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Grabbed the last few square based boxes of Ogres at the local store this weekend, along with some oval based Mournfangs.

Definitely got a bit of an Ogre habit going.



Got the last two shooty ogres (besides the Tau one) pretty much finished. Just need a few clumps of grass on their bases. Guy on the left was last seen with a boring flesh tone skin color, but that has been rectified.

Started working on the Stonehorn rider, but forgot to snap a picture.



Made some decent progress on my ninja maneater, and Throgg is slowly but surely getting acclimated to his new home in the Ogre Kingdoms.

One gripe I have with finecast is I sometimes can't tell what's excess material that needs to be trimmed, and what's not. There was a fair bit on Throgg still after I started painting him.

The ninja had an undiscovered until this morning bit between his foot and his knee, so I'll have to clear that out after work and touch up the paint there.

I also couldn't help myself and started building even more Ogres out of leftover bits.



'Da Champ



The Black Axeman



And the Prophet of the Great Maw, who will be my wizard figure for Frostgrave. He'll need an apprentice though, won't he...? Hmm....

I used a bunch of the hooks that came with the Stonehorn and plastered them all over this guy, so he can carry all his magical ingredients with him. Also snacks.

They also have a fairly mundane GW giant getting slapped with paint to join my Ogre army.

Hoping one weekend when the kids are at Japanese school all day I can actually play a game of Kings of War at the local store!

Ogres have continued to take over my painting area...



These guys are my goal for October. I think I can get through them all. I still have their giant buddy, a Stonehorn, and pack of Mournfangs to get through as well.

Here's a messed up Chaos Spawn ogre for Barzam as promised.


Besides Ogres, I've been trying to work through my Bones kickstarter pledge as well as whatever odds and ends have been plaguing me for long periods of time.

Got another Mousling done for my daughter.


An armored skeleton that seems to have been a follower of Menoth in a pervious life...


His sword was so badly warped no amount of heating and resetting would fix it, so finally I just cut it off and gave him a spare vampire counts blade.

A Kingdom Death Candy & Cola, minus Cola, who is MIA at the moment, and I just now realized that I didn't paint the handle of her soda bottle lantern...


Most of the Nephilim from the Malifaux Starter Set, minus Angel Eyes, who I was trying to decide on a color for...


And another Hitech figure I've been working on, Vampirion, who is most certainly not the Primarch of the Night Lords. Nope. No siree. Definitely not Konrad Curze.


That's also a Hitech navigator I believe, who is going to get lumped with all my Admech types from Hitech (as well as my GW proper Admech stuff, which I have a bit of, but not Barzam levels of ownership).

Work is steadily progressing on my Ogre Kingdom giant, and I've got a Firebelly coming to make a good and proper Elementalist for Frostgrave with him. Should have Throgg done later this week as well!

Good lord that mutated guy is ridiculous! I didn't know you used the giant's feet as well on him. He's gloriously over the top.

I noticed that there's some seams on Candy's legs. Are those supposed to be there? Looks like she ought to be wearing tights.

I'm honestly not sure if those seams are supposed to be there or not on Candy. Don't know, don't care really either. I guess I could darken them up and make them look like tights. Will have to do some googling to see how others have done it.

I told you that Ogre spawn was ridiculous. The way the guy's normal head and hands are just fits perfectly as well. Should I give him an extra arm? I debated about it, but couldn't make up my mind.

A few quick photos at the last moment before work.

Throgg is done, along with the Tyranid Maneater (Tyranideater?) and Tau Belcher.


Forgive the out of focus-ness.

My current horde of semi- painted Ogor Ogres.



I really can't help myself with these guys. Every one of them is unique, be it pose, gear, chopped up parts... it's a mess.

And a selection of their fully painted buddies who were within arms' reach.



I have a big pile of eBay bucks to waste, and I'm debating between a start collecting box of Seraphon or Mechanicus. Not sure which (or both possibly) I'll work on next. Also Vampire Counts will more than likely be picked up this weekend.

Wow!

It's been a while since I last updated. Then again all I've been doing is trying to finish around 2 dozen Ogres, and it doesn't help that I'm trying to make each one a special little snowflake.

Last time you saw them, they were all bare grey plastic.

Now they're all painted!


