Skaven project (9hrs) - A little cheating to get things done

Righto and welcome all three and half of my affectionate readers to an update on my Skaven army.

After over three months of waiting they arrived yesterday. Was I happy? Excited? Do I really still care?!?
Well let's say I was up until 2am last night tweaking the list and repairing broken bits, took today off work, and haven't almost moved from my desk except to relieve myself and undercoat these beauties.
Yup, I STILL care about this project quite a bit!

Last night I began with writing up a list, organizing a game (always a good way to get a deadline and maintain motivation), doing up the movement trays and repairing lots of broken hands, weapons, tails etc...

The basing trays followed the same routine as the last lot except I've decided cutting up endless quantities of sprues just ain't worth it. I went with barbecue (NOT cocktail) sticks instead in the end therefore

I've repaired, gravelled the bases and undercoated enough slaves for three hordes of 40, though this time around I did also use a little ingenuity (cheating?) here and there.
While not cutting down the painting in any considerable manner, about two/three 40x40mm bases for each of the hordes "break up" the units a little and allow little dioramas of models such as the slaver with his whip, the front rank leader, or even just a pair of slaves on a base instead of thick 10x4 lot as I originally planned

Further to these I've also undercoated the two army bearers I am going to use in my force

And that's it for today
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