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I just need to knock off the last model for the Death Guard I am doing for a mate and then I can say goodbye to most of the GW paints, just don't want to mix the paints now while I have the Death Guard recipe down pat. But sort of not looking forward to the Spartan, such a crappy quality model.....

Spending the day trying to work from home as the flooding hitting Australia's East Coast has us temporarily cut off from going anywhere. We are in no danger and likely never would be (we live on a mountain), but the road down the hill has been cut off for now.

So I have been having some solid (if not spectacular) progress on painting; the Chaos Dwarfs are on the very slight back burner as I have focused on knocking off some more long ignored terrain pieces. So, they are not the most interesting or well painted things I have done, but they are finished and can be ticked off the list (and add some much needed numbers to the yearly model count). First up is some stuff for any futuristic/modern games I may play.


A pair of forklifts, I am still amazed these are MDF models, they didn't look like much when they were just flat sheets, but have taken on a life of their own now assembled. I did the same rust effect on them I have done for the pipelines and in hindsight should have painted the non-rusty areas first as it has left them a little lumpy under the paint.


But what are forklifts without something to move around, so we have two sizes of crates and a few pallets to move them around on. I included the in progress flash git to give scale, which is also probably a mistake because these Flash Gitz are big boys.


Another shot of the forklifts doing their thing.


As you can see the Flash Git almost dwarfs the Forklifts, yet I could quite easily put an Imperial Guard Sentinel Pilot into the Forklift seat without much problem, seems the Orks breed them big these days.


Both forklifts and all the crates and pallets hastily assembled into a barricade for the plucky Flash Git.


Wonder if this Ork has ever played Jenga?


More MDF terrain and this time we have some stripped down Satellite dishes. I really like these as they have two points of articulation (that by some miracle I have maintained even after painting) and they rotate in the base moving the two cogs there.


Again I did the rust effect and did a few other colours after the fact to add some level of interest.


My current favourite scale model stands in again to show that these Dishes are a pretty reasonable size.


Then back to the medieval/low tech stuff, more fences. This time super simple and more livestock fencing than picket fencing.


They originally had tapered ends on the bases which I pruned off so that they would be able to butt up end to end without a gap between them.


Very, very simple, but they came together quickly and I think they look pretty good (especially when you consider the effort and time expended)


Just like the previous fences I pared the mdf bases back so they tapered down to the ground rather than having an "unnatural" square edge to them, I think it adds just a little more to the model.

So I have also got the basecoat down for the silver on the remaining Infernal Guard and will get a wash onto them in the next couple of days hopefully. With these terrain models painted I am now up to 81 models for the year out of the 66 days we have had so far, so the simple and nasty terrain has me well ahead so will buy me some time to get actual figures finished now.

Thanks for reading.

So I have fallen off the painting wagon (again), but it seems that my lifestyle and genetics have caught up with this almost 40 year old and the dreaded kidney stone has surfaced.

Up until now I am the only male member of my family that doesn't suffer gout (thank you for being a non-drinker) and almost every member of my family (brother, mother, father, cousins, uncles) have had multiple kidney stones over the years.

Let's say it is definitely the least fun I have ever had lying down and although the pain has eased at the moment and the scans are done (just waiting for the doctor to tell me what the next step is) I am still a little tender.

It's been a while since I've dropped in, but it is amazing to see you still keeping this up!
Chaos dwarfs are looking awesome, you forget how insanely detailed some of the older fantasy miniatures are until you see them again, especially with such a great paintjob. That MDF terrain is pretty cool too, make a quick and easy addition to the tabletop.

Hopefully you are back to full health and the painting table soon, but in the meantime chill out and get plenty of rest!

Liking the equipment. Forklift etc. Looking brilliant.

So, it has been some time. When I last left you I was being treated for kidney stones and I guess you can probably tell by my long absence that it wasn't quite what I was expecting. So what I had been assured was a "simple and straight-forward procedure" ended up with four surgeries, what was described as a horrific fungal infection of left kidney that led to a short bout of renal failure. So ended up in hospital for a little while and a long recovery that was completely unexpected.

I also know now why I never dabbled in drugs as I was tripping hard on the combination of drugs I was on and still find it hard to look at my bathroom floor the same way...but with a supportive family and a stupidly understanding employer I am finally starting to feel half normal. Although a bout of COVID and now the tail end of a cold or flu I am feeling well and truly beaten up. But, the fact I am posting back here is a sign of the bright horizon can be seen and that some painting progress has been managed.

