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wolfshadow wrote:Awsome conversions Santo. I love the hammers that they have

Cheers matey, I tried three different types before settling on these ones it should all bind together nicely! As I mentioned above I have a game with them this weekend against "Da Dark Angelz" (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253544.page) I hope to get them done and painted so Arakasi and I can gets some nice army pics and battle pics up on the threads!

Yggdrasil wrote:The head on the Grabber-wielder is great, which set does it come from?!? Looks like a small-scale Verminlord, which can only be good for a squad leader!
On the penultimate pic (the one before the last), I think the Rokkit launcher looks a bit weird & out of place, but it may only be the angle or pose, because the same build on 2nd pic looks good!

I also like the one with a Plague Priest head, he's scary!!!

Last (minor) criticism : a lot of pieces are still mould-lines-heavy, they could get some more trimming...

Still, that's some very good work!! Between yours & BH's 40k Skaven projects, I feel much temptated by building one of mine, but have no time for that! Great inspiration though!

The grabber is from the Rat Ogre box and yeah I have a lot of cleaning up to do with the models I tend to work backwards I get it fitted together and then I go back and clean up the parts

Beyond that whats left for the Skave I hear you say well I don't and your probably not but I'm going to tell you anyway!

Unit Name | Work to be Done
Commandos (eshins) | Scratch Built Bodies, still in planing
Warbuggie (Doom Wheelie Kopta MkII) | Buy Doom Wheel and Build Kopta Desgin Completed
Big Guns (Jezails) | Build the Jezail gun from copper piping and brass tubes

Units I'm considerng making. changing

Skitter leapers
Stormboyz based unit that teleport across the battlefield in a Warp fueled frenzy

Storm Vermin
Considering redoing these guys as Mega Nobz and scratch building the armored bodies so that they are large scale like the normal Mega armor Nobs.
Grots (Clan Rats)

Hell take a vote let me know what addition to the army you think would be best or suggest what you feel would be a better choice.

Santobell wrote:

Yggdrasil wrote:The head on the Grabber-wielder is great, which set does it come from?!?

The grabber is from the Rat Ogre box and yeah I have a lot of cleaning up to do with the models I tend to work backwards I get it fitted together and then I go back and clean up the parts

Big Guns (Jezails) | Build the Jezail gun from copper piping and brass tubes

Units I'm considerng making. changing

Grots (Clan Rats)

Actually I was asking about the bone head, not the grabber!!

As for the BIG Guns, wouldn't Warpcannons be more appropriate? Or do you plan on making some ZZap Guns?

Plus I'd rather see the Grots as being Skave slaves, it'd fit their stats + Herder leader better IMHO!

Fantastic, a variety of poses and great use of bits.

Yggs, the horned goat head is a banner ornament from the stormvermin kit, never realized how good it would look as a head though!

Thanks for the intel... It sure looks good!!!

Yggdrasil wrote:As for the BIG Guns, wouldn't Warpcannons be more appropriate? Or do you plan on making some ZZap Guns?

Plus I'd rather see the Grots as being Skave slaves, it'd fit their stats + Herder leader better IMHO!

Technology makes things smaller, the Warpcannons are powerful in WHFB but when viewed in a 40k light they are like lascannons that break, the intention is to not directly port WHFB to 40k and so the Jezzails become the cannon and the warpcannons are out all together, the conversion idea is to have a small Skave holding a truly massive weapon like a rifle have the barrel resting on the back of a second crew member with a third checking settings on the side fo the gun sort of like and over sized OOP Jezzail modelSo ina sense I'm combining the too to make something new but since it's held and fired the Jezzail makes a closer comparison ot what the model will look like.

I went down that road at first as well with the slaves but I decided to 40k it some more and went for Mercs instead who's stat line suits the Ork Boyz better however I think in the end once time is not the issue I will change it over to a Rat based unit as well.

BLACKHAND wrote:Fantastic, a variety of poses and great use of bits.

Yggs, the horned goat head is a banner ornament from the stormvermin kit, never realized how good it would look as a head though!

Yeah with the underside bored out and the bottom of a stormverimn attached so he has a lower jaw

Santobell wrote:As I mentioned above I have a game with them this weekend against "Da Dark Angelz" (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253544.page) I hope to get them done and painted so Arakasi and I can gets some nice army pics and battle pics up on the threads!

Try not to show me up too much - Da Dark Angelz aren't completely finished yet either!

