Thursday 11 November 2021

Yes-yes, man things…

 So, this time of year is always interesting when it comes to my hobby. Generally, I have a project on the go, which I should really be pressing on with, but then I start calculating how many days there are until the end of the year and panic slightly at how many miniatures I need to paint every few days, and then again immediately become distracted and paint something else entirely instead.

This year, I should be making the last few bits I need to play the second Rangers of Shadow Deep scenario (which in my defence are sat in a cup on my dining room table currently), but have been spending my evenings on miniatures instead to try and get the Tally up a bit! 

The first of this batch to get finished is this Skavenslave, a test mini for a Warhammer Old World Skaven army:


Ooh, looks like I need to touch up the edge of his base…

Long story short: I liked old Warhammer, AoS didn’t really grab me. I’m not anti-AoS, I’m just not the target market for it and that’s fine. When I heard that Warhammer: The Old World was going to be a square based rank and file game, and that it also didn’t have a definite release date, I thought I’d challenge a couple of pals to paint up a 500 point Warhammer army as a starting point, figuring that a) that’s not too much, seems achievable right? And b) with no deadline, we can trick ourselves into believing that we’ll finish this eminently manageable task when we almost certainly definitely won’t.


So, I set up a Facebook group for the challenge (which I’m tempted to open up to the public, but can’t bear the thought of having to spend any of my time deleting people commenting on Age of Sigmar being terrible/bases etc) and chose my army. I could have been smart and chosen a low model count army, or worked on my half painted Night Goblins, but no, I figured this was the perfect time to get round to starting that Skaven army I’d been gathering models for… both chums chose Chaos Warriors, and so can probably paint three models to hit the initial 500 point target.


So, 1 Skavenslave painted, 2 points done, 498 to go!  

If we ever do finish, hopefully we can play some sort of little campaign, maybe using something silly like the old d66 table of different territories that unlock certain troop choices for your army that was in whatever edition came with Lizardmen and Bretonnians…

So, finishing this adorable little ratty chap brings the Tally to:

32 vs 23 = +9

I’d love to pretend that I’m planning on painting a full unit of them next in an uncharacteristic display of hobby focus, but no, a hodgepodge of things that have caught my interest reside on my painting tile currently, and I should probably be getting on with painting my Frostgrave warband if the plan is to play through some solo scenarios of that after Rangers…

(Plus after weeks of studiously avoiding reading anything about the Silver Bayonet, as I don’t need yet another project, I might have cracked and had a tiny little peek…)

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