Part 1: Presenting the armies - Kristofer's Skaven

I got back in the hobby quite recently after a 15 year pause, encouraged by my friends that never stopped but also from seeking a non-digital hobby. My friends offered me to inherit two old armies that were collecting dust in storage, a knight-heavy Empire army and a big collection of Tomb Kings. I played the Tomb Kings army for a small Warhammer Renaissance tournament, but in order to get that army "playable" I bought a bunch of skeleton archers, skeleton horsemen with bows and 3d-printed some scull catapults - and it was while painting these and fixing up some of the old stuff that I really re-discovered my joy of building and painting fantasy miniatures! Neither the Empire or Tomb Kings feel like my own however as they are mostly made up of stuff I didnt select (the TK army has a crazy and pretty much unusable 16 Ushabties for example, while it had no artillery). 

So it felt like it was time to start my first own project. And why not start with my first memory of Warhammer from early-mid 1990. A kid in the neighbourhood I grew up, Nils, (Nisse) and his friend Manfred (Maffe) played Warhammer and I remember it was like nothing I had ever seen when I got to watch a battle. Maffe had a Dark Elves collection that was just madness. He had recast his own Harpies in old lead based tin soldier-tin which was almost as soft as chewing gum. Before every battle he would straighten all the harpies up from their bases and 10 minutes later they would all fold over by the ankles and lie face down on the board because of the extremely soft metal. He stored his entire army in an old army surplus medical coffin stuffed with cut sections from an old foam matress, carefully laying out his minis on each matress section before putting on the next layer - close the lid - and then always lift the coffin in one, ONE, of the side handles so that all minis would crash into the other side producing a wonderful rattling noise of "could just as well have quickly raked his whole army into a shopping bag instead of spending all that time laying it out in his army storage".

I did end up building my own Dark Elf army many years later, but never touched Skaven. I plan on throwing in as much "stuff" as possible since I think Skaven should be anything but organized. I dont have a clear plan yet, but this is probably my first 400 points:

Regiments

24 Clanrats - 96pts

1 Assassin - 40pts

3 Warplock Jezzails - 75pts

Characters & War machines

Lvl 2 Warlock - 114pts

Ratling gun team - 75pts

Total 400pts

First time in many many years I collect an army from scratch and so far its been a blast building and painting the first stuff!