Tom's Orcs and Goblins: War Machines (Rank and File #4)

May!

The month of war machines. Usually something I dread painting, but all the crew (or 

ammo - in the case of the Doom Divers) are fantastic and they certainly helped with the motivations!

I love these little flingers

And here he is with his catapult 👇

I'm aware that each catapult should have, or at least I'm sure it came with - two crew. But they're a little tricky to find on eBay with two crew, so only one brave little blighter for each catapult I'm afraid...

Here's his mate. I went for a yellowy spike this time round - I think I prefer it! This fellow came attached to his catapult. The previous owner drilled a pin into the body and sharpened it to a needle like point, and then must've pressed it into the back of the 'pult with plenty of resin glue for good measure. Anyway, dettol is a wonderful thing for stripping all kinds of things! 

I couldn't get the needle point out though, so that's still there. Fortunately it looks like goblin decoration, and it's really hard to spot.

I did struggle a little in trying to match the brightness of the last one - especially on the back of the wings 👇

And here with his catapult 👇

All together! 👇

On to the big dread - the rock lobba! I made a little base out of some 3mm MDF board, and made the smallest of protruding pins in each of the wheels. Every little counts! 

The counterweight and throwing arm are glued in to position, although I don't hold out much hope of that remaining the case for long...

It's mostly a drybrush over a solid basecoat, then a very watered down wash of contrast red (I think Flesh Tearers), and Wildwood. Some light blacklining, and then a light touch with some brushed on highlights.

 

Something special about this orc sculpt 👇 - he really does stand out. Maybe he was meant for rank and file?

Found a stash of shields, so I really should add one to my Goblin leader....

I went for white as the freehand colour. For some reason, the usual black did not appeal.

This guys gotta be second in command. He's got a hammer. 👇

Maybe he stepped a little bit too far over the line, as he is sporting a black eye (or an errant splodge of paint that I highlighted, rather than try and cover up!)

And this guy must be on one of the lowest rungs of orc society - just hoistin' rocks👇

And a lovely rock lobba group shot. I'm super please with how they've come out! 

Mostly as I very much remember assembling and painting these as a kid, and making a right pigs ear of it 😂

Then, to make up numbers, I've painted these lil' squishies 🙂

They were initially lightly glued, two to a base. Then painted. 

After painting, I snap them off the painting base and then trimmed the bottom of them with a sharp knife, so that is easier to hide the model base with sand. You might be able to tell the first one I did  where I didn't do that if you look close.

And here's everything painted this month again* 👇

And that's about it. Onwards to the final month!

Fortunately, I have now painted everything that was on my original OWAC army list in the intro post (link below), so it's only EXTRAS left.

Hopefully I'll have at least painted a few more black orcs and maybe another base of snotlings by then too...

Cheers!

Intro: link

January: Rank and File #1 - link

February: Rank and File #2 - link

March: Leaders - link

April: Rank and File #3 - link

May: Rank and File #4  

100...    1 x Doom Diver

100...    1 x Doom Diver

96.5...   1 x Big Rock Lobba

45...      3 x Snotling base

Total: 341.45

always helping

*actual lies. I managed to paint these in previous months and they are my safety net. I'm really struggling with the black orcs, and haven't picked up my brush for orcs in nearly over five weeks...Thank Mork - or Gork, for painting ahead!