Arakasi wrote:

Santobell wrote:As I mentioned above I have a game with them this weekend against "Da Dark Angelz" (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253544.page) I hope to get them done and painted so Arakasi and I can gets some nice army pics and battle pics up on the threads!

Try not to show me up too much - Da Dark Angelz aren't completely finished yet either!

I don't think your in any danger of that mate, I'm pretty sure I won't get everything painted in time or based but it will be a good show either way.
That said I'll likely lose the matches anyway seeing as I've only played two games (in the last 18 months) and both were tests of the LoTD rules not real to win matches.

We may even have to proxy some terrain though I'm working on that!

Thank you so much!!! In addition to my 40k skaven I've been toying around with a counts-as ork army and I couldn't figure out for the life of mt how to make a power claw!!
Mind if I borrow your tank buster power claw idea?

joshoftheforest wrote:Thank you so much!!! In addition to my 40k skaven I've been toying around with a counts-as ork army and I couldn't figure out for the life of mt how to make a power claw!!
Mind if I borrow your tank buster power claw idea?

Go nuts, my first claw on the SV is the barrel feed off an Ork slugga with an actual power claws, claws attached and the second made more sense to be the big clawed grabber.

Anyone is welcome to anything I put up in here or any other post I don't mind one bit... well unless your GW and you want my ideas for an actual Skave force then you can get out your cheque book and pay me.. pay me BIG!


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Demiurg Mercenary with Paint






A little dark on the pics but still he looks nifty enough, and in keeping with the GW fluff (takes a bit to find but it's out there) he's made of a rocky crystalline stone and is on his way to becoming a "Succumbed"
which from what I gather is what happens when the Demiurg digress to a rock-like state and become barbaric which is something they really try to avoid.

No new pics as of yet but I have been working on them, I'm nearly finished painting the Merc's Unit and will attempt to paint the Globeaiders tomorrow if I get time.

The big game is on Saturday at 9am the Skave get their first taste of blood Vs the devious Ork clan Da Dark Angelz.

There will be a series of two games; the first is a pursuit where the Skave are fleeing from a recent looting of an Ork weapons cache, with the Orks hot on my tails (literally)!

The second will depend on the out come of the first either, a scattered Skave force after the destruction of their Airship or a Consolidated Force ready and waiting the approaching Ork horde!

I will upload pics of this event after we conclude the matches and shortly after I will post a Battle Report for those who are interested.

So, I've been scrounging around for rumors of what exactly is going to be released for Skaven in January, but I haven't been able to find anything... have you heard any word?

I don't want to start making something and then find out they're about to release something that I could have used as a better base model...

And because I'm sure Blackhand will be around here somewhere too... have you (BH) heard anything either?

Hehe, nope sorry I havn't heard a thing...should be fun though!

I believe it's new gutter runner/ Eshin Plastics and I heard a rumor of a new V-lord model.

Well toady was the day the Infamous Skave squared off against the forces of Da Dark Angelz and came out on top..... barely!

I'll post pics and a quick report later today.

In a Nutshell:
Two matches were played. One a chase, the Skave feeling after looting an Ork settlement for trade-able salvage and the other a scramble for that salvage after the loss of the Airship during the failed getaway.

We will have our revenge! In 18 months...

Thanks for a great day!

We wait in anticipation of the day we can once again steal from your petty Ork encampments and get away with it

It was an awesome day really fun... and wow what a massacre on both sides truly brutal armies


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Oh and we finally broke the 10k views mark so Huge thanks to all who are tuning into my small channel of madness!

So are we going to get a battle report then?

It would be great to see your bad boys in action.

I uploaded the images to my gallery and yes I'll be doing a BR just not done one before so know idea how good/bad it will be, either way hopefully today!

The Skave are on their way well sorta!

The Army is entered into a conversion comp in 3 weeks time and the Airship is in the finals for a Big kit Conversion Comp as well

Wish me Luck!








oh crap I better get the damn rats painted and based ooops!

Good luck!

Having seen the Skave and Airship in person - I don't think you will need any luck!

Gathering Storm wrote:So are we going to get a battle report then?

It would be great to see your bad boys in action.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/332216.page One battle report as requested, many thanks goes to Arakasi for putting all the parts together into something you can actually read top effort!

It was a fun day, great day. We had a lot of laughs and the games flew by with total carnage on all sides. I won the final game but really on a moral victory as my points for the game were up on Da Dark Angelz but that's what fun games are about putting what you have on the board and enjoying the mayhem that follows I will be looking forward to the rematch in 18 months time which should give me ample opportunity to complete these guys.

