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Finished off the Rakarth flesh - areas covered were cream fabrics, rope, bone and flesh. Really happy with how they're coming on now. They're really starting to take shape and to begin to look actually painted. Next up I'll be painting all parchment using Zandri Dust but soon I'll be on the metals. This will be pretty much the final step in the base colours and I'm super excited to see how they'll all look with everything coloured in. I'm taking forever and a day to do this though so I got a lit

FRoper in Weird contraptions and artillery

November 24, 2021

Kaizennus Battle Reports

Narrative Battle Report: SBG vs SCE (Game #32)

Kaizennus in Battle Reports

November 9, 2021

The Mystvale Citadel

The Stormbringer

An ancient device created by the Astromancer Crystaran the mad, that helps monitor the magics flowing from Azyr as well as upon the battlefield creating large storms of magical energy. it was discovered within a destroyed laborator, High in the surrounding mountains during an exploration of an abandoned settlement. The mad inventor Heramedis, built a large clockwork engine with mechanical legs, that allowed the device to be deployed where necessary as well as traverse the heavy and difficult mou

October 22, 2021

The Mystvale Citadel

Elsvera Von Heinria and Indraugnir

Elsvera Von Heinria, Magistrix of magic. Her family once led large covens of battlemages and sorceresses into battle as well as supporting the city through their magical abilities. now, she leads only a small handful of students as they slowly rebuild the city. her magic alongside her dragon Indraugnir was vital as part of the assault on the Plaguekeep. blasting apart the walls with concentrated breaths of fire and dark magic. Since the city has started to being rebuilt, she has come under

FRoper in Characters

October 22, 2021

Nice to start another colour!

Making good progress with the first layer for the white. What you see here is celestra grey. The good news is, the sections which are white are limited and I've made pretty good progress; the bad news is that it's probably gonna take about 3 layers to get a decent opaque base down. I remember this from doing the test model. It's a pretty messy step as well so I can already see multiple spots which will need to be touched up once all base colours are down. Felt really good finally getting some co

October 20, 2021

Survival of the Fittest...or Shiniest

Kronak was still furious over the loss of his chimera. After recruiting his new lieutenant, Skarlak, he immediately put him to the task of tracking down another chimera to add to his army. To make up for the power he lost, he was able to recruit more of his Thunderscorn brethren. During their march, a disgusting sorcerer who obvious followed the god of disease aproached Kronak and asked to join him for the march. His purpose is unknown, but be brought a manticore, so Kranak allowed it.

October 17, 2021

Introducing Skarlak the Grey...also Cuchulag's glow up

"Cuchulag has become unreliable", thought Kronak after the fight with the nighthaunt army. "I cannot afford to that kind of insubordination. Who does he think he is? I MADE him!". To make matters worse, we lost the chimera that has helped us so much. I think it is time to find a new champion. One who will do as instructed. There is on I have in mind that has been delving into the necromantic arts and will help me fight against the power of those ghosts should I need it again." Introd

Kevin K in Models

October 14, 2021

The Legend of the Witch Hazel

Narrative from the Ghost Side

This is a narrative from my last game from my opponents point of view that I thought was cool and he allowed me to add here: Night falls and the specters rise. As always in this realm, death has no true meaning here. Death is only just the beginning of an eternal service to the dark lord Nagash. Tonight, was to be another for these specters to rise. Another night to haunt. The Beasts of Chaos, a name they call themselves rather arrogantly. With the new realm taking

Kevin K in Narrative

October 14, 2021

The Sylvaneth of the Witch Hazel

It begins with a single sapling, pushing through the earth as the days shorten and the nights grow darker. Perhaps growing in a town square, sometimes hidden in an overgrown garden. Most frequently, it will take root somewhere in the wilderness of the realms, unseen and unnoticed. The sapling is not much to look at save for one detail- even in heat of the sun its leaves are frozen solid. Those who have heard the legend will act quickly. A mage or priest may dig the sapling up, set a fire w

Azamar in Path to Glory

October 12, 2021

Project Lightbox

Vindenspite: WiP Adalia Neverfall & Big Jim

(So to clarify the title big Jim is what I lovingly named my incarnate champion in divinity original sin 2 with my friends. Which is also where Adalia comes from, this was very much my attempt to bring the pair into my AoS army as one of my common opponents is one friend I play DoS2 with) Here is the finished models for my outcast Vindenspite character Adalia and her beast, once painted they will share the same base. I will also update the warscroll I had been working on for them to

Lightbox in Vindenspite

October 5, 2021

Arathorn Shadowblades

The Assassin

These two were first models I made for the army. They are Assassin count as. Well the one with wings is techenically originally meant to be Nomad Prince w/ Thermal Rider. So while actual Shadowblade models not a massive fan of. I loved the Splintered Fang models. So you can see the base here. The Assassins use Splintered Fang, Dark Eldar Scourge and Scourge Ark. The first one has its snakes representing the poison, leaping from a striking pose. The second model was designed to be

Arathorn185 in Shadowblade Assassins.

