Pokrzyw's Sisters of Battle - Month 6 - Leader Month [475pts]

 "A single man with faith can triumph over a legion of the faithless. Untold billions of the faithful can never be opposed."

Plans for June.

After Mulligan month in May my plans were around finishing inquisitors with retinue. Entry level for June is visible on picture below.

 

Finishing additional sisters shall be bonus. Sisters from Month 3 were chosen.

                                        

Finally lack of canoness makes me sad, so i take small kitbash - seraphim leader with huge mechanical wings acts as a general for whole army (on the right).

Realization

As usual - entering month with procastrination level master, but last two weeks was busy..

Gallery

Points:

• Canoness (jump pack, power sword, plasma pistol) 101
• Redemptor Kyrinov, Arch-Confessor - 121
• Missionary (shotgun) - 25
• Battle Sisters Squad (veteran sister superior, 4 sisters, specialist flamer, specialist hflamer) 228
• Wild card.. 10 models (2 inquisitors, 8+ henchmens)  ?
  
  TOTAL: 475

Whats' next?

I have still about fifteen ladies to paint. Maybe it would be a part of the wrap-up month. I plan also prepare some better photo session, maybe in the heat of battle.

JohnR's Dwarf Month 6 - Leader Month - Lord on Shield

Another miniature I've had for over 20 years. I was never that keen on the King Alrik miniature and I never use special characters so this was an easy conversion. Not sure what happened to Alrik - he wasn't in the box of dwarves; he may have ended up on evilbay somewhere in the distant past.

So this is Dwarf King Skarrengrim. One of the leaders of the twin holds of Stannaheim and Zimmerpeak. Born aloft on his shield-bearers.

 

Obviously the shield-bearers don't appear in 3rd edition, but I reckon the rules and points can be ported across without any changes; they're pretty simple and not terribly powerful.

Stannaheim and Zimmerpeak are relatively recent dwarf-holds, founded by refugees from Karak Eight Peaks around the time of the fall of the city in -513IC. Skarrengrim can trace his lineage back to the royal houses of that magnificent but doomed metropolis. 

 

 

King Skarrengrim - Level 25 Hero - Heavy Armour, 2 Handed Weapon, Shield-bearers - 263 points.

Well, that's it for another OWAC. I lost a lot of motivation for this one part way through May and never really got going again! I still have a chunk of Dwarf minis left to paint, maybe they'll make it into a future OWAC but for next year I reckon I'll return to 40K. Or epic 40K. Or maybe BFG.

Or Bloodbowl... 

 

Frank's Great Work Continued, A Daemonic Legion of Slaanesh - Leaders - June

 Last month was a bit of a hobby letdown. I was forced to burn my Wild Card month to mulligan as I sliced through the tip of my finger in a freak accident. It took several weeks for the stitches to come out and for me to be able to get back to work. But, with such trivial issues pushed aside, I got down to June being my Leader month. 

I have only three models this month, but all are conversions, two of which were on the complicated side. 

First off we have what I have taken to calling the Golden Pair. I wanted an Exaulted Champion to ride with the mounted Daemonettes in the Legion. I took a classic Slaaneshi champion and removed his legs. To this 'rump' champion model I added the legs from the two piece Chaos knight. This was just about right to fit on the Mount of Slaanesh 'seat' where a saddle would go. This was not a pretty adjustment though, and some belt accoutrements and a slung shield were needed to hide the worst of the sins on display here.

I have searched for many years to find the unreleased Mount of Slaanesh to include in my Slaaneshi Legion. It was clear from 'Stuff of Legends' that a key difference between the unreleased model and the Realm of Chaos era Mount of Slaanesh was that it was a single piece sculpt. What I did not realize until I hand one in my mortal hand was the reason it was never sold. It is about 60% the size of the released model. Any normal sized rider, daemonette or otherwise, was going to look comical riding it. But what if the rider was not 'normal' sized, I wondered to myself...  

I decided that my mighty champion would have a familiar. Since he was carrying some dread spell tome it seemed only appropriate. I had a tiny armored combat familiar, and decided he would ride the tiny steed.  To get him on to the Steed, his poor legs had to come off and get reposed to allow something like sitting on the steed. Unlike like his larger master, this was not as messy a conversion and only a tiny shield and some junk to give the impression of a saddle was needed to hide the scars. Lastly I printed him a tiny slaanesh icon to go on his helmet because there was no Slaanesh icon on the model anywhere otherwise.

