It all started when our predictably heroic protagonist, Bill Brasky, woke up in a secret vineyard.

It was the seventh time it had happened. Feeling scarcely puz zled, Bill Brasky hit a live hand grenade, thinking it would make her feel bette r (but as usual, it did not). Absolutely thrilled, she realized that her beloved iPad was missing! Immediately she called her so-called friend, Leroy Jenkins. Bill Brasky had known Leroy Jenkins for (plus or minus) half a million years, th e majority of which were striking ones. Leroy Jenkins was unique. She was cleve r though sometimes a little... insensitive. Bill Brasky called her anyway, for t he situation was urgent. Leroy Jenkins picked up to a very ecstatic Bill Brasky. Leroy Jenkins calmly assured her that most South American hissing sloths yawn before mating, yet legl ess puppies usually surreptitiously yawn *after* mating. She had no idea what th at meant; she was only concerned with distracting Bill Brasky. Why was Leroy Je nkins trying to distract Bill Brasky? Because she had snuck out from Bill Brask y's with the iPad only ten days prior. It was a sassy little iPad... how could she resist? It didn't take long before Bill Brasky got back to the subject at hand: her i Pad. Leroy Jenkins belched. Relunctantly, Leroy Jenkins invited her over, assuri ng her they'd find the iPad. Bill Brasky grabbed her whale and disembarked immed iately. After hanging up the phone, Leroy Jenkins realized that she was in troub le. She had to find a place to hide the iPad and she had to do it skillfully. Sh e figured that if Bill Brasky took the 'modded' Civic, she had take at least sev en minutes before Bill Brasky would get there. But if she took the Segway? The n Leroy Jenkins would be alarmingly screwed. Before she could come up with any reasonable ideas, Leroy Jenkins was interru pted by five annoying marmots that were lured by her iPad. Leroy Jenkins yawned; 'Not again', she thought. Feeling frustrated, she deftly reached for her live h and grenade and carefully punched every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent--the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the le mur-infested moor, squealing with discontent. She exhaled with relief. That's w hen she heard the Segway rolling up. It was Bill Brasky. ----o0o---As she pulled up, she felt a sense of urgency. She had had to make an unsched uled stop at Wal-Mart to pick up a 12-pack of carrots, so she knew she was runni ng late. With a calculated leap, Bill Brasky was out of the Segway and went wil dly jaunting toward Leroy Jenkins's front door. Meanwhile inside, Leroy Jenkin s was panicking. Not thinking, she tossed the iPad into a box of carrots and th en slid the box behind her canoe. Leroy Jenkins was angered but at least the iPa d was concealed. The doorbell rang. 'Come in,' Leroy Jenkins explosively purred. With a skillful push, Bill Bras ky opened the door. 'Sorry for being late, but I was being chased by some abras ive genocidal maniac in a gas-guzzling, ecology-destroying, tankish SUV,' she li ed. 'It's fine,' Leroy Jenkins assured her. Bill Brasky took a seat tragically close to where Leroy Jenkins had hidden the iPad. Leroy Jenkins yawned trying un successfully to hide her nervousness. 'Uhh, can I get you anything?' she blurte d. But Bill Brasky was distracted. As if it really mattered Leroy Jenkins notic ed a funny-smelling look on Bill Brasky's face. Bill Brasky slowly opened her mo uth to speak. '...What's that smell?' Leroy Jenkins felt a stabbing pain in her taint when Bill Brasky asked this. In a moment of disbelief, she realized that she had hidden the iPad right by he r oscillating fan. 'Wh-what? I don't smell anything..!' A lie. A abrasive loo

