Jeff Allen's OWAC Wrap up post

Here is my Middenhiem/Kislev Army for OWAC3. This is my 3rd challenge and I think this one was my favorite. It will be the most memorable considering the world changing pandemic going on. 

My first was Chaos, I enjoyed it, but I'm not a Chaos kind of guy, I like order. 2nd was Dark Elves, and I liked that army alot, but The Empire is my first WHFB Army and this is just an extension of that.

I set out to paint what I have without buying anything, and I achieved that. Some of what I painted does not exist in 4th edition so I did have to play a little "counts as" to make the army list work for 4th edition. Like counting Kossars as Empire Troops, or not counting points at all. It's not that big a stretch, IMHO. 

So what can I put on the table? Lets count them up:

5 Knights of the White Wolf.....259 pts

1 Hero(Grandmaster of WW)...65 pts

1 Tsar Boris of Kislev...............0 pts

6 Horse Archers........................96 pts

1 Elector Count.........................100 pts

1 Tzarina Katarin......................65 pts

Wizard Mounted.......................59 pts

Wizard Foot...............................56 pts

21 Greatswords(Kossars)..........189 pts

1 Bear(Filler).............................0 pts

11 Archers.................................88 pts

1 Hero(Boyar)...........................65 pts

1 War Wagon.............................150 pts

10 Greatswords..........................108 pts

10 Winged Lancers....................400 pts

Grand Total of 1700 points!

I want to thank Iannick for putting up with my last minute posts (this being no exception). I got some figures to send to you.

I want to thank my fellow challengers for making this a fun event and congratulations for making it across the finish line.

I'm not sure I'm in for OWAC4 yet, because I've exhausted all my full army of unpainted figures. eBay is calling....

Cheers, Jeff

And the Wing Hussars Arrived (200 pts)

I didn't think I'd be putting up a June post. My father had a medical issue and I had to drive to Florida to help out. It was a little crazy with the Pandemic. I am self quarantining since come back from a state that saw a sharp spike in new infections. That was a plus and a minus. Anyway, on to the painting.

I had 2 units worth of Winged Lancers I could paint. One I bought off ebay painted and one unpainted. There was no way I was painting 2 units, so I stole the wings off one unit and added them to the other. What's better than Winged Lancers? Winged Lancers with Double the WINGS!!!

Getting them glued on proved to be a bit of a challenge. I had to dremel out a huge hole in their backs and I made a little triangular wedge with green stuff to hold the Wings together at an angle.

Once the wing problem was solved I could dive into the painting full force. So on the last day of the last month I cranked out these bad boys.

Points,

5 Winged Lancers with full command 200 points.

And done,

Cheers, Xin/Jeff

JeffA's The Famed Winged Lancers (200pts)

I've saved the best for last, The Kislev Winged Lancers.

Inspired by the real world Polish Winged Hussars, the Kislev Lancers are in my top ten favorite models of all time. On September 11th 1683, at the Battle of Vienna, was the peak of glory for the Hussars. 3000 Hussars at the front of 18,000 Calvary, charged into the Ottoman troops smashing the Ottoman army and saving Vienna. 

This month went pretty smoothly. Working from home during the pandemic was very weird at first and I spent most of my day staring at my computer waiting for emails. But now that we are 3 months in, I found a time every day to paint. So I actually finished 5 days early, as opposed to the last minute sprint painting on the last day at 11:59PM. Ok enough blah blah blah, lets see the horseys.

As I've stated in the past I suck at free hand shields and banners. So I cheat, Water slide decals. I'm getting pretty good at making my own.

Painting these was a bit of problem. I did not have a complete set of Lancers. I was missing several pieces including 4 wings. Thankfully I found some resin wings online and bought those.

Another challenge was the previous owner had tried to sculpt just plain cloaks over the lion skin cloak. I liked the effort but it was poorly executed and sort of covered the cool lion/cheetah(?) head and claws. So I just ignored the what was not covered and painted it as a cloak. 

Points

Winged Hussars....200pts

That's it, 5 months, 5 entries, over 1000 points and I'm done. But I'm not. I've got one more unit to paint so lets go!

