Nordic's Skaven Army Plog

[Shinobi_8745]

Hi, I kinda talked to you via email already about this sculpting matter already.

I really think you should finish your clanrat project since it looks like there won't be any new ones, they look incredible! And much like the artwork skaven rather than the current range does.

[Nordic]

@Shinobi:thanx alot! im trying to gather the last pieces of motivation for it! ive sculpted some loincloths already. im gonna make fur and armor next i think. =)


PIP!!! i have a few Plauge Monks left to do before im done with them.

Been a while since i posted anything but i have not been slacking, oh no! but ive gotten off track from my skaven. i'll start a 40k army soon, it will be Witch hunters FYI. im also working on a conversion commision for a friend. i will get some vintage skaven and gutter runners for the trouble. wich is very nice! i think the conversion turns out great! i have some stuff to do on it before i show any pics of it but its nearly finished after four hours of work.

ok, back on the skaven topic! i played a border patrol game against Orcs and Goblins(my bitter Enemy) yesterday! i made alot of errors, even when writing the army list. lol. i used:

1 warlock engineer, full kit -pistol. storm daemon.

25 clanrats with standard bearer and musician plus ratling gun

5 night runners with add. handweapons

9 Plauge Cencer bearers (heres the error, i can field PCBs without Plauge monks due to PCBs Special rule, Disciple lol. but we noticed that halfway through the game. :P

Turn 1
Orcs start by advancing his force
my Warlock engineer fryed four out of five Orc Boar boys (the last one made his LD roll) with and irresistible force Warp lightning, my ratling gun couldnt reach anything so it didnit shoot.

turn 2
fried 8 night goblins with Warplightning but they didnt flee! i killed the last orc boarboy that charged my Night runners.

turn 3
My clanrats got charged by his Orc Boys with Black Orc Big Boss (his general).he breaks them and they flee, the night runners and my general sees the horror of fleeing clanrats so they start to run too. the orcs prusue the clanrats and manages to over run my ratling gun in the process so it doesnt enven manage to fire in the entire game!!!

Turn 4
My PCBs Charges his Night Goblin Unit, breaks them and runs them down. now i only have my Warlock (who is fleeing) and a unit of Plauge cencer bearers cuz my Night Runners runs off the table before they can rally.

Turn 5
My PCBs charges his Orc Unit that just killed my clanrats. my Warlock miraculusly rallies and cast Warplightning at the Orcs (Rule fail, you cant rally and throw magic in the same turn. plus i cast magic in the middle of the combat phase cuz i thought i had forgotten the magic phase but it was in this turn that he rallied wich i realized after the game.) he managed to get himself killed cuz i rolled two 1s when i threw WL. but he managed to take five or six orcs with him. my PCBs killed the whole first rank of Orcs so only the boss and the black orc could hit back.

Turn 6
The orcs manages to kill my PCBs with only four models remaining, his Black orc Big boss, and three orcs, one is boss. so it was a narrow victory for the Orc Player!


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heres a Commision im i just finished for a friend. He will use it in his emperors children army for warhammer 40 000. i get some skaven models as payment wich is really nice. =) im very happy about this one, the basic model isnt that beautiful but i hope ive managed to make him look really cool.

I took the horns from the other head since you got both in the box, sawed them off the old head and put them on the new one cuz my friend wanted it that way, i think it looks terrific. also the wings awas pretty badass too . though the pinning and green stuffing wasnt too fun but the result was great. i made the base rubble from an old wine cork that i broke into pieces and glued to the base. the spikes are made in a regular pencil sharpener. theyre made from balsa wood.
i had to put him on these rocks or his wings would've been sceraping the ground so i posed him on this to make him higher above the table. =) plus it looks really cool standing on stones. :P
i think he'll like it.
i might get to paint this fella too. we will see! =)

converting it took about six hours all in all.

hope you like it.

[Nordic]

I got some old school skavens from a friends friend for FREE!

its an old paintjob that is pretty good actually, i will probably redo the nails, make them bonecoloured instead of red, and the Screaming bell will probably get an overhaul, the doomwheel driver is pretty nicely painted so i will only paint his nose skincoloured and give all of them my skavenwash to tie them in with the rest of my army.

I love Ikit Claws paperbanner!

So now i have two deathmasters and two Thanqouls lol! parts of ikit claw will be repainted like the scabbard and holster will be brown instead of red and the skavensymbol on his forehead as well.

I will hopefully get some more old skavens when ive painted the Daemonprince of slaanesh i showed earlier as well.

[Nordic]

Bought some bits today from a friend for a cheap price and got this, amongst other stuff. i have no clue of how much it is but most of it is just unused bits but some of it is converted stuff and a very small percent is nearly unusable bits. but bits none the less! i think theres enough bits to make like 10 to 15 plauge monks, and around 20+ night runners and a few packmasters cuz i got a Rat Ogre as well. for 250 Sek wich is about 21£, a true bargain!

[Nordic]

This is a converted chieftain, its the Warlord model that i have given hand weapon and shield instead of great weapon. the sword is a plastic plauge monk sword and the shield is from the night runner box.