 

The urge to make these two look as closely linked as possible was too good to miss. I'm sure there is a "mini-me" joke here somewhere. Both got a gold color scheme for their armor with pink lacquered shields. The steeds are mirrors of each other's colors, purple and green. Lastly the Champion got a fancy paint job on his daemon weapon.

 

My next leader character is specifically for the undead contingent. In theory the undead Minotaur Champion could lead the undead troops but as I now had a unit of combat skeletons and a unit of skeleton archers, I wanted a proper leader to provide some sorcerous support. I went with a liche. I decided this model was likely not part of the fallen cult who made up the Legions undead fodder, but rather a fallen necromancer who made a deal with a slaaneshi daemon to extend her life. The result was losing her soul, which is now carried as a jewel in the armor of the Legion's commanding Keeper of Secrets. She is indeed immortal, having cheated death, but has to serve forever at the head of a cohort of doomed fools for her new master's entertainment. For the model, I noticed two of the old Chaos Sorcerers clearly had been made from the same manikin. One was a generic Sorceress, the other a Slaaneshi spellcaster. I simply took the arm with the slaanesh icon wand from one and put it on the other. The result was a convincing sorceress. She got the same red paint scheme that her minions were given.

 

The Mighty Champion of Slaanesh with his mount and his mounted familiar, have a variable cost depending on the number of rewards the champion has. I wanted the Golden Pair to be cream of the crop so I opted for the full 360 points. I didn't buy him the Mount extra, but safely assume it will turn up in all those reward rolls. The Liche I opted for a level 3 caster, which meant a "Liche 20". She costs 345 points and has no optional extras built in. This brings has me adding 1,005 points to the Legion this month. The total models and points for OWAC VIII will be totaled up and shown off next month, as well as totals for the entire Legion beyond just this OWAC. 

George's Bad Moonz, Month VI: Leader

 

Big Gobb could feel the power of the WAAARGH pulsating through the air. His big mob was ready.

His father had been a great war boss. Now Big Gobb was one too.

He loved the feeling. Loved it more than anything.

Well, almost anything.

What he loved even more was how flash it all looked. Yellow, red, green with blue and white checks. These really were the flashest gitz in the galaxy and Big Gobb felt huge pride that they were his flash gitz.

He opened his huge mouth and called the mob to attention. Nobz, Weirdboyz, boyz and tanks formed into a mass of yellow, red and green.

The mob hung on his every word.

Big Gobb pointed the way forward and yelled a battle cry at extraordinary volume. The mob joined in, chanting at the tops of their voices and advancing at terrifying speed.

Big Gobb took the opportunity to move steadily towards the rear, well away from the danger as bolter shells and missiles began to fly by.

His father had been a great war boss. But he had also died in battle, and Big Gobb had no intention of doing that.

 

 

Phew! I’ve dragged myself over the finish line.

The Wonderful Ramshackle Games produce a mini perfect for Big Gobb. I actually painted one last year, the only miniature I managed to finish before entering the Field of Bones! It felt like retribution to buy another one, and for him to be the finishing touch for my complete army.

It’s fair to say that May and June have not been good months for my hobbytime. A lethal combo of work and real life have drained any painting opportunities. Fortunately, I had foreseen this before the challenge started and painted enough from January-April to get me through.

I would have loved to have done more, and to have added some flourishes, but life has had other ideas!

However, I’m still proud as punch of this army.

In my first OWAC (OWAC VI), my goal was to finish. No fuss, no fine detail painting. Just finish. And I managed it. I then crashed out after Month I of OWAC VII.

This time, I wanted to stretch myself a bit more, finishing whilst using a few more techniques. With such a wonderful selection of models available for space orks, this has been a great opportunity to go wild! Finally gaining confidence with colour blending has been a real joy, and I’ve loved adding texture to all of those bold yellows and greens. It’s been great fun!

Anyway, I’ll save the Oscar speech for my wrap up post!

