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Post by nord on Jul 8, 2019 19:02:31 GMT
A little background on myself before I start the blog proper. I started playing Warhammer in 1992, with the fourth edition boxset. The goblins and elves were too daunting for me to paint at the time, so I also bought a Skeleton Army box for practise. That practise turned into my first fully painted army, the Undead. It was the first army I took to a GW tournament. I even had a couple of WD articles printed about it. Down the years I have collected a lot of armies, for different races. I have sold off three Undead armies, still have a fully painted square based (multi base KOW style) army in a box, and a couple of years ago started this smaller force, with Saga in mind. So effectively it is my fifth Undead army (not counting any commission work I have done). When Dragon Rampant and Warlords of Erewhon came along, I had even more reasons to return to my roots. So here we go, the story of the Lord of Bleak Fell. Note: I live in the county of Cumbria in the UK, and round here hills and mountains are called fells. I also played Skyrim a lot, and the first real dungeon I explored was Bleak Falls Barrow. Put those together, and you get Bleak Fell. Well I did.  |
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Post by nord on Jul 8, 2019 19:10:33 GMT
The first thing I usually do when I start an army is paint up some basic troops, the backbone of the army. I already had a few plastic zombies started for a previous project, and I managed to score a couple of the metal Rackham figures on ebay, so that was a good starting point. In a short time I had my first couple of regiments.   Mindless shamblers need some control, so then I painted up an old Empire wizard as a necromancer.  I think that's enough for the first post, got to leave the audience wanting more.  |
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 8, 2019 21:20:08 GMT
Very nice, and as a fellow delver in Bleak Falls Barrow (it's almost like a second home after all the deleting and rerolling I've done!) I have to salute the choice of name. I'm particularly taken with that Heresy necromancer (it is a Heresy Necromancer, right?) lurking in the middle there.
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Post by Llamafish on Jul 8, 2019 21:25:20 GMT
Superb work and great name! Big fan of DR and how easy it is to get a game sorted in an evening with chatting!
Cant wait to see more of your work!
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Post by andycook on Jul 10, 2019 14:47:33 GMT
I believe the fellow with blood drops on his sword in indeed and old GW necromancer!
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Post by nord on Jul 10, 2019 14:51:34 GMT
I believe the fellow with blood drops on his sword in indeed and old GW necromancer! Yes it is. For some reason, probably me being an old duffer, I thought it was an Empire wizard. Duh. We need a dunce emoticon. |
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Post by epicsatsuma on Jul 10, 2019 16:01:04 GMT
swet jeebus - they're terrifying!
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Post by GenSteiner on Jul 10, 2019 17:36:22 GMT
Ah, they're delightfully rotsome. Looking forwards to seeing more of the Bleak Fell undead!
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Post by foxlordpaints on Jul 12, 2019 7:21:58 GMT
Wow! Really realistic! And that Empire wizard fits in perfectly. The eefie glow over the whole thing, but particularly the wizard’s gem, really goves the force atmosphere. 🧙♂️
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Post by nord on Jul 12, 2019 7:40:05 GMT
Thanks. Actually, I think we decided it was a necromancer after all. I reckon he pours a few drops of that green liquid on to the ground, then reads a spell from that scroll, maybe calling the dead by their real names, and they come shambling around him.  |
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Post by nord on Jul 13, 2019 12:28:14 GMT
 This is a regiment of ghouls and their minder. The ghouls are plastic goblins from Escape from Goblin Town, I trimmed off any handbags. The big guy is, pretty obviously, an ogre kingdoms butcher. I got this idea from another game, not that I spend all my time painting and gaming. For 10 internet bonus points, can you name that game? In gaming terms, the ghouls are straight forward - there's eight because at the time I painted them I had Saga in mind. The butcher, I would probably play him in Erewhon as an ogre (duh), or something similar. There's usually a way to shoehorn your minis into your game somehow. |
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Post by jonwebb on Jul 13, 2019 17:48:19 GMT
Great work on the Necromancer (and the rest of the force of course, he just stood out to me for some reason).
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Post by GenSteiner on Jul 13, 2019 21:15:46 GMT
The ghouls are absolutely terrifying.
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Post by jonathan e on Jul 14, 2019 6:32:36 GMT
Those Goblins ghoul up very nicely. Why didn't I think of that?
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Post by Llamafish on Jul 14, 2019 9:13:46 GMT
Brilliant stuff!
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