So without dwelling on the horrific, let's turn our attention to the positives and have a look at what I managed.


When I left off last time I had managed to get to within the finish line of the Chaos Dwarf army I was doing. With only two units of Infernal Guard between me and ticking another one off the list. So I am happy to say that they are now complete. This is a pretty crappy photo (when are mine not?) of the front row. I followed the half red helmets of the units of fireglaive users and kept that going on the shields.


This is the other unit (same configuration). I copied the helmets onto the shields to break that area up a little and decided to use the sickly green from the Heroes on the shield symbol. I actually ripped the symbols off from the standard bearers who have the two tiny symbols on the plaques below the bulls head.

So, this means that the army is now complete (apart from needing to add magnets to the latest units, but that is a minor point). So a quick review before showing the whole army.


Here we have the Lord of the army, my Daemonsmith. He will likely rank up with one of the Infernal Guard units as he is a decent fighter as well as my only magic user. A tough combo to get right. He may end up hanging with out on his own or with the small units of Fireglaive wielders.


The Heroes of the army, a Bull Centaur Taur'ruk and a pair of Castellan's; one with a Army Standard (I know it is very small....)


The Core of the army, two blocks of Infernal Guard for up close and personal relations and two small units to hopefully scare away small units. I am REALLY happy with how their paint scheme has turned out.


The Bull Centaurs, a lot of fun to paint, but really think the scale of these guys is WAY off. But will be amazing missile attracting models right from the start I think.


And finally the rare part of the army my K'Daai Fireborn. I really took a while to be happy with these guys, but they have really grown on me and I think they are my favourite unit.


The whole army together. They are finished and I think as far as the armies done so far they are my favourite. I do have plans in the future to do a second Chaos Dwarf army and it will focus on hobgoblins and war machines to really give me a different feel to this one.

Thanks for reading and it is nice to be back.

Well they look amazing. Excellent work.

Question now is which army is next?


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So looking at my options I have either:
Warhammer Fantasy Beastman army (lots and lots of Chariots)
40k Aeldari (Aspect Warrior army)
Drukhari (Haemonculus Coven)
Chaos Marines (Bezerker's)
Genestealer Cults (1st and 4th Gen)

Any opinions?

Great to see you back, Archer. I vote Chaos Marines for the next army.

Thanks for the vote. The Chaos Marines could be an interesting one as I want to try something different to the red and brass of "normal" khorne Bezerkers and use the old World Eater's colour scheme. But then dirty and obscure it with dried and fresh blood. Not sure if it is feasible, but I will look into it.

So the consensus was to stick to a fantasy army (which will help even up the count) and chosen is the Beastmen army centred around chariots.

There will be 11 chariots in total (6 Tuskgor, 2 Razorgor, Army Standard and Shaman in Tuskgor Chariots and Beastlord in a Razorgor one).

Hoping it will be a fairly quick army to paint.....

Brilliant results on the Chaos Dwarfs, I bet it’s super satisfying when you set up these finished group shots

Sorry to hear about your woes, hope you continue to feel better! Fungus if the kidneys?? Bloomin eck!! :O Sounds like you have an employer to be thankful for in this regard anyway

Beastmen sounds cool! I wanted Zerkers though… So how about Beastman Betzerkers?

I think I am liking the idea of the Bezerkers more and more so they will definitely be next. But alas no Khorngors to speak of in this army.

Sounds like you've really been through it, but I'm glad to hear you're starting to come out the other side! Chaos Dwarves are looking mean, live the dark metalwork and those fireborn and super as a spot of colour in the army, and a unit in their own right.

@Paradigm, thanks for the vote of confidence, hopefully less whinging and more hobby from me now.

So no photo updates, but I have had some good progress on the Beastmen. As this is a "second hand" collection of models that I am cobbling together I have had to do a fair bit of paint stripping and repair work. But at least ten of the thirty Ungor were new on sprue which has given me lots of parts to repair the damage/missing parts on the other twenty.

Some of the Centigors for an unknown reason had hands and spears removed and replaced with bows. Which I have now fixed. I hope they are fun to paint as I think they are some of my favourite models.

To date I now have all the Chariots (11 of them), the Tuskgors and Razorgors to pull them (8 pairs of Tuskgors & 3 Razorgors) and the 10 Centigors all assembled and undercoated ready for some paint.  I have had to get a little creative on how to attach the chariots to the Razorgors as they are not really conducive to having a chariot hanging off them.

