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Those Skaven are really nice weety, the freehand on the shields looks great.

I love those skaven. Skaven never really excited me much, but imagine how excited I was when I broke out my Mordheim box, to try to decide whether to begin putting together the card buildings, when I realized I still had a couple of human mercenaries I could build, and all of my skaven just waiting there. Yay, new mini's!

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'll need to purchase a couple of skaven models to round out a warband, but it will probably suffice for a starting warband. I even put together my treasure chest. just need to finish putting these guys and their buildings together, and paint them up, and my daughters can choose from Marienberger mercenaries, skaven or undead. Then we can start the battle for the warpstone!

Well that's how you do Skaven people! take note everyone 'cos these look wickedly good! well done Weets they're beauties!

Well thanks. I love skaven, I was friends with a family who kept pet rats once. At one point there were 50 of them. I think I was forced to become comfortable with the rat when they opened all the cage doors at once. They all died eventually as rats do so they got chinchillas instead. Chinchillas can live for 25 years so long as you never get them wet or feed them after midnight(one of those thing is true). Their favourite things are moving fast and dust baths. I digress.

I've been looking at some heraldry and trying it out on the backup hero/swordsman. Needs tightening up I think:



!980s wood elves finally stumble out of the swamp forest:



I'm making some more hunters - these woodsmen will get GS hats and feathers to fit in with the others - robin hood stylee:

Nice work on the Skaven. Like the shields.

Good job on the swordsman too.
Look forward to seeing what you do with the new acquisitions.

I love that shield.

Another flamboyant swashbuckler joins the fray.

Another awesome shield. There are many times I wish I painted fantasy characters with sword and shield.

Nice work again, Weety.

How are you getting on with the new/different paints you got?
You did get new paints, didn't you? A while ago? Or am I having a blond moment?

DrH oh yes I got a whole bunch of pale colours which I've been using as ready made highlight colours - they're really useful for giving richness to the highlights and for the nonmetalicmetal.

Thanks valhalla - Its fun to come up with shield designs.

Here's some more:





As a unit they will be very colourful and random:

Utilitarian (like Star Trek red shirts), but far more pretty. Those guys are wonderful.

I love the shields and the wide variation in colors. They are definitely not a uniform Warhammer regiment.

Yes they'll make perfect starter heroes for Adv Heroquest.

If I ever need fluff I could say that they are a special battalion made up of noble sons without a title, who proudly carry the family crest. I could call them the Glorious Busturds (that's I kind of bird if you're wondering).

Commission models arriving soon! And an original 1980s skaven warpfire thrower team. They were hard to get. I've practically got an army of skaven now, maybe I should get an old copy of the warhammer fantasy rules and see how they do vs the empire army. Anyone got a favourite edition? I've never played it before.

My favorite edition was 6th. I hope to try 8th Edition once I settle into my new place and retrieve my Orc and Goblin army from my in-laws.

The only bad thing about that edition were the fear/terror rules and the Demon army book. The two undead armies (Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings) tended to be too powerful and the Demon army (especially Slaanesh) was nigh unbeatable in the hands of a good player.

That really is a wonderfully colorful warband.

They're the prettiest people in the Empire. Or at least the most laundered.

Beauty work lady. Really got me thinking about my Talisman miniatures!

Well it seems to be working. The metals and highlights are very nice. Good job on the heroes.

Thanks for your comments. I'll be knee deep in commissions soon. But while I wait I thought up a fun dungeon level. The heroes should try and sneak though here as swiftly and silently as they can - some kind of bonus will be achieved for the next dungeon if they don't alert the skaven guards.

Oh and maybe as an after thought, the troll is so dizzy and angry that he will attack the nearest other figure rather than being under GM control.

Heroes start on the left.

Just another day on the job for our intrepid adventurers or perhaps a bitter end?

<-------- Rooting for the troll.

Skaven looking great have you seen the musicians from that era some of my favourite models. Current Warhammer is actually quite a good rule set probably my favourite edition rules wise mostly because more models get to role dice than in previous editions. Random charge lengths are my key bug bear with it.

JB yeah it has the potential to be either completely easy or an absolute nightmare for all involved. Especially the poor goblins, imagine if the troll spots them first! And I expect a lot of goblins to fall in the pit because they're not that fast bless em.

Thanks for the advice on warhammer editions all.

My commission has arrived and this is serious stuff. Scale is about 50mm. This chap is first.

Blade on the Moon as seen Wallace and Gromit's A Grand Day Out?

Lol... it does have that cheesy look to it. Not anymore of course. I'm beavering through this one

What is the model, weety, out of interest?

Here are the models I'm painting at: http://www.nyd-miniatures.com/epages/64700104.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/64700104/Categories/Category1

I'm doing the official paintjobs for their website!

Cool. They are 1/35th scale. The first three zombies are pretty nice too. I am sensing that the setting is in England although the manufacturer is German.

He's an ex-pat I think. I'm doing the zombies as well.

Yesterday I learned more about making hats and feathers:

It looks like it was a successful learning experience!

Yeah, nice work Weety. Good hats 'n' feathers.

I know it's already been said but I'll say it again, the shields are really cool, I love all the little patterns you come up with. I'm also loving the nice little hats on your hunters! Definatly gives em some better character then the ones that used to be on them

Nice hats. I never would have thought about trying something like that.