Dave's OGPurchases Plog

[Dave]

Finally forced myself back onto the skaven and churned out another 40 clanrats (takes me to 80 in total).



I can see why so many skaven armies fall by the wayside, churning out batches of the same models over and over is so dull unless you find a super fast painting method (6-7 hours sounds about right for the time I spent here).

Next up another 40 slaves, then I might be able to give myself a treat! Probably 40 plaguemonks...

And as a fun and colourful break from the monotony of skaven, some more malifaux stuff, a bunch of puppets to use with Zoraida (and Copellius when I paint him too).

[Dave]

Another 'commission' piece.  Guy down my club asked if I could paint this up for him to use as a hellcannon, very simple conversion on a bog standard H&WM model, I think all he's done is chop the gun off and replace it with a cannon.

Paintscheme was per the stock model at his request, though I did decide the rider should look like a nekkid guy rather than a troll thingy.

[The Trampoline]

Nice paint job Dave, shame about the kit bash model. I would be unhappy if someone put that down on the table top and expected me to believe its a hellcannon.

[Meals]

Really? I think it works quite well as a Hellcannon, certainly more exciting than the boring ass brick GW sell as a Hellcannon. 

Ditto on the lovely paintjob though.

[The Trampoline]

Really? I think it works quite well as a Hellcannon, certainly more exciting than the boring ass brick GW sell as a Hellcannon.

Totally disagree, it is just a cannon stuck on top of a cartoony looking monster with a more cartoony looking bloke firing it.

The monster does not fit in with other warhammer models, it sticks out too much as a sore thumb. The cannon itself is just an empire cannon, there are no chaos runes or signals on it, nothing actually strikes me as Chaos about it. the chaos hellcannon, although a fudger to put together being a metal model, looks so much better and like a daemonic artillery piece with some threatening dominance on the battlefield. This has none of that.

I'm sorry to rag on your mate Dave but that kit bash is not a good conversion.

[fatolaf]

How big is it, tall wise?

My only concern would be that the base is too small...

Nice paint job as well buddy

[Dave]

Yeah I think it's a bit meh as a hellcannon myself, far too close to the stock model (which has the guy on the back shooting a gatling gun thing).  I prefer things to be a bit more heavily converted so they look less like the original being used out of context.  On that basis I'd have gone for a different colour scheme too, if it'd been my choice I'd have gone red.  Andy, no insult to me, it's not my conversion or idea and think you're more or less spot on that I'd want more effort put into jazzing it up.

Ol, Height wise probably 4-5"?  It's on a 50mm base in that picture but he's got a bigger base for it to slot into  (thus why I've not done any basing on it) if what I've heard is correct 80x100 is the right size.

[The Trampoline]

No prob mate, just thought I should say as it was a club-mate of yours.

[Dave]

As I've been running my lizardmen a bit recently I finally got round to painting up a model to use as my Scar Vet with greatweapon on a cold one (dragonhelm, venom of firelfy, dawnstone).  Weapon choice can double as a halberd if I switch to using light magic as getting to strike first can be helpful.

Same simple paintjob as the rest of my lizards


Rider airbrushed vallejo air red (forget which exact one), devlan mud wash
Cold one Coat d'arms Jungle green, leviathan purple wash
Metals are Vallejo air bright brass, green wash, purple wash, rehighlight metal.
Saddle & leather - Iyander darksun, devlan mud wash.
Bone/horns/claws - Dheneb Stone, bleached bone, white then devlan mud wash.

Also dipped slaves numbers 81-120

Matt, washes and rimming my bases to go and they're done.

Started work on my plague monks and have come up with a scheme for them and sprayed them all ready for the painting table.

[cunningmatt]

Lovely stuff as always. Particularly impressed at how well your dipped Slaves look, specially given how long my 50 Spearmen are taking without any dipping!

Matt, washes and rimming my bases to go and they're done.

At first I thought this was a message for me!