I decided to use more or less the same colours. red, blue and green, on everyone. One some I painted the coat blue and hat red, and on the others I did it the other way around.
I painted their socks buff and started with a base skin colour.
I did some testing of the skin colours a friend recommended on one of the figures.
I think it turned out pretty good, so I’ll stick with that.
Still some more painting to do, but hopefully I’ll have a fully painted team soon.
I thought a team with gnomes could be fun to have.
I have no idea how they are to play with, but that could be a fun experience.
As all new kits they are pretty easy to build, but you have to be careful with some parts as they seem easy to break. It took a few hours to build the first set of gnomes.
Using the optitional parts I build the other half of the team.
The only thing left is to prime and paint them. I plan to use typical garden gnome colours like blue, grey, green and red.
Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes. I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.
The Ironbreakers was assembled first.
The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.
Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.
I just have to paint him with white beard and all. I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.
Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old. It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.
Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.
Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.
I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.
Some time ago I bought the Mountain holds battalion box, which I haven’t started building yet. I also bought a few other boxes.
The first one was the King and Thane with shield bearers.
I could say that it’s fairly easy to build and being quite new, it is.
The three shield bearers.
The king built as well! I opted for the Odin helmet and great weapon.
I also thought it would be best to paint the shield bearers first, but after checking the fit, I had to rethink that a bit. More about that later.
There’s also a Thane figure, that I for some reason forgot to take pics of.
Next up is a set of Hammerers. A box with 20 figures that can either be built as Hammerers or Longbeards, or 10 of each with full command. I choose the latter option.
With them done I moved on to building some cannons.
The kit is a bit old, but went together pretty well. It’s possible to either build 2 cannons or 2 organ guns, or one of each.
Each crew member can have different arms which gives them a bit of variation.
It seems like I’m forgetting to take pics, but here’s the next one I’ve built.
After checking GW’s site about Grombrindal, I found out that the Slayer is one of the versions. I just have to paint his beard and hair white.
Here’s a pic of how the army looks like right now.
Next up will be these two boxes.
Once they’re built and painted I’ll have well over 2000 points or closer to 2500 even.
Painting the figures seems to take longer than I had anticipated. Everytime I look I find more parts to paint or fix somehow. But now it looks like I’m getting there, at least with the grunts and the shaman.
Soon time to finish off the soldiers as well. Then all the bases need some kind of dekoration in the form of dirt and grass.
In order to get the red colour “right”, I had to paint more yellow. A few at the time!
Then a bunch of orks and boar riders got primer.
Then as usual I painted grey and white zenithal primer.
Lastly I gave them a wash with Nuln oil and then some white dry brushing.
I started painting one of the grunts with yellow on the armor and green on the skin. The boar was painted with browns and black on the fur.
On the boss I used Speed Paint yellow, just to see the difference.
I think that it turned out pretty cool!
In order to tie the troops together, I decided to add both black and red to my boar riding grunts. I’ve also been painting details like straps and handles in different brown colours.
Still got more to paint, and also need to paint more of the soldiers to figure out how to tie their schemes together.
For me TOW (The Old World) seems more interesting than Age of Sigmar, so I decided to remake my ard boyz to black orcs. I also found a few figures in the Start Collecting box that thought could be useful. So I built one Shaman/Wierdnob and three böack orcs/grunts on boars.
Cruel looking orcs on boars!
I also decided to repaint my orcs to better fit what I had in mind for my Orc TOW army. So I used Slaughter red from Speed Paint and painted over the yellow, Leaving yellow in some areas.
I then painted weapon and other details in different colours, using black metal for the weapons and armor. I added some yellow triangels on the armor and will do that on the other ones as well. On the boss I kept the black shoulder pads with yellow pattern. He’s the boss after all.
I’ll paint the remaining 11 orcs in the same manner and I also think the boar riders will have the same paint scheme.
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