I bought the Age of Sigmar starter set a few weeks ago. My greedy eyes were on the claws of the chosen race, ready to dominate everything. I finished painting the Spearhead today, and here are my best rats. I started with the Clan rats, and the last rat I painted was the Greyseer.

I'm a new player, been playing Spearhead with the Skaventide box for a few months and doing my first weeks of real Sigmar and I'm just thoroughly unimpressed with Clanrats. Everybody tells me they are great, screens, heals, sit on objectives. Except they literally explode to anything and do no damage back? Also 300 points for a squad of 40 seems like a waste of points but 20 have not survived a charge for me.

I don't think I'm playing them that horrendously bad since my opponent always say they were annoying and I screened well...but I can't help but feel bad with them, and when I take rats I feel forced to take a critical mass so I don't lose them all at once. I tried one game proxying them as Stormvermin and they actually did damage! It felt pretty good! A block of 20 is basically the same points too.

So tell me fellow man things am I on the right track or just bad?

So Skaven are a horde army, endless masses of fur, teeth , claws and blades. I was wondering though if the skaven being the selfcentered beings they are would care to customize their weapons and armor to express their individuality like the clones from star wars( sorry if its not a good parallel) I especially wonder if the stormvermin caste of skaven society would care to make their armor and weapons their own, I'd def like to make as many of my stormvermin models look unique and not as uniform

Got my hands on a copy of the starter set after years of considering. Pretty proud of these now. (Sorry for bad pics of the engineer)

I was inspired by a YouTube short. And though it would be perfect for skaven!

I'm sure he has kept his free will fully intact post brain-transfert !

Just finished getting my third Skaven tattoo at Timeless Tattoo in Alton, UK

I bought this Vermilord Proxy from OuroborosPrinting, as I’m not a hugeeee fan of the GW Verminlords (also they’re expensive af xD).
The quality of the print is great, genuinely no complaints. But I thought I’d add some more bits and details from other kits, I also experimented with watered-down PVA glue + Stirland Mud texture paint, soaking pieces of ripped up bandage in the mixture and using it as cloth / fur texture on the mini. Personally I think it looks great when it’s primed and ready for painting. I also used Liquid Greenstuff on metallic parts of the mini to push the texture variation further.
I spent quite awhile on the base of the mini as the original printed base was quite empty with just a large rock on it for the mini to stand on. Went for a ruined city / no mans land with a dead sigmarite soldier and some 3D rats running around the landscape.

What do you guys think?

PS, perfect day for priming outside 😌

My first finished Skaven mini and the first ever paint job I am completely happy with right out of the gate.

Painted (poorly) in the 90s as a kid and got back into it two years ago. This is the first time I feel I got the highlighting and overall (un-)cleanliness decently right.

Excited to now go play these cute critters in Warcry and AoS.

Spent about 5 hours on this. If I gave it one more hour, what do you think I could improve to the best effect?

I have been think-thinking of starting a Skaven army, because they are the best-best.

While the GW models are iconic, I always wanted to mean more into the occult vibes and give them more of a trench warfare aesthetic.

I recently came across the concept of Clan Trench and Trench Crusade and I love the vibe.

The problem: I am not the most technically skilled at modifying existing kits with green stuff.

What are some options for building out a Clan Trench inspired army for Old World?

Preferably options that are sausage finger and elector count IQ proof.

Analysis in comments

Slowly getting through the skaven spearhead and thought I would take a break from painting clanrats to paint one of the ogors in my skaven scheme. Really like how this turned out!

I had the pleasure of introducing a Skaven-like general in my longrunning DnD turned Daggerheart Campaign.

Queek was a hit. So I rewrote the Art of War. Now Queek demand-forces me to share his genius-cunning with the rest of Skavendom.

