BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! (MORE Tradesies!)

I'd been thinking about getting rid of my 40K Chaos Knights for a while - at least the one that I never even assembled! I've never played with them... I probably never WILL play with them... The ones that are done (or nearly done) are king of nice display pieces... But I figured if I could get rid of them and get something I WOULD use...?

But I hadn't gotten around to it... 

Then this morning I was checking out the Saskatchewan Miniatures/Table top gaming Buy and Sell group on Facebook (as I do, from time to time) and found THIS:

Dude was selling a Blades of Khorne army... or willing to trade for KNIGHTS!!

So I sent him a message offering up these... 

A deal was made! 

He even drove into town to make the trade in the afternoon!? (he's in a small town just outside of Saskatoon - it's close enough that a LOT of people commute in for work, maybe half an hour drive...?) 

So now I have a Blades of Khorne army... 

Well... a BIGGER Blades of Khorne army. I already, technically, had one... sort of.. Between the Daemons i got (that could be use in 40k or AoS) and a few Warhammer Underworlds warbands, I already has about 1400 points of stuff. Enough for a Paths to Glory force, but not the requisite models for a Spearhead force. 

This army includes the models for a Spearhead force! 

This may entirely derail my plan of finishing the Soulblight Gravelords next... 

I will be mostly repainting these, starting with what I need for a Spearhead force (Slaughterpriest, 3x Mighty Skullcrushers, 10x Blood Warriors, 10x Bloodreavers). Then, after other Spearhead forces are finished, I'll build out from there to make Paths to Glory forces at 1000 points... 

There are no Daemons in the force, so not at all useful for the 40K Daemon force, but...  

What I got in the deal included:

Heroes

• Mighty Lord of Khorne (1) 160 
• Slaughterpriest (1)  160 
• Slaughterpriest (1)  160 
• Bloodsecrator (1)  160 
• Bloodsecrator (1)  160
• Bloodstoker (1)  110 
• Bloodstoker (1)  110 

Points: 1020

Units

• Blood Warriors (10) 210 
• Blood Warriors (10) 210 
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  
• Khorgorath (1) 170 
• Mighty Skullcrushers (3)  260 
• Skullreapers (5)  220 

Total: 1470

Army Total: 2490

SEVEN Heroes isn't SUPER Useful in the new edition of AoS with the new Force Construction rules.. But I'm sure I could get a 2000 point fieldable force out of this... 

Regiment (General's) 

• Hero - Mighty Lord of Khorne (1) 160 - Any Bloodbound Warmonger, Any Bloodbound
• Unit - Bloodsecrator (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Bloodbound Warmonger
• Unit - Mighty Skullcrushers (3)  - 260 - Bloodbound, Cavalry
• Unit - Skullreapers (5)  220 - Bloodbound, Infantry
• Unit - Khorgorath (1) 170 - Bloodbound, Monster

Total: 800

Regiment 

• Hero - Slaughterpriest (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound
• Unit - Blood Warriors (1)0 210 - Bloodbound, Infantry
• Unit - Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Unit - Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry

Total: 570

Regiment 

• Hero - Slaughterpriest (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound
• Unit - Blood Warriors (1)0 210 - Bloodbound, Infantry
• Unit - Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Unit - Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry

Total: 570

Army Total: 1940

don't even need the second Bloodsecrator or either of the Bloodstokers!?

Adding in the Daemons and Warhammer Underworlds warbands that I already had... 

ALL THE KHORNE STUFF!!!

Adding all these options I have ends up wih:

Heroes

Daemons

• Bloodmaster, Herald of Khorne (1) 150 - 0-1 Slaughter Seeker, Any Daemon
• Karanak (1) 140 - Any Claws of Karanak, Any Flesh Hounds

Points: 290

Bloodbound

• Bloodsecrator (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Bloodbound Warmonger
• Bloodsecrator (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Bloodbound Warmonger
• Bloodstoker (1)  110 - Any Bloodbound - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Bloodbound Warmonger
• Bloodstoker (1)  110 - Any Bloodbound - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Bloodbound Warmonger
• Mighty Lord of Khorne (1) 160 - Any Bloodbound Warmonger, Any Bloodbound
• Slaughterpriest (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound
• Slaughterpriest (1)  160 - Any Bloodbound

