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| CONSTRUCTING AND PAINTING A SKAVEN WARBAND by Annuriel This article will hopefully give you some advice and tips on how to construct and paint a skaven warband for Mordheim. Though originally designed for Mordheim, this article will work fine with your Warhammer Skaven army. For this project you will need a plastic Skaven Warphunters boxed set and a Skaven Clanrats regiment set for additional skaven and useful bits. However if your not prepared to spend £15 on a few more rats and a bell and a stick, this isn't essential. Also, you might want to get the fantasy swarms boxed set for Giant Rats. STEP ONE: ASSEMBLY Firat of all, simply assemble the kits. I prefer to use the Mordheim plastics for heroes and the warhammer pastics for henchmen. For your Assassin Adept, either give him fighting claws or two swords (which you can later upgrade to weeping blades). To make two swords simply get one right arm with a sword and cut another sword off another right arm and stick it onto a left arm. I reccomend you use your cloaks on just your Assassin and Night Runners, as these look more sneaky and deadly than without the cloak. The Black Skaven are supposed to look tough, not stealthy, so try to use big weapons such as the flail and armoured bodies. If you decide to take an Eshin Sorcerer, use the robed body and legs. For his staff, take the stick with the skull on it in the regiment set used for hitting the bell with. He will also look good with the bell, or you could give it to a henchman to make him stand out, like I have done. Using the plastic kits you can assemble a standard to give to one of your Black Skaven. Try not to make it look too big or impresseive, your going to be fighting in cramped and dark places. I just used the arm with the standard with the Skaven symbol on top, but the skull will look just as good. STEP TWO: PAINTING I will take you through painting the plastic skaven in easy to follow steps. We shall paint a Verminkin with sword and shield (one of the ones from the Mordheim kits), with an armoured body. OK, here goes. I hope this helps. I) Undercoat the Skaven Chaos Black with Citadel Spray. II) Paint all the fur in Bestial Brown, and the shield too. III) Drybrush the sword, armour, and any other metal bits in Chainmail. Some of this might want to be done in Dwarf Bronze instead, such as bells or armour for heroes to make them stand out. IV) Paint all leather bits such as trousers and wrist thingies in Snakebite Leather or Scab Red. For Night Runners or Assassins you might just want to leave some of this black. V) Paint the face without fur, the hands, the tail, and the feet if he has no shoes in Elf Flesh. Thats as far as you have to go for him to be playable. However as this is in Mordheim, you have more time to paint and take care of each of your models, so if I was you I would go further. VI) Shade the flesh in watered down Tentacle Pink. VII) Drybrush the fur in Snakebite Leather. VIII) Paint blood onto his sword by flicking Blood Red paint of lightly with a toothbrush. IX) If the model has any bones for any reason in him, for instance the skull on the Sorcerer's staff, paint this first in Bleached Bone, then watered down Chaos Black, and finally a drybrush of Skull White mixed with Bleached Bone. X) Paint his eyes in with Blood Red. XI) Drybrush the shield with Snakebite Leather and paint the studs in with Chainmail. BASING I tend to keep my bases simple, but you may want to go further by adding paving stones made from card or peices of debris and stuff go ahead. However this is how I paint my bases. First I give it a complete coat of Scorched Brown, then I paint the sides in Chaos Black. I then paint the top with PVA and dip it in sand, which I then paint in Bestial Brown drybrushed with Bleached Bone. OTHER STUFF For my warband I have made other stuff, for instance my Giant Rats are simply made from the plastic rats you get in the Fantasy Hordes Boxed Set, a cheap and easy way to make them. Also I have added a head from the Hairy Heads sprue and a hand from the Skaven Clanrats accesories sprue to the belt of my Assassin, gruesome trophies taken from his past victems. You might want to add lots of these little details, the accesories sprues from both the Skaven Clanrats and Skaven Warphunters kits are ideal for this. Just let your imagination run wild. Well, thats about it for today, cheerio. Annuriel |
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