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Standard bearer kicks arse my friend, and the standard itself is more than a little creepy!

love these models.

the legs are too small on the ogre creature though.

cant wait to seemore!

Cheers for the close up of the Standard Bearer you may have found my Beastman BSB with a Head swap!

Thank you kind sirs! I tell you, I really like the Rackham standard fellows, except for the fact they carry really heavy metal banners and so tip over when the cat sneezes upstairs. I am seriously thinking of melting down some random metal sprue to make a counter weight, at least for Captain Corpse on a Stick there. (Man, it really is a nice standard though; the detail was a lot of fun as well as being easy to paint.)

Llamahead: if you can't get ahold of one, let me know. I don't know for certain yet, but I might have a spare one. (I don't know because I apparently can't count, and yesterday had a minor panic attack thinking I had 30 marauders made up instead of 25, and freaked thinking I might not have bought the proper number and would have to mold the rest out of used cat litter and they would terrible and I would have to burn down my house around me in shame... you know how it is.)

Salvage: Wow... 25$ +S&H to outfit 15-20 men. Ouch! Thanks for the link, but I might look into getting some spare lances from someone... Stutter or someone has got to have a few here or there. Maybe ebay can help. Jeebus GW pisses me off sometimes, though I suppose it didn't occur to them at the time to put the options in the box.

Thanks for the kind offer its really appreciated.

So cool.

So are you using standard Chaos Warriors for the eh.. Warriors? Or are you planning something pretty cool for us?

Ofc, I now feel bad if you ARE just using standard warrs (and there's nothing wrong with that!) cos it makes it seem like they're not good enough for my high expectations. They are. Eh. I apologise for any offence I may or may not have inadvertently caused.

*L* No worries Ghosty! I actually do intend to use the basic warriors, mostly because I don't hate the models and because the usually awkward GW bulk-scale rather works next to the little Rackham guys to make the warriors believably Str 4 T4. Now, I might actually get the warriors and shriek in dispair at how badly they look, and scamble to find replacements. However, there isn't much in the Rackham line that I can think of that really says "Rawr, Str 4 T4 4+ save earsling!" at least not that I can remember.

Really though, if anyone has any suggestions I would be up for checking around! The GW warriors are not repugnant, but I am not in love either. Plus it would be kind of funny to have a 100% non-GW army.

There are a lot of Dirz guys that fit the warrior type, but being eevil mutant gene-boosted sci-fantasy guys they're about the opposite of Woad Also a dude on TWF has already made a Dirz-as-WoC army, which easily resides in the top ranks of my favorite armies: ka-link

On the standards, if I never chimed in I actually like either the huge metal banner dude or the chick. I lean more towards the metal dude for the excellence of his sculpt, relatively little amount of reconstruction that needs to happen and better fit for the role of armored maniac. As to your concerns about tipping over, are you not magnetizing your models and their movement trays? You may not have 150 models in the army like my skaven, but finally magnetizing my troopers has revolutionized my enjoyment of the game, with much (x2 in skaven's case) easier set up and take down and also much less carrying space needed, as you can set the whole tray of 30 dudes in one foam tray, instead of 2 trays with individual holes for each model.

I use these magnets and attach them underneath the bases using green stuff. Trays I magnetize with Adhes-a-Mag (available at Michaels, $10 for 1'x2' roll), cut to size and then self-adhered on. Easy as that, and if one magnet can't keep your little metal standards from tiping, two will lock them the hell down.

I'm redoing my ogres now and giving them the treatment as well. These D21 magnets fit perfectly inside of the holes underneath GW 40-50mm bases, can load as many as needed in to keep huge metal dudes from slipping around

- Salvage

Wow, that is a really slick looking army. I had looked at Dirz a while back for a source of Lost and the Damned fellows, but hadn't thought of tossing some in here. Might have to look into that a bit...

