Converting Skitarii into Catachan city fighters

I bought a set of Skitarii a long time ago a huge discount. They sat patiently in the closet until the Escher conversions sparked an idea. I want some Catachans in the army but I'm not shelling out money on GW's dated looking models. So here's the idea: use the Skitarii as city fighters, painting their cloaks in grey city camo. I also wanted them to better fit my almost-all-female nun army, so I bought some female heads for them. Besides two sets of Rangers, I also had a box of Ruststalkers - perfect for the beefier Catachan characters.

Converting Escher gangers into Kasrkin

I had some Escher sprues (3x5 gangers) since forever. Initially I envisioned them as Slaaneshi cultists, but then I got actual cultists from a Dark Vengeance box, and so in the pile of potential they stayed. Up until now. Playing Necromunda Underhive Wars sparked the idea to convert them and use them as Kasrkin. Kind of makes sense, as the kasrkin are literally 'city kin'. Who is more city dwelling than the hive gangers? Now I wanted to stick to the Escher aesthetics, so the conversions are only aimed at achieving WYSIWYG equipment, as follows: sergeant with power weapon and plasma pistol; two plasma guns; two volley guns; one pistol and melta mine; one sniper rifle; voxcaster; four lasguns.

Dungeons & Dragons: The adventures of Legorlas Green Leaf

Short introduction: I joined an ongoing adventure based on the Mines of Phandelver (or so I'm told). I quickly whipped up a level 3 character based on a class I always wanted to try. Meet Legorlas, the wood elf druid, born and raised in Neverwinter Woods. 

And so Legorlas was just setting up camp while delivering a message to a certain person of interest, when he was attacked by dragon cultists. In the woods. On his home turf. Enraged, the druid transformed into a bear and laid into the cultists. Needless to say, they fell like wheat.[1]

The party noticed the commotion while travelling nearby, and came to investigate. They were thinking of taking the humans' side against the raging bear, when the cultists turned on them, and so the decision was made for them.[2]

Painting commission Rat Swarms

Pre-primed by WizKids. 

Re-painting LOTR hunter orcs

I bought this bunch of Lord of the Rings hunter orcs second hand, assembled and basecoated. Like so many other minis, they spent their fair share in the closet. Now that I have experience doing simple glow-ups, I thought I'd give them a try.

Breaking hearts: a D&D 5E one-shot

Due to all the messed up schedules, we settled on doing a one-shot instead of our regular games. Without further ado, the adventurers arrived in a village where everyone was depressed due to young couples gone missing. Obviously, the party accepted to track them down.

• Jaskier, human bard
• Xirat'P, goblin sorcerer
• Famine, hexblood ranger
• Emanon, warforged cleric
• Chackie Jan, wood elf monk

Painting a commission giant scorpion

I got this mini loaned to be used as Muiral in Dungeon of the Mad Mage. I slapped some paint on it, in return.

Painting a resin Fiend of Slaanesh

I bought this guy off eBay some time ago, purely for a collectible value. The miniature was painted badly and thickly, but it's Finecast (For my opinion on Citadel Finecast, consult this article.) so I didn't dare strip it. I just repainted it, and it doesn't look half bad.

Mission #2 - Raid the Ork camp

The Imperials formed a battle line and assaulted the Ork camp, with the Orks haphazardly[1] deployed around the objectives. Fittingly, the Ork vehicles rolled to deploy beside the fuel dump. My objective: hold the objectives for a turn, thus razing them.

The left flank was held down by the Atican City Fighters[2], with the infiltrators - Sylvestra[3] and the Callidus Assassin in the opposing corner.

Mission #2

Castellan Mother Theresa leaned over the tactical hololith hastily set-up in the back of her command Chimera. The orks were in retreat, and her platoons were shooting down any stragglers. Sister Lucy stepped up, wiping greenish gore off her blade.

'Alright, let us consolidate-'

'You shall do no such thing.'

Smoke effect (cotton)

 

Painting Gaunt's Ghosts

After spending quite some time in the closet in a box, then some more time assemble while I mulled over basing and color schemes, time to finally paint these boys.

Note that I know that the official Tanith uniform is black, but already most of my Guard is black, so I preferred a more earthy brown/green color scheme here.

Note that I realize that their forest bases heavily diverge from the rest of the Guard's city bases. However, they are already cast with forest-y stuff on their bases (even though in the books they mostly fight in cityscapes) and I did not want to cut apart these lovely models.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Trolling the Troglodytes

We picked up the story with the adventurers going back to Vlonvelw and getting their just reward.[1] She then offered up another job: do what you do best and kill almost everything on the level below, but for a reward. House Auvryndar wished to enslave the troglodytes living below, but was thwarted by enchanted trolls, some other type of huge monster, as well as a rival drow house. The party accepted, and headed down after a long rest[2].

Painting Death Korps of Krieg (special equipment)

With the first 10 troopers painted and the color scheme vetted, time to fill out the ranks with the special equipment guys.