Sybou's Chaos dwarfs - OWAC 9, March Post [Wild Cards - 172.5 points]

 Hello everyone

here is what i did for the month of March: my wildcard!

A big lead belcher

Sometimes chaos dwarves create warmachines so unstable and dangerous, it's always better to ask professional goblins crewmen to handle them.

The 2 dwarves are here to be sure, the crew is not fleeing away.

If the leadbelcher explodes, you can always count on more efficient weapons like:

A bazooka!

If you don't find a goblin crew, pick an hobgoblin, they're also cheap.

So here goes the first quarter of 2026. Already half of the challenge is behind us ...

Here is the full month

I noticed that i was progressing pretty well for now. I might be able to add a couple of characters and a whole unit.

Time will tell if I can make a good chunk of a progress on this army.

Take care everyone and untill next time!

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Sybou's chaos dwarf_Rank and files_february_Owac IX

 Hello,

even if February is the smallest month, even if you plan to paint few miniatures we're all still in a rush to finish what we planned.

For February, I planned to paint some shooters:

Your classic crossbow guys for shooting support

These guys are from the citadel range, one of them is from the first chaos dwarf, one of the first shooter for chaos dwarf.

An other angle

When you build them, you got to be careful for the crossbow, they can be big and can give you difficulties to rank them properly.

The swivel gun

So when i build it, I wasn't really knowing what was a swivel gun and treat it more like a rocket thrower. So I added various rocket on the base.

 

An other angle

The crew

For the crew, as there are not much chaos dwarves crewmen, I added various goblinoids. It makes just some slaves that will help for the loading of the warmachines.

That's it for the month of February, I was willing to add the bazooka but I wasn't fast enough. It will be painted for March.

Here is the photo of February:

Thank you for reading me.

Cheers!                                                                                                                    Sybou

Sybou's Chaos dwarfs - OWAC 9, January Post [Rank and file 1 - 345 points]

 Hello everyone! Let's go for our first posts of Owac 9!

I started with one of my two big units : The Berserkers!

You can run but you can't hide!

This unit of 20 fighters are ready to take care of monsters units and won't break easily.

Here we got rank 1 with a dwarf slayer who betrayed his old kins. Three classic chaos dwarfs berserkers and a ral partha more recent sculpt.

Rank 2: Again, more traitors! These old slayers are not all with their classic mohawk haircuts and could go easily with chaos dwarfs. I also gave them some different skin colours in order to make them more chaotic.

Rank 3: More bearded fellow with different kind of weapons. I like the one on the left the most, he's like a dwarven Conan the barbarian.

Here is the command group, with more mutated fellas. The boss is the famous Foaming Mad Furrikson!

The complete unit

In order to control these frenetic guys I had to add one of my character to keep them under control:

A half daemonic chaos dwarf wizard!

Here is my post for january a total of 345 points!

For next month, some firepower in order to blast the ennemy.

Cheers                                                                                                                            Sybou

Sybou's introduction post_owac IX_Chaos dwarf

 Hello to the Owac community,

after several years of postponing the chaos stunties, I finally decided to make 2026, their year. Until the last minute, I hesitate to make norses before them but I resisted.

I gathered these guys, years ago and I really like these little guys. Originally, it was just a couple of them mixed with chaos warriors and beastmen and purchase after purchase, I made an entire army of these guys.

The art of the army:

Drum and Drone Ulsen were my first chaos dwarf. I sold it in my young years but found it again later.

So basically, the army is centered around the Master of Madness and his wizard:

The army got 2 big units:

The warriors with shield

The berserkers

With them, we got some support units:

Crossbows and a swivel gun

A BAZOOKA!

I like putting some greenskins slaves and henchmen to handle the big weapons.

In order to finish the army, the stunites also brought a big Gun!

The lead belcher with no less than 6 crewmen

Here is the plan for 2026! The full army groupshot:

Chaos dwarves marching to war ...

Point wise:

24 chaos dwarfs with shield and heavy armor and command group: 324 pts

1 Lord level 15 hero with heavy armor and shield : 152 pts

1 wizard : i dont know ...

20 berserkers with 2 handed weapon and command group: 345 pts

1 bazooka: 70 pts

10 crossbowmen: 140 pts

1 swivel gun: 55 pts

1 lead belcher: 102,5 pts

A total of 1188.5 pts!

Here we are, ready for 2026. I will still have to paint my offering to warlord Jaakko:

The Knight of Chaos Buoophut Bane-Arrow 

I still need to base it, paint it and all that.

Good end of year 2025 to everyone and see you in 2026!

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Owac VIII_Sybou_Final Post

 Hello everyone,

here we are, ready for the final post. I'm glad I arrived alived at the end of this challenge.

Even if i wasn't bad in following my plan, I still left 6 riders undone.

Summer's month, june and july were too busy for me and I didn't touch my painting tools for 2 months.

Anyway, this challenge wasn't a total faillure as I succided in painting 80 miniatures!

It's me!

Here are a couple of photos of my borderprinces army:

The Baron's army still needs a lots of work to be done: bowmen, billmen, footknights, knights, spearmen, a giant, bears riders and ... The Baron himself.

If i'm making progress during autumn and winter, I could use Owac IX to finish this army.

Otherwise, depending of the thematics, I could do:

• Chaos dwarves,
• More Chaos guys,
• Genestealers cult,
• Dogs of War,
• Undeads. 

A lots of choices for my next quest :)

Before finishing, here is a last photo:

Congratulations to all OWAC members, a lots of cool projects here, nice to be part of the team for another year.

Take care everyone and until next time!

