Ian McMurray's Goblins - Trolls (Rank and File 4 - 325 points)

 «Do feed the Trolls!»

                - Grom, pointing at those white skin bastards

This is it, the last obligatory painting entry for the OWAC V challenge! Two Stone Trolls and 3 River Trolls to add to my mostly swift army. They will probably be too stupid to do anything worthy on the battlefield but I don't care, they are big, fun to paint and cost a lot of points. If they get their big dirty hands on the enemy, ripping limbs or generously vomiting on them could be quite interesting.

What's next for June? I hope to make all the banners for my army, retouch a few of the miniatures I am not entirely satisfied with and maybe add a few extra miniatures... I have 3 Goblin Fanatics almost done and so many more miniatures in my pile of green shame! We'll see.

Here's the (complete?) army at the end of May:

• Grom and Niblet in chariot: 257 points
• 10 goblin wolf riders with bow: 100 points
• 10 goblin wolf riders with spear and shield: 110 points
• 2 goblin chariots with scythed wheels: 180 points 
• 20 Night Goblins: 60 points
• 5 Trolls: 325 points

TOTAL: 1032 points

See you at the end of June to wrap this first (and hopefully not the last) OWAC experience for me!

Sam's Savage Orcs - Da Horde is Complete

So when I started out on this journey two years ago following a nostalgia rush, the point was to get myself a fully painted army of old. An army like the ones I used to pore over in WD and spend time daydreaming about (when I should've likely been concentrating on schoolwork, meh). And with two consecutive years of the challenge I have finally done it. For the first time ever a 2000+pt army fully painted and based. Its done, woohoo!

I'm not going to lie this years 1000pts was tough at times though, the shear weight of painting the same scheme on broadly similar models really started to demotivate me. It wasn't helped by one of the other miniature projects I have going on learning how to walk, both terrorizing the household and severely reducing painting time and effort as I had to thoroughly put everything away after each session lest it get lost, eaten or otherwise incapacitated somehow. Honestly, I was only saved by a good dose of OWAC style shaming and the joy of painting the iconic 90s stone trolls.

Anyway, enough natter, on to the good stuff. The List:

OWAC III:

124pts - "Zogrod Mindmasha" - Savage Orc Shaman Champion, DHW

100pts - "Da Bull" - Savage Orc Big Boss, DHW

100pts - "Urgul 'Da Hammer' 'Eadbasha" - Savage Orc Big Boss, DHW

99pts - "Mad Krug Teefsmasha" - Savage Orc Big Boss, additional HW

171pts - "Da Immortalz" - 16 Savage Orc's, spears, shields, standard bearer & musician

190pts - "Da Crazy Huntaz" - 20 Savage Orc's, bows

390pts - "Da Rock 'Ard Bruvvaz" - 6 x Stone Trolls

30pts - "Summink still underfoot" - 2 x Snotling bases

Total 1204

plus last years list from OWAC II:

158pts - "Ugg Bonekrakka" - Savage Orc Warlord, War Boar (Snorka)

130pts - "Grog Mindbenda" - Savage Orc Shaman Champion, War Boar

59pts - "Wazz DaNoggin" - Savage Orc Shaman

46pts - "Dagob Moufsmasha" - Savage Orc Boss, shield

250pts - "Da Beastie Boyz" - 8 x Savage Orc Boar Boys, Standard, Musician

170pts - "Da Boyz" - 18 x Savage Orc Boyz, Standard, Musician, shields 

200pts - "Da Big 'Un" - 1 x Giant 

15pts - "Sommink Undafoot" - 1 x Snotling base

Total 1028pts

Grand Total 2232pts

On to the pics:

And now for the shot you've all been waiting for, the washed up guy, whose just put on a t-shirt for the first time in months and is barely conscious

Plus the hired help insisted we take this one too

So that's that, with magic items I can field up to 2500pts, which is very likely the largest size 4/5th edition you would want to play in order to retain any form of sanity anyway. Once the plague subsides, I'll hopefully be taking them for a spin against a certain skaven force...

For next year, of course I am definitely coming back, and with the changes I will be dipping into some 2nd ed. 40K, likely with IG junglist mastas (somehow I realized I like painting green and Perry twin sculpts).

Anyway congratulations to all who completed the challenge, was a great bunch again this year. Looking forwards to perusing through all the final blog posts and the hype train into next year.

Peace out

Samuel

Sam's Savage Orcs - the one where the mojo was almost lost, but pre-shame shaming pulled us through (390pts)

Okay, so not going to lie, finishing off the savage orcs last month was a slog. So much so that I needed a break, which turned into pretty much the whole month of me being extremely un-arsed to pick up a paint brush. And in fairness, it was quite nearly the end of the line for me, I just knew if I Mulliganed one month before the end of the challenge whilst completely demotivated, it would be a Cyril Sneer dive straight into the Field of Bones. Thankfully, a little pre-shame shaming and probably the best models I've yet painted in either challenge saw me through to the finish line.

