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Finished my unit. The Black Orc heads are insanely large. I used one for the champ and it almost looks too big on an Ogre body!

Khorne knights and halbediers:

impressive job getting them ranked up. Not an easy task. Headswaps worked out perfectly. Love how modular so many Chaos kits are.

Man. I recently did 20 of these guys and the mold lines on the horses almost finished me. Tough kit that way.

 Eldarain wrote:
impressive job getting them ranked up. Not an easy task. Headswaps worked out perfectly. Love how modular so many Chaos kits are.

Man. I recently did 20 of these guys and the mold lines on the horses almost finished me. Tough kit that way.

20?!
I can imagine the pain, my 10 are more than enough for my taste.


i wish they would've differentiated the cav bases a bit more, 25x50 is fine for chaos barbarians, but any type of cav like Chaos knights or blood knights, etc. should've gotten a 30x 60 or even a 30x 75... i had to amputate a lot of horse tails to get them to fit.....

Meanwhile i could swear that the blood warriors from AOS were planned as khorne chaos warriors, considering how well they fit on square bases

Damn. They really do work nicely. Very early AoS release too. You might be right.

Good work ranking them up, do you need to number their bases so they tessellate correctly each time?!

I am very slowly working on ranking up the current range of Blood Knights.

 gobert wrote:
Good work ranking them up, do you need to number their bases so they tessellate correctly each time?!

honestly i reckon that yes i will need to number mine or slap on a pic on any list i field them on how to position them

I had not been paying much attention to the AoS skirmish products until relatively recently, to many sigmarines and too many oversized sculpts with poses that will not fit ranked units.
But I did find a boxset of four Black Orcs to add to my army, and exception to the above rule, including a unit hero and three boyz sculpts to variate things a bit. One of the boyz has to go on the units corner, but I did not mind that because the Slambo pose worked, and the rest fit 25mm squares with little fuss, including the Big Boss.
Then I went back to my old opinion of Warhammer Underworlds.

Later on I bought three boxes of wolf riders as there was finally a decent sculpt for them, they were dirt cheap because the cards were in Spanish. This yielded a wolf dart of six models, a big boss on wolf and some conversion material. Took a look at the Witch elf set and discarded it as the extra Hag was not worth the entry.

Then I stopped looking and let opportunities slip.

It was only when looking for a Hunter for my ogres that I noticed the magnitude of my folly. There was an Underworlds one, and it had gone into production, sale, post store sale and then retirement and silly money on eBay before I had heard about it. So I looked for what else I had missed.

I found this site helpful.
https://ageofminiatures.com/warhammer-underworlds-warbands/

Anyway I snapped up a copy of Hrothgorns Mantrappers for £15 and bought Crimson Court from an online retailer.

Now fully awakened to the possibilities for decent hero models for my numerous Warhammer armies I am taking a second longer look at Hexbane's Hunters, Starblood Stalkers and again back to Morgwaeth's Blade Coven.

There is no small possibility I am not the only one who has ignored mainstream AoS with exception of compatible miniatures releases and consequently totally overlooked AoS based specialist games in their entirity. If this is so, check out the link here and see what you may be missing. Be patient and the models you are after may turn up.

So far this has boosted my O&G, Ogre Kingdoms, Blood Dragon VC (alongside two boxes of Blood Knights) and will soon provide a character boost to my Lizardmen and Empire.

Maybe there is something here to help you.

I am currently working on my Chaos lord on daemonic steed, and the Army banner bearer, aswell on daemonic steed.

 Kalamadea wrote:
Took 3 years of talking about it, but my buddy and I finally got back into 6th WHFB. Original project thread

Ready for their first game ever vs Dwarves. Included some janky stand-ins that have since been replaced

Spoiler:

last 4 weeks of work: spearmen and archer units painted, 2 eagles and 4 bolt thrower crewmen

Spoiler:

3 games vs Dwarves so far and they're 3-0 with a 4th game set for a week from now vs Empire. 2 Bolt Throwers are half-done, need to convert 8 more Silver helms to replace the poorly built ebay specials, then need to paint all the cavalry. Almost looking like a proper army

Love these elves mate. I'm just in the planning stages of a new HE army myself. Are those dreadspears using the IOB spears? Can't imagine it being easy to get that many spare spear arms!

