Good Enough Hobbies

The old world cometh; are you ready?

Hello and long time no see!

Small update, got one of the companies sold, and then I have had some well needed vacation days.

This doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting idly. No, not at all!

This vacation coincided quite nicely with the release of Warhammer: The old world, and gave me time to muster an army of my own. 3D printed of course, because I’m cheap like that (and could not snag a preorder, dang-it).

Starting with the infantry, 2 blocks of Men-at-arms of 18 men.

These are the models I had to really buy, as the free ones I found where not to my liking. These are Highland Miniatures stl files from Myminifactory, printed on my Mars 2 Pro 3D printer. The only thing I have modified is the hight of the miniatures, as these come scaled to 30mm.

I personally liked how they looked as 30mm, so I scaled the to 92,5% scale. ( not the grail monk or the triptych. Grail monk is cobbeled together by me from a grail monk body and the triptych is scaled down model of a real one)

Next, The Battle pilgrims with the grail Reliaque.

These and the rest of the army come from the same source. Juhász Gergely on Myminifactory. These where all free (score!) and are fantastic for the price (ha-ha real funny ). I love this model. The thought of being carried around as a skeleton by devoted poor zealots is too frigging funny.

Onwards! Or should I say CHAAAAARGE!

Brilliant models, Knight-of-the-realms are not too detailed but enough to make them stand out. I might have printed them on the small side relative to the real GW models, but Scale is bonkers any ways, so who cares. One small thing I found when painting them…

I hate painting horses. Ironic, isn’t it?

Much better! Here we have a catapult. Fun story; In the first and only game to date, they have not yet fired. They managed to get swiped turn one against my friends Tomb Kings horse archers that managed to flank me. Fun stuff. Models great though.

Now we are talking! A Paladin/Baron/Duke on foot with a Great weapon, a Paladin/Baron/Duke on Warhorse/Barded warhorse & a Paladin/Baron/Duke on Pegasus/Barded Pegasus. Funny to be able to proxy ones own stuff without getting a WeLl AcHtUaLly ..

Here is my only criticism, I’m not really digging the Pegasus to be honest, that’s why I have only one.

More heroes! Here is a Damsel on foot And a Prophetess on warhorse. I really need to print a horn to turn it into an Unicorn. Though that would mean I need to change the base…

Now to my definitive favorite, the GREEN KNIGHT!

This model is AMAZING.

nope, no other comments. Hands down my favorite.

Phew, that’s a lot of models. And still I’m not done. I have 6 Questing knights, 6 Grail knights and 6 Knights-of-the-realm still to do, but then I’m finished.

When done, this army will be over 2400p, before magic items. Looking forward to the glorious field of battle against my mates when they get their armies painted.

I’ll try to post stuff more often, promise!

Cheers!

-Marc

Magenetized Questor Soulsworn

Hey and welcome back!

finally, FINALLY! I have got the Questor Soulsworn magnetized, based and painted. This has been such a long project, staring mockingly at me half done on the table, and it is finally over.

Why has it taken such time you might ask?

I HATE painting stormcast it seems. Something about the armour is just so off putting to paint, It seems more like a chore than anything else. I didn’t have the same problem with the thunder strikes I painted (https://wordpress.com/post/goodenoughhobbies.com/944) as I had such an interesting paint scheme that I didn’t feel the chore-iness of them as much as these Questors.

Painted to match somewhat the box art, I think It might be the problem with them. The paint scheme was so boring! Also Magnets!

Don’t get me wrong here, the sculpts are in line with everything else Games Workshop put out. That means they are excellent.

The kit comes with a plethora of weapon options, as I have the possibility to field 6 models, with 7 different weapon options. Only one negative aspect of the weapon options is the lack of spears. The box only comes with one spear, with I would say is the most versatile chaff weapon of the box.

Hopefully I get to test them in a game soon. I just seem to have a great big pile of Warcry warbands to test nowadays..

Cheers!

-Marc

A lite hope for future games

Hello and welcome back!

Hope your Christmas was a good one, and that you have had much time for hobbying. I sure have had my fair share of time!

And what better than to build and paint ancient sculpts in the form of some Hoplite walls of spears!

Oh man, whats more impressive than a wall of spears? Not much I tell you.

This is a minor kitbash to represent Thebans and minor northern Greek factions for the SPQR Gaming system. The helmets are from the Greek Peltasts, javelin men and slingers box from Victrix (https://www.victrixlimited.com/collections/greek-and-persian-wars/products/greek-peltasts-javelin-men-and-slingers?variant=32092934111331).

The body is from the Greeks: Classical greek Phanlax box from Warlord (https://eu.warlordgames.com/products/greeks-classical-greek-hoplites)

And then the hero, because every warband needs a hero.

Interestingly, the scales of warlord and victrix are a bit different, warlord being smaller, but this does not really show much when only using heads from victrix.

I’m really hopeful to get in more games this coming year, as I finally have found a gaming group for wargames! Although they focus on Warcry, I’m hoping they are willing to try something new for a change and might want to delve into the other gaming systems I have.

Cheers!

