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...

And now something completely different

Definitely different. 

While waiting for varnish on another group of Ratskin Renegades to dry, we had a little night riding around the lake near the city. In fact, that event has been organized on behalh of the Gdańsk Bar Association of attorneys-at law. Yeah, that's correct - big stuff: court-cruisers on a tour!

The tour started just after 8 PM and it took over 4 hours to come back home. The weather was perfect for bike riding: full moon, no clouds (so it was pretty bright) and it was pretty warm. For the very first time I was able to get pics of reflecting spokes - must have investment!

Next time there'll be proper hobby stuff so no worries 😁

Hard to believe it was over 10 PM, eh?

Ratskin renegades #1

Now that's true blast (or rather: eeek!) from the past! 

A while back I decided to participate Oldhammer Weekend 2026 in for coming this October. The last time I was there it was fun - nice people, almost no powergamers (for the love of f#ck...🙄), nice colorful tables and armies - more-less like straight from oldie White Dwarf magazine. True candy store for each and every Middlehammer fan.

Oldhammer 2022 was cool event, but quickly I realised why I quit all that Warhammer (Herohammer) shit: 'cause it was shitty game. I mean the fluff was cool and models were really nice (my taste) but because all that overboosted characters, powergaming army list and other crap there was no fun. I came back mostly because of nostalgy and aesthetic factor - large armies look just fucking brilliant on battlefield. That's it.

And nothing changed by now but last year somehow I've managed to paint whole Chaos Warriors army of Slaanesh (once again - for display case only), and wanted to see them in action even once. In 2025 I even prepared entries for painting contest but life issues didn't allow me to participate, so this time I am going just not to "waste" that paint work.

There will be Warhammer Fantasy campaign but there also will be Necromunda based miniature/RPG session which I definitelly don't wanna miss. The plan is to play using total underdogs, and what can me more pathetic in Necomunda world then Ratskin brave? 😁

As for models looks like I got them in 2013 but somehow until now only 2 or 3 of them got paintjob. No idea why really - models are really cool but we dropped Necromunda gaming long time ago so my guess is the painting was aimed to models used on table: Bolt Action mostly. So I need a single brave for my RPG character, but since the whole gang is ~15 rats strong (eeek! eeek! eeek!) I decided get the all done. These are can be used also in other games but most important - should look really nice in display case. Models painted earlier were washed off so they all keep same painting standard and color palette. 

As usually in case of painting warband / squad / unit ratmen were painted in groups - 3 models at once. Somehow every time I try to paint more models at once the painting quality drops drastically. Here I am half-pleased: the first group got too bright flesh tone, I like much more the other trio - more like native Indian. Plus the varnish turned out kinda satin instead of matt, so when whole group is finished I might wash them off and paint again. So here's current progress:

The rat-pack:

Post-apo rodents trying to get into tasty bunker interior:

The boys about to face deadly Copplestone's Scavengers:

And here - Scarab Lord Chaosmorph is about to have some mouse-burgers:

The last one - sump riot squad supported by killa-kan (war-bot that is...) about to arrest some squeeking punks:

Hope to bring abother 6 rat-men next time! Eeeek! Eeeek!

Battle report: Cryx vs Khador

Last month the gaming bunker was whole shaking because of warjacks fighting in the name of their warcasters, and recently there was the second round of the everlasting struggle! This time Khador led by Butcher faced Lich Lord Terminus' assault force. 

Must say despite the fact Terminus is truly awesome miniature, I am not the biggest fan of this warcaster. It's more like heavy assault helljack, rather then battle wizard so it doesn't fit my fav "sneaky" Cryx tactics. But each and every painted model deserves to be fielded once in a a while, so decision was made to prepare jack-heavy gaming force:

-    Terminus,

-    Deathjack,

-    Reaper,

-    Seether,

-    some Mechainthralls,

-    Necrotech,

-    Bloat thrall.

In the opposite corner there was Khador team led by Butcher supported by Kodiak, Spriggan, some mounted dude and that unique, huge heavy jack with 2 bombards and lotta special rules. Truly pain in the ass!

This time apart from classic "caster kill" victory condition, we also added gathering victory points option: these could be obtained from truck wreck. After each round if your model controls the marker, you get 1 VP. If you can get 3 VP - you win.

So here're some pics taken by Khador war correspondent. Just like before - it's just bunch of pics rather then battle report. Only few photos were usable but some of them have been spiced with special effects straight from Industrial Light and Janiak - thanx mate!😁

So here they are:

Deathjack just reaching the marker (looking at these F/X can see now I gotta put the model back on painting desk 😵‍💫 ):

Deathjack and Kodiak excavating victory points from torching wreck:

The other angle: Spriggan hoping to smash through dead-meat wall to get Terminus:

View from the spy-drone:

Bloat thrall hoping to provide any long range support:

Some mid-field manoeuvres:

And combat of the game: Reaper reeling Khador behemoth jack just to make Seether and mechanithralls charge possible. Whole this combined attack didn't make Khador beast fall down!

Hope to see some more Warmachine action anytime soon. That game is just way too cool to be forgotten. Also hope my opponent will finally hire his wife to paint his army so he doesn't have to "paint" models in post production...

Death chicken herd done!

Apparently I've finally got all death-chickens painted! Re-painted actually. Yaaay! \o/

Nightwretches was the very last pair of deatch-chockens waiting for the fresh colors. They have actually been painted long, long time ago but it's been totally ditterent painting standard, and I didn't like it at all. Plus it didn't fit "modern warwafe" olive Cryx. I am double happy these are painted 'cause I can finally paint something else then another olive thing ^^

Just like Defiler and Deathrippers - the latest bonejacks got olive tone, but this time bit more dark. I run out of most green colors, so to make proper colors I mix light olive green from Vallejo line with browns, violets or whatever, and this time I must've added too much of it. Anyway, they look fine alltogether. 

So here they are: led by the most evil shepherd of all - Lich Lord Terminus:

And the Nightwretches - still undamaged and fully operational:

These look almost the same so one of them got a decal so they can be recognized on rooster sheet:

And the pure herd - ready for action!