Something wicked this way comes...

I know some of you are trying to dip. Here is something I wrote up for Tom's Boring Mordheim Forum for my Mordheim Undead Warband.

Here are step by step instructions on how I painted my ghould using the dip method. These 4 ghouls took less than 20 minutes to paint, then after dipping I let them dry overnight before hitting with a matte spray. In fact it would have been quicker per model if I did a larger batch as I had to wait for the paint to dry.

Here are the ghouls and zombies after being assembled. I put the gravel/flock mix on before priming. I will do the zombie tutorial later as I used a brown primer on them.


Here are the ghouls after being primed along with the paints used. Notice my ultra fine sharpie pen. Works gret for eyeballs and any freehand work.


Ghouls being basecoated with Rotting Flesh and the bases painted with a watered down generic black paint. I think AP has a Rotting Flesh primer if you want to skip painting it on.


Hair was painted with the dark grey foundation paint adeptus grey (i think)


Bones, teeth and eyeballs were painted skull white. Eyes dotted using Sharpie Pen.


Straps painted Desert Yellow (which I really like when using the stain)


Chain painted grey, then Boltgun Metal


Then AP Strong Tone was brushed onto the ghouls. I use a thin coat, as anymore just pools up.


A dipped ghoul next to one I finshed previously


Ghouls were then based and hit with a Matte Spray. Photos were taken outdoors in natural light which shows all flaws.


The whole warband

It's been awhile

Sorry I haven't updated this blog in about a month, but I have been painting. In the past 3 weeks I painted an entire 2250 Wood Elf army for a tournament this weekend. To get this army done I employed the famous "dip" method.


All the Elves and Treekin/Treeman were primed using army painter leather brown primer. They were then basecoated with very few highlights, and then I painted on Army Painter strong tone. After waiting a few seconds I removed any obvious puddling of the dip. I then sprayed a dull coat over them to remove the shine.

They aren't my best paint jobs, but I am proud of them and a firm believer in the dip method. As usual there a few mold lines and areas that I "went out of the lines" on so please ignore those and remember I just want tabletop quality figs that look good from 3 feet away.

Paints used - Basic trooper - Leather Brown Primer/Catachan Green (cloaks)/Snot Green/Desert Yellow (hair and straps)/Terracotta/Dwarf Flesh and Bleached Bone (bows).



Glade Riders - Same as trooper. Horses were primed white with desert yellow for the manes. The tattoos were done using an ultra fine sharpie with green or blue.




Treekin/treeman - Primed brown/highlighted with Graveyard Dirt & Kommando Khaki before dip. Snot green for leaves. Used old treemen models for the Treekin and a LotR Ent for my Treeman.



Alter Lord - Used the Eternal Guard champion model and did a basic weapon swap for the bow.


And here is one of my Wild Riders.

Big and Ugly

Today are some photos of my Chaos Ogres. I do have an entire Ogre Kingdoms army painted up, but needed some to look a little chaosy. The horns are from the Chaos Marauder standard cut up. Nothing fancy.

Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger

Here is another army I have been working on for years. Keep meaning to finish the Lizardmen, since I have all the Core troops painted. Here is my lovely Slann, now maybe I can finish the rest of the army.

Aces High

Last Saturday I played in a 2250 Fantasy tournament here at the Cage in High Point, NC and with some favorable luck, yours truly came in first overall. It felt good since I hadn't won an overall since 2002, and that was a 40K RTT.

I was lucky with my pairings and played three really great opponents. It was nice to see 22 fantasy players from as far away as Wilmington, NC show up.

First game vs Billy and his O&G wasn't close, but that was because I have never seen someone whose dice failed them at all the wrong times. Between animosity and Pump wagons going 2" (when it was 4" away), your dice should only be used for Ld tests. I think Billy really needs to throw those dice away.

Second game vs Paul's Empire was a very close draw with VP only 4 points apart. My saving grace was putting 4 wounds on a Stank and destroying a War Altar with one shot from a Hellcannon in turn 5.

