Quin’s Rainbow Vale - Boar Boyz and the Big Cheese (271 Points)

 Leader Month

 Greetings again from the sewers.of.estark, my apologies for the lack of any cool backstory. Hopefully next month will prove more fruitful in the ways of painting & writing. I also plan on attempting to be more proactive in regards to replying to comments on my posts (future & past) as well as commenting on others :) Anyways, here’s what I’ve got for the month. A big bad Savage Orc chieftain & his boar riding lackeys.

 I had planned on taking better pictures this afternoon (written the day of 4/30) but a sudden rush of rain has made that plan backfire. Luckily I took a few yesterday in the late afternoon, so they aren’t quite as bright as I would like. Regardless, I present you with my lot for April!

4 savage orc boar boyz with double handed weapons & bows 25.5 points each (102)

Level 25 orc chieftain on boar with double handed weapon & bow (153)+(16)

Total - 271 Points

See you next month with more big guys.

Blue's Boar Boy Battalion Bash!! Full army reveal and Challenger Wrap up post (1204 pts!)

 Well...here we are!  

This Challenge always seems so easy at the outset...and perhaps it remains that way for some of the competitors...but for me this year the challenge became...umm...more challenging as the months went on.  Like several others have stated I had much bigger plans at the beginning...I have an whole additional unit of converted savage boar boyz to add to this army that just didn't make it across the finish line with the rest of the herd.

Anyway...the point is that we made it!! Fuck yeah we MADE IT!! congrats to all to completed the task...

...and nothing but SCORN for those who fell by the way side! (I'm looking at you Street!) 😜

Well...now to the important stuff...

THE PICTURES!!

Obligatory Posed shot of yours truly...with the herd.

Pictures of the full army

Individual Unit Shots and Points Break down

Lvl. 20 Orc General mounted on a Boar with barding...and he travels with his standard bearer and trusted body guard (4-Snortas with barded boars).  (284pts)

Unit of 10-Snortas with spears, including Standard and Lvl 10-Hero (310pts)

 Unit of 10-Gruntas with hand weapons including Standard bearer and Lvl 10-Hero (330pts)

Unit of 10-Gruntas with Bows including standard and Lvl 10-Hero (280pts)

 Total Points: 1204pts.

It has been an honor and a pleasure to once again participate in the OWAC....the quality and quantity of work being done by the participants continues to exceed my expectations with every blog post I read.  Congrats to all...we really are all winners at the end of the day because we have more painted minis to use in our games.

Cheers,

Blue

P.S. Keep an eye on my personal blog for Army shots that include these boar boys and the swarm of Marauder Goblin Wolf Riders I painted in 2020.

Blue's Marauder Boar Boys, Leader Month (320 pts)

Leader month

Well...here we are! I wasn't 100% sure I was going to make it this year!  

But! I'm happy to present my final submission for this years OWAC....and you might say I saved the best for last because this months post is the Command section for my entire army.  This little group includes the General, the Army Standard Bearer, and 3 Snortas for protection...all mounted on BARDED boars!  how cool is that?!?!

Here they Are!

The General sits atop an Albino Boar of immense proportion...the Boar is clad in scale Mail and the General swings an enormous blade. 

This rider was originally intended to be mounted on a Wyvren (MB8)...but I like him as a leader for my Boar Boys and he is mounted on the boar that came with the Marauder Boar Boy General (MM22/6)...who I have retained for this unit as the Standard Bearer

And here is the aforementioned Standard Bearer...he comes mounted on one of Clam's Barded Boars...as will the rest of the this unit.

 

 

And here are some individual shots of the rest of the crew.

 As you may have noticed a couple of these are "conversions" to being boar boys.  Both the first and the last of these three figures are potential crew members of the Marauder Orc Battle Chariot (MB6). the archer option was incorporated into the mounted archer unit of this army...and the wolves were used in the wolf boyz units painted in 2020. (NOTE if anyone has a spare of the Driver with whip for this chariot model please let me know...I have a boar with his name on it!)

 So I obviously have a little bit of basing to finish up before the full army reveal ...and just in processing these images I've seen a few things that I need to clean up (base edges etc.) ...its a little obvious that I was rushing to complete this months troops!

Also I completed this big batch of shields that will be used to finish off the rest of the troops. 

Points: 

• Level 20 General and 4 Snortas all mounted on Boars with Barding 284pts
•  18 Shields for Gruntas and Snorta 36pts
•  Total 320pts
  

I'm excited to get these all on that table and get an ARMY shot!!

Congrats to all who made it!!

Cheers,

 Blue

Blue's Boar Boys Rank and File month 4 (last one!) (222 Points)

 This was a challenging month....many distraction and low motivation.  But it is done (-ish) and time to move on!

April will be my last Rank and File Month with 8 more Boar riders added to the growing force.  Essentially this finished the second and third units for my army, the first being the mounted archers discussed in the March post.