Points: 1020

Heroes Total: 1310

Units

Daemons

• Bloodcrushers (3) 200 - Daemon, Cavalry
• Bloodletters (10)  200 - Daemon, Infantry
• Flesh Hounds (5)  110 - Daemon, Beast
• Flesh Hounds (5)  110 - Daemon, Beast
• Flesh Hounds (5)  110 - Daemon, Beast

Total: 730

Bloodbound

• Blood Warriors (1)0 210 - Bloodbound, Infantry
• Blood Warriors (1)0 210 - Bloodbound, Infantry
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Bloodreavers (10)  100  Bloodbound, Infantry
• Khorgorath (1) 170 - Bloodbound, Monster
• Mighty Skullcrushers (3)  - 260 - Bloodbound, Cavalry
• Skullreapers (5)  220 - Bloodbound, Infantry

Points: 1470

Units Total: 2200

LEGENDS

• Garrek’s Reavers (5) 70 - Unique, Bloodbound, Infantry
• Gorechosen of Dromm (3) 190 - Unique, Bloodbound, Infantry
• Magore’s Fiends (4) 120 - Unique, Bloodbound, Infantry

Total: 380

Force Total: 3890

Yeah... That's a LOT of options... so many options.. I could field multiple armies... easily three, possibly FOUR starting Paths to Glory armies...

We will Make Aqshy Great Again!

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!

Hedonites of Slaanesh: Infernal Enrapturess

I guess this doesn't have to be just "Hedonites of Slaanesh", the Infernal Enrapturess is a Daemon and can be used in Age of Sigmar AND Warhammer 40,000! 

Infernal Enrapturess

I've decided to call her Thundrastark Bassweaver the Delightfoul Songstrix (Eakatrashes'Zoieng)

If you speak her true daemon name six times, really fast, she will burst into a cloud of cartoonish colourful notes an slowly float back to the Realms of Chaos, where she will recongeal and play incredibly long, slow goth-metal ballads and cry for a century or two... before returning with new, more devastating discordant melodies to destroy the minds of mortals...  

I don't love how it turned out... there's kind of a mish-mash of painting styles here. When I got the model, my plan was to knock all the Slaanesh stuff out as fast as I could using Contrast paints... and I'd STARTED this doing that... but then recently rebased and painted up the Daemon with just regular paints and... I don't love how it turned out... but I don't HATE it and there are TOO MANY OTHER THINGS to paint for me to go back and repaint the whole model!! 

So I'm calling it DONE and MOVING ON!!

I now have an additional/alternative Daemon Hero model (the only other Hero model I have finished is the Tranceweaver(40K)/Viceleader(AoS) which is now out of production and moved to legends in AoS and will probably dissapear from 40K in the next edition... or whenever they put out a Chaos Daemons Codex for 10th Edition.

Spearhead Terrain: The Large Bits

 I rushed to finish up the two larger bits of terrain included in the Skaventide boxed set - which are required for playing Spearhead - because Orion contacted me earlier in the day and inquired if I would be available to PLAY some Spearhead! As I'd finally finished the last unit for the Hedonites of Slaanesh force, and was super keen to try them out, I said "YES!!!" and got painting!!

Two Large Terrain pieces. 

They're not all THAT large... I guess it's just in relation to the smaller pieces. 

All four pieces of terrain on the spearhead board (Aqshy side!) 

All four pieces of terrain on the spearhead board (Gyran side!) 

Stay tuned for a GAME REPORT of the ensuing action! 

I need to get a second force done and see if I can convince Amanda (or Finnegan?) to play! 

In the rules it suggests there will be different boards for different Mortal Realms available at some point. I wonder if those will be available in a Gaming Pack with a double-sided board, some new terrain bits and cards specific to the new Mortal Realms depicted on the boards...? Or will they come in new started sets with two complete Spearhead forces!? 

I kind of hope it's the former - just board and cards available separately... And hope they call it Death & Shadow and include boards and cards for the realms of Ulgu and Shyish... 