Month VI Points:

1 x Warboss: 90 Points

Big Gobb!

Big Gobb and his nobz!

Big Gobb's Big Mob!

Ben's Stirland Undead - OWAC VIII - Month 5 (Leader)

It's been another busy month, but I've managed to finish off my Leader (the mighty Mannfred von Carstein) plus baggage train (a carriage to carry his coffin on campaign, in case he wants a nap between battles).

Mannfred von Carstein (Dark Art Studios Vampire) - 475 pts:

Baggage Train (Westwind Vampire Counts Coach):

Next month's wildcard will hopefully be some combination of Mummies, Skeleton Archers and random Mantic undead gribblies.

Tom's Orcs and Goblins - Leader month

Well, a bit of a break from all those pointy spears of January, and the hellscape of the archers in February - and now on to the interesting stuff for half way through the Challenge! 

Naturally, I painted the leader in January, so as to give me a buffer month, but as luck would have it I have been super productive hobby-wise (and less said about the housework and paperwork the better).

So productive in fact, that I can post my big guys right next to their littlest gobbo leader, as I managed to paint them all!

Speaking of paint, here's the Warlord, resplendent on his cuddly spider 👇

Inspiration taken from the classic GW scheme, with those yellow stripes on the spider, but I switched up the black body for a slightly more colourful purple.

Everything is pinned - including the back banner pole

I kinda struggled a bit with the goblin itself, but he's done enough for me to be happy! I just need to find a shield somewhere amongst the bitz...

The banner is paper, and drawn on with a technical pen, then coloured with paint. I put a layer of PVA glue over it, but unfortunately got the kind that dries a creamy colour, so I re-did everything again. It wasn't so bad really as you could still see the underneath - it was just a bit foggy. Man, I hate painting banners.

On to something a bit bigger. I'm really very pleased with this guy - the remixed Cloud Giant from Drew Day Williams/Satyr Studio. (The original, by the way, is still produced - here).

The skin is painted using a Zorn palette, which was something I was experimenting with just before Christmas. Basically a Zorn palette is 4 colours. Black, Red, White and Yellow Ochre. It does yield some nice skin tone. Here he is with a nice, digitally added, blue faded background 👇

I did toy with the idea of a dedicated orc and goblin symbol for the shield, but went for the fleur-de-lis as I thought it was easy to center on the shield. Plus it's a little more generic I guess... 

I should have pushed myself a little bit, and added a few more tattoos, but bottled it and stuck with that blue banding on the arm.

He came with the MDF square base, which I have pinned him to with the shortest of pins! Every bit helps though.

Little bit of mottling on the back skin there, just below the tattoo. Mostly it was because of an errant blob of paint, and I've just tried to make it A Thing, rather than try to cover it up.

And, flushed with a feeling of accomplishment for painting such large surface area, I went straight into painting the ogres... 

 

I thought the theme of yellow pouches would fit with the yellow pouches on the goblins. Some coin for services, if you will.

And I broke up the big shirt space with some patterning. Mostly because I find painting larger areas of cloth quite hard - you don't have to paint cloth if you paint a pattern 🤔. And secondly because I thought it would be cool!

The lumberjack! There's a few missing squares on his shirt, but I think the effect is still good 🙂

And over to the party loving ogre! 

He loves a cocktail with a small umbrella in it...

I switched up the pouch to blue, because I thought it would read better next to the yellow Hawaiian shirt. Red trousers for that bright party vibe 👊

Here they are together. Again, I'm super pleased with how they came out!

And to make up my model count, I painted up my Shaman. I think though, if I was to do him again I'd probably paint the skull wings on the staff a bit more yellow, and probably redo the blade of the sword a fade from black to red..

I do like the animal print on his loincloth and shirt though! Who knows what that sword is about. S'probably magic yo...

And then, I thought I'd best repaint the base rims of my previously painted Orc Lord and his Squig, so that they too can be part of the army!

And that's me done for March. On to more rank and file for next month :)

Here's the breakdown....

Intro: link

January: Rank & File link

February: Leaders

50....     1 x Goblin Warlord

50....     1 x Giganic Spider

200....   1 x Giant

120....   3 x Ogres

FREE.  1 x Orc Shaman

Total....  420

Cheers!