Toms Goblins and Orcs: Rank and File #4

MAY.

This month has been awesome!

It's seen the completion of my planned army, and now comes the push to add some extras. But before getting ahead of myself, here's the last orc boys regiment 👊

These boys were a little bit of a struggle, but then as soon as I was half way through, they were a breeze. So strange how that sometimes happens... Here's the rank close ups...

The rust is a technical paint from the Army Painter - part of the John Blanche paint set

I tried to make them as easy as possible.  They're super nice sculpts, so that made it a lot easier. But it's why there's no colour variation, and all the 'bits' are the same brown colour.

Some of the orcs have been converted by their previous ebay owner.

Like this boy, with his beloved hammer and cleaver....👇

And then you gotta love picking up a model and then belatedly realising your fingers are covered in paint 😂😬👇

Here's a shot of the back of the orcs. You can see that I did the classic Thing of not checking whether they rank up neatly before plastic gluing them to their bases. It's why there are two orcs not on the required diagonal - and therefore those two can only be on the end of the rank. 

On to the Command! These models have been sat in my lead pile for a decade or so, and I think they were all 'extras' in bulk ebay buys when I was purchasing orcs for my big hat chaos dwarfs... 

This guy has a thing about eyes...👇

The drummer 👇

Took me so long to realise the drum is made out of a nailed in snotling 😬

And now on to the regimental standard, which I'm super proud of. He's now been promoted to Army Standard he came out so well! The banner design was inspired by this banner by ladykito on Instagram

My banner is paper. It's been doubled up and glued with PVA before painting, so then when it's attached to the banner pole it'll be quadruple paper. I used a new brush to paint the design on, which may be why it's come out so well! (I use greenstuff world gold sable #2 brush for everything except drybrushing)

And here it is attached and flying! 

The pole is 1.2mm brass rod, drilled right through the hand (which disintegrated, so I had to make some fingers out of greenstuff. It is the first time I've had to so something like this with GS!). The skull is from the current GW skulls set. I had to add some of the greenstuff to the back of the skull to poke the brass rod into and to shape the back of the skull.

It (the skull) is a bit too eye-catchy, but hey - it's done!

Both designs on the flag are inspired by images in the Warhammer Armies book (I asked ladykito about her banner).

Eye on the shield to fit in with the champions.

Group shot again 🙂

And now onto the promised ogre from last month! 👇

I think this ogre regiment is becoming one of my favourites! 👇

And then I also added two bases of snotlings. Every O&G army has them!

Sooo, that's all the planned minis. Now onto some extras, and I have this rushed timestamp pic where most of them are backwards...

Here's the git I was most excited to paint. Such a classy classic.

I did chicken out of adding any checks, dags or flames...

Here he is, doing what he does best - adding insult to injury...

I changed the rim colour of Grom's base to fit back in with the army 🙂

Then onto the squigs, and herders!

And their squigs. I did a classic thing of not checking my already painted squig hoppers from the last OWAC, so these squigs have purple lips

And yes, I know there's four squigs, when herders can only herd three, but hopefully I can rustle up a few more for June 🙂

Last but not least, some mushroom fuelled majiks from this night goblin shaman 👇

Basecoat // All over wash // Highlight

Aaaaand that's it for May!

Only thing left is the links back through and the points check for the month.

Intro: link

January: Rank and File - link

February: Rank and File - link

March: Rank and File - link

April: Leaders - link

May:

93.5...   17 x Orc Boyz

53...      1 x Orc Boss

11...      1 x Orc Musician

11...      1 x Orc Standard

40...      1 x Ogre

15...      1 x Night Goblin boss (that's the finger flasher)

30...      2 x Snotling bases

8...        1 x Squig Herders

80...      4 x Squigs

28...      1 x Night Goblin Shaman

Total: 369.5

So the plan for next month - the FINAL MONTH, is to make some terrain. I have some of the recent Old World plastic fences, some more of the K&M trees to base, and fingers crossed a paper building from the pages of White Dwarf. I have already painted some animals from Warlord (link) with which to populate the landscape 🙂

See you then! 💚

Jaakko and Rugluk - Leader month

Act 6

Rugluk stood atop the hill, armour dented, bandaged gut still leaking a bit. Behind him, his bruised and battered horde gathered, grumbling and picking their teeth. The siege had dragged on long enough.

“Dis time,” Rugluk barked, “I lead da charge!”

A confused cheer followed. Some orcs clanged weapons.

With a mad roar, Rugluk thundered toward the gate, his boyz behind him. Ladders slammed against walls. Rocks flew. The ram finally broke the gate-and to everyone’s shock, they made it in.

“We done it!” Snagrat screamed. “We’z in!”

But inside, the fort was… quiet. Too quiet.

No dwarfs. No traps. No boiling oil. Just cold stone.

The place had been deserted.

Rugluk stormed through the halls, snarling at shadows. The warband followed, less triumphant by the step. Finally, they reached the hall of the dwarf king. Empty. Just a few smouldering torches and a broken throne.

Rugluk found the tunnel entrance soon enough. It was dug out behind the throne and reeking of stale ale and beard oil. The dwarfs had slipped underground like weasels.

No loot. No prisoners. No glory.

Just silence.

Later, Rugluk sat on the cold floor of the keep, cradling a dwarf skull he’d found in the rubble.

He stared at the skull, one eye twitching and briefly contemplated the very act of being.

“So… dis is wot I gets. No gold. No crown. No songs.”

The skull didn’t answer. 

"Er... what's da plan now, boss?" a goblin asked nervously.

Rugluk stood, tossed the skull over his shoulder, and grinned, blood on his teeth.  

“We find where da stunties went. An’ we knock again.”

And so the final mandatory month of painting for OWAC Season 8 is behind us. This season felt shorter than the previous ones, and I’m surprised we’re already at the end! I’ve really enjoyed working on this army and look forward to returning to the project in future seasons. While this month was less productive than the earlier ones, I’m still happy with what I have to show you.

I painted Ruglug, his bodyguard, the Army Standard bearer, a troll minder, a spider swarm, and three mantlets. I also started painting a shaman and some goblins, which I hope to finish in July and include in the wrap-up post.

 

Rugluk Backstabba, the leader of my orc horde and the main character of the story. I really like this "Giant Orc Chieftain" model and thoroughly enjoyed painting him. Naturally, he has to be accompanied by his bodyguard.

  

Drodab Ironbrow — the loyal bodyguard of Rugluk Backstabba (and Aruglid Longface). 

 

The Army Standard of Rugluk Backstabba. I decided to stick to a classic design, as with the previous banners, and I’m really happy with how this one turned out. The tankard shield was, of course, captured from my Bugman’s Rangers, and I plan to reuse the tree design in my Wood Elf army-if I ever end up collecting one.

I had some spare time, so I decided to paint a troll minder. For now, he’ll be looking after trolls from Slargash’s army, but I will paint some trolls of his own later.

As I still had some spare time, I painted a spider swarm. The base includes a frame that holds two small dice to track remaining wounds.

This month in points:

 

 

 

SIEGE

You can find three mantlets from the group photo above. The mantlets are simply covers that cost 5 points each. The ones I painted are from Wargames Foundry, but I also crafted three more from wood. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and haven’t painted them yet.

And that’s it for now. I’ll need to hurry and get more models painted, as I’ve got a game scheduled with this army in just a few weeks.