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Viterbi wrote:Hoping for more sunny days, so you can get more games in, looks like a great setup, as gobert said.

Love all the Chaos madness coming along, the red going to yellow axe looks really cool!

I was pleased with how the axe came out. It was going baadly, then the streaks of colour saved it.

The Riddle of Steel wrote:What a weird and wonderful collection of mutants you have going. The green stuff work really brings them to life. I’m loving all the old classic minis here.

Here is some more sculpting -

I need a standard bearer and musician, and don't want something that is not era appropriate. Here is the work so far...

Damn - mispost.

That is very tall standard!

Someone else in our campaign made a very tall one, so i had to compete.

That’s one hell of a Standard! Great start on sculpting the face, I’m assuming a Chaos Daemon rather than an Evil Sun

Well, this is going to be impressive. Insert inappropriate joke here...

That is a long banner pole, can't wait to see it finished.

There's going to be some weight in that banner when it's done. Are you planning a bigger base? Or some kind of lead weight underneath?

The eyes are fantastic so far. Looking forward to seeing this progress.

What mad, leering eyes! Impressive banner, excited to see how it evolves.

"You call that a banner? This is a banner!" Chaoscroco Dundee

"Excuse me sir, but you're going to need council approval for that banner. That is definitely a non-standard standard."

Great stuff mate, looking forward to an update!

It has been way too long since I last posted, so here is a quick blast of some finished models!

Two units of hounds will do for now. I have another fifteen of these dogs to use in future.




And a total of twenty Marauders. The two batches are quite different but will all fight together in the same unit.




I've made a lot of progress on Knights and my Chaos Hero too, as well as started a Sorceror Lord. I need to have an army for Bring Out Your Lead, so I need to get a wriggle on.

They all look great Fifty!

Wow, busy fella. Big blue is particularly cool!

Happy to see the Marauder progress, quite the mob of maniacs

Awesome stuff. Love the Thug in the skeletal armor.

 youwashock wrote:
Awesome stuff. Love the Thug in the skeletal armor.

He's trying to fit in with his enemy just incase his side is losing, he can join their ranks and disappear later if needed .

Love the oldhammer models. I don't have many of the marauders, but I have a few of the hounds hiding somewhere.

Some more great old stuff Fifty.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers folks. I have duplicates of a few of these guys, including bony. I am thinking I will do a red and metallic version. Just need to decide the ratios of red:iron:bronze. I have another fifteen dogs to paint at some point too!

Great progress fifty! The variety and character that you’ve brought out in these guys is fantastic! Can’t wait to see what’s next

Great updates! I'd forgotten how characterful a lot of the old sculpts were

Marauders look so fun, really cool sculpts and great paintjob!

Hi gents,

Sorry for the slow updates. I just having been finding the time to get photos ready to go on here. I've been putting a lot more on Instagram lately, which makes me feel a little dirty, but has greater reach.

I have a few bits to show now though...

Firstly. I got a sorceror on disc and a champion on disc ready for a game against my friend's Dark Elves. He beat me without taking a single casualty in our practice, no scenery game, so I wanted to bring mobility. The sorceror mobility only for emergencies, but the champion and harpies were intended to harass my enemies missile troops, especially his repeater bolt thrower.

I didn't previously like the champion model, despite him being a Jes Goodwin, but now I realise he is just lopsided and needs to be balancing on a disc.



The game itself was a lot of fun, and not just because (spoilers...) I won! We played at Bad Moon Cafe near London Bridge and it was a lovely set up. Really nice terrain. We used some boxes from the shelves to create a barrier down the middle of the table and deployed in ignorance of each others armies...

Nathan put his Repeater Bolt Thrower in the centre to maximise its potential, a unit of Crossbowmen wide on a flank, Scouts just inside the Crossbowmen on one flank and wide on the other flank. His Hydra and Mage lined up next to the Cold Ones. His Harpies deployed backwards, ready to fly high or swoop forwards.

I set up with Marauder Horsemen opposite his Crossbowmen, Ogres just inside of them. I used two units of Chaos Hounds with their handlers to screen a large unit of Chaos Marauders, which contained my Master Sorceror. My Champion on Disc and Harpies sat back, ready to fly high.




I sent my Horsemen snaking around the flank, which led to a couple of turns of his Crossbowmen spinning and reforming on the spot to avoid getting flank or rear charged before his Harpies eventually descended and did a surprising amount of damage to them.

My dogs got whittled away, but my Ogres and Marauders pushed forwards. My Disc Champion took out his Bolt Thrower before it did as much harm as I expected.
Tzeentch's Bolt of Change, cast with Total Power, took out his Hydra, and I started to get confident. My Marauders managed a charge on Nathan's Mage by just 3 or 4mmmm, which then led to them charging further into his Cold Ones, where my Sorceror killed his General.

My Harpies descended on his scouts on my right flank, then got some assistance from my Disc Champion to kill them off.

I had Destroy Spelled his best spell, so his Mage turned into a Hydra, but by this stage his Cold Ones were running, his Scouts were dead, his Harpies (who had fled, but surprisingly rallied) were undermanned and only his Crossbowmen offered any threat. They were, however, surrounded buy a few Horsemen, five Ogres, a Disc Champion and Harpies, so we called it.





