Time for something different - AoS Sylvaneth!

No doubt for those people who know me you'll be asking yourself..

Yep that's right I'm gonna give AoS a crack with the Sylvaneth, now the reason why I've been turned to the "square" side is that when I'm painting at night I'll listen to various youtube channels and one of those channels is the Andy & Rem Show where between them they waffle on about AoS and over the last 18 months I've found the constant releases as well as some of the model kits to start catching my eye.

The ones that I've had my eye on for a while are the "wood elves" but was never fussed about the tree hugging hippy elves I always preferred to dryads and the like and after spotting some of the newer kits I decided to take the plunge and picked up the 50 quid start collecting box set as it seemed a good starting point,

So in the traditional Anton fashion I've splashed some paint on these killer twigs.

Close up of the branchwraith and the dryad unit leader

Rank and file for the slaughter

Treeman Tommy looking all swish!

painting wise these were a doddle to paint and to back up that bold statement here's the way that I did them...

To start of with I sprayed them with halfords grey matt primer,

I dry brushed the model with a light grey to start of with and then gave it a liberal wash of athonian camoshade.

after letting this dry I got some English uniform and randomly put it in various places on the model for a non uniform look. One that was done I picked out other random parts with khaki but with a really light drybrush so that it wasn't too much.

I then got flat earth and picked out the loin cloth leafy thing and the individual leaves on the rest of the model. I gave this further highlight with some flat red mixed in.

For the eyes and the patterns I used a purple ink straight from the pot and that was it really. Nice and simple.

For the big guy I did exactly the same just more of it! and for the blue staff I kept it grey then used a pastel blue for the detail and then hit it with a blue glaze, I also repeated the same on some other areas of the model and to break up the "flesh" bits I used the blue glaze in the recesses to add another level of colour for the ohh factor.

Over all I'm really happy how these have come out, and I'll pick up some other bits and bobs as time goes on. how much I actually get will depend on how many games I will play!

Here comes the chaos..... back from the dead!!

So after a week of doing various "family" stuff with the other half being off work and the Golden Child's first birthday to plan and sort out, I've not really done that much painting this week,

but what I have managed to get done I'm quite happy with, I've managed some leaders for the up and coming warhammer chaos army starting with the lord....

I found this bad boy kicking around in one of my bits boxes and figured I might as well use him as my lord, turns out that this is a limited edition  gamesday miniature and after being told this found him on ebay for about £40!

I've angled him up so that you can actually see the front rather than a shadow, 

the view that I'll see the most of, I'm quite happy with the red of the cape but I did have quite alot of practice with the sann hann! 

The "newish" plastic chaos scorcer painted up to please Kurt... (the first game I used him he kicked ass!)

As always I've been keeping my finger on the geek pulse and spotted this cracking bit of kit on Ebay and ended up paying less for it than I would if I bought a baneblade brand new!!

 In the traditional "Anton" fashion no sooner had I unpacked it I'd already applied the initial coat and done a heavy dry brush....

 then I started to ponder at it looking at the cannon and thinking that it could be better, so out came the pliers and off came the cannon to be replaced with one that I picked up a while back from the states, that same evening Coop's saw the about picture and felt that it wasn't "spikey & Chaosy" enough now I'm not a massive fan of the spikey chaos but I agreed on the chaosy factor there was some elements in there but not enough for grand father nurgle to give it his blessing! 

So some random bits and green stuff later I ended up with...

 













I'll continue to take snaps at each stage but it's going to be my "reward" project so that I can take my time on it and not just pump it out, but I'll only count it as one model towards my "pledge"

Whilst I was down the club on Thursday I wandered into the kitchen were we tend to mooch whilst the ninja's finish beating the crap out of each other and seen Coach & Sonny playing warmachine on the table and the best use of a paper plate as a damage grid for his jacks!

As a bit of a break from all of the SOTR that I've been playing recently I got a text from Nick saying that he was starting a Cutlass campaign and did I want in... stupid question really ;)

So after convincing Coops to play Cutlass rather than flames it was me and Cooper against Nick's Superhard crew and we was after his loot!

After some very un-orky sneaking through the trees I decided to go for it and paid the price with most of my gang getting the be-jesus kicked out of them in combat and the Orc captain losing his had to a serious injury... 