Third game vs Chris's HE's was very close to the end. If his two wizards didn't fail a terror test and run it would probably have been a draw. It isn't often a Hellcannon can take 49 hits from HE spearmen without taking a single wound.

Good job and thanks go to Bobby Ash for running the event. I look forward to the next one. Below are the winners of the event.

Whipping Boy (identity hidden to protect the innocent)
Best Sportsman (Jeremiah G.- Dark Elves)
Best Painted (Anne Marie- Empire)
Best Army (Zac R.- Wood Wlves)
Best General (Ian H.- Warriors of Chaos)
Best Overall (Tony N.- Warriors of Chaos)

I didn't take any photos as I forgot I had even brought my camera, doh! I know the tournament organizer took some so I will get them posted asap. Here are some photos of my BSB mounted and on foot.

Number of the Beasts

Just a quick post today of some old figs I painted up years ago and just recently touched up to update the bases and some highlights. Spawn on left is Scyla and the one on the right is the Skaven special character Boneripper (I think) with an old Bloodthirster head stuck on it.

I am playing in a local 2250 tournament tomorrow, and switched around my army list at the last moment. I usually don't like doing that, but we'll see how it goes. Bringing my basic infantry list toned down to get an extra sorcerer since I know magic will be rampant.

Run to the Hills

Today's latest installment of my mad posse is of course the heavy hitters themselves, and everyone's worst nightmare... Chaos Knights. One of, if not, the best cavalry units in the game.

To aid them in rounding up all those who do try and run to the hills are the Marauder Horsemen. Here I use two units, one armed with flails and the newer figures, and one unit of the older figs using Spears.

The Troopers

I have over 40 of the new chaos warriors painted and about 50 of the old hunchback ones too. Here is how I usually arm them. With a good old hand weapon and shield. They then become the terminators of the Old World. My basic armor paint job involves just the Foundation Red along with the OOP Chestnut Ink. When I found out they were going to discontinue Chestnut Ink I immediately ran out and bought up the last bottles around here.

I also converted up a unit of 13 Chosen using the lances from two Chaos Knight boxes. For the command I used the metal Chosen command.

Now all good troopers need to fight over something. I picked up the Throne of Skulls, which looks just fantastic. Four of the large skulls need to be attached and the two still standing obelisks. I painted it up fairly quickly with some drybrushing. I mistakenly used Brass instead of Bronze to paint so the drybrush was harsher than I wanted, but it still works. I then painted the details and added some extra flock and static grass to some areas.

Game wise this is great for 40K, for Fantasy I think it works better as a large building than as a hill.

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Hail to the Gods of Chaos

Today I am posting photos of my warshrine I made before the WoC book came out. The basis is two spawn carrying around a portable shrine with a respected Champion (Harry the Hammer) surveying the field of battle to determine where the Chaos Gods should look.

The base of the shrine is the base that came with Harry. The dais is a dental floss container glued to it. I then attached spiky bitz from the chaos sprue for some extra touches as well as an old brazier that was lying around. Harry is not attached so I can always use him as a champion on foot.

I really like how this came out. In the game I use the Mark of Khorne on the warshrine and have him sit behind my large infantry line buffing my Chosen unit.

I love the sound of burning souls in the morning

Here are a couple pictures of my Hellcannon. It is a converted cannon since I got it for free when my friend Diez bought it for some bitz. Lucky for me I could still make something out of it, and it fits just barely on a chariot base.

The crew I did some minor conversions since some of the arms were missing and I didn't want the cannon crew looking like one of the Perry Twins. (*No offense meant to the Perry Twins, I admire their work greatly)

Here also are my two DOW cannons I converted back on the same day as when the White Dwarf article came out. In fact, I claim to be the first to ever use a cannon for the cause of Chaos. The crew came from the Possessed Mordheim warband, with some green stuff and weapon swaps.