Bow & Behemoth

The Challenge marches on and today I’d like to present a unit of Ungor Raiders representing the Beastmen Faction and a Chimera representing any Chaos Faction it wants!

First up the Ungor Raiders

20 of these lovely little bowmen!

To be honest I wasn’t planning on adding Ungors anytime soon. They’re the low caste of the Beastmen and the figures just weren’t doing it for me; just not up to the level of the Gors... and then I found out you could give them bows. Missile weapons? Oh yes please!

So now they’re my favourites 😀 they’ve had their first outing and did sterling work so they’ll be taking to the field of battle again. These 20 stout fellows come in at 200 points so that’s a nice old chunk towards the grand target!

And now for something a little bigger. One aspect of the Analogue Challenge that I failed to take part in last year is the Bonus Rounds. These happen every couple of weeks and are usually based around a single word.

This time the word was Flight so naturally I chose something gentle like a hummingbird...

He has three heads representing Lion, Eagle and Dragon. Each gets its own attack as does the tail. So lots of lovely special rules to remember... yeah right.... I'll be making it up as I go along then.

Very simple scheme for the skin with a yellow base spray from GW and then Cassandora Yellow shade which is quickly becoming my absolute favourite.

And an Ungor showing the scale of the Chimera.

Now whatever you do don't mention Andy the Ankylosaurus (sp?) who's terrible in combat... I don't even want to go there... just... nope....

The Chimera is worth a whopping 220 points so let's do maths...

Skaven Warlord 100
Ungor Raiders 200
Chimera 220
Total so far 520 / 3650 or 14% complete!!

Ahead of target so far...

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Once Upon a Bi-Weekly Update

Well hello!

Silver Fox reporting for duty and from now on you'll see me on at least a bi-weekly basis. That at least is the plan. We'll see how it pans out!

This first post is very much a catch up on the last 3 months as I've been enjoying The Analogue Painting Challenge

Everything you see here has been painted since 20 December 2016. Proud of this lot as I haven't painted much in the last couple of years!

Age of Sigmar is the current flavour here in the Land of the Fox. Chaos is of course the chosen army and everything you see is part of my Cult of the Pentagram. This is my way of painting units from different factions and calling them an army to assuage my squirrel approach to distractions...

The Five Factions then are:
Skaven

Plague Monks

Packmaster

Giant Rats

I've always liked the rats but never liked Warhammer Fantasy enough as a game to paint a horde army. Age of Sigmar is a lovely simple game and is a breath of fresh air for me and fantasy. I'm really a sci-fi nut but am quite enjoying my stay in the fantasy world until 40K sorts itself out.

Daemons

Khorne Bloodletters

I already have a rather large Daemons army which started way back when this blog first came online. I'm therefore rather attached to it and it's going to be fun adding new units!

Obviously I started with a Khorne unit and the swords show some new techniques with regard washes and dry brushing. Really quite pleased with the results.

Beastmen

Gors

  

This is another faction/race that I've always liked so they are perfect for my Cult. The skin colour is again washes over a base paint and I was very pleased to not have to do highlights!

Khorne Bloodbound

Blood Warriors

Blood Reavers

 

Ah yes. Khorne. You knew these boys would be in here right? All the above come from the Age of Sigmar starter set and jolly nice models they are too.

Disciples of Tzeentch

Magister

 

Chaos Avengers Spawn

Iron Spawn

Wolverine

Hawkeye

Quicksilver

Hulk

Spider Spawn

Love the new Tzeentch models and many more will be coming to a blog near you soon. The Spawn above originally arrived at the Fox abode some 10 years ago when 40K Apocalypse first appeared and have finally seen paint!

And here's everything in handy group shots...

 

That's 105 models done. A huge number to do and once my two week hobby holiday is over I'll be straight back to it. Yes that's right I'm taking a short break to recharge the painting batteries after the intensity of the last week's of the challenge.

For the moment you'll either find me defending the Earth against robot dinosaurs (PS4) in Horizon Zero Dawn or trying to find humanity a new home (Xbox One) in Mass Effect Andromeda.

When I come back there are some Minotaurs demanding attention as it's the Beastmen's turn for some reinforcements!

See you in a couple of weeks.