Dreadstone Blight

 

Black spray

Army Green spray

Grey Castle

Gargoyle grey

Great Hall grey

Tundra Taupe

Dessert Yellow

Rough Iron

Gun Metal

Temple Gate Teal

Death Metal

Weapon Bronze

Brigandine Brown

Dusty Skull

Skeleton Bone

Warhammer Quest Heroes

Excelaior Warpriest & Gryph Hound

Wraithbone Spray

Space Wolves Grey

Apothecary White

Flesh Tearers Red

Gun Metal

Retributor Armour

Flesh Wash

Garaghak's Sewer

Iyanden Yellow

Cygor Brown

Skeleton Bone

Alien Purple

Hydra Turqoise

Dragon Red

Leather Brown

Strong Tone

Tenebrael Shard

Wraithbone spray

Dreadful Visage

Leviathan Purple

Black Legion

Retributor Armour

Bright Gold

Flesh Wash

Gun Metal

Shining Silver

Alien Purple

Banshee Brown

Wizard Orb

Knight Questor

Retributor Gold Spray

Flesh Tearers Red

Gun Metal

Flesh Wash

Asurmen Blue

Skeleton Bone

Alien Purple

Hydra Turqoise

Viking Blue

Dragon Red

Wraithbone

Shining Silver

Strong Tone

Mistweaver Saih

Wraithbone spray

Dreadful Visage

Taladar Blue

Black Legion

Retributor Armour

Bright Gold

Flesh Wash

Gun Metal

Shining Silver

Aelderi Emerald

Troglodyte Blue

White

BriarQueen Chill

Volupus Pink

Alien Purple

Wizard Orb

Khorne Bloodbound

Mighty Lord of Khorne

Bloodsecrator

Aspiring Deathbringer

Skullgrinder

Exalted Deathbringer with Impaling Spear 

Slaughterpriest with Wrath-Hammer and Hackblade

Slaughterpriest with Bloodbathed Axe

Bloodstoker

Exalted Deathbringer with Ruinous Axe

Khorgorath

Mighty Skullcrushers with Bloodglaive

Wrathmongers and Wrathmaster

Skullreapers and Skullseeker

Blood Warriors and Champion with Goreaxe and Gorefist

Blood Reavers and Chieftain with Reaver Blades

Army Painter Wasteland Tufts

Craft Smart Brick Red

Basilisk Brown

Werewolf Fur

Leather Brown

skeleton bone

barbarian flesh

Hardened Carapace

dragon red

gun metal

strong tone

Glistening Blood

Weapon Bronze

Greedy Gold

Call to Arms: Fyreslayers Update!

Hello 2019! 2018 was a big year for me and the hobby. Today I wanted to showcase my progress on me Fyreslayer army. 

For the first time in my memory I failed to meet my Call to Arms target of painting a full 2,000 point army by the deadline of September. I'm not dissapointed, though, my Fyreslayers are coming along nicely, and at this stage I've painted over 70 of my 100+ model collection!

Here below are some images of some of the units and heroes I've finished...

20 Berzerkers w/axe & shield

10 Auric Hearthguard

Magmadroth

Magmadroth

Auric Runefather

Fjur-Grimnir and the Chosen Axes

Auric Runesons

Battlesmith

Grimwrath Berzerker

Doomseeker

Thank you all for checking out my little corner of the web. I have lots more to share, including my stab at The Walking Dead: All Out War!

See you soon!





Paints Used

Werewolf Fur

Castle Grey

Dark Stone

White

Black

Phoenix Flame

Lava Orange

Mars Red

Dragon Red

Flesh Wash

Red Tone

Gun Metal

Shining Silver

Citadel Retributor Armour

Call to Arms: The Fyreslayers

For June, July and August, the fine folks at my favourite hobby store, Black Knight Games, are hosting a new Call to Arms painting challenge for the Games Workshop miniature game, Age of Sigmar.

I've always loved dwarves, but strangely I've never collected a dwarf army for Warhammer.

The Fyreslayer army caught my eye. and so I immediately ran out and purchased an army of one hundred Fyreslayer dwarves (and two giant flamey lizards!) to paint.

Tray 'o dwarves

I dug around the intertubes and did some research and tried to come up with a colour scheme that felt different. Standard Fyreslayers look very Spartan-like, and while I like those colours, they were too much like my recent Khorne Bloodbound army.

A sample of my Bloudbound army

I wanted a paint scheme that captured the forge-born aspect of the Fyreslayers, and especially their use of glowing-hot magical runes.

Then it hit me...

Fire Giants!

If I painted my little fire dwarves like fire giants, they'd not only have a distinctive look, but they'd be ironic, in a fantasy sort of way.

So here's my first, test model...

He has dark, almost black skin, with blazing hot runes hammered into it, combined with a beard and plume of flame! I think the lava base also adds to his distinctive look, and really sells the 'heat'.

I'm pretty stoked!

*cough*

Only 99 more to go...

Scyla, Druchala, and Stampy the Mammoth

   Deep in the Warnasium, in the dungeons of the Home for Incurable Tyrants, the painting forges have been glowing with the tainted lustre of Chaos.  Ancient relics of an antediluvian age have been dredged up and, with dark rituals of colour, they have been reborn. Their names...  Scyla Anfingrimm and Dechala the Denied One.

Scyla Anfingrimm, Champion of Khorne

Dechala the Denied One, Champion of Slaanesh

   Those ancient gamers among you may recall these models as being part of the range of releases for the Warhammer 5th Edition supplement Champions of Chaos, released by Games Workshop back in 1998.

Champions of Chaos

   Interestingly, Scyla has survived multiple editions of Warhammer since then, and has had no less than two newer versions of himself released over the years. I always liked this first version, though. There's something about the snarling dog-like visage that seems very Khorne-like to me.

