Little Joe's projects united

[Little Joe]

The 9th Age (Warhammer Fantasy Battles)
Names adapted to T9A since I will group this roughly in 3000 points warbands (about the size of Warhammer 6th edition).

I started with Warhammer Fantasy Battles and love the way large armies look on the table. I have collected a lot and hope to have it all painted up one day. My first models were 2 5th edition Bretonnian Knights, my first army Dwarfs. Dwarfs and Orcs & Goblins are my most favorite forces.
Then the End Times happened and that made me rather sad. Currently looking at The 9th Age. Personally I do not really care about the ruleset used, a reboot should hopefully make me mix rules a lot less.

Orcs & Goblins





35 Cave Goblins with BSB and Goblin King
3x 35 Cave Goblin Spears
4x 24 Cave Goblin Archers
12 Mad Gits
2x15 Gnasher Herds
10 Gnasher Dashers
Gnasher Wrecking Team
Gnasher Wrecking Team
2 Cave Goblin Chiefs
4 Cave Goblin Chiefs
2 Cave Goblin Chiefs on Cave Gnashers
2 Cave Goblin Witch Doctors
3 Cave Goblin Witch Doctors
Skarsnik, Warlord of the Eight Peaks
2x 9 Forest Goblin Raiders
10 Forest Goblin Raiders
Gargantula with Web Launcher
2 Forest Goblin Chief on Huntsmen Spider
2 Forest Goblin Chief on Scuttler Spider
Forest Goblin Witch Doctor on Scuttler Spider
1 Skewerer
7 Skewerers
2 Greenhide Catapults
2 Git Launchers
3 Common Trolls
6 Cave Trolls
3 Bridge Trolls
Giant
Great Green Idol

*cropped list to give me more focus*

Sylvan Elves (Wood Elves)



Forest Prince on Dragon with lance and shield
13 Sylvan Archers with a Druid
13 Sylvan Archers with a Druid
5 Heath Riders
10 Dryads
3 Kestrel Knights
5 Pathfinders

Undying Dynasties (Tomb Kings of Khemri)



Death Cult Hierarch on Ark of Ages
Casket of Phatep
5 Skeleton Scouts
12 Skeleton Chariots
20 Necropolis Guard
3 Shabtis
Charnel Catapult
Sand Scorpion
Sand Scorpion

Vampire Covenant (Vampire Counts)





Strigoi Count
24 Ghouls with a Strigoi Courtier
24 Ghouls with a Strigoi Courtier
4 Bat Swarms
10 Dire Wolves
Cadaver Wagon
Varkolak

21/55 zombies
10 Great Bats
Shrieking Horror

*cropped list to give me more focus*

Dwarven Holds (Dwarfs)
Highborn Elves (High Elves)
Kingdom of Equitaine (Bretonnia)
The Vermin Swarm (Skaven)
Warriors of the Dark Gods (Warriors of Chaos)

[Little Joe]

Arcworlde

I really like the style of this miniature line by Alex Huntley (Arcworlde Miniatures). A proud supporter since the first steps on Ulule, I have a box way too full of this range and I like that.

Bayourks



Jebzakkah B'Ork - Bayourk Cheiftain
Papa Shamaduu - Bayourk WitchDockta - V2
Howlin' Gump - Bayourk Totem Bearer
5 Boglins - V2
3 Bayourk brutes - V1
Bull SwampHawg
Forest Troll - V1
Bayourk Cheiftain
5 Boglins - V3
3 Bayourk brutes - V2
Goader
3 Swamp critters
Blackmire rooster
Bayourk mascot (frog)
Dakka Dixie
'Mad-Eye' Muldoon
Brewboy
3 Boglins - battle for troll bridge
Maul Dixie
Droggo Launcher
3 Sabre-Toothed Varmint

Other factions to follow ...

[Little Joe]

Relics

To be added soon

[Little Joe]

Firestorm Armada

To be added soon

[Little Joe]

Quar

To be added soon

[Little Joe]

First test post, lets start with the things I did so far in 2016.

Some of my hobby time is spend with a friends son and daughter showing them techniques to craft things. One of the items we made were stone golems. I do not like the Forgeworld idol and so we set out to build them from PUR foam and wooden picks to keep it all together. Toilet paper soaked in wood glue adds an outer shell that will make sure it does not break. This is mine.

I want a miniature this big to tell a small story, why else build something that huge? So its left arm is fused into place to build a protective platform for a nightgoblin shaman. A second shaman is filling it with life. Conveniently this allows me to use some of the more unwieldy models in my collection.
The right arm is supposed to be flowing with boulders moving to the end to crush enemies with the fist building up.

