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Hmm... Maybe. Chaos is the one Grand Alliance I can't easily fit into this army's narrative, so I'd really have to do them as a force on their own/part of a larger Chaos army, which is not entirely off the cards but not something I'd go for right away... There's also the fact that those Skaven took ages per model with the million layers of grime NMM armour!

The Undead I can justify because in their heads they're still Old World Brets who think they're still merrily crusading away, the Orruks I could sort of fit in on the basis that as this ragtag band goes along it becomes apparent that if you hang around the unlucky bunch you get some dead good scraps now and then! That or I go down the somewhat Pratchett-esque route of having them doing their best to fit in with the good guys, skull-bashing habits aside!

Completed some Ironweld Arsonal units today, ready for a tournament in June. A Steamtank and a Cogsmith. The Steamtank pilot is magnetised so I can stick him on a base when I want to as well. I went a bit crazy with my drill and even drilled out the Cogsmith's pipe ;-)

Oh DAMN Bottle. I just quit. Trying to put my minis together and paint them, now I see this. Thanks for making me quit.

I just spent all day painting, and was sooooo proud of my work.... then I made the mistake of visiting this thread, and remembering I am only a "decent table-top quality" kind of guy. :-p

Wow, thanks guys! But NewTruthNeo, you gotta post up your project! Posting here is a great way to keep the motivation high :-)

Ruins of Osgiliath to be used for AoS. Painted this on Saturday afternoon.

More for Slaanesh - three Daemonette retinues, a Herald, the Masque and a Daemon Prince!

Funny I have the exact same paint scheme for my Slaanesh daemons. Picsies in a minute

This one was not my work originally - I bought it off ebay and lay out some finishing touches like runes, some additional shading etc.



I also have a bunch of daemonettes and seekers, but they're basically painted in the same way. Some daay I'll have to upload my entire daemon army, but it's too much work for now.

So decided to go khorne in the end so heres a tester model for my khorne scheme


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And heres the same mini from the back

Nice paint work guys, I particularly like those ruins.

I need to get painting...I did assemble The Silver Tower contents over the weekend.

MongooseMatt wrote:
More for Slaanesh - three Daemonette retinues, a Herald, the Masque and a Daemon Prince!

Looking good Matt! You could play that cool scenario from the Seraphon Battletome now, with the Spirit Hosts for effect.

Decided to start getting work done on my AoS stuff after reading this now :p

I'll get some pics up as I get some work done on them.
Mainly trying to pick up as many gryph-hounds as I can.


So on a slightly off topic note, if anyone is selling a gryph-hound, PM me please :p
Set my sights on 2 units of 10 of them lol.

Well, continuing to lurk on this thread has finally got me to start painting! Was at a stand still waiting for more bases to come in to finish all the infantry (after my last order of bases was not the ones I wanted but sat at the office in my apartment too long for me to return because the post office didn't leave a slip saying a package had come in like usual... Whoops). So I ordered 30 more of the 30mm lipped round bases to finish the other ten White Lions, and 20 Shadow Warriors.

Got the first unit of ten White Lions based and primed. I thought it would be fun to use blue as the primary color for an army for the first time. Really having fun with it. Hopefully over the weekend I can get all of the blues and greys for them done to post a picture of my start into Age of Sigmar.

Keep posting up great stuff guys! It has been awe inspiring inspiration so far.

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Looking good Matt! You could play that cool scenario from the Seraphon Battletome now, with the Spirit Hosts for effect.

That one has just gone on the list, should be getting to it in just a few weeks or so (want to finish Balance of Power first)!

Managed to polish off a couple of really big rats too...

Like what? How long do these take you?

Sounds great Matt, can't wait to see the report

Personally I started an Ironjawz army and will be basing them much like the dead marsh from lord of the rings. I will probably make it brute heavy as I like those models a lot with some gore gruntas to help out with speed.

Started putting brush to model last night around 10pm, before I knew...it was 1am and I had this much done on the Darkoath Chieftain:


I'm going to (attempt) to maintain a P&M blog for this as I'm doing it as part of a painting motivation thing at my local GW.

Good start!

This week i have converted the silver tower minis so there are no dupes, nothing complex just swaps and the like to give verity, id recommend anyone whos building them chop up one of the duplicate sprues and swap bits around even if its just arms/weapons it makes a big difference and its super easy no sculpting required. I also made a small gobo (spider themed) army to go with the scuttlers using left over conversion fodder. That and i have painted some DE executioners and turned the khaine statue into a walking avatar for a mini dark elf army. woop woop

 Zognob Gorgoff wrote:
This week i have converted the silver tower minis so there are no dupes, nothing complex just swaps and the like to give verity, id recommend anyone whos building them chop up one of the duplicate sprues and swap bits around even if its just arms/weapons it makes a big difference and its super easy no sculpting required. I also made a small gobo (spider themed) army to go with the scuttlers using left over conversion fodder. That and i have painted some DE executioners and turned the khaine statue into a walking avatar for a mini dark elf army. woop woop

What do you mean chop up one and swap bits around? I know what you are saying but I mean what minis are you talking about. Coming into this as a newbie so basically they are all the same to me. I don't want to say put chaos arms on a Stormcast. I know there is no doubles of that but using it as an example because I wouldn't know what shouldn't belong to what and then I just screwed up.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Started putting brush to model last night around 10pm, before I knew...it was 1am and I had this much done on the Darkoath Chieftain:


I'm going to (attempt) to maintain a P&M blog for this as I'm doing it as part of a painting motivation thing at my local GW.

