Troggoths and Killteam

This period I have finished building the Killteam box called Brutal and Cunning. The box contains 10 Ratlings, 1 dog, 2 cunning traps, 6 Orks and 2 Bomb squigs and some scenery. Last round I built 6 of the Ratlings, and now I finished the rest of the box.  All the minis are primed Grey Seer. I have not primed the terrain yet, but I will do that next round. 

I look forward to painting these minis. The Ratlings will fit well with the sniper diorama I built and primed earlier, and the Orks will be a cool addition to my Waaaagh! Both Orks and Ratlings are quite detailed, so it will take some time to paint them up.

The Space Marine Terminators I built last round are now primed Grey Seer. I also bought a new box at the Warhammer store when I was there along with a box of 3 Primaris Eliminators. The Eliminators are snipers and can be built with an assortment of weapons and I have not decided what I will arm them with. I will see if they can have different weapons or if the entire unit need to have the same type of rifle. 

I plan to build these miniatures the next round. I had originally planned to do it now, but wanted to get some painting done too.

So I decided to paint up my 3 Rockgut Troggoths that I primed a while ago, and thought I would try to paint them to match a unit of 6 Rockgut Troggoths that I had started on a long time ago. When I looked at them again I decided I didn't like the way I had started to paint them. The skin was ok, it was painted Russ Grey and I wanted that color for the new ones too. But the older ones had their bellies and chests painted Morghast Bone and looking at it now I didn't like it anymore. There are lots of bones on the figures and I want those to be Morghast Bone and it will not look good to have the bellies the same color. So I decided to use Fenrisian Grey instead for the bellies and inner ears, and the chest were painted Russ Grey like the rest of the skin. I think I will need two coats to cover the Morghast Bone, but I have only painted one so far. 

I wanted the very thick skin to be a bit darker than the remaining skin, so I decided to use another Space Wolf color and went for The Fang for that purpose.  

The 6 previously worked-on Troggoths had some more colors done as well, I will keep the wood but paint the leather and maybe the cloth again. Also the Grot that one of them is holding in his hand will be repainted, as one of the new Troggoths do the same so I want them to be identical.

Here are two work-in-progress pitures of how they look now. The first pic are 3 of the ones that was painted before, and the second pic is one of the newcomers to the group. 

While painting I was very happy with the way the colors combined togehter, but I will try and figure out a way to make them blend a bit better. I am thinking that I can use a wash of some kind on everything when all the models are painted. It might just be a thin layer of Agrax Earthshade to make them look a little more dirty since they are Troggoths. I will do some checking and see if I can find some videos of things being painted in these colors and what other people have used. I will also need to go over the figures once more with the lighter colors to neaten up.

I also need to think about what I want to do with the bases, These are troggoths that live in the mountains, so I will have to decide if I want to give them bases that reflect that or if I want them to have the same dirt bases as the other armies. So far I am thinking the natural thing would be to make them with the same bases as the rest of the Gloomspite Gitz army as that is the army that they belong to and since they are fighting togeher they are probably on the same battlefield. But I will experiment a little and see if I can mix rock and mud in some way on some spare bases that I have. Another solution could be to glue on some rocks on their bases or something like that.