The eternal guard heads look great as archers though - was originally planning to throw them on glade guard bodies, though they might be a bit too stumpy now that I look at them again...

Working on getting my High Elves to 3k painted ad based.

painted some Ghouls recently

Does anyone know, that the new plastic Fleshhounds fit on a rectangle cavalry base?

 herjan1987 wrote:
Does anyone know, that the new plastic Fleshhounds fit on a rectangle cavalry base?

Looking at them the problem is not insurmountable, they are significantly bigger but should fit no less well than newer boar boyz and 8th edition chaos knights. Oversized models has long been a problem. Use the same techniques of mounting the flesh hounds in a staggered line, some a bit further forward than others. If you alternate you should not need to formally number them. You can also help yourself by adding a small riser below some models to raise them by a millimetre, which is often all you need. Some awkward models should be added to a sloped riser, also this need not be tall, but enables you to raise problematic wide parts so they are out of the way.

I have not done any of this with Flesh Hounds, but have with Chaos Knights and the new Blood Knights, both of which are bigger. I do not see a problem for the unit, but it may have to stand a bit back from what it charges into, though again that is typical for the game.

 Gangland wrote:
Working on getting my High Elves to 3k painted ad based.

Well, my friend ruined this and not I'm trying to get 4k built by end of February for a game. What I get for planning and goal setting.

 Orlanth wrote:

Looking at them the problem is not insurmountable, they are significantly bigger but should fit no less well than newer boar boyz and 8th edition chaos knights. Oversized models has long been a problem. Use the same techniques of mounting the flesh hounds in a staggered line, some a bit further forward than others. If you alternate you should not need to formally number them. You can also help yourself by adding a small riser below some models to raise them by a millimetre, which is often all you need. Some awkward models should be added to a sloped riser, also this need not be tall, but enables you to raise problematic wide parts so they are out of the way.

I have not done any of this with Flesh Hounds, but have with Chaos Knights and the new Blood Knights, both of which are bigger. I do not see a problem for the unit, but it may have to stand a bit back from what it charges into, though again that is typical for the game.

Oh chaos knights.... I have that issue with them what you describe. I need to post this earlier. Thank for the advice.

In the meantime I am working on Savage orcs to continue my Old World project.

I did some research recently on Blood Knights, it led me to a number of images including this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerFantasy/comments/nn7wy6/new_blood_knights_ranked_up/

Blood Knights are vey big, but they can be accommodated.

OPTION 1.
As a last resort you can have the unit on numbered bases and always assemble them in a specific order. This gives you the most leeway, and simplest solution. Thus I link it first..
I don't do this, partly because I want to leave the unit free for adding characters or for loss of specific models, such as champion and standard.

OPTION 2.
My favourite technique is to build models alternately forward or back, with the champion and standard bearer being opposed, so they can be adjacent.
When assembling a dryfit a model then glue in a model in the opposed configuration, I keep this model aside and glue in the original model. Then I add new members to the unit forward or back and I dryfit them to each and every opposed position model both to the left and to the right, and make sure the model fits in every combination before gluing it in.

This does mean that some models are very far back, rear hooves to the rear of the base, some are very far forward, normally in a gallop pose, at most the front hooves just clear the base, for most forward models the head does.

This way I can make a unit that fits in every combination and it looks dynamic as the horses are racing each other, not in a line. I don't try to exaggerate the line, there is visual coherency, but it is a charging horse unit not a parade line.

There is a sacrifice to be made here. My units bases this way are strictly one rank only. This naturally fits ultra elite cavalry with multi attack model like Blood Knights and Chaos Knights.

And before you ask, Chaos Knights and Blood Knights are so long that multiple ranks would not fit even if I were to try and make a multiple rank unit. It would require a spacer. However that being said Having multiple single rank movement trays for said unit would probably work if you wanted to make a vampire of chaos cavalry deathstar.


