Glomspite Gitz and a Tank

The Goblins are done, I will take some good pictures of them when I have fixed the lights in my workshop and post here after. I have 36 of what I call "forrest goblins" and I will need to make 4 unit fillers to make a unit of 40.

The next installment for that army will be another box of 40 where 20 will have spears and shields and 20 will have bows and arrows, both with full command.

Then it is the Dankhold Troggoths that are being painted up, the regular troggoth and the troggboss have just a few details left, and I have started to work on their bases, the one that comes from the skirmish game still needs a little more work, but it is also comming along nicely. I plan to add a little water on the base of that one. The trogggoth bases are quite big, so it might be a nice place to add some of the new flowers I bought online. I talked to the staff at the Warhammer store and they said it was ok to use them even if I wanted to use the figures for games or competitions in store. I will post pictures of them too when they are done. So far I think there are just a few details left, like eyes and nails and I think there are a few more things left on the Troggboss. Next Troggoth to be built is Trugg the Troggoth King. I have bought him and the box is waiting to be opened. 

In the mean time I had fun putting together this not so little tank. It was actually a little bigger than I had expected. This is the Macarius, also known as a Macarius Heavy Tank.  

I decided to built it wit hthe Vanquisher cannon as I love those long barreled guns. The yare not so common anymore, so I felt it would be cool to have it on this relic as the tank is from the 31st century. I am thinking that this might be newer, as some forgeworlds seems to be making them still, or at least made them for many years after the Horus Heresy so this mighr be one of those. I will read some more about it in the background and work out some background for them.

The Macarius will fight along side troops from the Solar Auxillia and some of their armored transports and Leman Russ tanks in my Imperial Guard army, so I will paint them up to match that army. But I will also have the possibility to field them as troops for The Horus Heresy if I would like to play that sometime, so I will only use weapon options that are legal for that.

I have another Macharius and I will build that with the classic look of two lascannong in the turret. Since I liked building this one so much, I might add a third one to the army at a later time and give that the regular battle cannon. 

WIP Troggoths and Goblins

I made myself a little goal, I wanted to paint up my entire unit of 36 Goblins to a decent standard this week, and I am happy to say i made it. It was actually kind of satisfying to do it this way and on a short time instead of doing it over many months as I usually end up with.

Now I am not 100% finished to tell the truth, but the figures are done. I bought myself a very fine Kolinsky sable brush so I will try to paint their eyes when I do their bases.

I plan to do the their bases in the same style I do all of my Age of Sigmar bases, but I am trying to decide if I want to add the barbed brackens from Games Workshop like I have on the Squig hoppers or if I want to add some non-GW colorful flowers. This will not be on all the bases as they are small, but where they will fit. My thoughts with using the plastic barbed brackens is tht it will unite the squig hoppers and these goblins, but the colors I use for painting will also do this and by adding the flowers it will show that they live in a different area. After all the Night Goblins and their Squig hoppers lives in caves while these Goblins live outside in the hills in huts.I will lesve the option open until it is time to work on the bases and see what might look the best.

I think I will wait until my Wolf riders are done as they are the cavalry for this tribe, ab from the same area. Their bases are bigger so I will have more room to put things on the bases. 

I have started to paint up a few of the wolves and one rider to test if the same scheme will fit and it certainly looks like it will look good on them as well. It takes some getting used to brown wolves, but they are already starting to grow on me so I am quite sure I will like it in the end. It also explain the fur that the infantry uses for loincloths as I am sure some of the wolves die of age or on the battlefields.

I liked these models so much I have decided to get another unit as GW have re-released them for The Old World. I might get one unit to use for my Gloomspite Gitz army, and another to have with The Old World if I decide to make an army there. I would also love to get a unit of Wolf Riders. There are 15 in a unit, and for my AoS unit I have 13 so I will either see if I can find two more on Ebay or try to think out some unit fillers like I need to have with my regular Goblins as the unit should be 20 strong, so 40 in total.

I have also worked a bit more on my Troggoths while I was at it, and they are also getting close to completion. I was actually supriced to find that the Dankhold Troggoth and the Dankhold Troggboss are the same kit, as they look so different. But apparently they are as the box makes either one.

There is also a smaller Troggoth that has some od the same looks, this one is made for Warcry or Underworlds but looks like it is retired. 

