10mm Fantasy

WoE Dwarves:

Dwarf Lord – 87pts

Rune Smith +2nd Spell – (81+10) 91pts

2x Warriors (std 5 lads) – 100pts x2

Handgunners + medium armour (110+10) 120 pts

498 pts

(caveat – since I have been trying to type this since I posted the undeads I have resulted in typing this on lunch without the rule book to hand my maths might be out!)

Saga Dwarves (Lords of the Underearth)

Warlord – Free (From above)

Hero – 0.5pts (Need 1 additional model from above)

Wizzard – 1pt (From abrove)

Cannon – 0.5pts ((add 1 cannon and crew)

x2 Warriors with Hand weapons 16 figs (10 from above, add 6) 2pts

Warriors with handguns 8 figs (5 from above plus 3) 1 pt

x2 Hearthguard 8 figs (need) 2pts

Titan (somewhere I possess a 10mm Earth Elemental… somewhere) 1pt

Total 8 pts

So these are my logics for the dwarves. To cater for Oathmark at the time being I will round these amounts up to multiples of 5 so that should be 3 rule sets 1 group of models 🙂

So I had my plan, I have the models… what could I get distracted with now…

Okyk, at Gerry’s request here are my logics.

What I’ll do is list my WoE base lists first, and where I have them, add Saga to the list after that.

I have been adding to updates over the past couple of days posts due to pics being on different devices so will prob update them so there is some coherence, whilst also checking my maths as some of these lists were raised a year ago!

So firstly the undead: WoE

Necromancer, level 2 second spell (81+25+10) 116

Archers, 5 additional skellies, crossbows (67+55+10) 132 (nb when I ordered the models, I got 5 with bows and 5 with crossbows, so not wysiwyg but that’s life)

Skeleton Riders (72) 72 (likewise half the lads are with swords, half are with spears/lances in actuality so I have options)

2x Warrior (57) 57 each (sword/club armed)

1x Warrior, 1 additional skellie (57+9) 66 (with spears)

500 pts

Undead: Saga

Warlord on flappy beast (no more info for now but I have the bits I need) 0 pts

Or

Necromancer from above 0 pts

Dark Knight 1/2 pt

Either a sorcerer or Scourge (flappy) depending on Warlord choice 1 pt either way

Mindless 1 pt (I need to recount to see if I have the whole 20. Currently based, not undercoated)

Hearthguard x 3 (12 models) (will be represented by “Spirits, based, not undercoated) 3 pts

mounted Hearthguard (6 models) 1.5 pts (from above)

2 warriors (16 models) 2pts (from above)

9 pts total

So paint plan wise I am fairly happy as all the boney elements are sans the theoretical workbench so all is good.

I’m not especially happy with spirit stand ins for Hearthguard, but seeing as to my knowledge know-one makes armoured undead in 10mm they’ll be fine!

So, with my paints at work, what to do with the time at home I would normally think about painting… dishes, ironing, spending time with the wife and kids….?

Nah, let’s plan more armies!

Yes armies… not army. My first thought was my Dwarves. I had the models set aside from some play testing I did so that seemed like an obvious and simple choice… BORING!

Well, not quite, but throughout this projects life I am aware there is another warband scale game that’s quite popular, I believe Lloyd and Gerry have taken the odd look at it as well… Saga!

So the logic is let’s “complete” an army for all systems as best we can from the start, so I took my 500pts if WoE, and worked out from what I own, (and can hopefully find) what else I would need to bring it up to 7-8 pts of saga goodness.

But why stop there… I recently acquired Oathmark… here, rather than point it up, I have decided to just round up all “types” to a multiple of 5 and ta da (I’m going to do a bigger post on Oathmark later onto discuss that and canvas opinions).

I should also observe that Dragon Rampart also came into this view, but as far as I can tell, there is nothing stopping every “unit” being a single model as long as you can mark its health in some way so I currently have no dedicated DR list.

I’ll end this here as dog needs walking and there is clapping to be done! If peeps are interested in the list/meta side of it, let me know and I can stick them up for you all to work out how to defeat me!

So I have my skellies, I had a plan… and I even managed to fit in an hour or so to put some paint on.

