Ratskin renegades #3 (finished) 🐁

Looks like I've managed to get the second part of the rat-pack done! 🐁
Which is quite an achievement for me - usually after painting ~10 similar models I am getting bored enough and switch the project for something else. But not this time! Eeeek! Eeeek! Eeeek!

As you can see I was trying to keep the most similar possible color scheme to the previously painted rat-men. Which frankly wasn't that hard task, since my choice of paints is pretty limited. This time the group also contains 2 chief models, another shaman and the rat ogre, so tried to give them some special touch ups to make them pop a bit among all that vermin fur around. Old and well tested trick to do so was arming da boss with "power blade" - it's quite easy to paint actually. For example earlier such weapons were given to Mishima's demon hunter, mounted wight lord, master necromancer and chaos champion.

Just like before I painted another rat swarm base from Highland Miniatures range. I can clearly imagine shamans summoning rabid giant rats to aid them in combat. Also I found idle rat ogre model on the very bottom of Games Workshop bucket. I got it pretty long time ago but until now had no idea how to use it properly - the other one was painted as Blood Bowl player, but it I remember correctly - it's been used only once in the game. Hopefully it's rat-brother will see some more action as chief's personal bodyguard.

So here they are - emerging from the Ashlands vault. Picture of whole family will appear when I can get proper display base for all models (hopefully soon):

Below: ratskin shaman trying to break in the vault guarded by Cybertronic's Eradicator Deathdroid:

And here: Algeroth's mercurian maculator defending the last supply of Vallejo airbrush flow improver against vermintide:

Eeek! Eeek! 🐭

Ratskin renegades #2

Preparations for Oldhammer Weekend 2026 continue!

At this stage I am going to participate in Friday night Necromunda roleplaying game, Saturday mini-campaign and Sunday mega-battle. Also I am covering all 3 categories in Oldhammer painting contest, so it's gonna be busy weekend for my little people. Recently bunch of Ratskin Renegades got paint slapped so driven by nostalgia for Necromunda I decided to follow the rodent-vibe and paint some more of them - hopefully to get whole gang painted soon. In fact all signs on toxic sky of Dead World say at this stage I am about half way done 🐭

This time 6 more bases were crossed off the list. The gang got proper shaman and also rat swarm. Cannot remember that unit was available in Ratskin army list but it definitely fits the gang. Giant rats models are brilliant sculpts from Highland Miniatures range, which I've gave a try before. Just like in case of skeletons - these are very fragile prints, in fact so fragile most of models which I have arrived with snapped off tails or paws. Looking at them I think I cannot make more then 2 complete swarms so rest will most probably end up as terrain features or something like that. So here here's the vermintide:

Below: brave warriors from Big Rat Clan are facing rad-zone trolls:

More spam after Oldhammer Weekend I guess...

Skeleton warriors (Highland Miniatures)

Painting skellies is kinda like knitting:

you get pissed - you paint some bones - you get better.

Too bad I didn't realize it bit earlier, but apparently better late then never.

Anyway last week I excavated another part of spoils of war looted during Oldhammer Weekend 2022: skeleton warriors unit from highland Miniatures range. Models look pretty cool: poses are different, proportions are correct - these guys definitely fit Warhammer range. There's one flaw though: since these are printed, they are also really fragile (those thin limbs and spears especially!). So fragile, several models arrived broken and it's even despite the fact they were pretty well packed. So yeah, if I could choose - purely of gaming purposes I'd pick plastic models instead of printed. Luckly I still had some spare limbs left by the previous boneheads unit, which added bit more vatiety to the freshly dug out death squad.

I have only 15 models from this line so I think these will be just support squad for the main unit or screaming skull catapult / second class character bodyguards. Of course - that is only in my head, because don't think there's even slighiest shade of chance these will move an inch after I put them in the display case hibernation chamber 😵

So here they are - corpses in the park. I think I've managed to adjust lighting a bit so photos turned out really decent:

And some scale shot: restless skeletons are defending city park against Dusk Realm Demon:

And here - skeletons supported by Mr Carstein himself and converted battle standard bearer are trying to convince chaos lord of Slaanesh city park and fresh grass is no place for heavy barded ponies: