The Empire army for the first scenario of Sigmar's Blood completed!

Just a couple of hours before the first quarter of 2014 was over I finished painting the last miniature (ie. the Witch Hunter) for the first scenario of Sigmar's Blood campaign.

10 Knights of the White Wolf (Full Command). These replace the Knights of the Burning Sun that are in the official list for the scenario, I just prefer Ulric to Myrmidia ;-)

10 Reiksguard Knights (Full Command). These are actually for the 4th scenario, but they were mostly completed anyway so I did them too.

Witch Hunter who will be the general of the army.

I also added a quick wash to some parts of the 10 Handgunners I had painted many years ago. I am still not quite happy with them, maybe I will ditch them at some point and paint some new ones instead.

And here's the full army:

1 Witch Hunter, 20 Swordsmen, 10 Handgunners, 10 Knights and 1 Great cannon.

Those who have read the scenario book might notice that the official lists have 8 knights in the unit and I made 10 of each. The reason is that I prefer that unit size and as I had extra models I increased the unit sizes by 2.

I had set the Vampire Count army as an extra goal, but did not get any significant progress towards that one. We will see what will happen during Q2...

S.

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2014 Challenge:

Scenario 1 Empire: Witch Hunter, 20 Swordsmen, 10 Handgunners, 10 Knights of the White Wolf ,Great Cannon with crew

Scenario 4 Empire: 10 Reiksguard Knights

Something old, something new

Oh well, time just flies past when you let it do what it wants...

So, I did not pass the challenge for last year. But I still got about 150 miniatures painted, for which I am happy.

And of course I planned a new challenge for 2014:

Painting the Empire army for Sigmar's Blood campaign.

As the campaign consists of four battles, I will try to paint the army for each battle for each quarter of the year. For the first quarter this means painting the Empire Battleforce (20 swordsmen, 10 handgunners, 8 knights and 1 cannon with 3 crew) and A Witch Hunter Hero to lead the force.

I have painted some of the required miniatures some years ago, but I will revamp those a bit. And if the painting goes well I might try to get the Vampire Count army painted too ;-) (Yeah, dream on...)


Here's what I got painted after the last blog post from 2013:

An unit of 12 Dwarf Thunderers with Full Command group

These two I started some time (years) ago and just put to the finishing touches:

Dwarf Daemon Slayer

Dwarf Lord on Runestone

In addition, I got something done for the challenge. As usual I get sidetracked with my painting but I will do my best to stick to the plan. Even though the new Dwarf and Tyranid miniatures tempt me so much...

1 Mortar with 3 crew

1 Great Cannon with 3 crew

The cannon crew I had already painted, as well as the guns themselves. But I wanted to give them bases so I actually only did the bases. But, they are done now (though only the cannon is needed for the campaign).

S.

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2014 Challenge:

Q1 Empire: Great Cannon with crew

Summertime

I was tempted to title this "Kaislikossa suhisee", which is the Finnish translation of an old English childern's book "The Wind in the Willows".

It's been a bit too quiet on this blog, I started my vacation and have been travelling and doing other stuff. So there has not been that much time left for painting and blogging, even though I haven't been going to work...


But today I finished the last miniatures which I dipped some time ago, and here are the results:

This wa mainly a paint scheme test for these, and a quick one as usual. Red spray (from Army Painter) and just small bits of yellow for scales, brown for haft, metal for the speartips, bone for teeth & claws and blue for decorative feathers. And of course these were dipped in the Army Painter Strong Tone dip.

Not too bad, though I am not fully convinced of my choice of colours. I wanted something different from the ones used in the Armybook but I wonder if I went a bit too far. The base was painted using textured paint (Stirland Mud from Citadel Paints drybrushed with Bleached Bone, and edges painted in some dark brown). I added both Citadel grass and "Swamp Tufts" from Army Painter, which did help a bit.

Oh well, back to painting some more Orks. Have almost 20 ready to be dipped...

S.

Status: 83/365

Still nothing new...

Was away for the weekend playing boardgames with some friends, so still nothing new to show.

I have about 20 Ork miniatures ready to be dipped, but I want a bit more so the setup & clean process will take less time per miniature. There are 11 Lizardmen waiting on the line, when I get those done I can do the dipping part. Though there are two other miniatures on the painting table, and they are almost done. One of them will go to the dip, but the other might be ready for tomorrow...


So instead I'll show yet another old project:

High Elves from the Island of Blood starter pack. These were (again) painted for the release, and the additional units were needed at Games Day 2010 as we had a scenario to be shown there (I worked security, so did not play with these. But I brought the miniatures as none of us had enough by themselves).

10 Old Elf Archers & 3 Extra Sword Masters

Some High Elf Mages

5 Ellyrian Reavers

My favourite unit from the army: Sea Guard of Lothern, I think there were 17 of them (as one box had 10 with command and I used two boxes but the command models were not used twice).

I liked how the Prince Althran on Hippogriff turned out. It was an experiment in speed painting with heavy washes and drybrushing. The Prince on foot was converted with the same model from another starter box and spare parts from High Elf Prince & Noble box.

10 Sword Masters of Hoeth

S.

More old stuff

I've been painting Orks & Gretchins for Warhammer 40000 but as my batches are usually quite large it will take some time before getting anything finished.

So instead I'll show yet another old project:

Skavens from the Warhammer Fantasy starter set called Island of Blood

As usual they were painted a couple of weeks before the release so they could be used on the release date to demo the game at a store (Puolenkuunpelit Lahti if I remember correctly).

Also as usual the paint scheme was something simple & quick and relies on heavy washes. It actually was a requirement to NOT paint them too well as that would discourage newcomers. But it is still quite nice on the battlefield when applied across a whole army.

There's a huge pile of clanrats on the "To Do" list but I don't know when I will get them painted...

S.

And there's more...

More miniatures painted for the 2013 challenge.

34 Night Goblins with spears & shields. Includes full command. The empty spot is reserved for a Night Goblin Shaman.

View from above shows multibased models within the unit. I deem it necessary with larger unit as it speeds deployment quite a bit. Also helps to break the monotony of a ranked unit: For example some of the goblins are not really interested in the battle but are chatting instead. Additionally a Night Goblin Fanatic can be seen just before being released to wreak havoc amongst a nearby enemy.

All models from Games Workshop. The fanatic model was a promotional figure I got some years ago, can't remember any specifics though.

S.

Status: 50/365

It's alive!

Finally got something done for my New Years resolution, which was painting at least one miniature per day, for the whole year.

So here's the first completed project, some old metal miniatures I found in the back of the cupboard:

1 Unit of 15 Dwarf Hammeres with shields (if I remember correctly those came from some old plastic Dwarf Warrior box). Contains full command unit (Champion, Standard Bearer & Musician)

1 Dwarf Runesmith

All models from Games Workshop.

S.

Status: 16/365