First Twilight Kin

With the Green Wing completed I know have both of the Gangs of Commorragh finished and ready to use. My brother should be coming over in a few weeks so I am sure we can fit a few games in.

The whole Gang

Must clean my desk some day

This meant that I could get some work done on the Blade Dancers and the Nephilim who will be used as a bolt thrower stand-in.

Basics done

The big dude

As normal I am getting the basic colours down and then touching up after, I am not entirely sure what direction I am going to go with the Nephilim but a darker red looks good so far. As I may want to use the Nephilim for Hordes later on I have put some magnets in his feet to allow for easier base swapping.

Green Wing #2

As I'm off work all this week it means I can make some progress with the Hellions and have first look at the models for the TK army.
First off I made some good progress with Green Wing and they should be finished off tomorrow.

Almost Done

I also put some colour down on the bases for the TK and started to put together the Vestals from Avatars of War. The models themselves come in a multi-part kit that can be put together in a variety of poses with different weapons. The box of 30 contained over 40 heads and enough arms and legs for 30 figures, it also contained 3 standards. The models are made from a fairly soft plastic which my Gorilla Superglue gel was strangely resistant to sticking together.

Kept this basic

Bits of Vestals

The vestals came as separate body with 1 leg, head, leg, & arms. As I want an action pose for the unit I have set myself the challenge of having all the models with only 1 foot on the ground. In order to help the models stay in place on the base I will be pinning them. I hadn't done this before so it was a good chance to learn, the feet are very small and narrow so it was a bit fiddly.

Mounted & Undercoated

 

Hellions Ahoy

So in anticipation of the Elves arriving I have been doing some more work on the Hellions, the blue half of the gang are ready and I have started on the green half.

Blue Wing

Green Wing

Once the green wing are done then I'll try to get a Gangs game in and start work on the Elves who should be turning up soon.

Clearing the Decks

As I am now off for a week I have placed some orders and await the arrival of the new models. I already have one change of plan as the Avatars of War Assassin model was not avaliable so I have sub'd in Rhyas instead. With such a large number of Hordes models being used I have now started to think how I can base the units up so they can be used for Hordes & KoW. I suspect I will be needing to do some magnetising to solve that problem.

New Assassin

I also have a backlog of figures to clear before I can start on the new arrivals, at present I am working on some Hellions for Gangs of Commorragh having already completed the Reavers. I like to get the basic colors down first and then work from that point towards a model I am happy with.

Less FUGLY

FUGLY

My aim is to get a model that looks good on the table rather than individual master pieces. I am not sure I have the patience to paint large numbers of models each to the highest standard, or even the skill. I know I will never reach the levels of some painters, like Andrey Demidov who's work is just awesome.

Setting the Scene

As the models for the bulk of the planned army are depicted as moving at speed I want to create the impression of fast moving troops leaping over cover. To do this I have been looking around for the

stumps, logs, bits of statue and other obstacles to place on the base for the models to be crossing. The current plan is to pin the models in place which I haven't had to do before so that should be good practice but with half a mind to use magnets instead for some models so they can be used on other bases. The models from the Hordes range would be good for this as I could then use them for that game on the round bases they come with.

I already have some blasted tree stumps from WWS and also some Vallejo Still Water from another mini-project so stumps and puddles are already a possibility.

Blasted

I have also seen some nice Masterclass Scenics and Kromlech tree parts so those could be bought and I won't need to break out the Milliput to make any.

Kromlech

Masterclass

Whilst browsing around I came across some nice statue bits from Mastercrafted which might make a good perch for a Gargoyle and Scibor do some excellent broken statue parts. I suspect the real problem will be getting all these bits onto the base, I also plan to use cork lumps to make rock shapes.

Mastercrafted

Scibor

The plan at present will be to make a sand and glue base which will be painted over in earth tones with the extra scenic bits on and then to use grass mix by 4Ground over the top with maybe some bushes/flowers by Gamers Grass to add some colour. I think this will be the subject of a few trial runs before I can decide on the finished look.
The bases themselves I may get from War Bases as I doubt I can get as clean a look as a laser cutter. I keep thinking that a laser cutter would be a great bit of kit to have, then I see the prices for a decent cutting size and go back to dreaming.

To close off this time these are the 2nd set of figures I painted after I came back to gaming, most of the 'skill' is provided by Army Painter Quickshade's via the dip & flick method.

40k Tau

Proxy Wars #3

In addition to fielding the various unit of different sizes KoW also allows you to use powerful single models normally representing heroes or large monsters. For the Twilight Kin these include the Lord on Black Dragon and Hydra that I have already covered and a few more.

Assassin - Avatars of War do a nice range of Dread Elves and they do an Assassin model so that can be ordered at the same time as the Vestals.

Looking moody

Standard Bearer & Dark Avenger / Lord - I plan to use the command troops from the Gamezone Spearmen order for these. As I am off next week these have been ordered today in anticipation of them turning up when I am home.

Three heroes in each box of thirty

High Priestess / Mage - As I was ordering the Spearmen I also snagged the Gamezone Sorceress at the same time and the Legion battlebox for Hordes comes with a Warlock caster as well. That should be enough cover for the caster slot(s).

Gamezone Caster

Hordes Warlock

Dark Lord on Pegasus - This is actually the only model I currently have for the army but it hasn't yet been put together. I spotted it going cheap on Ebay so picked it up. It comes from the Spire of Dawn box by GW and should look good with a few additions and a red colour scheme, as long as my brush work is up to scratch of course.

May require a head transplant

That should be all the models choices I need to get started as I won't be looking to field some units, though the Scather crew from Hordes look tempting for a Bolt Thrower proxy, perhaps I will keep an eye on Ebay for those. I also don't plan on running a Crossbow horde so won't need models for those, the Gamezone ones look nice but the price is rather high. I also won't be fielding any Abyssals as they may be cut when the army list gets it proper update, it also leaves me with a pure Kin army apart from the Gargoyles.

Next I need to think about the bases so time to put on my thinking cap and polish up my google-foo.

Almost forgot to put in some models that have actually been done !

Necron Rank & File

The beginning

This blog will primarily be used to document a Twilight Kin project that I am about to start on for the Kings of War game. Free rules & lists can be found on the Mantic website who also sell figures for the game. The faction I have chosen to build have not yet been included as an official faction with models supplied so I will be sourcing models from other companies.
The reason I have chosen this game is that it uses a multi-base system so you can put all your models on one base and the whole base gets removed once damage hits a certain level, rather than removing models one at a time. This should give me the chance to work on my modelling skills to build an interesting base like these for the fishman faction.
I'm still in the planning stage with no models yet purchased and lots of thinking going into what proxies to use, so the next update will probably be a proxy fest.
In the meantime I have painted some 40k stuff on my return to modelling so I can give a picture to look at.

The whole Gang

The Bosses and Guards