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@Grimdork, Thanks, I like it too.
@Azazelx, Thanks, I like your model counting skills , If i don't have a strong desire to start a new army then I will continue to finish these off.

Hey, just a quick shout out. The Great one has returned.....Vik has a new thread soon to be filled with all sorts of coolness in many flavors including Tau. Here's the link ]http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/689195.page#8621557
GO Subscribe Win!!!!



Edit: fixed my stupidity with linking Vik's page

also stopped by Miniaturemarket to get more orange paint. also snagged some minis.

Shank from guildball RRP $15, their price $13.49, I got it for $4
Also grabbed an Okko samurai which I cn't find on their site anymore for $4
and a $2 paint pot of orange

Congrats on finishing up your army. And in an impressive time frame, considering your real-life obligations. Most excellent.

Great work pumping these guys out. They look great all together.

And nice deal on those minis

If I had a MM near me, I might "support my local B&M retailer". In fact, it'd be terror whenever I went near the place.

Okay, still not set in stone, but my plan for April is looking to finish off the rest of the lava guys and maybe beginning to work on the next KOW army. I'm on my iPhone right now and it's bent a pain in the whatsit with trying to copy and paste, so you'll just have to wait or check out my Alkemy sub gallery to see the more recent purchases to know what I'm on about. But what the plan is for the is to use the Asian themed triad figures as the human part of an army and the temple workers. Then use the hybrid people as "enlightened" warriors who have been granted exceptional skills and strength from the Kami. I'm considering using the Herd rules for this army, but that might evolve. The other option is to use the triad guys as warrior monks and break out my old clan war minis and wargamesfactory samurai to build the harder part of the army. That might get played as baseillians, I'll just need to figure out the elohi. That would also allow me to field the two Asian dragons I have as the twin dragon characters.

So one way or another the triad guys are getting painted soon

Sounds like a great plan, and this way you'll get the last of the Lavaguys done while you're still somewhat in the groove with them rather than coming back with an "ehhhhh...." feel.

Quantity has a quality all its own, eh?. Impressive speed. Impressive work.

Excellent work finishing the KoW army!

Great looking fire horde Theo!

Well not much to update, been lazy and life stuff.

I picked up a box $6 of triad guards for Alkemy (has a Nihao sergeant and two ninjas) to go with my Asian themed horde. I also have a email out there that I hope nets me a good deal on some more figs for this, fingers crossed.

Took a quick look at KOW armies and I might be able to run these as Baseillians, just need to work out a couple things.

Hopefully progress soon.

Edit: thinking of doing dark blue robes on the triad with white leggings and purple sashes. Not sure if there is a religious or cultural choice for colors, just every Chinese monk picture I saw was reds orange or yellow clothes and Japanese pictures were blues blacks and white.

thanks for the shout out my friend...

and i am looking forward to how you work on that new army...

Thanks Vik

no problem with the shout out, I remember someone doing it for me when I first started out

I just worked up an army list for the new army....120 models, so not a single month plan . That's also loading up heavy on magic items at 2000 points and 2 big heroes (and 2 small ones ) which take up more than 1/3 of the total points

okay so now that I'm on my computer instead of phone I can link the pick of the Japanese monk I was finding.


The monks will be acting as sisterhood figures and the samurai will be paladins. The two big characters will be the two oriental dragons that I picked up, and the Elohi will for now be temple dogs.

Yeah that pic fits your description... am I mistaken if I thought you'd go for the terracotta army with this range of models? Otherwise Godspeed with all that whiteness


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By the way, I have four old possibly GW samurai...interested? In a month time they'd probably be over the ocean towards you^^

Btw, that tita thing going on with the US an Europe...Will we as friends and general hobbyists benefit from that?

Vik you'd have to tell me what TITA is . I'm not down with current events outside of Dakkadakka . Been far to busy with my lava guys.

Terra cotta guys are too tiny for me. They look good ranked up against each other and other 15-20mm figs but against 28mm heroic they are just too tiny to be taken seriously.

Old GW samurai would be welcomed, but don't put yourself out with the shipping costs.

The deal on the figs I wanted fell through , but I have enough between the triad figs and my old clan wars minis plus some wargamesfactory samurai to make this army, so test figures begin tomorrow.

Well I've just been watching this sit on the shelf at Miniaturemarket and I was thinking $30 for 15 minis is okay, plus theres the basic rules in the box and all. I can use the wolves to be the start of yet another army (all Lycanthrope army for KOW) but the other guys are not workable......

