Kings of War Slow Grow 1

Back in December I signed up for the Blackjack Legacy Slow Grow Kings of War army challenge.  The aim of the challenge is paint up 250 points of an army a month for 8 months.  The idea is to have a 2000 point army by the end of August.  Keeping this in mind I decided on Undead (If you've followed the blog for  a while now this wont be a shock to you).  A lot of my old undead stuff is in need of a bit of TLC so new paint jobs all round.  It also falls into my new years resolution of buy less play more.  My undead havent left their case in so long, time to get them back on the field.

I don't have the third edition book yet, but this is approaching 500 points worth.

So far I've got a regiment of revenants, 2 troops of ghouls, a vampire lord and an undead army standard.  Which is a decent start.  There's a prevailing green theme here.  I figured that the revenants would be the personal guard to the vampire lord and would be attired appropriately.  The ghouls are wearing different coloured rags, which is going to be replicated throughout the skeletons and zombies.  I've also gone for a graveyard theme in the multibases to help theme everything too.  Everything show here is a mixture of Games Workshop, Mantic Games and Heresy Miniatures.

For February I plan to do a regiment of skeleton spearmen and a troop of wraiths.

Abhorrant Archregent

I've decided to take the plunge into Age of Sigmar, by converting my Vampire Counts stuff over.  To start with I'm going Flesh Eater Courts and busting out my ghoul horde.  I found this vampire from Heresy Miniatures to be my Abhorrant Archregent.

I've not decided on what kind of grass to put on his base yet.  So I might do the whole force at the same time.

Some Elves and a Half Orc

These three have been siting primed on my desk for a while now, I can't think of a better way to take break from painting zombies.

Here is a half elf mage, a half orc warrior and a elf warrior.  I plan to use them mainly for RPGs, but the elves might worm their way into Kings of War army (if I ever build an elf one).

Half elf mage

This mini is from Heresy Miniatures.  I was debating painting her up as a druid, but I thought I'd go down a high born wizard route instead.  She was a really fun miniature to paint and is a fantastic sculpt .  I liked the colours on her so much that she inspired me to paint the other elf in the same way.


Half Orc Fighter

What makes him a fighter and not a barbarian? Armour.  He's from Reaper Miniatures' Dark Haven Legends range.  I quite like the pose on him, although I've no idea why he's pulling a knife when he's got a perfectly good battle axe in his other hand.  I decided to make him dark skinned and light haired for no particular reason, but I think it works.

Elf figher/paladin

This is a High Elf from Games Workshop.  Unfortunately he's made from finecast (EW!).  He painted up reasonably well though.  I think he'll make a fine addition to any party, and would make a refreshing change to all the elves you see with longswords and/or longbows.

Heresy Miniatures - The Netherlord

I've been a long time buyer of Heresy miniatures, and this beastie is one of their oldest.  Heresy is a great wee company that makes a whole host of fantasy heroes and villains, which is great for populating dungeon.  When I discovered Heresy I was too late to get one of these, he was out of production.  However with a recent kickstarter they brought him back, this time in resin ( the original was all metal).

Do you want to see him?

He's pretty damn big.  Normal sized space marines look him in his knee caps.

Time for some close ups

The Netherlord's nether regions.


I think he's awesome.  I'm probably going to use him as a bloodthirster, so I've painted him up in the colours of my Harvest army.  I've decided that his loincloth is the hide from a Keeper of Secrets, hence the purple colour.  I've based him in the same way as my other daemons just so he fits in.

Heresy Miniatures Dragon

I finally built it.  I've only had it a year, which is a drop in the ocean when you look at all the hardship the Heresy went through to sculpt and cast it, and mine was quite far down the queue.  Given how costly these were to produce Heresy no longer make them, so sorry to all you people out there that see this and go "Ooh! I want one!"

It's standing on a cup for a reason.  The tail dips down below the rock its perched on, which means it doesn't sit stably.  The cup also demonstrates how big the thing is.  It barely fits in my Ikea display cabinet.  I've ordered some HDF bases to raise it permanently.  The next stage of the process is to fill in the gaps, then I can start painting it.

