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

[Urgat]

Hop, while I'm at it, my custom shrooms (my father made them -woodturning is his hobby- and I painted/based them):



It also features old Gobbla (not based yet), the night goblin boss from the WD subscription, and a pair of the old squig herders. Note the prodder blade, these days, I'm trying to paint all my metal parts w/o metal paints, I'm getting the hang of it, I think.

[Urgat]

Hop, slaanesh cult DE:


Right, they're not greenskins. That's what's painted of my DE slaanesh army. Yup lol, that's it. Which is a good thingh, because I plan on painting them differently now. So I guess I wanted to post a pic of them before they got redone.
And yeah, I'm one of these guys who want an all bare-breasted female army of Slaanesh, so what?

[Urgat]

Bah, no lack of comment will discourage me
Here's the prototype (RBT crew with added boobyness ) of how they're to look now, more or less:


I kept the same colour scheme, more or less, it's just I'm getting rid of the metalic paints, mostly. I want them dark and mysterious, and I thik the simple trick of keeping the face in the dark works quite well, in fact. I was considering giving him glowing eyes (highlighting a bit around), but they're too small, I doubt I can pull that off.

[One.Fit.Outcast.]

There is a problem with fielding an all bare-breasted female DE army..
the inevitable erection your 12-year old opponent will get when facing your army at GW..followed by the slick theft of one of your models and a trip to the toilet...and no, that won't be gloss varnish XP aha.

[Urgat]

I don't play them outside my circle of friends, so no worries
I'd rather have c&c though

[One.Fit.Outcast.]

Haha ok then fair do-s.
So anyway, you're O&Gs are looking good, especially since the basing which for me has really upped the overall standard, i'm quite a strong believer in "bases and faces make models" so yes, well done.

[Nightsword]

Firstly, how did you do those mountain bases?

Secondly, where did you get the DE's heads from as in the repeater crossbow gals?

Thridly, could we have some pics of the completes articles all together?

I like the general paintscheme but I think the skin of the orc boyz could use a little more definition around the muscles. Perhaps a thin wash. Those Night goblins look awesome.

EDIT: That's sick

[Urgat]

Firstly, how did you do those mountain bases?

Depends. The normal bases are easy, it's just little squares of cardboard glued to the base, then I add some sand. The whole thing is painted shadow grey, then dry brushed with fortress grey, then white skull. The larger bases are sculpted with that thing (milling machine?). I just draw a checker pattern on them to fit the tiles (they're wooden bases that I cut, btw), then I mill (?) along these lines, add some randomness (broken tiles), add some sand and finally, for painting, same process as the normal bases, excepted I didn't need cardboard tiles (since they're directly craved into the wood). It's rather easy and fast to do, actually

Secondly, where did you get the DE's heads from as in the repeater crossbow gals?

I stole them from dark eldar sprues from my bro's dark eldar army. Unfortunatly, I'm far from having enough to redo the whole army like that. I'll need to redo the converted one (the closest one on the picture, on the left), it's really badly done.

Thridly, could we have some pics of the completes articles all together?

Of the DE? For now, what I showed is the only painted minis I have. Everything else is only primed black, or not painted by me (I bought that army from a friend), so little point in showing the rest.

I like the general paintscheme but I think the skin of the orc boyz could use a little more definition around the muscles. Perhaps a thin wash.

Yeah, I totally agree, it's something I've planed, repainting the orcs, but for now, I'm focusing on my countless gobs since I rarely use the orcs, so the rebasing will do for the time being

Those Night goblins look awesome.

EDIT: That's sick

Thank you, I've certainly seen way better in these forums, but it's nice to hear people like them

[Mazdug]

In the picture with the DE warriors w/crossbows, what is the model with the angel looking thing flying out of its cloak. Is that a conversion, or is it from some other range?

[Urgat]

Other range, Freebooter miniatures. It's some sort of harpy or succubus, actualy, it's got bat wings and nipple piercings, I don't think that makes her qualify as an angel . Iirc that mini was labelled as chaos sorceress. Freebooter do some really nice minis, but the range is quite limited.

