Hochland - Gargobot's Imperial Log (currently painting BB Amazons)

[Gargobot]

Hi guys!
It's me future Gargobot. After more than 30 pages and three years of doing this plog, I thought it might be nice to go back and make some sort of mission statement and maybe write up an index. Make it easier for anybody who happens to stumble across this log for the first time (if that's you let me tell you that the painting gets a lot better over the course of those 30+ pages).
As you'll see the original goal of this log was to help me maintain my motivation and as far as that goes the log (and you guys of course) has always done its part. Obviously nothing is going to change there.
As a connoisseur of the fine plogs of Warseer myself, I have always enjoyed those logs most that have a high picture-to-talk-ratio. I try to run my little plog in a manner that ensures said ratio. As a result it will often take me days, weeks or even months until I get around to answering your comments - however long it takes me to get something painted. (And I'm probably one of the slowest painters on this forum.)
Please do not misunderstand that as a sign of disrespect; in fact I greatly appreciate every comment you make and the time invested that goes along with it. Quite frankly it's the fuel that keeps me going.
That's probably all for now, so here's that index:

xX 1: Well page numero uno, where the magic begins. You are here, that's nice. Undead Mordheim Warband, Skullpass Gobbos and Hochland. Xx
4: The first army shot of my Empire army.
5: A Bright Wizard and if I may say so my first moment of pride with this army.
7: Interlude 1- a Doom Diver painted by my brother. And I change the base color for my troops.
8: Interlude 2- a friend's dwarfs.
11: Another friend gives me all his Warhammer stuff - first sight of a Pegasus that will take me 21 months to complete (I told you I was a sloooow painter).
16: A Gold Wizard, my second moment of pride.
17: I start using a blue gradient as a back drop, in other words my pictures get better.
16-18: Painting a Steam Tank.
18: Interlude 3- Beastmen from the days of yore; how I painted when I was a total n00b.
20-21: Painting minis from Reaper for a friend.
21: Got a comment from Harry. *Achievement completed*
22: Interlude 4- Dabbling in the dark art of Green Stuff resulting in an Iron Hands Space Marine
22: Painting Horrors for a friend.
23: Added cream/tan to my color scheme, the guys look way better now.
26: Another army shot.
27: Work space photo - finally honoring a plog tradition (I don't have pets).
27: More Daemons of Chaos.
30: DoC Herald of Tzeentch, my third moment of pride.
32: Furies.
33: Flamers of Tzeentch and first freehand.
34: Another blast from the past - gray Space Marines.

This being a Hochland log and all, I didn't list all the stuff I painted for them. Rest assured all the remaining pages are riddled with Handsome Hochland Heroes™.
Also, those moments of pride are probably noteworthy, because they mark points where I think my painting has gone up a notch, but check for yourself.
Okay, that should be all for now. Back to you past Gargobot:



Hello fellow Warseers!
I've been in a painting frenzy since last November, but the last 2 weeks I didn't paint one mini. So I thought I'd just show my results and hope to get some motivation, comments and critique from a log.

First off my Mordheim Warband:

A dire wolf


Skeletons I use as Zombies


Ghouls


And their backsides

[bob_the_small]

Great painting, I really love the depth on the ghouls, show us more!

[Gargobot]

Great painting, I really love the depth on the ghouls, show us more!

Coming right up!


I believe these are called Dregs in english. From left to right: Henning, Magnus and Nils. With Magnus I tried to make it look like he has healthy skin sewn on his ghoulish one. Don't know if you can see that .


My first attempt at GS. (Or is it "with" GS :confused


Nekrophilius the Necromancer.


And his backside.

[bob_the_small]

If you could show us the front of the first picture I could tell you what it is. And the english "with GS" or just "GS" is correct.

[Gargobot]

And the rest of the warband.


I painted this guy (a Warlock :confused in 2-3 hours right before a game to which I hired him, didn't come to finish him properly since then.


My Vampire Graf von Mos zu Quito.




And a picture of Magnus rear, I think the whole sewn-skin thing can be better seen from this angle... hopefully.

[bob_the_small]

They look really great m8

[Gargobot]

Next up will be my BfSP NGs, probably tommorow it's too dark right now to take any new pics.

