Realm of battle done

So the Unseen Shoppe recently acquired a Realm of Battle Board, which i volunteered to paint. Here are the end results:

 

I basecoated the entire board with a cheap black spraypaint, and then did a few layers of dark brown over it. i found a nice honey brown can, which then was used to highlight areas around the rocky bits. After  busting out my airbrush, i thinned down some grey paint and airbrushed all the outcrops. the entire board was drybrushed with a light brown, and the gaps in the rocks were airbrushed with thinned down black. i then highlighted the smaller rocks and skulls, painting then using the standard combination of washes and layers paints. for some extra detail i added small clumps of Lustrian turf in ares, washing them with earthshade.
For the hell of it i added blood into spaces that seemed appropriate. I'm happy with the end result.

Some big-uns being painted now

So yes, I finished my Gorebeast Chariot. also magnetised the dude with the halberd so i could use him as a hero if need be.

Behold!

And I'm currently working on my Daemon Prince of Nurgle:

 

Just need to fin d hi an appropriate head! i don't like the ones in the box so I'm hunting for the old Defiler heads.

Will post when he's complete!

Path to Power (pt 2):

I've recently finished up my Warhounds of Chaos and Knights of Chaos. So far I think they're looking pretty good. I made an order a while back for a chaos lord, Sorceror and Daemon Prince, but the S.A. Postal service lost 'em, so now i am reconsidering what i want as my Lord choices. A Daemon Prince will work, but i'm not too sure if i want my Major-domo to be a huge target, easily sniped and flying all over the place. Perhaps as a damaging threat, something to use as a scalpel, but not my Commander. My Chariot arrived yesterday, which has lead me to think of maybe mounting my Lord in it, but, to use a Gorebeast or standard, that is the question...

Nevertheless, here are some pics of my army!

The Wanderers So Far...



 Some Warhounds of chaos






My Knights of Chaos






Mr Slanty



My DoomKnight



The unit's Banner Bearer


And the Musician.



there's a box of Skullcrushers just crying out for me to buy them waiting at the Unseen Shoppe. I will have them this Sunday!!!!

till next time!

Treading the Path to Power

So in the last month or so I started up a Warriors of Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy. this will pretty much be the first fantasy army that I've started and intend to continue with, my Tomb Kings of ages gone by disappearing with the great migration years ago.As is normal, I started up with a box of Chaos Warriors and started getting my colour scheme ready. I had some models lying around from the days of Mordheim and used them as a test

Above are the initial colour tests. I wanted a corroded look to them, so I experimented with citadel leadbelcher and Typhus corrosion on the left and Brass and Typhus corrosion on the right. the cracked feel on the left was achieved using agrellan earth and drybrushes of browns and whites. In the end I decided on the right hand colour scheme, initially wanting the cloaks to represent the Mark of their specific Chaos God, in this case Khorne.

I then moved on to getting all the bases ready. This is officially the first time i am actively trying to base my models. in the past I merely stuck em together and then thought about basing afterwards.

Using some slate pieces donated by Bradley over at LeyzerBattle Blog, I painted a brown base coat and covered that up with Agrellan Earth, alternating the thicknesses to give differing cracks. Some grey, brown and ushabti bone mixes, drybrushed erratically, and the bases were complete.

Next step was to get the cloaks ready. I batch painted them, making sure I didn't paint on the glue lines. Shades of red with some Nuln Oil and then some brown with shading on the fur.

I forgot to take more pics after that, but finally i had completed one warrior.

After a few mishaps and some glue errors i finally finished off the unit, adding two extra warriors from my old Mordheim models, to round off a unit of 14, with space for a hero.

Then came the magnet adventure. after fooling around a bit with some magnetic sheets, i chopped em up and got them going, making perfect movement trays

and the magnet test....

..... think it works.

anyways, will be putting up more details of my army. I have a whole lotta hounds, knights and marauders to do, and some Hero models arriving soon.Till then, keep rolling sixes!

Roll for Deployment

So I have returned to the world of Warhammer 40k, with a vengeance! I've been painting, playing, arguing, drooling and generally acting like the crazy fanboy I am. I've joined with the guys over at the DWGC in Pinetown, which is Durban's only wargaming club and its been nothing but fun all the way.

The club is small but has a very dedicated group of players who meet up every Tuesday night and every second Sunday. The games are relaxed, easy and generally fun to play, which is a nice turn around from a lot of the other clubs I've seen. The guys are accommodating, understanding and always ready to help when rules need to be clarified or situations judged on. All in all, its worth me making the forty-five minute trip from  Umkomaas to Pinetown just to roll some dice around.

The guys have lots of different armies there; some Chaos Marines, Tau, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Imperial Guard, Grey Knights, Space Marines and their variants and Necrons. There are some Orks bashing around, but I have yet to see them. Me, I am the proud owner of some acceptably painted blue Necrons.

My experience with them so far has been on and off; some battles they do total and utter damage, and some they do nothing more than get eaten. I've noticed that I seem to win every time I'm in a better mood, and actually have my forces set up in tactically advantageous ways. Sometimes I just seem to plonk them down and hope for the best, disregarding everything the previous games have taught me and had my arse handed to me on a platter. Either way I've had fun, and the guys at the club have played no small part in that.

However there is one bad thing that has come from my rejoining the plastic worshiping league: it means my obsession is back, and this time its gonna be harder to lose. I'd sell my family to buy more games workshop products, and it wouldn't stop there. If I had my way, I'd be buried in plastic crack. It's bad man, reeeeaaal bad!!!

Either way, i am happy, and am glad i got back into the hobby. I'm probably gonna put more posts up concerning these things, and well, if anyone is out there reading this, then i hope you find it worth your while.

Eonblue out!

PS: some of the warhammer stuffs i've been amusing myself with:

My Necron Force in all its plasticness