A Warhammer blog from a guy building and paint in his hobby shed. Mostly Age of Sigmar but some 40K thrown in and also covers warhammer news and rumours
Anyone remember the Verminlord before the end times? Probably not. but its hard not to have a soft spot for the original model for what is essentially the skaven version of a demon prince. I nearly bought the original metal one brand new but when the newer kit came it got pushed to the side for the new shiney.
I have always kept my eye out for one on ebay but as usual it takes a while to get one at good price. Some prices had gotten really high but eventually i managed to pick it up for €14 including delivery. The only negative about it was his tail was missing. I knew that when buying it and it didn't bother me to much because the price was so good. I used a spare tail from the newer verminlord kit and i will add the Doom Glaive from that kit also.
Stay tuned for when i get around to painting this guy up. Should be fun and looking forward to adding him to my painted collection.
Since i finished my Skaven blood bowl team i wanted to keep the momentum going with my Blood Bowl teams so up next was the Ork team that i got with the BB starter box. I have said before that these Ork models are some of my favourite and i'm looking forward to painting them.
How long has Age of Sigmar been out? Well over a year now and i still haven't got around to rebasing any units for my Skaven army. I have done 3 or 4 hero models but i wanted to get the whole army on round bases and im starting with my Zombie Skaven unit. So after searching on Ebay i was able to get 50 25mm round bases for a little under €5 (inc delivery).
I came up with 3 warband lists for Skaven's Clan Eshin using the new skirmish rules for Age Of Sigmar. I wanted to make the list more towards the fluff rather than make a powerful list.
A quick and easy painting tutorial on how to paint Skeletons. I wanted to make this as easy and quick as possible because in an army you could be painting up 60 of these!
Ah ebay i love you! But my paypal account does not. I usually try to check ebay once a week to see if any really good auctions manage to slip under every ones radar and swoop in with a cheeky bid. It doesn't happen to often but sometimes i can get stuff really cheap.
Wow what a day it has been! We had live video from warhammer tv showing the Kharadron Overlords and their battletome but first they showed a new video announcing the newest faction to Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire the The Sepulchral Guard!!
Straight to the point. 15 goblin spider riders for €20 including delivery. How am i ment to pass that by!
Remember the Battle of skull pass starter box that came out for old 7th edition warhammer? It was dwarfs and goblins. I managed to get the dwarf half of the set but i really wish i had gotten the goblin half as well. Trying to get that box on ebay cost a pretty penny but i always kept an eye out for the goblin stuff.
These guys were painted pretty bad when they arrived but i gave them a good stripping and they cleaned up nicely. The only thing i messed up with was i accidently snapped off one or two legs off.
I managed to get the guy to throw in a goblin boss as a bonus. Sweet! Hes a nice little guy and it's good to have a leader guy to go with my small goblin group.
They were all on bases and i would like to get them on some ovals eventually. Unless i find some cheap bases on ebay its not going to be any time soon unfortunately
Oh god it feels like its been ages since i had a chance to work a bit more on this team. Second term of college and life is just punching the spare time i have right in the stomach.
It annoys me that i get so much done and can't come back to them for a while. I miss the hobby desk
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I was stuck on what colour duo to go with for the gutter runners so i
I have been
doing this hobby for about 6 years’ now and I’d say I’m experienced at it a
little bit but when I started off I knew nothing! It took lots of trial and
error over the years to get my painting and hobby to a half decent level. So,
these are my 5 helpful bits of advice that I wish I’d known when I started the hobby
1.Practice,
Persistence and don’t worry
This probably applies to every hobby but when you’re starting
off your first few attempts are probably gonna be pretty bad. I have a Space
Marine sergeant that was one of the first models I ever painted and it has a
brutal paint job on it but I will talk about him later. Painting can be
something that takes time, practice and persistence. Overtime your efforts will
improve and you will notice this by looking back at your older works. So don’t
get worked up about your painting early on. Just keep at, learn different
techniques and persist at it. Growing your painting skills is extremely rewarding
In this month’s White Dwarf (January)
there was an article about looking back at 2016 and reviewing what was
released. And going through it they really did release some amazing stuff like
a reintroduction of Warhammer Quest to the rise of the genestealer cult.
But the thing I’m wanting to talk
about is at the end of the article, they have a part where you can vote for the
miniature of the year where they have one model from each month they were
released from (pg48).
It took a while for Games Workshop to release a general rule book for Age of Sigmar. But when they did we got a whopper of a book.
This book is a necessity for AOS players. AOS works really well with story driven narrative games.
The big thing when AOS came out was that GW did a brave thing in removing points from the game. The game went from having an massive ruleset that can be difficult for beginners to a 4 page booklet.
It took a couple of months for GW to release this book. And it was as if they released the new game to let us decide how it should be played. Is that brave or dumb?