If it HAD to include two Spearhead armies... It could still be Death & Shadow and include boards and cards for the realms of Ulgu and Shyish... along with a Daughters of Khaine army (but, like a DIFFERENT one that the one currently available) and... some Death army that ISN'T Soulblight Gravelords...? I wouldn't mind Flesh-Eater Courts... but it would probably be Nighthaunt or Ossiarch Bonereapers... All at a price significantly lower than the cost of two Spearhead forces on their own... (Spearhead armies are $175CAD, so.... less than $300CAD...? $275?)

Work-in-Progress Wednesday - 24 July 2024

Well... with the Blissbard Archers done, and with them the Hedonites of Slaanesh Spearhead force... what to do next!? Probably one of the OTHER Spearhead forces I have... and then working each of those up to 1000-point starting Paths to Glory forces. 

So what's on my workbench today, then...? 

First priority are these wall bits so I can play some Spearhead! Two large and two small terrain bits are used in each game. I already finished the small ones, so now I need to finish these off! 

There are a few Hedonites of Slaanesh Heroes that managed to sneak onto the desk while I was working on their Spearhead force... I kind of want to move on to other things.. but these are SO CLOSE to being finished, I kind of also just want to finish them up.. 

Under the category of "Moving On"... a Vampire Count from the Soulblight Gravelords Vanguard/Spearhead box! It also happens to be the model suggested for Carmilla Dusang - one of the Nemeses in Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars

Also dug out some OLDER Vampire Lords to try and finish up... 

You can't used unique/named Heroes in a Paths to Glory force... so I thought I'd get some Generic Vampire Lords ready for that

(Yes, I KNOW these were NAMED characters back in Warhammer Fantasy... But they're Citadel miniatures and I'm not using them AS those characters, so... )

(Of course I could do the same with Carmilla Dusang... or ANY of the Vampire models... buuuuuut....)

And while I'm working on Vampires, I thought it was about time I finished these up... 

While I'm at it, I'll probably sneak a few more things onto the workbench from Warhammer Quest: Cursed City. 

Still these Castigatores I was using to test the Anvils of Heldenhammer colours on... 

Mindstealer Shpiranx - the last of Hargax's Pit Beasts - is still on the workbench... It may be here a while, as I don't have a clear idea of HOW i'm going to paint it yet... 

I did start on this Melusai Ironscale... becaue it was too embarrassing to have all these Daughters of Khaine with no paint on them... and I thought if I finished up one of the heroes, it might motivate me to do the rest of the units!!

Three Darkoath Warriors... one being a rather new recruit... These might show up in our Warhammer Quest campaign! I had a funny idea for an encounter involving them. I've had a BUNCH of ideas... I hope we get to play again soon! 

Ugggghhh... this fucking guy... All I really have left to do are the patchwork pants and the shield on his wrist... but I just can't seem to get motivated to GET IT DONE!? (there HAS been SOME work on the pants this last week, though, so that's SOMETHING!) 

Waiting in the wings are... 

The rest of the Soublight Gravelords - just need to pick up some more Green Stuff - to make more flagstone bases - and SKULLS!! 

and this... likewise waiting for green stuff and skulls and time and space to work on them... Tempted as I am to just ASSEMBLE THEM ALL... I kind of just want to focus on the Gravelords until they are done. 

(But I'll probably assemble a few of the Hero models, for funsies!)

What are YOU working on this week!?

Hedonites of Slaanesh - Blissbard Archers

Here, FINALLY, are the Blissbard Archers, the last unit needed for my Hedonites of Slaanesh Spearhead force!

Blissbard Archers

Not quite done in time for the Spearhead kick off on Sunday... but done none-the-less. I did not love painting these... SO MANY week bits and details and gewgaws on every.... single..... one..... of them...  It was exhausting. Every time I though, "okay, I'm done..." I'd notice something I'd missed on one... but then find the same thing on two others... and then something completely different on another?! and this went on... and on... and ON!?

I almost feel like I need to paint a unit of identical Minifigs Napoleonics to get my mojo back. 

Almost... 

Here is the entire Hedonites of Slaanesh Spearhead force! 

Yay!

The Blissbard archers are normally units of 11 in regular Age of Sigmar, but for some reason in Spearhead they broken up into a unit of five and a unit of six!? 

