Retouching a knight and adding a cobblestone base

Introduction

A mini I found languishing in between my unpainted stuff. This guy was fully painted (but not by me), but was not based. I forgot to take a before picture. I decided to try something new, and create a cobblestone base using milliput and a custom rolling pin. I did not take pictures of the process, but it proved to be a success, and I'll replicate it soon enough.

Chaos vs Imperial Fists, 24.11.2017

Mission: Contact Lost

Lists: 2000 points

Chaos (11 CP and 171 points for summoning):

• Chaos Daemons: Battalion Detachment
• 2x Herald of Nurgle
• 3x 10-man Horrors, 5 Blue Horrors, 5 Brimstone Horrors
• Chaos: Battalion Detachment
• Daemon Prince of Nurgle, wings, dual malefic talons
• Death Guard Daemon Prince, wings, dual malefic talons, warlord, Relic: the Suppurating Plate
• 10-man Horrors, 5 Blue Horrors, 5 Brimstone Horrors
• 3-man Nurglings
• 30-man Plaguebearers, icon, instrument
• Chaos Space Marines, Word Bearers Legion: Patrol Detachment
• Sorcerer, force staff
• 10-man Cultists, autoguns
• Death Guard: Supreme Command Detachment
• 3x Malignant Plaguecaster
• Death Guard: Supreme Command Detachment
• 3x Malignant Plaguecaster
• Noxious Blightbringer

My gameplan here is to Smite-spam. A lot. Instead of Heralds which are a bit cheaper, I opted to try out the Plaguecasters, who can deal out additional mortal wounds within 7" through their special ability.

Imperial Fists: Battalion Detachment (6 CP)

• Captain on Bike: combi-plasma, thunder hammer, warlord, Relic: the Armor Indomitus
• Librarian on Bike: combi-plasma, force sword
• 5-man Intercessors: auxiliary grenade launcher
• 5-man Intercessors
• 10-man Scouts: sniper rifles
• 6-man Aggressors: Auto Boltstorm Gauntlets/Fragstorm Grenade Launcher 
• Apothecary
• Redemptor Dreadnought: 2x Storm Bolters, Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon, Icarus Rocket Pod, Onslaught Gatling Cannon
• 4-man Bikes, power sword
• 10-man Hellblasters, plasma incinerators
• 2x Predator, 2x Lascannons, Predator autocannon

Retouched Plaguebearer swords

Rebasing the elf White Lion

Continuing the trend of fixing up old miniatures, I got out this White Lion of Chrace that I painted for a competition some time ago.

The troublesome ring (1) - Party at the crossroads

As the adventurers were on the road exiting the Zarek Valley, they got caught up by Zyn, who ran into a bit of trouble with the human lord due to not understanding silly surface-dweller values.* The first stop of the party was at an inn at the crossroads.

The troublesome ring

Having finished the long campaign throughout the Zarek Valley, I needed to interrupt our gaming sessions due to real-life issues knocking on my door. Fortunately, I had a player volunteer to be DM.

Painting a brown bear

Introduction

For the one DnD player who absolutely positively has to animate her character's teddy bear toy!

The temple of Seth (3)

We started off by talking to the spirit, although at this point the timeline was somewhat jumbled, and we mixed up whatever we heard last time at the end with what the spirit was telling us there and then.

Wood elf display base

Having painted all the elves from Magic the Gathering: Arena of the Planeswalkers, I decided to create a scenic base for them.

The concept is to have the four male archers in the front, the two females in the back, with the druid standing out in the middle.

Woodland base

The example below is a scenic display base: a surface large enough for me to apply every technique and material that I possess for woodland terrain. For smaller surfaces, such as the base of a miniature, I would not do all - maybe pick two from flowers, grass tufts and bushes.

The temple of Seth (2)

After a short rest, the party moved on from the scene of battle. At the base of a cliff, we noticed a cabin in the woods - with lots of smoke coming out the chimney! We hailed the cabin, but prepared for battle. Eventually, the proprietor came out to talk - he was just cooking dinner for his pet dinosaur.

We talked quite a bit, getting under his skin. Rexxar was a pretty nice guy with a quest of his own. He came from a line of fabled beastmasters (Warcraft fanservice, thank you) and he settled in this region to tame a dinosaur. His pet, Mishu was still a baby, so he couldn't go back to his family yet. He also let us know of the lay of the land, and the temple itself, which he had seen from the outside, but did not approach due to the horde snake people around it. That sounded like a lot of XP, so we decided to make our way there anyway. However, we got along with the guy so well that he let us sleep in his cabin (for some extra safety) and agreed to join us to rid the land of the interlopers.

The next day at noon we reached the entrance to the temple. We took a stealthy approach through the marshes and crept up on the two guards.

Chaos vs Chaos Space Marines, 01.11.2017 - unleash the ForgeWorld models!

Mission: Spoils of War

The mission actually did not come up this game, as there we did not draw any objectives to be stolen.

Lists: 2000 points

Chaos:

• Chaos Daemons: Battalion Detachment
• 2x Daemon Prince of Nurgle, wings, dual malefic talons
• 30-man Plaguebearers, icon, instrument
• 2x 10-man Brimstone Horrors
• Chaos Daemons: Super-Heavy Auxiliary Detachment
• Scabeiathrax the Bloated
• 2x Renegades & Heretics: Supreme Command Detachment
• 3x Malefic Lords
• Chaos Space Marines, Word Bearers: Supreme Command Detachment
• 3x Sorcerers
• 239 points for reinforcements

Smite spam at its finest.

Chaos Space Marines: Skultakers

• Vanguard Detachment 
• Zhufor the Impaler
• Chaos Decimator equipped with 2 x Decimator siege claw with hellflamer
• Hellforged Contemptor Dreadnought equipped with Twin autocannon and Hellforged deathclaw with Combi-bolter
• Hellforged Predator equipped with Plasma destroyer and 2 x Lascannon
• Blood Slaughterer of Khorne equipped with 2 x Slaughter blade
• Blood Slaughterer of Khorne equipped with Slaughter blade and Impaler harpoon
• 3 x Hellforged Rapier Battery equipped with 2 x Quad heavy bolter and Laser destroyer
• Super-Heavy Auxiliary Detachment: Legion: Skulltakers
• Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne

Every single model in this list is a Forge World model.