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Road to 2500 I had posted some of my very simply mod-ed bow skinks. I didn't bother with removing the quivers, and I tried to use bits of the existing bows as hook bladed hand weapons.
I can't get the photos to display here, for some reason, but look about halfway down the page. Actually, the whole thread is pretty cool.
Nice guys, thanks! All those examples of how I should handle the bow skinks when I get to them are going to be really helpful. I looked at them the other day and I really think I should be able to pull something off with them that looks more or less acceptable.
It’s been awhile since I posted an update. I didn’t forget about this; I technically have been busy with Warhammer although not as productive as I’d like to have been. So when I got all my skinks out a few days ago I was ready for knocking them out. Then I started gluing their tiny fragile terrible arms on and after about the fourth arm that got fused to my thumb with glue I made the executive decision to doing 40 skinks instead of all my skinks. Well and then I finally started priming them and then it started ...distraction after distraction happened.
Firstly I got my Saurus Astrolith Bearer in the mail. I never got one for 8th because I can kit bash my own battle standard bearer pretty easily thanks to all the standard bits available, but in AoS they’re really really really good ..and it’s not just a battle standard anymore, it’s an “Astrolith” so I want it to be recognizable on the table as such to my opponent. Anyways I couldn’t find one on ebay that wasn’t part of a huge lot of lizards and no store in my area had them on the shelves; even GW was out of them for months (I put myself on the email-me-when-it’s-available list). That email finally came and I was able to order one (they’re out again after like a week and a half –it’s a good think I pulled the trigger on it when I did) and it finally got here after months of searching on ebay and waiting and such – it was a pretty big deal. I immediately put the skinks up and was gonna knock that thing out but while I was looking for bit’s for a different kind of base I was thinking about putting together for it I found the temple bases I had misplaced so I was going to put my Slann on a proper base real fast (HUGE MISTAKE).
Putting that thing on a base was murder-balls. I used so much glue and clamps and whatnot getting that thing somewhat stable when I was painting it the first time (it collapsed on me several times) that I was more than a little frustrated at the palanquin bearers when the two on the right simultaneously abandoned their sacred duty and dropped said Slann dislodging a banner. No problem, I can handle that …no wait…I can’t. What ensued afterwards were several hours of all the palanquin bearers falling to pieces banners and horns breaking off glue on my fingers sticking to paint on the model and it coming off stuck to my fingers in strips and slabs – human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA. I got frustrated; the frustrated made me less careful. Things deteriorated quickly. Long story short I fired those palanquin bearers and after I started having more problems just getting him a flying base for play I fired him too. They all got banished for an undetermined amount of time to a box on the back corner of an old piano in my room I like to call the “Box of Disappointments”.
Then I took a little walk around outside.
Then I got an idea and I think it turned out to be a pretty good one.
I don’t have a lot of WIP shots of these because once I started putting it together I kinda lost track of doing anything else. Anyways, the first thing I wanted to do was make sure I had a flying base that was sturdy enough to hold a Slann. In the middle of putting together the old Slann I won an auction for my first new style Slann for pretty darn cheap (25$ free shipping) I’s just the palanquin was missing some bits and there was no skink rider ( I don’t even know if they’re supposed to come with one for sure), it was just the Slann and most of a new palanquin. Since I was going to have to work on the palanquin anyways I didn’t really want to use it. At some point I’m gonna make a Kroak and I’ll probably use it for that eventually. So for this guy I channeled my inner Aladdin and came up with something else…
The base is really just some temple themed base I had in a box with a new terradon base bit thing on top of it. The carpet is actually a really neat bit I wanted to use forever, it’s from a Reaper mini (sorceress on carpet or something like that) and I had bought it originally because I wanted the carpet to kit out an old-blood on the carpet with the piranha blade and the steg helm but…I don’t know when I’ll get to it and I wanted to use it now so I did. It turned out pretty good I think.
*Since I’ve done this I went to the Reaper website to get another carpet so I could eventually make my old-blood again at a later date and found out that they’re not selling bit’s at all now anymore it looks like (Bone Yard is empty)..sad sad day. The carpet was already expensive-ish by itself (5ish dollars I think but the whole model is 10$), oh well. *
Now that I got the base figured out, this Slann was waaaay easier than the last one.
He’s not done but he’s done enough to play with. The only thing I’m going to add is two more things. The first thing is a topknot. A friend of mine has an orc one he said I could have or If I can even find a horses tail in one of my bit boxes I’ll do something with that. The next thing I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to do it yet – for the skink guy that rides with the Slann, I’m either going to make a Fez out of green stuff and stick it on a skink or get an actual monkey with a fez – Reaper has one in a familiar pack, but it would be expensive for just that if I have to get it from them. Also there’s a company called Eureka or something like that that has a winged-fez-monkey line of minis. Those would be expensive too, but I’ve always wanted an excuse to get some of the winged monkeys ( at one point when I was thinking about trying to make a Tzeentch chaos human/daemon army I was going to use them for Tzeentch themed furies), or even just to paint if nothing else.
So, my army is probably going to look completely different than I thought it would last week. Hopefully in the next couple of days after class/internship/adult responsibilities (boooo) I’ll be back on track with some skinks and maybe that Astrolith Bearer.
