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    First 500 pts Complete

    By Kevin K,

    I've finished the first month of our painting challenge.  Just in time because we have a 500 pt tournament next Saturday.
    I didn't go nearly as far as I would like, especially on the Shaggoth.  I'm really calling them done for time constraints.  The Shaggoth deserves a lot more detail and highlighting.  I'll probably come back to it next month.  The target for next month is only 250 pts so I should have time.
    Overall, I'm pretty happy with them.  The pressure to complete helped me not worry about some details and just get them table ready.




  2. Kevin K
    Base coated the Dragon Ogors this morning.  Trying out a new airbrush and am super happy how quick they came out.  The rest will all be brush but it was nice to lay down the base coats in these big models.
    I hoping to start laying in details later today.
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    Dragon Ogors...Assemble!

    By Kevin K,

    Wow, I am way behind.  We have a 500 pt tournament next week and I finally got the Dragon Ogors put together.  They took much longer than I thought they would.  I leraned, after the first, to have the six main parts fully cleaned prior to gluing any if it.  I almost had a case where the glue dried with the parts just slightly off and the torso didn't fit, yikes.
    Overall, I super impressed how they fit together to hide the seems (much better than the Palladors).  That being said, after priming I still found some cracks that I need to deal with.
    I eventually have 6 more to do.  I need to figure out how to swap torsos or change them in some other way so they don't all look the same.  I think a torso swap should be doable.
    I decided to do three with two handed weapons and three with two weapons.  They've done a good job balancing the options but that does make it hard to decide.  I think two weapons is the best overall (slightly) but I love the look of the huge weapons.  I am a wimp and super glued the arms and weapon heads on just in case I change my mind
    I just started painting the Shaggoth and will do a work in progress in him soon.
     

  5. Kevin K
    I've been thinking a bit about the background of this Thunderscorn based army.  For whatever reason, from a narrative perspective, I really like Ghur, the realm of beasts.  Part of what made me finally take the plunge on Dragon Ogors was the fact that it gave me an excuse to take monsters in may army.  I really liked the book Bladestorm, which followed Thostos Bladestorm, a Lord Celestant of the Celestial Vindicators, as he leads a Warrior Chamber into Ghur to take a Chaos fort with a realmgate in order to complete some mission that I frankly forget (at that point it got a bit less interesting for me).  It was a pretty typical Realmgate Wars story, but there were a lot of things I really liked.  There was a tribe of humans awed by the Stormcast and thought they were angels sent to help them (they didn't).  It humanized the Stormcast as well as showed their very non-human aspects.  There were some epic battles (of course) with the Stormcast fighting a fort full of Khorne warriors and deamons. It also introduced the Ironjaws as they attack the fort.  My  Stormcast army are Celestial Vindicators based in Ghur.  I put them in the "present" 50-100 years after those events.  They are part of the Vanguard chamber left behind in Ghur to guard that area.
    The new official fluff for the Thunderscorn is great.  For those that haven't read it, they use to live in Azyr until kicked out by Sigmar prior to closing the realmgates.  They really resent that and have been trying to get back there for a thousand years (or something like that).
    My idea for the thunderscorn, is that the Shaggoth was whiling away the centuries in the mountains of Ghur, as they are wont to do, contemplating ways to get back to Azyr and take revenge on Sigmar.  From those mountains he saw the entrance of the Stormcast into the realm and watched the battles at the fort and the reactivation of the realmgate.  He recognized the Stormcast as children of Sigmar and therefore understood that the way to Azyr was now open.  From there he started the long process of planning and mustering the other Thunderscorn of the realm as well as other allied beasts that he could bend to his will.  This puts him in the same "present" as my Stormcast.  His plan is to come down out of the mountain, take the fort and realmgate and make his way to Azyr, fighting anyone in his way (of course) creating his own mini realmgate wars.
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    The Shaggoth is the most complicated resin model I've done (lots of metal back in the day and plastic recently).  I was out of the game when the finecast change came.  I think it mostly went together well.  I pinned the horns and am not sure I love how they went together.
    I would eventually like to make a custom herdstone, I'm thinking an obelisk with a lighting rod on top.  To keep things simple for now, I'm just doing a regular herdstone.  I'll want that if I ever run regular beasts I suppose.
    Started working on the first unit of Dragon Ogors.  Slow going so far.

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    It Begins...

    By Kevin K,

    My local game store is doing an event where everyone competes to complete a new army and then have tournaments at intervals with different sizes.
    https://www.facebook.com/events/2315441201860803/?ti=cl
    I have always loved the look of the Dragon Ogors.  With the recent release of Beasts of Chaos I thought this would be a good opportunity to build up an army.
    My first 500 pts will be:
    Heardstone
    Shaggoth
    Two units of Dragon Ogors


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