Franz_Kefka

Your stuff is so lovely I showed my 70 year old mother and she went nuts. 🤩 Great photos!

Hi there! This is my first (and hopefully not last) entry! Huzzah! After several years of humming and hawing about converting my square-based models to circles and going full Dukes of Hazzard on Age of Sigmar, I've finally done it. I have played Warhammer Fantasy since Grade 6, and can finally almost afford it as a hobby. While I've got a few armies to convert over and tool up, (Goblins, Dark Elves, Lizardmen) I've decided to start with my Skaven, as I have the largest amount of them started. Intro: Operation Slimecrime My skaven army was previously based with a dark mud, battlefield trenches kind of theme. Not particularly exciting, though quick to do, and the dark colours complimented the brighter paint on some of the models. I've decided to continue this basing theme, but now with more SEWERS and more SLIME. I've daydreamed up a bit of lore for this army. Basically, the highest ranking Plague Priest, who runs a large outer-Undercity sewer maintenance and defense squadron, comes under the sway of a mysterious, enigmatic, (non-rat!?) stranger. This stranger, eager to test out the resilient rats as the subject of their experiments, has supplied the Plague Priest's army with strange magic and technology, but at what price?!? The Centerpiece: THE PLAGUE FURNACE The main attraction of my previous army, the Plague Furnace needed some serious upgrades to really impress in 2019. Have you seen these gold-armoured Sigmarite goons? You gotta bring the big guns these days. This would simply not do: I wanted to keep the bulk of the original conversion, as I was still happy with how I had tried to represent an actual furnace , (or boiler?!) rather than, uh, a swinging stinky battering ram. Which is still cool, but not what I had pictured when I read about the ol' P-Furnace. Nevertheless, it was time for some upgrades! CUE- REBUILD TIME. ENGINE SWAP. DRIVETRAIN SWAP. NEW PAINT. HOT N' FRESH. TANK TREADS- For enhanced traction. NASTY GIANT CRYSTAL- For extra potent fumes. RAT OGOR CRONIE- For that lil' extra security. TROUBLE LIGHT- You gotta work at night, sometimes! SLIME VAT- How many days since the last Health and Safety incident? We can't count past 13! Bruno, well, he loves his job. He get's to travel a lot, but still has time to see his family back home. A couple of shots of the base. Smells like putrid sewer waste! Up next: Hnnnnnngh. This model is not technically finished. The 'enigmatic stranger' I tropishly and nerdily hinted at earlier, well, this is his mount. It's an older metal model, one I've been holding on to since my yout'. Painting him up separately, I will be posting some work in progress photos, and expanding on the lore of this BAD DUDE next time, on.....Oooooooperation: Sliiiiiiiiiiiimecrime. P.s. Yeeessss, the title of this blog is a shameless Queensryche reference. Good job.