The Gut'Reapa' (orcs and gobs army, probably image heavy soon)

[azhagmorglum]

>I guess by the number of hits that your log is popular, it's just that not everybody posts a comment. I am myself more of a lurker than a poster, but I sometimes post smthg when I'm curious about a paint scheme or another particular technique, whether in painting, or basing or whatever...

And by the way, I'm french too :-) I think I've already posted somewhere else in this thread.
Anyway, good job on your army, I'm a bit jealous that you have the courage to paint all those minis.
I've got an O&G army too, lots of models, some painted but the majority not, and I can't find that little spark that would get me to finish it.
Oh well, maybe one day I'll do it...

[Urgat]

hem, Hakkapelli, where the hell did you get that avatar?

>I guess by the number of hits that your log is popular, it's just that not everybody posts a comment. I am myself more of a lurker than a poster, but I sometimes post smthg when I'm curious about a paint scheme or another particular technique, whether in painting, or basing or whatever...

And by the way, I'm french too :-) I think I've already posted somewhere else in this thread.

Cheers

Anyway, good job on your army, I'm a bit jealous that you have the courage to paint all those minis.
I've got an O&G army too, lots of models, some painted but the majority not, and I can't find that little spark that would get me to finish it.
Oh well, maybe one day I'll do it...

If you take into account that this army has been started circa 1997, it all becomes relative lol. It takes me ages to paint anything, really, and my courage is all but impressive in this regard. Exemple: there's 6 spider riders left to paint. They're at basically... 20 centimeters from my hands right now. I haven't touched them since yesterday

[azhagmorglum]

hem, Hakkapelli, where the hell did you get that avatar?


Cheers



If you take into account that this army has been started circa 1997, it all becomes relative lol. It takes me ages to paint anything, really, and my courage is all but impressive in this regard. Exemple: there's 6 spider riders left to paint. They're at basically... 20 centimeters from my hands right now. I haven't touched them since yesterday

Well I started around 1996, when Brian Nelson sculpted his first orcs. They were so impressive that they singlehandedly brought me in the hobby (big'uns, nazgob, boar riders, grotfang -> they were/are very good minis).
Since then, I've bought a lot of greenskins, got into 40K also, but in 12 years I must admit that I haven't painted as much as you have. Besides I like painting, it gives "life" to the minis.

[Hakkapelli]

hem, Hakkapelli, where the hell did you get that avatar?

Found it in this comic, I don't play goblins but it was just too nice to ignore.

http://secretlivesofmobs.com/index.php?strip_id=10

Take a look at strips five and six. Orc political debates and how a war between Orcs and Dwarves started.

[Urgat]

darn, I did check the comics, but I didn't remember the squig, so I just checked if there was new strips. Thanks

Well I started around 1996, when Brian Nelson sculpted his first orcs. They were so impressive that they singlehandedly brought me in the hobby (big'uns, nazgob, boar riders, grotfang -> they were/are very good minis).
Since then, I've bought a lot of greenskins, got into 40K also, but in 12 years I must admit that I haven't painted as much as you have. Besides I like painting, it gives "life" to the minis.

Ah yeah, Brian Nelson. I really miss him, Nazgob in particular is a favourite of mine.

Edit: I hate painting the feathers on these goblins ><

[Urgat]

Yosh, spiders completed:

Well actually, there's two things I want to change (make the banner stand out more, and paint the boss' sword the same as the spear tips (bone), but for now it will do.

The day my army is 100% painted is getting closer, nyark!

edit: btw, am I the only one thinking that these goblins should be called jungle goblins rather than forest goblins? I can easily see them running around in Lustria, but have a hard time picturing them riding around in the Forest of Shadows, well, not w/o trading their feathers for full coverage fur coats...

[Urgat]

Hop, cave squig (not completly done, but nevermind, my folks are going on holidays for a month, and they're taking the camera with them, so I'm taking pics while I can):




Well, I've tried to make the tip of the spear cast light around. Considering the difficulty (herm, green light on red skin, I could have picked up something easier for a first try...), it's not that bad, imho. Certainly not mindblowing either, though :/ (but it clearly looks better in real life, you don't see all these greens dots, and the colours ain't washed by the stupid camera flash). Even if the relief is washed away on that pic, the base ain't exactly very exciting irl either, I have to find some way to liven it up.

