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...

I recently finished another conversion - a combination of the Orruk Megaboss and the Blood Bowl star player Varag Ghoul-Chewer. I had to chop off the iron jaw as well as the beast skull on the pauldron of the Megaboss, the rest of the conversion was quite straightforward. All I had to do was swapping the head and putting the ghoul trophy of Varag on one of the pauldrons. I quite like the result, the kits work really well together. Additionally, the head with the large tusks has the same style as the new Ardboyz (Black Orcs), making the boss a fitting leader for them. A fun detail is the impaled ghoul/zombie, who somehow seems to still be alive (undead?), I imagine he regularly tries to free himself. Varag Ghoul-Chewer must have his name for a reason, so I guess he not only sees the ghoul as a trophy to intimidate his foes, but also as a snack.   I've also started working on my entry for this year's Monster May(hem) , here's a little teaser on what's to come:  

When GW announced in spring that they would discontinue the Bonesplitterz (Savage Orcs) faction in AOS, I decided to get a box of Savage Orruks while they were still available. The box included two Big Stabbas , which is an overly large spear carried by two Orcs, and somehow I got the idea to combine them and kitbash a centrepiece model for my Bonesplitterz  - the Savage Orruk Palanquin.   Games Workshop never produced a centrepiece model for the faction, Orcs are either on foot or riding a boar. There are no giant beasts, which makes sense lore-wise, as the Bonesplitterz are monster-hunters that hunt the largest enemies in order to gain their might. I remember that Savage Orcs could use Boar Chariots in some editions of WHFB, but that never made sense to me, as a chariot seems too "high-tech" for them. They refuse to use metal or armour, so I assume that they also distrust the wheel. So this is more or less my interpretation of a Savage Orc Chariot. The build was quite...

Happy New Year everyone! I didn't have a lot of hobby time in the last few months, but now during the holidays I managed to get some painting done. Fellow blogger Keith announced the Year of the Dragon challenge, which was a great opportunity to paint a model which I've owned for probably nearly 20 years - the Orc Warboss on Wyvern.   The model has since been re-released in resin, but this is the original metal version, which means it weighs a lot and required some pinning and gap-filling during assembly. I didn't glue the Orc on top of the wyvern and used magnets instead. This makes it possible to use the wyvern without a rider and I may even create an alternate rider at some point (maybe a shaman?). Despite it being a large model, painting the wyvern didn't take a lot of time since I was smart enough to use a green spray primer (Vallejo Goblin Green). On top of the green basecoat I just put a few different washes and diluted Contrast paints. As this model was paint...

For Keith's annual Monster May(hem) challenge , I decided to paint a Mountain Brutgoth from Shieldwolf Miniatures. I got the model a few years ago from a Kickstarter and thought that now would be a good opportunity to finally get it painted. The Brutgoth can be seen as an alternative model for the GW Squiggoth, albeit for a fantasy instead of a sci-fi setting (Shieldwolf also produced a sci-fi version, the Steelgoth). The model is a big chunk of resin and a great cast with lots of detail, although some gap-filling was necessary. The painting took a lot of time mainly because of the size of the model and my choice of primer - I opted for black, but should have gone for white in hindsight since painting yellow on black took ages. It was also one of those moments when I wished I had an airbrush, it would have saved so much time. The howdah was a lot quicker to paint, since I primed it in white and used Contrast paints. The same goes for the crew, which are two Mountain Orcs also from ...

I originally planned to paint this model for Orctober, but was only able to finish it last week. It's a Savage Orc/Orruk Big Boss and definitely one of my favourites of the Bonesplitterz range. I decided to put the miniature on a square base, since I'm planning to use it in both OrcQuest and DnD to represent my Half-Orc barbarian "Zango the Madman". The next post will be another member of our DnD party - a Dragonborn - which I also finished last week. In case you missed it: Dave is hosting the annual "Paint What You Got" challenge again which runs from today until the end of February. Since this (and the following) miniature were done before the challenge, I won't submit them as entries. I hope to finish my first entry at the beginning of the new year.

  After a short hobby break I'm back with a few greenskins just in time for Orktober . I'm still planning to complete the #mortalcitizens challenge for this year, so here's my entry for August (even though it's already October). The theme for August was Smith/Industry/Chemist/Alchemist and as I already painted a Smith in March, I decided to go in a different direction. Nazgrub wanders around the realms, always on the search for realmstones. He sells Bones of Amber to Wurrgog Prophets and Chamonite to orruk smiths, who feed it to their Gruntas to create pig-iron with special properties. He's always accompanied (more or less voluntarily) by Pik the snotling and Pak the grot. While Pik's job is to crawl into crevices that are too small for Nazgrub, Pak has the "honour" of carrying the stones they found. The orruk is actually a special character from Gorkamorka known as Nazgrub Wurrzag, Scrap Prospector . It's another one of those models tha...