I was chuffed this evening that I had got the undead all finished, I counted them then counted them again and suddenly realised I was missing someone. Yes, as I hadn’t used my list again then I had forgotten to print one of the most important characters in an undead force… the necromancer!
I had a mooch about, in case I had one, I did but it didn’t appeal to me as it was a skeletal necromancer. I decided that I wanted something different so chose a female miniature to act as my missing person. I will print her off during the day… this is the horde as it stands…
I also sliced the vampire in his human form, you know in case he wants to pop into Sigmar Haven for a quick bite.
I never got the Reikland lot sliced as I was too busy choosing a necromancer. Hopefully tomorrow.
So I printed out my ratty dude and glued him together. I left him original size and placed him next to a sister and a human male. Now the sisters are a bit smaller than I expected them to be. Scale creep hadn’t hit them like everything else!
He is the only one so I can easily increase the size of him, the book say they are the size of a man, but that could just be exaggeration. A man sized rat sounds a bit scarier than a halfling sized rat. However an angry normal sized rat can be very intimidating indeed.
In my mind the GW ones were bulkier and taller… evidently not. I checked in the book and saw this picture…
Photo: Mordheim book, GW, 1999
These might be metal miniatures from Warhammer so will be a bit smaller than the plastic Mordheim sprue.
So I now have four Warbands printed… I am struggling to choose a one to start with. So it’s over to you guys to help me out…
I have witch-hunters, undead, Sisters of Sigmar and the Possessed
Which would You choose and why?
I am a bit behind as I had to reprint various things as I had some epic print failures as well as completely messing up the scaling up and down notes ( the ones to stop me messing up the scaling up and down. This meant that my flagellants were very tall chaps.
I have done a test print of a rat-man warrior. I just have to glue him together in a bit to see how he looks size wise.
So if you were me, what ‘gang’ would you go for and why?
Today I carried on with printing miniatures. I did the remains of the Witch hunters . Two zealots and a pair of flagellants. As per my list I wanted the flagellants to have big smacky sticks. It was after I cured them I realised that I had chosen the wrong bodies for the said smacking sticks. So off I went to print two more bodies and a couple of torches and hand weapons to add to these armless ( or rather handless) one already printed.
The second print was a possessed beast. I Would go as far as saying that this chap will be anything but harmless. He has a big tooth filled gob and betentacled arms to boot. All in all not something you would want to meet in an alley in any form of light.
Once again these are a mix of miniatures . The two zealots are Vae Victus, the flagellants are from Erramir Orlans… my original imperial army miniatures. The possessed beastie was a freebie from Thingiverse… unfortunately I forgot to write down who designed it.
Well it is started if you class it as: ‘printed the first force in full’.
Here we have a Possessed warband. From left to right we have a Magister (leader), two mutants one with a tentacle and the other being hideous these two are your heroes. The remaining six are your rank and file. First up, four brethren- two with bows and two with hand weapons. The final two are Beastmen. One with an axe and shield and the other with a two handed weapon.
Funnily enough, the first fully printed force was the last one I planned.
Now I did cock up a bit with this force. I got to the end and realised I had forgotten to give the mutants a weapon… one ended up with a club and the other an axe. This actually bumped them over the 500 points.
These came from Vae Victus (the humans) and Duncan Shadow for the beastmen. The magister was the only one piece miniature. The rest were multipart kits.
Before printing I checked sizes with the Highland miniatures, the Vae Victus ones had their height increased to 110% and the beastmen by 130% all over. I wanted the later to be a bit more chunky.
As I type this I am printing a possessed creature. The original set had one in, but with a base cost of 90 and various mutations then it burns through a lot of start up points. It does mean though that I could have a bit of a swap about if I do fancy it in the starting line up. In Mordheim you take a panic roll if you lose 25%. As the force as it stands means I get to lose three before making that roll. If I put the big beastie in then I roll after losing two. The only person with armour is the boss. So the rest had better not get wounded.