This picture is already out of date, as some of the guys in the front didn't have their bases completely finished at the time of photographing. That is no longer the case.



My Giant is FINALLY getting some paint on him. I didn't care for his butt cheeks hanging out, so I went ahead and put some actual pants on him underneath his loincloth. If you notice a lot of the weapon options he came with have ended up in the hands of his Ogre buddies.



This one in particular I am happy with how he turned out. Not that he's done yet...

Here's a selection of guys that weren't in the previous picture, but I finished up this week.



Keeping in mind that there's about a dozen Ogres still to be finished, I am making pretty decent progress through my red hordes. I did start working on a few other random figures, just for a chance to paint something other than shades of red, brown, and metallics.

The Giant's weapons turned out really good in the ogres' hands. You blended them in really well. How many ogres do you have left now?

I'm happy with how the giant weapon ogres turned out as well.

Off the top of my head, there's at least 11 or so Ogres in various stages of completeness. That's also not even counting any of the mounted guys- I have 4 more Mournfang riders that need starting.

My stonehorn mammoth thing is almost finished, the rider is done, but the saddle isn't started yet.

I'm starting to notice that Ogre parts are really starting to dry up both in stores as well as online. Bits sellers are starting to have very depleted stocks.

Hopefully GW do something soon with Ogre infantry. In a perfect world they'd just make a new sprue that would work with existing Ogres, but that probably isn't going to happen unfortunately.
To me that's one of the coolest aspects of the Ogres- literally all the plastic kits are cross compatible with each other which makes converting super easy.

So I tried to do something other than Ogres this weekend.

I finished my Aquila Guard! Finally! Over 50% of all my Infinity figures are painted now!



He was a challenge trying to copy Giraldez's style, but I'm happy with my results.



A floating Bones mage from the 2nd kickstarter, and a random Stygian warrior from Chronopia I found in a draw and finished.
Not sure what half of the stuff hanging off the mage is supposed to be, so I just painted it random colors and called it a day.



Another Hitech Miniatures figure. I love me some Polish miniatures it seems!

I'm guessing he's some sort of scribe or something? He'll go hang out with my HiTech Inquisitorial types, or maybe my AdMech ones.

I spent most of the weekend building HiTech AdMech types. Hopefully I can prime them and get started on them soon. More than likely though the next batch of stuff after the Ogres is going to be Trollbloods.

Love the celebration of ogre diversity. It reminds me that I should really get all my ogre bits to you, and also to try and get that game of Frostgrave together. How does mid-November sound? Barzam, I hope you can make it, too.

Haven't had much time to work on painting these last few weeks. Busy trying to get other creative endeavors moving.

Hasn't stopped me from at least starting some of the stuff I have laying around.



Needing a break from my ongoing red Ogre hoard (which has still been continuing on, and seems to have no end in sight) I paused the red paint factory to paint red paint on even smaller things.

Go figure.

These are the Garn from Khurasan Miniatures. They're 15mm guys, but they're pretty huge for their scale. I know Khurasan has a few 25mm ones available as well. Some of these are the older sculpts as well as the more T-Rex like recent ones.


Here's Hitech Miniatures' answer to Roboute Guilliman it seems. Minus the arms. And a head. And a base. It's also super gigantic, as the dude next to it is a 35mm scale Freeblades guy.

Yeesh. That thing didn't seem so huge when I saw it last. GIve it some kind of helmet or robot head and you've got a Space Marine TAG right there!

Those Garn are looking really good. We're going tohave to have a small scale throwdown someday.

The Garn incursion forces are growing. My first batch are done. Going to put a bit of grass on their bases still. The guys in the center are the older models Khurasan made, while the troops on the flanks are the newer models. Unfortunately I haven't painted any of the more dynamic poses yet. I also have a bad feeling I'll be acquiring more in the future.

Also started working on a few other random 15mm figures, and will probably have them posted later this week.

For whatever reason, I decided to paint my Wargames Exclusive "Greater Good" guys. Surprisngly they all ended up finished already. Nevermind the dozens of other unfinished pieces laying around, lets start three new ones and get them done in a day!



The Strike Master



The Sniper



The Veteran



The team with a GW Fire Warrior for size comparison.

