Diesel DM

It’s the first day of the painting competition.  Check out the details over at Nog’s Painting Cave. My 14 model, 35-pt army is primed and ready to go.  Hopefully tonight I can start getting paint applied.  But this post isn’t about painting, it’s about the list.  While the list was greatly influenced by model count (in wild hopes of improving my odds of finishing), it does have some interesting features.

First, as with all epic Butcher lists, it has Doom Reavers.  Only a singly unit, but still, there they are.

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The Greylord entered the grand hall, hurrying across the marble floor to a large table, covered in maps and troop deployments.

“Supreme Kommandant Irusk,” he began, bowing. It was a risk to address Irusk while he was deep in thought, but as with all audiences with the Khadoran military leader, he knew his time was brief.

Irusk kept his head bent over the maps, rolling his eyes up to the intruder. “What do the Greylords of the Thornwood require now?”

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Scratch built terrain fascinates me.  You start with raw materials that could be anything; Combine them, shape them, paint them and you are left with something so realistic that you cannot determine what the component pieces originally were.  This fascination kept me at arms distance from building terrain, as if some kind of magic would be required.  I changed my mind after finding a Privateer Press Hobby Article about the Khadoran Inn.  Looking at the completed piece it seems like an impossible task, but looking at each step it seemed manageable.  Here are some pictures and thoughts of my completed Inn.

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