From Millsy: Warcry Wildercorps Hunters (90 points)

G'day All,

This is a commission job for a mate. Ordinarily I don't do painting commissions but this joker is a half decent bloke and I've wanted to paint some of these for a while now. The infantry and four of the puppers are from the plastic box set.

They're absolutely beautiful miniatures, full of flavour and movement, and packed with extra kit and detail. That's both a plus and a minus. They're amazing to look at and a bit of a trial to paint. The muted blue/yellow colour choice was my mate's decision. It looks great but it's not how I see hunters, but makes no difference in game so it is what it is.

The rest of the doggos are resin 3D prints my mate purchased to allow him to field a full list. Extra doggos are needed because the Evil Empire deliberately leave you short of playing a full roster in pretty much every box set for every game to try to make you buy extra kit. To be fair plenty of other companies do this too but they invented the idea and have it refined to a fine art.

Free gratuitous pics of my doggos - husky x staffy. Stubborn x obstinate.

Bestest Boy - Al

Goodest Girl - Summer

7 x 28mm humans = 35 points

11 x 28mm doggos = 55 points

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

Millsy

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Very nice brushwork as usual Millsy. I had not even recalled that "Warcry" was a GW product until you mentioned the packaging strategy - well done that 3D prints have been able to help fill the gap. 

As ever, it is the 1-to-1 scale dogs that will steal any show, however! Well met, Summer and Al!

And another 90 points for you...

GregB

From QuinnM: Tree Lord and some Malifaux (35 points)

This week I didn't quite finish as many models as I wanted to, but I was able to get some Malifaux completed. These are some versatile terracotta soldiers for Malifaux. These guys are some quick washes and dry brushes just to have something more than one guy for this week

And then the model that I spent most of the week touching up and refining. We have a tree-lord from Age of Sigmar. I've seen a number of these guys painted up online as cherry blossom trees (Sakura trees) and they all look amazing. And I ultimately decided to do the same for my Army. 

I am still waiting on some pink flock to fully finish him. But ultimately the OSL and nmm are things I don't have a lot of practice with and I'm going to try and do a lot of it across the entire Army. We have a larger batch that's not quite finished for next week. 

only for size ref

Points this week for me are a little tricky as this guy is big. So I'm going to leave points to you 

3x 28mm foot soldier @ 5 points = 15 points

1x 28mm vehicle @ 20 points = 20 points

Total = 35 points

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Sylvain: Quinn, this is a great "fusion" of cultural references, and very colorful too. Because of its hybrid aura, your treeman feels otherworldly. As for your terracotta warriors, they have a great earthy texture. Bravo!

Scoring is not easy, since you obviously spent a gazillion more hours on one figurine than the 3 others. I will score your large figurine as a 28mm vehicle.

From JamieM - Daughters of Khaine Spearhead (85 points)

Well, the starting gun has sounded and, as usual, I bit off for more than I could chew at the start of the challenge and only now have something finished. My process during the challenge is to start project A and get 85% done, then start project B as “it’s more efficient that way” and neglect project A. Then start project C before either project A or B is finished and end up with a mess of unfinished stuff lying everywhere

So I buckled on my Hat of Common Sense +1 and actually finished project A - a Daughters of Khaine force for Spearhead by GW (well, most of one as I had some figures already painted).

Age of Sigmar is a ruleset I’ve come to dislike. GW seemingly cannot help but give every a unit a special rule that breaks the normal rules. And don’t get me started on the “Double Turn” which is a d6 dice off to decide the game on plenty of occasions when I’ve played. But the Spearhead game, which uses Age of Sigmar rules but with small fixed forces (so no meta army building!) and also incorporates clever twists using cards and a small board is really rather good fun and plays very quickly. This is my second force for Spearhead and my other consists of three giants. Which is just as awesome as it sounds.

The first unit are the Melusai blood stalkers - five snake ladies with big bows. They were fun to put together and paint.

They pepper their opponent with arrows and sit on objectives quite nicely.

Next up are two units of five witch elves. Because the forces are fixed, I built five each out of the box using the two different build options for variety.

They were, to put it bluntly, a nightmare to build at times. Tiny connection points on the arms and the weight of the hair on the ones that had it dragged the head off the tiny neck if you looked away for a split second when the glue was drying.

I’m not a huge fan of the chainmail bikini aesthetic, but at least they are leaping into action instead of pulling a pouting pose.

This picture is with the rest of the figures that I’m not claiming for and gives me a spearhead to play with.

Points are 5 40mm bow snakes ladies for 35 and 10 28mm ladies for 50 to give 85 points in my opening salvo.