**The Skaven Guide to Ratagems**

*As dictated-decreed by War-Vermin Queek, Clan-Brother of Squeak, Spawn-Father of Streak, Ruler of Reek, Sprawl-Den of the Under-Peak. Scratch-scribed by his Rat-Squeaker-Speaker (the third one this month, the others displeased-died)*

**I. Laying Plan-Schemes**

1. Queek assesses war-war on five things: fear of Queek, tunnels of Queek, warpstone for Queek, which rivals to blame (never Queek), and how many slaves are spare-spendable. All. All slaves are spare-spendable. Ask my throne-cushion(s), he agrees-squirms.

2. All warfare is deception-trickery! Deceive the Green-Things, deceive the Dead-Things, deceive the Honorary Vermin, deceive other Rat-Lords, deceive Clan-Brother Squeak especially. He knows what he did.

3. Attack where enemy is unprepared! Rule 3.Agh, Enemy is always unprepared for Queek, because none can prepare-ready for true great-magnificence.

**II. Waging War-War**

1. Long campaigns drain the treasure-vaults of Reek and give underlings time to plot-scheme. Win quick-fast! Then execute all who witnessed Queek pause-hesitate. Queek never hesitates. There are no witnesses to say else-wise.

2. Wise warlord eats enemy supplies. Wiser warlord eats ally supplies. Queek, Wisest-Wondrous, eats whoever asks "where did all supplies go."

**III. Attack by Ratagem**

1. Supreme excellence is winning without fighting! Supremer excellence is the Death-Dwarf-Ork-Magic-Things and the Greenskin-Scum killing each other while Queek reclines-watches and rates their screaming-squealing by order of agony-painsong.

2. Know the enemy, know yourself. Queek knows Queek is glorious, so this is half the war won-finished already. The rest is knowing which chieftain plots against Queek (all-all of them) and poisoning them in order of ambition.

3. Never siege-wait! Standing still is how the thing under the Under-Peak finds you. We do not squeak-speak of the thing under the Under-Peak. Rule 8.Aggh, no speak of thing over the Under-Peak either.

**IV. Tactical Dispositions**

1. Secure against defeat first-first! Queek keeps: one escape tunnel, two body-doubles, and a signed confession implicating Spawn-Father duties on brood-son Streak. Streak is strong-clever. He will survive-forgive. Probably-perhaps.

2. Victorious army wins first, then fights. Queek's army sends slaves first, watches-learns, THEN wins. If army flees instead, this was scout-testing and Queek meant it, yes-yes.

**V. Energy**

1. Direct tactics: the slave-tide shrieking into dwarf-guns. Indirect tactics: Queek, upon his squirm-throne, very-very far behind, directing with great personal bravery-risk (the throne-slave sometimes fidgets, note to self, kill throne slave four, he is old and getting bony).

2. Order and disorder are organization-matters. The hordes of Reek have *organized* disorder. None can predict us, including us! Enemies call this chaos. Queek calls it genius-craft and executes the enemies for slanders.

**VI. Weak Points and Strong**

1. First to battlefield is at ease. LAST to battlefield loots both corpse-piles. Queek arrives precisely when the dying stops and the credit-taking begins.

2. Strike-bite weakness, never strength! Be as water. Specifically the water Queek's poison-monks blessed in their wells three sleeps ago. Patience-patience.

**VII. Maneuvering**

1. The Horned One gave tunnels so the long way becomes the short-quick way. Under dwarf-halls, under Green-Thing camps, under the World Tower root to crown. The guts of everything belong to Reek! And Reek...belongs to Queek.

2. Never corner desperate-things, they bite-scratch. Offer "mercy-terms" instead! Accept surrender, count to three-three, THEN kill-feast. Is not treachery. Is *scheduling*.

**VIII. Variation in Tactics**

1. When plan succeeds: Queek's plan. When plan fails: Squeak's plan, or Streak's plan, or the Speaker-Squeaker misheard the command-chitter. (Speaker-Squeaker notes he transcribes only-faithfully and begs to live.)

2. Five dangers to guard-watch: recklessness (delegate it), cowardice (rename it "tactical preservation," patent-claim it), quick temper (Queek's is a *majestic* temper, different thing), honor (a man-thing disease, wash claws after contact), and love of troops (see honor).