Cheers,                                                                                                                            Sybou

Sybou_Month 5_OWAC VIII_Ranks and files_Riders of the Myst ...[110 points]

 Hello everyone,

we can see that owac s end is near, everybody is tired, we all have difficulties to reach our goal.

For myself, I just reached the minimum limit of 5 riders for the month of may.

This is under my personnal objective where i intended to finish the whole unit. But hating painting riders, I just did 5.

Here they are:

Riders from Albion

Back in an old owac, i painted my army of Albion, I left behind 2 units of riders, one heavy and one light.

For the Baronny, I planned to paint a unit of 10 regular knights but these guys left behind made me feel guilty.

So here they are, added as mercenaries to fight for the Baron. They still need to gain much gold to pay their trip back to Albion.

The command group will be (normally) painted in the last month of june with the leader of the Army.

The miniatures are from Ral Partha fantasy army line, they are barbarian riders. I made 2 heads swap here in order to make them all different.

Shields come from Confrontation Sessairs clan and from Lucid Eye fantasy vikings.

I'm pretty happy with the final result. They will be cool with their mounted hero I did in the old owac.

Seeing them like this is giving me the necessary bump to finish the command group.

Pointwise, they count as Kislevite Druzhinas with shield and heavy armor:

So it will be 22 each of them so a total of 110 points for this month.

I wish you all good luck to finish the last month of Owac and I hope no one is going in the field of bones. Paint until the END!!!

Cheers,

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Sybou_Month 4_OWAC VIII_Wildcards and leader_ Artillery and ... a mysterious fellow

Hello dear assemblée,

I'm glad to join you again on a new month for our favorite contest.

I took time to do my wildcard which was surprisingly hard to finish.

It's just a couple of cannons!

A great canon!

So The Baron purchased several artillery pieces for his army. It includes a mortar, 2 great cannons and 2 hellguns.

These one is operated by 3 former Bretonnian outcasts. As the cannon is kind of old, it is better to have a big shield to protect yourself when you light it on.

A hellgun

Sorry about this picture which is kind of blurry. 

The crew tries really hard to make it work but misfires are to be expected.

The Baron's army doesn't include master engineer so the artillery pieces are not the more reliable.

Finally to finish the month, something wicked this way comes ...

“There are some who call me…Tim”

Tim the Enchanter is one amongst lots of wizards working for the Baron. But Tim is a man of talent that only has a relation of equal to equal with the Baron ...

The 2 old geezers don't really get along and have many contest of who's the more mysterious.

In order to finish Owac 8, I still have my big cavalry unit of dogs of war and my lord on steed.

So 11 riders before the end of Owac.

May --> Mercenary cavalry

June --> Leader month

That's it for my month of April. Thank you for reading me and keep your head into the game, we're getting closer to the end.

Cheers    

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Sybou_Month 3_OWAC VIII_Rank & files_ Crossbowmen from the fur guild (190 points)

 Hello everyone,

I finished month 3 in extremis with my crossbowmen.

I'm glad they are finished but I don't have much infantry left to finish the challenge.

Led by a merchant specialized in fur trading and textile, he's a bit of a coward. When the Baron called to arms the different guilds, the textile guild answered with some crossbowmen.

He just wanted to stay behind and avoid the big fights.

He brought some tilean mercenaries and a couple of hunters in order to protect his interests.

The merchant boss

Here he's surrounded by a happy street performer who joined the company to bring music and monkey dancing. On the other side, the Bounty hunter with no name protects the back of the merchant as long as he s getting paid.

Perfect tileans dogs of war, the middle one went full Braganza's style. The gamekeeper is a specialized hunter using traps.

Hunters and soldiers challenged themselves in taking down the most ennemies in battle.

The classic mercenaries with crossbows. They're all pretty good soldiers with good equipments and weapons.

Pointwise:

18 men with a musician so it's 190 points.

That's it for the 3rd month, a bunch of shooters ready to march for the Baron (only when needed).

For my next month, i'll go for my wildcard month: 

Cannons and wizard.

Here we go, thank you for reading me. I hope you enjoyed the miniatures.

Cheers,

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Month 2 - Owac VIII - Sybou's baronny - rank & files

 Hello everyone,

February is a short month but I decided to go to the 2nd biggest unit, the scoundrels.

They have yellow and black clothes because they come from the Duchy of Keltalas. Years ago, the the Red Count, a ferocious vampire attacked the duchy and destroyed it. 

The Duke has been killed by the count himself and most of the people have been transformed in undeads. Some of them fleed toward the nearest cities and strongholds.

Sunny day!

Their leader is an agitator claiming that some of the land of the Baron must be given to the former inhabitants of the Duchy. He often claims being the new Duke because the former one was his father.

You can see him in the middle, on the left, there is his companion, a fake intelectual who show fake documents proving that some lands must be given to his friend.

The other are opportunists, thugs and dregs. Most of them are not from Keltalas, they're just here to recover money and goods.

More dramatis personae with the lady with the porcelain mask, she's leading a cult of the King in Yellow and gives bad information to the new "duke".

Knife users, thieves and other scoundrels belong to the band. You don't want to cross them in a dark alley.

Final members of the crew, a lots of clubs in order to calm down the robbed citizens ...

Here they are for a final picture. I tried to take photos outside to take advantage of the sun, the photos are not great, i should try something different next time.

Here is my troop for february I hope you enjoyed them.

I also finished my offering for Laurent:

It's an apostat des ténèbres from the Game Confrontation. It is really a slaanesh miniature and I hope that Laurent can find it some good uses in game.

Take care everyone and see you next time.

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