20.000 points Orc and Goblins w.i.p.

[Mirago]

very nice pitures, i am huge fan of Orc/Goblins, Gobbos collections =)

[unwanted]

You still didn't answer wether you'll be converting Morglum. While I think you'd do the classic model justice, I'd love to see a conversion to bring him up to modern standards!

[Morglum Necksnapper]

Morglum is going to be a converted Gorbad Ironclaw model.

This is a Doom diver I've finished today.





Again some bird droppings hehe

[Morglum Necksnapper]

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The last doomdiver.

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[Toshiro]

Epic pose on the crew! Well executed!

[Warlord Ghazak Gazhkull]

Great looking doomdiver mate, keep up the good work

[Morglum Necksnapper]

This is the flying doom diver on flying base I'll need when I use one or more of the six doomdivers.






Well, the batch of warmachines is almost done. I've painted them all in one go out of convenience. It get's result fast, which is great. I'm happy that there we're only a few times I thought I wanted to paint something else. Moment like that got me modeling the larger machines. Speaking of which, The larger rocklobba is finished, pics follow soon. The battering ram is almost finished.

I never specifically scouted Ebay for orc and goblin warmachines, mostly I was on the lookout for large batches of miniatures people sold. Occasinally there was a warmachine or two in the lot. I knew I had collected quite a few, but it scared me there were so many. Sorting all the crew and machinery, I counted aroud 80 crew alone. This would be a big project. Six doomdivers, six rocklobba's and six spearchukka's I could muster out of the pile. Converting them was a lot of fun. I've split them between Skarsniks nightgoblin horde and Morglum Necksnappers orc & goblin horde.

I never had to touch up so many tiny imperfections that I only saw after I've made photo's. That's because I deceided to glue the machine and all the crew to the base and to paint and flock the base before painting the miniatures. This saves a lot of time. The downside of working this way. is that I sometimes couldn't get as close with the eye and brush to a spot as I would've liked. It's a lot harder painting eyes from a larger distance than usuall.

Tomorrow I hope to get some more work done on the battering ram. I made quite some additions , but forgot to take pictures of the proces. Same goes for the big rock lobba.

[Toshiro]

Your army truly has a unique character!

How large is it now?

[Morglum Necksnapper]

Your army truly has a unique character!

How large is it now?

I have to count it to be sure, but more than 10.000 points for sure.

Here is the finished huge rock lobba.

[Morglum Necksnapper]

It has 14 crew including 3 bullies.

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Da boss of the machine, the Gorfang Rotgut model, swapped his shield for something pointy.

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Some details of the machine.

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And finally some details of the counterweight.

[Lorcryst]

That squished gobbo under the counterweight is hilarious !

[mrtn]

Great work as usual.

As to keeping track of how big an army you have you can do as I do, I have an excel file where I just add to when I paint something. That's much easier than counting the whole army by hand every time.

[Morglum Necksnapper]

Thanks guys! I just made a roster where I noted down eveything I've painted. The nightgoblin army now is 3615 points, the orc and goblin army is 2065 points. This is without magic items.

[Thitanium Prince]

In my opinion that's one of your best models so far ^^ great conversion and a better paintjob than your usual standard a stunning centrepiece for your machines

[Morglum Necksnapper]

Thanks!. By the way, I made up some rules for the big rock lobba. I kept them very simple. Although it has 14 crew, it has 3 bosses who fight back when attacked, so 6 orc boss attacks in close combat. Also it uses the large template. I think 200 points would be sufficient.