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So, perhaps Im going to make aa Skaven army. Id like some advise from dakkadakka in making it ofcourse!
As Im NOT going to play WHFB, I just want an army that looks nice

Im planning to do a Screaming Bell and some stormvermin. They look awsome! (IMHO)
Now, what would look nice with them?

Get an Island of Blood Skaven Army, should run about $40 USD on ebay. Then I would get more rats/slaves, I think I bought 20 clan rats from Island of Blood on ebay for $15 including shipping and ordered like 5 sets. You need clan rats and slaves like 150 is a good count, maybe less if you plan on getting stormvermin, if you do go for stormvermin I would get at least 2 boxes as 20 is too little, you'll want 30-40. Screaming bell is cool too. Some rares are good as well Hell Pit or Warp Lightening Cannon with Doomwheel being fun but not as useful as the 2 prior, if you do go WLC get 2.

Hargus...your list seems to be built around him palying games...which is not what he plans on doing.

I would suggest queek to go with the vermin and a HPA just because they are a good looking model.

Doh I gotta learn to read. Doomwheel definitely then they are so skaveny.

Yup, thats an awsome model ^^

maybe some warplock jezzails..they look cool
or a plaqueclaw catapult

its kinda funny. i was just planning a lizardmen army...also not to play with but for coolness.
altough im not quite sure wether i should go for a tombking army instead

Get slaves, slaves and hmm I forgot something. Oh yeah. More slaves.

get screaming bell!!! that pwns!

Models that look awesome:

Warlord with a halberd and eye patch. Perhaps my favorite HQ model for skaven. The new Queek is pretty cool also.

Screaming Bell of course, I much prefer its look to the Furnace.

If you want a warlock, get the IoB one. The metal ones are pretty bad. :-\

Stormvermin are awesome looking core, and of the weapon teams I'd say the Warpfire Thrower. It's one of the more recently updated ones, being in IoB and has more character than the mortar team.

Jezzails are pretty snazzy, although there's a limited choice of poses. Rat Ogres have so much variety that you can easily fit them in. Sadly, the night runner / gutter runner models are still mostly the old "monkey" rats in plastic, although some of the older skaven assassins are pretty cool.

Rares: Doomwheel. The Hamster Wheel of Death is just amazing, and I'm a huge fan of the Warp Lightning Cannon kit. I'm still sorta iffy on the Hell Pit Abomination model, but they're definitely a nice center-piece model if you don't mind a little conversion work to get it just the way you want it.

That's about it as far as I recall. Unfortunately, many of the special choices for Skaven are still old metal models with limited poses that haven't really been updated in awhile. I think there are 2 poisoned wind globadier models which are pretty much "sword up or sword down".

For a display army, I'd get the following:

- Queek Headtaker
- Deathmaster Snikch
- Screaming Bell. It looks nicer painted up than the Plague Catapult.
- Skaven stuff from an IoB set. That'll give you 20x clanrats with spears, 20x clanrats with hand weapons, a Warlord, a Warplock Engineer, two different weapon teams, two different Rat Ogres and Packmaster with prod. Put a full command in both clanrat units to make it look more impressive.
- 20x Stormvermin with full command.
- Doomwheel. Or two. Not the most useful unit currently but they look amazing.
- Hell Pit Abomination. Nuff said.

Those are the best looking models in the army in my opinion and should look pretty sweet when painted up properly.

Also If you can fit Squeel somehwere in there he is a great model when painted up right

Ralin Givens wrote:Also If you can fit Squeel somehwere in there he is a great model when painted up right

I know! And now he is in fincast! Thats good, since I am horrible with metal.. Praise the Horned Rat!

So far, my list is:

IoB
Screaming Bell
Queek
Stormvermin
Stormvermin
Warp Lightning Cannon
Hell Pit Abomination
Plague Monks
Clanrats
Clanrats

I love Stormvermin, so 40 of them will make me happy
Further, I have seen some images in WD of Council Albino Guard. Looks awsome, IMHO.
I dont actually know if it will look on clanrats, otherwise I will use that painting scheme not only on Stormvermin, but on clanrats too..
Does anyone actualy know how that looks at clanrats?