Now to work on THE NEXT Spearhead force... or... do I continue on with the Hedonites of Slaanesh, now that I have SOME momentum?!

The entire Hedonites of Slaanesh force, so far... 

I feel like the next thing I work on will be a bit of a mix of the options above... I'll probably start ASSEMBLING some of the other Spearhead forces - Maybe some Heroes from all three (Stormcast, Skaven, and Soulblight Gravelords) - while finishing up a few of the Hedonite things that snuck their way onto the workbench while I was working on the spearhead force - certainly the Infernal Enrapturess and Lord of Paint... maybe Syl'Esske...? I could also finish up a unit of Daemonettes and start assembling the Hellstriders, as finishing those will finish up things I need for 1000 point Paths to Glory forces! 

Currently this entire force could be fielded as...

Regiment (General’s) 

• Hero - Viceleader, Herald of Slaanesh (1) 140 - Any Daemon - LEGENDS
• Unit - Daemonettes (20)  220 - Daemon, Infantry
• Unit - Seekers (5) 140 - Daemon, Cavalry
• Unit - Hellflayer (1)  180 - Daemon, War Machine
• Unit - The Thricefold Discord (3) 130 - Unique, Daemon, Infantry

Total: 670

Regiment 

• Hero - Shardspeaker of Slaanesh (1) 130 - 0-1 Dark Egotist, Any Sybarite
• Unit - Blissbarb Archers (10) 140 - Sybarite, Infantry
• Unit - Slickblade Seekers (5) 180 - Sybarite, Cavalry
• Unit - Slaangor Fiendbloods (3) 140 - Sybarite, Infantry

Total: 590

ARMY TOTAL: 1260

I could add in the Dread Pageant as an "Auxiliary Unit" to make use of ALL the stuff bringing it to 1370... 

If I dropped the Hellflayer and the Threefold Discord (and left out the Dread Pageant), that makes a 950 point force ready for Paths to Glory! 

Given that I have a force here that is ready for Paths to Glory... Yeah, definitely going to start on the next force... (but maybe finish up the Lord of Pain and Infernal Enrapturess that are already on teh workbench and SO CLOSE to being DONE!) 

Age of Sigmar - Small Terrain Bits

These are the first two of the terrain bits that were included with the Skaventide box! There are two larger bits of wall I have yet to finish up... 

Two Small Pieces of Terrain!

These two, along with the other larger two, are all the terrain used in Spearhead. 

Though, I was reading through the Spearhead rules, and I didn't see anything that SPECIFICALLY said it could only be the terrain bits included in the box?! It just said two small pieces and two large pieces.... so... maybe I could use my Warcryer Citadel as one of the LARGE pieces!? There is a comprehensive list of all the Official Warhammer Terrain made over the years in the new Age of Sigmar rules and defines which rules to use with each type. 

Age of Sigmar - Fomoroid Crusher and Ogroid Myrmidon

Took a little break from the Hedonites of Slaanesh to finish up this Fomoroid Crusher and Ogroid Myrmidon.

Initially I sought out a Fomoroid Crusher because there is a Warhammer Underworlds solo scenario that can be played with one. I noticed that the Fomoroid Crusher was available in a pack with an Ogroid Myrmidon and a Mindstealer Shpyranx (Hargax’s Pit-Beasts), for a little more than just buying two of them on their own! I'd wanted to pick up a Mindstealer Shpyranx since they came out... I was less concerned about the Ogroid Myrmidon... But then, as an added bonus, the addition of the three Pit-Beasts brings the total points of the Slaves to Darkness stuff that I have to just over 2000 points... Absolutely NONE of it has been  painted (save for Khagra's Ravagers... and now THESE), but whatevs... they're there... I'll get to them... 

(I had BIG IDEAS when 3rd Edition came out!? Maybe I'll realize some of those ideas with FOURTH!)

Fomoroid Crusher and Ogroid Myrmidon

These are BIG BOIs - that's an old metal Dark Elf mini... 

Fomoroid Crusher

Fomoroid Crusher's back side... Less clear from the front, be was obviously chained to a wall... or, stone pillars...? but pulled/smashed the rock wall/pillar apart and is dragging carrying bits still attached to him by chains and has been using them as weapons to crush foes... 

