'Elf n Safety

I decided that August would be my 'Elf n Safety month (the safety bit being replacing all my blunt hobby knife blades). Picked up an Elf Battalion boxed set just before the new "even bloody higher" GW prices kicked in as well as some more Island of Blood elves. The aim is to have about 2500 points of High Elves, enough to match the other three armies.

Off to a good start with the Sword Masters of Hoeth being complete.

The Warherd is called!

My Warhammer Beastman army comes together, ready to do battle with their cousins in Chaos - the Skaven. I've spent the last two weeks or so getting these tidied up, onto movement trays, with painted banners and so forth.

The battline stretches across the table, Minotaurs, Gors, Ungors, Warhounds and more...

Even the creature they call "The Blessed One" although the blessings of Chaos are strange indeed...

Drawn to the smell of blood, Chaos Warhounds are unleashed upon the foe...

The Beastigors, elite of the Beastmen prepare to charge. There will be good eating tonight...

An Ungor regiment prepares for battle. If they do well, they will be allowed to feast on the scraps that the rest of the Gor's leave behind. If they fail, they may well end up being the feast...

The Battle Standard Bearer of the army. His presence inspires the Beastmen to even greater acts of savagery. I suspect he also inspires humans facing him not to get captured...

And a shot from the other side of the battlefield. "Stamp and trample! Gor and crush!"

14th of July Challenge

Over at the very cool Gloranthan Army blog , they are running a challenge to post a picture of your army on parade today - the 14th of July.

Here is the bulk (certainly the painted bulk) of my Warhammer Empire Army.

Lots of canons, plenty of musketiers and a smattering of swordsmen and halbardiers.

Not quite finished, but soon to join are some knights and some mounted pistoliers.

State of the art bang bang

Well it would have been state of the art in about 1640 I'd say at a guess.

Somehow I ended up with 7 canons for my Warhammer Empire army. Normally I won't put anything on the battlefield unless it's painted and these have been unpainted for quite some time. I decided I'd put them on seperate bases each, with space on each base for the 3 crew the rules specify (they're really just wound counters). My brother made the round base that the canon sits on which can be rotated to point at the target.

Also, modelling health & safety tip of the day. That knife blade that is too blunt to cut plastic is still sharp enough to cut your fragile human flesh. This message bought to you by "Ouch damn, that's a lot of blood".

High Elf noble on a griffin

I finally managed to finish the final figures from the Island of Blood set I bought back in September last year - the high elf noble on griffin and the wizzer. Happy enough with the results although were I to do it again, I'd certainly do some things differently. Might take some pictures of the wizzer later as he looks pretty good too.

Skaven Stormvermin

I have been on leave for the past two weeks, but it's nearly over. Have I been idle in this time? Hell no. These Storm Vermin will add considerably to the Skaven army. They're pretty much complete except I haven't decided on a banner yet. Here's a few pictures anyway (don't forget you can click on them to see the pictures at full size).

The Fang Leader...

And I just love the look of this guy. He sits in the back row of the pack (man these guys are bastards to rank up too) and he's got that typical skaven "there they are, go get them" look...

Aside from the Storm Vermin, I've also finished some High Elves and am finishing up my artillery train for the Nordland army. Pictures when the weather/daylight allow.

High Elf Ellyrian Reaver's finished

I finished these last week, but do you think the weather would co-operate and let me take some pictures...

They're going onto Trademe for auctioning this evening as I really don't have room for another Warhammer army in my life (nor the budget).