Skaven Update #9

Another update! Still chugging along. It's taking longer than I expected. I wanted to be done- or mostly done any way- with these units by now.


I have to do the armor, shields, and hand weapons. Still needs a wash.


Only got to do a couple of coats of brown on this unit.


This slave unit needs a bit more touch up and finish the goblins.

Still loads more stuff to do. Need to also start working on my general!

An Awesome Surprise

So let me tell you a story about a friend of mine. He and I used to work together. A few years ago he had an idea of making a board game. Off and on, he'd bounce ideas off of me (and a lot of other people too). Early on, he'd ask me to do some art but towards the end he did most of it. He's quite a Paint Shop Pro veteran now. Last year, after many iterations and play-testing he decided to enter it to Hippodice, an annual design competition held in Germany. Fast forward to yesterday morning and I get a call from my friend telling me he actually won first place! Yay!!! On top of that, his game might actually get published! Holy crap!!! Check out his Holy Crap post on his Noblemen blog and check out the links. Congrats again Dwight!

Skaven Update #9

Quick update time. Didn't have much time over the weekend as I'd hoped.


If you didn't notice any changes from last week's pic I drybrushed heavily all the primed minis scorched brown and did a second drybrush of bestial brown on both slave units. I also started basecoating the night goblins. This week I hope to drybrush the clanrat unit with bestial brown as well, and start basecoating the details on the rest of the army.

Skaven Update #8

Ok, I've finally finished priming everything for my army so aside from doing the movement trays it's all painting from here on out.

Skaven Update #7.1

Work was brutal last week so I didn't get much done. This week was little more productive.

I finally finished basing both slave units and my general. Took 2 nights to finish. Now I need to base all of clanrat unit #2, finish the conversion work on a few slaves(thanks Chris for the night goblins!) and conversion work on my general. Once everything is primed I'll post another progress pic.

1) clanrat unit #1: paint bases, and static grass
2) clanrat unit #2: everything
3) clanrat unit #3: paint bases, and static grass
4) slave unit #1: prime and paint
5) slave unit #2: finish conversion work, prime and paint
6) gutter runner unit: paint bases, and static grass
7) ratling gun team: paint base, and static grass
8) warpfire thrower team: paint base, and static grass
9) warlock engineer: paint base, static grass, and retouch paint
10) hero: finish conversion work, prime and paint
11) giant rat pack: paint bases, and static grass
12) paint/magnetize all movement trays and bases

Skaven Update #7

Well, after much talk with my teammate I think this is the army that I will be fielding. I'm short on a few slaves but I hope I can find something on Ebay... something like night goblins would be nice to fill up the ranks. I'm also needing a proper hero to lead the bunch. I have a couple ideas but it's still up in the air.



Pretty much everything will need to be touched up in some way. So here's my To-D0-List:
1) clanrat unit #1: finish basing
2) clanrat unit #2: everything
3) clanrat unit #3: finish basing
4) slave unit #1: base and do everything to a few replacements
5) slave unit #2: start basing and do everything
6) gutter runner unit: start basing
7) ratling gun team: finish basing
8) warpfire thrower team: finish basing
9) warlock engineer: finish basing and retouch paint
10) hero: find one and do everything
11) giant rat pack: finish basing
12) paint/magnetize all movement trays

All this by the end of March/ beginning of April. Wish me luck, 'cause I'm going to need it!

Skaven Update #6.2

So it might be looking like I'll be participating in a Warhammer team tourney in April. In which case I'll be doing a lot of painting in the following weeks and in turn more updates! Soon I'll have a list so I can figure out how much actual work I'll have to do. Keep your eyes peeled!