I have painted the skin of all the Troggoths and some of the mushrooms they have on them, but not all of them yet. I need to paint the stems and the underside of the mushrooms and the hard choral things that grow on the Troggoths and the club of the smallest one. I am very pleased with the big mushrooms on the smallest Troggoth and I will try and take some pictures in the near future. This is the first time I have painted spots on mushrooms, and I will try to do this more often at lest on the biggest ones. 

WIP Goblins

It is time to show off another work in progress project. This time it is Goblins. Like the Troggoths in the previous post they will be part of the Gloomspite Gitz army. 

The Gloomspite Gitz used to be known as Night Goblins, and these figures were just Goblins. Today these figures are out of production and there are only Gloomspite Gitz (the old Night Goblins with some new models) left in the range. But since these figures have the same weapons and equipment as the current Gloomspite Gitz I figure they can be used with the same stats if I should decide to play.

I am working on changing my hobby nook and as part of that I took all my cardboard boxes out of a storage unit that I plan to throw out and repalce with cler boxes that can be stacked. In one of those cardboard boxes I found 36 of these old Goblins. 

The lore of my Gloomspite Gitz army will say that these Goblins live in the hills in the thin forrests (the spider Grots live in the deep forrrests under the hills),  so they don't need to wear robes to protect from the sun like the Night Goblins do. I also have several (17 I think) of the old Goblin Wolf riders and they will be part of the same tribe as their cavalry units. I think they will be staying in the hills, and then the new Wolf riders will live higher up in the low mountains and then you will have the Ogors higher up in the hills where there are snow on the peaks.

I have used mostly Contrast paints on these figures, and I think I will use these colors for painting up all of the Grots/Gitz going forward. I might even re-paint some of my old Night Goblins, but I will wait and see what they will look like with this color scheme first. There are some things that need regular paints, but most if it will be contrast.

Everything is primed white or light gray depending on what I have available when I do the priming. Then I try to paint everything from the inner layer and out. So I start with the skin, and for that I use Gutrippa Flesh. It gives the figures a nice light green color, not too different from the color I used before but with more shadiows in the recesses. 

Then I use different browns or reddish browns for clothes and wood. I use Snakebite Letaher for the shoes and the leather vests they wear, and I figure I might need to use another color for the studs on the vests that have them, but I haven't decided yet. Think I will drop by my local Warhammer store and ask for their advice on this.

Another color that looks almost the same is Gore-Grunta Fur, and I used that for the fur on the helmets for the Goblins that have them. Some have bare heads and some have helmets without fur on it. They also have fur on their loincloths. I have used this color on the animals for my Ogor cavaly, and I also plan to use this on the wolves for the Wolf Riders.

For the banner and pants I have used both Black Legion and Black Templar, but I am leaning towards continuing with two coats of Black Templar in the future as that gives a finish that looks more like worn cloth. The first layer is sort of gray, but it turns to a quite nice black when the seconnd layer is applied.

The wood for the spears, banner poles and wooden shields are Wyldwood. This is a rather dark wood color, but it looks good. It is this color I use for much of my Sylvaneth army as well.

The shields that look like they are vowen are painted in Nazdreg Yellow to show that this is a softer material than the regular wood. All metal are painted with Ledbelcher, this is a Base color.

For the minis I have painted now, this color has been used on the spikes on the shields, the helmets, the tip of the spears and the insturment of the musician. I wanted to use this color as I don't like the gray contrast paint that many use as metal if they paint everything with contrast. I plan to paint the mouths and teeth in purple (or dark pink) and off-white and that too will be either Basepaint or layer paint, and I will also paint the eyes with a red from one of these ranges.

I have also used a rather dark gold for the details on the instument of the musician, If I remember correctly it is called Bathazar Gold.

I have decided to add a little brightness to some of the models so I use Flesh Tearers Red for the tassels hanging from the end of the sword of the leader and from a trophy pole. I'll see if there are other places I can use this as well, and I already know there are some areas where I can use this on some of the Wolf riders to tie these units together.

Finally I use Skeleton Horde for the skulls on the wooden shields and for the thin leather straps that some of the Goblins have on their spears and around their wrists to keep the spear solidly in their hands. nd also wrapped around their spears.

The bases will be the classic dark brown Stirland Mud or Stirland Battlemire, that I use on all my AoS models and if I have room on the bases then some of them will get some of the brbed brackets that I have on the bases of my Squig Hoppers to tie the army together,

Now for some pictures...

