hwd48 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Hey all, Haven't posted a WIP here before so be kind! Bit background before I dive in... I've been wargaming for most of my life, the heydey of which was 5-10 or so years ago where I, along with my mates from Pigmar, hit the tournament scene for Warhammer. While I never had much success on the tabletop I occasionally turned heads with my pig themed empire army, and always had great fun traipsing around the country, meeting people and playing warhammer! Since the advent of AoS I have moved away from warhammer and dug into Blood Bowl and Necromunda a lot but this is all about to change! I really want to get into AoS, and to get back out into the tournament scene. To this end I will need an army which I can take to tournaments, which means switching to round bases! While I love my empire army I an reluctant to re-base these a) because there are a shed load of models to work on and b) because I love the way it looks all ranked up, which needs square bases. My Khorne daemons however I have no such qualms about, hence this plog and the (hopefully) not too slow march to a round based army in time for the London GT in May next year... Enough waffle, time for models! Obviously in re-basing the army I have the opportunity to change the bases and to this end I have done a few quick scheme tests, which should hopefully be attached to this rambling post! There are three options; 1 - Brown earth, green water and grass flock - this is how I base pretty much everything so has the benefit that if I ever get round to making a board then the daemons will match 2 - Agrellan Earth with tufty stuff - Love this stuff and have used it a lot recently 3 - Grey earth / stones, pools of blood and snow flock - this is how the army was originally and I think it kinda works against the cooler reds on the models What do people think? Like any option in particular or has anyone got an alternative option I could try out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 And to follow up, a quick blast from the past! By which I mean some old photos of the army... Since these were taken I have fleshed out the army to include Bloodthirster 2 Heralds 60 Bloodletter 6 Bloodcrusher 15 Flesh hound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysandestolpe Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 dude! this is looking great! Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzaangor Management Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I prefer your original basing scheme of stone, blood and snow to the others and I really like the pale red skin tone of the Blood Letters, really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 Cheers guys! I am also leaning to keeping the original basing scheme... dunno why but I think it helps to make the bloodletters 'pop' on the bases more? Hopefully my order of 32mm bases will come through the post today so I can make a start on the great-re-basing! If not it will be a bit of painting time on my Empire instead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 2, 2017 Author Share Posted November 2, 2017 So the 32mm rounds arrived last night and I made a good crack at getting the first unit of 20 bloodletters bases done... that was until my glue ran out! D'oh... Off to poundland at lunch to pick up another batch of cheapo glue for basing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 No love for unpainted bases eh... How about painted ones? Not finished but getting closer! Hopefully these will have bloodletters on by the end of the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 Boom! Letters on their bases and 15 more waiting for hounds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOMUS Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I like the ash-blood bases, they're simple but really effective with the daemons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 Cheers MOMUS! Today I managed to get the hounds stuck down and the base rims painted black... Not a lot of progress but for most of today I have been printing my work portfolio for my chartership interview in a few weeks..! LOOONG day of sitting around waiting for the office printer to get on with it! Anyway, next up for this lot will be snow on the bases, which I think really helps to lift the models, and breaks up the bases a bit more Piccies when I get round to it... H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Got my first game of AoS with these boys tonight! Gonna try out this 1k list Bloodmaster Bloodsecreator 20 Bloodletter 20 Bloodletter 3 Bloodcrusher 5 Flesh Hound 5 Flesh Hound I'll post some piccies tomorrow, wish me luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TickleMyNurgle Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The ashy earth and blood pools look very cool, i think you made the right choice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Cheers Tickle! So apart from entirely forgetting how long it takes to set up and play games that aren’t my beloved blood bowl, last nights game was AWESOME! I was playing against my future doubles partner, so the game was very friendly and fun and very much a voyage of discovery for us both. He ran Nurgle, with a mix of daemons and not… I messed up and forgot about how charging worked in AoS so he got the charge off and it looked a bit hairy, until I opened the portal of skulls on the bloodsecreator and the boys got very very angry! Love the combo of this combined with a herald to help with re-rolling 1’s. Even more I love his “I’ve fought so my mates get to do that now too” ability, which took my opponent by surprise and allowed me to effectively neuter his blightkings before they could swing… We were playing a scenario were we needed to capture two objectives to get a major victory and once I had punched a bit hole in his centre and tied his flanks up in combat, it was pretty straightforward to spread out and grab both… Didn’t get many piccies, but here her are before the messy combat in the middle began! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 So, I had a productive day! Loads of basing and flocking and so additional highlighting on the gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Hobbytime! Gonna finish the secreator today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwd48 Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 There's been progress... Just need to put some snow on the base now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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