Tomorrow I am going to finish off the Witch hunters then move onto the Sisters of Sigmar.
So if you remember I got a static grass applicator for Christmas
This evening I decided to give it a go. After a total panic that I had left all of my static grass in the Geek Club box in work, I eventually found some. I had this about six years. Ages ago I bought a couple of Serious Play boxes from EBay. Luckily the contents were still in the printer shed.
I started off testing GW 2 or 3mm static grass. I am not sure how long I have had it, but the tub of it cost £4 which would indicate a while. Anyway I tried Geek Gaming Scenics fast drying basing glue As well as Wwscenics basing glue. I am no chemist but to my eyes they are the same stuff.
I then tried Serious Play 4mm and then their 6mm. Sadly the 4mm was a single colour, the 6mil has various tones and looks good.
Test sheets
Finally I had a go at layering the different lengths. Started with the 2 mil. Dotted on glue for the 4 mil and finally went for some dots of 6mm.
Layered lengths
I am really chuffed with how well it worked. Layering is definitely the way to go… especially with the colours I have here. I forgot to try just 2 and 4mm to see how that looked. Something to try tomorrow… as well as seeing what other grass I have lying around somewhere.
Now in the past I have used the ebay cheap fly swat and plastic tub variety and have used PVA as that was what j had at the time. To be honest. I should have got one of these from the start, the results after five minutes of messing around speak for themselves. I have decided to get some new grass from WWS as well as some tuft glue and Silicone paper.
If anyone is faintly thinking about these I would go and watch the YouTube channel found Here. I found it super useful.
I also spent a fair old bit of today slicing miniatures based on my Mordheim lists.
So from my viewpoint definitely worth the purchase. If we go back to the undead army I put tufts on everything. My biggest problem was having enough of the same colours. I now have a way to make my own.
I have a list for the following groups…
Skaven, Reikland, Kislevite, dwarf treasure hunters, undead, Sisters of Sigmar, Witch Hunters and the Possessed. At the minute I can print everything above apart from the Kislevites.
These are the start of my Witch Hunter force as well as the Vampire leader of the undead.
Oooh I sound like I am totally commercialised. I did listen and sing along to some carols this morning… so I am not totally a lost cause yet 🙂
I got some chocs and a funky frog front the kids, a One Ring adventure book from Joe, which is really cool as it will give us a lot of game time in the new year.
My good lady listened to my suggestions and I got these…
The kids liked their printed things, which was a bit of a relief.
Well I just wanted to pop on and Wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Fifty minutes until Mr Beardy comes down the chimney, Which is a bit of a bugger if he tries in the kitchen as we took the stove out, blocked up the hole and put a shelf unit in front of it.
We took the stove out a week before the power was off for a Week which shows my amazing timing.
I hope Santa brings you everything you want. He popped over ours today in a helicopter…
Not that you can see him in this photo.
This evening was spent watching ´The Glass Onion’ and painting un festive ghouls…
Yes there are many Epic journeys in history, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus to name a few. Little did I know that my journey this morning would be something close (okay I might be exaggerating a lot). I left the house before 10.00 and returned at 17.45. Why I hear you ask. A bit of shopping and the last few stocking fillers.
Lerwick was absolutely mental. Every single shops had queues outside the door. The Supermarket had actually run out of carrier bags, (I had forgotten to take mine in with me) they were giving out banana boxes.. I actually got two from the last five in the store.
I actually did have some success with a 3 foot live Christmas tree…£6.25 instead of £25.
In the end we got pretty much everything we wanted.
On the hobby front, I managed to get the Batman and Harley finished. I also got some new miniatures glued together and onto bases. Can you guess what the game is going to be…
My son keeps pestering us for a lizard, thankfully we never gave in as five days without power would have been the end of it.
This one should be able to withstand most temperature ranges we get up here…
Bogenwald 