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Offline Lex

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2010, 10:53:46 AM »
got my replacement unit stands today and a new blister of skaven clan rats.  this blister has two warp throwers and one  posion wind goblet throwers. my first blister I got only had 1 warp thrower and one poison goblet throwers.

I am just wondering if there are any advanced roles for these special units. and would it be game legal to build a unit of say only poison goblets or warp throwers and not any of the other clan rats. just wondering if anyone has ever done this.

Actualy went the other way around !!    I snipped all my ratties in 2-rat strips and mingled them together. So my clanrat units are a wild bunch of mix-and-match stands that may incorporate ratswarms, jezail, warpthrowers etc (usualy you will see the wt on one side of the stand, and the ratsies bunched together on the other side.

Pictures are due I guess...

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2010, 02:59:00 PM »
I would be very interested to see what others have done with the Skaven. My idea was also to clip off and concentrate the fire throwers/globadiers as seperate units just to add some variety. I have 16 packs of clanrat (I only ordered 12 but received 16 - I'm not complaining!) and the amount of 'specialist' strips you get in a pack seems pretty random. I have also thought about using different fur colour combinations to represent different clans/brigades. I need to save black for the storm vermin of course but I am thinking of doing at least 2 fur colours for each stand to break up the sea of brown effect.

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #17 on: April 16, 2010, 03:14:24 PM »
Almost have my last strand painted from the first blister pack. got the other glued to their bases and bases painted. I must say they look rather good once all painted up and ranked in a row on their bases :D all the hard work of painting the tiny details makes them look much better :). I will post some pics as soon as I finish last strand am hoping to have all their weapons and shields painted today.

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #18 on: April 16, 2010, 09:26:35 PM »
Got my last strand done up, I Know I am a beginner at WM mini's painting but I must admit I am very proud of how they look now lined up on their strands :D and cant wait to expand my army with the next blister I have to open and start painting.




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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2010, 12:37:44 AM »
They look great!

rats rats tons of rats :)

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2010, 06:27:50 PM »
Started cleaning off the second blister of Skaven clanrats and getting them ready to be glued to strips and primed with base coat.

I also today orded a blister of skaven PMonks and a ratswarm blister.


Once I get these painted up I will order a Skaven Command blister pack.

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2010, 09:32:13 PM »
Got my second strand of Skaven clan rats painted and my first blister of rat swarms painted :) right working on undercoating my Skaven PM's once I get those painted I will glue them to their bases and flock all of them so they have nice bases.

Anyhow I hope you guys like how my army is coming along :)

http://www.uskaarj.com/Figs/Skavenarmy002.jpg
http://www.uskaarj.com/Figs/Skavenarmy003.jpg
http://www.uskaarj.com/Figs/Skavenarmy005.jpg
http://www.uskaarj.com/Figs/Skavenarmy009.jpg
http://www.uskaarj.com/Figs/Skavenarmy006.jpg

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2010, 09:57:30 PM »
no one has any comments about my latest painted mini's :(

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2010, 10:13:23 PM »
links where not showing, which makes people cautious following them through a weblink.

Try and use the tags to show pictures inpost

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2010, 10:43:25 PM »
They look really nice to me. As a bit of constructive critism I'd say that the bases would benefit from some love (and I know I sound like a broken record here!). With the rats painted so nicely they really deserve better basing to hide the 'strips' and offer a less uniform appearance. That said, the brown rats stand out very well against the green bases so I'm not sure I'd go for an 'earthy' base with them but certainly something could be done pretty easily to show off your paintwork.

Oh, and I agree with Lex, stick the images into the thread if you want to show your toys, many people (me included) tend to scroll past links.

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Re: [WM] Skaven army WIP
« Reply #25 on: June 21, 2010, 10:48:09 AM »
Definitily makes me looking forward to see more rats from you, but as PW said try some base materials to make the ground look better. Everything else is pretty nice for a mass army :)
And also motivates me to paint some of my own rats again, still have enough work to do.

Keep 'em coming.
Greetings,
Peter
Warmaster: Skaven