The Zombie Horde

Now Up to Seventy

Finished the few last Kings of war zombies miniatures. Including a few revenant bodyguards for the emissaries of life and death. 

Rob 

Oakbound Mount Silence Board Finished

 Now Just Waiting for Advent

Do still still have to make a few lanterns but the board is done 😁. 

Board done now time for a ….

Rob 

Mount Silence at Night

Part 3 - All the Rooms Done

All of the rooms are now finished and the corridors are next on the to do list. I also need to build some doors and lanterns. 

To be honest I wasn't sure how well it would fit together as I didn't have a big enough bit of foam board to do it all in one go. So, the rooms and corridors were built separately.  They needed a bit of trimming, but now the rooms and corridors mostly fit together. 

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The wooden floor didn't turn out as well I would have liked, because the contrast paint tended to pool rather than spread out. Which was probably to do with glue stopping the paint from absorbing. So, In the end I just painted it all with regular paints and dry brushed the detail. 

Rob

Mid-Week Post

More Oakbound Prep

After completing the bottom of the ladder yesterday, today was the turn of the top. I wanted the top to have a bit of depth, so raised it up. The ladder was the dug out of the loft bits box. It is an old LotR Uruk Hai Helm's deep one. 

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Rob 

Prep for Oakbound Advent

Dungeon Bash

So, I have one Oakbound's Christmas Advent calendars and I thought I would turn the 2D scenery tiles into some 3D ones. Now I have resisted the temptation to open the calendar early but Geoff from Oakbound shared some extra tiles on his monthly newsletter. So, it felt like a bit of prep I could get done prior to December. 

Here's what it should have looked like. I decided to go for a classic grey stone rather than a sandstone but I do plan some different colour stones for some of the other sections. 

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Rob 

Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?

 And the Last Zombie

Obviously as it is Halloween this week, and I had to shoot some zombie targets. Naturally I also had to follow this through with some zombie minis. This resulted in putting together the last Kings of War zombie (plus a few friends), I had from my bargain box last year. As well as rebasing a few odd revenants, I used as painting testers for the wild elves. These can now all be used my zombie regiment which brings it up to seventy. 

At least I might have slowed him down a bit!

The last of the KOW zombie split between two minis. 

Cleaning Paint Pots

I came across this on YouTube video. So, I can't take credit but up now I have been digging out the dried paint with a metal dental tool. 

1. Pull the lid and attaching ring off the paint pot. These usually come off quite easily. 
2. Invert the paint pot lid by pushing on the middle. Some lids seem easier than others, But all of the ones I tried popped out ok. Pull off the dried paint ring. 
3. Reattach the lid. 

The Amazon leader ready for battle. 

Nothing fancy tonight, but a relaxing Friday night beer. 

Rob 

Amazonian Arcane Technology & Lil Red Ryding Gob

Space Guns in the Old World

The Amazon leader with her arcane technology. The bolt pistol was chopped off some random mini from the bits box. 

Introduction to Amazons in the 2nd Ed. WFB.

Amazons are perhaps the strangest of all humans. They are physically identical to Old Worlders. An Amazon suitably dressed could walk the streets of any Old World without appearing out of place. 

The strangest thing of all about is that their population is almost all female. Whether as a result of long forgotten magic or by natural means, Amazons have adapted to re-produce parthenogenetically. The process is controlled by the Amazonian priestesses who use various natural drugs to induce pregnancy and determine gender of the child. Amazons can also reproduce normally, although this rarely happens due to the introverted involved nature Of Amazon society. 

Amazonian culture is directly derived from that Of Old Slann - the powerful, mystical technological race that once ruled the planet.  

After digging out the 3rd Ed. rules, there was very little about the Amazons except a short section in the world history section. In the 2nd Ed. WFB rules at least they had their own section in the bestiary including  special rules and weapons. This was before the army lists came out, so the bestiary in the rules set could be used to work out a basic army list. 

So, the only mention of bolt gun weapons was in the 2nd Ed. rules. Which don't seem much different to those published in Rogue Trader. 

 

WFB 2nd Ed. Rules

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Artwork from WFB 3rd Ed. Rules

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Lil Red Ryding Gob 

One look at him and I knew he had to have a red cloak. 

I guess it is a bit of a stretch to think he counts towards Orctober!

Rob 

On the Painting Desk

 Its Friday Night!

Not really in a painting mood tonight but plenty of other tasks to be done. Such as sticking it all together...

Some of the odd goblins from my Fae project defected, jumped in the paint stripper and have now joined the goblin warband. Bringing the warband up to a mighty ten!

A bit like using the paint stripper, the two part epoxy gluing tends to get stored up and done in batches. Much as I really like these Diehard Slann & Amazons gluing them together is a pain. I decided to add a bolt pistol to the leader of the Amazons. Which was  legal in 2nd Ed. not sure about 3rd Ed.? I will have to go and find my WFB 3rd Ed. rulebook. 

But did finish one more Amazon during the week. 

One of the damaged high elves has now been converted into the missing standard bearer. 

The perfect accompaniment to a Friday Night beer 😁

Rob 

Objective In Sight

Adding a Bit of Slann Scenery

Itzcoatl finds the sacred relic

So, I followed my normal jungle basing policy, which is to add as much stuff as possible until I can't fit anything else on the base. And was the chance to use some of larger plants which are just too big to fit on regular infantry bases.  But overall I am pleased with the result. The stone head is a blue stuff mould from a fridge magnet I picked while on holiday in Mexico. In hindsight, I wish picked up a couple more but I wasn't really thinking about a Slann army at the time. 

Rob 

Itzcoatl's Raiding Party

 The Compulsory Element

Not for the last time Itzcoatl wished he was back on his favourite lily pad contemplating the mysteries of the cosmos with the occasional tasty snack. However, his master had instructed him to collect another mysterious ancient artifact. This time near the occasionally hostile northern lizardman tribes. So, he had decided to bring plenty of  support and had even paid for a personal Amazon bodyguard from his own gold stash. 

Lyta surveyed the valley below and at the steam rising from the holes in the far valley wall. Obviously some lizardmen nests. She quietly observed to herself, it was unlikely they would pass unnoticed as she unconsciously shifted her straps holding her twin blades. 

While the first part of the Slann army is still some way off, but I thought perhaps I could play some small narrative games using what I have already painted up. So, Itzcoatl's raiding party was born. 

I have finished of the last of the Ral Partha Europe frogmen, now several of them have opted to look after some of Tanqecl-Tlo'ectlutl's many pets. So, I have had to draft in a couple of replacements in the form of a Diehard Amazon and a 'mini' giant spider to build a unit of ten. 

Obviously Itzcoatl believes the local conscripts need a seasoned mercenary to keep an eye on them! 

Army Building

Warhammer 3rd Edition army lists are bit of a mixed bag when it comes to compulsory elements. For the Slann it is only one unit of ten regular models at 9 points each. Making the minimum requirements only 100 points. Where as an army list like the dwarves has over 600 points and sixty models as a minimum requirement for rank and file. Still this does leave plenty of points for all of those Slann special units. 

Rob