Glad you like the big flag man, seeing as how I primed him up yesterday during a break in House Paint Horror 5 yesterday.(Turns out it was a bad time to spend 9 hours outside filling, painting and all, seeing as how it was 90+ outside...)
I am thinking magnets are the way to go too. I still have 100's left over from when I used to carry the girls around in a giant box (remember that?) I kind of got away from it as I started using plastic armies, as I got tired of the lads flying together if I placed their bases too close together Movement trays ought to really mitigate that issue, and really, I could hard attach the unit standard bearers to the plate itself. After all, they will be the second to last to die, and if the champ is the only one to walk away I can just pop him off the tray to solo. It will help out with ranking too, since getting these guys to line up takes a LOT of planning. Perhaps numbering their slots on the tray will help. Hmmm this suggestion of yours has some serious potential! Good fellow

And damnit, POST PICTURES OF YOUR STUFF! Bad enough my best modeling and painting buddy lives in a differnt state, but now he is too lazy to post?! :-P

Boss_Salvage I really like your WoC Dirz idea, I know what to do with mine now!

Wehrkind, I'm affraid you'll have to keep your kidney in place for now, I haven't found the riders yet (I've checked my usual stores, but nothing... I will check some occasion models shops I know next time I'll go to Paris).

While I'm at it, what other Drune models are you interested in? Hound of Scattah perhaps?

By the way, your Formor rocks!

Blah blah blah - it has nothing with being too lazy to post, I'm too lazy to take out models, snap pics, delete ones with bag lightning, take more pics, crop them, upload them and then post about them

Ogres are 5 models away from a somewhat deathstar-tastic 2400, really excited to get them to full strength at long last. Will make some pics happen when I get the last dudes painted sometime hopefully in the next 2 months

- Salvage

RAWR I'm back!

Actually a fairly small post; between birthdays, anniversaries, work sucking donkey dong (blocking Dakka... HERESY!) and another project (which I will post pics of here because it is just so cool ) I haven't gotten much done.

However! I did get the paint on the last of the original 24 marauder lads save for bases, and built the first 12 warriors. I also rocked out some 90+ bases for the next set of models, and seeing them all together was a little frightening. "I gotta build and paint all that?!"

Anyway pics of progress:





Next up is some combo of building the last 6 marauders for the unit, painting them, painting the ogres in the background, GSing the hell outta the warriors, priming/painting them, and/or doing knights perhaps for the 500 point games at Dakkacon Philly. Decisions, decisions.... I might also just play bloodbowl a lot

Wehrkind wrote:RAWR I'm back!

Actually a fairly small post; between birthdays, anniversaries, work sucking donkey dong (blocking Dakka... HERESY!) and another project (which I will post pics of here because it is just so cool ) I haven't gotten much done.

Great to see some news in this blog!

Wehrkind wrote:
However! I did get the paint on the last of the original 24 marauder lads save for bases, and built the first 12 warriors. I also rocked out some 90+ bases for the next set of models, and seeing them all together was a little frightening. "I gotta build and paint all that?!"

90+ models to paint? pfffff!!! Amateur! I've got at least 200 waiting!!! (BTW great job on the marauders )

Hehe yea yea... I am/was a 40k player. My IG army only has ~40-50 infantry in it My SoB only rock like 50-60 at 3000 points. 2500 and 90 marauders alone?! MADNESS! Throw in the 15 warriors, 10 marauder cav, 4 ogres, 5 knights and handful of characters... jeebus On the plus side, I think it is really working my abilities to paint quickly and simply and get the best results possible. It just isn't a possibility to really screw around with crazy layering etc on so many models, so I need to squeeze the most out of each brush stroke. On the other hand, I can really blend and mess around with NMM and such on the more elite models to go in that direction. So far a fun project

Wow, got a pretty good amount done this weekend! Mostly around ogres, though I messed about with some bases for the little guys as well. All that is left for the 3 big fatties is to woad them up, and I even had the presence of mind to take some work in progress pictures. Woo!

So firstly I had gotten the kilts and armor done earlier in the week. This weekend was mostly base coating and layering the skin, hair and other bits.