-Marc

Warcry: Vulkyn Flameseekers

Hello dear readers!

First and foremost, Happy Independence day!

Secondly, Vulkyn Flameseekers!

This box comes with 9 miniatures which 6 can be built with either a Fyresteel splitaxe or Bokaz. The big difference between the two are that the Fyresteel splitaxe has better strength and the Bokaz better crit damage. Interestingly most fighters in the warband has access to an 8 inch ranged attack (throwing axes?) mitigating some of the slowness of the warband.

WEAPONS

Weapon profile: Scalebreakers

GFyresteel splitaxe: R2 A3 S5 D 2/4

Bokaz: R2 A3 S4 D2/5

So the Fyresteel splitaxe tend to get the hits in, and the Bokaz does the damage when critting. Both are great in my opinion, but I still need to test it out in the glorious field of battle.

BUT!

This is not the case for the Vulkyn Runefather, here the bokaz has better strength and damage! It costs 5 points more, but still interesting to see that the stats flip for the hero model.

Weapon Profile: Vulkyn Runefather

Fyresteel splitaxe: R2 A4 S4 D2/4

Bokaz: R2 A3 S5 D2/5

[double] Ignite Weapons is used to great effect, turning 1 miss into a crit instead. Most effective to make damage stick with the Bokaz armed Runefather.

SPEED

Being dwarves, their speed are a measly 3 inches, on par with the Ironjaws and Cities of sigmar dwarwes. Only the monster of the warband, the kyndledroth has a speed of 4, but this warband relies a lot on their abilities to propel the warband forward.

[double] Blazing Impetus: Really a dangerous ability to catch an opponent by surprise. This makes a dwarf move one extra move (or bonus disengage) for a total of 9 inch movement in its turn.

[triple] Creed of Flame: uses the Drothmaster (wipguy) to propel a fighter outside of 6 inch bubble around him to make the fighter make 2 bonus move actions (2 bonus move actions and a free attack action for the kyndledroth)

An interesting warband for sure, meshing a +1/2 Strenght ironbreaker baseline stat range with a 2 inch weapon profile and a 8 inch ranged attack for 50% cost increase.

The models are fantastic, only gripe was that I could not find a good place for magnets, so magnetizing the weapon options was a no-go this time (probably quite good, my questor soulsworn still aren’t painted..)

Thanks for reading this little piece, and hope to see you soon again.

-Marc

Warcry: The good value proposition

Hey and welcome back dear readers!

I seemed to have got bitten with the Warcry bug, as models for the game seems to grow at a fast rate. Looking around, I found a quite nice starter set for Age of Sigmar, more precisely the Warrior Starter set.

Pros +

Kruleboyz warband worth 1055 points

Thunderstrike Stormcast warband worth 950 Points ( The banner bearer as a count-as)
2 Sided mat
Dice & range rulers & 1 terrain feature
Cheap, only ~30€!

Cons –

No warcry related cards and tokens
Monopose models
Not enough terrain for the full game
Does not include the rules for warcry

For about 30€, the value for the intended Age of Sigmar might be a little on the weak side, but using this set as the starter for Warcry is huge! Two full warbands for the price of not even one. You really can’t beat that.

Of course the missing tokens and cards for the models hurts, but thanks to the generosity of the Warhammer team, all the cards can be found as a PDF download on the Warhammer community page, along with the rules for the game. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/08/18/charge-headlong-into-warcry-with-free-core-rules-to-download/

On to the models!

Boy has the modelling gone forward! Even these mono-pose dudes are fantastic! They still have a lot of gaps, due to them being the easy to assemble line of models that Games workshop puts out, and need a lot of green stuff to get a nice finish. But taking the for what they are, a first introduction to a new gamer to war-gaming not even requiring glue to assemble, the are absolutely smashing!

Then we have the Stormcast

Same as the Kruleboyz, these models are fan-fricking-tastic! Still suffer from the gigantic gaps though. The hardest part with these where actually the painting. Or more to say the coming up with a color scheme.

The Stormcast models I feel didn’t have much detail as the Orruks. Were the Kruleboyz had a lot of small detail, such as the individual strips of cloth being held together with thin straps, or the small spikes on the armour, The stormcast feel a lot more barren.

To summarize, as an entry point into Warcry this set is has a super value proposition, with the caveat that is does not contain the tokens or rules for warcry, even though these can be found for free to download.

See you soon!

-Marc

De-cluttering the space

I’m sure a lot of you have the same problem as me when it comes to the hobbie space of yours, that it’s full of paints, equipment and models in varying stages of completion.

SHAME! SHAME!

If the photo above looks familiar, you really need to tidy up!

My greatest problem is actually the amount of paints I have. As you can see, they take up a great portion of my hobby desk, even though they have two dedicated stackers to help store them. The last straw was me picking up 2 excellent boxes of Scale75 paints, and me realizing that I had no way to store them.

My solution of course came from the sellers of decently prized meatballs, IKEA.

That little piece of wall mounted board is called “SKÅDIS”, roughly translated to “view-y” (or in my regional dialect, “actor”. Isn’t dialects fun!). It has tons of big and small shelf modules so you can customize the layout as you wish.

