Jaakko and Rugluk - Wrap-up

And here we are again! We've finally reached the end of another season of OWAC. It was an okay season, but I was hoping to get much more done. It was hard to find enough time to paint this spring and I also discovered that painting the same army for two seasons isn't my thing. Anyway, I'm in good spirits at the moment and really looking forward to starting a new project. There's still plenty of goblinoids left to paint, but for the time being I'll be taking my orky work underground and turning my attention to something different.

As usual, I continued painting more models during July, and a hero riding a wyvern and a snotling joined the army. The snotling was glued to the double-decker Pump Wagon from last season (that's why it's in the army picture) to complete an artwork-inspired miniature. There were a few easter eggs hidden in the project, (some of which?) which I'll reveal now. I had planned to include a couple more this season, but I ran out of time.

I already teased the artwork last year. I noticed that the snotlings in the artwork were actual miniatures and decided to recreate the scene. There wasn't room for that many snotlings on the wagon, however, so I settled on the five that I happened to have, placing them in roughly the same positions. This was a salvage project, so I had to leave the guy with the net in place, as it wasn't possible to remove him without breaking something. The miniature is missing the chaos of the original artwork, but hopefully it's still somewhat recognisable. Well, most importantly they've had the chance to mow down a few of those dwarfs!

Rugluk and his bodyguard, Drodab Ironbrow, are both tributes to their respective combat cards. The colours have been adapted to my less saturated palette, and the shield designs aren't identical to the originals as I didn't want to remove the shield bosses.

The wyvern is an upcoming model from Heavy Metal Hordes. It's an impressive sculpt and was an absolute joy to paint.

I also made some terrain, which you can see in the pictures above: a few small fields and a signpost for The Owl. I also started making some swamps, but the water effect resin I used had gone bad, so I'll have to start over.

Here are the points for the project:

+ the siege stuff from last season.

And here's what two seasons of OWAC looks like:

All in all, I'm very happy that I started painting this army. I've had the chance to play several games with it, and it's been an absolute joy. The most recent game was played a week ago, and here are a few photos from it:

Grom charged a unit of Dwarf Crossbowmen after his chariot was destroyed and managed to rout them. A nearby unit of Dwarf Clansmen fled at the sight of the bloodthirsty Grom, who pursued the fleeing dwarfs and hasn't been seen since.

On turn two the Savage Orcs (in the right flank) charged a neighbouring orc unit, succumbed to frenzy, and spent the rest of the battle fighting their own side. The joys of playing orcs! In the previous game, the Savage Orcs panicked at the sound of cannon firing at them and routed. Hopefully they'll manage to reach an enemy one day! Anyway, orcs did good enough and it was a fun game.

And that's it, I guess. My attention is already starting to shift to Season 10, and I'm already planning my next project. Next season will be a special edition, giving us more options than usual, so I'm trying to decide between going 6mm by finally opening my box of Space Marine or starting a Rogue Trader Genestealer Cult project. We'll see what happens!

Thank you, everyone! It has been a pleasure watching your projects grow. Happy painting, and see you again in Season 10! And apologies for the missing Ansell pose. I took the pictures on the literal last minute and I did't have my usual minions to take a picture with me in it.

Oh, and by the way, that's me in the picture, chilling on my throne and commanding my cult.