Wednesday 16 October 2013

From Khador with Love



It’s been a while since my last post, but that is not to say that I haven’t been hobbying.  To be fair I’ve done quite a lot of painting recently and this article will simply be a showcase of the Khador stuff I’ve recently completed.


For some unknown reason I found a burning desire to get back into the Khador after quite some time without fielding the my red army.  I knew that I had a couple of small coming up, the recent Bridgeford Bloodshed 2 and the imminent Frontlines 3.  I intended to get the armies fully painted for both of these events, but fell short of the painting mark for the former, so took the Menoth to that.  I actually did quite well at BB2, coming fourth – which was exactly where I came at the last one!  I went 3-1 on the day, the second through to fifth places (possibly beyond) were sorted via SoS, so not a lot I could do to better myself, other than to have won all four!  Superb event and looking forward to the next one :-)

So, the Khador; I decided to build a new list and went for Irusk2, I had played him a bit acouple of years back but decided to try him out again with the following list:

Irusk2
*Spriggan (bonded)
10 Iron Fang Pikemen with Black Dragon UA
5 Man-O-War Shocktroopers
10 Nyss Hunters with Valachev
Winter Guard Mortar Crew
Great Bears of Gallowswood
Man-O-War Drakhun
Iron Fang Kovnik

The second list was a copy of my 35 point Irusk1 list with the addition of the Iron Fang Kovnik and Saxon Orrik.  It isn't exactly the best pairing with Irusk2 as they both answer and pose the same questions, but it does let me field the mighty Konquest, which is all good.  I’ll focus on the Irusk2 list as this was what the project was all about to be honest.  The list has changed a bit, initially there were two mortars with the idea of cycling the Fire for Effect spell, having two fully boosted mortar shots per turn, I had Widowmakers and Kell Bailoch too, but the Drakhun and Great Bears found their way in, the Drakhun for speed and the Bears because, well they're great!  It is fairly balanced with some decent melee output as well as ranged threat, I do however think the lists will get raped by the current meta power casters such as Haley2, Morvanah2, Vayl2 and Lich2, the less powerful ones will probably bone these lists too!

I will be fielding the two fully painted lists in a week or so at Frontlines 3, I’ve been drawn against Jamie P, who is arguably the best player in the UK and winning Templecon Masters with Khador, so my chances aren’t that great to be honest!!!  But what the hell, I’m looking forwards to pushing my models around the table and having a bit of a laugh – considering the field of players and the army lists that have been submitted mine look like the worst there, practically friendly, so anything other than last place will be a bonus ;-)

Below are the photos of the recently painted Khador stuff for the two lists (mainly the Irusk2 list):
Man-O-War Drakhun (with dismount)

Man-O-War Drakhun (with dismount)

Man-O-War Drakhun (with dismount)

Nyss Hunters

Nyss Hunters

Black Dragon Iron Fang Pikemen Officer & Standard

Iron Fang Kovnik

Iron Fang Kovnik

Iron Fang Kovnik

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Supreme Kommandant Irusk

Winter Guard Mortar Crew

Winter Guard Mortar Crew

Man-O-War Shocktroopers

Man-O-War Shocktroopers

Man-O-War Shocktroopers

Kaptain Valachev


Kaptain Valachev

Saxon Orrik

Saxon Orrik



3 comments:

  1. fantastic looking army and well worthy of the awards won!

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  2. looking good mate, how are you painting the red?

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  3. Cheers Mem, the red is using the guide in the Khador book, but for reference it is 3-4 base coats of Khador Red Base, enough for a solid colour over black undercoat. Then shaded with Sanguine Base. Highlights are successive layers of a Khador Red Base/Khador Red Highlight. I use quite a bit of mixing medium too on the highlights. The book suggests quite harsh layers and then a red ink wash to tie it together and tint the orangey highlight back to red, but I prefer not to do it that way. I think my red stands out a bit more than normal because of all the ink lining. Hope that helps :)

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