k started to form on Bill Brasky's face. She turned to notice a box that seemed clearly out of place. 'Th-th-those are just my grandma's ripened avocados from w hen she used to have pet South American hissing sloths. She, uh...dropped 'em b y here earlier'. Bill Brasky nodded with fake acknowledgement...then, before Ler oy Jenkins could react, Bill Brasky aimlessly lunged toward the box and opened i t. The iPad was plainly in view. Bill Brasky stared at Leroy Jenkins for what what must've been nine hours. Ha ppy as a frickin' monkey, Leroy Jenkins groped earnestly in Bill Brasky's direct ion, clearly desperate. Bill Brasky grabbed the iPad and bolted for the door. I t was locked. Leroy Jenkins let out a enchanting chuckle. 'If only you hadn't be en so protective of that thing, none of this would have happened, Bill Brasky,' she rebuked. Leroy Jenkins always had been a little abrasive, so Bill Brasky kne w that reconciliation was not an option; she needed to escape before Leroy Jenki ns did something crazy, like... start chucking carrots at her or something. A fe w unfulfilled decades later, she gripped her iPad tightly and made a dash toward the window, diving headlong through the glass panels. Leroy Jenkins looked on, blankly. 'What the hell? That seemed excessive. Th e other door was open, you know.' Silence from Bill Brasky. 'And to think, I var nished that window frame ten days ago...it never ends!' Suddenly she felt a ting e of concern for Bill Brasky. 'Oh. You ..okay?' Still silence. Leroy Jenkins wa lked over to the window and looked down. Bill Brasky was gone. ----o0o---Just yonder, Bill Brasky was struggling to make her way through the foxy fore st behind Leroy Jenkins's place. Bill Brasky had severely hurt her fingernail du ring the window incident, and was starting to lose strength. Another pack of fe ral marmots suddenly appeared, having caught wind of the iPad. One by one they latched on to Bill Brasky. Already weakened from her injury, Bill Brasky yielde d to the furry onslaught and collapsed. The last thing she saw before losing co nsciousness was a buzzing horde of marmots running off with her iPad. But then God came down with His intelligent smile and restored Bill Brasky's iPad. Feeling exasperated, God smote the marmots for their injustice. Then He g ot in His best-in-its-so-called-'class' sedan and blasted away with the fortitud e of 2,000 albino cats running from a little pack of Indonesian devil cats. Bil l Brasky vomited with joy when she saw this. Her iPad was safe. It was a good th ing, too, because in nine minutes her favorite TV show, Two and a Half Men, was going to come on (followed immediately by 'When spotted wolf hamsters meet ebol a'). Bill Brasky was excited. And so, everyone except Leroy Jenkins and a few ha nd grenade-toting albino cats lived blissfully happy, forever after.

Build your Skaven Use sand and glue or textured paint, e.g. those from the Vallejo range to cover the base Spray Paint your Skaven with brown paint. I suggest Army Painter's Leather Brown Paint everything on the model with its base colour (e.g. metal parts with Chainm ail, cloth with Scab Red, skin with Elf Flesh etc.) Wash the whole model (e.g. skin with Ogryn Flesh wash, red and brown parts and t he base with Devlan Mud wash, everything else with Badab Black wash) Let the miniature dry and drybrush every part from the model with a brighter col our than you used in step 4 (e.g. red parts with Blood Red, metal parts with Mit hril Silver etc.) Finish the details on each miniature

Decorate the base if you want to

When I paint I always go base colour - wash - drybrush with base - wash - highli ght (repeating as necessary to get a deeper contrast). So, below I've written what I would suggest for your base and highlights for eac h colour. I'm writing with the current GW range titles, but I actually am still using colours from before the reboot, so I'm using the conversion guide to give you it's new equivalent, hopefully it'll give you the effect you want. I'm doing it in the format Base Highlight Optional Second Highlight - I normally will onl y use a second highlight colour on characters or centrepiece models, but I thoug ht I'd put them down anyway. I'd look at them as a secondary requirement, so if you wanted to just get the first couple on each colour first you can get them al l to a good standard with those and buy the optional colours in a second batch l ater. Skaven Clan Skrye Paint Range + General Color + - Bronze/Brass/Copper - Screaming Bell Hashut Copper Gehenna's Gold - Lime green (varying shades of green really) for glow Warpstone - Caliban Green Warboss Green Moot Green - White or dirty white even Tan - Baneblade Brown Ushabti Bone White Scar - Dirty Iron/Steel - Leadbelcher Ironbreaker Runefang Steel - Some Red for cables - Wazdakka Red Evil Sunz Scarlet Wild Rider Red - Wood colors - Baneblade Brown Mournfang Brown Skrag Brown - Dark fur to grey fur and varying shades of brown fur - I would use the above b rown colours, but to get some variation in fur tones get a palette (I use an emp ty ferrero rocher base) and mix 5 or 6 variations of brown by mixing them togeth er and also by mixing in reds or flesh colours. I would suggest faces/ears/palms (exposed flesh areas basically) should be drybrushed with Kislev Flesh to disti nguish them as well - Rust colored Iron and Oxidize Copper - For rust I would stipple on Wazdakka fo llowed by Troll Slayer Orange, and for Oxidised Copper I would use watered down Sotek Green to give a verdigris effect (Lahmian Medium is great for this and I a ctually highly recommend it) And finally I would suggest getting a wash to add shadow and tie all your together (wash the whole model in it top to tail when you have drybrushed hing). I would suggest Nuln Oil for black, and either Agrax Earthshade or im Sepia for brown. The method I found worked for me was to use brown for rst wash and then after drybrushing wash with black. tones everyt Seraph the fi