Blotthrower's Halfling Extravaganza (Pic Heavy)

[Blotthrower]

And so, having a day off its time to photograph some complete lack of work in progress and pass it off as a real breakthrough in my painting regime!

First up, the second mangler (needs a lot of work, but you get the general idea)



and just to throw in a tangent, some Malifaux Gremlins I've been working on. Having played them in the game I'm pretty sure I won't be using them as, as much as I love random, troops that shoot other members of their crew when they miss is a little too random even for me! So I've now bought a Collidi box set as evil punch an Judy seems much more sensible.... pictures of them as I progress with them.

[fatolaf]

Love those bunnies, will we see them at the Waargh?

[Blotthrower]

Yup, the bunnies, bessie and all the halflings will be at the waagh, just realised I may need to source a few more to make up the army or alternatively make a cheeky unit filler!

[Blotthrower]

So it turns out its been over 3 and a half months since I've updated this blog, so in order to try and get me motivated to get the army finished for the south coast GT I have started it back up again. Without further ado, here is something I've been working on this month, a completed chariot:



And just to show off here's a work in progress unit filler for the Archers:



The chef is cooking a pig over the fire (hard to see from the angle of the base, but thats the only decent shot I got of it!).

In order to get the army ready for its south coast outing I will be painting over the coming months:

- 5 More Wolf Riders
- Another Chariot
- Some Pumpkin Golems (Trolls)
- A Halfling Lord and some more Archers.
- Maybe another unit filler.
- A boltthrower

All very achievable in the next 2 and a half months, so long as I keep the motivation up!

[cunningmatt]

Keep going it's looking great! There some motivation! :)

[Blotthrower]

Thanks Matt, your sterling words of motivation have lifted my painting to new heights... o.k. so maybe not quite that far but the important point is I have an update! And in the same calender year as the last one, huzzah!

The completed Unit filler


...and in its rightful place in the unit


and finally a completed pig riding fanatic!


Next up (as its so cold I can't spray anything!) some Halfling Archers to help me get up to the 60 I need. Depending on how long it takes me to do those I may also have some more work in progress to show (depends when my orders arrive!)

[fatolaf]

Keep it up buddy, maybe give them a mini run out at the next waargh (as you only need 1600pts)

[cunningmatt]

Lovely stuff, and the themeing is great as always!! And to think two updates and it's only early February!! You're doing well.

[Undead Dan]

I would love to see this army in action vs the goblins of another richard from CWG. As if goblin vs goblin in itself wasn't a mad mad game, adding two crazy lovely armies together would be magnificent!

(He uses pumpkin riders, "mom and pop" charioteers, things like that, all gorgeous conversions)

[Blotthrower]

So after my sterling performance at the last Waaagh (5 tournament points! The only way is up!) I had a chat with a few people who said to me "Ben, what you need is some doomdivers" so with that in mind I set to work building two of them, as it may be a little bit bent to have two doomdivers, but considering the context in which they are set I think I can get away with it!

So without further ado, here's some work in progress shots:

Doomdiver 1




Doomdiver 2



Marker


So the original plan was to go with Swans as ammo, but for some reason I could not find any Swans that were the right size or pose so in the end I plumped with some Geese from Eureka miniatures, although they are technically 40mm scale, I'm really pleased as to how they fit into the scale of the model.

Next update I should have finished the second chariot and hopefully I will have some more pictures of the Geesedivers!