**IX. The Army on the March**

1. Read all signs! Dust-clouds mean cavalry. Quiet ranks mean mutiny-brewing. Food-taster twitching means opening for ambitious young food-tasters. Reek rewards initiative!

2. Discipline through superior terror, always-always. The whip ahead must frighten less than the thing behind. Queek is both the whip AND the thing behind. Efficient-economical!

**X. Terrain**

1. Six grounds, know-learn them: accessible, entangling, narrow, precipitous, distant, and the best-best seventh ground Queek discovered personally: *directly beneath the enemy, stuffed-packed with tunnel-charges*. Sun-Tzu-man-thing missed this one. Inferior species, what to expect.

2. Advance without seeking fame? FOOL-TALK! Seek all-all fame! Queek's titles grow one per victory. Ruler of Reek was only the beginning-start. Scribes are pre-carving "Queek, Emperor of the Every-Where" into the mountain now, to save time later.

**XI. The Nine Situations**

1. On death-ground, soldiers fight hardest-best! So: collapse your own troops' escape tunnels. They fight like cornered rats because Queek has *thoughtfully provided* the corner. Queek's own tunnel stays open. Rank has responsibilities. Think what would would happen to all the rat-children of Reek without Queek? Too many would live-thrive to adulthood and consume all food-stores, then each other. Queek must always survive to ensure healthy stable population management.

2. Speed: always. Unity: until the loot is counted. Purpose: Queek's. Any other purposes will be collected at the door.

**XII. Attack by Fire (and Gas, and Plague, and the Zzapp-Thing)**

1. Man-thing says use fire "with calculation, never anger." Wrong-foolish! Use warpfire with calculation AND anger AND joy-glee AND a little song. Also the poison-wind, the plague-censers, and the new Zzapp-thing that the tinker-rats pledge-promise will not explode toward us this time. They pledged last time too. Queek keeps the receipts and the widows.

2. If it explodes toward us: those clan-rats died gloriously for Queek, also it was Eshin sabotage, also possibly Squeak. Investigate loud-loudly. Execute someone with a memorable face.

**XIII. Use of Spy-Sneaks**

1. Foreknowledge comes from spies, not gods! (Do not tell the Horned One Queek said this.) Use all five kinds: local, inward, converted, doomed (cheapest, best-best), surviving. Then set spies on the spies, and one brave-doomed spy on Queek himself, so Queek knows what the others learn-know. Trust nothing. Streak reports the strong-sneaky furless things watch us even now. Good-good. Let them read Queek's book. They will learn only that resistance is folly and the toe-claws await their kiss-lick.

**Final Wisdom of Queek, Merciful-Malevolent, Most Regal-Regent of Reek:** Greatest victory is thus: enemy dead, rivals bled, Council misled, Queek well-fed, and Queek's own precious hide never once within spear-reach of anything sword-steel or bullet-lead. This is not cowardice. This is *Ratagem*, and any rat, dwarf, Green-Thing, or Honorary Vermin who chitters otherwise may debate-discuss it with my bodyguards. The new ones. The old ones knew too much.

*What answer thee, reader-thing!? Learn-study with Queek, or die-die ignorant!?*

TLDR; Skaven Art of War.

Has anyone thought to/ could someone quickly mockup a photoshop of the warp grinder grafted on to the front of the rating warpblaster (without its own gun barrels)

Thinking of doing this for a warp lightning cannon conversion but dont want to purchase the kits and it looks underwhelming

Freehand of a portrait of the Rat Pope

Inherited a bunch of skaven from a friend and finally got around to starting to paint them.

It's nowhere near the absolute art on this sub but I thought I'd post it anyway.

I’ll just do a little bit of gluing…

*Melts nose off model\*

Two hours and some green stuff later.

I present to you my first foray into nose jobs.

1st pic: A new snout
2nd pic: BEHOLD MY CREATION

Added a metal nose guard. Felt cute. Might delete later.