Hobgolbin for the Chaos Dwarfs/Havoc Dwarfs

The finished allied Hobgoblins for the Chaos Dwarves for Fantasy Skirmish. A squad of three wolf riders with short bows and a Hobgoblin Leader on a wolf. 

I painted the models over a year ago, but never got around to taking some photos.

The finished Hobgoblins

The Hobgoblin Leader on wolf (front)

 

 The Hobgoblin Leader on wolf (back)

Chaos Dwarfs/Havoc Dwarfs - part 2

The complete Chaos Dwarf part of the gang is now painted. 
I also made decals so I could complete the missing shields on the Chaos Dwarf Warriors.

Complete dwarves part of the gang

Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer front

Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer back

Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses

Chaos Dwarf Warriors with hand weapons

Chaos Dwarf Weapon Teams with Mortars

Decals for the shields of the Chaos Dwarf Warriors

Chaos Dwarfs/Havoc Dwarfs

I painted part of the Chaos Dwarf Skirmish Army.
1 Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer and 3 Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses are complete.  

The 3 Chaos Dwarf Warriors with hand weapons are also finished except for the shields, because I'm still looking for decals for these.

Chaos Dwarfs

I used the following colors to paint the miniatures:

New year, new army? [OPR, Havoc Dwarfs]

New year, new army? Probably not..., in the last two years the real life has taken up most of the time, leaving very little time for the hobby. But a few new models would be a good start to start some time with the hobby again.

I would like to play more regularly again, but most of the rule systems are so extensive that the games always take up a lot of time, which I unfortunately don't have. When I was looking for rules for faster games I came across the rules of onepagerules - Age of Fantasy: Skirmish which I would like to test.

Since I wanted a few suitable models for this, the Chaos Dwarfs that I had printed in 3D for testing a few years ago came back to my mind.
Unfortunately, these were slightly out of scale in size. But since I found these models in a box, they were a good starting point. So I started the 3d printer again, which I hadn't used for a long time, to print some Chaos Dwarfs this time, which matched the good old models from the 90s in terms of their appearance and size.

So, after a few trial and error attempts, I had a small pile of models from which I could make an army for onepagerules - Age of Fantasy: Skirmish.

I wanted a small band of chaos dwarves supported by some hobgoblins. That's how I came up with the list below.

Chaos Dwarfs skirmish army - primed

++ Havoc Dwarves [300pts] ++ 

Goblin Leader [1] Q5+ D5+ | 40pts | Hero, Tough(3), 1x Wolf(Fast, Impact(1))
Cave-Beast Companion (A2, Rending), Hand Weapon (A3), Heavy Bites (A1, AP(1)) 

Abyssal Leader [1] Q4+ D5+ | 45pts | Hero, Slow, Tough(3), 1x Hex Caster(Wizard(1))
Hand Weapon (A3) 

Beast Riders [3] Q5+ D5+ | 60pts | Fast, Impact(1), Wolf Riders(Fearless)
3x Hand Weapons (A1), 3x Shortbows (18", A1), 3x Heavy Bites (A1, AP(1)) 

Warriors [3] Q4+ D5+ | 35pts | Shield Wall, Slow
3x Hand Weapons (A1) 

Shooters [3] Q4+ D5+ | 40pts | Slow
3x Hand Weapons (A1), 3x Rifles (18", A1, AP(1)) 

2x Weapon Team [1] Q4+ D5+ | 40pts | Slow, Tough(3)
Crew (A2), Mortar (24", A1, Blast(3), Indirect)

After priming I also managed to apply the basic color for the bases.

Chaos Dwarfs skirmish army - basic color for bases

 
 

Firestorm Class Frigates (BFG)

 The first ships for the two fleets are finished. 

Squadron of 3 Firestorm Class Frigates

 

Squadron of 3 Firestorm Class Frigates

I started to make some blast markers. I printed the marker on paper, glued them to some cardboard. I also glued protective film on the front side to protect the printing.

  Frigates with blast markers

 

The next ships are the Imperial Navy cruisers, which already have there base color and painted prows. Contrast paints work realy well on the ships. I used Warp Lightning for the imperial ones and Flesh Tearers Red for the chaos.

Remaining ships

New year, new models

It was pretty quiet around the tabletop hobby in the last few months of 2020. I planed to start with Man o' War, but has some problems with the proxy ships, so I'll put it off until later this year. 

40k is still in pause mode, because I still wait for the fist chaos codex release, so still "more" time for some projects beside that. I build and started priming the Orc Trukk for Gorkamorka, but I didn't get any more than that.

But I'm happy that I made some progress with BFG, for which I have got my hands on some printed remastered rules and also enough ships for the start of two fleets.

 

Imperial Navy fleet consisting of a Lunar Class Cruiser, a Dictator Class Cruiser, a Overlord Class Battlecruiser and a escort squadron with 3 Firestorm Class Frigates.

Chaos fleet consisting of a Slaughter Class Cruiser, a Devestation Class Cruiser, a Styx Class Heavy Cruiser and a escort squadron with 3 Idolator Class Raiders.

Both fleets are around 750 points, so the perfect combination for some test games. I have also primed both fleets and started so paint the imperial ships, but more from that hopeful in the not so far future.

 

From outer space (Starships/BFG)

Haven't build and painted much from 40k miniatures in the last time, so updates for the Chaos/Death Guard will come in some next posts.

But I have started to paint some starships.
They are all 3d printed and mainly for BFG, but I wanted to use the Full Thrust rules, because the are free and include rules for designing own ships.