The first two pictures are of a Goblin with a solid wooden shield. The skull symbol on the shield was not painted when the pictures were taken. The pictures are a little dark, so I will make sure to have better light when taking pictures of the finished models.

This is the other version with the vowen shields with a big metal spike on it.

At the moment I have painted 10 of these to the leverl you can see on these pictures, and I have started with the skin on the next batch of 10.

I just deliverd my dog to my Ex so now I have a week where I can do a lot of Warhammer stuff, so I hope to do quite a bit of painting and maybe a little building this week. I will post an update on it in a week to tell how much I managed to get done.

WIP Dankhold Troggoth

I proised I would post some pictures of the Dankhold Troggoth if I was happy with the colors. 
Like I suspected there were several white spots left after the first layer of paint, so i had to add another layer on the skin. The loincloth was ok with just one layer, and it looks like both the rock club and the nadle is ok too. 

I will look more at the figure next time I sit down to paint and see if I can make the changes between the light and the dark skin look more natural. I have tried to make if follow the changes of the skin, but I think I might need a little clean-up.

I plan to paint the stems of the fungus in a offwhite color and the hats will probaly have some sort of red. And the round chorals that seem to grow on the skin will also get a gray or a white color. This will also make the colors blend more on the skin I think.

Stompa update

There hasn't been too much work going on with the Stompa for Orktober since my last update, so I feel we will need an Orkvember too. And today I have gotten a long way with the flamer that will replace the big chainsword. 

I am quite happy with the way things are turning out with the Stompa even though it takes me far longer than I had originaly planned. Also I have had a small setbak with the body, as one of the cut beams that holds the gun shield up has fallen off. The gunshield is sitting solid though, but I need to find a way to stick it back on as it looks a little weird with just one beam holding it up.

This is what the arm looks like right now. I will need to put a little greenstuf or something on the big hose going from the arm to the weapon as it is a little gap there.

I have manged to use most of the hoses from the original setup. What is missing now is to glue the two fueldrums to the other side of the gun an glue on the shouderguard and then I think I can call this arm done. There is also a hose I will try to add between the two fueldrums. I will also see if I can fit a bigger tank or some more fueldrums somewhere on the back of the Stompa as I imagine a flamer like this will go through a lot of prometheum. 

The next step is to make the left arm. This will be modified slightly from the original to make it different from the one on my first Stompa. The idea as I might have mentiones before is to add a Dethsrike missile to the arm. Originly I had planned not to have the big gun, but I have decided to use that as the rail to fire off the rocket in  steady way. Ocorse, being pillaged from the Astra Militrum it is nowhere near as powerful as it is being fired from an Astra militarum weapons platform, but it will still make a big boom. Then I will see what I can add of other weapons. The original Stompa using a hammer on what is a big bomb for him, and I would love to see if I could replicate it with the Dethstrike as that would make a great explanation why it doesn't perform as great as the original.

Stompa update - Orktober

Here is a small update from the Orktober Stomba build. I am glad I have gotten this far. The head is not glued on yet, as I want to fit the arms first, but I think the head will be in the position it is on these pictures, looking the same way as the belly gun.

As you can see there is an open turret in the head, and there will be an Ork sitting in the hatch pointing the way he want to go, holding a gun in the other hand. I think that will be fun to have an Ork verison of the commanders that sit in the Super Heavy tanks of the Imperial Guard with a raised sword. I was a little late to think about putting a sword or an axe in his hand instead of the gun, but I think I will get the same effect no matter.

The bellygun is not glued in a certain position, so it can move up and down, but it will not stand by itself unless it is in the highest or lowest position. As you can see there are quite a lot of Greenstuff involved to keep the "sheild" of the gun in place. I didn't manage to get it 100% straight, but I figure that is ok because it is done by Orks and they put practical use in front of beauty any day.

Another Ork engineering thing is that they have used sharpened beams to hold the "shield" in place at the bottom. This was first done to give me a solid stand to glue the shield on to, and I figure the Ork Meks have done the same.

There is a Goblin sitting in the belly of the Stompa in the original casting. He can be covered up with a glyph if one doesn't like him there, but I thought it would be cool to have him there to work as a lookout and see how the shooters hit their targets. So I had to cut away a little part of the gunshield to make this happen, but again I figure that is just what the Ork Meks would do.