[azhagmorglum]

Cool army you have there. Where does the squig with big teeth come from? Is it GW? scratch built?

[Nightsword]

I meant the completed gobbos if thats possible. It would be nice to see how it all fits in. Maybe try look on Ebay or see if anyone has DE sprues they don't want?

[Urgat]

Cool army you have there. Where does the squig with big teeth come from? Is it GW? scratch built?

It's just a converted one, it's actually the same as the one just behind it, I just resculpted its "face" with epoxy, gave it a bigger lower lip, and stupidely huge teeth (kindda inspired from the 5th edition army book drawings, though it's still not the big teethed balloon I'm so fond off). I still have a handfull of squigs, and I'm running out of models I don't already have, so I'll convert a few others soon enough I believe.

I meant the completed gobbos if thats possible. It would be nice to see how it all fits in.

Oh, well, the completed gobs, they're already in this topic If you mean the whole army (including the the ones still with the old paint scheme, plus the 60 or so that are just primed), can do in a couple days, for now I'm not home.

Maybe try look on Ebay or see if anyone has DE sprues they don't want?

I know I'm not really of optimistic nature, but I see little chance of me finding plastic DE heads on their own on ebay And I kow I've seen some nice people offering bits to others here on warseer, but I can't see anybody going through the trouble of sending that to me (France here).

[Urgat]

K, all my gobs, and only gobs (well, and squigs, and spiders, and wolves). No troll (I'm lying, there's one ), no giant, just greenskins:






Can't say it all fits in well, since I got most of my bases to repaint.

[Urgat]

And, while I'm at it:


So, I don't have many orcs, and I rarely play them anyway. Why? That's a good question. It's not like I don't like the bigger cousins of my gobs, after all. Orcs are cool. It might be bad memories from 5th edition, where they were regularly trashed by chaos warriors and bretonian knights, but I have played them again since then, and I know they're better now. So why? Dunno, really. Maybe being sneaky fits more with my own personnal nature, who knows.

And, to conclude:

Everything that is neither orc or gobs, namely snotlings, trolls, giants. Everything needs the usual rebasing, I've never finished painting my giants, and the snots need a lot of work. But since I'm rarely using the giants, and never use the snots, I have little motivation to finish them...

[Urgat]

Random musing: today I received a fanatic sprue I bought on ebay. Now I had that problem that my old goblin herders with a big prodder (shown a few pictures earlier) wouldn't rank up correctly with anything in my squig herd, but oh, miracle! There's a lot of nifty little things on that sprue, including a small squig that JUST fits under the prodder That was unexpected, but now I love that fanatic spue lol

[Warlord Ghazak Gazhkull]

Hello,

pretty impressive horde you have there. For the goblins how much points is that more or less. Keep up the good work.

Greetz
G

[Urgat]

dunno, besides, it depends on the options, so...
Let's say I have:
a gobelin big boss on wolf
2 night gob big bosses with great weapon
1 night gob bigboss with hand weapon and shield
a common gob big boss with... a big mushroom (great weapon?) (actually I have two more, one with great weapon and one with hand weapon and shield, but they've been downgraded to members of the common gobelin unit)
a forest (count as common) shaman

Then I got

3 units of night goblin archers (20 gobs each)

2 units of 30 night gob spearmen (with nets)

1 unit of 20 night gobs with spears (with nets)

enough fanatics for all of them if I want (i think, maybe I'm one or two short, I never use them all, and rarely use more than 3 or 4 actually. I didn't even build/paint them all)

4 charriots (two wolf charriots, the giant scorpion, and the giant spider). The two wolf charriots have three woves, but since one of them has a 50mm wide base only, it counts as having two wolves

2 units of 7 squig hoppers

3 teams for the squig herd (well, I'm one squig short actually, but I can use the gob big boss with the squig from the BfSP box as "count as")

2 units of 5 wolf riders with bows and musician

1 unit of 10 wolf riders with spear and shields (I rarely use them though)

10 spider riders

2 spear chukkas

1 doomdiver

1 rock lobber

And there's my work in progress unit of 30 common gobs with shields and hand weapons.

