Orktober is here - Evil is back!

A big hello to all who remember me. I took some time off, much longer than I thought I would. On February 24th I stopped painting wargaming minis. When I saw real tanks invading european countries, I couldn't motivate myself playing with tiny ones... So I followed the news for an unhealthy week and decided to start/continue other projects like my metal vest that I'm wearing when visiting concerts. I read books, started to do some research on my family's history and after months I accepted that this war is still there and will continue to do so. 

In September I started a new Necron army in 15mm that I will show you in Necrovember, today I'm restarting this blog with some Orky stuff. I have painted over 60 miniatures in the last six weeks, so you will definetly see some stuff here, if you are still watching. Of course I will have to check out your progress as well and look forward to see some awesome stuff! 

Love and Peace and Waaaagh to all of you, 

 Skully :)

 

 

15mm Blitz Bowl - Orcs!

Another Blitz Bowl team done. These are metal miniatures made by ZombieSmith. Not the most detailed sculpts, but they were fun to paint. What do I do next... Skaven? Lizardmen? Goblins? Oh my... 

8mm Undead - Fantastic Battles, here I come!

I have rebased my tiny Undead and added some proper terrain, everything 3D-printed. I will add some characters and another unit of skeletons and then I'm ready for my first games of Dragon Rampant, Mayhem and/or Fantastic Battles. I quite like that the force looks like a big warband and not like a mass army - gives me the proper Warhammer Fantasy feeling! The opposing army is also nearly done, can't wait to play! :D

Epic Armageddon: Eldar

We live in the golden age of miniature gaming. Great rulesets and endless possibilities and choices where to get your miniatures from. I finally have a limitless source for all kinds of Eldar Infantry. Here are some guardians with a weapon platform and a Farseer on a jetbike that I printed some time ago. The rest ist GW, Vanguard Miniatures or forumware models. I think, given the different sources, it all fits together rather nicely.

15mm Blitz Bowl - Chaos!

Back to Blitz Bowl with a new team - this time it's good old Chaos. I obviously used the old HeroQuest Chaos Warriors and some beastmen I found on Thingiverse. Next team in the made are the Orcs! 

Happy New Year to all of you!

 

 

 

One Army per Week: The Undead

Last thursday I posted a photo of my first 8mm undead unit for Dragon Rampant, today I post my first playable 30 points army. Everything printed, based and painted in one week time. I will add some more units like Knights and a Bone Giant and then move on to the next army. You really have to love Forest Dragon and Daniel Mersey for making this possible. So many childhood dreams coming true at once! :)

This might be my last post for 2021. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

 

And here is the list:

Undead 30 pts. @30 points
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Vampire Lord - Elite Foot @8 points
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- Fear
- Leader

Grave Guard - Heavy Foot @8 points
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- Offensive
- No Feelings
- Fear

Dire Wolves - Lesser Warbeasts @4 points
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Zombies - Ravenous Hordes @1 points
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- No Feelings

Skeletons - Light Foot @3 points
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- No Feelings

Undead Wizard - Heavy Missiles @6 points
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- Venomous

It's time for a new kind of madness

Of course... of course I couldn't resist. I purchased those sweet Forest Dragon armies to print their single figures in 15mm. But then I thought how well they would look on a group base, how fast I could built a Dragon Rampant army with them. 

I printed them out in 10mm ranks just like in Warmaster, but I realized they are a pain to paint this way. Also, they only look good in high numbers and for Dragon Rampant you only need 12 per unit. So I ended up in 8mm and based them as singles to make them look more like a warband instead of a huge army. 

I will built 12 man units on two bases of six, so I can take one away when the unit reaches half strength. This way, I can manage a big unit in one evening and a whole army in 10 days or so. Something to consider when you want EVERY army there is... because it's me and my problem. I want it all and I want it now. 

I'm a hopeless case. :D

Anyway, here is the first half of my zombie mob. And you know how it is with the undead... there will be more!