Forgeworld keeper of secrets series#

‘They deny us new miniatures and then he suggests we make do with re-working a giant rat? Damn him and his pompous blog!’).Īnother possibility, and much though I love the idea of a Wood Elf Forest King this one ties in more closely with my current projects, is the Keeper of Secrets. (Somewhere an elf player’s head just exploded. I see the makings of a great ‘counts as’ Durthu – and one that sits a little better with my image of the wood elves than the official version. Greenstuff over them however and replace the tabard and staff with those from the Tree Man Ancient and you have the makings of an untamed forest guardian, a Lord of the Woods that any wood elf would follow in these uncertain times for Athel Loren. Obviously the armour and weapons are very obviously Skaven (all those runes scratched everywhere for one thing). With those sweeping horns, goat-like face and hooves it wouldn’t look out of place at the head of an army of Beastmen (minus the ratty tail perhaps). The more I look at the Verminlord the more its Pan-ish qualities reveal themselves. The Great Horned Rat may lurk in the shadow of the Four but he’s still the one who gets a plastic Greater Daemon (because by any other name that’s exactly what the Verminlord is) ahead of the rest.

Now I’m sure this is a rant you’ve heard before, many, many times, but try to stick with me because the twist is only just revealing itself as the fifth Chaos god plays his hand. The Great Unclean One is basically the best of a bad bunch, Kairos Fateweaver is fairly solid (but doesn’t look that easy to convert into a single headed Lord of Change), the Forgeworld models are pretty good but horribly expensive and the rest are various shades of naff, through to just plain awful. The irony is that many people, myself included, have been moaning on about the lack of decent (official) models for the Great Daemons for ages. For the moment my evil plotting remains very much focussed on the Dark Millennium, and specifically the Ruinous Powers. However I’m not quite ready to retreat back to my underground nest and start work on a diabolical, if poorly designed, weapon of mass(self)-destruction. Obviously as a Skaven fan I’m very curious about what new models the verminous masses will be getting as part of the great plan to bring civilisation to its knees (and stealing the plastic intended for Elf models was cunning, rat-servants, yes-yes!).

Forgeworld keeper of secrets series#

Today saw the new Skaven Verminlord model go up for pre-order as part of the next phase of the Warhammer End Times, so I’ll be continuing my occasional series of speculations on what I’d do with the kit if time and money allowed.