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3rd week fully painted.



Not as many volume wise but finished all of the NGs (and a SM not pictured) with a day to go.

I've varnished and magnetised all the models and am onto the flocking of the last 20 or so.

I have also purchased several movement trays and have finished 2, but need to do up some empty bases before I post them here, which means GWOZ needs to pull thier finger out and actually stock the 20mmx80mm regiment bases.

It was so good to go away and just paint, rather than 'wasting' a couple of hours a night on the net or TV.

So in the last 3 weeks painting has dropped off dramatically due to a lack offree time thanks to a wife and son.

The first week was spent varnishing and flocking all the models I painted whilst away.

The movement trays are finished though I still need to buy a few more for the whole army.

Unfortunately I forgot to do pics of the mvt trays at the beginning, but will when I do the next lot.

These trays are from an independent retailer and are fantastic for skirmishers, they also have ones in 25x25mm bases and if you want to know where to get them give me a PM.

I've bases the trays to suit the basing of my models. These trays will be used for my squig hopper units.

Next lot of bases.

20mm size bases fit 5x7 with metal inserts for magnetizing.

I was going to do them all black but was overruled by the wife and I like the basing better.

really nice work

Some of the NGs I did 2 weeks ago (5 of 8)

Fully based and magnetised with a rare earth magnet.

The rest of the models from that week.

Note the troll skull from the bix box set has replaced the NG regular gong top, and used the champion's hand weapon blade and stuck it on the top of a spear for the spearmen's champ's weapon..

the banner looks ace! keep up the good work (very jealous of your mushrooms )

Agreed,good work.

Gutteridge wrote:the banner looks ace! keep up the good work (very jealous of your mushrooms )

Totally agree. That banner really catches the eye. Well done.
Good work on those trays as well.

This army should be really impressive when seen together. Very coherent

The mushrooms are mechrite red, then blood red, devlan mud when the whole model gets it, blood red then white spots added randomly with a fine detail brush.

I deliberately went rough with the white highlights on shields and banners as gobbos aren't the cleanest baddies around...


A different angle for the muso and champ.


By throwing in small conversions like this it ensures that I get max points for conversions in painting scores at several tourneys.

5 more models.

We had alot of rain last week so the varnish does not look as good as it does on the rest of the models.

Next up is the last of the models from that week.



Coming soon... SNOTLINGS!

I like the colour selection.

I needed several consistent themes across the army.

1: Black cloaks/clothing, because it is traditional for NGs to wear that, and it is damned quick to paint. So far the only exception to that rule are the spider riders, who wear light brown because they are on the black spiders and I didn't want to lose the detail in all the black.
2: Something to draw attention to the models: Cue the Markings on the hoods. Also helps with unit recognition. An easy to do extra step that really makes the models pop.
3: Red weapon shafts. An easy way to add an army wide contrast colour to the black and green.
4: Basing: I needed something that was easy, cheap, reproducible and different to other armies. So cork and sand it was.

So what is the best unit in the O&G list?

Snotlings of course...

At 2 models they only cost 40 points.
Don't roll for animosity so are reliable
Don't cause panic
Can capture quadrants (US 6)
Are brilliant little redirecters (even if they are infantry)

I painted up 4 units of them last week.
For the skin, I am going lighter as the greenskins get smaller.

So regular orks are knarloc green, devaln mud, knarloc green, gobbos are knarloc green, goblin green, devlan mud, goblin green.
The snotlings are goblin green, GG and bleached bone 1:1, devlan mud, 1;1 GG and BB.

After assembling 4 bases from 2 blisters I still have a heap left over, but realised last night there are another 2 snotlings on the fanatic sprue, so I'll use them on future bases.

Great looking models.

Over and out Avach

Next base.

Wow these are great!

I'm looking forward to seeing the high elves when you get to them eventually, but this is a real treat

Any chance of seeing a large pic of everything that's done so far?

I'll be doing up an article for the army around mid august when the whole army is done, but I'll preview it here.

High Elves will be started late August/ Early september but I have to crank out some BAs and the Krieg are calling to me 'buy me, buy me, we are almost the same cost as cadians'...

Loving the snotlings.
Also am looking foward to the high elfs(or is ir elves).

Gotta love the lil guys.
I was looking forward to more of the BA from you, however, High Elves and Krieg sounds great as well

Bas are a definite to be started in the next couple of months, I have a couple of units assembled, have a way to get them painted relatively quickly and was going to do some when I was away but just ran out of time.

the problem is (as always) too many armies and models and too little time.

The lottery is a $50 million Jackpot when I win it next Tuesday so I'll hire a GD winner to paint my models full time so I canm have time to enjoy using them.

Next base.

The last of the snotlings.

How long does one base take to paint?

They are looking nice.

I paint a base over 2 nights, due to the devlan mud drying time. Probably 40 minutes total spent actively painting.

A NG I can get done with 40 minutes total painting, 30 minutes until Devlan Mud stage, then 10 minutes to rehighlight and do the hood detailing.

The snotlings together.

Just over a month since the last update and time to catch up.

I now have all my models, including the comission conversion of my 2nd giant.

But first the great stylings of more magnetised bases.



More interesting things to come....

I have ot agree with your wife, the movement trays look much better when they
match the model basing.

Blogarama is great. Very inspirational.

6 more spear armed NGs.



Only 4 left to go and that will be all the spears done.