New Year New Army - Drukhari

As ever with the new year there's that burst of enthusiasm to start a new project. In the case of Games Workshop we start every year with their New Year New Army push which I always think ill get involved on but never do. 

Well I'm going to try it this year but cheat slightly in that I update an old army instead. 

Inspired by my first game of 40k since 8th edition at Christmas that army will be Drukhari. 

This army have been gradually painted up since about 2010 (I phased out the original models gradually when the new army came out), however seeing as most of the army was painted the night before various doubles tournaments, plus it's been heavily used in previous editions, it's not in great shape.

My aim will be to get 1500 points repaired and repainted as well as some smaller games under my belt (combat patrol size most likely) over the course of the year. 

Some units of further on that others but the whole army needs rebasing, as well as magnets adding as I plan to store them outside of the usual foam cases they've been in (which mainly snap off all the various spikes on the models). 

Anyway, without further ado, I present the list:

Poisoned Tongue Splinter (1495 points)

Drukhari

Strike Force (2000 points)

Realspace Raiders

CHARACTERS

Archon (85 points)

  • Warlord

  • 1x Huskblade

    1x Splinter pistol

Haemonculus (70 points)

  • 1x Haemonculus tools and scissorhands

    1x Stinger pistol

  • Enhancement: Crucible of Malediction

BATTLELINE

Kabalite Warriors (110 points)

  • 1x Sybarite

    • 1x Close combat weapon

      1x Splinter rifle

  • 9x Kabalite Warrior

    • 1x Blaster

      9x Close combat weapon

      1x Dark lance

      1x Shredder

      1x Splinter cannon

      5x Splinter rifle

Kabalite Warriors (110 points)

  • 1x Sybarite

    • 1x Close combat weapon

      1x Splinter rifle

  • 9x Kabalite Warrior

    • 1x Blaster

      9x Close combat weapon

      1x Dark lance

      1x Shredder

      1x Splinter cannon

      5x Splinter rifle

Wracks (55 points)

  • 1x Acothyst

    • 1x Wrack blades

  • 4x Wrack

    • 1x Hexrifle

      1x Liquifier gun

      1x Ossefactor

      1x Stinger pistol

      4x Wrack blades

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Raider (80 points)

  • 1x Bladevanes

    1x Dark lance

Raider (80 points)

  • 1x Bladevanes

    1x Dark lance

Venom (70 points)

  • 1x Bladevanes

    2x Splinter cannon

OTHER DATASHEETS

Cronos (50 points)

  • 1x Spirit syphon

    1x Spirit vortex

    1x Spirit-leech tentacles

Grotesques (170 points)

  • 6x Grotesque

    • 2x Liquifier gun

      6x Monstrous weapons

Incubi (85 points)

  • 4x Incubi

    • 4x Klaive

  • 1x Klaivex

    • 1x Demiklaives

Mandrakes (130 points)

  • 1x Nightfiend

    • 1x Baleblast

      1x Glimmersteel blade

  • 9x Mandrake

    • 9x Baleblast

      9x Glimmersteel blade

Ravager (110 points)

  • 1x Bladevanes

    3x Dark lance

Scourges (130 points)

  • 1x Solarite

    • 1x Blast pistol

      1x Close combat weapon

      1x Solarite weapon

  • 4x Scourge

    • 4x Blaster

      4x Close combat weapon

Talos (160 points)

  • 2x Talos

    • 2x Chain-flails

      1x Macro-scalpel

      1x Talos ichor injector

      2x Twin Drukhari haywire blaster

I'll put up separate posts with the models out of this that I've finished to date, but they are as follows:

1 x Archon - this is a Lady Malys conversion I'm particularly proud of!

10 x Kabalite Warriors - painted these up last year and they were my first new Drukhari unit for about a decade

5 x Incubi - the new models that I'd had in a box since the Rise of the Phoenix box set way back in (I think) 7th?

1 x Ravager - this was a new model from a Christmas army box, again it's been sat in the loft for years.

Anyway, that's it for now. Let's see if we can actually make this a reality this year! 

Badlands Brawl Waagh! Drummer

A quick and easy addition to my recently completed Goblin team for Blood Bowl

This guy is going to be used as a Waagh Drummer inducement for my Badlands Brawl teams (currently Goblins and Black Orcs). This inducement comes in at 50k and allows me to potentially push an opposition player back 3 squares (or 3 players back 1) at the start of each drive. Useful to stop my poor line Goblins getting battered on the line of scrimmage. 

The model itself is an old GW sculpt, possibly from the 80s but still has lots of character and detail in my opinion. 

Bloodbowl - Project Night Goblins and Bugmans Belter 2024

Finished my first project of the 2024, a Night Goblin team for Blood Bowl. 

I had great fun with this project, with the aim being to use only Gamesworkshop models so i was able to play it at Warhammer World in their tournaments. 

