Old Skaven Madness - part 27d - Clanrats / Nightrunners Regiment

Hello all,
More plastic skaven madness - the Mordheim era plastic sets really allowed for easy conversions - here is an entire regiment of dynamic conversions using everything that was available at the time. Great fun
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All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 27c - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all,
More plastic skaven madness - the Mordheim era plastic sets really allowed for easy conversions - here the Skavens have been been combined with everything from Chaos Warrior weapons to human Crossbowmen to create a dynamic scouting duo.

 Notice the tail-whip, must be unique :-)

All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 27b - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all,
More plastic skaven madness - the Mordheim era plastic sets really allowed for easy conversions - here the Skavens have been been combined with everything from Chaos Warrior weapons to human Crossbowmen

All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 27a - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all.
The Mordheim plastic sets really made converting easy and allowed for much more dynamic Skavens without the touble of pinning and sawing through metal.

Great fun.

All the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 27 - Clanrats / Nightrunners

Hello all,
A few more skavens - this time some clanrats or nightrunners. I really loved those plastic sets - it was so much fun putting those rats together and the diversity was brilliant.

Beware the flailing rats!

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 26 - Wounded Skaven 074406/14

Hello all,
well if 13 is the sacred Skaven number - would not 26 at least carry some importance for the little critters? If so I guess we should feature something special for the 26th post in this cavalcade of old models...

 A dead skaven! That must be pretty special - something not seen everyday in Skaven society. Oh, wait, actually there would probably be more dead skaven lying around than cheesy Lizardmen armies at a large tournament. Anyways, I have no idea where this casulty model is from but I have always appreciated that instead of just being dead, the rat is clearly dead in battle - he is missing his right arm and clutching the remains of a spear in his chest.

 The scavenging vermin move in to feed on its larger and more evolved cousin.

Not that special I know but I am running out of pictures that have been uploaded. I guess I will have to bring up a new batch from the basement soon.

Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 23 - Gutter Runners

Hello all,
as the weekend disappears so do the Eshins performing their evil deeds...

Wasn't that an artistic introdution? Let's just see a two more of my old nightcrawlers and a group shot:

The one with a club and net has always been a favorite of mine - looks more likely to maul someone in a backstreet than to sneak around. Even the eyepatch is cool :-)

Brilliant models.

Best regaards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 22 - Gutter Runners

Hello all - there is plenty of Skaven images to get through, so to speak.

This time it is time for those deadly ninjas of Clan Eshin. I alwys loved how the authors got ninjas into the warhammerian and Skaven lore - a lost clan, heads east and becomes ninjas; simpel and effective :-).

The old models (the ones below) were really diverse and each felt "alive", i.e. had equipment and a style that set him apart from other vermin. I really enjoyed that. Also they do not look like organised soldiers at all, the ninja "warfare" style is really predominant.

 I love how individual these two are (even though it clearly is the same model used as a base). The barbed net is brilliant and so is the sling - although that is a pretty massive slingshotstone :-). What was the rule for nets? Extra armour save or something?

Anyways, all the best,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 21a - Skaven Slaves

Hello all,
More skavens uploaded today: A Skaven slave command group:

Here is a shot of a champion and standard bearer from one of the slave units. BTW I would love if someone could tell me what the new rules are about these slaves - I keep hearing something about them blowing up?

Thats it for today - its -10 degrees (plus a strong wind) and snowing here in Nuuk, Greenland, and I´ve decided to climb a mountain tomorrow! Wish me luck!
Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 20 - Clanrats (former Bloodbowl minis)

Hello all - the last Skaven who was forced into serving the army instead of pursuing his lifelong (yet very short) dreams of becoming an All-Star in the Blood Bowl world.
And if I may say so myself - he is a pretty impressive little rat - I wouldn't mess with him!

 
He looks ready to pound on anything that survives that heavy rifle of his.
 I really can't remember where that handgun is from - perhaps one of the Gorka-Morka models?

And finally a group shot of the former BB "Team Ressak" which instead of trampling on skulls in the arena now gets to wreck havoc on whole armies at a time :-).

"Say Cheese!"

Best regards,
Kasper.

Old Skaven Madness - part 19 - Clanrats (former Bloodbowl minis)

Hello all - for very weird and unmentionable reasons I happen to be in Greenland for a couple of weeks, so these Skaven pictures are sent to you curtesy of the Greenlandic University´s network :-).

Continuing the theme from the last post of examples of how I converted some of the excellent Blood Bowl Skaven into rank and file clanrats. These three rats are more of a martial art character than the former, needing no weapons to bash in the brains of any opponents. 

I think the logic is that if you, as a Skaven, manage to survive on the Bloodbowl pitch then a mere battle offers little danger :-).

 They arnt really converted but the rat on the left has been modified somewhat and is now delivering a vicious kung-fu kick to the groin of any cowardly elf who comes within range.

Again, these are nice minis that spices up any boring clanrat unit :-)


Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 18 - Clanrats (former Bloodbowl minis)

Hello all,
Continuing the theme of converted Blood Bowl minis into rank and file soldiers for use in a Skaven army, I found these in my collection:

 All were originally Blood Bowl minis but have received additional weapons, apart from the brilliant claw model on the right. 

The left one is dual wielding a pair of Chaos Warrior axes while the other has received a bow from an orc and a fine headpiece marking him as a dependable archer (at least according to Skaven standards...). I think it is from a very old Dark elf (if I remember correctly, it was one of the crew of a RBT).

 
Cool minis that gave some diversity to a clanrat unit :-).


Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 11 - Rat swarms

Hello all - more Skaven pictures!
Today I present some of my old ratswarms. I do not know how they are in the current edition but when I played it was unthinkable to not include at least a couple of these in any army.

Skaven Converted Rat Swarms

The models are mainly Games Workshop but the big rats are from some other company which I have forgotten the name of. The snotling does look like he is having fun and a great hammer it carries as well :-).

Skaven Converted Rat Swarms

I really should take a day off and base all these rats - it would make them look much greater. That was one of the continous frustrations of my Warhammer days - I never could find a basing method that I liked. But today, with all the flock available on the internet I should just buy a brand and get at it. Any suggestions?


Best regards,
Kasper

Old Skaven Madness - part 10 - Grey Seer Bodyguard (Stormvermin)

Hello fellow rat-lovers!
We better get some pictures of the Skaven infantry units up as well - there are a lot of them.

The models below are made up of some of the plastic sets that came out just as I stopped playing but the flexibility they offered was just amazing. They made all the conversions I had been doing easy and I loved it.  Especially after the plastic sets that I "grew up" with wherein the clanrats were as bland and boring as could be and the shape made conversions difficult. 

They might look a bit more like apes in their bodyform but I was in love with them anyways and the ease of building crazy stuff was amazing to me.

First the champion, standard bearer and musician:

Stormvermin Command Group

Stormvermin Command Group

This is a unit of Temple Guards - the bodyguard of my Grey Seer. I can't remember if it was mentioned in the Skaven background or if I made it up, but my Seer had his own bodyguard made up of light coloured (as opposed to the overpriced Stormvermin - the bodyguard of the clan lord) tough battleproven Skaven. Well as much as you could expect of skavens :-). To represent their superior fighting skills I madly combined them with the Chaos Warrior plastic set and had a load of fun with that.

Stormvermin Converted

 And the final shots of the entire unit - sporting all their captured equipment. This is about half the unit and when pushing the bell around they looked impressive - really representing the elite bodyguard who had been in a lot of fights.

Stormvermin Converted

Stormvermin Converted

All the best,
Kasper