Chaos Thug Horse

 WFB 3rd edition chaos included a unit type for which there was no official miniatures at that time: Thug Horse i.e. mounted chaos thugs. Old School Miniatures Company brings us this nice set of six mounted thugs. I received my unit just before Christmas and now got the first model painted. Let´s see if I can find time to complete another one before new year.

Because he´s a chaos thug - just in the start of his way to Chaos, I kept

the looks of him quite ´normal´. Just the purple hair to give a hint of Slaaneshian corruption.

The same applies to his horse. It´s dark and mean looking but not yet mutated.

Pastel pink shield to give some color to the model.

Liked the details on the rider. Clean, sharp and easy to paint.

Last ones before Christmas

 My painting station is located in the corner of our dining room. And my wife thinks it does not fit well with the Christmas decorations. So I´m going to have to clean it up for holidays and take a break from hobbying. Anyway, here are the three space elfs I got completed before this type of "lockdown".

The one in the middle is actually a standard bearer but the stub on his back where

the banner pole is attached to had been filed down by the models previous owner.

As that pole or actually that back bag fit that very early 90´s guardian quite well

I stuck it on his back. Will propably make a paper banner for him later.

I tried to do some thorn decoration on the body armor of that chap on the right.

Not quite happy with the result but did not want to paint it over.

Happy Holidays! See you after Christmas!

Leader for Cult Beastmen

 The Genestealer Cult Army beastmen don´t actually have a squad or platoon leader. They just come in bands whose size depend on the chaos power they are alligned with. As I intend to use my beastmen in WFB too I wanted to have a model that can be clearly distinquished as a unit leader. This Champion of Slaanesh model by Jes Goodwin is perfect for my purposes. A lovely sculpt he´s quite large and very fit to lead the beastmen. 

3142/3 Champion of Slaanesh: Huge Mace and Minotaur head

Funny little detail: a daemonette face groin armor.

A space elf, his lunch box and a big blaster

Got into space elf painting mood again. After that commander it was time to another some heavy support element to my little force of pointy ears.

That´s one heavy duty lunch box there. And the shuriken catapult is a big one too.

Not to mention that las cannon itself.

So the helmet of this space elf is a bit different from most of his kin. It actually looks like as if it has that face mask part and then two other pieces that are connected there in the middle.

I don´t like paiting free hand ´cause I´m no good in that but this time I got

something quite right with those thorns.

Five years of blogging

 I almost forgot that today is the 5th anniversary of this blog. And because of that I haven´t prepared anything special for the occation... Quite pathetic if you ask me.

I was however able to complete something that I haven´t been painting for some time now. A space elf commader in carapace armor and wielding chain sword and a shuriken pistol.

Painted in the same read and white pattern as the rest of my space elves.

Gnovember 2020 - final tally

 With both Gnovember and my gnome models running out shortly it is time to look at what got done this time.

The last two troopers. One with a halberd and the other with a large hammer.

A small earth elemental. A freebie I received from Krakon Games. "Painted" with

Astrogranite technical and higlighted a bit. Some turf thrown on his shoulder to

make it look like he´s been raised from the very ground he stands on.

My painted gnomes so far. They can already be called a war band, can´t they.

Gnome Command

That was one fast delivery! I ordered a few gnomes from Krakon Games after painting a patch of five in the beginning of Gnovember. And here stand painted some of those new ones.

From left to right: Geomancer, standard bearer, champion and musician.

The champion is from Krakon Games Gnome set 3. 

But with that pose he looks like a leader of some kind to me.

Those faces are almost too small for my ageing eyes. Or maybe I´ll just

havo to give in and get those eye glasses...

Genestealer Patriarch

 It´s been a while since I posted anything GS related. My Cult army has been without a leader but just the other day I found time to finish this Bob Olley patriach. There are only two oldhammer patriarch models that I know of. This and the one that sits on a throne. The running one suits gaming purposes better in my opinion. And is less expensive. Check this posting for his Cult Coven.

Painted mostly with contrast. Some regular paints for metals and higlights.

With those long arms it´s pretty hard to get a really good picture of him.

Back shot showing the purple body under that black carapace. And his tail.

Stat line and special rules for gaming.

Now I need to get him a limousine. And a few more purestrains as there´s only one now.

Gnovember is here

 My input to Gnovember 2020are these five Creatures Underground Gnomes. I painted another bunch of these back in 2018 when I got these. You can see those here. Used the same color scheme to make them into a unit of ten.

I still like the half-pick armed ones in the middle and farthest right most. The sword wielding chap is not bad sculpt either.

I have an old citadel pre-slotta gnome jester lurking somewhere... Perhaps I´ll seek him out and turn him into a leader of some sort.

edit.

Felt like the little prospectors needed a place to rest for night:

Really can´t remember where that tent came from...

Support platoon Command section

 Here are the latest additions to my Rogue Trader era Imperial Guard force. A Command section to lead the support platoon that will eventually be made of one support squad, one tactical squad and this command section.

The whole section together. From left to right: medic with las gun, heavy weapon trooper with las cannon, standard bearer, captain, commissar, section sergeant (using a imperial army medic model as he has the right weapons), 2nd heavy weapon trooper and sactioned psyker with las gun.

Ridiculously big plasma pistol and a crude field cybernetics/bionics fix on the captains right arm.

Better look at the heavy weapon trooper and the psyker. Bravo company´s banner

just visible on the left side. Yellow is the B company identifier color. Blue means that

it belongs to the regiments 1st battallion and red is the regimental color for 114th Salihanian.

The medic and the other heavy weapon trooper.

Really enjoyed painting these two. A bit different from the common plastic troopers.

And in a good way.

