Armies on Parade 2019, part 1.

Armies on Parade, for those of you who don't know, is Games Workshop's yearly army/diorama painting competition.

Summed up, you get the chance to go nuts with your hobby on a 2' by 2' area (coincidentally the same size as one of their Realm of Battle board pieces..hmmm).

Paint up your force, which can be anything, as long as it is GW models, and make a scenic display board to show them off on. Then fellow hobbyists in your local GW store all vote for the top three, who get a special AoP gold, silver and bronze medal, the rest are taken home and binned...or set aside and worked on for the next year?
(Everyone's mileage may vary).

Armies on Parade is something that I have always meant to get around to do, but never have.
I either got the notification that it was on too late to do anything for it, or i didn't have anything to work on without breaking the bank (at the time, things are better now).

So with GW's announcement coming early this year, giving me nearly two and a half months to work on it, i decided to go for it.

My subject?

My Chaos heavy cavalry which have been maligned and ignored in a box since Soul Wars was released last year!

Lots of these hardcases marching along, merrily singing a marching song, or more likely shouting praise to the Dark Gods.

So, with a piece of MDF, saving myself buying a RoB board, i set to:

Also, i think that you can just make out my rough planning on the board.

Basically a road curving through the centre, some tree lined hills on each back corner, the centrepiece though, will be a burnt  out farmhouse/barn, based off of a build i saw on YouTube by Black Magic Craft.

Varanguard discussion:

This, obviously, is one of the really nice pieces of artwork of the Everchosen.
I include it because it shows them literally flying on their daemonic mounts, something i am going to attempt with one of my conversions. The Tzeentchian Varanguard i am making is going to be flying over/through the smouldering shell of the farm building.

Just to add interest.

Progress so far:

Cutting/Ripping up a cork tile, i blocked out the base for the road pieces and the farmhouse foundation.
The road is cut into segments like that, because i am going to make it look very overworked and ill-maintained, with sections covered by windblown dirt and the like.

Once this was PVA'd down, i set to work with the interior filler for some ground cover, this was where i left progress today:

So there we have it. I'll post an update how i am getting on with the project as we go.

In-between all this i also have to get my Orks ready, as i am arranging an apocalypse game with a friend in Orktober just after parade day.

Busy busy...


Until next time...


 - Lewis