I have also started assembly of the Ungor Raiders as I have had to replace spears with bows and will need to bash some alternative bows together for some of them as I don't have enough "official" ones.  But that should be too hard.

In regard to the chariot crews I need to figure out how to hold them for painting as I will do them separately.  I also need the Beastlord, Shaman and Army Standard to be loose so if the chariot bites the bullet they can run off. But I did that for my Tomb Kings so shouldn't be too hard.  The Army Standard is going to be cobbled together from extra pieces so hopefully he looks the part once I am finished with him.

Well it is time for another long overdue update. I have been active, but as usual don't tend to show things in progress.

I hit a snag with the beastmen when I discovered I had run out of static grass that I wanted to use on the bases. So there was a pause in progress while I waited for that to arrive.

But, if I am talking about basing it must mean the first of the Beastmen are ready to show off? Well they are almost.....see below.


These are the 3 Razorgor's that are going to be in the army, however, they will be pulling chariots (hence the elongated bases). For ease of painting I decided to do the creatures, chariots and crew all as separate assemblies.


I think that the Razorgor's are some of my favourite models that I have done so far and I also think they are some of my best paint jobs to boot.


The herd running free; at least until I get the chariots done and them harnessed up. I think I will try to continue this colour scheme onto the Tuskgor's that are pulling the other chariots, but I am experimenting with a pale skin tone washed in blue for the actual beastmen. Hoping that the contrast will help the crew stand out from the chariots and beasts.


From a distance you can't quite see how poorly these models fit together. I really should have spent more time filing and filling. But I was over it and wanted to get some paint going.


I have had to convert the chariots to fit the Razorgors as GW never actually made a model for the Razorgor chariot option. So hopefully they fit ok without looking like they are on too much of a crazy angle.


I think these models really evoke the frothing madman appeal of the Beastmen, not sure the rest of the range is quite so out there though.

I hope that once I settle on a paint scheme for the actual Beastmen I will be able to knock them out fairly quickly. I have the 30 Ungor Raiders on the painting station at the moment and they are "assisting" with testing some paint schemes. We will see if I end up happy with them.

Thanks for reading.

Great work with the bloodshot eyes. They look absolutely crazed!

Ok so I am looking for some feedback on my idea for the beastmen paint job. The previous photos showed the Razorgors and I want something a little different for the actual Beastmen.

I really see this army in three different parts. The Chariots (which will largely be brown as I am boring), the Beast's that are pulling the chariots (as in the Razorgors and the Tuskgor that are to come) and finally the Beastmen.

So I figure if I go with a lighter tone on the Beastmen it will help them stand out from the rest of the army, especially those that are on board the chariots. Let me know what you think of this Ungor Raider.....



And for reference here he is about to get eaten by one of the Razorgor....



Thanks for reading.

I think that makes sense, it highlights them as the actual heart of the army.

Yeah I’m liking that Ungor, mate.

I am getting some feedback from another forum I post on that maybe a blue/grey would work better for the fur. Would definitely compliment the skin and contrast to all the brown leather on him.

Thoughts?

So based on some suggestions from a different forum I post on I have made some tweaks to the Ungor Raider I trialled for the scheme of my Beastmen. Let me know what you think of this version compared to the previous one.....



The major changes are the fur has become a blue/grey. This does provide a better contrast to the brown leather and wood on the model. I also tried to blend the flesh a bit better so it isn't as stark a contrast between the light and dark.

Thanks for reading.

Yeah that works better with the skin, I was hesitant when you were describing the idea earlier but it makes sense now that I see it.

Yeah I was reluctant to change it. But got enough feedback that looking at the original I needed to try it. I am much happier with this compared to the original.

But the Ungor have been put on the back burner as I am moving onto the Centigors as the other forum I post on has a painting challenge that they fit the theme quite well. Just need to get them done by the end of the month…..

Good luck with the contest.

Love the choice of skin tone.

So I have been really slow on any hobby progress, had yet more need of hospital services in our household with my wife needing to get a hernia that was wrapped around her stoma dealt with (it is likely it first developed during her pregnancy with our son; who is now 5. But it came to a head and needed to be operated on). Then I had another surgery on my nose to remove the diseased sinus tissue that just wouldn't respond to antibiotics. But that is now behind us (I hope as I have had 7 surgeries in the last 2 years and am very much over it).

So I have been slowly getting back into the hobby swing, just pottering around on various things and trying to get a few things that have been bugging me for some time off the to do list.

