Decided to try and motivate myself into painting some of the piles and piles of miniatures by starting a small plog. I hate the word 'plog', so instead thought I'd just title it up as random ramblings, which I'm sure it will deteriorate into eventually.
I'm working towards the aim of having all 24 races painted up, with Turn/Reroll/Score Markers usable for every race, and race specific apothecary's, (Where available, or Igor's when not) and Wizards. Then I want to start on the star players!
As of the start of this thread, I have 21/24 teams done. I'm very much a butterfly when it comes to painting, I prefer to start and finish short projects and single minis so this approach should suit me down to the ground.
Being a big supporter of alternative miniature companies and enjoying the converting side of gaming means I'll try and come up with a variety of models for use on my teams and sideline models. This thread really is just to keep myself on track and maybe give some inspiration to people who are looking for ideas themselves.
So, pictures!
This is the stuff I ordered recently and started assembling today. The first photo are three of Heresy Miniatures Succubi. My Chaos Pact team is made up of Rogue Trader Games Workshop Daemons from the 90’s. I wanted something in the Daemon theme to use as the three markers, and these lovely ladies fit the bill nicely along with them being quite cheap in the sale Heresy had over the New Year. Got some resin slate bases for these to go on once they are painted to match the rest of the team.
The second picture has a bunch of stuff I ordered for various teams, going from left to right, top to bottom we have…
- Crocodile Games Priestess of Isis (She will be my Khemri teams wizard)
- Dark Bretheren Tunnel Priest (Not 100% sure as he’s fairly generic, but will be an ‘evil’ teams wizard)
- Heresy’s Vampire Lord Von Blutgericht (Count Luthor for a future Undead team I’m planning)
- Heresy’s Ghoul King (The apothecary for my Strigoi/Ghoul vampire team)
- Heresy Dark Lord (Another I’m not sure, just a generic ‘bad guy’ wizard?)
- Dr Frankenmuller (Igor for the new Undead team)
So I spent the afternoon assembling and making small amendments to the models, and managed to undercoat the Succubi with a red spray paint. Going for a classic red demon look for these beauties! The spray hasn't gone on as evenly as I wanted, I blame the frosty weather of North East England! Hopefully won't affect the end product too much, we'll see...
The rest got built but not undercoated yet, some green stuff curing so these can wait for another day. You’ll note the Priestess lost her mace (I prefer my Bloodbowl models to be without weapons in their hands if it’s an easy conversion), couple of snips, plastic Empire hand replacement and some green stuff to repair her robes and she’s done.
Sure you’re not too impressed with all this bare metal, so here’s a couple of minis I finished off today. The light’s been poor so excuse the less than perfect photos, but somethings better than nothing! Standard stock Goblin from the Ogre box set as Grotty, and a Frog Man Doctor that I’m using as Apothecary for my Greebo Slann team.
Next up will be some conversion on these old metal Warhammer Ghouls, also for the future Undead team I’m planning on getting around to sometime in the next few years! Weapon removals, shoulder/knee pads, etc…
Plenty of pictures of my existing teams if you’d like to see anything I’ve talked about, just ask! Got some more figures to work on assembling tonight when the light goes. There’s an apothecary for my Cult of Slaanesh themed Dark Elf team, a couple of Steampunk Ghouls for my WWII German Necromantic team, and some Privateer Press skeletons for the same future Undead team everything else is for!
Off to try adding some paint to the Succubi now, cheers!
