Warmaster Dark Elves

I've finally finished rebasing the Warmaster Dark Elves I bought on ebay (several months ago). If it wasn't for the Warmaster One Dayer next month these would never have been finished. So, as Kylie and Jason once said, 'Especially for you', here's the army you'll be taking to Warhammer World:

In this tiny picture you can (or perhaps can't) see: General, 2x Hero on chariot, 1 x Hero on manticore, 3 Heroes, 3 Dark Riders, 2 Crossbows, 5 Spearelves, 2 Bolt throwers, 4 Cold one riders, 1 Harpies, 1 Hydra, 3 Witch Elves. From that you should have a decent choice for a 2000 point army.

Purely from an experimental point of view, here's my 'wobbly-cam' video of the same:

Warmaster hamlet...

I must be getting bored of painting Grey Knights as I've finally finished the base for my Warmaster hamlet. Here it is in all its glory...

Ok, so glory is perhaps not the right word here, but it is eminently practical, the houses can be removed once the hamlet is occupied to make things nice and easy. 

Here's how it looks then (and here's it's very obvious that I didn't wait for the PVA to dry before taking the picture:

And here are some plucky men from Talabheim getting ready to defend themselves:

The Lord of the End Times...

It's taken over two years but finally my Warmaster Chaos army is finished. More accurately, I've got it to a playable 2000 point army, there are about another ten units left in the lead mountain (and at some point I'd like to replace the daemons who are standing in for Marauders too). Here they are, ready to shed blood in the name of their despicable gods...

You might just be able to tell that this lot are led by none other than Archaon himself. It's a figure I've wanted to paint for ages. Here he is, in true GW style I stuck him onto a suitably skull-laden base:

With this lot painted I'm hoping to get on with the Grey Knights for a while but I am rather tempted to get on with my Man O War Empire fleet (and buying some Chaos ships hasn't helped much either....).

Oh, and is it just me or does the sign of Chaos Undivided look rather like the Union Jack?

Blood for the Blog God...

Here's the latest addition to the army, a unit of mighty, if tiny, Chaos Knights for my Warmaster army:

And here's a picture of them with the rest of the army:

 

I think that lot comes in at about 2000 points. Next on the paint station are two units of Warmaster Ogres and then I'm going to revisit the green harpies you can see in the picture - they're going to be far less green and far more black and red to tie in with everything else.

Warmaster Dark Emissary

Here's my most recent model, the long oop Warmaster Dark Emissary:

The best thing about painting this miniature is the fact that he was completed in one session (about two hours) and it was really nice to focus on just a single miniature for once. The only disappointment is the base which I would really like to have worked on further but as he's part of the Chaos army I didn't want to deviate from the standard (and quick) basing scheme.

One the paint station now:

Man O War Gyrocopters
4 40K Servoskulls
Warmaster Chaos Knights

Reinforcements from the warp...

It's late but I'm enjoying the brief high of finishing some painting and I'm in the mood for sharing...

These four Warmaster Daemon units have just arrived from the Warp to reinforce my Chaos Mortal army (they'll be standing in for the Chaos Marauder units that I can't face painting).

Plaguebearers:

Bloodletters:

And a group shot:

Overall I'm  pleased with the way they all came out, but painting the Bloodletters was a chore, largely due to a badly applied undercoat of Army Painter red.

Nurgle, Nurgle, All Hail tiny Nurgle...



Painting on holiday means just one thing, Warmaster! This time it's the turn of some Chaos Daemons that I bought with the intention of using as quick-to-paint stand ins for Chaos Marauders in my Mortal Chaos army. It turns out that they are quick to do, though I'm not sure my scheme quite does the miniatures justice as they're really nice sculpts with lots of fun detail, much of which I've largely ignored. Anyway, here's the test strip lurking amongst a pile of dead beetles that I found in the garden today.

Purely for my own reference, the speed-paint scheme went like this:

1. Spray Chaos Black
2. Paint everything Coat d'arms Olive with a massive brush
3. Sword Chainmail
4. Red bits Blood Red
5. Horn Kommando Khaki
6. Base Graveyard Earth
7. Wash everything Devlan Mud
8. Wash swords Ogryn Flesh
9. Highlight horn Kommando Khaki then Bleached Bone
10. Highlight flesh Olive + Camo Green
11. Eyes white
12. Boils etc Rotting flesh

Really quick and, I think, pretty effective. Some of GW's very bright static grass should bring them out a little more, I'll post pics of the unit once they're based to see how this works out.