Semi-Final Update

For those who haven't checked here before, here's the story (which will be mostly gibberish to those not already familiar with Warhammer Fantasy):
My name is Eric McKee, or Darkblood Skullpulper on the Iron Fist League Message Forum. 6 weeks prior to the 2007 Vegas Warhammer GT, I decided to scratch-build a brand new army and use it there. It was a near thing, but I got everything built and painted to a reasonable standard in that time. I tried to keep a blog while it was going on to document the effort, but I really needed every motivated moment to work on the army. Past blog entries talk about the process a bit, but I've probably ruined all of the links to pics by now. This post is intended to give a few brief highlights and stray thoughts, and provide links to folders containing all of the in-process photos that survived, as well as the semi-finished products. I do plan to have another blitz of painting and refinement of the conversion work this Fall, but for now I'm taking it easy.

Take some time to click and then scroll through and you'll see the conversion progress, at least for some units.
The army:
Warlord on Wyvernsquig - only one opponant in 5 got confused as to what this represented and forgot it could fly. I plan to add teeny tiny manga-style wings, plus kit out the Warboss better.
Goblin Hero on Cave Squig - I need to work on the stippling for the skin of all of the monsters with lots of flat surfaces, the effect is way too subtle now to be seen from further than 6 inches.
Goblin Hero on Spider - I cheated and already had this model fully built and mostly painted. I wanted hair, but didn't have time to experiment when my first attempt failed miserably.
Trollsquigs - I think these are my favorite models for sheer goofiness. The shaman leading them is attempting to coax them along with dwarf heads that he's collected. I never could figure out what to do with that Gorkamorka scrap prospector character, and I think this came out well.
Squiggiant - Multiple people have commented on his resemblance to a large fruit. Rolls of fat are not easy to do on a ball-shaped monster...
Wolfsquigs - I really like the way the skin colors jump out on these guys. The riders still need a good bit of work.
Spider Riders - Probably the fastest unit I've ever painted. 10 cavalry models in 3 or 4 hours, I forget which, but that's amazingly fast for me. They too could use some clean-up, but look really nice from a distance.
Boarsquigs - Probably the squiggiest of my conversions, when the head and tail are removed from plastic cold ones, you are really just left with a round shape on legs. I tried to give the orcs squig-hide shields, but I don't think anyone picked up on it.
Boarsquig Chariot - pity the older cold ones that I used on the boarsquig unit didn't fit into the chariot frame, as I am not nearly as fond of the way these boarsquigs came out. The chariot was one of the last things I finished, and has almost no detail work.
Squig Herd - standard squigs from 4th edition Warhammer. I even used the old prodder models, which used to go on a cavalry base. I had to position some of the squigs almost all the way off their base in order to get the prodders into the unit.
Squig Hoppers - All are very different, and I think that worked out OK, though the one goblin not being thrown loose was probably a bad call and I should replace him.
Squiglings - Took some pebbles from my parking lot, added some eyes and legs, and called it done. I wish I still had a pre-painted pic.

So there it is. I have every intention of picking these up again in a few months to get the paint quality higher, maybe sand down a few rough edges (especially the eyeballs), and try for some better color contrast on the big critters. Maybe I'll even post to the blog after I do it.