A trio of Skaven spell casters and their escort of globadiers consolidate their hold on a fallen human settlement.....
Recently played a rousing game of Oldhammer with some old friends. My pal The Ratboy was so enthusiastic about playing with the painted Skaven that I did have (mostly Skaven slaves and Clan Moulder stuff) that I got motivated to paint up some more. So here are some key players in the army of the Flea Fell...
A Warplock engineer designates a target for his globadiers...most likely he will be one of the army's junior spell slingers but his warplock pistol is likely to mean trouble for his enemies even if he runs out of spells...
The Army's chief wizard...I've always hated this 4th edition era model. It suffers from 'Giant Weapon Syndrome' that deadly curse that fell upon Citadel miniatures in the mid nineties. But the fact is that the original Skaven miniatures line had so few Wizard models that I was forced to search further afield than 2nd/3rd edition to find what I needed.
He'll do, I suppose.
I'm much more fond of this fellow, even though the sculpt is just a modified globadier, he's still got a delightfully sinister look about him.
The globadiers mass for the attack. Hopefully they won't bump blindly into one another in their gas masks and drop a globe.
There were only two globadier poses in the original Skaven line, but that doesn't bother me too much as they are such characterful little fellows and you can only have a maximum of six in your army anyway.
The WW I style gas masks may seem out of place in a fantasy setting, but I've never found it to be distracting with these guys...
It just makes me think of The Evil Genius in Time Bandits...Anything that makes me think of Time Bandits is good.
"Hee Hee! Smash-smash! Watch 'em choke & die!"
Evil little devils capering in triumph...need some Clan Rats now...
The warplock engineer has a bit of 'big hands' syndrome going. I feel like that was a complaint about the skaven range for certain time periods as well (90's? oo's?). I really like the look and concept of the globadiers....no idea how 'good' they are though.
ReplyDeleteBig heads and hands was a thing with Citadel for a long time. At some point they made a decision to sculpt those elements in larger than life fashion because those are two of the things we tend to focus on right away when looking at a miniature. The Globadiers are fun and potentially lethal because their gas grenades ignore armor and they use a template attack which can take down several elite heavily armored troops at once. Like anything with the Skaven though, things can always go disastrously wrong. Its not unusual for one of the little creeps to throw a globe in the wrong direction and end up gassing a bunch of his mates. But thats half the fun.
DeleteSkaven in gas masks, brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Michael! I love the little devils...
DeleteYou know, I've no idea what a skaven is, but that building behind them is very nice, did you make, very good if so?
ReplyDeleteFlea Fell sounds an interesting sort of a place though, maybe not for your annual holiday but perhaps a day trip.
I did not make the building. These guys did.
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