   Druchala wasn't as lucky, and never returned as a character in the game.  She did, however, enjoy a brief cameo in the novels of the End Times, so I couldn't resist her snaky charms.

   After finishing these two I packed up my cockatrice, Fort Kickass, and the rest of my Chaos army and headed over to Black Knight Games here in Hamilton for a game against my friend Jay Mason-Grant.  We faced off in a Chaos versus Chaos battle of Age of Sigmar.  Challenging the might of Fort Kickass was Jay's Marauder army, led by the mighty and terrifying Forge World War Mammoth Stampy!

Stampy and company versus Fort Kickass

   To celebrate the festive mood of slaughter, a suitable decoration was found for Fort Kickass... Khorne balloon!

Yup... It's upside-down (Shhhh!)

   The game was, like all my Age of Sigmar games, a fun-filled slaughter-fest.  Stampy wasted no time in charging the fort, trumpeting his warcry and stamping all in his path!

RAAAAAARGHH!!!

   On the left flank Scyla lived up to his fearsome and bloodthirsty reputation, single handedly devouring an entire unit of Marauder Cavalry over the course of several turns.

Scyla knows only rage

   Stampy raged against the fort, even as hordes of Chaos warriors and beasts fought back against him.  The Chaos Gods themselves rejoiced in our madness, causing the weirdest gravity-defying cocked die I have ever seen!

I swear this is how it landed!

   Druchala was joined by warriors, a dragon, the cockatrice and others in finally bringing the dreaded mammoth down, but not before Stampy lived up to his namesake and stamped my cockatrice into mushy paste!

Stampy stamps hard

   With Stampy's defeat the Marauders were routed, but fun and laughs were had by all. Thanks again to Jay for a great game, and thank you for taking the time to read about our adventures!

See you soon!
-Andrew

Big Black Cockatrice

   Ever have one of those times when you buy a model kit, and it sits in your closet for a decade or more waiting for love and attention?

   This is one of those times.

   Waiting patiently in my closet has been this dreaded fellow... a Cockatrice!

Bwaaaarkkk!

   This old fellow is a Marauder Miniatures, specifically number 'MM44 - Cockatrice', released in 1990. The poor guy has been sitting in darkness for twenty-fie years, waiting... waiting...

   Why black, you say? Surely a cockatrice is colourful. Well, yes, normally, but I had a special goal. My family crest features a black cock.

Black Chicken of Death

   'cough'.

   Shush!!

   It's a symbol of our Norman roots, commemorating the lands of northern France where our family came from!

   I wanted to paint this cockatrice in colours that echoed my family's heraldry. Looking for inspiration I GOOGLE'd images of 'black cock', and, after a few false starts, I found a picture of this magnificent fellow.

Now that is a shiny black cock.

   My cockatrice didn't really have feathers, as such, but I thought the effect would be similar. I mixed some Army Painter Deep Blue and Matt Black with a hint of Gun Metal, and lightly drybrushed it over a black basecoat to get this effect. I think it turned out rather well. (As a side note, I think I might try this for some Genestealer/Aliens figures.)

Shiny

   The cockatrice uses its powerful magic gaze to turn its victims to stone. To emphasize this I added a poor en-stoned victim to the model's base. This is a Foundry pirate dead guy I had in a bits box. He seemed to fit the bill.

Looming over his kill

   So there it is! Thanks for checking out my black chicken of death! He'll be joining my Chaos army, along with a few more baddies gracing my painting bench right now.

   ...and thanks as always for checking out my mad corner of the web!
-Andrew

Your Authority is not Recognized in Fort Kickass!

   Ever have one of those times when you buy a model kit, and it sits in your closet for a decade or more waiting for love and attention?

   This isn't one of those times.
 
   Last Saturday I attended the Battle of the Scrolls Warhammer: Age of Sigmar event at Black Knight Games in Hamilton. I finally got to throw down with my friend (and store owner) Jay Mason-Grant, in an Empire vs. Empire scrap. I also had the pleasure of being beaten to a pulp by a couple of friendly chaps; namely Davin (and his Skaven) and Mark (and his Lizardmen).
 
   While at the store I fell under the spell of Games Workshop's newest release, the Chaos Dreadhold. This multi-kit scenery set is the 21st century answer to the old Mighty Fortress, with spikes and skulls! There are ten different configurations of this monster kit, ranging from a single tower to a monstrous fortress running in the $1,400CDN price range! Realizing that my poor Chaos Lord needed a home, I broke down and bought the Overlord Bastion set.
 
   Now, a mere week later, I present Fort Kickass!

Fort Kickass!

 

  

You have no authority here!

   This fort is literally covered with skulls. Skulls on the walls, skulls in the walls, even the floors are paved with skulls! Of course, no self-respecting Chaos Lord would have it any other way.

Skulls!

Skulls in the walls! 

Skulls in the floors!

   Like all good scenery pieces the Overlord Bastion comes with plenty of cool rules, including screaming gargoyle heads that can shatter your opponent's bravery, or rain hot death down upon those foolish enough to get close to the walls.

Spikey!

Fear me!!

   My bastion has already faced one assault. An unholy alliance of Connor's Lizardmen and Scott's Dark Elves swarmed (literally) the ramparts with waves of sneaky Skinks and snakes, not to mention more than a few crazed Elf chicks! In the end my defeat wasn't so much about their strength, as it was about my sorcerer angering the Chaos Gods and being turned into dust on the second turn.

Connor and Scott preparing to challenge my au-tho-ri-tie!

   Fort Kickass stands ready to face the next challenge! If you think you have what it takes, bring your little mans to my Warnasium and lets throw down!

And thanks for visiting the Sinclair Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants!
-Andrew