Thursday, August 31, 2023

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.


Monday, August 28, 2023

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]

Thursday, August 24, 2023

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.

Monday, August 21, 2023

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

Thursday, August 17, 2023

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.