I'll leave you with with this Awesome Heavy Metal video....

 

Cheers, Xin/Jeff

Jeff Allen's War Wagon (258 points)

So April was the month I was going to paint the famed Winged Lancers. Who doesn't love them?

It took a few days to start them. Then It was a few days to prep them. I was ready to prime.

I'm walking outside to prime them and I realized I forgot something.

Damn it. These needed to be carved in and fitted. The figures I have are 2nd hand and they have some green stuff mod that needs to be cut away. I completely forgot. DOH! Half the month is gone and I'm not painting.

So I come up with Plan B. I have the War Wagon I started in January done. Just need to do the crew and I'm done. Easy Peasy, right?

Ok cool here's the War Wagon in all it's crazy glory. Ready to rumble across the table and do....whatever it does. I've no idea, I've never seen one in action.

I painted the crew with a removable tray for easier storage. The wagon it's self is tall enough as it is without all the sharp pointed things sticking out.

Ok like a said, easy peasy. Hmmm how much does the War Wagon cost? I had it in my head it was 200 points. ***checks Army Book***. Muther#$%#$% it's 150pts!

Ok What can I paint for 50 points? Greatswords! I've had them for 15 years maybe. That's about long enough. So I painted them in about 4 days, Thanks for Work From Home.Here's a unit of 10 Greatswords.

Please don't look at the googly eyes. The banner is a custom decal I made. I suck at freehand banners. Much easier to print out a decal and then blend it in to the banner.

So that's April sorted.

War Wagon....150 Points
Greatswords...108 Points

April's Total...258 Points

Jeff Allen's Kossars (342 Points)

I am never painting this many figures again. What was I thinking?

For March I decided to paint Kossars. I had 2 units worth so I thought I'd get them done all at once. I got them done but I really hated it the last few days. 30 figures including the Boyar and a Bear as unit filler and flavor. But they are done!

So officially for the challenge, this is a unit of "Greatswords" with 2 Archer detachments, to keep it legal for the 4th edition rules. Thematically it works for Middenheim, at least to me. As I think there would be Kislev influences in the Middenheim culture. I see Middenheim and Kislev working together to fend off the endless attacks from the Chaos wastes to the north. So here are the pics:

Here's the first unit. My big problem with these guys was the standard. I suck at free hand work. So I spent about 2 days trying to figure out how to print a custom decal. I had the Testors Decal kit already, but didn't know how to use it.

The 2nd unit of Kossars. I hit the standard with Testors Dullcote, but the decal is still a little shiny. I might go back and paint over it.

This guy I found on Facebook. He is the Coach of Kislev inspired Blood Bowl team. I love him as a Boyar.

 Here are the lads pretending to be Empire troops.

Here are all the troops I've painted for OWAC3 together. I got a little carried away with the back drop and created a whole little rustic village scene.


So my point totals:

17 Kossars(GreatSwords)....153
4 Command figs...................36
11 Archer Detachments........88
1 Boyar(Hero)......................65

Total......................................342

That was a long month for many reasons. Looking forward to a better April, for everyone.

Next up, the iconic Winged Hussars!

Cheers, Xin/Jeff

JeffA's Middenheim/Kislev Empire Army

Hi Everybody. This is my 3rd time in the Old World Army Grinder. You noobs will get it, about halfway through. The first time I did Chaos, and the 2nd time I did Dark Elves.

The Empire Army but with a heavy Middenheim/Kislev flavor. I have a pretty aggressive plan. We will see if I end up in the Field of Bones.

The plan is 1652 points. The reason is I want to get this army done in one go. I don't want to be missing parts of it later. Here are the pics.

 White Wolves

 Boris Ursus Not counted in points since he's 6th Ed

 The War Wagon

Horse Archers  

Elector Count, Wizard and Tzarina Katrina 

Winged Hussars 1 

Winged Hussars 2 

Halberd  Unit

 Archer Detachment

Kislev Kossars as a unit of Greatswords with Archer Detachments, lead by a Boyar

That's it, Easy right? Yeah sure...I'm doomed.

Cheers Jeff