Over the past year or so I've been slowing getting back into Warhammer Fantasy after a years-long hiatus from anything pertaining to the hobby, be it modelling, painting, or playing. Additionally I've inherited a great deal of older,
OOP minis from my older brothers and their friends who initially got me into the hobby as a wee lad and taught me the basics of painting, scenery-building, etc. Anywho, I've got a great deal of work to go and I decided that keeping a painting (b)log would be the best thing to keep me on my toes and working on my army.
After completing the second of the army's two giants (slightly modded giants of Albion), I decided to devote more time and effort into the building of my boyz. The colors are a bit distorted, probably because of my phone's camera, but the finished giant is below:
In the coming weeks and months I hope to fully flesh out the back story of Sasnak and Noggin, but for now I'll just post the duo's inspiration:
Sasnak leads the goblin front of the horde and was a rather pivotal NPC in long-running game of D&D I ran for my usual group. His trickery, despite his appearance only over the course of a few sessions, fooled the PCs completely and when all was said and done left two of them just rotting bodies, cursed by Sasnak's master and unable to be revived by any means. Once upon a time Noggin was the Black Orc warlord of my O&G horde when I was younger and playing back in 4th-6th edition Warhammer. A downright nasty fellow, even for a orc. Noggin wouldn't hesitate to slaughter his own mother if it meant victory in the coming battles. Noggin also transformed into a D&D character and was an anti-paladin of Gorgoth, god of the orcs. His ruthless means in pursuit of his goals caused no small amount of grief for my PCs and their loved ones, and he too became an NPC for the record books. I plan to more fully develop the stories of each individual's rise to prominence and then unholy alliance as I continue to work on my army, incorporating elements and events from the D&D campaign they were both in into their personalities and shaping them better to the Warhammer world.
Below is a list of what I've got to do and what's done. Green means completed painting, yellow means being painted or
GS'd, red means not started and dark red means in need of stripping or more work than normal.
LORDS & HEROES: -Smurfs, Goblin Warboss from BFSP -Goblin Shaman from BFSP
-Oddgit, Goblin Shaman
-Nazgub, Orc Shaman
-Skarsnik and Gobbla (OOP version)
-Azhag the Slaughterer x2 (OOP version)
-Orc Warboss on Boar x2 (OOP)
-Orc BSB (OOP)
-Goblin BSB -Goblin Boss w/ 2 handweapons -Goblin Boss w/ sword and shield -Forest Goblin Shaman (OOP)
-Ghazak Khan Conversions to do:
-Sasnak, Night Goblin Warboss
-Noggin, Black Orc Warboss CORE: -19 Orc Boys w/ 2 choppas
-25 Orc Boyz w/ choppa and shield -20 BFSP N. Goblins w/ spear and shield -1 Fanatic -5 Fanatics -20 BFSP N. Goblins w/ spear and shield -20 BFSP N. Goblins w/ short bow
-43 N. Goblins w/ spear and shield
-3 OOP Arrer Boyz
-12 Goblin Wolf Riders -30+ OOP Goblins w/ spear and shield -30+ OOP N. Goblins w/ short bow -10 BFSP Forest Goblin Spider Riders
-3 bases of Snotlings SPECIAL: -5 OOP Black Orcs w/ 2 choppas -20 OOP Black Orcs w/ various weapons
-2 Black Orcs command
-10 OOP Orc Boar Boyz
-1 Orc Boar Chariot
-2 Goblin Wolf Chariots
-1 OOP N. Goblin Squig Hopper
-2 N. Goblin Squig Herders
-1 Goblin Rock Lobba w/ Orc Bully
-1 Goblin Spear Chukka RARE: -1 BFSP Troll
-3 River Trolls
-1 OOP River Troll
-1 OOP Doom Diver
-1 Doom Diver -3 OOP Snotling Pump Wagons -2 Giants I also have a bit of other models that I need to identify before adding them to the list. It's going to be a long road ahead, fellas.