Skave update - "Runners" (Ork Boyz/Clan Rats)

I have organised a box of the Clan rat variety to head my way which will be eagerly converted into my Runners units, this will be the largest unit available to the Rats and will count as Ork Boyz with Shootas the models themselves will be armed with Dueling Pistols, this unit should begin production with hopeful speed next week pics will follow shortly after as will the shots of the painted Tankbustaz

I thought you were just compensating for using fluffy units like Tankbustas and Flashgitz Da Dark Angelz are always up for a challenge anyway!

You wouldn't think variable AP weaponry would annoy Orks - but my Deffkoptas beg to differ! That and I couldn't put a wound on them (not that I had the opportunity to try hard...)

Anyway - as said many a time before - great day! I was surprised at how many great photos we had between us too - hopefully makes the report more atmospheric than confusing...

Sorry for the Late reply.

@ Arakasi... I'm always compensating for something in game and it's usually my lack of tactical anything!

Saturday is the Big box comp the airship is under modification to enter (touch ups mainly) and I hope to continue my Skavey madness shortly after
(mainly as I'm getting new models and GS etc while I'm there).

My dual pistol wielding clanrats are out and being replaced by a slung "Warp Shot Rifle" the idea (well in my head anyway)
is a two stage weapon a small burst of warp fire is injected into the firing chamber of a rifle which contains the standard warp shard ammo the two combine and violently launch out the end.

The final result is rifle style gun which is more powerful than a lasgun, shooter than a flamer but lacking the strength and area effect which = a shooter/bolter.

So physically the model will hold it two handed but side slung and it will have a warpfire gas-tank on the rats back with feed lines down to the firing chamber it should look Skavey enough, sort of like an evolved warpfire thrower kinda thing.

Though I didn't get everything, your gun idea seems interesting...

I'm sure it'll be clear when we see it...

With the release of the new Skaven models this month I will be continuing to add to this army, the new ikit claw will be incorporated and the new warp cannon will allow me to both finish the Airship and give me the heads I need to finish off my tank hunters properly the clan rats are on hold until I can try the gun on both the new models and the gutter runners models (more poses etc on the runners).

Either way it will be an interesting couple of months as I hack n slash the new comers and assimilate them into the Skave

I also have a plan to make two more airships, only smaller battle wagon sized to be used as said Battle wagon and truks the idea is a ramshackle hull (held together by wood and pipes, cloth and bolts) with large warpstone chunks mounted like VTOL engines around the hull.

I hope to have the army fleshed out to 2000 points by the middle of Feb if all goes well.

Ok first update in a while for these guys sorry about that anyone who's tuning in!

I have mainly been working on my other Project the Legion of the Damned however I managed to pull myself away long enough to get my greedy little (not so) hands on the new skaven warp cannon well two actually and the results was part heaven for my airship design the final bits I needed to fill in the holes and a fix a few things I hated about it.

Now it's not done I have assembly and painting still to do and I snapped my last 1mm drill bit so that's going to be fun :(.

So here we go the start of the interior engineering section. (visible through the missing bulkheads on the side).


Isn't he a nice little worker bee erm rat!

the support beams from the cannon have been trimmed ot fit the insides of the airship which will give it a greater structure all over and allow me to hang lots of gears and turning bits etc


Here is the new Prow Gun/Deck gun and the warp censor


Crew! she's got crew I tells ya!


I fixed the side that was waaaay to high and left the ship lop sided


The engine ports finally get caps


Other changes are the pow itself no longer has the ork giant stompa skull on it and is a much more Skaven style incorporating wood and cogs etc.
and I have added an LED system to it to allow some lighting while on display.

I also have an Ikit claw who with enough hmm persuasion should make a nice mega nob or boss maybe I'll get a bunch and make a mega squad out of them or use them as stormvermin and make my current stormvermin clan rats bah who knows I'm sure the council of 13 will tell me what they want me to do when the time comes!

Oh and I have begun acquiring parts to start making small airship for use as trukks

P.S. yes I need to re attach the wings to the airship.

Stunning work brother, that gun is just gonna rock once its painted ( not that it doesn't rock now!)

I especially like how much it's look has shifted from orkyness to a more Skaveny style, Can't wait to see the smaller airships!

Lookin' Evil there bro.

You make me want to come to Aussie land just to come play that thing. :-P

Love this project, rats in space kick ass

Freaking awesome. Its so successful because you've managed to take away all of the other styles, make it pure skaven but you also seamlessly blended futuristic tech in as well.

Wow, and keep it up.