The 8 boar riders painted this month represent the last four for both the hand weapon unit and the Spear unit.  All 8 figures this month are straight-up Marauder Boar Riders straight from the mind of Trish Carden.  The only Odd-duck, is the standard bearer for the Spear unit that is basic conversion...the unmodified version of this figure will be in coming next post. They are mounted on Marauder Boars with a few of Clam's Boars added for some much needed variety.

Here are the 8 newly painted Marauder Boar Boys

The new Spears....

The new Hand Weapons...

 And here are shots of the two units they now complete.

 I'll have more individual shots in the future on my personal Blog...but I had to share this one with you.  This Boar Boy goes by the name Harrin Stephens...

 Here is the Points Break down

 Points:

• 4 Snortas w/spears (no shield)  100 pts
• 4 Gruntas w/hand weapon and Standard (no shield) 122 pts
  
• Total: 222 pts

Alright, enough for this month...bring on May...that's going to be my command section for the army.

Cheers,

Blue

Blue's Orc Boar Boys...Rank and File Month 3! (167 pts)

 Hi all,

Another Rank and File month for this month...the mounted WWAAAGGGHHH!!! grows yet more.

This month I have six new Boar Boys one of which is a standard bearer.  We have three from the hand weapon unit and three from the spear armed unit.  Sadly the package with the shields for these guys is still in transit so they are lacking for the moment. (I have not counted the shields in their points total)

All the riders this month are actual Marauder Boar Boys, sculpted by Trish Carden...except the standard bearer who is a converted Citadel infantry model. He came to me already cut (a little sloppily) to fit on a boar and he is a great figure so I'm going with it!  The Standard in this case is more of a totem of "da Iron 'ard Bull" or "ol' Nick" as the Ladz call him. 

Group shots

 Individual shots 

 

Points:

• 3 Snortas w/spears (no shield)  75 pts
• 3 Gruntas w/hand weapon and Standard (no shield) 92pts
  
• Total: 167 pts

Next Month I think I'll be back with one more even larger group of Rank and File before I turn to My Hero Month for May...and hopefully something special to wrap up the challenge in June!

Stay the course ladz!! we are half way through!!

 Cheers for now!!

Blue

Mike's Waagh Grotgut (185pts)

 Rank and File Month 3

Well March has come and gone and the challenge is reaching its midpoint, and to make things interesting I a typing with a "m" key that keeps alternating between sticking and not working. I didn't want to slog through another infantry unit and wasn't ready to tackle my general yet in the challenge, so I was a bit slow motivating as the month began. Thankfully the weather towards the end of the month to allow me to prime some savage orc boar boyz and get them ready. Now let me get this out of the way, I love the look of cavalry and I almost always find myself fielding a unit even though they are often a giant points sink in a game where combat resolution is king. 

But I hate painting mounts, more specifically the horses but any mount falls close behind. But on top of that I contend that the classic plastic boars are quite possibly the worst mount that citadel has plagued mankind with. The jaws don't like to fit together, the heads don't like to sit flush with the body, and god forbid you actually want your model to firmly seat themselves on its mount. Then lastly an issue that seems particularly appear with orc and chaos units is getting the unit to rank up in a straight line with their musicians and standards competing for space with raised weapons and weird poses (poses are usually a marauder chaos issue where it sees that the gods of chaos demand that their powerful knights charge into battles raising their arms over their heads like cheerleaders). But in the end they were finished and I am pleased that they came out well. I've always liked their standard bearer with his lion cloak and I wish they had carried that look throughout the unit command at the very least.

So for March I have finished 5 Savage Orc Boar Boyz with command and shields for 185 points and are ready to move on to April

Blue's Orc Boar Riders...February edition! (148 pts)

Rank & File #2

 Hi all,

Back again this month with another group of rank and file boar riders, a total of six this time...and one is a standard bearer, though his standard is not complete so he will only count as a regular trooper for now.

Once again we have a mix of straight up Marauder Boar Riders mixed with a couple of figures that were intended as infantryman or a chariot crew but which I "adjusted" to make fit on a boar!

And of course, the converted Standard Bearer...this rider was originally armed with a morning star, but it had broken off at some point so he was an easy choice for a conversion.  The banner pole topper is from one of Clam's Ewal Dvergar offerings

 

My favorite is the archer alternative that came with the Marauder Orc Chariot....he is an excellent archer with cool patchwork armor...and a poisonous lizard that he keeps straped to his chest while he riders.  He is convinced that licking that lizard gives him super powers! ...it does seem to make him fearless in battle so who is to say!?

 Here are a few other individual photos

Once again this are mounted mostly on boars from Marauder miniatures but I have also worked in couple more form Clam's excellent Ewal Dvergar range that I like so much.

Ok, here is the break down for the month.

5x Gruntas with Light armor and Bows   -125pts

1xGrunta with Hand Weapon (and not much else!) -23pts

Total Points -148pts

And here is a unit shot with the OWAC production to date! Very exciting to see them all together!

Cheers for now!

Blue