They had to break the game to remake it and the they developed the Generals Handbook with the help of Dan Heelan and Wayne Kemp from the HeelanHammer podcast, Russ Veal from Facehammer and Ben Curry from the Bad Dice podcast.
The book has 3 ways to play the game Open play Narrative play & Matched play
Open play is bring anything you want. bring any amount of units, uneven armies or just arrange something with your appointment. There is rules for more than 2 player games and Triumph and treachery games
Narrative play is your story driven aspect. This has 4 battle plans, themed armies and even has 2 recreated battles. It has multiple ways to run a campaign: Path to glory, map campaign,tree campaign and a matrix campaign
Matched play is your points. It has points for all units for each army and even the recent discontinued armies and units. Is has tournament layouts and pitched battle for matched play games and ladder campaign rule.
The last thing it has in the book is new battle traits, command traits and artifacts for each alliance. This is a great addition and gives you more choice for your army.
Overall this book is a necessity for Age of Sigmar gaming. It gives you multiple ways to pay and explore the game. It encourages you to try different ways of playing and not just straight forward pitched battle. Ony thing that needs to be improved is the path to glory campaign. I was hoping for a more of a skirmish type of build with it but it was more of starting a small army and just add units onto it.
Its a great book and there is supposedly another updated on coming out next year. But it's at cheap affordable price and still worth getting.
I have a video up about it on my YouTube channel so you can check that out as well
Just recently bought Mordheim City of the damned for the PS4. I was waiting for this to finally a release on it. Mordheim was before my time but i always liked it especially the skaven!
This is the first mission i attempt with my skaven clan so hopefully i don't do to bad
Its finally here! The second season of Blood Bowl 2 with my team Clan Skurvy! It seemed last season all we could get was draws and had no chance of getting promoted but this is gonna be our season!
The first game of the season is against our rivals from last season are the chaos team Unstoppable Mashers. These guys are really strong physically and they caused some injuries on us before but we are want to start this season with a win
Do you know how hard it was to get my hands on this box?! It was out of stock almost immediately after it had gone up on the GW website. I have been swamped with so much college work the box has been sitting on my desk for a week but now i finally got time to go through it. Im so happy to see Blood Bowl back especially seeing a skaven team getting released the same time as the starter set. And this box easily can be used an for Age of Sigmar army
Im always searching through Ebay trying to find a good deal. It usually takes a while but i do find good deals. This time i got some old school Skaven models for around €8 inc delivery which was pretty good. i also got some bits from a trade that i wanted to show off too.
(PS if you sell wargaming stuff on ebay and are one of the guys making money off the postage fuck you asshole)
Honestly that hashtag is true! Damn you college for trying to better me and helping me!
Oh hobby desk i miss thee
Seriously though i have hardly got any hobby done since i started college 3 months ago. Im lucky to get out to the hobby shed on the weekends if i can. There is no way i can start doing hobby over college work but at least i'm enjoying college. I'm studying Visual Communications and Design so it's a mix of digital media, art and art history.
So how has this time away from the hobby affected me?
Ever hear the saying absence makes the heart grow fonder? Im itching to get some hobby done now! For a while i wouldn't say getting fed up with the hobby but but maybe struggling to get motivated. But now i'm counting down the days until my christmas holidays! I think having time away from it is what everyone needs to rejuvenate the hobby juices.
Now that i have a limited time to get some hobby done it makes me make the best of the time i have. The one thing i am now is more organized at projects. A few months ago i'd be stopping and starting projects all the time but now with my limited time i only have about 3 projects on the go. I always keep a notebook in my college bag now for any ideas i come up with. And we have been using mind maps for projects and i want to start doing that for warhammer projects now as well to help flesh out ideas.
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It actually took me going college to start writing down my ideas. anf get organized but it works. When looking at the notebook i had forgotten about Daemon Prince/Verminlord conversion idea. Im hoping after a few months i will have this notebook full of different ideas to pick from.
Now this is all in theory still. Im itching to start working on stuff now but when i get my christmas break i'm probably going to do fuck all for a few days and laze around the house. But for now the plan is to get the college work done until the 16th then blow the dust off my brushes and get cracking.
College work and life stuff has to be the top priority. But i think the college work is helping me with the hobby also. Especially design because it help with thumbnail ideas and the colour theory in art really helps.
Keep an eye on here over christmas fingers crossed i will have post flying out! :-)
"Hey i did a pretty good job on this model...(turns model around)......Aw shit that part looks like crap compared to the rest of it!" - Spunge Murphy, every time he paints a model.
If that hasn't happened to you at least once then you haven't been painting long enough. This happened to me a good few times and mostly i can paint over it straight away. But then you get times when there is to much paint on it already to put more on it so what can you do?
Usually it's a small part like a gun, sword or a head that's need to be redone and there is an easy way to remove the paint without having to striping the whole model.
