Warhammer Quest

Been sorting some stuff out, and found my old figure case, that has all my Warhammer Quest metal minis in it, plus the heroes.

Oh how I love Warhammer Quest, but not the point of this post. Want to paint them, but on the other hand I also don't. Not like I can easily replace and cock ups.

I also think the monsters n the box need replacing, most of them look dated, and not in a good way.

Progress

Added decals to my Valkyrie. Not bothered for so long, but damn just adding numbers to it makes it look so much better. So gonna dig up a ton of these sheets I have lieing around and tagging stuff some time.
Starting with my Chimeras. Been finishing painting them up (inc the blasted tracks!!) so they just need the transfers which will hopefully make them look less...plain.

Also went back to my guardsman and added the little water bottle/pouch/knife thing to them. They may be guardsmen, but I would assume they go out with supplies on the off chance they live a day. These guys would also need transfers, but the only ones around are the Cadian ones. And not wanting to put the cadian gate symbol on my guys. The water slide transfers can be printed, but not in white since my research states that no domestic printer can print white. Dunno what colour would go best in the absence of white. Printer died a death so can't really test how pale a grey is possible.

Painted some Gutter Runners. War machine hunters extradornaire. On turn 2, and on a 4+, they can turn up on any board edge (ie right behind your war machine) and launch poisoned rocks from their slings. And then if it's empire or dwarfs they get blasted by the gazillion other machines sitting there, but still.




I seem to have a lied in a prev post. My plague monks aren't painted. Got 11 so far, I honestly thought I had done these. In my defence they are hidden at the bottom of the case. So this week been continuing them. Can't get motivitated on them though. Odd really since I love plague monks a great deal. Almost an auto include in any skaven army I would ever make. Could have something to do with the plague furnace as well.

Thought for the year

I've been painting stuff - should probably get a game in sometime.

Tank tracks

Painting tank tracks sucks. It's not fun at all. I quickly lose patience with it, and pretty soon I've made a mediocre job of it just to get the blasted things out the way.

FU tank tracks!

Short term goal

Desperately need a box of stormvermin and 3 warpfire throwers. With which I can make a legal 2500pt skaven list. Although I do need a battle standard bearer also, problem with that is that no standard bearers exist for skaven outside the standard troops. Best bet would be to convert a stormvermin I guess, but then I need two boxes of them - well out of my budget. Old clanrat is filling the vacancy at the moment.

Wonder if someone wants to trade a kidney for them.

The plan currenty sits at, alone with a small note on modelling progress
Thanquol and Boneripper - painted
Warlord with gt wpn and warpstone armor - undercoated

Plague Priest on furnace - painted
lvl 2 Warlock Engineer with Doom Rocket - Doesn't have an actual rocket, but painted
Battle Standard Bearer with Storm banner - proxy model painted

2 Units of 25 Clanrats with full command and warpfire thrower - 40% painted, 98% actually exists
40 slaves with musician - 50% painted
39 slaves with musician - not even undercoated
20 Stormvermin, full command, warpfire thrower and banner of eternal flame - don't have

27 Plague Monks, full command, Plague Banner - painted

Doomwheel - painted
Warplightning cannon - just slave crew to paint

Hard to choose between Thanquol and a normal Grey Seer on bell. Thanquol and Bone ripper are painted though, so he wins. And I really like Thanquol.

Rolling Doom

Inspired by a text message received two days ago, I painted this over the past couple of nights -



Funny what contact from people will do. Though this doesn't help with what the message was about. I need about 200 points of core troops from somewhere. Thats pretty much yet another regiment of clanrats, with weapon team.

I'll hope for sunlight tomorrow and take better pictures. It was basically followed from the guide on gw's site. Although my bronze is nowhere near as dark which is fine. And I didn't quite use as many stages as they did on a great many things, The guy inside for one, you can barely see him.

Also photos plainly showing mould lines on periscopes ftl. In my defence, i assembled and painted it in pieces, and the periscope is single piece part that just got forgotten. I even forgot to spray it when undercoating it all. The kit also has big problems where the outside frame on the wheels meet the internal frame, the joins are plainly visible. Even on stock photos, though they never show the back and now you know why. My wheels stick out a little too much (maybe 2mm) which exasperates the problem. But oh well, I may fill the gaps or leave it. The top part isn't too bad, and the second join is right behind the wheels and looks really obvious, but it's right at the back so, myeh. Not glued in yet anyway. Not going to glue the sides on so it can lay flat for storage.

I've painted something

And taken badly lit pictures of it

Behold a crashed Aqulla Lander from Battle from Maccragge.