First up in the newly finished things is something that has been bugging me for ages is my paint collection. I mentioned a little while ago (I think) that I was transitioning away from GW paints to Vallejo, well that is all good, but I have a metal GW painting suitcase from yesteryear that had vacuum formed trays that neatly held all the GW paints I could ever want. But the trays wouldn't hold the dropper bottles and I didn't want them just floating around loose as that would drive me bonkers. So this is my solution.......


Two layers of foam, cut to fit snuggly into the case and 234 holes punched into the foam (117 in each sheet) firmly holds the dropper bottles. I have them upside down so I can pick the colour I want quickly and through accident rather than good design the label still sticks out above the foam so I can read the name as well. So all in all it turned out well. I was also very lucky that the dropper bottles are just shorter than the closed case so they fit like they were made for it.

Next up are the Centigor Herd that I had intended to paint for a competition, but alas I failed miserably especially as I have only just finished them off. But They are now done and I am super happy with how they have turned out. I continued the colour scheme of the previous Ungor on the "beastman" part and then moved into browns for the lower portion.


These were second hand and I needed to do some rebuilding of missing horns and someone had replaced the spear on 5 of them with bows.....which was an interesting conversion, but I removed them and added the spears back on (which the previous owner fortunately still had and provided them when I bought the models).


I toyed with a couple of different browns, but ended up with a mustard for the "horse" bits, I think the warm brown vs the cool skin tone works.


I have decided that green will be the army's "colour" for cloth and the like, so I have also repainted the Ungor who had previously sported orange fletching and loin cloth. I much prefer the green.


I think that the Centigor's may be one of my favourite units of any army to date. Not really sure why, but I think they are a kooky unit and have oodles of character.


I messed up the movement tray size (it's too bit). Teach me to glue it together without checking it first. But it isn't horrendous and I won't bother to modify it. You use the bases to determine the actual size anyway......


Here is the unit champion next to the test model Ungor, I think I managed to reproduce the skin pretty well. You can see his new green colours, I think it works much better.

So that is where I am at currently, next time I hope to have finished off some more terrain that has been sitting ALMOST finished for quite a while now and has been bugging me every time I see them sitting 90% finished.

Thanks for reading and good to be back posting.

Looking classic!

Merry Christmas bud.

Slight deviation from the Beastmen and a tiny update before the New Year. I knocked out a little more scatter terrain for the fantasy tables. I also FINALLY finished off the last little outstanding pieces of the medieval houses that I had been neglecting. I hope to get a photo of a table with all the medieval terrain laid out to show it off. But we will see if I get the time and the space.

But the little pieces I knocked off are....


Some wells, every town needs wells.


Thatched roof and stone construction. I basically copied the same concepts from the houses to tie it all together neatly. These were laser cut and I think they are incredibly effective.


The next items I am not super sure what they are, but I filled them with straw, guess they can double as roofing thatch storage or feed bins for livestock. But they add interest and that is all that matters.


Kept them very, very simple, just to knock them out and put them on the finished pile.


A couple of my Marienburgers scouting out the new digs, hopefully the wells aren't tainted.......

Thanks for reading and I hope everyone is safe and happy over this festive season.

Happy new year to everyone, I hope that the festive season has been fruitful and peaceful.

I thought I would show off some photos to inspire some motivation in myself. So first of all, when my in-laws semi-recently sold their house to downsize I got offered the following cabinet. I was hesitant in regard to getting it to my place, but with a couple of stout lads we managed it...


Seems I can fit about 2 armies per shelf....going to need a lot more space.


I laid out all the "medieval" urban style terrain I had. The two boards made a 3 foot by 4 foot area, so I am pretty happy with how much terrain I have for this style.



Spread out over a full table I think it will make for a really great (if still dense) table. All of the buildings are fully "playable" as in the floors and roof can be removed should someone want to send troops inside.


I then set up the buildings in a really dense "inside" the wall sort of arrangement. Kind of ended up quite claustrophobic. Could be great for a Mordheim game, although some higher walkways are a little lacking.


I am almost at a point of being happy enough to put my medieval terrain collection to bed. I just have a few things left....

I have 2 of each of these (GW Watchtower and Church). So another 4 buildings and I think I can jam pack a table when needed. I also have the bits to attach the Church to the Watchtower into a single bigger building so the whole collection will be able to be modular and always something different.

Thanks for reading and hear to a healthy and stress free 2023 (please...I could really use no more surgeries...)