Here is a picture to show how much Greenstuff I actually had to use as the curve on the gun shield is a lot more curved than the curving of the Stompa. I plan to paint this so it looks like there are some rust there, and I might also add som glyphs or some other Orky stuff to cover it, but that will be done when the main parts are built so that I see what parts I have available.

The next step now is to build the arms, and that will mean quite a lot of convertion-work. I plan to replace the big chainsword in the right arm with a big flamer-type of weapon and I plan to build that from the weapon from the Imperial Knight kits. The other arm is a big gun in the original set, and I have thought a lot what to do with this arm. Do I want to keep the gun, do I want to make something completely different? So far I think I've landed on a solution where I keep the big gun, but change most of what is on the top of it. I have a big rokkit (Imperial Guard Deathstrike Missile) and I would love to add that to the top of the gun, and use the gun as sort of a slide to fire off the rokkit. Then I am sure I will add some smaller dakka around it.

"End of the week" status

Even though it is alredy a few days in to the week I'm caling this the end-of-the-week update. I'm collecting my dogs again tomorrow and will have them the comming week, so my Warhammer hobby will get a few days rest.

These last days I've managed to almost complete my Tyranid test-figure. The only thing remaining now is to paint the rim of the base. I think the color scheme turned out real well, and for once I managed to just get a thin coat of wash on the model. Then I went for a thicker coat on the base. For the purple I washed with Druchii Violet and then I drybrushed with Genestealer Purple that I used to paint it in the first place. 
The skin and base was drybrushed Agrax Earrtthshade. The skin got a thin coat while the base got a good load. Then I used Moghast Bone to drybrush the skin gently, and the base got a heavier drybrush with Screaming Skull. 

Here is a close-up of the base, after the drybrush. When I get the rim painted this mini will be done. I look forward to building, priming and painting up more in this color scheme and I look forward to seeing lots of Tyranids painted up like this on the table.

The other project I have been working on is the Valkyrie for the Imperial Guard. This is what it looks like now, The next step is the cockpit, but that will happen when the dogs go to their other home.

I have to say the instructions for this set is pretty bad (hopefully they have gotten better over the years as my model is old), but despite of that I do enjoy building it, and I think it will look pretty good when it is all built and painted.

You don't see much of the inside from the side, even though the side doors are open, but that might chage slightly when the bird is standing on its stand. But still I wanted to paint the interior so I spent some time on that.

This is looking in through the back gate, and you can almost see the two gunners manning their heavy bolters peaking out of the side doors. Before I glued the wings on I checked if I could take them out and put them back in. I am not sure it will be as easy now that the wings are on, but I have to try sometime. The gunners are glued to the gun, and the gun is put in its cradle that is glued to the armholding it to the side of the Valkyrie. So by lifting and tilting the gun I should be able to take the figures out. I need to do this if Iwant to close the doors. For one of the other Valkyries I plan to build the guns but not add the crewmen.

I wanted to paint up the interior, so I have painted some pipes and cables and also screens and buttons.

I had to add a picture from the behind too. The tailgate is open, but I will see what whill happen when the model is finished if it closes, if I plan the model on the base with the gate open or if I might have to glue it shut.

Tyranids color cheme

Yeserday I wrote that I had bought the Leviathan box and that I would start a Tyranids army and build it up slowly to an acceptible size. 

When I was at the store I talked about my plans and got a "miniature of the month" called a Termagant to use as a test model for my color scheme. The Termagant is one of the smaller creatures of the Tyranid army and it is armed with some sort of bio-gun. There are several of these in the Leviathan box, and in the new online reveal yesterday we were shown this same creture with a lot of different weapons. 

This is apparently one of the most common creatures in a hive fleet, sort of the infantry, so I look forward to building and painting up a lot of them with different weapons options. 

I think I have found the color scheme I want to use.

The colors I have landed on is Morghast Bone for the bodies. I wanted a light color, but white is hard to get to look good at least without painting many layers. And I think this color will fit well as some sort of camouflage against my bases that will be Armageddon Dust or Armageddon Dunes like I do with all (at least almost all) my 40K models.

 

For the claws I wanted a horn color, so I went with Nazdreg Yellow. This is a color I use for most of the horns I paint in Age of Sigmar. This gives the claws a natural color, but not the classic black that you see on many pictures of Tyranids.