Really... I don't know what to make of that guy, though. This guy is not a small target. Its rider is a weedy night gobelin... on his own, since he cannot join units. A ridiculous save for the rider, no save for the mount, which is otherwise not particularly resistant. And it's a hero/lord choice, so I can't really consider him a sacrifiable mini...
Really, why ain't he allowed to join squig hopper units? That would fix most of the problems that guy suffers from.
As it stands, to me, it's just something that will divert shots from a unit for one turn (can't see it survive one turn of shooting from... anything?).

[Braad]

I was also thinking about getting that rackham dragon to go as wyvern. If its done, could you do a comparing shot with a wyvern (I read you got 3 now...)?

I think the pic with gobbo on squig is a bit to bright... I don't think it shows the model well, if you do that. A good first attempt at a difficult technique though.

Also, the spiders are nice. Keep up all the good work!

[Urgat]

Hop, completed:



Well I say "completed", but I still have to do something about the base. How do you think I managed the spear effect? If I ever field that guy, I'll give him Porko's Pigstika by default, hence why I wanted the spear to look "magic".

I was also thinking about getting that rackham dragon to go as wyvern. If its done, could you do a comparing shot with a wyvern (I read you got 3 now...)?

I think the pic with gobbo on squig is a bit to bright... I don't think it shows the model well, if you do that. A good first attempt at a difficult technique though.

Also, the spiders are nice. Keep up all the good work!

Woops, missed your post, that's what happens when I post w/o refreshing the page first...
Well, I just posted two better pics of the squig, so i'll let you judge
As for the wyvern, I'm going to get a 4th one in a few hours lol (the old 5th edition wyvern, you know, with the shaman. Why do I get all these wyverns? No idea, I've use one wyvern like twice since 5th edition ). And yeah, i'll put comparison pics when she's done, but, to be honest, she's way down in my priority list.
But when it's built, I'll put a pic with all of them (rackham dragon, 5th ed wyvern -well if I get her-, azagh wyvern, my chimera).

[Nightsword]

For a first attempt at light sourcing, thats not bad IMO. Its something I've never tried, so its really impressive you gave it a go. I have to say though, the shield arm in that picture could use a little work, the black surrounding the arm spoils it a little IMO. The armour of his leg though looks fantastic. Really good.

[Urgat]

Thanks Well, the black around the arm, it's the underneath of the colar of the hood, can't do much about it. Anyway, since it's underneath, unless you're squatting like I did to taker the pic, you won't see the black.
Thanks for the leg armour , it comes from the fact that the helmet is a dwarf helmet, in warhammer online, you got that dwarf king with a golden armour, I thought I'd have my gob steal a golden armour from some dwarf hero (heh, that's a goblin hero too, and he's got a friend to help ), so I made the legs (and the chainmail, but you can't really see it behind the shield arm) fit the helmet, so he's got a full dwarf golden set, just adjusted a bit coz dwarfs are fat

[Urgat]

Randm musings:
As planned, my g/f got me the old wyvern (it's my birthday soon). More interesting, I also got 10 of the old savage orcs off ebay. Why is that interesting? Because with those, I finally have access to ALL the unit choices in my armybook, and am now short of only one character choice: the goblin hero on gigantic spider. One to go, one

On another note, last week, I played my rock lobba for the first time. I guess the range for its very first shot... bulls eye (always been good at that)! I roll the artillery and scatter dies -> misfire. I roll on the misfire chart -> 1.
Typical.
IIRC, baaaaaack then, the first shot of my doom diver ended up the same way.

The guy oin front of me played empire. He got an unholy amount of misfires too, but, for some erason, it never hurt him (well, apart that he lost quite a few shots, of course).

