Under the Worlds of Warhammer

It's been a minute, I'll admit. And yes, I've been working on stuff.

Is it stuff for NOVA?

No, of course it's not.

Aside from piddling away on other things, my main focus these past few weeks has been Warhammer Underworlds. A self-contained board game where each player has a team and a deck, each team is set without the trouble/need of constructing unique lists, and it has strict guidelines on deck-building... ? Hell yes!

While I've eyeballed the miniatures for over a year now, I never attempted to look past the surface at it, despite hearing good things. That is, until my son became interested, seeing something about it in a warhammer painting video on YouTube.

So we picked up the core box (the first one, called Shadespire) and split it, with him taking Steelheart's Stormcast Eternal team and me taking Gerund's bloody berserkers or whatever they're called. We've actually both been working on painting, too, with him painting the Steelheart team up in the colors of the Lions of Sigmar. I've been enjoying the palette cleanser, focusing my time on experimenting with painting flesh tones.

So buff.

So angry!

I started with a glaze basecoat of rosy flesh (vallejo colors) and have just been building layers of depth using glazes of purple (a vallejo color that is nearly identical to GW's old Warlock Purple) and the Army Painter Red Tone wash.

I haven't managed to get much further than that, though, because we've been playing too many games! I don't think I've played any miniature game this much in a decade.

The miniatures are the "push fit" kind for quick assembly, and come in different colors of plastic so you can play almost right away.

Another game I remembered to take a picture of, with the minis in varying states of completion. As you can see we picked up some cool 3d-printed, surprisingly cheap terrain on eBay to fill the "off limits" spaces. 

Naturally, since it's so easy to simply buy new teams, we had to expand our collection a bit...

The boy picked up the Stormcast Farstrider team, and I got the team of gobbos (Zarbag's Gitz), but we just built his immediately so we would be able to get a game in before dinner.

Unfortunately I foresee a sort of "collect 'em all" mentality creeping in for me. All of the teams are just so cool!