Then the hard scales, or the armor if you like, got painted with Genestealer Purple. This is a light purple color and I like that. I also think it contrasts well with the Morghast Bone and I have known for a long time that I would like to use purple on my Tyranids if I ever wanted to get this army.

The tongue and what looks like gills on the body has been painted with Volupus Pink. This is the same color I have used for tongues and the insides of mouths on a lot of other projects and I'm quite happy with that. 

After these pics were taken I painted the teeth Screaming Scull as this is whiter than Morghast Bone but not classic white.

I also found the color I think I want to use for the bio-weapons and I landed on Phonecian Purple. It is a darker purple but still quite bright. I have painted it on now, and to make it clear that the weapon is biological and part of the organism I painted the scales on the top of the weapon Genestealer Purple to match the scales on the body of the Termagant.

I will have another look at the model tomorrow, and if I'm still happy with the colors I will put Armageddon Dunes or Dust on the base, and then start with washes and drybrushing if I feel I need that after. My idea right now is to use the same paint as I have used now to drybrush.

I will post final pics when this work is done.

Looted Cargo-8 Ridgehauler almost compltely built

I have done some more bulding today, and the Cargo-8 Ridgehauler that has been looted by the Orks is almost done. I am missing the crew, and I plan to go look for that in my storage unit tomorrow. I will need to cut up some Orks no matter what I find, as their legs are to wide to fit inside the cockpit. I tried today to place one of the gunners from the Battle wagon on the side of the gunner for this set, and his left leg ended up in the middle of the driver's seat. So either I must have a Grot crew driving and defending this wagon, or I must reposition the legs of some Boyz. Maybe I take an Ork gunner and driver and a Grot co-pilot. I will see what I find. 

I got the idea to take a Deffkopta pilot to drive the Cargo-8 as I had a box handy, but the pilots were attached to the Deffkopta so it would have to be a lot of cutting and also it would leve a unit one pilot short so I decided against it. 

This is what a standard Cargo-8 Ridgehauler looks like without a crew. The spikes can be left off if one chooses, but I think in hostile terrain having sort of a battering ram would come in handy. And since the special Battle wagon front fits outside it I decided to put it on. I also glued on the lights as they fit with the front as well.

Here I have placed the front, but it is not glued on. It stands on the ground in this picture, but it will be raised a little higher so that the top of the plow will stick to the bottom of the headlights. 

This is another challenge that needs to be solved. It turns out the front is just a little thinner than the Battle wagon, so the plow doesn't attach against the sides of the Cargo-8, but I plan to fix that by cutting up some spare vehilcle parts from my bitz boxes and glue it on to the sides to block it out, I figure that would be something the Ork Meks would do, not caring that much about estethics but more about function. I think I know what parts to use as well, so that will be done tomorrow. Then I will add the ladder parts above to hide the holes on the driver side of the vehicle where the ladder is supposed to be.

The Cargo-8 comes in two configurations. One with a flatbed and one with a container. I was thinking to use the container for this vehicle, but now I'm not so sure. This is what it looks like with the container standing on top of the flatbed, but I am thinking I might have both unglued so I can swap beween them.

Here is the container seen from the top. As one can see there are hatches on top of the container, and it is designed so that you can add gun turrets on top of those hatchs and get more firepower. I think the Orks would like that, but then I think I will need the turret parts from a Battle wagon or a plane to get the right size for an Ork or Grot gunner to work the turret mounted weapons. 

This is what the vehicle looks like with the flatbed. It is quite a bit of room, so if I choose to keep this modular and not glue it in place, I can add some sort of gun on this platform. Forgeworld has something called an Ork Supa Cannon that I think would look geat on this, but I might also be able to use a Mek gun (I have several that is still in ther boxes on sprues in storage either at my storage unit or at my cabin) or I might even design my own sort of scrap cannon. Maybe if I find an altrnative gun-arm for a Stompa, I could use the huge gunbarrel that works as an arm on the regular Stompa as the barrel of a self made gun. I am alredy thinking on trying to find an alternative arm for the one that will get the long bellygun, so I will see what I come up with, and I do love to make veird conversions so this could be an interesting challenge...

Some Orky goodness in progress...