Because you see, ogres have layers:



Here's all three ready to go get a bath of mud:


And after a bit of a bath:


Not too much else is done on them, though I touched up a bit here and there. Mostly all that is left is to lighten up some of the spots the wash made too dark and woad them up. After that, I have the last 6 marauders for the unit to put on bases and paint up, and then I think I might dive into the remaining wolf chicks or knights. After those two units my 1000 point force will be painted, and after that, I think the warriors will get the works. The warriors will also have their bases be the test bed for my snow and mud theme. Still not certain how well that is going to work out....

Hope you all had a good weekend, and C&C welcome as always

Damn, they really do look awesome when lined up like that. My fave has to be the one of far left, with that evil smile and raised fist.
When are they getting the woad treatment then?

Tip top old thing

The one in the middle is saying to the chap on his left. "Careful! You could have someone's eye out with that!"
The other one is trying to punch his lights out! what was it he did to upset the others? Did they fail the animosity roll?

Glad you boys like them! They should be getting woaded up tonight, but really I am pretty well exhausted (I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in about 3-4 weeks now, and it is really starting to tell) so I think I will put it off till tomorrow or Wednesday. I always seem to make more work for myself when I force myself to paint tired :(

You are pretty much spot on with how they rank up Chibi. Apparently Rackham games don't require ranking, as almost none of the models line up naturally with each other. To make things worse I hadn't really taken that into consideration when I put them together (being a 40k player) so they have to be lined up one of two or three ways, which can be a neat trick sometimes :(

So, are the horns actually braids, or can they move them when excited? Either ay its a cool look.

Wehr's been busy, nice. The big lads look great, woad will punch them through the roof The warrior conversions work well too, like the somewhat hodge podge look of the different 'big weapons' they've got going on.

If you're looking for a Crossroads tournament report, it'll happen late in the week, but here's the recap: met lots of great dudes, went 2-3 (last game was mine until TWO failed LD9 tests 4th turn sent my tyrant's unit and the hunter fleeing in panic from a dead gorger, away from their sexy charges next turn and rallying too far away to do anything but be shot), and got absolutely screwed on paint scores. My ogres, with their 200+ hours of work, scored just higher than the guy who painted his brets to tourny legal (3 colors, white primer) on Friday night. Left a seriously bad taste in my mouth, after how far behind I've made myself for school due to cramming in so much painting time in the last 3 weeks. But we can talk about GT painting standards in private

Keep up the good work, hope you can rest up though. I'm returning to my WoT Redux, despite the literally dozens of WoC armies at Crossroads, but I think I have to give school / sleeping / working out / school some priority now

- Salvage

Trilobite: they are horns, just CHAOTIC HORNS!!!?!! Much like that twisted exclamation point there, they are warped by the power of chaos. Or something. It actually did tweak me a little bit that they all have slightly different horns. Not a lot, just enough to set off my CDO alarms.

Salvage: I look forward to the reports! (Perhaps with pics?) Bummer that the last hour or so kind of sucked for you, but glad to hear you had a good time otherwise. Dakkacon can't come fast enough, though I suspect it can come faster than me having 500 points of warriors painted.

I hear you on paint scores though. I would rather prefer that people look over all of the armies then cast votes rather than do it as part of each game's reporting, considering that it seems to be a consolation prize. "Sorry I kicked your teeth in, but hey, I am going to give you full sportsmanship and paint scores."

Glad you are digging the warrior conversions too. They were pretty fun to do really, despite the rather limited things you can do with forearms and gloves only. I was thinking of putting some twisted ghoul arms on one or two, but had trouble positioning them in such a way that they didn't look like they were face palming, playing grab ass with the guy in front of them, or doing "jazz hands". Jazz hands was almost funny enough to do anyway, but I am going to save the muties for the great weapon marauders, seeing as how I am doing some casting and converting to come up with a full 30 of them. Plus their torsos are so much more dynamic they will really lend themselves.


While I have your ears, good Dakkites, I have some questions:

1: What would make good unit filler for this army? I am still a little fuzzy on the whole concept, and can't come up with anything that doesn't seem like it would look too much like a character or something to work.

2: Warshrine: on a 50x50 base? Chariot base (75x50?)? What size should that be?

3: ... damn, maybe I will remember later. (OH, right, Hellcannon, what size base?)

4: Giant: same question.