This also has the added benefit of keeping stuff out of the reach of my 2 year olds grabby mittens, as she often finds it fun to accompany me when hobby-ing. Personal favorite of hers beeing my blue-stuff and purple colours.

Cheers!

-Marc

Dark elf Warband

Hey and welcome back!

Interestingly enough, I’m already done with the Dark elf warband.

6 Dread spears, inspiration drawn from box art. In the game, these would be 390 points worth of chaff.

6 Darkshards, these will be the ranged backbone of the warband. In game worth 540 points.

And last we have a stand in for a Sorceress, a Guardmaster and a Lordling. Coming in at 140, 125 and 105 points respectively.

And there, the warband is done! This has got to be one of my fastest projects to date.

Looking at the stats though, I’m a bit worried. Other than the Sorceress and the Lordling, the warband really lack a decent melee punch. The Dreadspears only doing 1 damage and 4 on a crit means that to go through a decently tough enemy (5+), I’m basically going to need to crit fish.

We’ll see how it plays when we get there!

Until next time!

Keeping up with the ancients and repainting old models

Welcome back!

Today I can show you what has been laying on my desk for too long, more ancients!

More exactly 4 peltasts with yellow shields and 4 slingers in brown.

Here they are mixed in with the others I have made in a earlier post, :https://wordpress.com/post/goodenoughhobbies.com/767

If find that the yellow gives a great tonal variety, as the green, brown & orange where a bit same-y. Introducing a really vibrant yellow breaks up the unit colors to reflect how different the colours could be as no standardization was available and soldiers could hail from wildly different provinces when coming together into an army. To boot, mercenaries where often used, further giving the troops different colours.

Onward to the other topic for today.

I friend of mine has invited me to come test out the skirmish game Warhammer: Warcry with his friends, and naturally I said HECK YEAH!

So, I have some time to come up with a warband, and luckily I had quite a few models laying around.

As you might have seen, I use a lot of models from the Warhammer univers as stand ins for various monsters and ruffians in my games of frostgrave. This has lead me to have quite a lot of all kinds of legal models, now that cities of sigmar rules dropped.

On the right side we have my old cultist models, an old Dark elf Dreadspear model kitbashed with a knife and arm from Fireforge sergeants. On the right we see the first of the new Dark elf warband troops, repainted without stripping the original models.

This method is quite fast and I should have a ready warband quite quickly.

Cheers!

-Marc

Speedpainting Wookies

Hey and welcome back!

Life’s been busy. The new CFO for our old company got canned, so I had to step up again to fill the post. Impressive how much a person can screw up in 6 months.

anyway, onward.

This time I have some fun stuff for you, wookies painted using Army painter Speedpaints! (and some GW contrast)

First of the Battle Shield Wookie! That fire giant orange sure is vibrant! So vibrant that the gold details are unnoticeable.. (is it me or does the carbines remind you of the covenant carbines from Halo..?)

Next up The bowcaster and long gun. I have been skeptic about Army painter gravelord grey, as I find it a bit .. meh! But now I have found a use for it, Grey fur is awesome with it!

Here I went a bit nuts, and felt the need to make the wookies my own. So these are have arm-swaps to make them unique! Ryyk blades and pistols for everyone!

Here we also see the difference of GW snakebite leather and AP Hardened Leather. The Hardened leather is much more orange-y compered to Snakebite, as SL is more of a yellow-brown tone. Fun to mix them in a unit, as I feel Wookies should have a lot of different tones!

Also Firegiant orange with silver trim is frigging beautiful in my opinion!

Cheers!

-Marc

3D wars

Hey and welcome back!

Yes yes, busy with work yadda yadda. Anyway!

If you saw the headline, It’ 3D printing time!

Model from Thingiverse, custom gun modeled on

I have realized that I really suck at painting vehicles, and also I didn’t think things though, and screwed up the peg for it. As you can see, it’s tilting back a bit. And I can’t really fix it. Live and learn.

model from thingiverse, custom barrels modeled because it looked a bit bare. removable to boot!

Haah, much easier! I’ll think I’ll stick to imperial vehicles in the future.

model from thingiverse, had to clean up a lot and print it without hollowing. Weighs absolutely too much!

Sigh, that’s some wobbly guns alright.. Same problem as the battle bus, I didn’t think things through and the result is a bit tilted model.

Model from thingiverse, also guy from thingiverse. Loving the Green metal effect! And yes the panels are symmetrically aligned. Fight me!

We’ll, this one I’m quite happy with. The guy is a 3D printed fleet trooper, but I think he came out 10% too small.

A bit of advice for the people interested in 3D printing bigger stuff for legion:

If its A flying model, for the love of things remember think about HOW it is going to fly. Fix the stand before you print it.
If you print a resin base, if you hollow it, IT WILL BE WOBBLY IN THE MIDDLE! (FDM to go)
Check the model before you print it
If you need to cut the model to fit it to your print bed, It probably won’t align unless your printer is seriously good.

until next time!

Cheers!

-Marc