Ogor progress

I have worked more on my ogor amy. 

Here we see the Leadbelchers and Bragg, and they are starting to get some paint on them. So far i have painted the skin and hair as I had to redo that for the unit of Gluttons that was already painted, and I have also painted their cannons. I still need to paint the scrap sticking out of two of the cannons, their pants and shoes and also some details but they are comming along.

And speaking of the Gluttons, here are two of them. They are almost done now, but I need to repaint their teeth and I think I will use a lighter brown on their lips and maybe some other facial details that I want to make stand out. If I do that I will do it for the entire army.

Then the bases will get the green rim and I think I have a new technical paint that looks even more like patches of snow, so I will try to add some of that on top of what I already have on the bases.

When I was at my storage room on Saturday I brought home some more units to build, and I just had to make this unit of Ironguts. They are about 95% done, but I need to add some small details like some shields and knives. I have decided that the one with the big club and the one with the sword raised above his head will have a gnoblar on the base, but I discoverd when adding a gnoblar to one of the Ledbelchers that they would sort of get in the way of the painting, so I plan to prime them and paint them separately and then just glue them to the base before I add the basing to them.

The symbol on the banner pole is just amazing so I had to take a picture to show that off. I look forward to work more with this unit, hopefully I can prime them tomorrow or the next day.

But this is not all, I found a couple more boxes in the storage unit and I look forward to showing them as they are assembled. One of the boxes is quite big...

update on the first Steam Tank

For a litte while I have been trying to decide if I want to paint all the details of the Steam tank separatey and then glue it on or if I should glue it on an then paint it. I decided on the last option. 

I did not look too closely on the instructions before I chose what pieces to glue on, I just chose what I felt looked good and placed it on. When I checked the instructions later I saw that the scrolls hanging on the back row was supposed to hang on the shields, but I think hanging like they do now they look more like they belong to the tank itself.

I have started to paint the details and I think the gold really make the difference. 

I had to add a picture from the front as well.

I look forward to keep painting this as well as the Duardn who is going to stand in the turret.

New models assembled

This is a new model for the Gloomspite Gitz that was released alongside the new codex resently. Being both a big fan of goblins in general, but also of squigs I just had to get this. GW call him Squigboss with Gnasha-squig, and he has some sort of a facemask on the lower part of his face and a squig on a leash . The leash looks a lot like the one we use in the real world for seeing-eye-dogs to help blind people get along, but I don't think this squig is trained for that. 

This boss is going to be one of the many leaders in my army, and I look forward to priming him and painting him up. I have started the process of thinking up a name for him as well, but I am not there yet. But hopefully by the time he is painted up and ready for the table top both he and his squig will have a name.

Next up is also a quite new model. The reason she is placed like this is that she is supposed to stand on the base, but in order to do that she needs to be glued down and I don't want to do that until painting both her and the base is mostly done. 

This is the new Lord Castellan of Cadia, and her name is Ursula Creed. If you think the name sounds familiar, it is becaue she is the daughter of Ursaker E. Creed that has been the Lord Castellan for many years. Ursaker E. Creed is oficially MIA (Missing In Action) and presumed dead after the fall of Cadia.

 

I have not yet decided how I will field Ursula in the Walpurgian 3rd, but she needs to be a high ranking officer. I will see where I can put her and what name I can give her, but I look forward to adding her in to the army.

She came with two head options, one with a helmet and one without. I chose the one without the helmet as I think that looked the best. She could also be fielded with a scepter in her left hand, but I felt the binoculars looked a lot more like a soldier.  

Ogors - Trying something new...

Up until now I have only used light skintones to paint skin on my models, unless they have been Greenskins or Genestealer cults that is.

This week I have tried to change that, and I have done so with models that show a lot of skin...

The pictures are a little dark I think, but they do show what is about to happen. I built four Leadbelchers, and they are the ones standing in the second row on the second pic. They were all primed with Gray Seer as that is my standard primer these days. The good thing with that is that I have the option to use both contrast paints and the regular Base/Layer paints from GW and get a good result when I paint them. 
In the front row and far right on the second is a unit of what is now called Ogor Gluttons.They were originally painted to a good standard that I was happy with, but I took the models home to work a bit on their bases to make them up to date with my current way of painting bases. But before I started on the beses I got the idea that I would like this army to have a darker skintone, so I decided to repaint their skin and leave the rest as it is. I like their look now, but I think it would look  too weird with one unit that sticks out with a totally different skintone from the rest. Hopefully I can manage to just change the skin and maybe their facial hair if that looks very weird with the new skintone. 

In the third row, back beside the Steam Tank, is a model that has now been reduced to an un-named Maneater. He used to be Bragg the Gutsman and was a character. He is missing the hook on his staff right now, but I decided to prime that by hand and paint it up separately as it will get in the way of the details of the model when I paint the main parts.