Ive been building my own Warp Lightning Cannon cuz i need one for an upcoming 1000 pts game. its made from a Zzap Gun from the Battlewagon for Orks from 40k some round sprue piece, plasticard, cables, some thick iron wire and loads of other gubbins, the slaves are made from the plastic ghoul box. i tried to do some source lighting but it didnt turn out as good as i hoped. the crew is still work in progress!

[Nordic]

Here's one of my new projects! A grey Seer on Palanquin based on This artwork. its still very early Wip but i think its getting along quite well.

and here is a Diorama im working on as well. it will feature an assassin standing in a split between two wood beams and unwind a thin thread that he is poisoning a sleeping human (it will probably be a wealthy merchant.) with while his guard stands infront of the bed and isnt noticing a thing.
i think this diorama can become really cool and will work more on it once i have the time.

and also i got a bunch of old Metal Skavens:

Clanrats


Pestilence troops


Skryre Troops, with a very awesome Warlock engineer!


Eshin troops

[Elfboy]

That warp lightning cannon looks fantastic, better than the current model in my opinion The palanquin thing looks good too. Keep it up!

[N810]

Love the palanquin conversion

Is it supposed to be certian character or just unit filler ?

[Nordic]

@Elfboy: thanx alot!

@N810: thanx alot, im not sure if i will just play it as a regular grey seer or if i perhaps make some palanquin rules or something and use it in friendly games.


Some more progress has been done on the WLC. i have to paint some light effects on the slaves and engineer and highlight the wood and wheels.

[unwanted]

Bloody nice work Nordic!

Looking forward to seeing the finished Seer, that pic is one of my fave illustrations!

[Nemesis_the_Warlock]

I'm liking the WLC. I'd never have thought of using the plastic ghouls as the basis of slaves - it works really well. I can imagine the regular exposure to large lumps of warpstone would change them into hunched over monstrosities - nice.

[Nordic]

@Unwanted: thanx alot mate. i love that illustration too. hope i wont disapoint you then. =)

@Nemesis_the_warlock: thanx alot. =)


More work on the palanquin has been done. ive glued the bearers together and added arm rests to the chair.

[mrtn]

Nice, should work well as the new litter.

[Nemesis_the_Warlock]

Excellent work on that palanquin Nordic. Your modeling skills are far superior to mine, but I would like to make one suggestion.

The bells on the seat back are a great touch, but I think that they would look more realistic if they were moving in the same direction. I've read somewhere (WD ork boss master class I think) that its important for things like chains and cloaks to be pointing in the same direction, i.e. wind, or movement would likely cause everything to move in just one direction. Of course this may result in problems with positioning your seated mini, but I thought I'd just put that idea to you.

Keep up the good work. Your blog is great inspiration - I can't wait to get hold of the new Skaven plastics and try some conversions myself.

Nemesis

[Mirbeau]

Brilliant log, really creative conversions, I'm looking foward to seeing more.

[Mercutius]

wow, great skavens, and I am very noisy how that diorame will come out! :-)

[Nordic]

@Mrtn: thanx alot. =)

@Nemesis_the_warlock: thanx alot for pointing that out! you are right, i didnt think of that. i can change the one with the small bells so it swings in the same direction as the bigger bell.

@Mirbeau: thanx alot! =D

@Mercutius: thanx alot. i hope the diorama will be great. at least in mind it is. =)


Heres yet more wip! it will probably be some sort of Moulder special character or something. im not sure about keeping the scales or not. i think i will though, cuz i think it looks cool, i feel that most of you are gonna be against the idea of beast riding beast. i am a bit hesitant but i think it can be really cool. any rules suggestion for a master moulder special character on a wolf-rat?
I'm thinking a Master moulder vermintide spellcaster, perhaps with fear and mount save. What would that be, a 4 or 3+ save or something? And perhaps a wardsave of 5+ (from a warpstone amulet) because he cant join any units and being a single target he needs some protection.

The wolf rat is made from a 5th (or 4th?) edition flesh hound of khorne and some plastic Rat Ogre pieces. The rider's legs are Kroq'gar's legs, the upper body and arms are from the crypt ghoul ghast body. the thingscatcher is from a plastic pack master. i will have some smaller rats running around on the base as well for decoration.

[N810]

Very kool konverson

[Nemesis_the_Warlock]

I like your Moulder wolf rat rider - you've captured a great sense of movement with that model. The 'back banner' from the ghoul body fits really well with a moulder character - its like a scaled down queek (the new one).

I see no reason why a heavily mutated skaven couldn't develop scales - how well they fit is going to depend on how you paint the model I think.

The new character mounts in the new skaven army book are opening up some nice conversion opportunities for skaven generals and you've started to take full advantage of those possibilities - just a rat ogre mount left for you to do

[Nordic]

@n810: thank you very much. =)

@Nemesis: thank you, and im curious since i dont have the book yet, what mounts are there? Rat Ogre mounts, that sounds crazy! i think i will paint the scales like bone so that it doesnt contrast too much with the rest of the mini.


More work has been done on this fella, well, more fur at least. I also gave the rat ogre's head bigger eyes to make it more ratlike. and it also made it alot more scary in my opinion! Oh, and its brown stuff, not green stuff btw. i ordered some and got it yesterday and tried it out today. its really good if you mix in some of the yellow part from the green stuff otherwise it was too hard or just not warm enough.