But even with his hand lost Captain (insert name here) will be back to lead his crew to victory! 

I've not really made much of a start to the secrets of the third reich themed board, but I picked up aload of these pallets so can make some real cool scatter terrain, 

So the doomsday clock is no longer an issue as I've managed to get all my bits done well in time and as for the pledge thats well under control for this month!

Bought - 17

Painted - 49
Difference + 29

I'm going to pick up yet another system at Derby at the weekend in the form of Saga from gripping beast, basicly 28mm vikings on the rampage.. carn't wait!! and more than likely some MERC's stuff as well.

Orc & Goblin update

Well once more its been a productive couple of weeks, I'll explain....

Spencer aka Spencers Blog texted me the other week asking if I fancied going round him on my days off for a painting session, which I jumped at the chance, so in the space of two days I managed to get 19 spear armed orcs done and most of the black orcs including two leaders ( which I finished off this week), so this only leaves the spider riders, the chariot and a couple of leaders to sort out and we'll be there!

So the completed spear armed orcs,

The completed black orcs, I'm going to get a couple more boxes to fill these guys out to about 20/30 strong I've a feeling that I'll be shot at quite alot before getting into combat and with the new rules of the second rank fighting I might as well make full use of it ;)

And a quick shot of what I've done in the last 6 weeks, I've even
impressed myself with this lot depending how much I enjoy 8th Ed Fantasty I might break out the high elves that I started a while back!

But onto the actual army list for the Orcs & Goblins....

Lords
Black Orc Warboss - Heavy armour, Killing blow, +1 Attack, Reroll misses & +1 strength first round of combat,

Hero's
Orc Shaman - Lvl 2, +1 to cast
Black Orc Big boss - Battle standard bearer 
Black Orc Big Boss - Heavy Armour, Shield, +1 WS, Str, Int
Night Goblin Shaman - Lvl 2, Staff of sneaky stealing


Core


Orc Boys (25) Addational choppa, Command upgrade
Orc Boys (25) Spear  & shield, Command upgrade
Goblin wolf riders (10) Spears & shield, Command upgrade
Spider riders (10) Bows, Command upgrade
Night Goblins (25) Spears, nets, Command upgrade, 3 fanatics
Night Goblins (25) Spears, nets, Command upgrade, 3 fanatics

Special
Black Orcs - (30) Shields, Command upgrade - Banner of butchery
Boar Boys - (15) Command upgrade - Waargh Banner 
Orc Boar Chariot - extra crew

I'll need to pick up a box of night goblins, Orc boys to fill out the units, but I'm in two minds about the boar boys and black orcs...

so that little lot comes to 2900, I've a feeling that I'm going to need more core though as I've only spent 1210 points when it should be 1500 points for 50%? but we'll see once I get my hands on the rule book come Saturday, if that is the case I'll drop the black orcs to unit size 20 and the boar boys to unit size 10 that should free up some more points for some more core,

Month end update June!

Jesus how fast is this year flying by! and the really scary part is Anton Mk2 is due on the 16th September so time to start sorting out the house ready for the little pitter pater of paint brush welding mini-me!

Now I've tried to "convince" the other half to name it Typhus but doesn't understand where the name comes from and doesn't like it as it sound like typhoid, so I might get away with a middle name for it! LOL yea right!

Anyway for those who are in good old blighty will know that the traditional English summer has arrived (i.e. its either fucking scorching or shite!) and yup its scorching!! so that's slowed my painting down a bit as it gets warm in the room that I paint in and I'm too lazy to buy a fan... but maybe a trip to Argos is called for!

Anyway enough whaffling!  So I decided to get the Orc & Goblin brigade and some extra bits at the start of the month and managed the following.....

now that's a massive 75 models in 30 days!

Night Goblin unit 1 I'm thinking of adding a extra rank to take it to a unit size of 25 for both units

Second unit

6 frothing nutters!

The wolf riders that I blasted out over the last weekish

and the gravity deifying orc warriors, again I'm going to do another 6 to take these up to 25 as they only have a T-shirt save!