So on to the list:

6 x Stone Trolls (390pts)

Da Rabble

"Oi! Wot you lookin' at?! Fink your all innocent like jus coz you a rock"

"Dere's defo somink ova dere, betta go bash it wiv me club, jus to be sure" 

"An he woz dis tall"

"Got dis one from KFC down da road bruv"

"I work out sometimes"

"Wot dis 'ammer? It woz a Christmas prezzie from me mum"

And didn't I just go out with a bang! I personally think these Perry twins Stone Troll sculpts are the most iconic models of the mid-nineties era in Warhammer. And even though I had fully lost my mojo, once I started painting them, it was a pure joy. Really well set up models, that were very easy to paint. So much so that I banged all six out in four evenings.

So that's that, it is finally done, an army has been fully collected and painted for the first time in my life. Okay so it took two years, two OWAC's and considerable shaming, but as I've been playing since I was ten, after 25 years it's a fucking win.

For the last month of the challenge, I've got a bunch of cleanup to do. Which is in the order of: making a banner, varnishing all this years entries and then laying down the static grass and tufts. After that it's a wrap on the army. And then we go rescue Ol' Grog from the clutches of Adam's Skaven (and give them a damn good trouncing in the process... well that's the idea at least).

Anyway well done to all who finished, some sweet armies were built. Looking forwards to all the wrap-up posts next month.

Samuel

Sam's Savage Orcs - The one where the set was complete (211pts)

So the plague continues and I received word that poor unpainted Ol' Grog was captured by heartless Skaven plague monks. He got drunk on a bit too much of that Special Brew laced with shrooms and fell off the paint table. Of course those pesky rats would drag him off when he was unconscious, it’s so like them sneaky gitz, no way they would manage it otherwise. But we ain’t worried, he's a sturdy lad, we'll go bust him out of that Clan Humphrey’s prison Oogah Boogah Waaagh style. The scenario is set!

So this month I sort of tried to stick to the one colour a day plan, and was weeeell, sort of successful, in the same way as doing something as an afterthought is. That is to say I didn’t really stick to it, yet the overall idea of it still got me painting in a more sustainable way. In the end I only had the very final colour and highlight to do on the last day of the month. So I count it as a win, especially with two young kids bouncing around the apartment like caged squigs all day everyday.

So, the big news this month is: I've finally done it!!!

Every single Perry twin Savage Orc sculpt has been collected and painted. And all part of two successive OWAC’s I might add.

The quota:

1 x Savage Orc Shaman Champion, DHW (124pts)
5 x Savage Orc’s, bows (47.5pts)
1 x Savage Orc banner (9.5 pts)
(banner isn’t added/painted, so not doubling points, just adding weapons cost of intended unit, spear and shield)
2 x Snotling bases (30pts)

Total: 211 points

"Wait a minute! Who nickk'd me banner?"

Comin' at yah!

Admittedly the work isn’t fully done yet. All of this years ones still need to be varnished and have the tufts and static grass added to their bases. I’ve also got to finish one banner and two shields (which I manged to pick up on the cheap). But, that’s just the final touches, the painting is done. Woohoo!!! It also means that with just one more month of painting and another of the above final touches I will for the first time ever have a fully painted Warhammer army, so here is to keeping up the motivation. And that is the plan for the next two months. Fortunately for next month I have a real treat in store, the full compliment of all sculpts of the below beauties:

So until then, wishing everyone keep safe, wash them hands and avoid shady Clan Pestilens characters like the plague (literally). Peace out.

Samuel

Dustin's February Submission (A Trollish Trio, 195 points)

February, the shortest month, and a busy one for me even when not participating in army painting challenges. This month's output is pretty basic:

3 Stone Trolls -- 195 points

These guys were fun to paint, and a good diversion from the gobbos. I've been a fan of these sculpts since the Nineties, but for some reason, had never painted any of them (in fact, I had never owned any until this past year). I'm glad I was able to pick them up before GW finally "retired" them a couple of months ago.

This is Glogg. I rather enjoyed painting the femur he wields as a weapon. Perhaps it's a femur with which to bash fimir?

Here's Fletch. He's not dual wielding weapons, the big rock is just a snack.

Finally, Ol' Stinkmouf, ready to empty the contents of his stomach on some unfortunate stunties. Failing that, he can bash them with his stone maul.

That's all for February. More goblins to come in March.