Clan Skraggskritt

Following on from all the Greenskins I've been showing recently I've decided to continue with the forces of evil and so we come to the Skaven. Now this is a fairly new army for me and is made up mostly of BTD Vermen figures. The army itself consists of 2 units of 40 clanrats, 25 storm vermin, 20 plague monks, 20 gutter runners, a large unit of giant rats and handlers, 6 rat ogres, 3 assassins, 6 poison wind golbadiers, 6 plague censor bearers, 3 warp fire throwers, 1 poison wind mortar, 6 jezail teams, 1 plague priest, 1 grey seer, 2 warlords, 1 warlock and a Vermin Lord. I need to source some big guns/artillery for them as they haven't fared very well against their regular dwarf opponents.

So first up are the Storm Vermin

All 5 of the painted Stormvermin! With a 5th Ed Bret Man at Arms and a 4th Ed plastic Goblin for size comparison.

Narskritch gut ripper is the leader of the Stormvermin.

Next are the Poison Wind Globadiers

And that's it for Skaven none of the rest is painted yet. This will be a slow burn army as I'll slot them in around the main focus which are the Bretonnians and the Orcs n Goblins.

Next time I think I'll change tack and focus on some scenery.

TTFN

Da Green Tide! Gobbos 2!

Having already looked at the Goblin characters it's time to look at the rank and file. Along with my High Elf Spear elves and Archers some of these Gobbos are my oldest minis.

First up are the Battered Face clan. Before the rise of Snazzgit Stunty Stompa these were the main clan of the Cald Beck. They were a small tribe with no really powerful leaders. they spent most of their time, stealing livestock, raiding isolated settlements and generally making a nuisance of themselves but never enough to warrant any of their enemies launching a full military campaign. that all changed when Snazzgit and his Stikkas emerged from the mountain caves one dark night.

These are Slag's Stabbas, Slag, Rut and Bol are all BTD miniatures

The remaining 27 gobbos come from the 4th Ed starter set and are at least 27yrs old now.

I was pretty lazy with the banner and just printed one out from one of the OnG army books.

Slag the halfbreed. a BTD Goblin Champion from one of their goblin command packs.

Although he claims to be 100% Goblin his pony tail has earned him the nick name halfbreed which he hates.

Rut is another BTD mini from the Goblin command pack. unusually for this tribe Rut is quite a 'happy' goblin which doesn't always go down well with his companions

Bol is another BTD goblin command mini. He's completely deaf and bangs his dwarf skin drum with wild abandon!

Two of the plastic Goblins from the starter set. I've always liked these minis but it took me 25yrs to get them painted! They're also lethal, those spear tips are damned sharp!

The Battered Faces nemesis are the Crooked Nose tribe who slaughtered most of the Battered Faces and then forced the survivors to fight for them. Snazzgits tribe has grown a bit since the early days and is still growing.

Here we have Snazzgit's old regiment now named Zod's stikkas this regiment consists of 30 Night Goblin Archers. it's mostly the 7th Ed Palstics from battle for skull pass augmented by some of the 4th Ed Archers and a metal netter I think from 6th Ed 

Zod and his command crew.

Uz's Stikkas are the second unit of archers and is made up of  a boss and musician from Skull Pass, a netter from BTD's nightling range and a converted standard bearer made from a 4th Ed gobbo stabba a night goblin head from the 6th Ed boxed set and a Moon totem from the bits box

This regiment is 26 strong. You'll notice that not all for the bases are completed and many of the rank and file are missing highlights, this is because they were painted very quickly for a battle based around a Rourkes Drift type scenario. At some point they will get properly based and highlighted.

Garg's Stabbas are the largest mob in the army consisting of 42 Night Goblins

The unit is made up entirely of the models from the Battle for skull Pass boxed set with the exception of three models

Nog is the leader of Garg's Stabbas when Garg is busy doing his Big Boss duties. The netter is from BTD's nightling range

The gobbo on the left is one of the few minis not from the Battle for skull pass. it's a cast from a mould I made using the original plastic minis.

After the foot sloggas come the goblin Cavalry

Skag's skitterers are all plastic Spider Riders from the Battle for Skull Pass

These 10 are the last remaining members of the yellow fang tribe of Forest Goblins which were crushed by Snazzgit as his empire of Cald Beck expanded

Ulf's Raiders are part of a subjugated tribe of Wolf riding Goblins.

most of the unit is made of plastic Wolf Riders from Battle Masters. with a metal command from BTD and one metal wolf rider also from BTD

Ulf the swift

Finally we've got the Night Goblin Fanatics

These cheeky blighters are from BTD. I'm pretty sure they're a Kev Adam's sculpt and they've got a lot of character

But not a lot of clothing!

Some GW night gobbo fanatics, unfortunately two of them can't keep hold of their balls!

That's it for the Greenskins. I've still got a unit of BTD Black Orcs, a BTD Spear Chukka and Rock Lobber, a unit of GW bigguns, BTD Savage Orc Boar Boys, BTD Savage Orc Archers, a GW Orc Chariot, a unit of Gobbo slashers made up from Heroquest and Battle masters minis and a unit of Orcs also made from Heroquest and battle masters minis and a heroquest Orc Shaman all still to paint before the greenskins are complete.