As an appetizer here's a Goblin Shaman. I guess I did him in 2007, retouched him in late 2008, still he looks quite different (worse) then my NGs.

[Magos Explorator]

Good work! I like the conversions, and those older wizards.

[bob_the_small]

Still looking good, keep it up!

[Gargobot]

Some new pics.


NGs with Spears


First row


The other Spear unit


FC

[Gargobot]

NGs with bows


First row

And the two chars:

[mdiscala]

Good paint jobs, maybe a dot of white in the goblins eyes?

[bob_the_small]

The pupils in eyes are black BTW. (but thats humans so white could work for gobbos's i dunno)

Your colours are really bright and vibrant which I really like, accompianied by good painting, the models look awesome!

[Gargobot]

Thank you both!
Regarding the eyes I tried white pupils on the Squig and the Boss but didn't like them so I repainted them red, and I tried orange ones on the shaman. I'm not particulary fond of these but I left them as they are.
When I painted the Goblins I really wanted to get them finished so I settled for minimal effort. I didn't even remove the moldlines on the rank and file gobbos (which I regret now, but it can't be helped without repainting them, which I'm too lazy to do ).
On my Empire minis I tried harder, but we'll come to that.

Anyway some Spider Riders:


The other five (more like 4 1/2):


And a view on the spiders:


And the Troll:

[Gargobot]

The last few Goblins, my Fanatics. Can't say I was overly enthusiastic about the plastic box, if I buy some more I'd definately try to get the metal generation before these:







And this guy must've been swirling and whirling for years.

[Gargobot]

This Slayer was painted by the friend with whom I bought the Box, originally we planned on him painting the slayer and me painting the cannon-balled NG and then exchanging them. However I haven't painted my mini yet. But I thought I'd show the slayer because I like it very much.



Now we reached the project I'm currently working on, my Hochland empire army. I neither have an armylist nor a great story planned, I just wanted to play them, so I bought several unpainted minis from ebay and painted them.
So far I've got 20 Swordsmen (painted), 24 Spearmen (painted), 12 Crossbowmen (painted), 27 Handgunners (6 painted - 5 PiP), 3 Warrior Priests (1 Luthor Huss - painted) and two old wizards. One of them is the fire wizard from the Mordheim warband, I'm going to repaint him for my Hochländer Army. And the other one is this following mini, does anybody know to which lore he belongs?


And then I'm throwing in this guy, because I first wanted to do an Averland army, but I didn't like my results. (I felt a little regret when I saw the new Marius Leitdorf, but it was already too late then.) Picture isn't very good, but I can't retake it since he's in my Hochland army now.

[Gargobot]

Well yesterday I played Talisman, and I liked the game very much so I decided to try if I could get it. So during a longer search and comparing of the versions I found my mysterious wizard on boardgamegeek.com. Apparently he is a model from the 3rd ed. of the game an Alchemyst or so. All hail coincidence.
Guess that makes him a lore of metal wizard.

Anyway since I have 27 handgunners which is an very odd number I got 1 Engineer with HLLR as an unit champion, and am trying to get my hands on the one guy with HLLR from the war wagon. As a third champ I'll try to convert a model, already started too, but I left the cam at my GFs. So no pictures of that today, no loss though it's wip anyway.

And to give you something to look at... hey there is a new option

nothing here just trying it out

interesting... ehm some pics of my Hochland army.



The few handgunners already finished



Those faces are kind of hard to paint, since there is no real depth. Has anyone a hint how to better solve this problem?

[Asp]

i really like your NGs, very cartoony - how do you do em?

[Darkritual]

they look realy good!

Nice and clean paint job! Good job on the eye's 2 btw cba to make an army like this to manny eyes to paint for me!!

Annyways keep it comming cant wait to se more!

[Gargobot]

Thx. Well the robes are drybrushed with Codex Grey, while I highlighted the hood individually. The skin is Orkhide Shade, followed by Snot Green and Goblin Green. Highlights with Scorpion Green. The cartoony is because I really don't leave much of the underlying colors visible, hence it comes out very bright. And because I highlight very stark, plain Codex Grey on Chaos Black for example. This is at least my way of explaining it, sounds as if it is deliberatly done. In fact the cartoony way is just my style of painting, can't help it.