So my wonderful sister often buys hobby items for me for Christmas or my birthday, and I then usually gratefully put the desired item into a box and never get around to painting it.
This year however, my sister gave me something in concert with the kid, which is to say Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave (which in our house at least is pronounced "BEASTGRAVE!!!" in a gravely announcer voice). For the uninitiated, Beastgrave is "season three" of Games Workshop's Warhammer Underworld game, where players build warbands and card decks, and then fight it out on a board for glory points. 6-8 Warbands are released every season, and older cards are eventually cycled out of "standard". So far so standard.
However, with Beastgrave being a GW game, it comes with some amazing pushfit miniatures, and shockingly they are not that expensive, with a whole warband and deck of cards coming in about the same as a single plastic character.
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| Beastgrave, full of heavyweight cardstock |
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| These are pushfit |
Anyway, the kid convinced me that we needed to paint the figures and play a game before he went back to school, and we shockingly managed to make that happen, building, priming, and painting nine figures in less than 10 days!
I was assigned the beast-men known as Gashrak's Ravangers
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| Gashrak's Ravangers painted by me (my photography was particularly poor) |
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| Draknar the Gor |
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| Murghoth Half-horn |
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| Koresh "the sneak" |
The kid painted the beast-elves. (Skaeth's Wild Hunt)
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| Skaeth's Wild Hunt (photography even worse, so attempted to correct a bit in Google) |
Conveniently, we got the kid a set of Games Workshop paints for Christmas, which meant we had about 1/4 of the required paints to hand. We cued up the painting videos from Games Workshop, and aside from having to mix 3/4 of the paints or use substitutes, it all went rather smoothly. Painting following a guide was surprisingly enjoyable, and I have been eyeing a couple of the other warbands in consequence. If the game is as fun as promised, more warbands may be making their way to our house soon.