I also got 10 unbuilt wolfriders somewhere, and a scraplauncher I intend to convert as a second rock lobber (I'm using the rhinox for a conversion, see page 1 of this log).

I'll let you evaluate how many points this could be worth

[Urgat]

Fanatics!


That's 9 metal ones, and 3 of the new plastic ones I got a couple weeks ago. You're gonna ask, did I really need to buy more fanatics? Do I really need twelve of the little buggers? The answer is no. Actually, I don't think I've ever fielded more than 6 of them. But these plastic ones intrigued me, and I wanted to have a go at them. Besides, they were dirt cheap. Well, my conclusion is that, as usual, I enjoy painting the metal ones more. To the notable exception of the weapon. The chains are much more fun to paint on the plastic ones, but the gob itself, after all, it's just a big blob of plastic...

Anyway-

On fanatics:
on Warseer, you get more often than not new posters who are asking about greenskins and, more particularly, goblins. They wanna start a goblin army, are are wondering what they should add to... well, to the BfSP box, usually. And there you have all these people telling them to buy fanatics, and more fanatics, because they can deal a lot of damage.
Do they, really? Of course not, every goblin player knows that for that one time when your three fanatics hit that unit of chosen knights and wipe it out in one turn, you have ten games where they hit nothing, and three more where they will hit you, and never the enemy...
My take on fanatics (which is not any more valid than anything else, but there you go, you shouldn't have read that log if you didn't wanna read my ramblings ): fanatics are what I would call "area interdictors" or, to borrow from the MMORPG world, "crowd control" elements, in my opinion. Usually, I field 6 of them, as I said earlier. They tend to be scattered in three units. Sometimes I take only two units, but usually, I still take 6 fanatics. I rarely send them all after a unit, though. I often send one, just to scare my opponent and, who knows, maybe it'll hit something? The others, I think hard about where to send them, and, most of the time, it happens to be open space. I send these fanatics where I don't want my opponent to send troops. Sure, fanatics are unreliable, they might not stay there. And that makes them even more effective in that role! The guy will look at where the fanatic is: this is a no man's land. Then he kind of draws a 22" wide circle around that fanatic. This quite large zone is where the fanatic can be, the next time it will move. If it's far enough, the enemy general will try an avoid the area. If it's close, if it's just next to that unit which might charge next turn or something, he will think "heck, I may as well charge, I won't be able to do anything about it anyway". Which sucks. It is, honestly, very likely that the fanatic will touch nothing, will roll a double, or will go back right in your face. Therefore, choosing to ignore the fanatic is, most often, the correct decision. And YOU goblin player, forced the enemy to make that correct decision, simply because he didn't have the choice: "I can't avoid that fanatic, it's too close". But if you think before launching the whirly greeny, you might be able to create a dilemna for your opponent: these fanatics are, maybe, in range, but barely... will I step forward and take that risk of being smashed by 1, 2, 3D6 S5 hits? But they're far enough... if I just move that way, they won't reach me, no matter what. Let's take the safest course of action.
Now, I'm not gonna give you all my little tricks, but the idea is for me to, litterally, draw the boundaries of a killing field with my fanatics. I send them left and right of that annoying unit. Now it is forced to go forward. Additionnaly, It is isolated. The fanatics nearby mean few generals will dare send in reinforcement. That unit is in trouble... and, free bonus, the fanatics now protect my flanks. How cool is that?
Fellow goblin big and warbosses, I suggest that you think beyond the scope of "fanatics may hurt a lot", and plunge into the marvelous realm of "even if they don't deal a single wound in the battle, fanatics DO hurt a lot"

[Nightsword]

Sound advice

I think your fanatics are the best you've painted. There very good. I appreciate the army pics as well. Very cool. Maybe we could have a pic of the stuff you've got finished all together? Looks like you've got enough finished to field a small army! Wish my army was the same...