My favorite chariots

One more trip into the chariot realm of Khand.  Some WIP images here:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/05/operation-desert-storm-legions-assemble.html

As you saw in that post, a lot of different things used in the conversions.  I forgot how much green stuff was used!

Images of the King being painted:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/10/here-comes-king-work-in-progress.html

I have been saving the materials to make at least 2 more of these.  They are so much fun to use in the games!

Some shots of them in action:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-axles-of-evil-thundering-hooves.html

Skellies and pointy sticks

For such an inconsequential unit, this one took just as much, if not more work than the Stalker and Necro Knight units.  Each of the archers was placed in a unique pose, which took some serious puzzle solving just to get two ranks!

As you can see, I painted all the Demon marble on each base, and did the same hieroglyphs on the outer edge of the movement tray.

Each of the skeletons was painted with unique colors, and even their bones changed colors!  Of course, their eyes glowed with a sickly green hue...

I have some step by steps of the skeletons here:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/07/step-by-step-skelltitones.html

In fact, a number of videos from the painting series were developed during this project.  Terrain pieces, this demon marble, painting skeletons, fluorescent colors, and more!

Just as it was with the Dark Eldar, this was a massive laboratory.  A crucible for testing and perfecting dozens of techniques.

Much more to come!

Headed to the starting gate...

One of my favorite units here!!  The Khandish chariots allied with my Easterling Cavalry army.

These two chariots were heavily converted, using Tomb Kings chariots, Foundry miniatures, and Rohan horses.

Once it was all together and painted, I loved the results.

As you can see, I had a lot of fun with the bases as well!  I added lots of body parts, as well as trophies in the form of Gondor heads.

I did have to cut down  the chariot parts to make them fit on the 60mm bases, but it was well worth it!

Here are all four chariots, including the king!

Combined with the Easterling Cavalry and the war drum, they were the perfect shock troops.  High Fight skill, and very tough, lots of Dwarf archers wasted their time on these.

That would allow the Cavalry to advance more unscathed to join them!

There are a number of WIP posts on how these were made in the Lord of the Rings section of the blog...

Necro Knights!!!

Time for the Necropolis knights to get the new photo treatment.

It was by far the toughest unit to paint.  There were lots of crazy little details.  I also had to continue the blue color, as I had been doing on all the constructs.

I had a lot of fun with the basing!  Here's a link to the painting of the bases:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/07/sneaky-snakes-painting-bases-for.html

It was all very fun to paint!

The swirling snake bodies on both the bases and the figures themselves presented quite a sight!

Like everything else, they died all too easily.

I would have liked to have one more in the unit, but the points were just not there...

Comin' at ya!

More coming up!

Who rode in the boat...

Ok... here we reveal who went cruising around in that raider.  Yes indeed... a batch of Grotesques!

They were supposed to be more of a tank killing unit, where the vehicle would fly up to the rear of an unsuspecting vehicle... have these guys jump out, and hit it with a million attacks.

Since they would probably have the second pain token by then, they would have enhanced strength as well!  The rear armor of just about anything short of a Land Raider would be pretty squishy.

This did work out a few times, but the lack of terrain to hide behind usually spelled doom on turn 1.

I have no idea how the 7th edition rules would effect all this, between the psychic stuff and the altered vehicle damage chart, etc.

At least they look kinda scary hopping out of this!

Now for the other backdrop...

From above, which shows you the matching bases...

I was bummed that none of the combinations I tried to create for this army had any kind of real effectiveness.  Probably another reason for my building dismay with the direction of 40K.

About to take flight...

Here are some new images of my Gwahir eagle for my Lord of the Rings army.

He was actually quite effective in the field, working with the Galadrhrim Cavalry to wipe out enemy units at a distance, or in combination with the Stormcallers.

The idea was to do the knockdown spell on the enemy unit, and then fly him over the top of the pile to hit them from the other side.  This would boost the fight skill even more, but also provide that high strength needed to get through the tougher enemy.

The fresh Easterling kill was placed on the base to add to the theme of the army, since my Evil army was the Easterling/Khand alliance.

These were the two armies that I brought to my one and only LOTR tournament a few years ago.  That was a lot of fun :-)

I had a whole story around the Easterlings and the Knights of the Blood Rose. There was also a large display board constructed... here's a link:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/11/better-late-than-never-painting-display.html

There's much more of the army to be seen in the Lord of the Rings section of the blog!