Warhammer Fantasy, Pest Control

Greetings all, I hope you are all doing well, and if you aren’t, hope you start feeling better soon!

Decided this year that I would actually get stuck into the Spring Clean challenge. So far in 2021 my painting mojo has been at it’s peak, already having finished 86 models!!!! Let’s see how long i can keep this up before burning out.

Decided that I would enter this challenge with my Skaven, my favourite fantasy race, that i started over 10 years ago when i first got into the hobby in my late teens. Since then the model pile for the army has grown, whilst the “completed” pile….has grown a little, but not by much.

I had put off this project for a while. With the coming of Age of Sigmar, i decided i would rebase everything onto round bases….. and then “The Old World” was announced… Which quite frankly, I am very excited about. To be honest, Age of Sigmar doesn’t do anything for me, I find the rules ok, but the lore I cannot get behind at all, I don’t understand a fair bit of it, and it’s all a bit too fantasy for me, whereas i loved the dirty, medieval feeling of the Old World, and I thought the rules, whilst complicated, where enjoyable too. But I didnt know then what to do basing wise. Is the Old World going to stick with round bases? or will GW annoy a lot of people who have already re-based their armies and go back to square bases?

After a bit of research and a brief question session on one of the Facebook groups, it seems the general feeling is that the Old World game will be back on square bases, (some people seem to think that this has been confirmed). So I will be sticking with square bases. Fortunately a lot of my stuff is still on square bases, but there are a few pieces that I have already re-based, plus all the new stuff comes with round bases now anyway, so I will have to find replacements.

But to make things easy, I will start working on the models that are still on squares.

So this is my collection, as you can see, most of it has just been chucked in a box where it has remained for most of a decade, so there are a few broken pieces, fortunately I do have spare parts, but if i am missing anything, I then have an excuse to buy more models.

From what i remember that I have in the collection , there is:

80 Clanrats
60 Plague Monks
20 Storm Vermin
40 Night Runners
Plus a large assortment of weapons teams, characters and war engines.

I also have the Forgeworld Verminlord below, don’t worry, he’s not just chucked in a box, he sits atop my bookshelk facing off against my Mythic Games Dragon.

So that’s my collection so far, still got some models to assemble, got some models to put back onto squares, and still lots of models I want to buy…..

Im gonna start of easy, with the 40 Gutter Runners. I am also going to be reading through the old Skaven Army book, reminding myself of the lore, the characters and what it was that I loved about the Skaven. I feel like Age of Sigmar lost a lot of the humour that some of the Old World factions had, I loved that when playing Skaven, anything and everything, could, and probably did go wrong, whereas reading through the Sigmar Skaven book, that humour and sillyness no longer seems to be there, at least not at the same level….

Bring on the Old World!!!!