Miniature Monday: Freeguild General on a Griffon

Yup it's that day of the week again, missed posting for some weeks now but have a lot of stuff painted and some big projects I'm working on at the moment. Anyway, today I finished my General on a Griffon. Iv'e had this model since it was released in 8th edition (it was 8th right?!) and I built it, loved the model. But it never go any paint on, sadly. However, now in AoS they are quite nice in the game, and still looks cool as ever!

You may have noticed I used most of the Karl Franz (RIP) parts to make this model, I think it works very well in the AoS setting and I hope it does goes well together with the rest of the painting scheme I have on my Order army.

Merry X-mas and... I'm in Warhammer Visions!

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone is having a great day.

Because of my shitty personal life etc. my blogging and hobby time haven't been great lately.

But right when you need that extra boost to continue what you, BAAM you open latest issue (23) of Warhammer: Visions and there is one of your models in it. Thanks White Dwarf team, you got my hobby juices going again.

I know there's hundreds of models showcased each month, but I don't think I'm the only one dreaming of this since they first started painting miniature models. This is the second time I  have one of my models showcased in a GW publication, last time was in White Dwarf in 2013.

It's once again one of my Empire models, and this time my General on a Griffon. Not an favorite of mine, but there's at least some conversions and green stuffing done to it. Anyway, a really pleasant surprise to find, now I'm off to painting some more stuff again.

Miniature Monday: Empire Crossbowmen

I'm painting a lot of different stuff right now and among them are some backlog projects for my Empire army. Like this Crossbowmen unit, it needed one more model and some touch ups on the rest to make them look nice with the rest of the army. So I did and a magnatized unit tray as well so here's the result.

A nice unit tray makes the whole unit look much better, and a lot easier to move around when you play. 

Still love to paint my Empire in Ostermark colors. 

The last dude had to stand a little taller because the unit is hard to rank up otherwise. 

Have some more backlog projects for my Empire, next up is a Handgunners unit. My Hurricanum and try to finish my Greatswords unit and Knights of the Black Rose unit. 

Miniature Monday: Empire Celestial Hurricanum WIP

It's short Mini Monday today, have several projects in the pipeline at the moment and one of them is to finally finish painting my Celestial Hurricanum. It's have taken some work I can tell you, I have built,  converted and painted a model much similar (my War Altar of Morr) and there's just so much stuff going on and so much stuff that need paint it takes forever and it's driving me crazy!

Well you have to do some parts at a time to make it easier, but it's just so many parts! I have now painted mostly of the main chassis but still some interior and other stuff to do. The horses are mostly done but need some more paint as well. My goal is to finish the horses, the base and the main chassi and focus on the swirling planets and what not and the crew after this.

I'm sure it will look great when it's finished, at least that is what I'm going for... but damn it takes a lot of time to paint up. Will probably never do an Luminark because I don't want to paint one more of these wagons (might change my mind if they are totally OP next ed :P ).

Wh Empire Army Book Review: Arch Lector

I usually don't post other peoples youtube videos but this one actually relates to me and this blog a little. The clip is one of many that TheSustainableCenter does and this one is part of his Empire Army Book review. All of them is really nice and I do recommend all of them so go an visit his channel check some of his more than 300 video clips.



Oh and why does this particular one relate to me then? Well he uses a picture of my War Altar of Morr during the review of the Arch Lector. Really surprising to see it there, and flattering.

Miniature Monday: Greatswords Horde

I painting on infantry models for my Empire army and this time I've painted some more Greatswords, and these are the last of my fail(metal)cast models to be painted (badly cast models did exist prior to Finecast and I have whole batch of them). And that is really nice because the new models are so much more fun to paint up. I do need to purchase some more of them though because with the latest finished models this unit is now 26 men strong and I think I have bits for 4-5 goldswords more or so, and I want this unit to be 40 men strong when finished.

As you can see on the first pic here Iv'e also made a new Horde movement tray for them, it's still WIP but it's all magnetized. That's all for today, also planning on some kind of unit filler for these so if any of you have any suggestions for a Greatswords unitfiller in a Garden of Morr'sque setting please let me now.  

The Empire: Halberdiers Detachment finished

Twenty more Halberdiers to the army, luckily I did not have to paint these up from scratch as they where quite nicely painted when I bought them. Also I really dig how it's kit bashed with old haldberds, Great Swords bodies and heads from different Empire kits (not a single head is the same in this unit), and even 40k Catachan heads. But I have done some quite extensive repainting, they where Stirland and is now a part of my Ostermark army instead.

