and decided he would ride the tiny steed.  To get him on to the Steed, his poor legs had to come off and get reposed to allow something like sitting on the steed. Unlike like his larger master, this was not as messy a conversion and only a tiny shield and some junk to give the impression of a saddle was needed to hide the scars. Lastly I printed him a tiny slaanesh icon to go on his helmet because there was no Slaanesh icon on the model anywhere otherwise.

 

The urge to make these two look as closely linked as possible was too good to miss. I'm sure there is a "mini-me" joke here somewhere. Both got a gold color scheme for their armor with pink lacquered shields. The steeds are mirrors of each other's colors, purple and green. Lastly the Champion got a fancy paint job on his daemon weapon.

 

My next leader character is specifically for the undead contingent. In theory the undead Minotaur Champion could lead the undead troops but as I now had a unit of combat skeletons and a unit of skeleton archers, I wanted a proper leader to provide some sorcerous support. I went with a liche. I decided this model was likely not part of the fallen cult who made up the Legions undead fodder, but rather a fallen necromancer who made a deal with a slaaneshi daemon to extend her life. The result was losing her soul, which is now carried as a jewel in the armor of the Legion's commanding Keeper of Secrets. She is indeed immortal, having cheated death, but has to serve forever at the head of a cohort of doomed fools for her new master's entertainment. For the model, I noticed two of the old Chaos Sorcerers clearly had been made from the same manikin. One was a generic Sorceress, the other a Slaaneshi spellcaster. I simply took the arm with the slaanesh icon wand from one and put it on the other. The result was a convincing sorceress. She got the same red paint scheme that her minions were given.

 

The Mighty Champion of Slaanesh with his mount and his mounted familiar, have a variable cost depending on the number of rewards the champion has. I wanted the Golden Pair to be cream of the crop so I opted for the full 360 points. I didn't buy him the Mount extra, but safely assume it will turn up in all those reward rolls. The Liche I opted for a level 3 caster, which meant a "Liche 20". She costs 345 points and has no optional extras built in. This brings has me adding 1,005 points to the Legion this month. The total models and points for OWAC VIII will be totaled up and shown off next month, as well as totals for the entire Legion beyond just this OWAC.