Da Green Horde

What better to paint for Dave's Paint What You Got challenge than some miniatures sculpted by Dave himself? I got these two minis in 2023, when I ordered the Savage Ogre from Wargames Terrain Workshop . Meat is an orc chef from the Fantasy Wild West range and you can build him holding either some kind of rodent or, if you prefer the vegetarian option, a turnip. A perfect use case for him would be the skirmish game Space Gits, where there's a whole faction of orc chefs, the Grill Cooks. The boar is a Grice , which is also the name of an extinct breed of swine according to Wikipedia. Maybe I'll put an orc on top of it in the future and use it as a Gore-Grunta, or I'll use it as a wild boar. Painting both minis was a joy, I used Contrast paints for the basecoat and then built on top of it with regular acrylic paints. There was one annoying moment during painting however, when the Lizard Green Vallejo Xpress Color reactivated after I applied Citadel Coelia Greenshade o...

Normally I don't post unpainted miniatures, since I prefer to showcase finished projects. Today however is an exception, since I'm taking part in a challenge which has the simple goal of assembling miniatures. The challenge is hosted by Anne of Anne's Immaterium , check out the details here . When building the Ironblaster a few months ago, I noticed that there were quite a few bits left on the sprue, as the kit can also be used to build a Gnoblar Scraplauncher. The only parts missing for a complete Scraplauncher were a chassis and a Rhinox to pull it. Luckily, I own an old metal Rhinox that I ordered from mail order ages ago. You could also easily convert a Mournfang to a Rhinox using the left over Rhinox head if you want. To build the chassis, I searched my bitz box for useful components. The base of the chassis is a Small Stone Entrance by Spellcrow, which was included as a freebie in one of my orders. The wheels are from Mini Monsters, I deliberately used two different ...

As mentioned in a previous post, I'm currently in the process of building and painting an Ogor Mawtribes army for AoS Spearhead. The newest addition is an Ironblaster, which turned out to be a really time-consuming project. The kit is quite complex, it consists of about 80 parts and the assembly alone took me something like 8 hours. I had to paint it in sub-assembly (8 parts!), since otherwise there would have been too much places that I couldn't have reached with the brush.   Still, it was a fun project and painting didn't take too long thanks to Contrast paints. I applied a few small conversions, like using a head from the Leadbelchers kit and adding a gnoblar assistant from the same kit on top of the cannon instead of the metal jaw. And I lost one of the knobs on the pole that holds the cannon, so I used the seal of a toothpaste tube instead. The Ironblaster kit can also be used to build a gnoblar Scraplauncher, so there are quite a few bits left - I already have plans f...

My last entries for this year's edition of Dave's Season of Scenery challenge are these two terrain pieces from Polish manufacturer Mini Monsters. The model on the left is an Orc Totem (quite similar to the old one by ForgeWorld), the one on the right is an Orc Ritual Rock. The Ritual Rock makes for a great Idol of Gork (or Mork), it looks like it could become animated anytime and wreak havoc as a Rogue Idol . Painting was a lot of fun, like scenery always is. I worked a lot with drybrushing and washes, the red and white colours on the totem and idol head were applied with a sponge to achieve an irregular pattern that makes it seem like they were painted by orcs or goblins. The flames inside the Ritual Rock were painted white, followed by Striking Scorpion Green Contrast paint to resemble Waaagh!-Energy.  After applying the usual Dirty Down rust and moss as well as Vallejo lichen effect paints, I added some tiny tufts to make the rocks look even more natural. The models were e...

A few colleagues at work and I decided to give AoS Spearhead a try. We're currently in the process of building and painting our forces (I'll be fielding my Ogors). In addition to the miniatures, we also need some pieces of terrain. Spearhead has some special requirements for the number and size of terrain pieces. Instead of buying the kit from GW, I decided to look up the measurements of the pieces and craft them myself. While the original terrain pieces represent ruined walls and rubble, I went for a different look and made some stake barricades and palisade walls. The palisades are made from different types of cocktail sticks and chopsticks, since I did not want them to look too uniform. To make the sticks stand upright, I added some Miliput to the plasticard bases and simply pushed them in (the putty was later covered in earth texture paste to make it look like a mound). After everything had dried, I applied a layer of watered-down PVA glue to give it more stability and fill...

A few weeks ago I went to an arts & crafts shop and found some paper mache trees, which I thought would fit in well with my miniatures. They are manufactured by Decopatch and are normally meant to be used for interior decoration. Getting them ready for the table was quite straightforward: I painted them brown, added Iceland moss as leaves and put them on 50mm bases. To give them some variation, I added uncoloured (white) lichen instead of green to one of the trees - it'll look perfect on a snow themed table, but I think it'll work for other settings too. These trees are my first contribution to this year's edition of Dave's Season of Scenery . This won't be my only entry for the challenge, next up will be some scratchbuilt terrain.

I recently finished three Ogor Leadbelchers, together with the one I painted last year I now have a full squad. I'm currently pursuing the goal of painting a whole Spearhead force (Tyrant's Bellow), and I'm only missing four more models now. Painting the Ogres was again a lot of fun and quite quick, I really enjoy the simplicity of their sculpts - mostly flesh and cloth, not a lot of annoying detail work. For the skin of two of the Ogres I used a recipe by Vincent Knotley , who recommended mixing Magos Purple into Darkoath Flesh (or other skin tone Contrast paints), and I must say I really like the result.  Next up is some terrain for Dave's Season of Scenery challenge.

It's may, which means it's Monster May(hem) , so of course I had to join in and paint a monstrous miniature. As teased in my last post and correctly guessed by Dave, I chose to paint another one of my Squiggoths. The model is a Gnawzilla from Kromlech, a large chunk of resin, that's beautifully sculpted and quite fun to paint.  The painting process was quite simple, the Gnawzilla is mostly skin and armour. The skin was done using Orruk Flesh base coat (over black, which worked quite well), followed by diluted Ghillie Dew Speedpaint and drybrushed Ogryn Camo for simple highlights. To make the armour more interesting, I painted some metal plates in red and added Dirty Down rust effects as well as some decals and checkers.  The howdah is magnetised, so it's detachable and the model already had holes for the magnets which is pretty neat. Since the mini is meant to be used in WH40K, I decided to make some adjustments by adding wooden planks and animal pelts to make it better...