Best mislisting of the year!

I won a monster score on ebay last night, for an auction titled, "Warhammer Skaven Models," for $16.61.  What was included in the auction (at least to the best I can discern from the small image) is:

• the newest Thanquol and Boneripper ($25-$30 retail)
• 3 Warlords ($42)
• 1 Warlock Engineer ($12)
• 2 Grey Seers ($28)
• 6 or 7 Assassins ($50)
• 8 Night Runners ($25)

The models in question

All of these models are metal, and the shipping was only $3, so for a grand total of just under $20 I won over $150-$180 worth of models, depending on where you would purchase them.  Even if I sell less than half of them at a major undercutter price, I will easily make my money back.

Night Goblin Fanatics

I bought these in 2007 in London UK, and only just now painted them. So I am glad to get them finished and onto the tabletop.

More Skaven Reinforcements

I was quite disappointed last night when I got home from work, as I had put in a minimum bid offer for a fairly large lot of Skaven models that had been sitting empty for a week on ebay, only to get sniped at the last moment.  But much to my surprise I woke up this morning with a second chance offer for the auction, so I happily took it!   For $60, which is about as steep as I am willing to go on ebay, I won an auction containing:

• the full Skaven set from Island of Blood (40 clanrats, 2 rat ogres, packmaster, warlord, warlock engineer, poison wind mortar, and warpfire thrower)
• 1 Grey Seer in new in the blister
• 1 built Grey Seer
• 1 Deathmaster Sknitch
• 1 built and supposedly master painted Queek Headtaker (I hope it's the new model but can live with the old one)
• 1 metal Warlock Engineer new in the blister
• 10 Stormvermin w/ full command

I'm pretty happy with the contents of that for only $60, that's a pretty sizable force, the 10 stormvermin alone would run around $20-$25, and I'm going to be able to sell off some of the extras to offset this purchase and hopefully fund a Doomwheel. 

As this will give me my 2nd plastic Isle of Blood warlord I now have a figure that I can cut easily with a hobby knife to mod onto the back of one of the Rat Ogres for a Bonebreaker model.  Which is pretty cool, in my opinion, and I can't wait to get to work on that!  I'll definitely post pics of the WIP and finished models. 

I'm just about finished with my Night Goblin Fanatics and should have some pics up tomorrow.  They turned out ok, not my best, but certainly good enough to feel comfortable putting on the table.  Honestly I am just trying to finish most of my Orc and Goblin miniatures before I really jump into my Skaven so they don't sit gathering dust for a year.  With them finished I will have 8 fanatics to unleash on my enemies (or myself depending on the dice)!

PCB's - And I don't mean wack chemicals

I won another auction yesterday for 8 Plague Censer Bearers, which cost me $20 even.  I sniped the auction at the minimum bid, which is still a pretty nice deal as they retail for 2 models for $14, so I saved $36 off the retail price.  Granted they are the 6th edition models, but they still look pretty nice so that's no big deal.  I'm getting down to the rare units now in my Skaven army building, so the deals are getting harder to find.  I will have my Stormvermin though!

I'm also kicking around the idea of converting my Island of Blood Warlord to ride a warlitter.  It will take some doing, but he is already well posed for it with the way he is sculpted standing on the rock.  A few clips and he'll be ready to go.  Just need to mod the clanrats with spears to boost him up on a platform and I'll have a nice centerpiece model for my command.  I will definitely post pictures of that once it's done.  Right now though I am working on some Night Goblin Fanatics I had laying around for a few years, time to get them out of the way so I can move on to the incoming rats. 

Jezzails! Jezzails!

I won a nice auction last night for 8 Jezzail teams, some of them custom conversions, all of them only partially painted.  I'm quite excited about it as I will have them finished then in only a couple rounds of painting once they arrive in the mail.  I won the auction at $16.50, which is a huge bargain as a single Jezzail team runs about $10 a blister pack.  Once again another persons average to bad paint job is my gain!

My Skaven army is rapidly taking shape, and pretty soon I'll have a force that can be fielded at 2000 points.  My inventory update currently stands at:

• 60 Clanrats w/ 2 commands
• 26 Plague Monks w/ command (16 painted)
• 15 Giant Rats (3 painted)
• 5 Rat Ogres (1 painted)
• 4 packmasters
• 21 Night/Gutter Runners (16 painted)
• 8 Jezzails
• 1 Ratling Gun (painted)
• 1 Warpfire Thrower
• 1 Screaming Bell w/ Grey Seer
• 1 Warlord
• 1 Assassin
• 1 Warlock Engineer

This puts me at nearly 1800 points base before upgrades and magic items.  My next target is a sizable unit of Stormvermin, but they are hard to find at a reasonable price and will probably be one of the last things I end up getting, along with the Plague Censer Bearers and Poison Wind Globadiers thanks to their being only available in metal models. 

My next targets will be the Skaven half of the Island of Blood set to fill out my Clanrats, Rat Ogres, characters and weapon detachments, and then a Doom Wheel or Warp Lightning Cannon to have something to occupy the Rare slots in my army.  But it won't be long before this army is up and running!

More Rat Ogres

I'm pretty happy with the ebay auction I just scored.  I won the Rat Ogre/Giant Rats set for $7.50, and it retails for $40, over $30 off!  The auction had it listed funny, just showing the sprue in the photo, and it wasn't marketed as the rat ogre box set, but I still can't believe I got it that cheap.  Thanks esnipe!

Ratling Gun

Here is the first model from my new Skaven army that I am in the process of assembling, a Ratling Gun.  This one arrived very cheaply via ebay b/c it already had been poorly painted.  I managed to ink wash and highlight it to a reasonable standard, and I can't wait to see how it compares to one that I paint from the ground up.  Still, I am pleased, even if it is fairly monotone.

Screaming Bell on the Way!

I won an auction a few days ago for the Skaven Screaming Bell.  Not the new one that can also be a plague furnace, but the 7th edition one which looks like a modified siege tower.  I scored it for $20, which was the minimum bid.  I think the high minimum bid and bad paint job scared off some people, but seeing as it is a $35-$50 model depending on the version you get, I'm pretty pleased.  I plan on modding a base and using my Mordheim Clan Eshin Rat Ogre to push the bell tower from behind.  Should be a neat conversion when I'm finished.  I'm also really happy that it is already painted, albeit crappily, which means the basecoat layer that needs to be put on the model before the ink wash is already completed.  I'll be able to have it painted in half the time, which is quite nice considering how large the model kit is.

More Painting - Grognard the Goblin Hero

I just finished the first of four goblin heroes for my O&G horde. I have affectionately named him Grognard, just b/c it seems the name fits the model. Anyways, here he is.

FInished Forest Goblin Spider Riders

I finally finished an actual unit of troops for the first time in over three years, and I'm pretty happy with the final result.  They turned out quite well and picked up the detail pretty nicely for plastic miniatures.  Can't wait to get a game in and have them unleash some poisoned attacks and then run away like proper goblins!