Painting update for the Oldworld Army Challange.

I just realized I didn't post anything since the January entry for The Old World Army Challenge. If you haven't checked it out lately, lots of great old lead painted on the OWAC site here. 

So lets get caught up.

January


An Assassin, Crossbowmen and a Bolt Thrower.


February


I took a Mulligan. We are allowed one "miss". I was too busy with fixing up Rivoli and my Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago for Cold Wars.

March


Witch Elves

Cauldron of Blood


April


The Black Guard of Naggaroth and a Sorcerer.


And here's a group shot of everything done so far.




I have May and Junes entry to do. Corsairs and Cold One Knights and a General.

Almost done.

Xin

January's Painting Submission for OWAC2

Here is my January lot for the Old World Army Challenge.

As this was the first unit painted, I really struggled to come up with a paint scheme. I must have painted 8 or 9 different trial paint schemes. Not on all, but on 1 or 2 figures at a time. Some of the Xbowmen have 3 or 4 coats in different places.

It was frustrating but with some encouragement from the group, I pushed through and landed on a scheme that I think looks good. I'm still not 100% happy with it, but good enough.

First up is a unit of Repeating Crossbows, a Repeating Bolt Thrower, and an Assassin. I was also painting a single Dark Rider, but had to drop him to complete the challenge in time. I might have to drop the Dark Riders unit from my painting challenge army.

Here's the pics.

February's submission is on the painting table, Witch Elves and The Cauldron of Blood.

Xin

Old World Army Challenge, February

This is the 3rd installment for the OWAC, submitted in February.

The OWAC started on a Facebook group to motivate members to paint old lead lying around for years and years. You have to paint 1000 points, 200 pts a month for 6 months, and a one month miss(mulligan). I took my mulligan in Decemeber.

November is Here
Decemeber Mulligan
January is Here

For this month I went with Harpies. Now Harpies exist in two armies. Chaos and Dark Elves. I had unpainted figures for both. I picked to paint the Dark Elf version as I like that sculpt better. More harpy looking. The Chaos harpies look like Gargoyles to me. Some of these are Resin, but most are metal.

The last shot is all the units together. I still have to add, Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights.

The Chaos Warriors are March's paint job.

Cheers, Xin

Old World Army Challenge, January submission

Here is the 2nd installment for the OWAC, submitted in January. My first entry, for November is here. The December entry was missed. It was my "mulligan".

The OWAC started on a Facebook group to motivate members to paint oldhammer lead lying around for 20+years. You have to paint 1000 points, 200 pts a month for 6 months, and a one month miss(mulligan).

For January I picked Dragon Ogres. I really love these models.

 These I picked up off ebay about 6 months ago.

First step was to rebase them. I didn't like such big models on square bases. I ordered 40x60 bases from Games Workshop. It better fits the model and looks better, while maintaining the same frontage.

Painting in progress

 All finished.

Here are my 2 completed entries so far. 2 heroes and the Dragon Ogres.

Next will be Harpies, Xin

Old World Army Challenge, November's work

What a crazy few months. Real life was very busy since me last post. And it's amazing how quickly time flies by without posting.

So to catch up, here is my submission for the month of November.

First up are 2 old Marauder Miniature Chaos Knights. I love the solid lead horses. Heavy Metal.

So here is one of the knights almost done. I couldn't come up with a painting scheme I liked, so he might have 2 or 3 layers of paint on him.

I finally landed on scheme I liked. Basically just dark armor with a green tint.  Here's a couple of shots from different angles. Unfortunately I suck at taking pics, so some of the colors are washed out. Backdrop is a graveyard photo set I did for my Undead Army.

When moving the figures from my painting table to my photo setup, I dropped this guy. Thankfully no breakage, he only came off his horse.

November is done, though I only did a basic job on the shields, I might go back and redo them.

Next is December's submission, 10 Chaos Warriors.


Xin/Jeff

Joining the Old World Army Challenge

In the Facebook group Oldhammer in the New World, an idea sprang up to have an army painting challenge. A casual way to generate some motivation to finish those long forgotten projects.

So two of the members, Iannick Martin and Chris Sabick, came up with the rules and format and launched a blog to chronicle the painting challenge. Blog is here and will be updated by the users as we go along. The Old World Army Challenge.

The basics are paint 1000 points of 3rd or 4th edition Warhammer Fantasy armies in 6 months. 200 points a month with a one month Mulligan. Post updates as we go along so we can all see the progress.

38 people signed up for the challenge. Here is a chart of the armies involved.

It will be fun to see the armies develop. I am going with Chaos. I have a smattering of lots of different armies, but Chaos was the one I had the most unpainted lead for.

So take a look at the blog and follow along.

Xin