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Post by padre on Jan 23, 2021 12:30:15 GMT
Cool. I had a brain wave(!) While I wait for glue to dry before undercoating, I will continue this thread with various Skaven projects from the past. Skaven Warlord on Palanquin I wanted a skaven warlord to look impressive, so decided to mount on him something mean looking. I harnessed up a rat ogre ... Got together some bits for a platform and a warpstone weapon of some kind ... Painted up a personal guard of 30 skaven (in yellow, which is only worn by the bravest of skaven because it means the enemy can pick them out) ... Built and painted the palanquin ogre ... And the Warlord (named Scabscar at the time) ... And he was ready... Here he is, now called Warlord Gurthrak of Clan Skravell, in a recent campaign battle ...
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Post by mottdon on Jan 23, 2021 12:44:31 GMT
Very cool! I was wondering about making something like this. Nice to see your version! Does he only have one hand? Can't quite tell from the pic angles. Wondering if there was a story to that. It'd be hard to be a one-handed Skaven!
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Post by padre on Jan 23, 2021 12:51:37 GMT
He has two. The right one pointing, the left holding a halberd like weapon. You can see 'em both in the second pic. (edit) He needs a long staffed weapon as he has to reach the enemy down below!!!!
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Post by strutsagget on Jan 23, 2021 13:11:40 GMT
Sweet! Great build and I like the painting style with clear black lines.
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Post by mottdon on Jan 23, 2021 17:47:24 GMT
He has two. The right one pointing, the left holding a halberd like weapon. You can see 'em both in the second pic. (edit) He needs a long staffed weapon as he has to reach the enemy down below!!!! Oh, okay. I see it now. The perspective was throwing me off.
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Post by padre on Jan 24, 2021 13:03:08 GMT
Further experiments with Rat Ogres
Not that long ago I got my hands on an actual, metal, Rat Ogre. Here he is ... Before that, for many a year, my three rat ogres were ... odd. Mainly because they were made from Airfix 1:32nd scale WW2 US Paratroopers with tape and bits stuck on, and clumsily modeled feet! Then recently when a new player joined my campaign to run the skaven I decided I should have two units of three Rat Ogres, and so I found the Rat Ogres on war-machine sprues that I had used for projects that didn't need the rat ogres, and came up with this pair. One of them is holding a chain to restrain the other! (Different temperaments I guess.) Joined with the metal it made for a less weird looking unit ...
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Post by mottdon on Jan 24, 2021 14:27:00 GMT
Lol, I love the one holding the other back! Great re-use of the Screaming Bell Ogre!
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Post by padre on Jan 25, 2021 9:58:33 GMT
Some dual purpose pieces - both unit fillers and scenery for story photo-scenes. Cooking up some Skaven haggis ... Collecting a halberd ready for guard duty ... And a kind of temporary shrine thing ...
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Post by mottdon on Jan 25, 2021 13:16:20 GMT
Unit fillers are almost a must with Skaven! Great work!
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Post by padre on Jan 26, 2021 9:22:22 GMT
You are right, mottdon. But legions of spear-toting dudes in thick R+F looks cool too! JezzailsHere are two official models ... Expensive - well, to me, back then, very much so. So I scratchbuilt my own versions. Here are three ... One good thing about scratchbuilding is you get to play about with poses ... Here are two more yet to be shown, one official and one mine, as a comparison ... ExtraWhat do you do when your mate tells you he has accidentally put three lots of 9 jezzails in his huge campaign army list, intending to use his own unit and your two, but you actually only have one unit and he has just remembered wrong? You do this: Very quickly you slap together 9 of these simple things ... Then you slap on some spare slaves ... And wa la! Simple, cheap, quick - but better than none at all.
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Post by mottdon on Jan 26, 2021 17:01:19 GMT
Well, I'd tell my "mate" that I forgot to tell him that I was including 3 Stanks and 3 HBVGs too. Oops.
3 units of 9! I don't think I've ever seen that before! One unit is bad enough!
Super cool conversions. I don't have any to this day because of how expensive they were. Very good work though!
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Post by Naitsabes on Jan 26, 2021 17:08:19 GMT
the scratch built jezzails are awesome. They teams look the part next to the official models. well done!
I have read plenty of your campaign stories over the years, always fun. Now, have you ever explained the 'behind the scenes' of how you running an eight year campaign with god knows how many players? how you keep them in line, how you keep the story going without frustrating the guy who wins every battle but can't win the campaign for else..the campaign would end. etc. etc. Probably the painting log is not the place but maybe an idea for a little essay to post elsewhere?
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Post by padre on Jan 26, 2021 18:24:41 GMT
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Post by Naitsabes on Jan 26, 2021 23:03:02 GMT
You do you, padre, organize your posts however you see fit. I found this a highly informative read. Impressive how you kept your campaign going for so long. Here is to the next eight year! (now where is that toasting smiley?!?)
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Post by padre on Jan 27, 2021 10:57:54 GMT
Various little skaven fellers ... To light the way ... Admin' is important ... My Grey Seers are Black Tree Designs models, which I like and seem to suit my cartoon style of painting ...
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