Hey look, MORE brown!

So I've been slacking of late, what with a mega busy week last week, which has meant I've done very little in the way painting and nothing in the way of blogging, However I aim to make some amends today!

Firstly for those who didn't know Me, Oly, Deke and the mysterious new kid, known only as 'Luke', got together for a support group style painting session/excuse for pizza. This was really good with a lot of painting progress made and lots of learnding done (especially by Luke, who I'm hoping wasn't to overwhelmed by the wall of info that was thrown at him :-S). Seems like this is a good format, as it gets people to actually set aside time to get some painting done and helps the speed up the process as we share tips and hints etc, so we may be looking to do something like this semi regularly, depending on other peoples interest of course.

Any way back to the Skaven....

My painting exploits at this painting session are shown below:

As you can see I'm still in the basecoat/first highlight phase, so hopefully they won't be looking too bad when  they are done. I also need to work out how to highlight brass with silver effectively to give a decent weathered looks :S

As for my army itself I think I finally have a 500 point list ready:

Vektal Cheiftain w/ Great Weapon = 50

30 clanrats - w/ Spear and Shields and Ful Command =170

12 Skaven Slaves = 24 points

2 Rat Ogres w/ Packmaster = 88

20 Plague Monks w/ Full Command = 165

TOTAL = 497

Hopefully this should provide me with enough variety of troop types to make games interesting while at the same time giving some durability in terms of numbers. The only thing that concerns me is the lack of any magic or ranged support. I may have to swap out the Rat Ogres for a plague priest, but I will definitely give this list a go first before changing it.

Well that should be all from me for now.

Laters

-Rion