Anyway, I'm usually unlucky with artillery, and tend to leave them home. I do perceive the impressive destruction potential they (doom diver, rock lobba, spear chukkas) hold, but I've rarely had it pay off.
Last battle (2500points), I went all artillery, I wanted to try it out, so I took all of them (the two SC, the RL, the DD). I didn't kill much stuff, really... on the other hand, the empire gunline (I'm talking about the shooting element of the army, which was one canon, one mortar, on volleygun and 15 arquebusiers - I'm not implying it was a gunline) tore me a new one.
Next battle, I'm leaving all that useless junk home, and will go back to my usual list: lots of squgs, lots of wolves, lots of gobs, and some trolls

[lorcan]

Isn't that the thing about orc & goblin armies, nothing works when you want it too, thats why its so much fun to be an orc general.

Regards
Lorcan

[Urgat]

No, there's a difference between having something not going right from times to times, and 80 points being deleted from the table on turn one because of two dies. There's nothing fun with that, just like there's nothing fun with a black orc hero wiping your boar unit because of animosity or a 1 during a waaagh. People claiming that it's fun, well, let me doubt of their honesty. I wanna see someone lose a unit like that because of a 1, and cracking up in laughters saying "omg it's so funny I lost my boars!". There's a difference between "random events", and "random free kick in your ribs event". It's fun when it's fair (when it affects both players), not when the randomness just means you're going to get hurt (generaly, bad, with the O&G).

Furthermore (back on the warmachines), it's true to most warmachines, not just O&G ones, so nope, it's not a greenskins thing to begin with.

[huinipachutli]

I just relised youve been using NMM on lots of your models! good work!

I hope you still have a lot of stuff in need of repainting because you could count me as subscribed

[Braad]

Very nice, indeed. Much better pics too!
I would like to give you a little bit of advise though, if it has not been said yet... It always look best to give your entire army the same style bases, as this really ties them together. Also, a bit of static grass, moss and other natural looking stuff on them will make it even better.

About the wyvern. Don't hurry, please. I also still got at least models worth a year of painting in my cupboard. After that, I'm planning a wyvern.

Though I'm still hoping for the new Azhag one.

[Urgat]

Well yeah, I know about the bases. Still, I don't want to do that. There's plenty of things that already link the army together (the green skins, for one ). Each base scheme belongs to a theme (night gobs, stone trolls -> mountains; orcs, wolf riders -> plains, and so on) and I find it works well. On the table field, it's all green anyway, and since I don't want to make green bases, well, I may as well have some diversity. I actually had an idea to make the army 100% themed around something, but it came too late. Now that I've already started rebuilding my army, I'm not gonna redo it a third tme

I just relised youve been using NMM on lots of your models! good work!

I hope you still have a lot of stuff in need of repainting because you could count me as subscribed

Well, yeah, got a lot of stuff left to redo, but I'm cameraless for a month and a half now, so don't expect updates soon, sorry...

[Aulbath]

The spiders being painted:

Well actually, the spiders themselves are done, just the riders left to paint.

Love those, tried something similar for a friends giders (http://aulbath.deviantart.com/art/Do...iders-82737659), though I worked from codex gray to fortress gray to white, yours are shadow grey to plain white, or is that space wolves grey?

I like yours much better than mine (and will do my own from the Skull Pass just like yours )

[Urgat]

Easy: Chaos Black -> Shadow Grey -> Fortress Grey -> Skull White
No mixing, I just highlinted straight away. Thanks for the comment
Though the pic is quite small, I don't see anything wrong with your spiders, though?

Edit: Oh, I'm taking the opportunity to say that I worked more on the night gobs, I converted quite a bunch of them to have hand weapons, I've reshuffled the previous unit, made a second one, so now I have two 30 strong gob units with netters (6 models each), full command, and the rest half spear, half hand weapons, so I can have them equiped with either.
I still don't have a camera though so no pic. I'll have the camera next week, but it is doubtful I'll take pics then, because I'll be faced with something more horrible than a greather daemon of nurgle, something more frightening than a undead host, more brutal than a band of rampaging savage orcs, something that even Tzeench would be warry to deal with:
exams.

[OldMaster]

This is just plain awesome.
Great work!