Wehrkind wrote:I hear you on paint scores though. I would rather prefer that people look over all of the armies then cast votes rather than do it as part of each game's reporting, considering that it seems to be a consolation prize. "Sorry I kicked your teeth in, but hey, I am going to give you full sportsmanship and paint scores."

...

While I have your ears, good Dakkites, I have some questions:

1: What would make good unit filler for this army? I am still a little fuzzy on the whole concept, and can't come up with anything that doesn't seem like it would look too much like a character or something to work.

2: Warshrine: on a 50x50 base? Chariot base (75x50?)? What size should that be?

3: ... damn, maybe I will remember later. (OH, right, Hellcannon, what size base?)

4: Giant: same question.

Paint scores were judged by the guy running the event, or by the 40k player helping him run the event. Not a fan of the two judges, nor of the single aesthetic vision applied at a quick 3' pass ...

There's some flexibility in base sizes on these things, but here are my thoughts:

1) I always like 'big guy' fillers the best, with chaosified ogres being a favorite for WoC troopers. Rackham should be able to supply a huge variety of hulking things to walk with the lads, most likely on 50mm bases so as to take up a handy 4x 25mm spots.

2) I say chariot base (50x100), though since there is no model and GW isn't interested in giving base dimensions it's currently somewhat up to you. I'd say there's a 99% chance that the warshrine / chariot kit, when it comes out, will put the thing on a chariot base, at which point you'll have an answer to your question (and hopefully won't have to rebase ). Also, chariot bases may help you find a use for that warshrine in providing cover to models behind it - it's terrible at fighting but good at living, so screening with it might be effective. I'm reinstating my 'shrine and trying to make it do anything beyond buff and run away from combat.

3) Unbased hellcannons always get to me, so even if the real model doesn't have a base I don't think that's an option. The smallest base you should consider is probably is a chariot base, though I think the screaming bell base (60x100) is probably the most appropriate production base available. Some people have theirs on two chariot bases (100x100) but that seems excessive, and others just rep them using monsters on 50x50 squares. The one is silly, the other IMO is modeling to advantage, as it reduces attaks back in combat and template hits from shooting.

4) I've now made 2 counts as giants and both are on custom made 50x75 bases (chariot base + monster base + GS), which matches the base that the plastic giant comes on. You could easily do a 50x50 square and no one would complain, as older giants come on those and are therefore legal. Also, you're taking a giant, so high fives are in order from your opponent.

- Salvage

Good to know, good to know.

1:I had thought of the big guy filler, though it seemed a little odd in an otherwise fairly uniform army. My other thought had been a 50x50 base with only 3 guys on it, or with 2 guys a little tree or plinth or something. I do have some pretty nifty big guys though that I have nothing else to do with, so perhaps I will give them a shot.

2: Wow, chariot bases are that big? That does lend itself to shielding, as well as to the conversion I had in mind. Excellent

3: Yea, the hellcannon I was thinking of scratch building would have legs and be more of a shooty demon thing than a cannon per se, so a base would definitely be required. Plus I need somewhere to put the little cultist chicks so they can properly lick and caress it...

4: 50x75 sounds about right for a giant monster. I am thinking of using the Sersi daemon princess I got for that role, mounting her on a 60mm round 40k base and then doing a sub base for fantasy. I don't know how I will get a 60mm base to fit in a 50mm hole, but as my dad always says "Everything fits if you push hard enough." Of course, my chances of ever making an actual CSM army are about nil, so I might as well just put her on a 50x75 and call it a day. Of course, there is always the super tasty Ultraforge giant to be used.... hrmmm...

Well, got a good bit done this weekend, though not really of the exciting variety. I finished GSing the warriors and the last 6 marauders of the unit. I gotta thank Salvage for warning me about the fur; I was able to file down the shoulder connections a bit so that they overlap properly and hardly needed any gap filling.
Not so with the marauders and their cast resin slotted bases, which took a lot of gap filling. I am kind of curious to see how they work out; if well, I have 60+ bases ready for the rest of them, and if not, it will be a long drag gluing rocks and dirt at their feet. Admittedly though, it probably isn't a lot more work than getting the resin bases ready and then filling in gaps.
I also got the little lads primed, as well as the woc and their bases. The WoC bases will be the test bed for my spring thaw basing theme, as I haven't attached them yet and so can screw up gluing baking soda to them and just chuck 'em. No pictures of them yet though; they just look like someone got sloppy with the cocaine around my basement sink at the moment.

