The toy room goes - Pumbagor chariot WIP

So, this weekend has been filled with bad time. It was inevitable. I knew it was coming. But I had to go through with it.

I had to clear out the toy room.

The spare room in the house my girlfriend and I share has been my "toy room", my private abode for sticking things together, splattering acryllic on plastic and generally keeping me off drugs or organised crime. But with my girlfriend needing to crack down and do her thesis, she's taken over the nest, not only making me clear out all the junk I've hoarded in there, but also move around the furniture!

So, my organised mess has been cleared up. I now have no idea where "that bit" is (funny how I did before I tidied...). I've been given the front room to play in - but having to take stuff out and put it away every night I ant to do some modelling wont be the same.

So, luckily, I've had chance to do some modelling in the old room last night. Here's two chariots, one Razorgor and one tuskgor.

So, the main chassis is the orc plastic chariot. The yoke is from the corpse cart, which gives an extra bit of height to go over the pig and help make it look a bit different from the tuskgor chariots. It has four holes which allowed me to put the plastic chain and hooks from the marauder horsemen kit around the spikes on the razorgor, meaning I avoided any need to greenstuff a harness around the pig.

The riders are the metal beastlord which I got free in a random ebay trade and an ungor with his feet bent.



Business end. Oink.



Here's the considerably more dull WIP of the tuskgor chariot. Yawn.

And finally, with the clear out  I got my finger out and got all my army case sorted for all my beastmen army. There was alot of foam left over from the pick and pluck trays, but I needed somewhere to put it all...



...Lining the inside of a tank box from Maelstrom games. Boom, instant monster carry case!

Huskygor Chariot

Evening all, how are we? I finally got my chariot base from GW this weekend so I set about finising off my chariot conversion.

So I decided to convert a plastic orc chariot, but I decided to replace the cute boars for a couple of warhounds. I was a bit sceptical at first on whether the conversion would work, but it actually turned out alright! I might even say I'm pretty cuffed with myself!

I decided the hounds, or "huskygors"as I've now named them, needed something to connect them to the chariot body, so I added the eternally useful "dark eldar hook chain" from the ravager kit and connected them to their rumps. I greenstuffed the taught skin over the hooks too, I figure beastmen are pretty brutal with their livestock!

So, here's my huskygor chariot. Woof woof!

That'll do dog. That'll do.

Wheels of...ricketty wood that would probably set on fire quite easily -WIP chariot

Hallo, more WIPS! This is a converted orc chariot. I didn't want a metal one from GW - metal models that size are terrible to move around and paint, and the tuskgors look a bit goofy. So my plan was to use the new boars as a replacement and make an eniterly plastic chariot.

Unfortunately, the new orc boars were a bit too big, and tipped the chariot itself. The boars which came with the chariot were too small and looked like baby boar, not really fitting for my beast hoard. So I'm compromising with warhounds, they're not the biggest but look much better than the standard likkle boars (who are now in a ungor filler).

As it was an Orc chariot, I had to "beastify" it. First, the riders were an ungor and a gor. I gave the ungor a whip from the corpse cart and the half horns head - technically, the crew is suppose to be a gor and bestigor, but using the "rule of cool" and since the metal chariot looks like an ungor and gor too, I don't think it matters much. The bestigor is a plastic gor with bestigor arms and head. I put a couple of spare minotaur shields on the wheels to make it extra beastly.

The model also didn't come with a chariot base, but GW have promised to send me a free one in the post so that's all gravy.

So, without further ado, this is my converted chariot so far!



As you can see...wee bit too big!




Ungor unit filler, isn't he cute?



WIP Slaanesh herald on Chariot

Waddup? It's been a few days and I've slacked off, but I find when I start writing on here I'm absorbed for a good hour or so and I don't end up doing any painting! Bad Simon bad!

But then again, if I'm off painting I'm not on here, and my fellow bloggers are being left in the lurch. Sinister cycle.

So here are some photos of my models. Before I begin, I want to set the tone for my work. I'm a hobbyist, I love warhammer, I love the background. I love gaming, I love rolling dice and having a great experience at the tabletop, regardless of the end result.

I am a reasonable general. I am not a great painter. I'm a reasonably skilled modeller. I pride my armies on being themed and a coherent table top quality, with conversions that have a lot of character. I quite often field models that are "substandard" because they look cool. And hey - if you can't play with models you like, what sort of hobby is it?

So, with that said, here is the start of my army.

First of all, I thought I'd put my pride and joy up. My herald on a chariot. Probably not the strongest choice in my army, but a pure slaanesh army doesn't have many options for a centrepiece model. At lower points levels, I'd need something at hero level that had a bit of punch behind it. The chariot, I felt, was a good choice. Or so I hope!

This is an idea I've had floating around for a while. About 3 years ago I'd bought 2 high elf chariots from a bits service site. I was intending to make a tzeentch chariot but, like many ideas, I never got round to it, and chariot parts ended up in my bitz box.

So, cue last year, when I began my 40k slaanesh army when the new plastics came out. I'd put the majority of the chariot together, but again, never finished it off.

Third time lucky! With my newly acquired dark eldar bitz (seriously, raiders come with so much bling!) I set about making my chariot. I added the flag because, well, I'm really nostalgic. I remember getting my first ever taste of warhammer in 1996, when I picked up a free pamphlet in meadowhall. I remember the bright colours, the huge armies and models with HUGE banners! And warhammer's just not warhammer without some obscenely large flags! The plastic flag has a crescent symbol which can be found all around daemonette models, so fit perfectly.

I added the chain (with much chagrin and several choice, colourful words) just to complete the model, as it made no sense that two famously freedom seeking creatures would just ride around with a chariot on their back without some guidance.

By the time you read this, it will have been sprayed and majority painted. Let me know what you think.