Tale of Warmaster Painters, March 2020

[empireaddict]

Work-in-progress. Indus. From left to right; Black Gate Ogres, Magister Militum Indians, GW Witch Elves.

[industrialtrousers]

I can't remember ever seeing an Indus list anywhere. Looking good so far. Pendraken elephants paint up quite well from pictures I've seen and I imagine they're in the list.

[empireaddict]

Sorry, forgot to explain that I shall be proxying my Indus with Skaven stats. Next up, a batch paint of 254 Eureka Ophidians who will be taking to the table as 19 units of Clanrat proxies. Oddly, it should be an easy paint due to the limited number of colours required.

[empireaddict]

Your question raises the question of whether there should be an Indus list. My sense is no. The Araby list has pretty much everything (in terms of stats) that you would want for Indus, so proxying is straightforward. Geoff, who plays in the TriWiz tournaments uses his WMA Indians with Araby stats and it goes well for him. Plus Indian minis available from Magister Militum at fair prices. Certainly much cheaper than second-hand GW Araby!

[empireaddict]

Slight diversion. Some artillery for Middle Earth Dwarves. Converted from Kallistra Dark Elves bolt throwers.

Process: Flattened the undercarriage, snipped the 'ropes' off and bent the 'arms', hard wire replacements for ropes, hard wire spears as bolts, plus 3 crew come from Copplestone and 1 from Eureka.

[industrialtrousers]

good work. did the ropes look a bit naff? many of the kallistra models seem to be better than the pictures posted on their site.

[Apocolocyntosis]

those look impressively mean

[andys]

What a very good idea! Rules and stats already exist in Warmaster for bolt throwers, so an easy alternative artillery unit if you don't want to use cannons or flame cannons in a specific scenario.

[empireaddict]

Thanks guys.

The ropes seemed out-of-scale for this iteration. I've retained them for some Goblin Doom Divers, but I wanted a different look for this usage.

On their tabletop employment, I've always wanted a Middle Earth army and, of course, ME = no gunpowder. So will either use them as bolt throwers in ME context or proxy as cannons in common-or-garden WMA.

[industrialtrousers]

Skink hero who arrived with a broken bow so converted to a shaman with 2 Eureka bodyguards.

[empireaddict]

Very nice. Is the 'instrument' from a WHFB Wizard?

[industrialtrousers]

Yes, something to assist in the divination of the heavens. need to get the globe all painted...

[empireaddict]

Dwarven artillery. Before and after.

[andys]

Lovely units, well done! 

How easy was it to flatten the undercarriage, the metal there looks quite thick.

[empireaddict]

Thanks.

Flattening process: placed them on concrete floor of my garage. Hit them with a hammer.

Brute force and ignorance.