Painted chaos fleet: 

Grandcruiser, heavy cruiser with fighter squadrons and strike cruiser with boarding ships.

Painted Models: 

Chaos grandcruiser, chaos heavy cruiser, Black Templars strike cruiser, chaos strike cruiser and boarding ships.

All ships with a lot unpainted ships from different fleets: 

Chaos, Imperial, Space Marines and Mechanicus.

Plague Marines

The seven Plague Marines from the start box are now build and based. The backpacks are missing on the picture, because I will paint them seperate. If I have enough time, they will get primed at the weekend.
Now I can set up four squads each 5 man strong (2 with plasma guns and 2 with blight launcher).

The call of the Lord of Decay

As mentioned in the last post, I have also some Death guard models on the tabel (with some fancy tablecloth 😀).

Seven Plague Marines are partially painted, 6 easy to build marines are fully build and seven more marines from the start box are going to come (one is sneaking in the downer left corner).

I also have found the missing Plaguebearers from which I strip the color, so that they can get the same look like there brothers and I can complete a 30 man squad.

Ongoing Projects

At the moment I have many projects in the making. Some are close the be finished and some are barely started. I hope a few will find a successful end in the not so far future.

Chaos Knights (3 models, close to end)
The Chaos Knight is now full painted (also with mounted head).
The main body, weapons and bases of the Wardogs are also finished, the shoulder pads and armour plates still need some paint.
All decals are still missing, but I have finished them in digital form, so I only need to print them somehow.

Plaguebearers (25 models, started paintig)
For the reinforcement of my chaos armys I started a 30 model strong Plaguebearers squad (6 still missing) with a Spoilpox Scrivener. The Plaguebearers are the 3. edition tin models.
I also plan to add a Nurgle Herold later for some more boosting.

Khorne Berzerker (12 models, built and primed)
Another reinforcement for chaos are a Squad of 10 Khorne Berzerker with a Khorne Lord and a Khorne Dark Apostle. The Lord is a lightly converted AoS model and the Apostle is mainly built from the new and old Chaos Marine kit.

This is all very chaos and 40k heavy, there a also some other projects for which I have no photos or aren't very advanced:

• Warcry
• Black Templars
• Deathwing
• Death Guard
• Frostgrave

Chaos Knights #2 and Black Templars #4

The Chaos Knight is ready build and painted with the exception of the head and the heraldic shield, which are also painted but I wait with the assembly, till I have finished all heraldic.
For this I have bought some decal paper, which hopefully arrives in the next days, so that I can print some custom decals.
The knight also got a Icarus autocannon beside the two gatling guns.

Besides the knight I also started to build some more Black Templar from some leftover Space Marines. 
Next week the Faith and Fury campaign book will get released, so I hope they will get some good rules like the chapters of the first founding.

Chaos Knight (and a lost battle)

The last battle of the powerful warmaster Abaddon against the unworthy Ultramarines was shockingly not that great for the warmaster.
The lose of the initiativ, slow moving so that the first close combat was in the 4th battle round and a bad combat result from Abaddon himself (he only killed one Infiltrator. :O ) resulted in a defeat.

The normal Chaos Marines are not that great in the shooting phase, so I decided to reinforce the army with some heavy firepower of a Chaos Knight.
I build him with 2 gatling guns in a red and white color scheme.
Still wip, but already looking decent for me.

Warcry Iron Golem warband ready for battle!

The Iron Golem warband is completly painted, I finished the last 3 models at the weekend.
The color scheme is very similar to the original from GW.

Before I took a picture of only the finished 5 models, but forgot to post them.

To make a little progress with the next models is started to paint the skin of the Untamed Beasts.

Possessed and Warcry

Hi, no sign of life till over a month, because of other stuff. But I have painted and build a little now and then.

First I have finished my older Possessed and even played a game with them.
I like the speed, invulnerable save and the 2LP from them, they work great with a Master of Possession and the special detachment.

The second is I have bought the Warcry starter box and have build the two warbands completely, started to build the terrain and even started with the painting of the first model (the Dominar from the Iron Golems).

Abaddon #2

Abaddon got some more colors, but is still wip.
The sword is just blue and I'm not really happy with the fire from the torch. This will be some more work till it looking good.

Abaddon #1

I have bought the new Abaddon model, wich is really amazing.
In his first game (only primed in black), he had a tough start as he lost all but one wounds. With these one wound left he killed 3 characters and nearly 10 Primaris Marines in close combat. Great!
So now he its time for some colors and I started the painting with grey drybrushing, black inking and a few details in gun metal.

Word Bearers Dark Apostle with Dark Disciples

After the rule changes for the Dark Apostle I need 2 Dark Disciples for him to make him more effective with his prayers. The models are an older chaos psyker from FW and one chaos cultist with other arms.

Chaos "Lord"/Sorcerer #3 - Finished!

The Chaos Lord Sorcerer is finished.
There are some spots that are not so perfect, but I hadn't a lot of time for painting. Altogehter I'm happy with the result.
Some pictures as impression.

Chaos "Lord"/Sorcerer #2

The base colors für the armour and base are finished.
But i'll change the blue in the next step a little more to turquoise.

Chaos "Lord"/Sorcerer #1

I'm painting a Chaos Lord for a local painting event, were everyone got a random miniature.
Because I'm not so deep in playing AoS, I'll convent the lord to a chaos sorcerer for my 40k Chaos Space Marine army.

Primed "Lord"/Sorcerer
Left arm and the blade are from another kit.
Base converted to a 32mm round base with some putty and extra skulls.