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Great to have you back with us once again Jamie! I've no doubt many Challengers will relate to your "system" that you outlined here: let's call it the "A-B-C" system. I can certainly relate - in fact, I often bolt "D" and "E" on using the same approach! And then there are the "oh, wait, I might fit this in for a theme round" diversions that further f*** everything up...

Age of Sigmar is a game I have only tried a few times, but it does not surprise me to learn that GW would spike their own wheel when it comes to good gaming rules. As you say - they cannot help themselves. But AoS certainly has some entertaining sculpts. Like you, I can do without the stupid chainmail-bikini look - but then Dark Elves always have had that hipster tw*t aura to them, have they not? I'm sure Khain is thrilled with his daughters here. 

But regardless, you have some impressive painting all set here to kick things off. I can't wait for your next submission in two or three weeks time where you suddenly have "B", "C" and "A2" roll off the painting line :) 

85 points for you! I promise I'll update the scoresheet after I wake up :)

GregB

From ByronM - AOS Ogor Mawtribe Gluttons (84 Points)

Over the last few years a friend of mine has been de-cluttering since he moved way out in the middle of nowhere and that has been an amazing windfall for my pile of shame.  I think I just finished getting the last of his vast collection this fall, and it spanned over 30 tote boxes of stuff!  Most of it GW stuff!  He only gets to play games when visiting me, so it's now all here to be worked on and played with. Oh, and it has caused lots of in house fighting as my sons Riley and Quinn try to claim various parts of the collection for their own.

Anyway, part of that collect was a huge pile of Warhammer Fantasy era Ogres, or Ogors as they now call them so that the GW legal department can ensure that the IP they stole from past companies and authors can now not be re-stolen from them. Man do I hate modern day GW...

 Both of my sons have been bugging me to play Age of Sigmar with them, and while I consider the rules complete SH*T it is a chance to play games with them, sooooo....  I went looking for bits to make as small an army as possible so that I don't have to paint a whole ton of stuff for a game I don't really care about, and I decided on the Ogres, er I mean: Ogors.  The whole 2000 point army will consist of just 24 models, so that's a bonus!

This week I focused on getting the first of two units in the army together (yeah, really just two units and then a bunch on monsters and characters.... what a dumb game), a reinforced unit of 12 Ogor Mawtribe Gluttons.  Most of these were already assembled and primed, some even had some colour on them here and there (that I just painted over!) so while there are some mould lines still on them, I was not about to go and clean them up and re-prime them so they got left as they were.  Do you start to understand my level of caring for this project? :-D. 

These models have been painted to simply be done and table ready, they are nothing special, and are pretty rough.  I think they look good enough to be on a table at a store event though, so stopped at that.  I will probably put more effort into the characters and monsters, but the base infantry can suck it! 

I tried to have several different shades of flesh on them so that they do not all look the same, I also did them with various different colours of pants and boots since I really doubt the Ogors have an army tailor and uniform standard.  

For basing I am going for a dry fall / early winter Steppe look with scrub and sand base, and then patches of snow.  However, despite having at least 3 different types of snow flock, I can not find ANY of them (we moved 2 years ago and I do not believe I have used them since and they are probably still buried in my storage trailer someplace) so I had to drop the snow part of the base until I can either find my snow flock or much more likely order in some more.  I will make sure I post an updated picture when I do get the bases fully done with other Ogors in the near future.

From looking through the painting challenges history I have found that people have been claiming ogres and trolls as 40mm infantry models so I will do the same here for consistency.  So these should give me a total of 12 x 7 points = 84 points.   

These look great Byron and I applaud your efforts on several levels - getting models painted for a game and recycling someone else's giveaways! Seriously though the models look pretty cool. Like you I was "out of the modern GW game" some time ago but the price looked to be right for these models and you've done a great job in painting them! 84 points for your account.

Dallas

From QuinnM: last post? (55 points)

 Hello, for probably the last time this challenge.

This week we have The actual last of my stormcast eternals to paint. It's a unit of liberators. These were given to me by my brother for Christmas. And I wanted to get them painted during the challenge but didn't have too much time to actually build them so this week all was putting together and painting them. I'm not sold on the banners And I'll probably go back and paint in some more detail and shadows later, but for now they are certainly tabletop ready. 

And then for probably my last model of the challenge, we have another lizardman that I painted up with non-metallic metals as a test piece. Any recommendations for non-metallic metals are appreciated. 

for points we have 

11X 28mm footman @ 5 points = 55

As for the painting challenge It was fun. It certainly pushed me to paint a variety of different models in different painting styles and learn different techniques. It was also really fun to be able to check in everyday and see some more painted models from everyone.

