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WHFB Diary of Viscount Vash, aged 33 and 10/12s
I thought it would be a good idea to keep a diary of my progress into the Fantasy realm.
EDIT. I have now added a Picdate, this is so you can see at glance when I added the latest pictures. its on the UK format of DD/MM/YY
This will be my WIP, Army List and will also contain the costs and brief battle reports when I get that far.
Progress will be quite slow as I intend to model and paint this to a higher standard than my 40K armies and the only way I can do that is to take my time with them.
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So begins my Tzeench Mortal Horde Army.......
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Sat 3rd March. Early morning.
Mmmm a Fantasy Army....I had thought about it in passing before, but with the fact that 40k had started to be a bit stale for me after 20+ years of playing, painting and modeling a fresh outlook on the hobby seemed to be in order. (The spares for my bits box would not go a miss either
.)
It was quickly decided that Chaos Mortals were the ticket and Tzeench was my God. (In my teens I used to wear a leather bike jacket with the symbol painted on the back.)
Time for work :x so with no models to hand all I could do was go to work and subject my poor collegue (Steve) to an endless steam of chat about Fantasy Chaos ideas and what I wanted to try.
I best fill you in on Steve: I have known the bloke for years and now work with him as a window cleaner. Not glamerous but we are self employed and work when we want. .
I first met him through a local games shop about 10 years ago when I used to do commision paintings and coversions, he became my main customer, then a mate and has watched my hobby skills develop whilst listening to various ideas, plans of mine. I have watched him become an equal on the 40K gaming table and helped him up his painting. ( He does not need to pay others now and has turned out a very nice Guard army.)
I digress, with input from Steve I decided I wanted to do a showcase army with plenty of conversions and a top notch paint job. Time to push my skills to the limit.
Bugger! I now had a bee in my bonnet but no cash to purchase new models..... Whats a man to do? I hit the games room in a frenzy and found a box of Tyranid Warriors, a box of Gaunts and a blister of Gargoyles that I could exchange for models as they were all still sealed.
Started asking Noobie questions on the forum here in the evening.
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Mon 2nd April. Afternoon.
I had finally got to exchange the models over, I got:
1x Maruaders box.
1x Warriors box.
1x Knight. (Poor lonley git.)
After a good long ooogle of the sprues ( New stuff to me.) I de-sprued the Marauders and cleaned the seams and such off them.
After some more thought I realized that one thing that had put me off WHFB in the old days was units of the same model over and over, these new models had all sorts of possibilities. No two weapons, heads or sheilds the same and not to use the normal Standard or instrument for them either.Well thats the plan.
Another rummage frenzy and I turned up some old Chaos shields, Catachan heads and various other bits that at first glance might be of use for this project.
Out came the scapel and I was off.........
The next entry will have pictures of the Marauders when they are ready for the undercoat.
Please feel free to make comments and suggestions as all will be helpful.
Costs, models and progress so far.
16x Marauder including Standard, Champion and Musician. £15.
12x Chaos Warrior. £15.
1x Chaos Knight. £4
Total £34
WHFB Diary of Viscount Vash, aged 33 and 10/12s
I thought it would be a good idea to keep a diary of my progress into the Fantasy realm.
EDIT. I have now added a Picdate, this is so you can see at glance when I added the latest pictures. its on the UK format of DD/MM/YY
This will be my WIP, Army List and will also contain the costs and brief battle reports when I get that far.
Progress will be quite slow as I intend to model and paint this to a higher standard than my 40K armies and the only way I can do that is to take my time with them.
Mmmm a Fantasy Army....I had thought about it in passing before, but with the fact that 40k had started to be a bit stale for me after 20+ years of playing, painting and modeling a fresh outlook on the hobby seemed to be in order. (The spares for my bits box would not go a miss either
.)It was quickly decided that Chaos Mortals were the ticket and Tzeench was my God. (In my teens I used to wear a leather bike jacket with the symbol painted on the back.)
Time for work :x so with no models to hand all I could do was go to work and subject my poor collegue (Steve) to an endless steam of chat about Fantasy Chaos ideas and what I wanted to try.
I best fill you in on Steve: I have known the bloke for years and now work with him as a window cleaner. Not glamerous but we are self employed and work when we want.
.I first met him through a local games shop about 10 years ago when I used to do commision paintings and coversions, he became my main customer, then a mate and has watched my hobby skills develop whilst listening to various ideas, plans of mine. I have watched him become an equal on the 40K gaming table and helped him up his painting. ( He does not need to pay others now and has turned out a very nice Guard army.)
I digress, with input from Steve I decided I wanted to do a showcase army with plenty of conversions and a top notch paint job. Time to push my skills to the limit.
Bugger! I now had a bee in my bonnet but no cash to purchase new models..... Whats a man to do? I hit the games room in a frenzy and found a box of Tyranid Warriors, a box of Gaunts and a blister of Gargoyles that I could exchange for models as they were all still sealed.
Started asking Noobie questions on the forum here in the evening.
I had finally got to exchange the models over, I got:
1x Maruaders box.
1x Warriors box.
1x Knight. (Poor lonley git.)
After a good long ooogle of the sprues ( New stuff to me.) I de-sprued the Marauders and cleaned the seams and such off them.
After some more thought I realized that one thing that had put me off WHFB in the old days was units of the same model over and over, these new models had all sorts of possibilities. No two weapons, heads or sheilds the same and not to use the normal Standard or instrument for them either.Well thats the plan.
Another rummage frenzy and I turned up some old Chaos shields, Catachan heads and various other bits that at first glance might be of use for this project.
Out came the scapel and I was off.........
The next entry will have pictures of the Marauders when they are ready for the undercoat.
Please feel free to make comments and suggestions as all will be helpful.
Costs, models and progress so far.
16x Marauder including Standard, Champion and Musician. £15.
12x Chaos Warrior. £15.
1x Chaos Knight. £4
Total £34