Happy Orctober 2020

 My most modest contribution for this year´s Orctober are these two orcs brawling over a bottle of booze. Both have sat undercoated on my paiting table for too long and now I sort of forced myself into splashing some color on them.

Both are from the C15 / ORC5 / 0508 Orc Villagers series. They will join the orc

baggage train with some of the models I´ve painted earlier.

The bottle is a very crude green stuff thingie I came up with. 

To be honest I did not enjoy painting these that much. The details are somewhat shoddy and the face of that knocked-out one is just a complete mess in my opinion.

Serious IG fire power

 The armament policy of the old IG seems to have been "You can never have too many las cannons". Every tactical squad comes with one and command sections have two. If you don´t choose one of the alternatives as I did with my 2nd tactical platoon.

Following the afore mentined policy I have completed this support squad: sergeant, four las gun troopers, one missile launcher and FOUR las cannons. That´s quite a lot of fire power if you ask me.

The whole squad together. Mixture of plastic and metal bodies.

Squad sergeant is an imperial army sergeant model that has been

given a chain sword to match the army list equipment.

Beaky marine missile launcher sits quite well on the shoulder of that metal body IG trooper.

This squad will eventually be part of the ´yellow´ or reserve platoon of my IG army.

Speed painted with the same formula as the rest of the army.

As next I´ll finish the command section. And then it´s time to do another tactical squad...

Psykers - one sanctioned and the other...

 Not all psykers are decimated or taken to Terra to be absorbed by the Emperor of Mankind. Some become sanctined sanctioned psykers for Imperial Guard and those individuals are often attached to command sections. Always seen as suspicious by the Commissariat sanctioned psykers of the 114th Salihanian regiment are forced to wear red clothing as a warning sign for normal troopers. The are shunned by NCOs and common grunts but tolerated by officers who understand their value on the battle field.

Some psykers take mattes in their own hands. At least for a while. Joining a Genestealer Cult may seem like a way to avoid being killed or absorbed. But mingling with forces of chaos come with a price. Seen as just a human psykers are ruthlessly exploited by the cult leader and will be sacrificed without a blink if survival of the coven requires it. And the blessings of the dark powers behind the Cult are not always very beneficial.

Got the two models in a job lot I scored a couple of weeks ago. As they are duplicates I wanted to have one as a IG sanctined psyker and the other as a GS Cult rogue psyker.

Sanctined psyker wields a IG standard issue las gun. For the rogue I gave two autopistols. The rogue was painted first and I didn´t like the big shoulder pockets on him so I removed those from IG one´s plastic arms. Much better that way.

As the IG psyker is assigned to desert themed army his skin a bit darker than that of the rogue´s. 

Here´s another rogue psyker I painted earlier and a sanctioned one too.

Getting back on track with IG

 As mentioned I was suffering from something of a painters block. That was quickly remedied when I got lucky and scored a largeish job lot of 80´s IG. I had ran out of IG trooper models earlier and put that project to side. Now I´ll be able to put more squads on the table as in the job lot there´s material for few dozens of guardsmen.

The first ones that hit the painting table. Going to comple a support squad that was left unfinished earlier when I ran out of heavy weapons troopers´ right arm pieces.

My recipe for desert themed IG: Army Painted Desert Yellow base, Mournfang brown gaiters, pouches and straps, Black shoes, gloves and armor, Cadian Fleshstone for face and hands, Leadbelcher for all bits metal.

Wash with Agrax, platoon color to chest badge (yellow for support platoon). Armageddon dunes technical on base. And as last highlight jumpsuit with Kislev Flesh. Quick and easy. The grenadier on the right is the only completed one of these. Rest are in various phases of WIP.

Some really nice stuff in the job jot. Would love to expand my assault platoon with another squad. Just need to get some jump pack and chain sword first.

A somewhat chaotic 200th posting

Wow! When staring this blog just under five years ago I never thought I´d one day have 200 postings. At first I was thinking about doing something special for the occasion. Perhaps a look into those Oldhammer blogs that led me into becoming an oldhammer enthusiastic. Or once again returning to baggage trains, war altars, animal handlers or some one of those unit types that no longer exist in more modern rules sets.

However this will be an introduction of a new WFB army in building. Some of these models have been shown here before but not all and certainly not together.

So, it´s Slaaneshian Chaos. At the moment 19 beastmen, 3 minotaurs and 2 beastmasters with 6 chaos hounds. The beastmen are on round bases as the are to be used in a genesteraler cult army too. I will get a movement tray for them eventually.

Bird´s eye view. Pastel colors to give that oldschool look. Purple/pink, yellow and black used to tie the army together.

19 beastmen with a starndard. Equipped with light armor and shields that equals 13 points/model. So the cost for the whole unit without a character model to lead it would be 260 points. Not bad for WS4, T4 and W2 rank and file. Planning on adding a musician, champion and three more troopers to make it 24 (4x6) strong.

Two beastmasters and six chaos hounds. With ligh armor the animal handlers are 17 points each for total of 34. Chaos hounds are 23 points/model which means that this unit cost a total of 172 points. Not planning on adding anything to this.

The three minotaurs. With double handed weapons they are 48 points each for total of 144 points. I want to have six minotaurs in the end. In two units of three as their maximum unit size is five.

It´s a humble start. Just 260+172+144 = 576 points of rank & file so far. But throw in some characters and perhaps a bound host and it´s pretty quickly past 1500 total points. And I do have six trolls that could be used but in my opinion trolls aren´t very Slaanesh so I think I´ll stay away from that option.

What I´d really like to add is some chaos thug horse. Perhaps using those pre slotta C34/27 chaos beastman riders. And thugs on foot too. Thinking about some sort of cultist models. A war altar is a must. Just need to find suitable models for that first.

That it for posting number 200. Have a happy Orctober - go paint something green ;)