Da Green Horde

To bolster the ranks of my Ogor Mawtribes army, I recently painted two ogors/ogres on Mournfangs. I'm using them in AoS Spearhead, but they could also be used in TOW for the Ogre Kingdoms. As a side note, with the recent announcement of the new ogor models , the Mournfangs have now gone out-of-print, being replaced by Maulbeast Cavalry. For the fur of the Mournfangs, I followed the painting tutorial for Fenrisian Wolves by Matt's Hobby Hour. I highly recommend his channel if you're interested in Contrast-style paints, he shows a lot of interesting techniques. In this case for example, the fur was painted by layering Contrast paints on top of each other and no dark brown paint was used - that's grey on top of lighter brown tones. As always with ogors, I had to take advantage of the exchangeability of their kits, so I used a head from the Gluttons for the champion. I didn't glue the riders on their mounts, so they can be removed or swapped at any time and are also ea...

Recently I painted one of my favourite models of all time and maybe the most iconic squig ever made - the original Gobbla by Kev Adams from 1993. I originally got it from Mail Order ~20 years ago and a few years ago I started to paint it, but never got beyond the basecoats. Now I found the motivation to finish it, and I must say it was a joy to paint! I went with the classic red colour scheme and painted the tongue in bright green to give it some contrast. I experimented with thinned down Blood Angels Red Contrast paint as a glaze, to bring together the basecoat (Mephiston Red) and highlight (Wild Rider Red) and I'm quite happy with the result. I painted a few more minis in the last few months, but didn't get around to posting them - they'll show up on this blog in the coming weeks. Next up will be some creatures that are at least as hungry as old Gobbla is..

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.