May Hobby

Filed Under: Hobby

Tagged: Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, Cities of Sigmar, Gloomspite Gitz, Warmaster, Wood Elfs

I made good progress in May, despite being away for the beginning of it.

Games Played: 3

I played 3 games of AoS this month. The first was a 2000-point General’s Handbook battle (probably my last of the 2024 edition) against David’s awesome Shyishian Sylvaneth.

I lost, but we had a very fun game. It was my Hydra’s first outing on the table… and probably last – its rules are weak. I would have done better with my usual third Steam Tank.

Then we had session 3 of our ongoing Path to Glory: Ravaged Coast campaign. My first battle was versus Dave’s Maggotkin of Nurgle.

This was a great victory for the Spiderfang grots. After I killed all his friends, Dave’s new Great Unclean One (built using a Mancrusher Gargant) simply left the battlefield. Which was good because I didn’t want to fight it. My Spiders have started to get good, both as they level up and as I learn to pilot them better.

My second battle of the day was against Dimitrios’ Stormcast.

This was a painfully one-sided game – the Stormcast simply didn’t have the tools necessary to deal with the spiders, and are incredibly weak to their main strength: shitloads of mortal damage. You can have as much armour as you want. My spiders simply do not notice it.

Models Finished: 34

Everything above is 10mm, sculpted by Forest Dragon for Warmaster. I count each base of models as a single model. Any other way of counting 10mm models is madness.

The Sisters of Twilight, riding their Forest Dragon. The wings are sculpted to resemble leaves, and I was inspired to paint them like those of a Pink Splash Caladium, which turned out very striking. I’ll run them as any of the hero choices that can be mounted on a dragon.

Motivated by finishing the dragon, I got on with all the brown stuff. Not much to say here. They’re just nice straightforward sculpts which paint up very quickly.

It took significantly longer to work my way through the cavalry, in spite of my best efforts to make the process fast. I couldn’t stomach the thought of painting them all the same, so I made each unit distinct. This might help in battles where sometimes it can get hard to tell which unit a stand belongs to.

Acquisitions

As I write this I am wracking my brain, convinced that I must have bought or been given something, but… it doesn’t seem like I have acquired anything at all! Which perhaps makes May 2025 the first time my hobby input/output ratio has been greater than 1 in years?

A chilling thought. If this trend continues I might actually paint all my models 🤮

Works in Progress

• Warmaster Wood Elves

I’m pretty sure that by the end of June I can have dug myself out of the Warmaster Hole. I have the following to paint:

Then I have a bunch of heroes to get through. They’ll be 100% fun, though.

After the Wood Elfs I have a few Warmaster extras: a Goblin Boss on Giant Spider which Kara printed on a whim, a High Elf Lord on Dragon which Rich printed and gave to me by accident. I binned off the mostly-broken Ogre army that finally arrived (sadly transport had not been kind to all the brittle, brittle 3D printer resin) but I kept two Giants which will be fun to paint.

Seeking refuge from 10mm, I made a start on my Excelsior Warpriest.

I’ll be dipping in and out of painting him and his gryph-hound friend while I work my way through the Wood Elf glut.