AdamH’s Skaven final month! - Rank and file month

Here we are at the end of another OWAC, or at least the painting part of it. This month was my Jezzails, as well as more Globadiers and a few random Stormvermin that I needed to finish in order to complete a unit.

I also decided that the base on my Doomwheel from a previous challenge was simply too large to be practical for gaming so I removed it from that base, put it on a new one and reclaimed some of the giant rats from the old base to make a small unit. I also repainted the driver in my new black and red Skyre scheme:

I’m not going to claim any points for painting these as all I really did was the bases but it took up hobby time so I thought I would at least include it as part of this month’s work.

Month six stats:

Models painted: 32

Total points: 746.5

Chance of the Jezzails hitting anything in-game: 0

I also had the opportunity to bring the army (and some bits from previous challenges) to Japan and play a couple of games of Warhammer Renaissance, it really is a pleasure to see painted models facing off against each other on the battlefield:

So that’s it for painting in this year’s OWAC. I have a few finishing touches, mainly varnishing and then adding grass and tufts to the bases which I will do over the next few weeks ready for the wrap-up post in July. I can’t wait to see the army all together and then with all the rest of my Skaven, I haven’t put it together myself yet so it should be interesting seeing what it looks like.

Until the wrap-up post though I hope you have enjoyed following my rats come together over the last six month, I always enjoy painting them and I probably have enough to do one more challenge but not next year. I already have something planned for that but I will save talking about it until the wrap-up post.

AdamH’s wheely big final month – (414 Points)

“The terrible deafening thunder that you hear is not of nature no-no, as promised let me introduce you to the crazy warpsnitck and his mobile lightning shooting chariot!

Very impressive yes-yes? It costs many warp tokens but the mess it makes of the stuntys is well worth it.

I guess you are thinking this is the last you will see of my chittering horde, well maybe, but then again maybe not. There are still plenty more of us hiding in the shadows.”

Anyway, sorry for the title pun, hopefully you can just roll with me on this one.

Technically I officially finished the challenge last month since I completed five months and passed the 1,000 point barrier however I seriously have loads more Skaven to paint so decided to push myself as much as possible this last month and finish a couple of units that either weren’t at the minimum viable number or I just wanted to bulk up.

First up we have another group of Stormvermin, same colour scheme as before of course:

Next I turned my attention to my Clanrat unit, specifically I had a couple of the original Rat Ogre figures which I really like but always thought they were a little small for their stat line. They are only just a little bigger than a standard clanrat. So I painted them in such a way that they could fit in with the clanrat unit, taking the place of four standard rats but were still mounted on 40mm bases should I want to run them as Rat Ogres.

I also painted a bunch more actual Clan Rats to bulk out the unit:

Finally we have the real star of the month and maybe this army so far, I’m going to let the pictures do the talking and talk after:

A few things that might be hard to spot in the pictures, the globes on the wheel spokes all have some fancy crystal effect that I painted, was really happy with, and then mounted backwards so it is close to the wheel and you can’t actually see! I painted a nice looking OSL on the inside of the wheel coming from the generator, that is almost entirely covered up by the wheels again! Finally I painted all of the insides of the wheels, and the rats running them and guess what, you can’t see any of it! Hurrah for wasted effort…

Anyway, to summarise, this month’s entry is:

Stormvermin x12, Halberds, Shields [150]

Clanrats x19 (kind of) [114]

DOOMWHEEL!!!! [150]

Total – 414 points

Minus the wrap-up post this is the end of my rat horde for this challenge. Even though this is my second OWAC Skaven have always been my favourite army and I feel more pride in completing this one than any army I have ever tackled. This is the first time since I was probably 12 or so (which was a long time ago FYI) that I have had a full painted Skaven army and I can’t wait to see them all together. I have deliberately not got everything out together yet because I wanted to wait until everything was completed. So when I write my wrap-up post and take those pictures will be the first time for me to see the completed army as well! I am genuinely excited 😊