Quick Be The Charioteer

  I have the next infantry unit built and sprayed ready to go, but I thought it might be nice to get a unit done that I know I will struggle to paint when the motivation is gone - a Tiranoc Chariot.

   The box I bought came with 2 chariot kits, and from what I understand in full games, these work better in pairs as they just don't have the hitting power alone, but this army is only going to be small to start with and I would rather use the second as the other unit type to get the most from this box.

   I stuck with a similar paint scheme to my other units from Tiranoc - the whites and blues with the yellow accent and even put a similar badge on the banner of the chariot as the spearmen have to really tie this garrison together. I went with less fantastical horse colours too - planning on leaving the colours a lot of people like to paint their elvish horses (greys and whites) for the units I feel would be richer - the chariot feels more like a working unit with real working horses.

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High Elf Spearmen

   Quick on the heals of the High Elf archers comes a unit of spearmen. I'm still expecting this to be a fairly slow project, but while momentum and time is on my side, it makes sense to just chug on through and see how far this will carry me. I'm doing a Battle March army for the moment - 600 points with a slightly different set of force org rules - so there isn't a lot to get done - somewhere about 40 models, although, I have three different lists written to allow me to paint what I fancy.

   This unit of spearmen is from a similar province (I think Tiranoc by the colour and motifs) as the mounted noble and the last unit of archers. I kept the same white and blue from all the studio elf armies, and added the yellow accent colour. This should make a core of models that look like they might be the original garrison who have been reenforced by units later on.

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High Elf Archers

   I was very much hoping my High Elf noble from a few weeks back was going to scratch an itch, but when I saw my local hobby shop had a High Elf Battalion on the shelf I stopped thinking logically and found myself sitting in my car with it before any sensible thoughts had happened.

   When planning an Elf army, I knew I needed a box of both Spearmen and Archers, and the Battalion box gave those and a box of Chariots for barely a couple of quid more. For the size army I plan to make*, this single box will give me a full army, barring a hero who can actually join any units.

*at least initially

   When I buy a big box, one thing I always make sure I do, is to get a unit of the basic infantry done asap and I picked the archers as they seemed like the unit I would find the most phaff. I tried spraying them white and working from that, but it doesn't suit my style of painting, so they were quickly resprayed black** and worked back up to white.

   I plan to make each unit unique with the head cannon that this army isn't from a single province and is more of a unit from here and unit from there job. So this unit of archers are from a similar place to my noble (probably Tiranoc), with the normal High Elf white and blue, but also a yellow accent colour.

   I, also, plan to redo the banner, but at this point it isn't bad enough to stop me getting on with the next unit first.

**badly as it turned out, so some of them have a texture on their backs

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Bigger Bugs Pt 23

   Much as the High Elf post suggests otherwise, painting has been very much on the back burner for the last few weeks. I decided last week to try and get painting again, so I picked a model I thought might be fun to do, then eventually made it to a shop to pick one up.

   The model I picked was a Tyranid Biovore. I just really enjoyed painting my Tyranids and one more mid sized beastie felt like a good idea. It's painted in the classic theme that I have used for the whole swarm, with the red gun on top and I seriously enjoyed myself to the point I am tempted to pick something else up.

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High Elves?

   A few months back one of my mates was saying he really wanted to get into Warhammer The Old World and I talked him out of it on the grounds of cost and actual ability to get games in, but it got the thoughts going around in my head.

   Over the next few weeks, I toyed with ideas for a High Elf army and even bought the Battle Marches rulebook (which gives rules for really small games), but I just couldn't settle on what to buy, or if buying anything at all was even a good idea.

   The middle ground I came to, was to buy a figure that I know I had at least two of as a kid and that felt really nostalgic. I'm not going to say how much he cost as it still makes me sad, but I was so pleased to get him. This is an old High Elf Noble on horse.

   When I was a kid, the noble was always painted in gold armour to stand out and his bird crest was always red, this time around, I thought I would try something a bit different.

   He looks good in my little cabinet, but I think he is missing something. I also think that this might have scratched the itch for the moment?

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Chaos Lord Umbri Zul

   I am 3 and a bit weeks into my marathon training block and I am finding free time has become a luxury that I am struggling to locate much of. Between the pressures of work, having kids and now pushing myself to run ridiculous distances weekly*, something had to give and the decision I have made was to drop wargaming for a bit.

   If I am being honest, a lot of my recent games had already felt a bit like a chore, and my continuous painting targets haven't helped on that front. So, I have stopped booking games for a bit to let everything die down, while I am also restricting my painting to only what I fancy, when I fancy. 

*I am one week away from weekly half marathons for fun . . .

   When the new Red Corsair range came out it included a Reaver Lord, a model I have picked up in the shops so many times it got ridiculous. With my what I want, when I want philosophy in place, I actually bought one and got started.

   During the late stages of the Heresy, I had fluff that the illustrious but often neglected, 523^rd Expeditionary fleet of the Sons of Horus, had failed their primarch one too many times and been severely punished. They already had the title of The Sacrificed Sons but their whole leadership cadre had been beheaded with their skulls covered in gold and displayed on the Vengeful Spirit as a warning to others.

   With a void to be filled, a sergeant rose to lead the, what was at this point, warband and has done until the present era of 40k, leading them away from the Sons of Horus legion and refusing to join the Black Legion. This man became Chaos Lord Umbri Zul.

   I have a model of this character that has been my chaos lord for the past few years, but I was never really that happy with him. This version uses the Reaver Lord as it's base with a few minor amendments.

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Test Slaaneshi

    After 11th edition warhammer 40k was announced my gaming group really picked up on excitement with various new projects being planned and figures being bought. I ended up with half a plan of an Emperor's Children Chaos army - starting with a White Dwarf Combat Patrol.

   I duly bought the marine elements of it as a test project to see if I even wanted to go further with this plan, and found I really enjoyed painting them*. Then I toyed for a few weeks about whether I should finish buying the last couple of units before becoming a bit illusioned with having to buy into a new edition.

*in far smaller batches than is normal for me

   I have since written a list that I do really want to get onto the table, but it is currently sitting in a pile of to buy stuff as I am trying not to spend any money for a while to focus on other things.

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