swiftmus

Hello there, I have recently picked up the Hedonites Battletome for my club's narrative campaign and have a couple of questions. For the allegiance abilities, the book says 'Slaanesh army' and not 'Hedonites army' , does this mean I can use the allegiance abilities as long as my army is all Slaanesh keyword? Say I have some Slaanesh Chaos Warriors or Slaanesh beastmen. Secondly, and related, does this mean I can bring in beasts and mortals without using up allies points? I'm assuming they then also gain the Euphoric Killers ability? Finally, are these additional Slaanesh units (eg beasts and mortals) included in my host? For example, if I take Invaders, could I theoretically choose a Herald, a Demon Prince and a Beastlord to be my 3 generals? Thanks!

I agree the mangler is probably a bit big; however the new squig boss from Looncurse might work. I haven't assembled mine yet but looking at the sprue, it's somewhere in between the mangler and the regular squigs size-wise.

My copy arrived in the post today, but I need to be good and finish my 40k stuff before building the new gobbos.

As much as I like the revenant hero, I have enough painting to do eight now for aos and 40k so I've split a box with someone from the local club for the Gitz half. They add just what I need to my current collection to form a solid army core.

I finished my goal to convert Kefka for my FF6 display. Got started with the painting but for now I have been sidetracked with 40k stuff so it could be a little while before I come back to this project.

Thanks! I just realised I never did upload the pics of the Mangler after I finished the base. The Gitz are on hold for now while I work on 40k stuff, but I will probably pick up Looncurse and come back to them soon(ish).

I love it! The Gloomspite half rounds out what I already have to a good size to start playing; I've also been thinking of starting Sylvaneth for a number of years now, and always preferred the Revenant aesthetic to the Dryads (plus I do have a box of Revenants I painted when they were released). This box is perfect for me, will most likely pick it up (the new Sylvaneth hero is gorgeous too).

I believe you are referring to this model; it has a similar stitched cape (which was also a rumour engine post) and was part of the recent CSM releases.

I'll give this a go for some extra motivation! Beginning to plan a Final Fantasy 6 themed board for Armies on Parade (if I start early I may actually be done by October!). Going to start with the star of the show, by converting God Kefka from a Necron Deceiver. Also looking to source some models to count as the heroes, so far I'm probably going to get the DE assassin and maybe a Gryph Hound to represent Shadow and his dog. I'll be happy if I can get Kefka ready to paint this month.

Two head options shown (so far at least) for the Keeper of Secrets.

Not sure if it's been posted in here yet, but there are some variants in the new KoS kit, two head options and a left arm with or without shield:

New rumour engine - looks Aelvish to me.

The Mangler is complete, apart from the base. I haven't glued the riders or the chain and while photographing, the model seemed pretty stable so that will make it easier to store and transport the model. I'm really pleased with the complete look, although it is an awkward model to photograph! Skragrott is on the painting desk right now but I am also looking to improve my painting skills in general and have ordered an unrelated model to try next. Therefore this will probably be the last update for the Gitz for now, although I will post final pics of the Mangler Squigs once the base is finished.

The gums and tongue were base coat Mephiston Red, then layer Emperor's Children with some washes of Druchii Violet and Carroburg Crimson in between.

WIP on the Mangler Squigs, lovely models but I have no idea how I'm going to transport it once it's fully assembled 😨 Personally, I really like the yellow armour, plus it's so simple to do! Building as the Loonboss variant but would like to leave the option to also run as a regular Mangler. The boss actually sits quite snuggly just dry-fitting so I hopefully won't need to mess about with magnets or pinning. As for other progress, I have started painting a kitbashed Madcap Shaman and Skragrott, as well as putting 40 bfsp grots onto round bases.

Thanks! @Jackinrae The squigs were quite simple to do, it's pretty much entirely drybrushing and washes. The recipe/order was something like this: 1. Base coat with Naggaroth Night 2. Drybrush Genestealer Purple 3. Carroburg Crimson wash on top, with a Druchii Violet wash on the undersides (this didn't seem to make much difference, if I were to do anymore I'd do some heavier drybrushing on their undersides with a lighter colour first - see Duncan's Mangler Squig skin video on Warhammer TV) 4. Drybrush Lucius Lilac on the most raised areas 5. Drybrush Emperor's Children on specific areas of raised details, such as lips, boils, faces etc. I found it a lot easier to paint the insides of the mouths and tongues before gluing the faces on.

I like Army Painter Skeleton Bone. I use it for bone, teeth, nails, claws, off-white cloth, light brown cloth... and I use it quite frequently as a top highlight for all sorts of browns and greens.

Real life got in the way for a while, but I've finally finished basing the Bounders. There is more I could do but I'm calling these done for now; I think the rust-shrooms came out particularly well (and were super easy to do). I ran out of brown spray while priming the Mangler so will need to pick up some more before I can continue painting the Gitz. Also have Skragrott assembled, and a unit of 60 Stabbas and a kitbashed Madcap Shaman being sprayed for me at my local GW (managed to win a painting competition with a 40k model and got some 'slave labour' as a prize!).

Stormvault does appear to have some models - in blue plastic, top right corner of the board.

Following on from my question the other day regarding modular Manglers; today I finished the sub assemblies and it looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to magnetise the Loonboss. Part of its robe forms a cavity which sits snug to one of the squig's spikes, if I cut the spike off I should be able to glue a magnet there with it's twin in the boss' robe. Not sure what I would do to cover the bare magnet if I was using the model as a regular Mangler though. I'm also not looking forward to trying to pack the model for transport, random fiddly bits sticking out all around. I have the large GW case with the squiggly foam, not sure how easy it will be to accommodate the Mangler.

I haven't started assembling my Mangler yet, and was wondering how easy it would be to make it modular, so that I can use it as a regular Mangler or the Loonboss version.

These are great! I really like the green cloaks.

Since moving to an area that not only has an active Warhammer club, but one that includes people playing AoS, I decided to find a new army and dive back in. I wanted something which would provide some painting contrast to my 40k Harlequins, and Gloomspite Gitz were announced at just the right time, making them the perfect choice. I originally started WHFB with the 6th edition starter set (Orcs vs Empire) and also have the Skull Pass goblins lying around. O&G were my first ever Warhammer army so I am excited to return to my green roots. Over the last couple of weeks I have been steadily working on a unit of Boingrot Bounders and am really happy with how they have come out. I just need to do the bases (including the mushroom skewered on the champion's lance). I'm thinking realm of metal, so some sort of basic dirt highlighted with some metallics, possibly some blue pools to represent copper etc); for the mushrooms I am probably going to paint them as rusted metal. I love using bright colours and avoid painting black wherever possible, hence the red robes. So here they are, the 'Knights who slay knee(s)'. To do: I have 60 spear grots assembled and ready for priming (40 from Skull Pass and a fresh box of 20, including 3 metal netters), alongside Skragrott and a Mangler Squig to be assembled.

Kitbashed a Madcap Shaman, I'm really happy with how it came out. Planning on painting a magical energy type effect on some of the scenery, including the snotling's back. The snotling was just trying to take a nap under some mushrooms and is now running for its life to avoid being turned into magical fuel.

I've sent them an email, so hopefully I can get it resolved quickly