The end of yet another week

I was hoping to say that I have finished the Ogres, but sadly I still need a day or two. Lots of details on these fellows. Need 3 colors on the kegs alone, and I need to apply each color two times as the kegs need to rest on one side to dry. Same thing with knives and butcher axes. Still, even if I have some details to paint yet, it is nice to see the progress. I managed to find what I think is a good mix of equipment to help give each Ogre a little personality.
It just hit me that I have one more detail to fix up, and that is the teeth of the ogres. I have to find a good color to use on them, and i figure I could use the same color on the big scull for the banner. I just have to find something white-ish, but not scull white as I figure they don't have perfect teeth.
I'll have a look in my paint collection tomorrow and see what I can find.

While looking around for some other pieces today I found a small plastic lid lined up with half painted Spacemarines. This means I will have to finish them one of these days. Among other things are some Close Combat Terminators. Guess I can take them among my Imperial Guard heavy weapon squad, but time will show. For the Imperial Guard heavy weapon squad I will try to personalize the bases on most of them with sandbags and other things that might come in handy. This will also be a golden chance for me to try out the 40K basing set, as I might find something there to add to the large bases.

Getting near completion...

Once again I have been able to spend a few hours with my Ogres, and I am really close to a complete project now. I have selected the extra pieces today and started to paint it up. I have a half crazy idea that I will add the rams-head (or what ever animal it is) to the platform on top of the banner pole. The head is originally designed to be glued directly to the banner pole instead of a banner, so I am not entirely sure if it will work or not.
On top of the platform there will be a Gnoblar lookout, and I hope it will be able to see something between the horns of the skull.
I hope I will find the time to do the remaining paitjob tomorrow, as I have to go and play a gig at a wedding tonight. Going to watch Formula 1 Malaysia Grand Prix tomorrow, so I think I will get some painting done during that. And hopefully later on as well, not much else going on tomorrow as far as I know.

The next projects...

First 40K project is the Imperial Guard heavy weapon squad that I have already prepared for painting.
The next project after that will be a Vindicator Siege tank.
The next Fantasy project will be Dwarfs, but if the unit will be a Ranger, Quarreler or Thunderer unit remains to be seen. I guess I won't decide until I have opened the box and looked at all the parts.

I will have all three units in my army, but I'll see what I end up with building first when the time has come to work with them.

New Ogre update

I have made myself a goal to have the Ogres ready for battle by the end of next week.
I know I can't do battle with only six Ogres, but that is not important.
I have to speed up my painting if I ever want to get an army ready, so when I do side-projects like these Ogres then it is important not to spend too much time with them. I want to paint them so they look good, but I can't spend six months on them either...

My 40K project isn't even started, and yet I have begun to think what I will do when that project is done.
I have not thought up what I will do for my next Fantasy project, but it has to be something that goes towards getting an army ready for the table.
The weapons are mostly painted up now, and the next thing I'll do is to paint the hands.
I still have no idea what to do with the banner, but I think I will paint it dark green for now and then add a symbol on it at a later time.
When the Ogres are painted up and ready with weapons, I will see what kind of extra details I can add to the miniatures, and also see if I can add some Snotlings to some of the bases.

late night update

Time for one more update tonight.
I glued on the belly shields on five of the Ogres, and then I found out that you could see more of the back of the shield than expected. So I've done a little cover up to try to make it look better. It looks ok now, but for future Ogres I will paint more of the back of the shields.
I have painted their connecting belts, and will paint the buckles before I call it a night.
The next paint session will be the beginning of hands, hand weapons and the pole for the banner.
and speaking of the banner, I need to try and figure out what to paint as a symbol on it. 

That might be rather tricky as I am no good at all in freehand painting. After all, my Space Marine chapter symbol ended up being a thick golden line. But I digress...

The Ogre skin seems to be ok now. It seems that my last fix did the job. Also the facial hair looks rather good. I think the combination of blonde and red hair fits the unit well.

New month

All of a sudden the calendar has gone from February to March, and spring is slowly coming.
Yesterday I spent several hours in the sun, playing with the dogs. Today it is a little colder outside, so I have returned to working on my unit of Ogres.
The skin seems to be all done now, but it is hard to say if I will need to go back once more.
I will need to do the skin on the hands though, as they are not yet attached to the torsos.
Right now I have painted the beards of the five ogres that has facial hair. Three of them got Terracotta facial hair, and the remaining two got the yellow of Vomit Brown.
The iron on the boots and the middle of the belly shields have gotten their Boltgun metal painted on, and the edges of the shields will be painted Brazen brass when the middle is painted.
Hopefully I will be able to glue the shields on tonight, and start to paint the weapons and hands next time I pick up the brushes.