Araby - Warhammer Armies Project

 With my recent commencement playing WAP I can now use my former Arabyonnians as a fully imagined Araby army.

First up is some new cavalry armed with spears. I have converted the classic Al Muktar’s Desert Dogs with cut down bretonnian lances as spears. Shields are yet to come as unfortunately I do not have any of the muktar ones spare.

I chose to go different colours to the black and purple of my bros already painted and settled on green and orange/ red.

The horses are from black tree miniatures warriors of Islam range.

Next up is the leader of the unit and a couple more bros. I should have a full unit of eight when I am done.

Blight King

 Another model finished (albeit started in 2021), this time a chaos warrior Blight King.

I have recently started playing the Warhammer Armies Project and tried this unit out in my last game.  Pretty tanky and I now have a unit of five converted from the 40k terminators I picked up from the conquest periodical.

I really like how he turned out as I tried a few different techniques to lighten the armour and the smoke.

Although there was no conversion I think the bone in the axe tones down some of the 40k look of the mini.

Japanese Imperial Army

Off to the start of a new painting year with a flame thrower and sniper team from warlord games.

Great minis and am looking forward to using them in 2022.

Although I finished him late in 2021 here is my Japanese commander. Another mini from warlord games.

Chain of command Kota Bahru airfield

 Our Singapore campaign continued with a Japanese invasion of the kota bahru airfield.  These amazing boards were built my my buddy Lee and will be pride of place in a upcoming game at the WA museum:

https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/fatal-fortress-fall-singapore?fbclid=IwAR1qIpF9ntLiFRyspnvHQOZO0CAXRpe0pTCorACT3sasVgaVBQX8OSrVOQM

The fast moving Japanese surge forward seizing the early objectives.

The flame thrower takes out two of the bunkers as the Japanese continue to push towards the objectives at the back of the commonwealth line.

Thanks to multiple consecutive turns, the Japanese win the game. 

Despite a successful charge the Japanese forward charge take a battering and are pinned.

A bike is stolen- a sign of things to come.

Brutal hand to hand combat wipes out the commonwealth forward infantry 

 With the bunker out of action and the tank crew a little rattled from the flame thrower, the Japanese infantry surge towards the objectives.

The mortars kept the Japanese safe behind its smoke.

Despite the loss the commonwealth keep one of their prized push bikes.

And here we are prior to the battle beginning 

Golden Hat - Hobgoblins

This is my entry for the Golden Hat painting competition from chaos dwarfs online: https://discourse.chaos-dwarfs.com/

The theme was hobgoblins and I went big. 

As in the 9th Age hobgoblins have their own army book that includes a karkhadon beast as a mount for your leader aka the Shah, I used an ogre stone horn with a 3D printed Howdah.

The howdah is the extent of the conversions. The howdah fitted quite easily as the top of the beast has a flat finished usually hidden by the ogre rider.

I wanted the horns to be weathered and am happy with the outcome that used heavy bone white paint over watered down black washes.

The hobgoblins also have access to mahouts with three crew and I decided a 3D printed war mammoth was the way to go. 

Although designed for chaos warriors of the dark gods I had these printed at 50% which was perfect for the crew.

The crew were also 3D printed with conversions to arm them with halberds. As the pose of the mammoths are a little repetitive I changed a couple of the front legs and added some chains to another to break up the unit.

Painting followed my recent apprise to lighten the skin tone of the hobgoblins with some slight variations to the mammoths from grey and black to some lighter browns.

Although I did not place as a winning entry (the winners were amazing) I am extremely happy with the finished unit.  They dwarf the rest of the mounted hobgoblins as demonstrated above.

All entries: https://discourse.chaos-dwarfs.com/t/golden-hat-xxxvii-voting/2822

Winners: https://discourse.chaos-dwarfs.com/t/golden-hat-xxxvii-winners/4362