And one last Big thank you to Curt and all of the minions for putting this on.

 

Sylvain. I'm glad to hear that you found a lot of benefits and fun in participating in this Challenge. For my part, I did enjoy looking at your weekly production and commenting on them. I really like your toned-down colors and I might find inspiration in them for my own painting techniques. If this was really your last post, then see you next year!

 

 

 

 

From Millsy: Kruleboyz Marshscrawla Sloggoth + Army Shots! (35 points)

G'day All,

Here it is, the very last unit for my Warcry / Age of Sigmar Kruleboyz! I now have a complete Spearhead with extras and all that's left are big kits and stupidly expensive limited edition models so it'll be like this for a while I think.

The Marshscrawla Sloggoth is a gruesome monsta (sic) that the Grots (aka goblins or gobbos) ride like the wealthy members of the Raj once rode elephants with howdahs. There's certainly worse jobs going around if you're a Grot.

Chained and crawling low to the ground at all times so it's passengers aren't tipped out the back like a skip load, it's no wonder the poor beast looks unhappy with his lot. Even so, that's no excuse for poor personal hygiene. Check out that old man ear fuzz! Ewwwwww!!!

His Grot handlers use a range of man catcher type equipment to snare their prey and then chain them at the back for return to wherever they came from. Are these poor unfortunates prey food for their ride? Food for their larger Kruleboy cousins? Or is this all a pointless exercise and really just something to pass the time?

I've made a few upgrades to the out-of-the-box kit adding the shields to the sides and an extra head from my spares box. Without these it seemed a bit weedy and didn't have enough yellow to look the part amongst the rest of the army. There's also a sneaky Stormcast Eternal sinking inexorably into the mire on the base.

Points-wise I guess this counts as a vehicle and crew for a total of 35 points. What's 15% of a Stormcast Eternal worth, if anything at all? Only Sarah knows!

I'm absolutely stoked to have this final piece completed and ready for the table. Here's a few gratuitous shots of the entire force...

1 x 28mm "vehicle" and 3 x 28mm crew = 35 points.
I really need to make better choices when it comes to painting time ROI!

Artist: John Butler Trio

Album: Three

Artist: JOOF Editions Volume 6

Album: John OO Fleming

Artist: Paul Kelly

Album: Nature

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

Millsy

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Hello Millsy

Oh wow, the Marshcrawler sluggoth is wondrously horrific and the whole combined force look quite fierce and I would think are also quite smelly. The extra bits added to the sluggoth definitely add impact and add to the storytelling aspect of the mini. Very cool!

-Sarah

From QuinnM: Just Variety and The Inconstant (205 points)

I took 2 weeks off painting as I was feeling burnt out but I came back strong this week. I have a number of different things from stormcast to skaven and the last batch of elves.

First we have the last few Stormcast I have unpainted. A lord relictor and a unit of reclusians. the paint scheme for them is really simple silver armor with blue, purple and red accent colors. they are painted differently for the rest of my stormcast as they are part of the more religious sub faction and i wanted to differentiate them 

Next we have a clawlord on Gnaw-beast from the Skaventide box. I wanted to try source lighting from the gnaw portal on the base but the little bit I did wasn't great so I left it at that as this is a commission piece for a friends Skaven army. 

On top of the clawlord I painted up a acolyte globadier for them and it was real fun as I got to paint up a glowing orb for the first time. It is not perfect but they are happy with the final look.

For the inconstant i panted the last of the space marines from my friend and in all honesty i'm a not sure about this one. he is panted up as the space marines 2 fan chapter the crayon eaters. where every panel of armour is a different color and to rely show this the clock is painted in a rainbow camo(yes i know that is a oxymoron) that a washed with a black speed pant. a lot of the colors turned out great most of them are hiding behind the gun. but the pink i had was not blending so i ended up mixing my own and got more of a salmon. so there is a before and after.) i could not think of something more inconstant than someone that can't stick to a consistent color. 

I did also pant up 2 more of the old goblin trolls. I used slightly different oranges as highlighting colors but you can't really tell in the photos. 

and lastly I have the last of the elven spearmen. I painted them in one batch over the whole week and boy do I hate batch painting. but they are done for now. we are not going to look at the 150 night goblins sitting in the to-be painted box. next i have the heroes and some horsemen for the elves and it will be my second fully painted army. 

35x28mm footman@5 points=175 points

1x28mm cavalry@10 points=10 points

The Inconstant= 20 points

205 points total

Sylvain: Sorry I missed this post from last week. It's really a feast for the eyes that you are offering us this week. Your painting style in general, but especially this week, brings out the grim and dark aspect of some of the miniatures.Great work!