Toms Goblins and Orcs: Rank and File #4

MAY.

This month has been awesome!

It's seen the completion of my planned army, and now comes the push to add some extras. But before getting ahead of myself, here's the last orc boys regiment 👊

These boys were a little bit of a struggle, but then as soon as I was half way through, they were a breeze. So strange how that sometimes happens... Here's the rank close ups...

The rust is a technical paint from the Army Painter - part of the John Blanche paint set

I tried to make them as easy as possible.  They're super nice sculpts, so that made it a lot easier. But it's why there's no colour variation, and all the 'bits' are the same brown colour.

Some of the orcs have been converted by their previous ebay owner.

Like this boy, with his beloved hammer and cleaver....👇

And then you gotta love picking up a model and then belatedly realising your fingers are covered in paint 😂😬👇

Here's a shot of the back of the orcs. You can see that I did the classic Thing of not checking whether they rank up neatly before plastic gluing them to their bases. It's why there are two orcs not on the required diagonal - and therefore those two can only be on the end of the rank. 

On to the Command! These models have been sat in my lead pile for a decade or so, and I think they were all 'extras' in bulk ebay buys when I was purchasing orcs for my big hat chaos dwarfs... 

This guy has a thing about eyes...👇

The drummer 👇

Took me so long to realise the drum is made out of a nailed in snotling 😬

And now on to the regimental standard, which I'm super proud of. He's now been promoted to Army Standard he came out so well! The banner design was inspired by this banner by ladykito on Instagram

My banner is paper. It's been doubled up and glued with PVA before painting, so then when it's attached to the banner pole it'll be quadruple paper. I used a new brush to paint the design on, which may be why it's come out so well! (I use greenstuff world gold sable #2 brush for everything except drybrushing)

And here it is attached and flying! 

The pole is 1.2mm brass rod, drilled right through the hand (which disintegrated, so I had to make some fingers out of greenstuff. It is the first time I've had to so something like this with GS!). The skull is from the current GW skulls set. I had to add some of the greenstuff to the back of the skull to poke the brass rod into and to shape the back of the skull.

It (the skull) is a bit too eye-catchy, but hey - it's done!

Both designs on the flag are inspired by images in the Warhammer Armies book (I asked ladykito about her banner).

Eye on the shield to fit in with the champions.

Group shot again 🙂

And now onto the promised ogre from last month! 👇

I think this ogre regiment is becoming one of my favourites! 👇

And then I also added two bases of snotlings. Every O&G army has them!

Sooo, that's all the planned minis. Now onto some extras, and I have this rushed timestamp pic where most of them are backwards...

Here's the git I was most excited to paint. Such a classy classic.

I did chicken out of adding any checks, dags or flames...

Here he is, doing what he does best - adding insult to injury...

I changed the rim colour of Grom's base to fit back in with the army 🙂

Then onto the squigs, and herders!

And their squigs. I did a classic thing of not checking my already painted squig hoppers from the last OWAC, so these squigs have purple lips

And yes, I know there's four squigs, when herders can only herd three, but hopefully I can rustle up a few more for June 🙂

Last but not least, some mushroom fuelled majiks from this night goblin shaman 👇

Basecoat // All over wash // Highlight

Aaaaand that's it for May!

Only thing left is the links back through and the points check for the month.

Intro: link

January: Rank and File - link

February: Rank and File - link

March: Rank and File - link

April: Leaders - link

May:

93.5...   17 x Orc Boyz

53...      1 x Orc Boss

11...      1 x Orc Musician

11...      1 x Orc Standard

40...      1 x Ogre

15...      1 x Night Goblin boss (that's the finger flasher)

30...      2 x Snotling bases

8...        1 x Squig Herders

80...      4 x Squigs

28...      1 x Night Goblin Shaman

Total: 369.5

So the plan for next month - the FINAL MONTH, is to make some terrain. I have some of the recent Old World plastic fences, some more of the K&M trees to base, and fingers crossed a paper building from the pages of White Dwarf. I have already painted some animals from Warlord (link) with which to populate the landscape 🙂

See you then! 💚

Tom's Goblins and Orcs: Rank and File #3

March. Another month gone, and it feels like I'm slowly running out of time, and well - I guess we're now over half way through! This month I painted the lovely goblin archers from the Warhammer Fantasy Regiments set, and added another ogre too. 

Here's a classic breakdown of the archers, with GW standing for Games Workshop, PA for Pro Acryl and AK for AK Interactive...

GW Moot Green - skin

PA Orange Red - tunic

PA Black - bow

PA Warm Brown + PA Black - pouch

PA Warm Yellow - arrow flights

AK Deep Sea Blue - knife handle

Vallejo Metallic Black - metals

Then an all over wash of GrimDark Shadow from The Army Painter

Then the magic highlight! 

Either by adding white and/or yellow to the base. Although with the skin I used PA Bismuth Yellow (and then added white). This Bismuth Yellow is the main difference between the skin of the goblins, and the skin of the orcs. I use the Warm Yellow for the orcs... 

I also used GW Luxion Purple - for nails and shade in eyes, and a Vallejo Air Silver to highlight the metals.

The base is:

AK Grass Green, and the rim is GW XV-88 

The green is shaded with watered down PA Camo Green.

And then highlighted with AK Interior Yellow Green, and then again with a tiny bit of white added to the Interior Green.

Quite a few of these steps I could have cut out - for example, I think I could have just used the Silver and not used the metallic black. And I could have painted the knife handle black. And not done the extra highlight on the grass... 

But they're all done now!!

And here's all the lads in all their glory!

And I painted this ogre too, to 'match' Januarys OWAC submission :)

I very much enjoyed painting him, and now I plan to add a third, for when I paint my last rank and file unit - the orc boys.

That's my March month complete!

I just need to show my Tribute model - now with Byron in the States. Many thanks for your hard work!

He's a lowlands troll from Knightmare miniates - here's a store link:  LINK

I loved painting him too - very different to how I would usually. He's mostly wet blended, and was painted in one sitting, in about 2hrs. I think he's one of my best. It was mentally exhausting though, and had to have a few days rest after. 2hrs (I think) is absolutely crazy, but it was one hell of a super fixation! There's no way I could have painted another.

I used the hairdryer (a new addition) a lot.

The initial basecoat👇

Refining the highlight 👇

Very nearly finished 👇

And here's him finished with one more highlight - mostly on the blue skin. And some black reed things on the base 👇

The base is milliput, with holes poked in by a cocktail stick, with milliput stones on top. The black grass is painted toothbrush bristles.

I've wanted to paint him for aaaages. And I nearly chose to paint the knightmare range of Orc and Goblins for this OWAC, but the call of the monopose plastic was (thankfully) too strong!

All that's left is the links back through this Challenge, and the monthly total....

Intro: link

January: Rank and File - link

February: Rank and File - link

March: Rank and File 

54...   18 x Goblins (short bows)

40...   1 x Ogre

Total...   94

This brings my current army points total to 294. Which is low. But fear not. I have painted the giant, which neatly brings the total to just shy of 500. I'm just keeping him in reserve in case of a terrible April...

Anyhow - that's it. See you next month for that giant!

Maurice suspect the points total is a little low for three months work!