Tom's Chaos Renegades: Rank and File 3

Well, April  has been a definite challenge and I am bracing for May to be harder too.

I've finally moved into the New House. Everything is in boxes and in the bedlam of packing up the Old House, I've no idea where everything is now🤔

It's been quite a while since I have picked up a paintbrush for the OWAC. Fortunately I still have a few painted models in reserve, which were painted in previous months in a frenzy of motivation! However, it is very difficult to recreate the paint scheme on the newer additions. It is another reminder for me to try to paint everything in a unit in one concentrated block, or to keep a record of colours and processes.

I will probably ignore all this and just give way to the immediate paint inspiration...

Another thing to add to the Challenge of this year is an increasing lack of mojo. Having had my main focus elsewhere, I've found my hobby motivation to be in a serious slump. I'm imagining May to be a Wildcard/Mulligan month and for me to focus maybe on painting some terrain in order to get back into the swing of things. 

I hope that the addition of some terrain will enthuse me to paint more models to put in front of it. 

Here's a pic of some OWAC models on top of the terrain I have in mind (they're from Fogou Models - specifically their Adobe range: link). 

Initially I brought a couple for my ork army, and I asked all family members to buy one as Christmas presents, so now I am lucky enough to own a whole village! 👇

Anyway - onwards to pictures!

I have managed to paint three Pink Horrors, six Blue Horrors, a Tzeentch marine, and then a Nurgle Champion on Palanquin, and a Fiend of Slaanesh to round things out...

Firstly though, I painted this Tzeentchian Screamer 👇 which I painted very quickly/roughly to get used to weilding a brush. It's the first model completed in the New House. 

And now on to the Horrors👇

This Horror below👇is a recently painted one, and you can see the difference in paint, like the body is a lot more fluorescent pink and the hands are somewhat lighter. Having loved the Tzeentch models of last month, I found just painting the Pink Horror, well...pink, to be a little dull.

Truly Tzeentch works in mysterious ways!

I've also lent my blood paint to a friend, so the base lacks its blood, but that will be rectified next month.

The Blue Horrors 👇

What cheeky little scamps. I very much enjoyed painting these :)

This guy is a recent paint👇There's a lot more fluro paint used on him , and he's photographed quite a bit brighter than the others maybe because of this. 

One more Tzeentch based marine 👇 which was base coated, then re-stripped, then restarted in February and finally finished today on the 22nd April!

This Slaanesh Fiend 

Painted really very quickly. I should really go back and edge highlight the sections in the tail, but naaaaaah... Hopefully it can be a slight colour test for the Daemonettes that I have planned...

The Nurgle Champion 👇

I'm very pleased to have completed this one, although he is Very Delicate. The banners are very tenuously glued in to the base and a bit on the chair. I think everything else I managed to pin, but I was not brave enough to attempt the bannerpoles...

I was also bowled over by this miniature that I received in the post from the mighty Paul McFarlane (instagram) who is painting Wood Elves for this OWAC (link to his April post).

(It is usual for a painted model to be sent to Iannick Martin - the great Overlord and Founder of the OWAC. However, this years entry fee is to be sent to another participant, as Iannick has stepped away for this year and I am lucky enough to receive a model that Paul has specifically painted for my army. It's absolutley amazing - thank you Paul!)

It is a seamless match for my Khorne regiment, and I have based this ol' Space Crusade mini on a larger Champions base as befitting his status 👊

It also remains the only model I have that's painted by someone else, which makes it even more special.

Here he is leading a small gang...  👇 

I also did win a pound on the scratcher that was included, so the Gods were shining on me that day! I will follow sir from now and send a scratchcard with my Entry Free model in  future OWAC's 🙂

Anyhow, that's me done for this month. 

Probably not the best month when it comes to army list percentages/requirements, but....

On to the roundup!