I had to repaint the yellow parts of the uniform as well as It was a little sloppy in my opinion. The only thing I haven't done much to is the heads and hands, just some touch ups here and there. All in all I'm very happy with how they turned out and is a great addition to the army, will probably never upgrade this unit to a full 40-50 men unit as I need so many more Great Swords bodies, but a command group would not be impossible to give to them and up them to 25 men. But until then I consider them finished, hope you like them.

Comments and suggestions is always welcome, and sorry for my poor photographing skills on these. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.

The Empire: Halberdiers Detachment

Some time ago I bought some models up on Tradera (Swedish eBay) and among some quite nicely painted Halberdiers that was also really nicely converted using only Greatswords bodies and legs. All of them also have a unique head so no head is the same in this unit and I love those little details.

Anyhow, I didn't think I needed to repaint much as as I saw them on the pics they where already nicely painted and also in Stirland colours so I only really needed to change the green to purple. Well so I thought. It was much easier said than done, the models where nicely painted, especially the heads but the uniforms where not my cup of tea. The green I would change anyhow but the yellow where to heavy washed and with a to dark wash as well, so I needed to repaint that. Also the armour and weapons where a little sloppy so I tidied that up as well. I also changed the bases so it matches the rest of army. So the only thing I didn't need to repaint much was the faces which I just made some minor things with.

The unit I bought was twenty men so I will use it as a detachment I think, or mix into my bigger unit (40 men) if needs be. I'm almost done with all of them but here are the first five Iv'e finished, as always comments and suggestions are very welcome.

The Empire: Ten Handgunners finished

Another unit for my Ostermark Empire army is finished, ten Handgunners. I got these a while ago painted up quite nicely but in the wrong colour scheme. So I re painted them and 'upgraded' some of the parts I wasn't as happy with. And here's the result, I'm especially fond with the actual conversions here. No model look the same and each one has his own character, so I'm glad I bought these models. The movement tray is magnetized as well so these fellas isn't going anyway I don't want them to go :) As always c & c is very welcome.

Full unit of ten

The back row which I just finished painting

The Empire: Five Handgunners finished

I bought these from the Interwebz fully put together and painted, but not in "my" Ostermark colours though and I also needed to tidy up the paint work here and there. So I did that, and it took more time than I had thought because you always see new things that can be improved and so on. Anyway I like this kind of painting where you skip the base colours and just 'upgrade' to how you want them to look. And now I have finally finished the first row of five Handgunners in a unit of ten.

I must say that I really like the kit bashing the guy have done with these, mostly old militia bitz but also from the old plastic Empire State trooper sprue's and the new Archers sprue's. Also no one in the unit has the same head and I love such details. Really like how these turned out and I'm currently working on finishing the last five along with a magnetized movement tray for them.

Miniature Mon(Tues)day 'WoC and Empire'

Yea didn't make it yesterday so once again we get a miniature Tuesday instead, but that is okey as content is the same anyway. So what have I been doing hobby related the past week? Well painting mostly but not as much as I would have liked. I really want to finish up painting as much as possible before I get my Warzone: Resurrection miniatures (and I will get a lot of them) as they have already started to show up at some of the backers of their kickstarter, we how have more complicated orders with a lot of stuff in it (like me) will have to wait some further so here's the chance to paint up as much as possible of my Warhammer stuff before I will focus a lot on Warzone.

So what have I been painting on then?

Warriors of Chaos
When I finally finished painting the Skullchrushers opportunities opened up to paint some other things, and the one thing I wanted to paint for some time now is the Mutalith Vortex Beast. Really fun model to paint but it will take some time to complete.

Some other things I want to do next is the Nurgle Chaos Ogre from Kromlech, I have just started to paint him up now and will do an tutorial on how I paint him up, so look out for that one in the future.

The Empire
Got plenty of Empire stuff on the painting table as well, I'm in the process of change colour scheme and tidy up the paint work on 10 Handgunners and 20 Halberdiers, it is going forward but slower than expected because I still find a lot of new things on them that needs to be fixed painting wise. Still really nice kit bashed conversions though and all of the have a lot of character. I need to get on with the Knights and Hurricanum as well but it will be after the State troopers are done I reckon.

So that is all for now, a new Miniature Monday (or Tuesday) next week.

