Yes but I had a problem along these lines once - it was to do with positioning models at the base of a hill so they could rank up and we could see who was in base to base in CC. Two turns later my opponent declared a charge into my flank and measured to the position at the base of the hill. In this case it was a diliberate cheat rather than an honest mistake, but it could happen just as easily if your opponent lines up a rear charge and measures to the back of the bases, forgetting to knock off the inch or so for the front of the base. Believe me these things can cost you games
AGPO
Good point and points well taken... However wouldn't you say that if your opponent is getting off a rear charge you've got bigger problems to worry about?! ;)
Countered flank charge? It can happen in drawn out combats. Chaos on Chaos clashes are famous for this type of thing, but I take your point.
AGPO
Realistically for games against friends we don't have such issues as we all love cool bases and movement trays. Nor are we at each others throats in regards to 1/4" of an inch.
Barring that against losers in the gaming stores I have a number of plastic ones to use should the need arise. :)
I’ve been a busy little Chaos Dwarf Lord painting away in my man-cave and here is a major milestone: my first Chaos Dwarf unit is finished; 24 chaos dwarf warriors. You’ll note they are 95% done actually; still have to finish off their bases and a bit of touch up on the standard bearer, but you get the idea. Bases take me next to no time when I’m on a roll. All in all they taught be a lot about converting models, and the mistakes I made on the first set of models were lessened as I bulked out the unit.
Next up: Slowly working on my Lammasu. I have the basic body done. Now it is Green Stuffing the crap out of it. Rider still TYBD, however I have some ideas that need to be further refined. Stay tuned for that.
And Lastly for my update my Taurus!. No its not that I have suddenly embraced “Tall Hats”, he just arrived in the mail from the dear old UK (Thanks Canix!). I’m including him here as before and after shots… next time you see him he will most likely look vastly different. I have the look for him very planned out. Just need to order parts for the rider with my next BC order. As to what he’ll look like lets just say two hand weapons (axes)… that’s enough of a tease for now!
I say next because GW screwed up my last order and shipped barely 1/4 of it… joy. :mad
Willmark’s Army Builder Advice Tip #1
My first bit of advice to any budding CD general is this: Roughly sketch out each unit even if it is a crude scribble. Even if the unit deviates from the plan as it evolves it gives you a nice starting point. This is the first army I have done it with (and I have 8)and it is paying huge dividends in terms of time and how much i am accomplishing with limited painting time. Also plan your purchases based on your painting speed, its nice to have units or parts coming in the mail when you are finishing up other units. It helps keep the momentum going.
NIce work on the warriors. They look a bit pink but i think thats just a bad pic. Hopefully. Lamassu looks awesome so far. Its a shame the taurus rider doenst have the back banner.
Looking good. It’s all fitting together rather well, IMO. If you’re not going to have a hatted general, then whom shall have the hat? Or what’ll it be used for? A giant blunderbuss mayhaps? A gift to a hat-friend? A leadbelcher blundercannon? A plinth? I’m intrigued as to all of the possibilities now…
NIce work on the warriors. They look a bit pink but i think thats just a bad pic. Hopefully. Lamassu looks awesome so far. Its a shame the taurus rider doenst have the back banner.
Pyro Stick
Yeah I've been tinkering with the flash of the camera. Its consistently adding a pink shade...��The actually color is a warm red with a bit of orange for highlights.
As far as the back banner goes no worries. I will be building my own.
I have to get those wings to put on my lammasu��Willmark what wings did you use?
they beat the crap out of the metal ones.
thanks Kera
Kera foehunter
Yes the are the plastic dragon wings, much better then the small metal ones. I will be using them for my Taurus as well.
Looking good. It's all fitting together rather well, IMO. If you're not going to have a hatted general, then whom shall have the hat? Or what'll it be used for? A giant blunderbuss mayhaps? A gift to a hat-friend? A leadbelcher blundercannon? A plinth? I'm intrigued as to all of the possibilities now...
Hashut's Blessing
Thanks HB. I'm pleased with the progress so far (albeit a bit more slow then I would like). The army is looking very unified so far. I'm just happy I have another unit complete. As far as the hat goes it will not be appearing in my army. So it will most likely be up for grabs once I'm done converting the Taurus.
MINOR UPDATE After I took last nights pictures I got the bases glued with sand. So its paint, dry brush, and add static grass and it will be truly complete.
I added it up and it comes to 940! Oh well next update might be the orcs which I’ll need the points for because I do not currently have the O&G army book: 20 Big 'uns FC with additional hand weapon. If I finish them it will push me over my first 1,000.
Also on my painting desk being assembled and being painted are around 1,425 points give or take.
Lastly I do not have any hobgoblins from the 4th/5th edition days in my collection so I have a question of scale. Safe to assume that those ones are the same height as a multi-part, plastic, human model?
So very nice Willmark - you are really making some progress here The warrior unit looks great :hat
Looking forward to see that lammasu finished!
And I hope you’ll get your BC parts soon - I’m looking forward to see you approach to this unit!
And a Taurus - too:) - I’ m not that fond of that old GW Taurus model - to much “cow with wings” - IMO! - so can’t wait to see what you have planned for him - hopefully we will see some armour plates, chains, chaotic ornament ect.
Its nice to see more bull centaurs and monsters featuring in the army blogs, in the early days of the site everyone was trying to get their core units done and all you saw was chaos dwarf warriors
Thanks Dude! But next to your works of art, mine look feeble in comparison.
AGPO-
Thats understandable, in the beginning everyone just needs to get units done to even have something to play with.
There is a very good chance my next units after the Big 'Uns will be just that: Lammasu, Taurus and Bull Centaurs. Lammasu is the leading candidate to be finished next as I have all the parts to work on the Lammasu itself while I order parts for the rider and parts needed for other units.
Great stuff willmark ,i get the colour shift on the camera as the taurus was well orange .Great first unit with hero ,looking forward to your upcoming posts:hat off
In preparation for new units coming up, (still looks like Taurus, Lammasu and BCs will be next) I decided to finish off three more pieces for my army. If you go back through the blog (around page 3 I believe), you’ll see the last time I talked about these two units they were in considerably less states of completeness then they are now.
First up is the Big-Uns. They are about 50% done at this stage. Tonight I did the “bulk” painting. You know adding large swathes of the major colors so as a result I didn’t get to do much detail work. This is OK as it sets me up nicely for the next several nights on this unit. The first rank is mostly done (3 out of 5 are for the most part finished). The majority still need washes and then detail.
You’ll also notice that the one orc in back is still a “gray and green”. As we all know the orc warrior regiment box comes with only enough parts for 19. So I created this guy from a chaos warrior torso and legs. had to cut away a bit, but in the end it will work out methinks.
I’m excited about this unit because along with my 1st CD sorcerer it will push my army above 1,000 points! ya!
Next up is the first bolt thrower. I just finished constructing everything tonight. in fact if you look closely you can still see some glue drying. I’m anticipating priming this next painting session. I have the second bolt thrower started as well but not enough to photograph. It has the exact same size base but the front wall/defense will be different than this one.
Th first to pics are of it under construction, the last ones of it are finished.
Sorry its not the most exciting of updates, but I’m making pretty good headway through these two units so I wanted to update everyone on the progress.
The warrior unit looks great :hat