Operation Endtimes no 22 Necromancer

I've just finished a necromancer for my undead, he's also my necromantic cleric from my gaming groups upcoming dungeons and dragons campaign.  This necromancer is from Heresy Miniatures.  He comes with 3 head options. The one I used. One with long manky hair.  And an evil devil sorcerer one with horns and a goatee. He also comes with an optional hat.

The Harvest part 6 Bloodletters

I finished a second group of bloodletters for my Harvest  army.  There's a few gaps in them, but meh, it wont be too noticeable on the tabletop.

The close ups

 some closer close ups

 I lost this guys head, so I got him a new one from Heresy Miniatures.

Standard Bearer

An old metal bloodletter that I'm using as a bloodreaper.  He's in charge because he's the beefiest.

Azaroth the Fallen One

I just finished a miniature that I've had for a long time, Azaroth the Fallen One by Heresy Miniatures.  I don't think you can get this guy anymore, I know he was made available again for the kickstarter, but I don't know if he'll be made for general release again.  I'll be using him as daemon prince in my Khorne daemonkin army, which will be The Harvest by the way.  The Harvest has a similar colour scheme to my Maledict Brotherhood, just with the black armour swapped for red, and all my Khornate stuff will  be repainted accordingly.

Lets have a look

First of all Azaroth looks metal as fuck.  And you can quote me on that.  He was a lot of fun to paint, lots of good texture too.  There's one part I don't like and that's the wing membranes.  They're flat.  Some contours or ripples would have been nice, then I could get my drybrush on. 

Now to paint him some minions, so he can get out there and start collecting skills for the blood god.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE THRONE OF KHORNE!

Operation End Times no16 Hordes of Worthless Peons

Well they're not entirely worthless.  They're job is to hold enemy units in place while a vampire beats the crap out of them or something bigger outflanks them... Or I buff the hell out of them and laugh my arse off as they become unhinged killing machines... Actually ghouls aren't too bad in a scrap... Behold my situationally worthless peons.

First up are some skeletons

They final wash on some of them isn't quite dry, hence the shiny bits.  These are mainly Games Workshop skeletons with a Mantic one infiltrating, see if you can guess which one.  The Games Workshop skelies are in my opinion the best in the market.  The Mantic ones aren't bad, the the just don't look as cool.  The GW ones have the Jason and the Argonauts vibe that drew me to the undead in the first place.


Now some zombies

A whole two of them.  Again we have a Mantic (left) and a GW (right) figure.  The Mantic zombies look far better than GW ones, the kit is nearly twenty years old and is very dated.  Please Games Workshop make new zombies and don't make them an overpriced dual kit.

And finally more ghouls

"Oh no not more ghouls! Most of you posts have ghouls."  Yes more ghouls.  You'll get ghouls and bloody like it.  Actually I think I'm running out of ghouls.  It's the usual mix of GW, Mantic and Heresy.  I'm kinda running out of things to say about them.

Other things on the painting block is my second Dreadball team and some Malifaux.  To break up the fodder for the next Operation End Times I'll paint of a fodder squasher... a screaming skull catapult.

Operation Endtimes no 11 Fodder... and other non warhammer related stuff

I've painted a bit more of my fodder troops.  I've got lots of them so every little helps the pile grow smaller.  First up some more ghouls.

A mix of heresy, games workshop and mantic ghouls.  There's plenty more in the pile, I've got a dozen undercoated sitting on my desk alone.

Now some zombies

These are zombies from mantic games.  Like their ghouls there's not a whole lot of variation in them.  Unlike their ghouls I like these a lot.  They look a lot better than games workshop ones, which look really dated and well a bit shit.  I have no idea what's going on with the zombie on the right.  He's a zombie that's put his back out and is going to bite you... in the nuts... yeah that's what he's doing.

More zombies, with even more exposed guts... hooray!

group shot.  They've come to eat your brains.

And onto some non-warhammer stuff.

If you go down into the woods today, you're probably gonna die!
I painted Miss Erry.  I went with a tattered sack look, with a bit of purple to show some neverborn allegiance.

Some Wayne Enterprises crates from Knight Models.