I have seen several recipies for painting dark skintones, and I plan to do it by applying this base color that I have applied now (after the pics were taken, the final two also got their skin re-painted), then drybrush all over with a lighter tone, and then either layer or do a fine drybrush on the highest areas with an even lighter tone. My hope is that this method will get them to a good standard that I can be proud of with my level of painting.

For the bases for this army I have decided I will have snow like the Gluttons have now, but not all bases will be completely covered in that. Some will have Stirland Mud and snow mixed on the base while others will have a base all covered in snow. I might also try to make some ice details on some of them as GW has made some contrast paints that work well for this. Then the rims of the bases will get the same green as the reminder of my AoS figures. 

I have also decided that my Duardins will have some bases with Stirland Mud or Stirland Battlemire and some with Astrogranite and if there are some bigger bases I might combine it. I made a lot of Duardins for my Armies on Parade board some years ago, and I have now brought them home to the workbench so that I can fix their bases to the standard I use for all my armies now (mostly repainting the rims). 

If this darker skintone works out well, I will also introduce it to some of my Imperial Guard soldiers, as the Walpurgian 3rd often integrates units from other planets that has grown too small to be effective fighting units by themselves. I will start with some commisars first, as they are supposed to be from other planets as they shall not have an emotional bond to the troops they are serving with. But If the skintone works on the Ogors with lots of skin, I am sure it will work on Commisars and Guardsmen with only heads and maybe some hands or in some cases arms that is skin colored.

works in progress

This week I have finished my Mangler Squigs, and I have readied the parts to make the remaining fourteen Dwarfs of the Rat-pack unit with crossbows and with axes on their backs. So now I can sit down and clean the parts and glue them together. I have sorted the parts in to different boxes, so if I choose one part from each box I get legs and back, head and chest, arms with the frame of the crossbow, the bow string and a bolt, and finally the axe they can hav on their backs. Because of the axe on the back, I made sure that none of the Dwarfs have capes in this unit. I am also, because of their description of being specialists in catacomb and sewer fighting, rethinking having a banner and instead finding something cool that they can have on a pole instead of the banner that will get unspeakably dirty in no time.

For my Imperial Guard army I have built a store anniversary fgure called Sergeant "Ripper" Jackson, a tough female Catachan Sergeant with a metal leg. She will be one of my veteran infantry sergeants for the Walpurgian 3rd. It is a great mini and I look forward to painting her up. I hope i can prime her tomorrow.

I have also built a unit of four Ogor Leadbelchers with their big cannons. I was originally hoping I could have some fun with the cannons, mixing them up with the cannons for the Steam Tank, but it turns out that would be really hard because of the way they are assembled So I will have to use the cannons for the sets they came with.

Speaking about the Steam Tank... I have started to paint it up, and I plan to paint the armorplates and then add the details that goes outside them and paint that as it is glued on. I have no idea if this is the best way to do it, but I have already found that there are so many fiddly bits to paint that I think it is worth trying.

I am quite happy with the wooden parts, and I need to see how the armorplates turn out. But I have planned to drybrush them with Necron Compound dry paint anyway so I think they will turn out well in the end.

Since I didn't use the commander for the tank, I assembled him on a base, and I plan to use him for some position or other in the army. He has a special pistol and a looking glass, so I am thinking either crew for one of the guns, or as some sort of officer. Maybe he is an engineer or something, I'll see what I can come up with.

First finished model of the year

Finally I managed to finish painting the first model of the year -  the Mangler Squigs. 

This is the biggest squigs I've made for my Gloomspite Gitz army so far. Originally I thought of having one, but they look so good I might get another so I can build both options.
The paint scheme is the same as for my Boingrot Bounderz that I haven't presented here yet as they are still in sthe state of being painted. If I remember right the squigs and the riders are done, but I haven't finished the bases and a few small details on some of the minis. The bases needs their Stirland Mud/Stirland Battlemire cover, but i have added lots of flowers to the bases that eeds to be painted up.  I thought about putting flowers on this base as well, but I figure the wild, giant squigs have trampled them all down except for the  few mushrooms that came with the set.

There is one goblin sitting on the bottom squig and three on the top one. I love how they look. The one "steering" the squig has the same kind of helmet as the Boingrot Bounderz, and his partner is the comedic sidekick using an old pot as a helmet. Beside them is the Goblin version of Batman hanging on for his life.  

There are lots of cool little details in this set. First up is the cool little Grot that seems to be flung from the squig, or maybe it is some sort of ritual that make him dive off it voluntarily. This is the little chap that broke off during priming, luckily I managed to glue him back on even though it was in a slightly different position. 

There are a few grots on the base as well. This little chap looks like he is running for his life to avoid being trampled or eaten.

While this little one seems like he has all the time in the world to go away with his newly picked mushroom. Let's hope he get away safely to enjoy it.

So this is the first Mangler Squigs I have assembled, but I think I will need to get another one as this set looks so good, and there are two quite distinct ways of setting them up with the chains. I don't know exactly when I will get and build the next box though as I have planty of other stuff I would like to build (and also some I would like to buy) as well. But I promise Iwill post the progress and finished result here when the time comes.