Firstly I experimented with wash…

So it was between light and flesh washes (2 and 3) and thanks to a couple of peeps on Discord flesh wash was settled on. I also found a bottle of neon green…

I liked the effect on the eyes and the necromancer’s staff. Not so much the “mouldy”one!

i also painted some of the cav’s barding in red contrast but then I remembered i’d used a burgundy on the banner an some of the shields so it clashed and wasted the rest of my time!

My next mistake was thinking I would get more done if I took my paints to work as I am still going in daily to do stuff on my lunch break… and the output… 12 minis!

I am fairly happy with how they are turning out. i am now classing these lads as “done” apart from the bases as i want the whole army to have the same “finish”

Just cav and infantry to come…

Blimey, has it really been a year since my last update? So where am I…

My gobbos are half way there… but why would I finish them… or even start on the Dwarves which were my main interest for a force that I had miniatures of… those are both sensible and practical steps for this project…

I bought some undead instead and got them about half-ish done instead!

So, i’m hoping given the nice nakedness of these skellies that it should be a relatively easy win to ease me into this again. Should give me a nice 500 Pts of walking bones. I also have some zombies and ghosts/wraiths depending on paint scheme but that for phase 2!

Now that year end and other work crap is settling down I figured I would see where I got to with this. Here are the pics of where I got to so far.

I did start trying to paint all the flesh, and then all the cloaks etc, but as I find sitting down to paint a chore I changed my mind and started to focus in.

To that end am focusing on getting the wiz finished, and need advice… what would be a good contrasting colour for the gem at the top of staff be, and should I attempt light sourcing as well (would be my first time)?

Answers on a post card and my thanks in advance.

Almost forgot, I also found a 10mm tower I got 3D printed from some chap on eBay (I forget his name, apologies). I decided to take a look at that as a side project to the main.

Luckily when building my paint station there were all the waste circles of mdf which would make great bases for things…

I have used one of the 2 bigger ones and so far super glued the two together and smothered the base in watered down pva. Now it’s just drying time!

So, I have started with Trolls, because, why not!

Up to last Friday i had just block coloured the beasts and smeared strong tone wash, followed by a wash consistency army green – maybe slightly to water-ery but heyho!

Today I drybrushed the loin-cloths a lighter colour to try and lift the models a bit as they were darker than hoped.

All thats required now are picking out some detail on the clubs, maybe teeth, and maybe even… the eyes. Then on to the Gobbos!

The picks are from Friday (the top two), and two from today (the others)

So… I left off having started basing the figs and having played my first game of WoE. Unfortunately work and a run of other commitments stalled the momentum slightly, and meant that when work did progress it has been done away from picture taking devices so i’ll ramble a bit in case it’s of interest!

Dremeling – I actually dug out my Dremel bought for just such a purpose and brought it to bare on the trolls to remove the basing issue. I only used what came in the original kit (the orange disk one) and I found it did nothing for ages until it took too much off. I think I troll survived intact but no base and the others both lost the best part of a foot (same pose, same foot). I  may be inept, I might have used the wrong tool, or it may be the material as it got hot (and boy did it get hot!) but heyho what’s done is done so how to fix it…

Filling the hole/fixing the errors – So what to do next as even the troll with both feet didn’t have a base to cover the hole in the washer. I had a rubbish idea… one of the side effects of not having my own permanent hobby space is the random shite left in the vicinity and today it helped. A shop tag of thin card had been carelessly left on my desk (probably by me as I am a slob) and so I cut a square big enough to cover the hole and job done. For the footless chaps I cut a smaller bit of card to from a step so they were now the “correct” level that the damage is covered. It also helped the cav as although the bases are thin enough, they are not “level” so are all on a similar tilt. By using thin strips of card I have propped them up like a wobbly table and more or less corrected the issue without having to resort to the Dremel again for now.

All this will be covered by that basing paint stuff in due course.

So the upshot of this waffle is that tonight I undercoated 500 points of gobbos using a cheap airbrush so I can consider painting them. This is significant to me as this is where most of my projects stall so hopefully using this tool will enable me to actually complete an army…

Below are the undercoated minis. You can see the card still to get an idea of what I mean. Also included is a picture of my faithless warhound who kept me company and looked very disappointed not to be “helping”.

TTFN