Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Zyn and the Legends were here... and they beat the snakes

Back to swampy land! At least we were well rested, and I decided to change up my prepared spell list a bit. Everybody's quite tired by Summon Greater Demon by now, I bet.

Painting an unmodified Venomcrawler

Why unmodified? Apparently I assembled this guy after buying the Chaos half of Shadowspear and left him to rot at the back of the shelf. I painted him along the lines of the first Venomcrawler, so take a look there if interested.  

Word Bearers vs Black Legion, 17.01.2023

Kick off this year's Warhammer with a Chaos on Chaos game of the souped-up Dark Apostle vs Abaddon!

We drew some Tempest of War cards but again decided to ignore the mission rules. We somehow always get reserve shenanigans when 10 Terminators need to go into deep strike.

Note the Immolator on my left flank - I forgot to bring an extra Rhino.

Fixing, magnetizing and painting Contemptor Dreadnoughts

Two ancient Contemptor Dreadnoughts bought cheaply from eBay. Originally painted in Imperial Fist colors.

M.A.G.U.S. - Why, oh why, would you fix the evil runic circle

The last room explored during the previous session contained this evil looking runic circle. Back then, the mage decided not to fix it. However this session we had a different mage to replace him, and this one, for some reason, turned out to be more... adventurous.

Painting a Helbrute

A very old Helbrute model acquired second hand. It's been sitting in IPA (the 99 degree type) for at least the past year. 

Painting more Chaos Cultists

More Cultists. No conversions this time, as I got the rest of the 'unique' sculpts, including champions and heavy weapons.

Painting up an old metal Cypher

I picked this model up on eBay back when Fallen had rules and their own specialist detachment. Nothing came of it then, but I still decided to paint him up to assist my Word Bearers.

Converting and painting Chaos Cultists

These Cultists have seen action in times past. I decided to paint them up inspired by the Gaunt's Ghosts novel 'Honor Guard', which features Chaos forces calling themselves the Infardi and wearing green robes.

Painting more old-school Plague Marines (bodies)

Introduction

I had originally converted 3 more dudes to complete my original 7-man squad. They were supposed to run in my Chaos Marine army, jumping out of a Rhino with 6 plasma guns total. Well, that belongs in the past as a now invalid loadout. The models languished behind their painted brothers in the display case for, I kid you not, three years. That was quite enough.

Painting Boulderkin (slapchop method)

A group of cutesy elementals from the Reaper kickstarter.

Re-painting Flesh Hounds

Introduction 

I got these Flesh Hounds as part of the payment for painting the Triumph of Saint Katherine. They had a basic paint job on but beautiful basing - unfortunately I forgot to take pictures. Even more unfortunately, I had to rip them off their bases, as the official base size changed. Sigh. That pretty much killed my mood for doing anything with them, until now.

The year in review

The year was quite good overall, but overshadowed by the end period. My November review was already half-hearted. Well, December was even worse from a hobby point of view, as I did literally nothing. No games. No painting. On the flip side, we moved home to a bigger apartment. Not quite finished yet, but I'll soon have my own office/cave to work and/or paint miniatures in, with a very large display cabinet planned. This is also why we don't have any pictures for this review, as most of my stuff is still in boxes.

So... let's move on.