Now even with 4 units it still leaves me well short for the "pledge"

Bought   127

Painted   77

Difference -50!

so with fantasy 8th Ed out on the 10th July I'm hoping to get a unit of orc's with spears done, and maybe just maybe the black orc's if I can get that done then I've only the spider riders, boar boys, chariot and the lords and hero's that I've picked up over the last few weeks, 4 orc guys and a shammy.

Now the other thing I should confess to is that since reading part of Helsreach that Chris lent me I'm in love with Black Templar's! Much to Ross' disgust when I picked up the high marshal fella Helbrecht and I've already worked out in my head how I can do a really cool looking emperors champion using a double handed sword from the blood angel golden nipple marines (no idea on the name!) and the rest being made up of normal templar bits.

I'll be posting up an army list over the next couple of weeks, after sitting down with my military advisor and getting some general tips on how "normal" marines work! Well after playing pure chaos for about 4 years I'm getting excited about drop pods and all the other cool toys! But the golden question is do I go for codex space marine or codex Templars?

Answers on a post card.....

Orc boyz Done.

well as the title suggests I've managed to get my third unit done for the Orc & Goblin army, I started with a how to guide then my camera decided to have a spazy on me so I've lost all the stage photos? but I've still the spear armed unit to do so I'll do the guide for those guys,

I was also wandering around the net looking for idea on how to convert savage orcs from the plastic ones, I couldn't find anything that was of much use but I did find possibly the best Orc & Goblin army (if carlsberg made miniatures) have a butch at this thread from the warhammer forums, truely superb work!


Clicky Click!

any way on to my quite dull and "ok" painted boyz compared to that lot.....

So a quick group shot of the lot...

And whilst I was picking up some bits and bobs the other night I decided to give the army builder magnet basing kit a pop....

Its a winner in my eyes!!

I also ended up chatting to hutch one of the gifts for geeks locals about the new 8th Ed and what I'm hearing its gonna be mint so this has spurred me on even more to get some more done!

Anton "The Warboss" guide to Painting Night Goblins

Ok so with the pending release of fantasy 8th ed I've decided to take the plunge and get an army together prior to the release,

Now I've had a few raised eyebrows from the local guys as they know that "I don't do square bases" and add that with the fact that they might "screw up" fantasy this could either be a fantastic chance to get a nice looking army painted up or if the neighsayers are right, a charity auction for a good friend of mine who lost his son, either way its going to be a good experiance.

So onto the guide, I wanted to get the army done to a fairly decent tabletop standard and look nice from a couple of feet away but not crap fairly close up. The other this that I've kept in mind that your going to have to paint alot of the blighters so I've done a simple scheme.

Tools:

Now I've been using the Winsor Newton range for a while and these are my weapons of choice (except for basing!) I get mine from Antenocitis workshop good service and loads of funky little bits that have a ton of uses!

The stages:

I've not bothered showing the construction & priming I'going to assume that you guys know what your doing with that bit ;)

After Spraying Black, Do a black/codex grey hightlight on the robes of the model you can be as messy as you like at this point!

pick out the metal on the model with boltbun metal,
the spear tip and the edge of the shield.

Using the foundation paint calthan brown do the spear wood and the belt round the body.

Wash with Badab ink to dull down the robe highlights and the wood.

Foundation paint Iyanden Darksun over the moon icon on the shield. then just use golden yellow, I then washed with Gryphonne sepia to give it a bit of depth.

Foundation paint Knarloc Green over the skin.

Goblin Green over the knarloc green

Mix golden yellow with the goblin green for highlighting the skin you take this as high as you like, then wash with Thrakar green.

Then its onto the eyes which was a blob of blood red and the teeth which was bleached bone, I washed the teeth with Gryphonne sepia

Apply the usual basing technique that you use, myself I use scorched brown, wetbrush graveyard earth then wetbrush kommando khaki, I decided to paint the edges of the base with scorched brown rather than black.

Bang on the flock, I've made my own mix out of the galeforce nine range, winter/dead grass + flock blend autumn, the flock blend gives a little stubstance to the flock rather than patches of green.


Now as I did the step by step there I decided to paint the rest of the night goblins, all 46 of the buggers!

Group shot

Close up of the models

The only thing I've left to do is sort out a movement tray, but I'l going to hold back on that at the moment.

So what do you think? what would you do differant and is it detailed enough?

I'll be doing normal orc boys next with two hand weapons......