Wednesday 1 March 2017

TeemuL: A Bunch of Chaos (80 points)

I have not been painting so much Odds and Ends lately as I was supposed to, participation in the local AoS Escalation league has "forced" me to paint some Chaos. Well, the league ended last week, I finished fourth with only one victory, but several hobby points for painted models, round bases etc. I still have some miniatures to finish to my level, even though they were all on the table already.


Here are 5 Chaos Knights, not armed with feared lances, but mediocre axes and swords. On the game they were doing what I expected, but the opposing Screamers were just too much, kill one and two new are spawned (some Tzeentch trick). In the end I managed to finish them, but that's all what they managed to done in the game.


The standard bearer was started and almost finished before the challenge, so he does not count for challenge points. In general I'm happy with them, but the shields are not what I expected. They got too messy, they looked better when half done, actually. :) Of course from the distance you don't see a thing, but it irritates me a bit. Anyway, they are finished now.


I used red glaze on some of the horses to give them more demonic, evil, Khorne look. Not bad, but not very visible either. I also decided to paint some black and some brown horses instead of all black, which is so familiar with Chaos Knights.


They are plastic horses with some metal parts and metal riders. Older GW models all.

Whole army at the moment

Then something different, but Chaos as well. These are Odds or Ends, because they are all what I have of them and now they all are done. They are Broos from Glorantha. In other universes they might be called Beastmen, which is quite odd, because goats, sheeps and other farm animals are not very beasty to me...


I got them from a sale years ago just because I used to play RPGs in the Glorantha (RuneQuest at that time) as a teenager and I really liked to world. I have bought some newer books (HeroWars and later HeroQuest - not the boardgame) every now and then, because I just like the world.


I don't know much of these, they were in the box labeled "RuneQuest Broo Selection" and I they are manufactured by Mongoose. They are all metal and those shields were separate. They are not overly detailed, but there's enough to make them other than fur and cloth.

Shields, unfortunaltely a bit flurry

I should have probably used more colors on the clothes, now they look a bit too uniformed, I think. Or at least use yellow less and others more.
This looks like a leader, the fanciest clothes and two swords

The clubs

Three spears

Swords

Pointswise this is 4 mounted and 8 standing 25/28 miniatures, so a whopping 80 points!

ByronM: More old school GW stuff, is it just me or do they look so wrong mounted on ovals and rounds!  Not anything to do with you Teemu, just feels to odd to not rank guys up for GW fantasy, just this grouchy old man talking though.  The figures themselves look good, and I especially like the beastmen at the end of the post.  They look like cool little scupts that have a lot of character.   The overall picture of the army as well is nice, you have gotten a long way on it over the course of the challenge, congrats!

18 comments:

  1. Nice work Teemu :)

    Those Broo seem to have been picked up by Rebel Minis

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    1. Thanks Tamsin. You're correct, those are now available by Rebel Minis. They also offer the Duckmen box, which I also have. :)

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  2. Quite a nice group. The animal heads are cool.

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    1. I'm glad you like them, the pictures are bit dark, sorry for that. The heads came up very nice, but basically it is just paint, wash and drybrush.

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  3. Great work Teemu! Those Beastmenyou've dug up are excellent. I actually quite like the oval bases for the cavalry - I do much the same for my Retreat from Moscow stuff and like the look of it.

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    1. Thanks Curt! I like the beastmen as well.

      A friend of mine put his Chaos Knights on square bases and then those square bases on oval bases, which he can remove. Making it easy to play both AoS and KoW.

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  4. Byron, I understand you with square and oval bases. It seems strange, of course, when you have seen them on square bases some 20 years, but you get used to it. :)

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  5. They look great ,Teemu! I quite like your chaos knights, but your beastmen er broo steal the show mostly due to nostalgia. I began playing D&D but moved to Runequest. I loved that game, so much more elegant using d10 and the weapon strike ranks and mastery just made combats more intense!

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    1. Thank you David, they were very nostalgic to me, too.

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  6. Nicely done Teemu - as others have said, I like those beastmen in particular.

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  7. Nice work Teemu, the pink armour is quite fetching. Love the Broos!

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    1. The pink is not the color I was aiming for, but nowadays I have used to it already. :) Glad you like the Broos.

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  8. What a wonderful shade of pink!

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  9. Nice chaos warriors but love the beastmen.
    Best Iain

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  10. That's a good looking army!

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