The models themselves are from a variety of kits and systems. Warhammer Underworlds is represented through Zarbags Gitz, Mollogs Mob and Grinkraks Looncourt for one of the Trolls and the specialist positionals. The regular line Goblins are from the Gloomspite stabbas kit and the Ooligan and Doomdiver (winged squig with goblin "pilot") are from the Squig Herd kit.

Of course, with so many kits and having had a great time building them I've now got the Goblin bug. Perhaps I might try and revisit that original plan I set out so long ago at the beginning of this blog to actually build a Night Goblin army....

Took this team to Bugmans Belter 2024 at Warhammer World as well. Went 1 win and 2 losses, beating a shambling Undead team but getting hammered by 2 lizard teams. I did win Dirtiest Player though so I'd regard that as a win!

Isengard Scout Troll

As part of my gaming groups secret Santa I've recently completed this Isengard "Scout" Troll

It's a minor conversion from the standard kit, basically adding a leather coat using greenstuff and some minor alterations to the left leg to put it in a running pose. 

It took me a while to get into painting this model to be honest, mainly because I can't paint a leather effect very well at all. It came together though with the basing however and I'm pretty pleased with the overall look in the end, as was the person I was gifting it to! 

The White City - Avenger Bolt Thrower

I've been somewhat productive lately with the painting and have completed yet another unit. By my standards it came together pretty quickly as well, although probably helps it's a warmachine.....

The Avenger Bolt Thrower gives my Minas Tirith force some much needed ranged punch, especially important when facing the forces of darkness who have a rather unpleasant tendency to include trolls, fell beasts and other assorted nasties in their rosters.

I toyed with the idea of a Trebuchet, but the theme (if you can call it that) of my force is a band of warriors fighting in Osgiliath, or serving on a fort on the Rammas Echor, so something a bit more portable seemed more fitting at this point.

As I've said, the model was quick to paint, using pretty much the same colours as I've used for the Knights and Warriors up to this point. I did try and make the bolt Thrower itself look like it's made of aged wood to show it's been in service for many years. The photos aren't the best though so that probably doesn't come across too well.

With this war machine I've finally hit the 500pt mark of completed units for Minas Tirith, which is enough for a standard game (I think), so hopefully I can try them out on the battlefield soon enough. A certain friend has a horde of Orcs that are getting a bit big for their boots, perhaps the men of Gondor can put them in their place....

The White City - 3 warbands completed

It's been a long time since I last posted anything, but that's not to say that I've been idle on the painting front. At least not by my standards when it comes to completing stuff anyway....

I've got back into the Lord of the Rings miniatures game from GW and have made decent progress so far this year in a modest Minas Tirith army.

With army lists in this game working on the basis of a character and then models that form their warband, it's a much more modular way of building an army (in my opinion anyway), than say Age of Sigmar. In addition the average size game for LoTR seems to be around the 500pt mark, which is surely some thing I can achieve in a year right???

Without further Ado I present the first warband:

This is a Captain of Minas Tirith leading 12 Warriors of Minas Tirith. 

With the banner, spears and their shieldwall ability, as well as a couple of bows in the rear rank to keep the enemy honest, this serves as the anvil of my force than the enemy shall (hopefully) break upon. 

Next up is warband 2:

This warband is led by none other than Damrod, my first named character who serves as part of Faramirs Rangers. He's leading 6 Rangers of Gondor into battle, who provide the bulk of the firepower of the army. Granted their only packing strength 2 bows but their shoot value is pretty good still so you never know!

Warband 3 that's been completed is:

Another Captain but this time mounted. He's leading 5 Knights of Minas Tirith who should be the hammer to my warriors anvil. At least that's how it'll be in my head. 

So good progress so far this year, with the 3 warbands I'm well on the way to achieving a 500pt army for Minas Tirith, at which point I'll look to get some games in! 

Next up is a mounted banner bearer and an Avenger Bolt Thrower.

Mortal Realms Progress 9 - Lord Arcanum on Gryph-Charger

So it's been a while since I posted anything but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy!

I recently have completed the next addition to the Astral Templars a Lord Arcanum on Gryph-Charger!

Introducing the leader of my Sacrosanct chamber Lord Arcanum Phoram the Ascendant. 

I've been painting this guy on and off since about the start of December, as and when time allowed, but it's still taken me alot longer to finish than I thought.

I'll go out on a limb and say this was the hardest model I've ever had to paint, mainly because of all the different textures. You've got feathers, animal hide, leather, armour and claws all on the one model! 

Still I'm very chuffed with how it's turned out and think he makes quite the centrepiece to the army so far. I'll have to do a full shot of them all once I get to the 1000pt mark. 5 Evocators on foot are being lined up for painting as we speak, so fingers crossed I can get them done quicker than their Lord and get over that first 1k for the Astral Templars.

As to whether I'll get a game in with them this year, well that depends on whether we'll be allowed outside again!