Swamp Dragon

Everyone loves Dragons in Age of Sigmar. Although they are much more killable.

Based on a heavily converted Dark elf Black Dragon I found cheap on eBay.

A mane of static grass (above) and some antlers (below) complete this stage of building.

Ranger

I had a dwarf leftover from some old project or another.

It was pretty damaged so I had to sculpt a beard along with the hood.

...beards are hard.

I found a much more characterful pipe arm to replace the blank one from above.

Ghost Rider

My "local" GW is having it's 20th birthday this weekend. They are celebrating (No, not by playing classic games like Blood Bowl and Necromunda) with a series of mini games. One of which is a race based on bastardised Formula D rules.

To enter one needs a racer.

So I made one....

A hut in the heart of the swamp...

With my dark/wood/high elves (or Aelfs or whatever) getting steadily more and more swampy 

I decided to just go whole hog and make them Swamp elves.

Yeah it has probably been done before but fuck it, not by me.

When I start a new project I like to throw the idea at my non-wargaming friends to see what they come up with. One of them game me

"I don't know some sort of treehouse?"

This garbled panicy response triggered something in my brain.

Some kind of Baba Yaga swamp hut. Yes I can almost see it now...

My highly detailed planning stages for new projects are the very stuff of legend.

From humble beginnings (the middle of a roll of selotape) the project is born.

I coated the outside in milliput and scratched vague wood surface patterns into it.

Huzzah!

Once cured I added a door and a couple of windows.

Now it is starting to look like it is supposed to be some kind of dwelling.

More on the way.

Okay Nurgle, all these gifts are starting to get awkward.

Fisnished 2 more Nurgle Knights.

This one started as an excuse to try scuplting a maw where the pilot hatch should be and turned out not too shabby.

By contrast my diving suit Crusader is a bit of a flop.

Alas my Chaos knights project has fallen out of favour and these 2 will join the others on eBay.

Finding Ways

Wayfinders continue to be quite good in Age of Sigmar. However the models are not. I am going to fix this using the nice High Elf Shadow Warrior models and a bit of elbow grease*

Firstly I had to cut down the armour. No more scale mail and pauldrons.

Then I forget to take pictures of the next few steps.

Greenstuff hoods (over spare daemonette heads but shhhh) and a fur shoulder trim gives me a decent enough Waywatcher.

Paint brings it together and makes the greenstuff less painfully obvious.

9 more waiting for greenstuff to cure ready for painting.

* Elbow grease now OOP.

Too Many Gifts

Oh Plaguefather Nurgle if you keep being this generous with your gifts, people are going to talk.

My other car is a Mammoth

Forgeworld have released the scrolls for their Tamurkan book. This seemed like a good time to start working on the mammoth howdah. 

I have decided to go for elves. Warriors of Chaos would have been easier as it wouldn't need so many curved sides. The model will be the throne of a particularly ostentatious Dreadlord. 

The deck level needs to house bodyguards, crossbow troops, maybe a bolt thrower, some treasure, a sweet throne and some concubines.

On the advice of one of my many mortal foes it was suggested I add a second floor to make it more opulent and give me more space to work.

Not sure how to attach them yet.

Subtlety and Guile...

...are not important with mammoths.

It's more of a fire and forget creature.

Next I need to build some sort of howdah to house the marauders and/or Dark elves crewing it.

Maybe some armour plates too.