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.

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! 💚