Orruk Ardboyz goes TOW

Posted on 24 June, 2024 by Håkan

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.

Spartan Assault tanks – Legiones Astartes – Games Workshop – final reveal

Posted on 19 June, 2024 by Håkan

Here’s some pics of my finished White Scars Spartan tanks!

I’m happy with how they turned out, and they fit well with the Thunderhawk in the same paint scheme.

Newly arrived 14th of june 2024

Posted on 14 June, 2024 by Håkan

I got a package from Games Workshop with stuff for my Bretonnian army.

The decals looks very nice, which is more than one can say about the boring standard boxes they send some of the stuff in.

Spartan assault tanks – part 4

Posted on 14 June, 2024 by Håkan

I did some weathering with mud, sooth, black oil and chipping.
I think I’ll consider them done and will take final reveal pics asap.

Bretonnians – part 4

Posted on 13 June, 2024 by Håkan

My questing knights arrived today from GW. Sadly in a standard no descript box.
I opened it and cut lose the parts. The horses and bases are plastic and the knights are white metall, as can be seen in the pic.

No instructions what so ever! Not many parts so not so very hard I guess. I think I need to pin the arm on the knight in the middle.

One strange thing is that the army builder says 5 and there don’t seem to be any option to lower it. That means I should need 2 more, and I’m not sure I want another box of these!

Bretonnians – part 3

Posted on 25 May, 2024 by Håkan

I worked a bit with the Baron and here he’s almost done.

It wasn’t entirely straightforward assembling him and the pegasus.

Here’s a pic of the entire army.

I either had to glue the baron in the saddle or keep the backrest off while painting, and I choose the latter.

The reins wasn’t easy to get right, and I’m not sure I did, but this will do.

Bretonnians – part 2

Posted on 20 May, 2024 by Håkan

Somehow I seem to have forgotten to take pics of the assembled archers.
I had done almost everything except their heads.

Instead I started with the men at arms.

One of the reasons was to figure what available heads I had to both them and the archers.
After sorting the heads, the archers got finished too.

Except for a few details like bags and stuff, the only thing left to build is the boss on the large pegasus.

Kingdom of Bretonnia – Warhammer the old world

Posted on 16 May, 2024 by Håkan

So far I’ve mostly built WH40k stuff, but when TOW arrived, it intrigued me a bit, and I just had to get a box and try it out. I thought the Bretonnians looked more fun and since Ivanhoe and other films like that I’ve always liked that genre.

I started with the knights. All horses was made with two halves and a head. I figured out that by combining the halves I could get four different poses.

I had to check with a friend i the other two poses was valid, which they was, so I continued.

There was a few things I needed to sort when working with the knights as they could be built as either knights of the realm or knight errants. Both are showed in the instructions but the army list only speaks of knights of the realm. So I decided to go with that.

Each unit consists of one champion, one standard bearer, one musician and three knights.
I had a hard time trying to figure which head should go on which one. The only simple one was the musicians as I think it would be hard to blow the horn with a helmet on.