Some Scibors, AoW and Battalion

The last minis that I've planned for 2400 point army arrived today. Runelord from Avatars of War, Anvil Guards and BSB Thane from Scibor miniatures and GW Dwarf battalion box. The Scibors were my first resin minis so I didn't have any experience of them. When I started cutting the Anvil Guard axe off from the resin mold it exploded to thousand pieces. Nice ! After that I took the cutting little bit gentler. Maybe the resin models are more detailed, but working with it sucks, IMHO ! I intend to make dwarf warriors with great weapons from the battalion box, but have to do little conversions because I converted my earlier battalion dwarves to Hammerers. So here are the first assemblies :)

Dipped Hammerers

Got my Hammerer units base coating to the point that it was time for deep dive to dip. Some photos !

Assembling and painting minis with kids

Hey ho !

We got visitors from north of Finland. Nine and five years old boys. Also my 4 year old daughter joined the band. They wanted to paint miniatures, so I took my left overs from chaos marauders box and we assembled and painted one for each. Here they are :)

This one is painted by 5 year old

This one is painted by 4 year old

This one is painted by 9 year old. Have to say that he's much better and more exact painter that I was at age of 12, though I gave him some tips how to paint. Little bit more discipline and exercise and maybe he'll become really good. His parents were really happy that he found this new and so "inexpensive" hobby ;)

Mini Tournament

Hail to thee !

Me and my two friends got together to face each other in mini fantasy battle tournament. The armies were Dwarfs vs. High Elves vs. Skaven at the size of 1200 points. Here's a little battle report of the matches against my dwarves. Skaven vs. High Elves ended in the victory of Elves, and that was the first time for them against Skaven. Must have felt good :)

Dwarfs vs. Skaven

The Dwarf deployment

Skaven deployment

Dwarves won the startup

First shot of Grudge Thrower took lives of about 15 Stormvermin

First shot of Cannon destroyed the Warp Lightning Cannon

Skaven start by getting closer and shooting with Jezzails

One Quarreller got killed (yes, I played Quarrellers with thunderer figures)

In second turn Cannon, Bolt Thrower and rock of Grudge Thrower wasted again several vermin. The Skaven had good luck with leadership rolls.

Quarrellers shoot one Jezzail down

Skaven movement situation after second turn of Dwarfs

Second turn of Skaven Dwarves heads start to roll. The vermin wizard blasted the Dwarf warrior unit with some kind of fire spell.

In third Dwarf turn the shooting attacks are focused on the BSB/Warlock stormvermin unit to get them turn their tail and run. Still the leadership rolls keep them in the game

In the third turn of Skaven the Warlock engineer shoots with Doom Rocket with unbelievable accuracy and everyone in warrior unit got hit. Six members remain standing but fail the leadership roll and flee from the table. Ouch !

In the fourth turn the stormvermin are almost blasted to bits, but still the leadership rolls succeed. Damned ! 

Giant rats charge to cannon and slaves charge to bolt thrower. Jezzails have been able to drop some quarrelers. At last the Gutter runners find their way behind dwarves lines and make attempt to destroy the grudge thrower with twenty poisoned sling shots

After failed charge the vermin wizard casted successfully the fire blast to Slayer unit with deadly outcome. Oh no !

Giant rats don't do much anything against the cannon crew

Slayers charge the slaves, but didn't do much havoc. Is it just bad luck, or shitty dice ?!?

Dwarf army has died gloriously while the Skaven army still has lots of units, including the untouched Gutter runners. We decide to shake hand for exciting match and I congratulate the Skaven !

Although the game started great for the Dwarves and the war machines made lots of casualties to Skaven BSB unit they had great luck with dire rolls and I had little bit of bad luck.


Dwarves vs. High Elves

Dwarf deployment

Deployment of the Elves

Dwarves won the startup and started good. Grudge thrower did it's job and almost whole unit of Sword masters were crushed. Only two of them remain standing. Also the Elven BSB Prince with Eagle was blasted to oblivion with cannon. That was fun !

In the first elven turn they cannot do much anything but move and cast some spells that doesn't affect the Dwarves. In the second dwarf turn some spear elves die while dwarves try to take out the Mage

Elven faction after second dwarf turn

In second elven turn the Mage succeed casting the Flames of Phoenix to the Warrior unit killing three dwarves

In the third dwarf turn the warriors charge to Sword masters and kill the other with incredibly bad luck with dice roll. The Slayers charge the Phoenix Guard (softened by quarrelers) slaughtering the fleeing elves in the end

In the third turn of Elves the Sea Guard charged to Dwarf warrior unit and together with the Sword master champ sent them to heavenly hunting grounds. Unbelievably bad dice luck still remains.

I don't remember how it exactly happened, but before the Sea Guard charged the Quarrellers, they shot the Sword master dead

In the final dwarf turn the Slayers charged behind the Sea Guard and that was the end of match. This has to be the shortest match ever. Glory for Dwarfs !

Great sample of Mikko's painting skills. A Lothern Sea Guard 

Meanwhile in Hammerer unit

Slowly but surely the Hammerer unit is getting painted. Next photos will be after dip, but I have to paint cloaks, wood and accessories before that.

Findings from flea market

My wife came today from flea market and told me that she saw some kind of miniatures. "Some men with muscles and otter like creatures, which seem to be similar to your dwarves but bigger" was the quote, and I wondered could it be possible that they would be ogres. I don't know how is the flea markets in other countries, but in Finland it is extremely rare you can find miniatures. I had to go check them out and here they are !

These fellows might come handy when I create a Maneater warband in Mordheim or in future Warhammer army. The price was 6 euros from altogether, so I'm quite happy to have them. These are also nice snack in the middle of painting the dwarves.

More detailed Slayers

After long hours with little progress with Hammerers unit I wanted to complete the Slayer unit before my next fantasy battle session. The painting is finished and only antishine varnish remains to be added. Details could be more exact, but this time I didn't have patience to do better.