Basing is a bit bland for my doing, but it has to fit the army.















Yay, first post done.

[Daniel36]

Absolutely great start on a new plog! Looking forward to more very much!! Keep it up!

[Little Joe]

next up are some miniatures I finished or did as a test case for Warhamer Fantasy. I have a few forces I want to build up to 1000 points and some monsters in general to add for scenarios at that level. While I am a big fan of wround bases, these will stay in line with Warhammer Fantasy old world style.

A high Elf Mage, not sure yet where I want to take the IoB elves yet. But it will be a small sea themed force for sure. The other elves might get more purple gold though to use them for the War of the Beard.



A wyvern, I considered briefly to make it an Goblin air cavalry drop wyvern. Might still do that, but that is way down the line when I have finished the goblin tribes.





And finally a tomb kings miniature, still missing a lot I want from this range. These are easy to paint, so the plan is to paint this small force in between. I removed the priest and made it a manscorpion, the direction will be more in line with the Gilgamesh saga for sure.

[Little Joe]

Now to something else, Bayourks for ArcWorlde.

A Groupshot of things done:



And some close ups of the new additions:















I don't really like taking photos, might have to redo these, the battery is dead for now.

[zoggin-eck]

Scorpion is ace and it's good to see some Arcworlde painted up.

[tcmainprize]

The Stone Golem is fantastic, and suitably large! Also it's really great that you're sharing your skills with your friends children. Keep up the good work.

[Little Joe]

Absolutely great start on a new plog! Looking forward to more very much!! Keep it up!

Thanks, it will be slow. Real life is not giving me much time.

Scorpion is ace and it's good to see some Arcworlde painted up.

I love Arcworlde, which by the way has a kickstarter running. I am supporting it simply because that is what the platform is for in my opinion.

The Stone Golem is fantastic, and suitably large! Also it's really great that you're sharing your skills with your friends children. Keep up the good work.

Thanks! Almost too large, but for kids bigger is better . To teach them painting smaller would be much better, and less detail. Its a fun and a great way to further improve my hobby skills. My friends seem more than happy to "dump" the children with me.


The bit of time I had this weekend was spend processing the latest batch of miniatures I acquired. I love to buy bigger batches on-line, take what I want/need and sell the leftovers on in smaller chunks. But it can add too much too fast to the pile of unpainted miniatures.
So starting now, I set myself some new rules.

1) I can only buy as much as I can paint.
Preferably less, to get on with things. This can also be achieved by finishing a backlog of miniatures to sell and/or condensing the pile a bit. 4 50l boxes of backlog are more than enough. And that's just what fit in those boxes :cries:.

2) I will have to find out what exactly is in those boxes, I reserved a few posts up there to put up what it is I have in the first place. I am not hopeless yet.

3) Teach my future house painters.

[Little Joe]

Lately I mostly read up on ninth age. I forwarded the rules to the friends I used to play with, let's see what goes. I always enjoyed making army lists. So with the late demise of the range as a whole I had fun building a few 1500 point armies for 9th age with the miniatures I own usable for various Warhammer Fantasy armies. Just to see if I still need more of course ...

My hopes are that I can actually finish these small limited projects and thus reduce my backlog. After browsing a few army lists I decided to start with Sylvan Elves. Since I had a forest dragon as a conversion WIP on my work table it was an easy choice to finish that first.

I had many parts that did not really fit together, but in the end I think it will make a great forest dragon. Now a dragon is obviously too large to fly around among the trees. So this will be a lake dweller. The rider is the lord on horse, but it had weird trousers. I used basic plastic glade rider legs and used a saw on the lord. Cutting away the legs was quite a lot of work. My greenstuff skills are good enough to fix gaps and blend things together. I don’t mind taking it slowly and build up in many sessions.





So while this miniature is actually getting along well, I decided to give the Sylvan Elves a very simple paint scheme. Nothing fancy, get them done fast and effectively.
First problem was me including a unit riding horses. I had so far never painted up a decent looking horse. So after a lot of research on the internet and finding many obvious mistakes I made in the past, here is what I did for the fur.


Base colours with some stripes added for direction.


Dulled down with a wash.







Building up layers of very thin base gey, then with brown and finally added some lighter grey.


First test horse.

I kept the simple style I wanted for the rider (only legs so far), but horses simply needed more layers. I am quite happy with the result. It is only a small unit, so I will go with quality. I simply took an image from the internet and painted that colour scheme. Each horse will be individual because this is a free herd.

