A few little bits and pieces I have been working on

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:37 am

Hi everybody - I'm relatively new to the hobby, and recently completed my first army. While I won't bore you with pics of all the units I thought I would post up a few of the kit bashes and alternative models that I have used. These are not unique or ground breaking but I found such pics really helpful when I was building my army and there might be some stuff that others will find handy.

So on to the photos...

Dreadlord magnetised to an Ultraforge Dragon

Some kit bashed harpies that combine Daemonette bodies, ghoul arms and the harpy wings that GW sell. A tricky business pinning the wings.

I was quite pleased with the way these came out. Tomb King chariots, Cold Ones and a Witch Elf command set for the crew. I cut the weapons out of the drivers hands and replaced with Tomb King whips. I used the tips on Spearmen banners for the scythes.

A fairly common alternative to the standard Cauldron using an Avatar but I have mounted him on the top of a column from the arcane ruins terrain set and magnetised his feet so that I can use him with my Eldar army.

I hope these were handy. If you want to see any more units I'm happy to post some more photos.

Dumbledore · Post by **Dumbledore** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:04 am

Very nice dragon and some of the beast chariot conversions I've seen - I may well rip you off!

I think we'll all want to see the full army.

Demetrius · Post by **Demetrius** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:06 am

I would definitely like to see more pictures of your army, these conversions are so beautiful. And Ive never seen TK chariots used for COCs, great idea. I spose theyd be cheaper than HE ones? And the harpies are very nice as well, as is the dragon. The avatar is painted very nicely.

Over all, top effort.

Nellamik · Post by **Nellamik** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:08 pm

Very nice, very creative. The dragon, chariots and harpies are excellant.
I really like the dragon model what is it?

Saori_nightstar · Post by **Saori_nightstar** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:48 pm

All i can say is WOW!!!

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:22 pm

Thanks for the positive feedback guys

@Nellamik - the dragon is from Ultraforge http://www.ultraforgeminiatures.com/ although I have chosen to magnetise the rider to the neck rather that use the platform that comes with the kit.

A couple of other units

I didn't like the sword the champion comes with (mainly because it doesn't fit with the model particularly well) so I used spearmen arms with a halberd from the Dark Rider kit

One of my favourite models. She just about to launch herself from a bit piece of cork!.

I cut down the banners of the spearmen to be a bit more practical. And yes, no painted banners - they will come when I feel brave enough to do some freehand painting.

Again, a magnet holds the rider in place quite nicely.

Nightsoul · Post by **Nightsoul** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:30 am

Wow, these are some really well painted models and a very nice dragon. I really like the executioners and the black guards. Although I feel something is missing from the executioner's banner.. a symbol of a kind.

Very good chariot conversions, I like the idea of the witch elves riding the chariots.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:42 am

Some of the mounted units are below. Does anyone else really hate painting horses?

And two hydras are always better than one.

Post by **cultofkhaine** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:16 am

You have a really nice army here! There are some great conversions. Keep up the good work - please post more pics of you work.

Autarii · Post by **Autarii** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:29 pm

Wow!!! Great army. I really like the blending on the standards, something i have yet to master. I like the use of yellow as well, not a normal choice but it works really well.

Brilliant conversions and thanks for the idea of an avatar for an altar.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Farodin · Post by **Farodin** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:28 pm

Very nice army you got there! An I don't hate painting horses.. but I'm not fond of it either xD.

Some good-looking conversions, neat painting and you used a lot of different colours and managed to do it nice too, great work!

Keep it up!

-Farodin

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:05 pm

Thanks guys - here are a couple more units.

The Avatar on my Cauldron is magnetised so I can use it with my Eldar.

The Shades are on some very nice resin bases from Back-2-Basix.

This girl did some nice things for me in the last tournament I went to. In a 1500pt list with Tome of Furion and Seal of Ghrond she was a star.

Farodin · Post by **Farodin** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:35 am

Very smart to magnatize the Avatar. Do you mind if I copy you're idea?
The shades look very nice, so do the bases (but that's bought so doesn't really count xD). The sorceress also looks beautifull, also interesting combination of magic items..

-Farodin

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:15 am

Farodin wrote:Very smart to magnatize the Avatar. Do you mind if I copy you're idea?
The shades look very nice, so do the bases (but that's bought so doesn't really count xD). The sorceress also looks beautifull, also interesting combination of magic items..