The Empire: Halfling Hot Pot finished!

The Halfling hot pot is done! Sadly you can't have them in games anymore, well not since 5th ed anyway. Well I will incorporate some Halflings into this army anyway and even GW which still sells this model is suggesting to use this as an Helstorm Rocket Launcher instead, and that is my intention as well. Will probably not use it much in gaming anyway since the Rocket Launchers suck pretty much but still a fun choice to have in the army. And the models are such classics.¨

I made my own base for these using four cav bases to make it into a chariot base instead, not really satisfied with the result but I didn't have any spare Chariot bases so this will have to do. Other than that I'm happy with how the turned out, the yellow needs some more work, especially on front guy where you can see his back on the second pic. It needs one more highlight I think.

So what do you think, you like these classic models? And do you want to see Halflings again in future Empire releases? I sure want that to happen. Tell me in the comments. 

Miniature Monday 'Empire and Halflings'

Monday again and here's what I'm been up to in the hobby lately. As always I have a hard time concentrating on one thing and finish that and then move on to a new painting project. So I run several painting projects, converting projects etc. in the same time instead. So right now I quite much going on but I try to stay to the projects I will now tell you about.


WoC

I love painting this army, you can to do much modelling wise with WoC and you have so many different monsters and units, and they are all expensive as well so you don't need to paint that many to make a army of 2400-2500 Pts.

The stuff I have been working on is the two Skullchrushers I started long ago, still some things to do on them but I hope I will finish them this week (despite being on a business trip for the three coming days). After them I will try to paint up the Mutalith Vortex Beast, and I'm really looking forward painting this beast up.

After that I will do three more Warriors to complete the Nurgle unit, I also have a Sorcerer in the pipeline.

Empire

Painting some Empire stuff again, first of I will complete the Halfling Hot Pot in the next coming days, it is almost finished but I will probably not finish it before I go tomorrow. After that I have some quite exciting stuff for Empire because I bought some new models which are already painted, and quite nice as well.

So I don't need to re paint all that much, and the best part is I don't need to paint any of the first basic colours which is the most boring part of painting models in my opinion. Also they where really nicely kit bashed with the Greatswords kit and got heads from plenty number of kits which is really nice (the Halberdiers). That is all for now c & c is as always very welcome.

Miniature Mon(Tues)day Weekly Roundup

Had to do some unexpected RL stuff yesterday so I didn't have time for the weekly update so for this week we get an Miniature Tuesday instead. So with the Tzeentch BSB done and the Flagellants done I can move on to some of the other projects I want to get finished.

One thing for example is to upgrade the Flagellant unit, so the unit filler I had in there (which by the way won a competition on warhammer-empire.com some years ago) didn't cut it anymore. So I went into the Empire bitz box and found many parts of my old War Altar which I scrapped when I finished the other one. It's a nice model though and I wanted to use it so I decided to make this into a new unit filler, a large unit filler.

Below you can see how it looks so far, I will make one more guy pulling the thing and finish up the Hamlet Prophet of Doom who is riding it, I think it can look really nice in that unit when it's finished.

I also doing some stuff with my WoC, I continue with my Gorebeast but wasn't happy with how the skin turned out so it will take a bit longer, I'm also working on a unit filler for Nurgle Warriors and wanted a skin tone that is blueish but still look Nurgle, I hope I achieved that with these ones and I quite like how the look.

That is all for this time, I have plenty of other projects I'm working on as well but these are the ones I want to get finished first, hopefully really soon. So until next time...

The Empire: Ten more Flagellants

Why I paint ten more Flagellants you ask? Well.... certainly not because they are any good in the game now but I quite like the models and a big unit of them looks really nice. My unit needed some reinforcements and some touch ups though so I got around and painted up ten new models for the unit. I'm also in the process of upgrading my unit filler which I will show you on the next Miniature Monday so stay tuned for some more conversion work being done.

Until then here's some middle of the unit Flagellants, meaning I haven't been putting that much time into painting them. These are also some of the old metal minis I have wanted to repaint for ages, so many of them are in the same pose (accept the girl which is an Mordheim Middenheim youngblood if I remember correctly)

Miniature Monday Weekly Update

I continue with the stuff I painted last week and the first batch of models was finished a couple of days ago with the finished Archer unit. I'm also slowly shifting focus a little more to my WoC again with some Warzone models thrown into the mix as well.