More excitingly though, I put together the mounted Sorc Lord, and sweet jeebus, she is BIG. I hadn't really grasped just how large the model is till she was together on the table. She is a full head and shoulder taller than the ogres, and makes the marauders look like man puppets. I am sort of thinking she might make a better stand in for a Lord on Juggernaught, because she looks like she should be rocking Str 5, no problem.

Still debating on tentacles though. I might mess around with that later in the week.

I also killed a little time putting some color on the BSB's flag, despite having no idea what color scheme I am going for there. Yay?

Little marauders... note how nice the sculpts are when I do a good job priming them...


Ever hear the phrase "Yelled till he was blue in the face?"


OMG you're huge!



I hope to have more this week. I am seriously thinking of starting to sleep again, which should really help!

love that bannner!

Those demons, WOW. This is really looking stunning Wehr.
The Sphinx model is really fantastic, what make is she?

Thankee Those demons need some woad still, but I am mulling over the patterns. In the fluff I figure the whole tribe gets whacked out of their minds on mead and... whatever the celt equivalent of peyote is, and the wolf priestesses then draw on whatever the gods show them in visions. So far sleepless weeks and goldschlager in white cranberry peach juice hasn't had the same effect.

Maybe if I rode around naked on one of the neighbor's dogs?

The sphynxy chimera thing is the old Rackham Chimera model. A very nice model, despite being 5 pounds of lead. The wings are especially nice, though I am not using them in favor of either bare back or some tentacles (as Salvage put it, a displacer beast meets a spynx.) One thing about this project is that every model makes me wish I knew where the master molds got to when Rackham went tits up. So many great models. :(
To be fair though, the new chimera model is pretty pimpin' too, though it seems you can only get it in the starter set. If anyone has a spare one...


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By the by, if you are looking for good photos of Rackham stuff, for instance if buying off ebay, this is a fantastic site:

http://underthemountain.wordpress.com/athen%C3%A6um/aarklash-archive/factions/cadwallon/

every model, by faction. Good stuff.


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Ok, got a bit done tonight, despite being a bit short on sleepy time. Butternut squash came in for the clutch though, so I did some serious base work, but for actual bases and base coats.

Woo bases!

Sort of a proof of concept and test of what the "first melt in the north" theme would look like, and I am pretty well pleased. The baking soda made nice looking snow, and the little bit of still wet wash on the bases actually soaked up a bit, making for some thin, muddier snow patches. They were not too laborious either, just some base, highlight and wash with some glue later, so I think it will definitely work for the rest of the army. Yay!

Also, did the kilts, base and wash skin and base metal on the kelts.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/145059-Yet%20more%20Wip%20.html?m=2

So, not bad for a dreary Monday evening

Let me know what you all think of the bases; my eyes don't seem to want to focus well tonight and I am curious as to whether they look as good as I hope.

Wehrkind wrote:OMG you're huge!

Sweet baby cats, she really is. Were we saying like steed of slaanesh for her? How about a demonic steed? I actually really like this option, gives you a lot for 50 points:

M8 (same as fast cav), +1sv, fear, 2 WS4 S5 attaks, 1 S5 stomp (!), swiftstride, and a 50mm square base to fit her on Also avoids having to take MoK (and so not be a sorcerer) and be all frenzied and such (minimal but still).

Wehrkind wrote:Maybe if I rode around naked on one of the neighbor's dogs?

Anyway yea, great looking bases as I've come to expect from you - and cast no less! Congrats on apparently getting that to work out so well for you. Sorry to hear about all the sleep nonsense, here's hoping it's sorting itself out?

- Salvage

this is epic.....love the woad looking marauders and Ogres.....

Superb start Wehr! The army oozes character and the scheme is very very nice.

Looking forward to more and army pics ASAP