OPTION 3.
If you have big models and want to have multiple rank cavalry then instead of alternating forward and back you alternate left or right. A good example of this working are boar boys. The old plastic boarboyz simply ranked up, but models were more contained then, especially cavalry. Prior to 7th there wasnt an issue of ranking up any cavalry that I remember, with exception to 5th edition cold one knights, but they were too expensive to rank up anyway.

Newer boar boyz fit on the bases, but are just a tad too long. You need to stagger then forwards and back a few millimetres to account for the feet of the riders touching, this is a standard problem with all cavalry and normally the base have enough leeway to accommodate this. Boar boyz don't because the tail sticks out and so does the snout. However adjusting the entire rank a few millimetres left or right will give enough clearance so the tail and snout dont touch. This means every rank is based a few millimetres astride from each other. It is not enough to look jarring.

Two considerations.
1. The character boar model is very big, it needs to be not mounted too far forward because it extends forward a lot anyway. Thankfully that models pig tail droops, and you will know that the snout of the pig behind will be orientated a little to the side opposite the ranking of the front rank. So you know where the snout will be. You can thus mount that model fairly far back and mostly central on the base. Now place that model on front corner of the unit opposed to the lean of the front rank. It will not be positionable in the unit easily and keep the boar boyz a multi rank unit.
Alternately pose the big pig on a rock and position it dead centre, this can now fit in the unit anywhere on the front rank. I tend to avoid mounting too many models on rocks, its cliche, but it is an easy escape with an awkward model. I recommend you do this here though as it will be he only way to have two boar riding characters in the unit.
2. The front corner model away from the lean, i.e the model naturally in the position where the character should go will look slightly odd. Ad the lean to left or right is covered by the unit every other model will look ok. Please note that the lean does not take the model over its base to left or right, but does take it to the edge of the base. Back rank end models also look ok. By the front rank corner model away from the lean will have a visible gap on the base he looks like he is avoiding. Place a piece of base scenery here, my preferred recommendation is a log, something low to the ground the pig might be porting around, big enough to occupy the space and yet low enough to to interfere with a character model if this model is shifted over.

If you try this method dryfit a lot so you can minimise the shift, you don't want a 'herringbone' pattern or anything weird, it only take a millimetre or two to create clearance, if done right the gap will only be obvious on the front opposed corner figure, and there will be room for additional shuffling forward or back and the occassional slight diagonal (no more than one pig in ten) to make the unit look natural.

I use big blocks of boar boyz for theme, and find this works even with the newer and far better boars.

Tomb Prince and Liche Priest ready for paint...

 Just Tony wrote:
Tomb Prince and Liche Priest ready for paint...

I like the conversion. Keep it up!

Between the Egyptian Motif on the bright wizard and the scroll in the hands of the other wizard they were both Screaming tomb kings at me from afar

Recently started to build an Empire army with Highlands Minis stls



I'm also waiting for some bases to arrive before I carefully remove all my AoS goblins from their round bases and return them to squares!

Gurkhal wrote:
Conceptualizing a little on names, fluff and heraldy for a Bretonnian army. It will most likely never come to anything practical but you know, its funny thinking about it.

If you don't mind using historical minis for most of the force, you can actually do a Bretonnian army quite cheap.

Whelp, that's the whole Army done now.



Well, until I decide to add more models, that is...

Some of my pile of shame got reduced during the last months! Slowly, but steadily.

Added a Jezzail unit, Poison Wind Globadiers, and an Assassin to my Skaven army.

Can we see side-ons of your home made Jezzails.

I would like more clues as to how to make some.

Easy recipe.


Mantic Ratkin snipers or whatever the hell they're called with random pewter Skavenslave models standing on the back to represent the whole 2 models aspect of the Jezzails. Ashley made these, I just painted them.


That reminds me: I need to find some spear arms from the most recent Clanrats. Island of Blood or multipart kit, doesn't matter. Just need to make two partial units of Clanrats match...

Took a few months off - just focusing on other things. But I am back to painting up my Bretonnians and finished another Lance worth of Knights of the Realm





Full gallery here: https://imgur.com/gallery/vtxiEWC

My brother is able to paint again, and this time he sent me a picture of his progress subtitled "All your basecoat are belong to us"...