Tom's Goblins and Orcs: Rank and File #2

This month, February, shalt be the month of the wolf...  As with war machines, I really struggle with anything calvary-like, so it's a massive relief to have these done! 

I think it's because I'm never quite comfortable with painting them all glued together, so I have to paint them in two parts, wolf and rider. Which I don't like 😂

Annnnyway...

This wolf has got a bit of blood on him. What a good boy.

The shield design is just some thing super simple. Channelling that rosengarten_paints_black - instagram - energy, (although to a much less accomplished state!)

On the same  tip, I gave the wolves pupils. I'd usually go for just red, buuuut...

And here's all five of them together. 

Please excuse the dark pic. Bit of a last minute photoshoot!

Flushed with success I moved straight onto the orc chariot. Best get it out the way whilst motivation strikes!  It came in its original hardshell blister - a lovely swap with highland_painting (instagram) for some earlier era orcs 🙂

Here's the two crew.

And I pinned the front bit that saddles the wolves onto the chariot, and then pinned the wheels into the base.

And here it is! The boys are a bit side on, it's super cramped in that chariot!

Getting da bossez shield to fit was a pain too! It's why I chose the smallest on I could 🙂

Of course they've nailed a falcon or other bird of prey to it. Probably to taunt the hated elf.

If you look super closely you can see the pin poking out of the bottom of the chariot, from the orcs foot!

Hopefully the last thing you see after encountering da rampaging boyz!

And the shot of them all together agin :)

Here's the links back through the challenge:

Intro: link

January - rank and file: link

February - rank and file

45....   5 x wolf riders

81....   1 x orc chariot

Total: 130 points

See you next month for more rank and file!

A game of Warhammer Quest with the boy

Byron's invasion of Ulthuan - landing party (359 pts)

 The invasion of Ulthuan begins!

Grom sends Boss Scraggit and his lot to explore up the coast while the main army continues to unload on the beach.

The first unit pondering up the coast is a chariot (86 pts)

Next, Scraggit sent two trolls (130 pts) to check things out.  They didn't make it very far and stopped to check if the rocks tasted different on Ulthuan. 

Assuming the path was now safe-ish, Scraggit (16 pts) led his mob (42 pts) along the beach to check things out for himself. 

The goblins with bows (30 pts), who naturally like to put some distance between themselves and the enemy, lagged behind. 

Finally, Scraggit had the wolf riders (55 pts) explore the valley near the coast. 

Little boss Scraggit then brought his lot together and tried to march them up the coast, in column, to find the enemy. 

Somehow the enemy found him first and his column was ambushed by shore riders and archers!

Finally, Progress on the shelf. I tightly packed all the newly painted goblins on the shelf. I am well on my way to filling out the whole shelf by the end of OWAC 9. 

Björn Grendel's Unberogenes. Chariots and Village. Month five, wild card.

 

Penultimate month of this long marathon. Someone said more of a decathlon, considering all the skillset needed to pack an army for this challenge.. I must say he was right. The thing that bothers me the most is that I have not yet learned to take decent photos of my models, who always seem badly painted in the images, but so it is.

This May, to take a little break from muscles, tattoos and shields, I brought a relatively simple project. if I understood correctly it could have legitimately counted as rank and file but to be on the safe side ilI decided to play the wild card. 

So war chariots!

To complete the collection, these sculpts are again Mark Copplestone's from Mirliton. Old sculpts but new casts (bought in January for the challenge). They are beautiful models, in my opinion, but they were missing something. So I added some ropes and arranged the reins, and painted the horses in different colors to add variety. I also added decorative shields on the sides of the chassis, so as to keep with my usual freehand theme and provide some extra color to the models.

A big problem with this kit, in my opinion, is the lack of a second crewman, fortunately the space on the cart is abundant and I had planned to add another man, so I had purchased a few more models. after thinking for a long time I decided to provide the carts with a charioteer and an archer each, as historically appropriate, even if not perfectly consistent in terms of gameplay, but who cares: RULE OF COOL! 

I therefore took an extra archer, I converted one of the two original charioteers to a shooter and drew a noble on foot from the pile of infantry. So the best equipped warrior could represent a special character or a hero when needed.

The bases were made in the usual way. Painted and highlighted construction sand, this time with the addition of some pieces of bark to simulate flat rocks emerging from the ground (a geography inspired by my homeland) and the usual commercial tufts with the addition of frayed rope and fur from an old pair of gloves.

I'll leave myself some wiggle room, maybe one day I'll add a bundle of spare javelins or maybe some loot bags or supplies... We'll see. I still have a few cards to play before it's over.

Pointwise these two single models count as:

8 marauder horsemen with heavy armour 376pt

I didn't find any references to war chariots in the manual Jaakko lent me to make this list, so I decided to prox wildly. I can Always use them as chariots in mi games, thought.

You thought that was it? You couldn't be more wrong! Since I was fed up with not playing and always having to justify myself as an ex-player, since after painting all this new army I really wanted to use it somehow.... I finally decided to build myself an old school table to play on with my kids and wife.  So I bought cloth and boards and covered them in green FOR NOW. For now I'm happy to use some old woods that I already had, I built and painted a village of huts and fields and a log fort to go with it. In the next few months I intend to make hills, roads, cliffs, more buildings and woods and maybe a river, I don't know yet, to further furnish the field (which is regulation, of course, 1800*1200mm)... My plan is very ambitious and one day I will transform the cloth board into an XPS foam board with a fixed geography of some kind (but it will almost certainly represent the forests of the North). Without further ado, let's let the images speak for themselves ..

Dont judge my shop storage...

Yes, my war room Is a mess..

I think that Is more than enough for this time... Next and final month will be MOAR WARRIORS!

Stay tuned and stay oldschool 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