The Biggie

Against all expectations I've finished my Great Unclean One today.
This is an old OOP Rackham miniature of the Dwarves of Mid Nor Giant and I found him some years ago in a discountbasket in a shop long gone now.
And boy their miniatures still are a pain in the ass to paint, you'll be hardpressed to find an other manufacturer who'll put so much detail in their products.
Granted, that range consisted of real gems but sometimes overly detailed gems.
That said and done you'll no doubt notice this guy has hair and a beard.... so what and to make him stand out a bit more I've painted it a nice purple to clash with the green of his skin.
Said skin is a bit darker green in tone than the rest of the army but he's the boss so that's cool.
The Bubbly-base and rusted gear are again featured.
With this one added my little army starts to look a bit more like a fighting force and I'm not ashamed to admit that watching that army grow with lovingly painted miniatures still gives me goosebumps and a warm feeling.
For Nurgle!!!!

A Regiment a Month part 8: Death from above

I've set yet another step on my path to immortality, or eternal damnation, today a unit of 15 Chaos Furies has been finished.
Those who are familliar with H.P. Lovecraft and his Ctulhu-mytos will no doubt recognise these as Nightgaunts.
I choose them not only because I like the models but also because they were cheap, quickly delivered and available in abundance at EM4 miniatures.
No assembly was required, unless you count gluing them to their bases as assembling, and painting them was easy due to a minimum of detail on the model.
An extra unforseen cost I had to make was special bases, the round base wich is attached to them fits nicely into the bases offered at Mantic Games so that cost was gladly made.
I was quite surprised by the height though, despite them being announced as 28 mm they are more towards 25mm and even then are fairly diminuitive but since they are a flying cowardly deamonic gardenpest that's more than ok by me.
Again I went with the 'bubbling ooze theme' for their bases to tie them in with the rest of the army.
To compenstate for the low variety in poses (only 3) I've opted to use all 3 hues on the unit that I have in mind on the entire army: Sickly Green, Puke Brown and Pale Skin.
I hope you like them

Next up: Great Unclean One

A farewell

No worries, I'm not quitting my blog nor my hobby.
In fact, more Deamonic goodness is on it's way to get painted as I type this.
It's just that after years of loyal service my old and trusted Dungheap is no more.
All painted/halfpainted/unpainted bits of lead, plastic or resin are now organised into neat clear plastic containers instead of old carton boxes who's bottoms were falling out.
Trees and terrain pieces were ordered, occational cries of "oh here they are" and "can't remember I ever bought this" were often heard, walls were rediscovered.
It all went from total chaos to organised chaos in a few days time, the Missus came round to survey this piece of her realm and tought it good.
Truth is at first I was left with a feeling of sadness and nostalgia but after taking another peek inside and enjoying the sensation of finding something in no time those feelings vanished like the morning mist.
The King is dead, long live The King!!!

More greetings from Down Under

Today I've managed to finish another 2000 points worth of PacFed for my expanding army.
It consists of 1 Bennelong command vehicle, 2 Minigwal fast attack vehicles, 4 Cougar tanks, 6 Tanami SPG's, 8 Wombat APC's and 1 unit of conscript infantery because I had 10 points to spare.
I'm still not to sure exactly why I've crammed in 6 artillery pieces since I've had bad experience with them in the past but then again those were 'off table' and these aren't so maybe they'll perform better.
This by no means THE 2000 points add-on to my starterforce, I'm painting the whole thing up at 2000 a time so that leaves me with 'only' 4000 points left at the moment and yes I'm planning on making this a 10000 point army just to see what it looks like on the table and maybe even let it all loose on the opposition one day.
The Bennelong has a little dot-art painting on it, the story behind it is that it is crewed by an Aboriginal commander who insists on having a native painting on his vehicle for good luck.
It was fun to do and originally I wanted every tank in the army have something similar but in the end decided against it, to much extra work but one wouldn't be to hard so it got a tortoise to keep it compagny.
I hope you like them

                                          Detail on the dot art tortoise

                                          I you've ever wondered what a 4000 point PacFed
                                          army looks like.....

                                          THIS IS IT!!!!!

A regiment a month part 7: Nurgle's minions

As promised I'm continuing where I left off at the end of october: the next 'series' of ARAM.
I finally managed to paint up a bunch of miniatures I'd had  lying around here for ages, with the rediscovery of Warhammer it seemed a good idea to get them ready for battle.
The Plaguebearers are in fact Blights wich were gathering dust in The Dungheap, only the command unit and Beast of Nurgle are new.
I wanted to make them all look slimy and dirty and wading trough ooze, I think I succeeded rather well.
Their primary colour is green and rotten flesh and with a dilluted brown wash to make them more yuckie.
The rusted weapons are featured too, no shiny stuff here unless it's something rotten.
I had a great time painting them and I'm looking forward to get the next set ready tomorrow.
Now usually I don't advertise for miniature developers but this time I'll make an exeption to the rule.
The Blights are from Heresy Miniatures http://www.heresyminiatures.com/ and the beast was bought at Black Cat http://blackcatbases.com/.
I've had dealings with both via mailorder and live at a show and I can honestly say these are some of the nicest people you can find in the wargamingworld, they deliver great products at equally great prices and ship your orders to you fast so what more could you wish for.
Hope you like the mini's.


                                          The whole group with the Herald

                                          Close up of the Plaguebearers

                                          The Command unit

                                          Beast of Nurgle

Pox, plague and pestilence!!!!

I fell ill today: coughing, sneezing, soare troath, headaches, you name it..
I've taken this blessing of the good Father Nurgle to start work on my little deamon army in His name.
Hopefully with this lovely gift from the Plaguefather I'll be able to finish my 1000 points Warhammer army soon, expect pics later this week.
I've also taken the liberty of making an objectivemarker, I don't know if I need one but that doesn't matter as these things are a load of fun to do and can be really tailored to match your army.
In my case it's a rusty cauldron filled with bubbling ooze sitting on top of a pile of skulls, you get the picture.

Greetings from Down Under

Well it's another Crisis come and gone and boy it was fun.
C'11 assured my firm return to the 6mm range and WFB with more models for both systems on their way.
One of the 'tiny things' I bought was about 8000 points (I found this out to my surprise myself afterwards) worth of PacFed for Future War Commander for the new FWC campaign in The Farside.
This time I choose the side of the Human defender and not the Alien attacker and so I've opted for a simple and straightforward armylist.
The fact that the models were cheap AND to my liking vastly helped my choice too.
Here are the first pieces of the 105th Brisbane 'Doongara'.
Doongara means lightning in the Aboriginal language wich suits my army of grav vehicles just fine.

Sorry for the rather poor quality of the pic, my camera is slowly dying after years of loyal service.