We're gonna need a bigger trap...

With the coming of OPR I found myself playing more and more with the miniatures I had been collecting for ages but never actually brought to the table. The Skaven were some of those. Lately I found a very eager colleague who plays High Elves that keeps asking me to play some Age of Fantasy games and this forced me to get my Skaven back into speed. My Stormfiend were my test color scheme for my clan Skryre colors, I decided to go for some muted grey and blue as main clan colors that had a nice contrast with the skaven's vermin browns and red skin ton…

Dangers of the Cursed City

At the beginning of 2024 I got my hands on a Warhammer Quest cursed city set. I do not like zombies at all, but the skeleton and vampire models on the set really called to me. This was my first foray into speed paints, even earlier than my Votann models, and was done using the original 1.0 Speed Paints. They were fun but very difficult to work with, so I'm all the more satisfied with the result on this skellies. The vampires were also test models, as I wanted to achieve an undead style flesh tone before I painted my Crimson Court vampires from Warha…

Shadows of Ulgu

Lately I've decided to work on some of my backlog miniatures from Games Workshop that I still have lying around from past projects. I still have a ton of BloodBowl miniatures on my to-do list and some Warcry and Underworlds warbands. I started working on my Black Ork team, but when our games club decided we were playing warcry again I decided to put some effort to finish my Khainite Shadowstalkers warband. They are by no means a great warband (I highly preffer the standard Daughter of Khaine one), but still I play them from time to time so I'd…

Hounds of the Storm

Well, that was one hell of a long hiatus. Long story short, I had to move into my parents for 3 months while my own appartment was being torn apart and rebuilt anew. I managed to keep painting some minis but turned to GW bigger scale as the lighting setup at my parents was not really the best for painting Infinity. My club has taken a interest on Warcry recently so I've painted some warbands. I was very lucky as a friend of mine donated to me several Mortal Realms numbers that included Stormcast miniatures. I'm not a fan of the official gold S…

No rat like the horned rat

This week a very old favourite of mine has gone through a major makeover. The old vermin lord, the good old horned rat, has gone through a paint removal and new paint coating. This is how she looked before. I painted this when I was 16 or 17 years old and she has been deep in a dark miniature container for some long 20 years. Now she's fresh from the new paintjob, ready to lead again my Skaven army. Gone are the colorful choices of the nineties, Now the color palette is more balanced, and only the greens of the warpstone are making a come…

Who's the cutest spawn from hell?

Skaven were my introduction to wargaming at the tender age of 12, back in the nineties. Back then I had no way I could pay the prices GW asked for models, but I still have a soft spot for all those burrowing, coward and treacherous bastards. Once I decided to go back to the hobby and got to see the new things in the range, the Hellpit Abomination was fast to catch my eye. It had nothing to do with the cute quirky rats I remembered from back then. It was a hideous creature no mother could love. Still, Warhammer Total War came. I spent thousand…

Doomseekers

Already halfway through my copy of Silver Tower. This week i finished some of the monsters, completed the Horror set and tried some new things on the Fyreslayer Doomseeker and the Excelsior Warpriest. The Excelsior Warpriest was a new go at painting black skin, trying to consolidate the things I learned while painting the Kairic Acolytes. I decided to give him very dull colors on the robes so the purple used on the cape would stand out as the main color point on the mini. Excelsior Warpriest Excelsior Warpriest Detail of the face Th…