Until today, I can use these Ashmen guys as the Elohi for my samurai army And the Rathor and Longhorn can be used as Oni (something to figure out later). So now I CAN use all 15 models. So tempting......Then while I'm standing their at the store I get an email from miniaturemarket.com saying "take 4% extra off today because of May the 4th be with you day".......Well Played Miniaturemarket, Well Played . To top it off I had about $4 saved up in store credit from my loyalty points so the total was about $27 with tax, and if you spend over $25 and do a store pick up you get a spin on their prize wheel which usually lands me another few hundred rewards points (couple bucks) but today I hit the "Secret Prize" on the wheel which got me a $5 gift certificate .

So thinking about it I have all the animal men guys from Alkemy that were going to be a tribe army base, plus these wolfen means almost a whole army by itself (about to play with points).
The Alkemy Triad guys with these ashmen and other figs is almost another whole army.

So I'll be messing with points and seeing if there will be a new plan for this month in the next hour or two

They have 2 boxes of helhammers for Kings of war sitting on the shelf that are dinged up and at $17.50 a box (8 figs) so I might be grabbing those shortly along with another starter box if I like how they look assembled. I might have a rather large Nasier army by the time I'm done, or If I don't like the Nasier I might just buy some Wolfen from rackham and do an all Lycanthrope army. Choices Choices.

Ahh the MiniatureMarket daemon whispered in your ear again eh, Theo? Lol. Nice little box of gubbinz. Loving your army of gribbly lavabeast thingies.

That is a good purchase, luckily the WoK stuff is finally starting to appear in the UK. Am looking forward to seeing what you can do with the starter set.

@Thraxas, yeah they are starting to hit the shelves here too, Very interesting once I opened the bags... they are desprued plastics for the most part
@AOV, I think they've hacked my phone for location and send emails whenever I'm at the bank or at their store

Well all 15 are assembled, I wasn't expecting these sizes...

That is the Rathor next to an Alkemy Triad archer

A Steampunk Wolf Shieldbreaker next to an Ashen which are the same size as the Triad archers. I was hoping the ashen were larger to use as Elohi, I'll have to figure out something else for those, but these guys will still fit in the asian army. I am not attaching the back spikes that come with them, at least not yet.

The other wolves, they are all twice the size of the ashen, so they are LARGE.

The same set here, even from a FLGS hovers at around the $65 mark. Some nice and chunky miniatures there, I think you lose a touch of height with the recessed bases though. If I do go in for WoK I will be all over Hadross.

Ah ha so you caved in then Theophony.

I look forward to seeing what you do with the WoK stuff. I've enjoyed what little work I've done on that set so far. For the bases (assuming you want to use the supplied bases) I suggest filling them with wood or wall filler or something similar. The Skorza Alpha doesn't actually fit in his base so he'll need a proper scenic base (I've got a piece of slate from the garden for him) and the Ashmen look kinda silly sunk down so low IMO.

That's a nice find. Those ashmen are pretty nifty models, they'll fit pretty well in a fantasy-samurai army, I think.

@josh, I think they fit well, just wish the swords had more curve to them, right now they remind me of the old GW powered butter knives
@Nick, I noticed that as well. I don't know if I'll keep the bases for them as they will be in KOW armies, but I have a nice sand base additive I'd like to try.
@Thraxas, they should be fine once side by side on movement trays as thebases probably won't be used. RRP for the set is $60, but the box had been smoothed, no damage to the contents though.

I played with some numbers, but still undecided on which way to go with this months challenge. I think painting some of the triad in the morning will help me decide. I'll probably do the samurai just to keep knocking something down until the herd is a more cohesive idea n my noggin.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Alright Samurai, Pack up your things and go home......

This is Goritsi territory now

So after more thought......and purchases......I'll be doing my Herd army next. Temporarily to be called the pack.
todays purchases

The Skorza box has 8 wolfen in it, 6 skirmishers and 2 skorza alphas $28.00 from MM
The other two red boxes were each $5 from MM and total 5 more Wolfen (3 shadow trackers and 2 heroes). These are definitely done by the same sculptor, and at $2 a fig prepainted I think are well worth it.

the front two metal reaper figs are a were-rhino and a Giant, both were in MM new bits box for $.25 each......yes a quarter was paid for each of them .

The pack will be mostly units of werewolves/Lycans in KOW running really fast around the board and hitting like sledgehammers in the hands of a steroid fueled crack addict. There will be some units of Alkemy (forget their names, but they are basically half human half animal critters) and maybe some of my old reused GW beastmen tossed in for filler. All of these will be led by the Avatar of the Father......

the KS exclusive figure from Blood rage who stands as tall as the larger Goritsi shieldbreaker (2 times the height of a regular human soldier)

still waiting on the second half of my Black Plague kickstarter to ship which will contain 21 undead werewolves which can be fielded as a Stampede or Herd of animals in the Herd army.

off to assembly now.......maybe more soon.