Plague monks aren't a visually nice unit. They're the older sculpts and not as nice as the newer stuff.

As for the rest, put a full command in everything. Also, get a Doomwheel for your display. It's such a wonderful model to see when painted. Just remember to NOT attach the side wheels until after painting is done.

Breotan wrote:Plague monks aren't a visually nice unit. They're the older sculpts and not as nice as the newer stuff.

As for the rest, put a full command in everything. Also, get a Doomwheel for your display. It's such a wonderful model to see when painted. Just remember to NOT attach the side wheels until after painting is done.

Thanks for painting advice about doomwheel
It seemed hard to paint, and Im not the most clean painter.. Albeit I try to.
And somehow, it seems I like plaguemonks visually. O noez! Run and hide! =o

Plague Monks are certainly not as bad as Night Runners / Gutter Runners, which still have the old "monkey" shape. I wouldn't put them anywhere close to on par with the Stormvermin or the latest Clan Rats though.

There's also an article on the GW site that has a decent system for painting the Doomwheel.

Its a shame they're as pricey as they are, because I really like the Plague Censer Bearers. The model is decent looking, but the idea behind them does it for me.

Allright, on to the GW site!

Will you also bemaking a showcase terrain for them?
That would make iteven better, you know...

How expensive would it be to create an underground hall, looted dwarven things, slaves and rats everywhere?

Theres your answer

Save some money....
And of course, try to usecheap stuff. Like foam for the basic constructs, cheaper paint and cheap putty for making dwarf stuff....

For my lizardmenarmy, ill be making a big jungle with some ruins....ruins is cheap foam, textured with a stone.....its easy... Plants can be cheap aqaurium plants.....and so on...

Of course you can get stuff even cheaper on ebay and other sites like that...





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thenoobbomb wrote:

Thanks for painting advice about doomwheel
It seemed hard to paint, and Im not the most clean painter.. Albeit I try to.
And somehow, it seems I like plaguemonks visually. O noez! Run and hide! =o

There's a good article on the GW site about assambling and painting the doomwheel...pretty useful

supremeoverlordVECT wrote:Save some money....
And of course, try to usecheap stuff. Like foam for the basic constructs, cheaper paint and cheap putty for making dwarf stuff....

For my lizardmenarmy, ill be making a big jungle with some ruins....ruins is cheap foam, textured with a stone.....its easy... Plants can be cheap aqaurium plants.....and so on...

Of course you can get stuff even cheaper on ebay and other sites like that...

Your aquirium plants need water, and I dont think you want to detroy your terrain

And a looted dwarf hold, skaven housing, pits for the rat ogres etc.

Would be wavy more expensive then you think over €200,- bucks.

1: aquarium plants are fake and made of plastic
2: a display army is part of a hobby and can take years.... in years you will be able to build terrain as well

and the big terrain is cool.....makes your army even cooler, tto

supremeoverlordVECT wrote:1: aquarium plants are fake and made of plastic
2: a display army is part of a hobby and can take years.... in years you will be able to build terrain as well

and the big terrain is cool.....makes your army even cooler, tto

1. Oh.
2. Im already busy making terrain. I have a board, and a big mountain to. Just need to paint it.

All I need is money....buying foam and loads of plants.....and: building a ziggurat and apply all the plants......

Its not really an expensive thing to build a jungle-themed terrain

Didn't GW have an article about making jungle terrain back when they had the codex approved catachan jungle fighters?

i think they did... but im not going to buy much too expensive GW jungle plants.

Yeah their article was about using super cheap hobby store/pet store fake plants to make deathworld terrain, I'm not sure if it's still there though since I can't get on their site from work.

Deathworld terrain?
Thats reserved for Orks! Hurr!

Don't you mean WAAAGH

Nah. I would mean 'WAAAGH!' if I would. But I dont. Waaagh! is for speziuhl Orks only..

Now, bakc to the Skaven!