October 3, 2021

Power in Numbers...of Spooky Ghosts

As darkness descended, the army prepared to eat what little was left of the last village they raided. Cuchulag, still feeling smug from his last victory, the breyherd amusing themselves, the thunderscorn off, away from the others as normal. Suddenly a chill came over the camp. This wasn't just the normal chill of night coming on, but something much more sinister. Cuchulag could feel the excitement building and sensed something else, another challenger.... The glow in the distance a

September 30, 2021

Cygor Complete...Mostly

Finished the Cygor a little while ago. Wel...I mostly finished the Cygor. I think I'm calling him done for now. I have a bunch of little dangly things that probably should be added but I kind of like it how it is and ran out of motivation. I'm worried it will be little busy with too much more but he probably needs a few things on his left hip which looks a bit bare. I do also have a head and arms for a Ghorgon which I can swap out if I need to.

Kevin K in Models

September 30, 2021

Red ones go faster

Kids recently started back at nursery... first time since the pandemic. Needless to say the whole house has been very ill for about two weeks. Was able to start up again this week though so thought I'd post an update. Managed to block out all black sections with Abaddon Black. This was mainly the guns for the Longstrike and the reverse of the shields. Both can be seen in the pics. Also made a good start with the first coat of red. I chose Mephiston Red for both the red fabric and also the r

September 23, 2021

Kaizennus Battle Reports

Game #13: Flesh-Eater Courts vs. Cities of Sigmar

AoS 3.0 Game #13 August 28th, 2021 @ Old Dice Wargaming Club Flesh Eater Courts (Feast Day) vs. Cities of Sigmar (Hallowheart) We had a four player group for this week’s game day at the club, and our fourth happened to be another Soulblight player. So in order to avoid mirror matches I chose to bring my dusty old FEC army. I haven’t played FEC since SBG released, which was slightly before the release of third edition. Going through the book with 3rd edition in mind made me think

Kaizennus in Battle Reports

September 20, 2021

Cuchulag's Vindication

Kronak looked out at his enemy, "So the followers of the blood god have found this amber deposit as well. He will be happy with the blood flowing today, but it will not be ours. Cuchulag, we will handle the brunt of this. Go to the right flank and deal with his lesser followers and try to stay in the fight this time." Cuchulag grumbled at the disrespect but followed the orders. He sent his group of Bestigors to sweep around and attempt to outflank the enemy. As he looked out, he saw wh

September 13, 2021

Army Updates

I completed the Dragon Ogors right on time for my first 1000 pt fight. I ran into a bit of a conundrum here. It has been a couple years since I painted my last Dragon Ogors and I couldn't decide if I should try to match them or just do what I liked now. Some of my paints and tools are different and I had some different ideas. It first came up when I put a very different green paint on them. When I saw then next to each other, I was a bit worried. I decided to lean into the difference and j

Kevin K in Models

September 13, 2021

Vindictors are fiddly

I mean, honestly, if the spears don't get snapped off at least once before this is over I'll be super surprised! They're not Nighthaunt fiddly but those spears are awkward! Lush models though. Managed to get a second layer of grey seer on this week. Finished up last night and started work on laying down the black contrast. I managed to get half the army done - the other half I'll get done tonight. It felt so good getting the grey seer stage out the way. So far I'm pretty happy with how thi

September 8, 2021

A Couple Matched Play Battle Reports

Here are a couple games I played with my beasts. These aren't part of the league so no narrative on these but use a lot of these same models. These were my first "real" games of v3 and the first time I've used the BoC in a couple years outside of the escalation league. First battle was 1000 pts vs Gravelords. I brought two units of Dragon Ogors, a Chimera, Ungor Raiders, Ungors for sacrifice, a Shaggoth general, and a shaman. I used Gavespawn. He played Radukar the Beast, a character t

September 6, 2021

The Thunderscorn Return

Cuchulag sat contemplating... "It's true that I just barely got away from the reavers, but we did accomplish our mission and discovered the amberstone ley lines, so why is the boss coming here. Kronak hasn't come down from the mountains in years, since his last attempt to find a way to Azyr. This is my fight, not his! He recruited me. He recognized the talent. I will show all of these lesser being the true meaning of chaos! My new shaman thinks he's detected a cockatrice in the area t

Kevin K in Update

September 6, 2021

Wanted to start off...

... with an apology. My phone really doesn't have the best camera and I'm far too poor to invest in anything to improve the situation. Plus, any spare cash I do have, I'd rather spend on modelling gear and paints. Not really buying models at the minute. There's no need really with the amount of grey I have. I totalled up the other night and my unpainted SCE alone sits at over 7k. Ridiculous. That's kinda one of the main reasons why I'm pushing myself with this blog. I've so much SCE suddenly tha