Well on to the list of things Iv'e done then

Empire
Apart from the finished Archer unit I have been starting to finish up the painting on eight Flagellants, these are not front rank material but will be mixed in the unit I already have, they still need some more Highlights and proper bases though.

I have also dipped two Greatswords which is on their way to completion as well as two Halfing crew for my Hot Pot (Helstorm Rocket Battery count as) also more Halfings are on the way.That's all for Empire atm, my idea is to finish all these before I start to work on any new or other Empire models, including the Hurricanum which is on hold at the moment.

Warriors of Chaos
After the Archers where completed I have been working hard to finish painting my BSB and my Gorebeast Chariot. There are still lot of work to do but I think that the BSB will be the next model I finish painting, and I also find it really fun to paint up the Gorebeast, which I have decided to do in my blue Nurgle colours.

Bauhaus
Soon finished with one more Ducal Militia with and HMG hopefully this will be the colourscheme I'm going with.

I only have one pic to show you today I'm afraid. The battery for the camera died on me and I don't have any spare :/ So a pic of the Gorebeast will have to do for now.

Empire: Archer unit w/ skirmish movement tray finished

Much much work to paint up these measly 70 Pts, not just that you have to paint all the archers. If you want a nice movement tray you have do a special one that works with the skirmish rule, which I had to do of course (not that hard actually). So now they are finally finished, the first five where done long ago so it was just the final five I needed to paint up, and the movement tray of course, which I'm probably most happy with actually.

Please tell me what you think, but you don't have to remind that the purple is different between the old models and the new. I will change the old ones in due time, but not right now :)

The gang together

The new boys in town

From above, as you can see the Garden of Morr theme continues 

Bottom is in metal so I will magnetize the bases for the archers so they don't fall of the tray. 

Miniature Monday Weekly Update

The past week I have actually painted quite a lot, but not really finished anything yet. And the stuff I have been doing is pretty much the same as in previus Mini Monday, but much of it is nearing completion. So here it goes.

Empire

I bought my self a new can of Army Painter Quickshade, well actually two. One Dark tone and one with strong tone that I wanted to try out. I'm haven't used this painting method in a while and I will pretty much only do on miniatures that I want to paint up and get finished fast as well as the troops I know works out good with it, like my Orcs & Goblins, some of my Empire troopers and so on.

So I'm pretty much done with four new Archers, it was five but I somehow lost the body of one of the Archers when I was shaking of excess Quickshade, well he loosened from the base which I hold and I throw away the whole model, I found the head, arrows and right arm holding the bow but the rest is just gone :S So I have to paint up a new body for him.

I have also continued painting up Halflings, the crew for my Hot Pot is soon finished and the first of the Archers too. One of the reasons for the going with Quickshade again though is to have it on metal models, this because it prevents chipping very nicely. And I still have a lot of metal models I really want to paint and some of these is my Flagellants which is a unit I want to upgrade to 40 men strong, I have painted up six new ones but there is still some more work on these, even if they will be in the back rows of the unit.

Warriors of Chaos
I had a little break from them but I got an sudden urge to finish my BSB on a demonic mount so I started to paint him again yesterday. I also got some new ideas regarding my Sorc Lord on Disc and Lord on Disc so I fiddled a little with them as well. Two other things I want to finish up is my Gorebeast Chariot and the first Skullchrusher.

So not much that is finished but much more will be in the coming days.

Miniature Monday Weekly Update

So another Monday and another weekly update about what I have been doing the last week. It actually started with not much hobby work at all as both my girlfriend and my daughter had their birthdays with a lot of celebrations and birthday parties and what not. But I later actually got around painting some stuff.

One of the things I got an sudden urge to do was to re-paint my Dwarfs, nothing major just try out a different colour scheme as I felt the old one is to similar to my WoC and Empire. I have also always liked Dwarfs in red so I went that instead.

I may have to do something else with the Thunderer but I like how the shields turned out, especially the Ironbreaker shields. (old colour scheme can be found here)

I have also continued painting my Empire Archers and two are pretty much finished as you can see below. Just some more highlights and some work on the bases, I had three more on the way almost finished but I misplaced one of them and just can't find anywhere :O

I have painted a little more Warzone as well, and changed the colours of the Shoulder and knee pads on thins miniature and like this one better actually so I may go with this colour on my Bauhaus. 

That's all for today, and now I'm going to eagerly await the PDF  rules of Warzone: Resurrection which will be released for backers today!