Ogroid Myrmidon

As I paint things sometimes I make up stories for the miniatures. I've been painting miniatures for WArhammer Quest games recently, including Silver Tower, which contained a Ogroid Thaumaturge... 

Both of which are clearly based on the same base 3-D rendering... because of the similarity I started imagining the two were brothers, but had taken very different paths! The Thaumaturge became a wizard and serves a Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch. The Myrmidon serves a Chaos Lord in a Slaves to Darkness army (with a bit of a lean towards Slaanesh)...

Do they know of each others whereabouts? Do they HATE each other!? Do they attempt to fight to the death on sight!? Were they separated at a very early age and not even aware the other exists!? I don't know... I hadn't sorted that out - just imagined possibilities! 

When will the Mindstealer Sphyranx be finished... that one's going to take a bit longer as I need to figure out what colours to use... I do LOVE the way Louise Sugden painted hers (instagram link)! (I will not be adding WINGS, though!?) 

Age of Sigmar - Morathi, Gravelords, and Dice!?

No, I didn't pick up the Morathi model for my diminutive Daughters of Khaine force... (that would be SILLY!)

I just got the Broken Realms book...

I was interested in this because it covers Morathi's ascension to godhood and the overthrow of Anvilgard by the Daughters of Khaine (theoretically an ally of the Sigmarites that controlled the city!). I do have a small Daughters of Khaine force (still to paint!) and the whole Shadows in the Mist campaign for the Soulbound role-playing game takes place in Anvilgard, and I have adventures that take place both before and after the coup.... so I thought this would provide a bit more background of exactly what went down 

I've been meaning to pick this up for a while, but I wasn't in a rush, so I thought I'd wait as I thought these campaign books eventually went in the bargain bin after a year or so because... who would want them after that narrative campaign was over. I've seen some of the previous edition 40K ones going for $5...

This was not the case with Morathi. The one at my FLGS actually got bought by someone before it made it to the bargain bin... and instead of the prices dropping on them online, the prices seemed to be going UP (because "out of print" and "hard to find"...?) So I've been looking for a reasonably priced one for a while and found one at store in BC (British Columbia, a province of Canada, on the West Coast). 

They were selling it for $10 off the original suggested retail and had free shipping... over $100... so I went looking to see what else they might have... 

And they had the Soulblight Gravelords Vanguard box, which, by this point, I was pretty sure I was going to pick up sometime this summer... and I was pretty close to finishing up the Hedonites... AND they were selling it for $25 off suggested retail... AND that would definitely get me free shipping... so... 

I'm not even going to OPEN this box until I FINISH THE BLISSBARB ARCHERS!?!

and then I found these... I don't think they were even on sale... It is the height of ridiculousness to pick up MORE Warhammer Underworlds dice when I already have SO MANY... but they are the Wurmspat dice... and I do love Wurmspat... and, more importantly, they're EASY TO READ and I like the colours... so... 

Hedonites of Slaanesh - Slickblade Seekers

 I finished up the Slickblade Seekers - for my Hedonites of Slaanesh Spearhead force - Saturday evening 

Slickblade Seekers

The Spearhead force, so far... 

I just have the Blissbard Archers to finish up, and they are very nearly done... I stayed up stupid late last night trying to finish them up so I could possibly head out to the Spearhead League opener at the Warhammer Store today... at about 4am I had to admit, they just weren't getting done... 

AND it would be a 20Km round trip to get to the store (by bicycle, as I don't have a car and the Transit system is... not great...) ... in +32°C heat... 

AND the Air Quality Health Index is just listed as 10+... they just stop counting once it gets to 10... at that point, you just shouldn't be out physically exerting oneself out of doors... 

Hopefully I'll finish up the Blissbard Archers today and be ready for the next Spearhead League meet-up in two weeks (and maybe get in some side games before then!!) 

ALL THE HEDONITES OF SLAANESH (so far!!) 