Great start Kan... and I'm glad that someone else is as slow a painter as me. People seem be finishing squads in mere hours whereas I've only basecoated one or two colors in the same amount of time.

Davor wrote:

 Zognob Gorgoff wrote:
This week i have converted the silver tower minis so there are no dupes, nothing complex just swaps and the like to give verity, id recommend anyone whos building them chop up one of the duplicate sprues and swap bits around even if its just arms/weapons it makes a big difference and its super easy no sculpting required. I also made a small gobo (spider themed) army to go with the scuttlers using left over conversion fodder. That and i have painted some DE executioners and turned the khaine statue into a walking avatar for a mini dark elf army. woop woop

What do you mean chop up one and swap bits around? I know what you are saying but I mean what minis are you talking about. Coming into this as a newbie so basically they are all the same to me. I don't want to say put chaos arms on a Stormcast. I know there is no doubles of that but using it as an example because I wouldn't know what shouldn't belong to what and then I just screwed up.

Ah fair point i will endeavor to post some pic's when my misses gets home her camera is the only one we own capable enough to show minis off.
As for describing changes, lets take the tzangors and cultists, i swapped the shields so now each unit has one of each instead of two the same. thats the only change where parts swapped between different units but you could swap weapons between them if you wish, in stead i cut the arms off the tzangors and swapped them with each other, so now there is one with axes and shield, hook sword n shield, hook sword n axes, two axes, 2 handed axes and lastly the other two handed axe i swapped the axe head for a standard (zinch one from a chaos space marines box). By looking at the joints carefully you can make nice cuts so no filler is really need (most of the time). For example the cultists have a spear dude, i swapped one of the spears with the guy who has the shield and kopesh and i was able to get him into a two handed pose which is a bit tricky but looks really nice imo. Another couple of examples, the death runner, i swapped his weapons so that they are wielding them in different hands, i was tempted to give them another weapon but as its supposed to be an illusion i thought a mirror image might be fun. i also move the limbs a bit on one and bent the tails on both so they are less one dimensional. Blue horrors cut off their hands and swapped them around, one of which i cut the flamer fingers off one and normal finger off another and swapped the fingers. again bending the legs n tentacles slightly. brimstones split the pairs in half then swapped them over. pink horror reposed arms gave a new sword from bits box and gave him two books to hold from my bits box. carved the familars up a bit, swapped the scutters limbs up a bit ect ect home that helps soz its a bit rambling, obviously no storm cast chaos hero mash up, i like to keep at one of each thing and mostly leave anything thats unique alone... mostly lol. Personally love converting kit bashing scratch building and sculpting most. As long as once you swap stuff over it still kinda represents what the rules want off that model its far game.

ps all cuts done with sharp scalpel type hobby knife. cut about 1/2mm on all side then you can carefully wiggle it off and clean up both sides flat. i generally dont cut all the way through the knife is too thick even on a scalpel and with distort or damage in some way parts. when bending support as much as posing and do lots of small bends watching for stress marks on the material or it can snap...(if it does dont be too disheartened plastic glue fixes a multitude of sins.) if worried practice making cuts and bends on the left over sprue or other less precious models. .

Thanks Zognob. Not sure if I will do something like this, but will keep an open mind to see if I can do it and like it.


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Did my spirits or what ever they are called. This drove me nuts trying to glue together. I gave up on them until a few days ago. I had them more green but felt it was too green. Now I think it's too blue. Oh well. Part of learning.



Now my attempt at Silver Tower. I tried to put flesh skin on the face so he is not a faceless soul. Didn't turn out. For the longest time I gave up, now I know, I will never get better if I don't try.



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I have no idea how to make these sizes smaller. I put them in spoiler tags.

Managed to finish off my first Mortach this week, Neferata, Mortarch of Blood;





And I managed to pop in my first models for Warhammer Quest!



Yeah, okay, I can't get much credit for the last

Love them Brimstones, I bet a quick white highlight would look good on them!

Hey Guys,

I've been admiring the work everyone's being putting in for a couple of months now. With the release of silver tower, i have decided to dive in with my own AOS project.

First up is my completed doomseeker:



And some WIP's

@Curry_Supreme - Your work looks damn good!
I especially like the green (non-metallic)metallics on the duardin. Looking forward to seeing what you'll make of the rest of the Silver Tower cast.

Amazing work curry! Love that Doomseeker

Those look amazing!

On another Silver Tower note, I couldn't believe how fiddly those Elf models are... Bits as small as pinheads and as thin as pieces of string, just crazy. I will give a no-prize to anyone who managed to clip, clean and attach the dark elf assassin chest piece without breaking it.