A while back while being in my local Games Workshop store I started to talk with one of the staff members about making one of my Cargo-8 Ridgehaulers in to something else. We talked about entering them into the Astra Militatum as suppport vehicles and I might do that but I think it can be done without any real conversion work, It can probably be done with a paintjob and by changing the drivers and the gunners to troopers by using Astra Militrum body parts. Since I have three Cargo-8 Ridgehaulers one could serve with the Astra Militarum, one could be a regular "civilian" wagon train on regular duty, and the third would be converted to the Orks. We talked about how the front that is used for the Gun Wagon and Battle Wagon might look cool as a front on a looted Cargo-8. So this is what I will do with this one. I just tried to see if the pieces for the front would fit, and it looks like it will fit quite well and maybe just with some minor modifications, so I am exited to see what I can make of it. This is where I am so far...   

The next step will be to start buiding the driver cabin, and I will have to see how much I can buld before I have to put some Orks inside. I will see what I have avilable in my bitz boxes or in other sets that won't be needed there. If I don't find anyone I will have to try and find what set that has figures I can use an buy that when I can afford it. 

Right now I am thinking I might need a figure from one of the planes or from one of the wagons. If I have to use one from the planes it would have to be the pilot and that mean that I would have a plane without a pilot so that would mean that I would have to try and build a big double plane that has one cockpit to control it and maybe one cockpit tht serve other purposes. If I use a figure from one of the wagons I could take one of the figures ment to sit in one of the towers as yo uprobably would not see the legs anyway. Or I could just take a regular Ork boy and cut him up maybe. That would certainly be the cheapest optian and might also be the best if I could find a way to do it. I think I will take a trip to my storage unit tomorrow and see what I have there. 

I will post more pictures of the process of the conversion as wok goes forward, and I will also post pictures of my second Ork conversion project that I plan to start shortly. I have a Stompa that I plan to convert with a belly gun and maybe some other conversions too as I plan to do something with the arms to make them different from the arms I have on my finished Stompa (Da Punisha). I wil make the chainsword arm into an arm firing a big flamer of some sort, and I have to figure something out for the big gun that works as a left arm on the Stompa set. I have a Forgeworld arm (grabba arm I think it's called), but I plan to use that for my third Stompa. So I will see what I can figure out.

A little Astra Militarum update

At the moment I am working on building my first Field Ordnance Battery unit for the Walpurgian 3rd. This is basically artillery pieces mounted on wheels that needs to be pulled in to battle. This is the biggestweapons the Walpurgian 3rd has that is not self propelled.

At the moment I have two sets (each set has two artillery pieces), but I know I will get more over time. This is a new set for this year for the Astra Militarum, so I don't yet know how it is best to field them but that is something I am working on finding out. They come with three different options: Bombast field guns (basically a regular cannon), Malleus rocket launcher (multiple barrels) and a heavy lascannon (looks like it is a bigger version of the lascannon you get with the heavy weapon squads). Each cannon has a crew of 3 with a loader, a spotter and a gunner. The two teams form what is called a Field Ordnance Battery. 

What I am trying to find out is how many sergeants you have in a unit. Is it one for each gun, or is it one for each battery? And do you usually field two similar artillery pieces in a battery, or do you field two different set-ups? I am leaning towards fielding two artillery pieces with the same set-up as one unit, and put one sergeant in charge of that unit. Then I will eventually (as I get more guns) put up to 3 batteries together as one bigger unit with a Veteran sergeant (or any other sergent rank) in charge of 6 artillery pieces and their 3 regular sergeants. But I will see as I build the crew for the first unit if I find out something more about this. I might also ask my friendly Warhammer store staff if they know.

So far I have built the two cannons of the first battery and their gunners. I have made one Bombast and one Malleus and I plan to build the same setup for the second batch. Then when I get a third box I will make two heavy lascannons. Next time I get to sit down and work on my minis will be on Friday, and then I will build the rest of the crew. 

I mentioned earlier that I have built Usula Creed, and I am also trying to find out how I will field her in the army. My highest ranking officer is the figure for Usaker E. Creeed and I plan to keep it that way, but I would like to have Ursula in a regular sot as a high ranking officer, then if I shuld happen to play an official tournament or something (not very likely) then she can be the general. I might make her as Major Belle Boyd, the commander for the 2nd Armored artillery units, if not I will have to think up a higher ranking officer position where I can put her.

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.