I have SO MANY other things I could paint up for this force - some even need to be assembled. I am super tempted to get going on those... but I also have a few other Spearhead forces I'd like to get going on - so I can have rival forces here in the house to potentially introduce people to the game... Who..?! I don't know... It's just nice to have that possiblity... Maybe if I do the Stormcast next I could convince Amanda to try it out...?! 

it is CrAzY how HUGE the Slickblade Seekers are compared to the older Daemonic Seekers. The fluff says the Slickblade Seekers are riding "EXALTED Seekers"... so... that's supposed to explain it...? By why do Daemons not get Exalted Seekers!? I guess they probably will at SOME point... and then the regular old seekers will be rotated out into "Legends"....

Hedonites of Slaanesh - Slanngor Bloodfiends

 Another unit of the Hedonites of Slaanesh Spearhead force...

Slanngor Bloodfiends

They felt a bit rushed... yet I spent a CrAzY amount of time on these... and would not have wanted to spend more... but there is so much ridicilous detail on all of these... 

I went with coloured straps as I never seem to get black leather to look right... and brown leather would have just been so... mundane....? Wasn't sure if I should have stuck with one colour - I started with red on one and considered doing that for the rest of them... but then decided to mix it up and... went with primary colours!? I dont' know... it seemed like a good idea at the time?! 

Uggggghhhh...! And don't' you hate it when you take pictures of your newly painted minis and realize, when you look at the blown up version of them in the pictues that YOU MISSED STUFF!?

So with these done, I've technically done HALF the units in the force... mind you they're the smallest (numerically) and represent only 20% of the miniatures in the force...

So I still have TWO MORE units to finish up TODAY so I can bring them all out to the Spearhead League tomorrow!!! On the plus side, I'm not exactly starting from scratch. I've been working on all the units, jumping back and forth, all along. The Slickblade Seekers are very close to being finished and the Blissbard archers... well... they'll probably end up being a bit mire uniform in appearance as I set them up in assembly line fashion to get them DONE!

Aye-yi-yi... for forecast for Sumday is +33°C!? it's a 10Km bike ride to the Warhammer store. Luckily it starts at 11am, so maybe it won't be TOO hot by then... 

Work-in-Progress Wednesday - 17 July 2024

I kind of missed doing this last week... Did anyone miss seeing it!?

On one hand, I didn't feel like much had progressed and felt like time would be better spent painting miniatures, rather than taking pictures of the same old half painted miniatures!? (Well there has been SOME progress this past week! Not nearly as much as I'd hoped, though). On the other hand, one side-benefit of actually doing this once a week is it gives me a weekly excuse/opportunity to clear some stuff OFF the workbench!?

I'd really hoped that by this past weekend I'd have had my Hedonites of Slaanesh Vanguard/Spearhead force finished so I could IMMEDIATELY start playing Age of Sigmar: Spearhead on launch... Alas, they are STILL not completed... But there has been PROGRESS!!!

When last we checked in two weeks ago... I'd still only assembled MOST of the Hedonites of Slaanesh (still has two Slickblade Seekers to assemble). All of the assembled stuff had been primed and I'd done most of their bases!?

Since then I have finished the Shardspeaker of Slaanessh....

The Slickblade Seekers are fully assembled and a fair bit has been painted! I honestly thought these might be the LAST of the bunch to be painted, but I feel like they might actually be NEXT!

The Slaangor are part way done as well. I thought these might be next after the Shardspeaker... but I'll probably finished them up after the Slickblade Seekers.

The Blissbarb Archers are still just primed black and bases done... 

Will I push through and get these all done by the weekend!? Hard to say... 

There have been a few distractions!?

Primarily, Hargax's Pit Beasts made their way onto the table and bot assembled and primed and I've even got a fair bit along with painting the Ogroid Myrmidon and the Fomoroid Crusher... the Mindstealer Sphyranx might take a bit longer... as I want to do a really good job on that one!?

I just hope it doesn't become TOO PRECIOUS TO PAINT!?

Also... 

The only thing I took out of the Skaventide box to assemble and paint was the four little terrain bits.... 

It was VERY tempting to assemble a few of the Skaven or Stormcast Heroes... maybe just the two on mounts... or one of the smaller units of three Stormcast... But I knew it would just be MORE distractions on a table that there were already TOO MANY DISTRACTIONS!? 

