Just keep 'em coming

The last 15 Plaguebearers got painted today, all I need are 15 more and I'll have 2 big fat chunky units of desease-spreading nasties.
This last batch was painted in lighter, paler hues to add more variaton to the units.
To be honest I'll be happy to start work on my Blood Bowl team, one grows tired of painting rotten flesh for weeks on end but the light at the end of Nurgle's tunnel draws closer.
With this in mind I can sit back with a big grin on my face as I type this knowing that by the end of this weekend my deamon army will be fully painted.
Enjoy the looks me harties 'cause these bastards smell worse than the dungheaps of Hell themselves!!!

Next up: Nurglings!!!!

Return to the Gridiron

As of yesterday I've officialy entered the Blood Bowl competition at TSA, our gaming club, for this year.
After a few years of absense from this delightfully violent sport I'll have a lot of catching up to do in the rules section.
At first I wanted to start anew with a fresh team and opted for Chaos, Impact! miniatures has a very nice African styled team featuring lions, cheetas, warthogs, mercats, a rhino and even an elephant and would've been aptly named Hakuna Matata.
And yes, a certain warthog and mercat would be part of it.
Sadly enough it would've cost me rather much, just as the Scotlings (Scottish Halflings) with 2 treemen I originally wanted.
So out came the models I already owned, my old Undead team was still intact and I even had quite a few members of the Vampires left so since the Undead were the most complete I picked them.
I was ready to add a Werewolf to the roster but when I started checking the teamlist I saw that expeces would have to be made after all and seeing that the Vampires had the least amount of options and hence the least amount of trouble they became my team of choice.
The Sylvania Sunbathers were created.
And now comes my hardest choice... wich colours to pick for my team...
Black's out of the question, I want something brighter for them and I'm thinking of burgundy and white but this may change.
With a bit of luck they'll even make it to the semi's at the end of may but I don't put up my hopes even though these bastards are fast, agile, strong and got some desent armour.
Only time, good dicerolls and Nuffle will tell.

More for the Plague Lord

Another 15 Plaguebearers, including a Herald, got finished today.
This now leaves me with my very first playable and fully painted Warhammer Army in ages, all of this got me so exited I'm already planning my secong one: Albion (later on that in a future post).
These lads were painted in sickly brown colours to bring some variation to the troops, another 15 of them are ordered from Heresy miniatures and should be here within a few days and will get a more pallid complexion.
The Herald comes from Avatars of War and was an absolute 'must buy', I've rarely decided on purchasing a miniature so quickly.
Next victims for the painting table will be a bucketload of Nurglings, my lovely mischievious little puss mites will get the same treatment (greenish, brownish, pallid) as the rest of the force.
Sadly with all these newly painted gains comes fresh losses to, my faithfull brushes are finally ripe for the bin after quite some service.
I will try to save them by plunging them in Dettol, I've read somewhere it helps, but otherwise it's game over for them.
The decision has been made to replace my failing good old camera who has taken pictures from the windswept summit of Ben Nevis to the sunny beaches of the Provence, in addition I will also purchase a foldable fotostudio I saw at Xenos in Holland and at €30 this thing's bargain so hopefully I'll improve on my miniaturepictures soon.

The same constants again are the oozy bases and rusted weapons, I've made a small convertion on the unit champion and tried (rather well I might say) some freehand on the banner wich should be a rusted Nurgle glyph and some Un-Holy text scribbled all over it.

The Command unit with the Herald.
The champion's horns are actually small tentacles painted so they resemble horns

A close-up on the Standardbearer.

I'm not sure if you can see it but here I've mixed both green and brown units and it looked great in real life, I'll be happy when I can add the pallid ones for more variaty.

I hope you like them.

Just don't ask...

A while ago I posted that I can only read my post but don't give comments on those of others....
Scratch that, somehow I've managed to arouse the Machine Spirit in my PC and behold, I can rant on other peoples post to my hearth's content.
Just don't ask how I did it, please don't.

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!!!