Edit: Soon happens

The pack assembled

Avatar of the father
Lycan Alpha
6 regiments (or hordes if i do the 50% rule) of Lycans 1435or 1945 respectively without any magics or upgrades.

 Theophony wrote:
I'll be doing my Herd army next.

SO I've got a big box of those prepainted Wolfen in my closet too that were going to be a Herd army as well Really like the selection of minis you've pulled together beyond just the Confrontation clearance wolves, including that gorgeous Fenrir pup. And that Shieldbreaker is up there with my favorite werewolf minis ever, brutal but weaponized and with a touch of armor / machine power.

Keep us posted how the prepaints repaint, one of the reasons I haven't forged ahead with my own wolf army. That and not wanting to deal with rubbery mold lines

- Salvage

Haha nice. I'm glad I was away for a few days/weeks (how long has it been, time..meaningless...derp) because I am not fooled by your sudden reversal!

Cool werewolf/beastman army idea The samurai will be cool someday too, I'm sure.

I just told MM to release all of my held orders and have deleted my shortcuts to them (because it isn't 2 seconds away typing/searching it ) so i can stop freaking spending too much money there. I can't imagine if I had to not only live that close AND pass it to/from work.

@ Boss Salvage, Thanks, I didn't prime the prepaints, some of the character figs look decent enough, especially right now to leave alone while I paint the other models, but I'll keep you posted when I do toss paint on them
@Grimdoek, Welcome back, was about to send the search party out for you, especially since Dave and Vik have reared their heads again, but then they keep hiding too so I have to sent the troops to keep tabs on them.

MM is such an enabler to me , I need help with avoiding their evil grip on me . I actually do leave things on the shelf when I go their.
Here are some of the things that were on the shelf that I passed up even though I did pick them up and walk around with them for a few moments.
(5-6) aliens Versus Predator boardgames at 1/2 off (I bought one a few weeks ago, but they have a stack of them each time I go in.
2 bones weresharks for $3 each (they are huge, but would fit into the beast/werecreature army this is turning into
dozens of MSP paints to bulk out my paint collection, I've picked up a couple but I had about 6 blues in my hands the other morning but then bought the starter set for WOK
A troll blood monster of some kind that was $10 because the box was ripped open, he could fit my magma men army if painted up all lava-ish
Bunched of Dark Age mini's, the style is intriguing but I find it easy to set them back down.
oh and this week they dropped a box each of Wargamesfactory's Skeletons $5, male survivors$10, Female survivors$10, Zombie Vixens $10 and one of the historicals too $10
A Pike and shot army box for $30, 48 28mm plastic conquistidor style figs
5-6 more of the WOK starters (I might snag another)$30
and 2 WOK Felhammer boxes 8 figs for 17.50 each
All in all I think I've done well to not go crazy , but I need a third job......

Anyway I had only a little time yesterday after assembly and priming to do anything so no paint, but I did cut a couple bases out of really thick cardstock and I wanted opinions. The bases are set for Large Infantry size for suppossedly 6 models. I can actually fit 6 on the base (for most of these guy, but the Alphas are too big to fit 6, they just look too cramped at that size. So do you guys think 4 per base (which is what Mantic suggests as a minimum) or 3 per base?

or

Also thinking of getting the second box of the starter set to bulk out the army, would definitely need more If I wind up going 4 per base. If I do go that route then I think the second shield breaker will get the weapon removed and try to mount some sort of cannon thing on it like what Ramos has done on the Pig guys in his thread. That way this model can be fielded as a Lycan Alpha with the Beast slayer weapon and the one I convert can be a Lycan Alpha with the Boomstick.

I'd say go with four, looks much more healthy for a horde. Seeing these wolves on a unit base makes me wonder how I was going to stuff six per horde

- Salvage

What size are those bases-- 40mm or 50mm? Either way, more is better than fewer, I think.

Definitely looks better with 4 rather than 3. Though given the size of the minis I completely understand going with 3.

@josh, bases are 40mm
@nick, 4 looks fuller, but is it too tight for such big guys to move?
@Boss, yea 4 is a lot more reasonable than 6, they do fit but you'd have to watch facings because of arms and weapons sticking over the sides.

I base coated the avatar of the father today, but not much else to show. Hopefully I can squeeze some time out in the morning for more.