Part 3: The Giants among Giants

 So I got two lovely giants from a friend who had “too many giants”, whatever that means. They are from old school miniatures and were really nice and quick paint jobs. But, and it is a punalicious, giant but(t), I wanted a giant and a cyclops so I rummaged around and found two big guys to fill that role. 

Now I had “too many giants..”. What to do? In warhammer renaissance you can field ordinary giants and cyclops and that is perfectly fine but now that I have painted two midsized giants, I want to find a role for them. There is one; gorgers! Unfortunately that Arne not represented in the warhammer renaissance army list. They are in TOW though. Anyhow now they are all painted and ready for whatever game I get to play!

Giant 200 points

Cyclops 250 points 

See you in March!

Part 3: Beastmen and chickendragon

This last month has passed so fast! On top of that, it's been quite a chaotic month for me, at least hobby-wise. Don't get me wrong, I've done a lot, but most of it is half-finished projects. Don't say I didn't warn you! But anyway, I managed to complete a couple models for the army. Let's get the elephant (chicken-dragon, more like) in the room out of the way first: A finecast Cockatrice!

I know, I know. It kind of sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the army, era-wise. It's also quite the centerpiece, so finishing it this early is a bit unconventional. But when I found it NIB for a decent price, I couldn't help myself. It's also a Trish sculpt, so it gets the pass just by that merit. Speaking of Trish sculpts...

This is 'Two-head', the oldest miniature I've ever painted. It might also be the ugliest Warhammer sculpt ever, and you never see it in any of the 'top x ugliest warhammer miniatures'-videos, so you heard it here first everybody! Uglier than the doomrider, for sure, which I am also lucky to have NIB in my collection. As you can see, I added some roses that I blue-stuff copied from the fantastic Garden of Morr-kit. I think it makes a good representation of his shamanic magical connection to earth magic. The second head got itself a little free-handed eye to unmistakenly single these conjoined twins as powerful magicians. I don't think the original model was meant to be one, but here we are and it's absolutely marvelous. Lastly, here is 'hard-hoof', that I might use as a champion for my ungors.

And about those half-finished projects... Here is a sneak peek of what took up most of my hobby time this month. My first totally original sculpt, 'Geta-pågen' (goatboy). Stay tuned to see it painted up, and maybe even made available as an .STL in the not too distant future! Exciting.

Part 2: Sölfitzburg is mustering it's first troops

One month into this project and I've realized that empire troopers are really cheap in points. This is going to be a lot of hours painting miniatures costing 6-10 points. The mass effect of finished army is going to be my reward. 

I threw myself into this project without a clear plan about how to organize an army out of what I could find in my pile of shame. Luckily John is an expert I both Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Empire. He asked me what models I owned and I answered. “I have a lot of cannons....and mortars....and hellblasters....and a steamtank”. From that we built a base. and the best thing with cannons is they don’t cost 6 points.

I wanted to paint the army with a simple colour scheme of red and yellow and I wanted to use Citadels Contrast paints as a foundation. To finish the models I planned to make some easy highlights. I counted the number of paints I use and it's 27. I will give you the painting recipe in later updates.

Part 2: 400 points of Skaven done, had fun painting!

As you can clearly see, pictures are taken with an out of focus potato in bleak Swedish winter "daylight" to really capture the feeling of armed rats climbing out of the sewers when you least expect it.

It does come with a proper valid 400 pts army list:

Regiments
24 Clanrats - 96pts
1 Assassin (first one counts as Regiments) - 40pts
3 Warplock Jezzails (smallest unit of jezzails counts as Regiments) - 75pts
Ratling gun team (first one counts as Regiments) - 75pts

Characters & War machines
Lvl 2 Warlock - 114pts

Total 400pts

My Assassin is a gutter runner model, for some reason it was hard to find proper assasin models out in the wild. Will probably demote this guy back to gutter runner at some point but it will do for now! Had some fun with green "glow in the dark" UV Resin on base and weapons. 

My Warlock is a 3d-print of "Ratdalf the Grey" from EmanG. 

Ratling Gun team, found these models new in box at my local hobby shop for a very fair price (together with warpfire teams and a bunch of other metal minis). Felt a bit luxurious to be able to just buy models for a WHR army at your local shop. Experimented with more UV resin o the base, think it turned out OK although ot exactly as I had planned / hoped. 

These badly out of focus Jezzails just might be the last thing you barely see if you forgot to put o your glasses before going to battle but squint really really hard towards the horizon. 

Some standard Clanrats. Winn need to paint up at least 25 more, will do a bunch of unit fillers then since I totally forgot about it. 

To bring my army to 800 points I am going to add:

Regiments

+ 2 Jezzails (+50 pts)

+ 3 Rat Ogres, Pack master, giant rat (+82 pts)

Characters and War Machines

+ Doomwheel (+150 pts)

+ Warpfire Thrower (+50 pts)

+ 1 magic level on Warlock (+68 pts)

Part 2: The1st Rote of Marienburgerian Ogres, “The Proud”

 This being the first part to paint I made it, model wise the biggest one. My plan was to get over that hump as soon as possible and then coast throughout the challenge. But, I also know myself and my particularities so I know that this army will grow over its confinements too. They all do. 

I’m proud to say that the unit of 12 ogres with great weapons and full command, "The Proud” is done!

The banner is my take on a detail a larger picture. 

From Wiki

"Pride of the spirit is one of the five temptations of the dying man, according to Ars moriendi. Here, demons tempt the dying man with crowns (a medieval allegory to earthly pride) under the disapproving gaze of Mary, Christ and God. Woodblock seven (4a) of eleven, Netherlands, c. 1460."

The banner is made of a tin tube of tomato paste. The folds are formed with a tool with a round end. 

All the models are primed wraithbone and all the basecoats are made with speedpaint/contrast/xpress. highlighted with a white ink mixed with the contrast. Metals are Vallejo Burnt Iron, washed with armypainter dark wash, highlighted and scratched with vallejo game air silver.

 

Part 2, January, Jacob´s Slaanesh army

So, the first month finished and with that some foul creatures of the God of pleasure sees the light. 8 Fiends for a total of 520p - a bit over the 400/month, but I rather have some points extra than painting half a unit. I painted them in bright colours, ignoring all reference to colour wheels and common sense. The bases are made of cork with some painted marble effect. 

For February I´m planning to get some warriors and a chaos sorcerer done. Praise Slaanesh!

Part 2: January, John´s Wood elves

Just in time for the deadline, I applied the final coat of varnish and with that, the first threshold was reached!

For my first month I painted three units: 10 War dancers, 5 Way watchers and 5 Scouts. It adds up to 360p, so I guess I have to add a magic banner to the War dancers - minor details in my mind.

Next up for February are 20 Archers including the Army battle standard bearer: