New Fantasy starter box set

So having seen the pics floating about on forums everywhere, desperatly need this box. And then ebay for one or two duplicates, maybe weapon teams and the chieftan.

Chieftan looks great, though banner pole looks a tad too big. Rat Ogres are amazing. Nice to see a mortar model. The WFT looks really small to me. Engineer is a little meh. Clanrats look exactly the same as current ones, but with shields as part of the body so prob a little loss of detail there.

Elves look damn good. Still want an HE or DE army, but for some reason all the current GW elf models do nothing for me style wise.

As an aside gw have updated all the FAQ's, and the line saying how Strength in Numbers is used with Steadfast has been deleted. Their are arguments all over the place for and against it now, and I'm so not eager to play an army when a major part of that army has a huge question mark over it. If they felt it was too powerful, they should of just changed it to a flat no, rather than deleting it altogether. Gw really are idiots.

screw this weather

Can't do any painting. Can water down paint until it's almost water, and it still dries before the brush gets to the model even. Tried to some ink washing, and the ink wouldn't spread. Somewhat need to some drastic fixing on my psyker squad. The whole "wash with brown on their robes thing" has gone drastically wrong.

Bring back the snow!!

Thanquol

Not entirely finished, and unbased but here be my treacherous little skaven grey seer,



He is in desperate need of varnish. I wash all my metal/resin minis to help the undercoat stay on, but it's made no difference to this one. Just flakes off whenever it's touched.

it's called progress

Several weeks of on/off painting has resulted in...

One plague monk. Just a test really to see if dirty white worked, and it does. Not got any more spray to undercoat his 29 mates though


One plague priest.


One infantry squad. Puts me up to 4 whole platoon squads, omg.


One Astropath. Easiest model to paint ever. Seriously.


One skaven clanrat unit. Looks ok I guess. They are supposed to have shields, which I also painted, but no glue - so no shields for them. I'm hoping that when they get the shields it improves them in some way. They look odd to me. Too much space between them.


Anyway, now out of undercoat spray, glue and worst of all bestial brown (does fur and is used for basing") and boltgun metal. Guess thats the end of this particular pastime.

Rassnik, Warlock Engineer

Very happy with him, a very productive Saturday evening.

And now some fluff.

"Like all Skaven, Rassnik considers himself the most powerful being in existence, and it is his divine right to lead clan Skyre and all Skaven to victory over the surface dwellers. If, of course, it wasn't for Skritlik. Skritlik has been a constant thorn in the Rassniks side. Born in the same litter Skritlik has managed to just about beat Rassnik in everything. His devices are always just that little bit more special, alittle bit more deadly. Rassnik constantly dreams of the day he can best Skritlik and claim his destiny.
Rassnik and Skritlik have both been sent by Skyre at the behest of the Grey Seer Morquol to lend support to Clan Maqueek. The Skyre weaponry has been a great asset to the warlord."

so another loss

Yup.

The ap of system of 40k is bullshit and needs to be scrapped. Survivability is one thing, outright nigh-invulnerabilty is another.
People complained about 2nd editon being hero-hammer, but is nothing compared to what 40k is nowdays.
Becoming ever more disillisoned with it all.

Jezzails!!

Finished them!! The sum of the past three days.

Shields look damn awesome. shame about the rest of them >_> Still, only part the enemy should see :D


Cloth also is extremely good looking, dunno what the pic has done the face of the one the left. It's really doesn't look that bad >_<


It's progress!