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Intro - army list: link

January - rank and file 1 / Khorne: link

February - rank and file 2 / Tzeentch: link

March - Leaders: link

April - rank and file 3

105...   Pink Horrors x3

Free...  Blue Horrors x6

28...     Fiend of Slaanesh

78...     Mighty Champion on Palanquin (mark of Nurgle)

Free...  OWAC Khorne Champion 

Total: 211

Cheers for checking this month out! Hopefully I can muster up a few more Marines in May 👊

Nicolas Deamons of Tzeentch - March 2022 rank and file #2 (0 pts)

 ...Playing with fire...

So after burning my wild card in the fire of February, I though I would easily build momentum from the ashes as I was aiming for March. But I am learning, as a painter, that procrastination is my worst ennemy! Indulging myself good painting time is much harder than expected and I always end up spending my "me time" playing with the kids... Never the less, here I stand, hoping that the Overlord will bless me of his forgiveness for my late editing!    

So here they are, the blue horrors of my "Grabbelings".

I started my painting process the same way I painted my pink horrors... But ended up adding another layer of Druchi Violet before working the actual blue base layer.

And finaly, I did not realise when preparing the minis... but I had an unwelcome intruder! I realised that within the last lot I but for this project, a recast made its way. Can you guess who the imposter is? Bad alloy that shrank to much and a lot of lost details...

Nicolas Deamons of Tzeentch - January 2022 rank and file #1 (1260 pts)

50 Shades of pink... 

It has been a hell of a month but here they are, the Grabelings

In 3rd edition they are meant to be 9 per 1260pts... which seems a bit odd from where I stand because it makes no sense for rank and file units. Unless if they were meant to be accompanied by a separate hero. 

Anyway here are 10 of them, with all their gloriously cartoonish faces. Those faces are absolutely wonderful to paint. There is just so much surface to work with. I will for sure paint another one on those, with more time on my hand, and bring it to another level.

Going throught the first part of this challenge has been hard. Real life came down on me pretty hard, and I did almost quit before even starting... But frankly, giving myself some freetime for my hobby, which I have rarely been doing over the past few years, has been a major relief. My wife, half supportive and half mocking, have been helping by taking on the kids at key moments. This first unit is certainly not the top of what I can achieve, but it is already better than the two I painted over the course of 2021!  OWAC V, I'm ready for more!

Sybou's horde of daemons - 1205 points!

Hello everyone,

for this owac i'm really planning to finish all my daemons army.

Last year, i made good progress on part of my undeads but i still have lots to do.

The good news is that daemons are fewer than undeads and more fast to paint (so unfair ...)

I started with my plaguebearers:

I gathered plaguebearers of all era and i think they do fit well all together.
I started to use the new paint from GW: the contrast paint. I used the plaguebearer skin.
Points wise they represent 730 points!

Here is 20 guys that i ll complete with 9 more in february.

Here is the Nurgle Herald with great banner.

This great banner is a alternative Blood bowl miniature. I converted him with a plastic sword and a pestigor banner. He will lead the big block of plaguebearer. This guy is 120 pts

Then we have a unit of mixed blue and pink horrors:

These guys are really funny sculpts. Normally the blue horrors come from the death of pink horrors, but these guys are hard to find and are awful to rank up.

They will add some magic powers to my horde. And they are lead by a air elemental from Ral Partha.

I have the idea of Tzeentch Herald being weird and etheral so as i have him laying around, he will fit the part.

If I count 6 horrors and a champion, they will cost me : 285 pts

Focus on his blue eyes.

Last but not the least, this weird harpy will be a chaos spawn in my army. It's a really weird miniature, pretty old creature. 70 pts of old school madness!

I found on solegend its history:

Lots of chaos gifts...

That s it for January, I gathered the impressive points cost of 1205 pts! 

In February I'll finish all my remaining Nurgle miniatures:

• 6 bases of nurgling - 180 pts
• 1 beast of Nurgle - 75 pts
• 9 plaguebearers - 270 pts

For Marsh I shall continue with:

• 20 bloodletters including a champion - 440 pts
• 5 flesh hounds - 175 pts
• 1 Daemon Prince - 275 pts

Now I can watch all the other Owac entries.

Thanks for watching and take care.