Morale boost whilst painting a long term army project - How my Slann/Lizardman army has grown

Hi All, long time no post, particularly as far as this project has progressed. My original Slann/lizardman army post was back in June 2019, just before BOYL and whilst it's been slow progress over the intervening period, those of you who are members of the various oldhammer fce book groups will know I've been busy of the last three months spreading a considerable amount of paint over my C series Slann, lizardmen and adding a few newer figures to my collection to bring them to some form of near completion(Who ever finishes an army?). So in an effort to keep up the pace, here's a video and a few pictures of the 'new' stuff mixed in with the old.

 Here's the mage priest surrounded by his guard, matching in the newly painted figures was trick given the original paint work is a few years old.

Next up are the original Palace guard, no new figures here, but the picture shows them off a treat.

Here are the Lizardmen for regiments, lots of new additions to these units.

Now for one of my fravorite units Lizardmen coldone riders, I've learnt with this unit that broken figures are an opportunity to add a little extra to the original mono-pose figures.

Next up are the slaves all I've added here are a couple of Slann officers to lead (I've still to paint the slave handlers).

Here are the specialists - those new  figures I've added to play later editions of Warhammer.

Almost there, heres the Slann coldone riders, no new stuff here, but to complete the post here they are.

Last, but by no means least the Slann skirmishers

Hope you like what you've seen, hopefully, more to follow soon.

June brings the end of the OWAC, show here's a few pictures of my new army

 Where did the time go, looking back it seemed to drag on forever, now it just feels that wieght has been lifted and I can look back and see the results of my efforts and looking forward to putting these on a table for a game to see how they play.

First month, saw me start off with a few pilgrims, all figures from the Celtos range via Brigade Models

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Celtos/The%20Gaels.html

Second month, I've seen what others did in January, let me take the brake off and push myself a bit further with a few amazon/greek types from Foundry which I think are no longer in production and a selection of masked females to details of which I've forgotten, sorry.

 Month three, is when I really went to town, following Mr Beales heroic efforts with his Chaos horde in month two the chase was on, so with holiday due, bad weather and having to stay home I splashed a bit of paint over this little lot - various manufacturers and age of figures from C series amazons, grenadier to Foundry and others.

 Month four saw me keep up the pressure and dab a little paint over a few C series Amazons and a Grenadier giantess.

Month five, I had intended to take a month off but Mr Beale was still set a hard pace so I pushed on with these girls! Another grenadier collossal lord, giantess, a couple of female ogres origin unknown, Shadow forge Centuars and grenadiers cat riders.

Month six, Saw me splosh and touch of paint over a few oddments in the bottow of the box to make up the numbers in various units and have a little fun!

 When all added together gave me this little lot.

All in all, a happy bunny.

 

 

A regiment of Lesser Night Goblins! (Snotlings)

Well, I've final kicked my painting mojo back into gear this year, and to achieve a quick result I went for something small and insignificant but has needed to be done for a long time - Citadel,  first edition C14 Lesser Night Goblins to be precise. I thought I had a more varied collection, but having gone though the unpainted stuff, found that I've only two poses to join my growing horde (no doubt the rest are in a box somewhere in the attic but if I'd started to look - I'd have become distracted) so, settled down to make the best of what I have. Hope you like what I've done with the little fellas.

Now, I know what your asking yourself dear reader - why is Golgfag1 (he with more Orcs than Sauron) wasting his time with lesser goblins - their nothing but a foot note in the army lists with only the merest hint of their talents and abilities, to be used as door stops whilst the big boy'z are giving the opposition a good kick-in. Well dear reader, take a look at BOB (Big Orange Book, Warhammer third Ed.) and there you get an insight into their true potential - they can have poisoned weapons for an extra 5 points,  have 3x Short-bow missile attacks per base at no extra cost, are immune to poison, can also skirmish  and everybody else ignores them, if, they run away - what's not to like?

It's, also the case - that I hold with the idea, that if, you get the good stuff - you should by rights should carry a little bit of dross to balance it out - just as Fredrick the Great did with his Frei-corps (A  hint of one of my other wargaming passions, for those of your that think I only do Oldhammer) - look at most rule sets covering the Lace Wars, and you'll find that most Prussian infantry contingents are made up of Grenadier, Musketeers & Fusiliers with only a briefest of nods given to what was a fascinating part of the forces at Fredrick's disposal, but I digress.

I now have close to the maximum of forty bases of these insignificant trip hazards and with the Pump wagons I consider they'd be pretty good entertainment for a thousand point game - think about it?

All the best

Paul/ Golgfag1