Furry Vermin Lord

So I added some fur:





Here he is again with some paint on:

http://crossermodelling.blogspot.com/2011/01/ols-converted-vermin-lord.html

Vermin Lord Daemon Prince

Page 40 of the Skaven army book has the Vermin Lord Bestiary entry, the picture is ominous and impressive. The metal model however is well... not. Not even a little. Plus i wanted an excuse to buy a new Daemon Prince model, they look sweet and have a few really nice bits on the sprue. Whack out a little green stuff and use all the horns I could find on the sprues:





Please do check out my futher posts on this guy:

http://crossermodelling.blogspot.com/2011/01/furry-vermin-lord.html

http://crossermodelling.blogspot.com/2011/01/ols-converted-vermin-lord.html

More Clanrats

Heres unit of 30 number two. I realize a rust effect should stem from the bottom and end in the sliver highlight 'chipping'. however i didnt think it looked as good, i figured skaven might not get to hit enough to chip their weapons rust off :P







I went a bit heavy with the thraka green on a couple of these chaps so i'll have to watch that in the future. I hope you like them, I had alot of fun painting them up, which surpised me as when approaching 50+ guys i tend to get a bit bored of the repetition. The new models GW has been pumping out over the last couple of years have been gobsmackingly good! Next week, empire spearmen.

Skaven now?

I like many others went out and bought island of blood, in fact, i bought two. This was perhaps silly as i collected neither army. Low and behold, now im collecting Skaven too, because having yet another army to paint up is a good idea right? Right!

So i was very fortunate to be offereed some more models by a friend hed had someone paint up to a basic standard (sorry i don't know the name or i'd give them a mention). Oh yeah and I've managed to paint them red again...
So I've been busy turning these from this:




To this:




I'm part way through my second regiment of 30 rats. I have to say painting models up from a mainly base coated stage is surprisingly enjoyable and very easy. Similarly with my empire models where I'm simply updating alot of my rank and file models and adding intereting characters to keep it fun. I'd definately recommend that plan alot of us had to crack out an older army and give it an update!

Empire Handgunners

I've always been a fan of small shooting units that can knock off some rank bonuses or deal with pesky small units/ characters who decide to go it alone. As an empire detachment they go a little bit further. So heres an update on some previous chaps. Theyre not my prettest paintjob but otherwise I'll never have an empire army i can field in a million years. they've also got some shine from using old brown ink so i'll have to matt varnish them sometime.



I've always liked the idea of the empire as a place where you would find various races and so to spice up my army units will have an odd dwarf,elf or bretonian around. In general I'll probably keep these to army colours but it should hopefully help me from being bored of painting just thin beardy chaps in puffy clothes and platemail. Being a bit stumpy I popped him on a bucket, that way he can see over any walls they try to defend.

Second Empire Duelist

Heres my second empire duelist, who ill use as a leader to my handgunners (i don't tend to waste the points on a marksman, but i like having interesting models around!)

Empire Duelist

Here at long last is some modeling content! With the release of the new warhammer I like many other people out there have been cleaning the dust of some old models, buying a few more and trying to bring my tactics up to speed with 60+ strong units marching around and my old favorite 7-8 man cavalry units being a bit on the weak side. Heres the first of a few pics of my purple and yellow empire chaps (thats right, theyre not red, not even a little!).