Week 4: I finish a unit of crypt ghouls

Week four has come to an end and I've just about managed to complete my first unit of Crpyt ghouls.

I have not yet assembled a ghast, but that will come how I've decided I want to model the blighter. I've been playing with ideas around some of the old Mordheim figures, or following Games Workshops lead and converting up a empire flagellant. I have a few from my empire army.

I have tried to combine a few on this base to make casualty removal a bit easier. The rock is just a bit of foam cut to shape. I experienced problems with the GW undercoat melting the foam, but overcame this with a layer of PVA. Now I just need to work out a resilient way of gluing the figures onto these rocks. The idea behind he rocks is that they will try to tie the various units together visually.

In total I need to bang together about seventy of these chaps, but I think it might be an idea to return to these in a bit otherwise I might just run out of enthusiasm.

All of the unit are mounted on magnetic strips to make carrying easier.

As regards progress, I promised myself that I would complete 16 painting points per week (each model is worth his units strength squared in painting points). This is now the end of week 4 so I should be upto 64 and I've only done 60. Ooops. Lets see if I can try and catch up a little next week.

The ghouls have been quite fun, but to be honest its now time to switch to something with a bit of colour in it. next week I plan to have a go at the Chaos marauder horsemen. 4 of these will stop me slipping further behind.

Week 3: A go at Crypt ghouls

After spending the first two weeks with Chaos warhounds I thought that it was time to try my hand with a little Vampire Counts. Cypt ghouls feature in both of my vampire counts armies, so the logical conclusion was to have a go at them.

The Vampire counts book states that these are living creatures and that "their skin is dark and filthy, their eyes bestial and insane, and their snarling lips reveal sharp pointed teeth". I therefore decided that I wanted these figures to look as if they had never washed, but I wanted them to look alive.

I went for a brown / grey look with a number of washes to create a dirty look. I have then added red washes around the elbows, knees and heels to try and make them look a little alive, from frail.

The colours kind of work on my painting table, but I don't appear able to take a decent photo of them...

Only managed to get 10 figures painted this week. That makes a grand total of 50 painting points in three weeks. The target was (3x16) 48, so I'm ahead of programme, but I only can see myself painting 10 next week.

Warriors of chaos 2000 points List 2

Kholek Suneater
The Troll King Throgg
3 Chaos Trolls
3 Chaos Trolls
6 Chaos Trolls
4 Dragon ogres, great weapons
Chaos giant, mark of slaanesh
Scyla Anfinngrimm

This army is is many ways just for fun, but is, occasionally, a very competative force.
Its quite fast and tough with lots and lots of big nasty monsters that can turn the enemy into so much pate. Kholek anf Throgg provide some nice leadership zones to protect the trolls from stupidity and Throgg also acts as a battle standard. Scyla is a fun character and has magic resistance 3 to help stop spells that would affect the whole army.
Syla and the giant provide flank protection as they are pretty much immovable (ones unbreakable whilst the other is stubborn with a leadership 10), the giant always strikes first too.
The army has virtually no magic resistance, no offensive magic, has hardly any missile fire and has nothing to deny rank bonus, however its speed and toughness will make it a hard nut to crack.