Evilstu vs. Pile of Shame

Pics of stuff follow. Have also been working on Covenanters, dabbling in Landsknechts, 1745 rebellion Jacobites, Persians, plus some WW2. Why would we stick to a genre/period/region/setting? I’m struggling just to stick to a consistent scale as it is….

My next 500 points of DElves for the 6th ed Oldhammer challenge. Yet more Core (tried to be responsible and do the boring bits first), so a second block of spearelves, second block of Corsairs and added a second Reaper bolt thrower for good measure. Also added in a champion for my dark riders courtesy of a luck EBay find. I have now hit the magic 2,000 point threshold. Next month will be a couple more bolt throwers and a pair of chariots so I’ll have options.

Also finished off a block of 20 Skaven I’d kicked off earlier, did up a second and added some weapon teams and characters, so I’ll have another ‘slow burn’ project I can switch to when I feel like flicking Contrast paints at something.

A more sedate level of addition for my ACW this time around – 2 groups of Union sharpshooters and 2 units of Confederate dismounted cavalry for Sharp Practice. All Perry Miniatures metal with the exception of the one with the rail-post fence which is a Warlord metal to bring me up to a full unit.

Challenge for October and November on the Wargamers Anonymous server was to do a ‘brigade’. So I opted for a Norse and Chaos Undivided army, originally both planned for Warhammer Armies Project, combined and rolled out as a Storm of Chaos 6th ed army. Just need to paint the big guy, add some hellcannons then go stomp on Middenheim….

A magic banner short of 5,000 points, can’t remember how many minis, somewhere around 320ish?…

Belated update.

For Month #2 added 8 Cold One Riders with full command, a Cold One Chariot and a dark Elf Sorceress.

Month 3 was a second block of 10 Repeater Crossbows, 16 Corsairs with Command, a Reaper Bolt thrower and a BSB from Raging Heroes. Videos & shots of the army as presently stands follow.

I jumped in (read: Invited myself/gatecrashed) an Oldhammer 6th edition 500 points a month ‘slow grow’ army challenge kicked off by Phil at Wargamers Anonymous and Russ at GFN Gaming (respective Youtube channels). Anyone who is old enough to remember the White Dwarf ‘A Tale of Four Gamers’ article series already knows the drill. Idea is a ‘slow grow’ army build league but rather than doing GBP/Euro/Dollars per month worth of toys the threshold has been set at 500 points of 6th ed a month. Given the price of Oldhammer minis on Ebay for the last year or so, this was done for the greater good.

I plinked for Dark Elves as a) nobody else was doing them; b) I didn’t have an army painted up for them yet and c) I have a cunning plan about merging them with my Slaanesh Daemonettes for the Cult of Slaanesh list for the Storm of Chaos campaign. And d) seething rage filled goths I guess…

So month 1 was a Noble in (very) light armour, 15 Spearelves with command (I painted up 20 because I wanted to build ‘complete’ units that were also 7th, 8th ed and WAP friendly…) 10 repeater crossbow elves, 5 Dark Riders with a musician (which took an hour to build/kitbash from numerous components but there you go…) and 5 shades with light armour (Oathmark light elf heads and torsos with dark elf weapon arms). So with that lot painted I had a whole point to spare. Would have invested it in Dogecoin but feel that might have been June’s meme so have probably missed the boat… Anyhow… Being a dirty cheating Dark Elf player, next month is only 10 minis for my 500 points (8 cold one riders, a sorceress and a chariot) so going to lean into the Nordvember monthly theme and see if I can work on Archanon’s Horde of vanilla flavored chaos for even more 6th ed Storm of Chaos goodness. Because reasons?…

Confederates this time. All Perry minis. 3 mounted commanders, 2 blocks of cavalry, a 2 gun battery with crew and another 2 units of infantry. So all up now I have about three times what I need for a game of Sharp Practice, with more on the way. I don’t know how this happened or how to make this project stop – please send help… Or coffee, sending coffee so I can paint more ACW minis would be good too… 😉

Quick fire project for the last couple of weeks to get the core of a Dark Age Saxon army ready to tabletop. Still need more regular Ceorl and Thegn infantry before it’s tabletop ready, but a start has been made at least.

Minis all Gripping Beast and Warlord. Banners are Little Big Men Studios.

First project using more scenic multibases, and yeah, I’m now sold on the idea of doing this where possible.

Vid for those interested: