Narrative: Giants of Menhir

Today will be a quick post covering a nice little picture I was able to snap after a game with my brothers. The set-up was a 3-way battle for the tower, with Stormcast/Giants of Menhir vs Anvilgard/Amber Fiefdoms vs Slaves to Darkness/Skal Flats. 

Gaming Table: Skirmish and Seraphon

Although Covid-19 isn't completely through, my gaming group has decided that we are comfortable playing some games at home (not at any game stores). With the new General's Handbook releasing recently, we decided to give the Anvil of Apotheosis a try, with each of us designing a hero to use in the old Skirmish rules that GW released a ways back. 

Paint Recipe: How to Paint Nagash, the Undying King

Today's post is a rather special model that has been sitting half finished for over a year in the corner of my hobby desk. I had started converting and painting Nagash at a time in my hobby where I wasn't as confident in my skills, leading me to eventually to take a break from working on him. And so he sat, headless, armless, bookless, and with unpainted ghosts. Eventually, I said enough, and here we are, a complete Nagash:

Paint Recipe: How to Paint the Chaos Lord on Karkadrak

After what feels like an eternity, I have completed the Chaos Lord on Karkadrak. This model comes packaged in the new Slaves to Darkness Start Collecting box which contains all new, easy-to-build kits. I really like the look of this particular model, but boy does it have a lot of details and textures that required a lot of colors.

Hobby Table: Umbral Spellportals and Balewind Vortex

Since my current project of a Chaos Lord on Karkadrak is taking forever, I wanted to knock out some really easy pallet cleansers, and Endless Spells are really great for this due to how simple the models usually are. In this post I will cover my Umbral Spellportals and Balewind Vortex. 

Paint Recipe: How to Paint Seraphon Ripperdactyls

My ripper dactyls have been sitting half finished for an inordinate amount of time, so I pulled them up from the depths of that hobby backlog and voila they are finished! The kit is a multi-build, giving you the option to create either Ripperdactyls or Terradons. I have multiple of the kit, so I made both variations. The Rippers are a much more vicious looking animal, but they are paired with the adorable bloat toad, which also gets some coverage in today's post. 

Hobby Table: A Packmaster to go with those Rat Ogres

Since I very much enjoyed how those rat ogres came out in the previous post, I decided to follow it up with another model from Spire of Dawn: the Skaven Packmaster. I basically matched the paint scheme from the Rat Ogres to make them look like a unified group. 

Hobby Table: Skaven Rat Ogres

This time around I have a pair of Skaven rat ogres fresh off of the hobby table. These particular sculpts are from the Spire of Dawn set that came out at the beginning of Age of Sigmar as a re-release of the Warhammer Fantasy Battles 8th edition starter set. Unfortunately, the set is no longer for sale as the other half of the box was High Elves, which no longer exist in the Age of Sigmar game. Games Workshop still sells some rat ogres, but the models are old and frankly look bad. 

Hobby Table: Battle Pilgrims of Arioch

Although I love Age of Sigmar dearly, there is one faction from Warhammer Fantasy that I miss dearly -- Bretonnia! There is just the wondrous sight of a wedge of knights with their bright heraldic colors charging headlong into an infantry formation to devastate it. Technically, there are war scrolls for Bretonnian units, so I use those for rules purposes. They are a bit outdated in the current competitive meta, but as a narrative player that doesn't worry me too much. 

The other issue is that all of the models are no longer in production. Now, I was able to get some second hand models, but as time goes on this option gets more and more cost prohibitive. But remember, Bretonnia is just a fantasy medieval faction. I bought a Fireforge starter set called Deus Vult, which came with knights, archers/crossbowmen, men-at-arms and foot sergeants. 

Hobby Table: Seraphon Astrolith Bearer

This weekend's output saw the completion of a Seraphon Astrolith Bearer, a useful unit in the army that comes as a Finecast kit from Games Workshop. I like the look of the official sculpt, but I didn't feel like forking over the cash for the one model. I had some spare metal Temple Guard Command models from way back when, and I also recently purchased the excellent Lizardmen Blood Bowl kit for the new Saurus warrior sculpts. The kit also comes with turn markers that would work perfectly for what I had in mind.