Like almost anything of my recent collection these are salvaged from the internet and cleaning starts with breaking them apart. I made good progress on cleaning and preparing what I have, I like that I can do some modelling to make it all fit.

So this is what I want to build for this project:

Forest Prince on Dragon with lance and shield
2 Druids
2 units of 13 Sylvan Archers, full command
5 Heath Riders, full command
10 Dryads, champion
3 Kestrel Knights with shields, full command
5 Sylvan Sentinels, champion
5 Pathfinders, champion

I have no idea if this works well or not. I can build it fast with what I have and it fits the visual style I want of small units and lots of bows. Once done, that’s it.

I hope you are as exited as I am about my initial progress.

[Little Joe]

Small update, I finally finished putting together the riders. It was much more work than anticipated due to them being second hand. I broke them apart, cleaned mold lines, fixed or replaced broken parts and did some minor converting



First one painted, hope you like the progress so far.

[Boreas_NL]

Lovely looking models... I've always liked Wood Elves.

Soooo, you're still playing Fantasy then? Pardon my ignorance, but I have been away for a while, and Fantasy is pretty much non existent around here these days...

[Little Joe]

Great Photobucket is bugged ...
I will look into it later on.

@Boreas: I sadly don't play much, but if I do its most likely to be fantasy. I loved the old world setting. I really like the ArcWorlde setting now. 9th age provides solid rules to play Warhammer Fantasy.

I really liked a lot of the sculpts, the destruction of the old world and AoS do not change that. So with the rules provided by the 9th age and the setting I like, I decided to go and build some small armies using those miniatures. I will use hero models as champions, maybe a whole unit of heroes for Chaos. 1500 points is small enough for me to finish projects and to include a nice centrepiece model in each faction.
There is no way I am disbanding my O&G, dwarves or Vampire Counts armies. I might chunk them up in sub armies, but those three I still want to build up big.
The 9th age has more options, so there is opportunity to do some modelling and converting as well.

I have all but a few models needed to build a Wood Elves, High Elves, Skaven, Dogs of War, Warriors of Chaos, Tomb Kings and a Bretonnia force. I like the trading aspect to fill the gaps, it is all part of my hobby, why should I change all of that?

[Boreas_NL]

If I'm completely honest, I would like to get back into playing Fantasy... Very much so, in fact... One of the reasons I got back into Mordheim in the first place...

AoS just doesn't cut it for me. The models look pretty sweet, but it's not Warhammer... How does the 9th age compare to the other editions? I am all blank on this subject, so any info would be very much appreciated...

[Little Joe]

The 9th Age is different enough to be a new game. It is closest to 8th edition, but adds a world of fixes and clarification. If you know 8th and want to update your knowledge quickly, it is made easy by highlighting the changes. Many diagrams to clarify are added and help a lot. The way rules are developed is extremely promising.
If I had to describe it in a few words, then this is a game where every soldier matters and has a role, there is no obvious power gaming.

You won’t like everything, which is normal.

The army books are full of options for miniatures Warhammer had from the 4th to the 8th edition. Units have more options and base size is clearly defined. Base size is my biggest problem with 9th Age, some of the bases I use are larger. This effects war machines mostly, but also my idol for O&G (there never was a 100x100 base, mine will not fit).
No special characters, but you could use your favourite character without issues if you agree on it with your opponent.

Most notable changes:
- Units have a height added (small, medium, large) that may block LOS
- Costs of item (magic and mundane) vary based on the profile that uses it
- The only minimum requirement in army building is a 25% core and a number of units, caps take care of spamming filth
- Magic
- Ridden monsters are a bit more complicated but way more logical
- Weapons and armour got serious updates
- Battle standard is still captured when fleeing but the fleeing character survives
- Dangerous terrain works different on different troop types, a logical scale up
- Special rules doing the same have the same name again
- Many names changed

It is currently in a locked state, this is very exciting because now the rules get flesh to the bones. Artwork, stories and unit descriptions get added to the barebone rules.

EDIT: And it is free of course, check the link.

[BoyMilla]

I really like your Bayourks, the sculpts are very characterful and I think you've done them justice.
I nearly backed the first Arcworlde KS but didn't as I already had plenty to paint. I thought I'll pick some up retail when my painting pile has gone down. It still hasn't yet, but maybe I'll pick some up in the future.
Have you played the Arcworlde rules? Any thoughts?


Nice work on the wood elves (or should I call them Aelfs?)

[Colonel Jacka]

Great Golem and the mounted Elves are excellent.