While a little bit bigger than the average Tau, these guys look like they'd blend in pretty seamlessly. Definitely a fan of them, and will certainly be getting a few more. The Veteran is probably my favorite, due to how chewed up and cobbled together he is- he's missing an eye, and arm, his uniform is in tatters, everything is bolted and strapped together... fun stuff.

Started working on another Hitech Minis... mini guy.



Look how short that guy in the middle is! He's tiny! He's got to have a giant base to compensate for his lack of stature!

Should have him wrapped up in the next few days.

Started in on some more of the 15mm pile I've accumulated in no thanks due to Barzam.



Guy on the left is a Khurasan thingee I can't remember the name of, guy with the big gun on the right is actually a Spartan Planetfall Sorylian. Which is supposed to be 10mm.
That Pteranodon is also quite large for 15mm. Problem with that Sorylian guy is trying to figure out where his actual face is though! I can't discern where his actual features are and where the armor ends.

That guy is tiny. I wonder if they intentionally sculpted him to be so short. Maybe he's supposed to be a dwarf?

That Sorylian is big. For a 10mm figure, he's downright massive. It looks like Sorylians would work really well as 15mm miniatures. I'm guessing thekids are liking the tiny lizard and dinosaurs men?

I got all but 3 of my Sorylian infantry painted, based, and sealed this weekend. Pictures to prove it later tonight. Did about 20+ 15mm guys all told over the weekend.

Most of my free time this Sunday was spent putting these ladies together.



Dark Paladin ended up a favorite, and I wasn't too keen on her when I saw her in the shop. Pumpkin Knight I wanted last year and have no idea why I didn't get her.

Necromancer girl was quite a pain to put together. Those skeleton spirits were so flimsy!

Can't wait to start painting them. Not like I don't have plenty of other stuff to paint first...

So here's some of them photos I talked about.



Here's some of the basic(?) Sorylian infantry from Planetfall next to one of the larger guys they have as well.

Keeping in mind that these guys are supposed to be 10mm figures...



Here's some basic 15mm humans from Khurasan I'm working on standing with these 10mm dudes.

Sorylians must be seriously massive! They work perfectly at 15mm- so much so I want to pick up a infantry helix for more of them.

Speaking of other massive 15mm figures...



Don't remember what these guys are called, but they are also from Khurasan Miniatures. Look like pterodactyls that wear these funky nanomachine infused vests.

Again, that's a basic 15mm human hanging out with them.



Another Khurasan figure- their Dragonborn type line of fantasy figures. Forgot to paint his teeth though.

Finally, all the stuff I got finished over the weekend- some of these I have shown off before, but none of them were based/ sealed/ finished yet.

Lots of touch ups were involved as well.

Wow! Something that isn't an ogre or in 15mm!

Needed a break from the red horde. I've been working on a few things for the last few weeks, and finally got them to a point where I feel comfortable showing them off.



First up is the Trollbloods' newest warlock, Ragnor Skysplitter from the new battle box. Really like the model!

Will probably be using him in the next few weeks as a Frostgrave wizard if I can't get Doomshaper on his rock finished in time.

Speaking of Doomshaper, here's his Pyg attendant.



He still has some work to go on him, mostly his rocky stubble and lightening his skin tones with some highlights, as most of my Pygs are lighter skinned then their Trollkin counterparts.

The Whelp that goes on top of that giant scroll he's lugging around isn't finished yet. Hopefully by the weekend.




Next up is a Dragyri Greater Ice Elemental from Dark Age. With a new resin resculpt of it coming out soon, I figured it was high time I actually get this one painted. I'm going to go back over some of the areas with a few more light blues before all is said and done.

Seems like he'd make a good Frostgrave demon. Or a construct.



Not sure if I posted this Attendant Priest of Menoth before. He's not finished yet. Need to do some detail work on him still, but most of the base coats are done at least.

The plan is in the next couple of weeks to meet up with Dakka's Bob the Inquisitor for a few friendly games of Frostgrave, with Barzam probably there as well. Most likely I will be running Trollbloods, but if I get enough Menoth guys done I'll field them instead. We'll see how things play out!

You're barely back and already hitting the table, eh? What additional figures are you planning on usinv for Frostgrave? If you need some, I might be able to supply a few.