It was a fun game, and good revenge for our first game, in which he tabled me without losing a single model! I definitely had the dice go in my favour when it really mattered.
My Disc Champion and Harpies did not do huge amounts of damage, but gave me the tools I needed to make the game go very differently.

Since then, I have made more progress on the horsies, but the photos are not up-to-date, so more on them next time. Here is just one pic of their Chaos Warrior leader, however...



I have also completed one of the "modern" warriors and two that I started painting way back in the early 90s, making them almost 30-year paint jobs, if you ignore the fact that all but six months of that didn't actually involve any painting... The zebra stripes did not turn out as well as I hoped, but they'll do. Lion mane guy could do wit his black touching up, if I get around it.




...and I have started painting the disc sorceror...



Finally, I have started a rather delightful mini from Knightmare Miniatures. You may be able to spot a few influences on both the sculpt and my paint job.

Thanks for the battle report, that was really fun!

Lion mane is excellent, and Skeletor is looking fab. Sounds also like a really fun time was had!

It was one of my most enjoyable games for a long time. Recently, I find I a enjoying old-fashioned WFB more than modern games. I still enjoy 40k and AoS, but I like the challenge of winning within the constraints of the movement rules.


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Also, I have been giving thought to my next project. I could do with an army that is halfway competitive, without being cheesy. I think I want to start getting some of my Primaris built and painted.

I have a notion towards a quartered scheme using White Scars colours. This is the idea I have, with a minor variation to it.



On Chogoris, there is an ancient legend of The Whirlwind.

Once, when the land was young, a group of raiders returned to their tribe to find that not only had their home been raided in their absence, which was a natural part of war, it had been attacked by a massed force and wiped out. This small band pursued the attackers, and after three nights, found their roaming camp. Before they could attack, a whirlwind struck, doing huge damage to the wrongdoers but preventing the pursuers from attacking. Their pursuit was hindered, and they caught up with their enemy again two nights later. Again, a whirlwind struck their enemy, though far weaker this time. Under the cover of the terrible wind, they were able to wreak great havoc in the enemy camp, slaughtering many, then escape before the enemy could regroup. The enemy moved on again, but the avengers came upon their new camp again the next night. This time, no whiriwind hit the surviving foe. They still presented a fearsome opponent, and some of the few pursuers feared to attack. Then, their leader stood tall, and in an impassioned speech, declared that henceforth they were the whirlwind.

The Whirlwind struck the camp with such fury that even though they were terribly outnumbered, their enemy, already disoriented and despairing from the previous nights, fled before them, but not a single warrior escaped their wrath, and all were slain. The survivors, it is said, split into two groups. One, mostly consisting of the youngest warriors and a few of the wisest elders, found themselves wives and slowly rebuilt their tribe. The older warriors, past the age at which they would have sons and daughters of their own, but not wishing to be a burden to the young, became a roaming brotherhood, offering their swords to other tribes in exchange for shelter and the opportunity to wreak vengeance on other wrongdoers. When the last of these died, so legend has it, a whirlwind took up his body, along with his horse, and he was seen riding to a group of similar warriors.

Now, many a warrior will pray to these ancient spirits for support in quests of vengeance. Who can say how many times they have answered?

Millenia later, the White Scars have been granted the honour of a successor chapter. Captain <insert name here> has been granted the honour of leading this new chapter, but instead of them being immediately hived off, he is turning the 3rd company into the new chapter, building them gradually and fighting as part of and alongside the White Scars, until they are strong enough to take their full independence.

He has chosen the name The Whirlwind as he is of the tribe it came from. He seeks vengeance upon all humanity's enemies, but especially hates Drukhari, not least because of the stories involving Jaghatai Khan and Comorragh.

His battle doctrine is an unusual one for a White Scar. Though he fights in the normal manner of a White Scar (Inheritors of the Primarch doctrine) he believes that it is most effective when employed predominantly by the heaviest troops, and his company has long favoured Gravis armour alongside other, more mobile armour and equipment. He was often mocked for this by those who relied on speed and speed alone, as the epitome of the White Scars doctrine. <insert name here> would often support such actions, saying that speed and surprise are the supreme way of fighting, but that any force should have a plan B. He considered himself to be the White Scars' plan B, and without dismissing surprise and speed, he allied it to reslience and overwhelming force. He was proven correct when his Heavy Intercessors, Aggressors and Eradicators were able to lay waste to a group of Drukhari raiders who had threatened to isolate and destroy and mobile force of bikers and assault intercessrors. He has continued this doctrine into his creation of the new chapter, not wishing to limit it to one way of fighting. He has promoted sergeants and lieutenants who show versatality to lead his new chapter.

This is very cool fluff. There is really cool printable samurai themed stuff you could add into the mix.

Red and white always look fantastic together. White Scars are one of my favorite armies, although going for pure white is a major challenge for painting (for me anyway, without an air brush). A really light grey is more forgiving. Looking forward to seeing where you go with it.

Great pics of your battle, looks like you guys had a fun time!

The latest warriors look cool, loving the variety of schemes you’re throwing together. For me the zebra stripes look a bit too symmetrical but still look great.

The SM chapter sounds cool to me too, I’m with Riddle that Grey might be an easier choice. Save the pure white for the extremes of the highlighting

Yeah, I always do white that way.