A few other things have made their way onto the table, though... 

Some bonus Hedonites of Slaanesh things got on the table - before I picked up Hargax's Pit Beasts - the Infernal Enrapturess and Esske (the Daemon Prince of Slaanesh half of Syll-Esske) both needed rebasing from the 40K bases they were on.... and the Lord of Pain just made his way on because I knew I's be using a similar palette for him as the Blissbarb archers and Slickblade Seekers, so... might as well bring him to the table and work on him at the same time... 

There are a few others as well... 

The Kroot Free Minature-of-the-Month for July (which I thought was odd, with all the HYPE for the new Skaventide box, I thought FOR SURE it would be a clan rat or some kind of Stormcast Eternal...!?) 

Melusai Ironscale... because... y'know... I have SOME Daughters of Khaine... and (other than Morgwaeth's Blade-Coven) exactly NONE of them are painted and I was feeling a little embarrassed about that and thought maybe I should start with getting just this ONE Hero done... maybe that would get me excited enough to put MORE of them into the mix... or maybe it would get AMANDA excited enough to try out Age of Sigmar and THAT might get me excited enough to paint the rest of them!? 

Um... and... I kind of assembled and primed and did the bases for MOST of the Fangs of the Blood Queen!? 

THIS GUY is STILL hanging around on the workbench... at this point all I have to do is finish his patchwork pants... 

Some Darkoath Warriors (with a new recruit!?) (All free miniatures-of-the-month)

When I got it in my head that I might KEEP the Stormcast from the Skaventide box and might paint them as the Anvils of the Heldenhammer... 

I've been rethinking that... because, as I was fooling around with army options for THE PLAN section of the the Stormcast Eternals Page... I realized, with ALL THE STUFF I have, I could field a 2000 point army - at least in a funsies game that allowed Legends units... and then I started thinking I should stick with Hammers of Sigmar, as boring as they are, for a consistent look... 

But then... do I CARE about ever fielding a 2000 point army and playing a game that big!??!

(probably not...) 

Two heroes from Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower. I had hoped to finish one or both before our FIRST GAME OF WARHAMMER QUEST last night - just to be able to offer a few more options for the players... 

And some other stuff I couldn't be bothered to take pictures of... 

Starting to see why I did not get the Hedonites done...?

Also, while not technically on the workbench, in teh last week or so I actually started assembling my Warscryer Citadel that's been sitting in a box for YEARS!? The gothic looks just screams THIS IS WHERE A VAMPIRE LIVES... and because that's the NEXT PROJECT after the Hedonites... I thought I'd start assembling it!?

The RIDICULOUS thing is, I keep thinking about OTHER armies I could get vanguard/Spearhead boxes for!? I've settled down a bit... and I've decided if (WHEN!!) I get the first FOUR Spearhead forces I have (or five, if I pick up the Doomfire Warlocks to build a Daughters of Khaine Spearhead force), I'll allow myself another - which will probably be the Sylvaneth (because it's only ten models - though a few are pretty BIG ones! and also it has Kurnothi Hunters and a Branchwych - both of which are playable archtypes in Soulbound?)

(If ever I finished THOSE... I might get the OTHER Chaos forces... Blades of Khorne, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Disciples of Tzeentch....) 

The Spearhead forces are kind of like DBA or HotT armies - small, fixed forces - it's easy to have more than one and scratch that little itch of wanting to HAVE THEM ALL (or, at least a few, opposing forces)!? 

This past week I've also been working on some new Gallery Pages of my assorted Age of Sigmar fantasy miniatures. I'm not sure how to navigate to them on a phone. On a desktop computer, they should show up over on the left, under "Pages". 

Or you can see them here:

Age of Sigmar - Hedonites of Slaanesh

Age of Sigmar - SoulBlight Gravelords

Age of Sigmar: Stormcast Eternals

Age of Sigmar - SoulBlight Gravelords

Age of Sigmar: Blades of Khorne

I also have pages in the works for Skaven (two of them, actually - one for Metal, one for plastic) and the Daughters of Khaine... and sort of one for Cities of Sigmar, maybe...?

Back to PAINTING!!!