If I do Trollbloods, I'm good to go. Got enough painted warlocks to use as wizards, plenty of Kriel warriors to use as various soldiers, and plenty of hero types to use as more specialist type roles.

Going to start some Scattergunners soon to cover my marksmen/ sharpshooters as well.

I got some Zombiesmith guys I want to use instead of Privateer's whelps, and I'll use those in lieu of warhounds.

Maybe we can get a game in this weekend? I can bust out some terrain.

Cool new stuff, I especially like the ice golem thing. It's an unusual shape but I like that. Good paintwork helps as well.

The resculpt of it looks even cooler (pun intended...somewhat).



They also released the one I have in clear blue resin, which would be fun to mess with too.

Doomshaper and his attendant are coming along nicely! Got the whelp up on top of the attendant's scroll case base coated, now it's time to get all the details on the two of them finished.



Starting to block in colors for Hoarly there as well. Going to be a pain doing all the detail on his jacket robes.

Also started in on a Northkin Shaman I found a few weeks ago.



Not very far along yet, but progress is progress.



Also working on a few random 15mm guys.

Work has continued on Hoarluk. Most of the base colors are in place on his body. Started to try and paint his tartan, but it ain't going well.



Still need to do his staff at some point. At least the base is done and all that detailing on his armor.


His Pyg and whelp attendants are done though. I want to do a quick wash on the guy on the scroll and bring out his details.

I also dug out a Long Rider unit I started a very long time ago. I paid 12 dollars for 3 riders. Not a bad price, even though it's not a complete unit for WMH.


I've also started doing the base coats for the resculpted Rok.


In totally unrelated work, I dragged out a Bane Lord Tartarus I'd started and am going to attempt to finish.


Basically needs his armor detailed still.

Started layering on the blues for the Black Friday Twilight Ninja's ghi.



Such an average sized figure considering how many parts she's made out of!

And my first finished Kingdom Death survivor!

Got the Northkin Shaman finished up.



His eyes *are* painted. The angle certainly doesn't help. The back of his cape was fun to paint- it was very similar to Hoarluk's new armor.

Got a lot of progresson done on Rok. Should have him all wrapped up this week.



Need to wash over some of the details, and I want to lighten up all the rocky protrusions on him. They seem a little too dark for his complexion.

In keeping of the traditions of me painting really random stuff, here's a basilisk I helped my kid finish up.



And for totally random, I started up on Yobuko (formerly known as Akuma) from Ninja All-Stars.


Time to start adding in the shading and the details. The paint is very flat at the moment!
Not sure if his horns will stay white. Oni were supposed to have yellow horns after all...

Those trolls have definitely got some character to their sculpts. I just wish Privateer used better materials. Those mold lines on Rok's hands are horrible.

The trolls have always had character though!
The mold lines weren't that bad- I just didn't bother cleaning them up for some reason.

Interestingly enough, most of the trolls I've been building have all been resin lately with metal extremities.

Rok's head and axe were the only metal parts I believe.

The shaman's head and hands were metal.

Even weirder? The new Madrak seems to be a new blend of plastic with a metal arm. Detail seems good on him too. I'll show him off later.

I like those trolls-- very characterful, and that vivid blue you use for the skin really pops.

Got Hoarluk DONE done, and started redoing one of the Northkin Firebreathers from the Trollbloods. I hate painting tartans. Not good at it. Don't have thin enough brushes to really do it correctly, and it certainly isn't made any easier considering every single one of the Trollbloods has them all billowing in the wind or draped all over them with tons of folds to contend with.



He's very much a work in progress, but I'm happy with the changes I've made. The Firebreathers are one of my favorite designs for the Trollbloods. You guys talk about sculpts with character, I think the whole unit of 'em takes the prize.

Now if I only knew where I actually put the rest of the unit...

More progress on that Firebreather.

Also have been working on finishing up this 15mm guy I found in a random clearance pack I split with Barzam. Micropanzer made it I believe?



He's a big guy for 15mm. Almost 20mm or so. Maybe a bit bigger.



Time for something totally random! Who is she? Why does she have 4 arms? What line did she come from? Why is she painted like she's a 90s X-Men character?

I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT ANY OF THAT.



Next SD figure is getting started- the Dragon Blade!