-Farodin

Go for your life with the Avatar

The build on the Sorceress works because with the tome, she gets half a lore which gives her a much better chance of rolling up the more powerful spells. Combined with POD she becomes a potent caster at 1500pts where there aren't too many strong magic users. The Seal of Ghrond plus the ROH on another character is good enough to close out enemy magic. I'm going to a 1600pt tourny this weekend - let's see what happens.

Zerodth · Post by **Zerodth** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:41 am

nice conversions, like the harpies they look real menacing ^^
also love the magnet idia!! brilliant!
gotta love bitboxing and conversions.... tho its hard when u aint got a local store anymore.. and dont know any other warhammer heads

god bless the interwebs :p

Dumbledore · Post by **Dumbledore** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:48 am

You should try 2 lvl2s - one with sacrificial dagger + either pearl of bleakness or scroll in your spearmen, and the other with lifetaker + tome of furion. Hotek is great, but less effective in smaller games where there are lots of 2PD spells flying about. Add your nice BSB to that and you have ~500 points of heroes that are VERY effective and versatile. Because of power of darkness and only 1600 points the sorceresses punch way above their weight - the dagger allows one to cast PoD on one dice, only to sacrifice if the spell fails on a 2 or a 3 (or 1 if you really need it). With harpies and shades to marchblock, they should be nice and cut up before your combat blocks reach them.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:31 pm

Dumbledore wrote:You should try 2 lvl2s - one with sacrificial dagger + either pearl of bleakness or scroll in your spearmen, and the other with lifetaker + tome of furion. Hotek is great, but less effective in smaller games where there are lots of 2PD spells flying about. Add your nice BSB to that and you have ~500 points of heroes that are VERY effective and versatile. Because of power of darkness and only 1600 points the sorceresses punch way above their weight - the dagger allows one to cast PoD on one dice, only to sacrifice if the spell fails on a 2 or a 3 (or 1 if you really need it). With harpies and shades to marchblock, they should be nice and cut up before your combat blocks reach them.

Agreed and would have considered something like this but for the comp which limits PD to 7 per turn. A Sorceress can do 8 on her own with a good PoD roll. So the tome is a way of improving her chances of getting a good spell selection so that she can use all those power dice.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Sun May 09, 2010 12:48 am

Some more units.

Avatars of War giant. Much nicer that the GW one I say.

Ekalb · Post by **Ekalb** » Sun May 09, 2010 4:50 am

Your army is really bright for a Dark Elf one and I really like it. Using the Eldar god for the cauldron is a very good move, I just do not like the statue it comes with.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Sun May 09, 2010 5:58 am

ekalb wrote:Your army is really bright for a Dark Elf one and I really like it. Using the Eldar god for the cauldron is a very good move, I just do not like the statue it comes with.

The statue of Khaine model that comes with the Cauldron of Blood is so ugly it might be the reason the Druchii ended up in the frozen waists in the first place - never upset your god by making butt ugly effigies of him.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Mon May 17, 2010 2:22 am

Below are a few more units.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:46 am

After knocking over a few other projects I've got back into the Druchii for this year's tournament season. This mostly involved working on banners but I've also added some more units - particularly harpies....

But also the new black... a lord on peg.

This is how the banners are coming along

Phierlihy · Post by **Phierlihy** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:23 pm

The Good
Your brush control is good and your work is consistant. You have some interesting bases which really adds flavor to the models. And your conversions are better than average. Even the freehand work on the banners is well done.

The Bad
Nothing really bad about this army actually. A few of the colours don't work so well - forgive me for being blunt but your Cauldron of Blood looks like it came from a circus. Most of your other unusual choices do work fairly well so the "bad" really isn't that bad.

Overall this is a really nice army. It has some unusual models and conversions giving it a nice personality. And enough attention was payed to many of the small details that this is an above-average army imho. You can definitely field this army with a sense of accomplishemt. Well done!!

Post by **Underway** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:13 am

That corsair banner is amazing (kraken is awesome). Also where did you get/convert the sorceress with the hydra staff and dragonling.

Grimma · Post by **Grimma** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:25 am

The Sorceress is an Avatar's of War mini - http://www.avatars-of-war.com/eng/web/i ... &Itemid=64

A few little bits and pieces I have been working on

A few little bits and pieces I have been working on

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