Suttung's Red Bulls -- Update 120531: Lizardmen

Introduction
In this gnoblog I plan to document my progress as I expand my army for the new army book. I "finished" my army about six months ago, meaning there was not a single unpainted Ogre left in the house!

The theme for the army is Ironskins. When I first started, I wanted something to set them apart and at the time, most people were running small units of unarmoured Bulls (this was in 7th edition) so I went with an Ironskin theme by adding some extra armour to everything and using Irongut arms and heads for my Bulls.

The other thing that stands out is the red skin colour. The reason for this is a special bodypaint made from blood and iron dust. Ok, the real reason is I felt like painting them red. 

Reinforcements
My existing force is about 3500 points in the old book. I expect it to be less in the new one, especially with my Ironfist+LA Bulls dropping from 43 to 32 points. Still, with the expensive new Monsters I don't think it will be too hard to bring it up to 5000 points.

Also, I was lucky enough to find a dealer who still sells (or claims to sell) Battalions, so I ordered a pair of those. I will need more Leadbelchers, Bulls and Ironguts as well or my army will start to look like monsters with ogres in support. It should be the other way around. I hope they really do have them in stock.

Pictures
Enough talk, let's see some models. I'll be posting them a few at a time to keep the posts reasonably short.






This is my Tyrant, Suttung Ironskin. He's based on Maneater and Tyrant parts with an axe from the Minotaurs set (actually its two Minotaur axes combined into one) and a fair amount of greenstuff.




The Bulls, as mentioned above with extra armour and Irongut bits.

I am really impressed. the minis are painted well, but more than that the theme looks fantastic across the unit. An army done up like this will be quite a sight indeed.

Nice stuff-very nice armour. Care to share how you did it?

Nice stuff-very nice armour. Care to share how you did it?

The armour -- like everything else in the army bigger than a Gnoblar's brain -- is drybrushed over black. In the case of the armour it's foundation dark grey, foundation light grey and white, but leaving a lot of the black to keep it dark. If you meant what I made the extra bits of armour from, I cut up the little tabs that break off metal screw-on caps on liqour bottles. Obviously I had to go through quite a few but anything for the art, right?

Some more finished models. I already posted the BSB in the Show Us Your BSB thread, but here he is again.


Bauge Ironskin, little brother of Suttung Ironskin.


Other angle. Bauge is mostly a Tyrant but with a plastic gutplate that matches the banner top.






This trio of Bull Rhinox Riders is one of my favourite units in the army. As always I added armour plates but also chains since I felt not even an Ogre can control a fullgrown Rhinox with his knees. I gave them Irongut weapons so they would be a able to reach down to strike at any thinlings foolish enough to stand in their path.

Hot on the heels of the very biggest models (so far) are the very smallest.




I'm not a huge fan of the Gnoblar plastics so I wanted to spice up the units a bit. This one has a Dwarf treasure cart from BfSP.




This one has a Pump Wagon. And no, not all the weedy little green guys are technically Gnoblars. None of my Ogres ever noticed.

The pump wagon is great in there. The unit looks like a pile of trash and tiny little greenskins.

Very impressed with not only your painting style, but also your (very well thought out) theme. Congrats, and I think I speak for pretty much everybody when I say I want to see more!

Thank you both. More is coming.


The Leadbelchers were the first models I made for this army. At the time, I wanted a visual link to my Orcs & Goblins as I would be using them as Dogs of War long before I could field a whole army of Ogres. To that end, I added Night Goblin Fanatics as ammunition for the cannons.


Slaughtermaster. I'm happy to hear the rumours of a non-magical great weapon option for him in the new book.




I only have two Maneaters and they don't have pistols. I may have to change that soon.

definately a gnoblog i will keep a eye or two on, the metal work is amazeing even so much as i may need to do some repainting on my boltgun and black wash. the rhinox look great with a little conversion work too

Pretty amazing army matey, I'm very impressed indeed I love the red skin tone, and even more so the justification behind it I think the armour is awesome; most people when they use heavy drybrushing, it looks chalky and a little odd, but you've used the effect to very good use. And, my favourite model is the Battle Standard Bearer. It's such a clever conversion, and one that earnt you a Pet Gnobbo, enjoy!

JJ

My first Gnoblar, thanks mate!

I'm at the end of my pictures but at least I've saved the biggest model for last.










The guy on top i Hrungner Slavebeater, the Giant's name is Mokkurkalfe. It took a silly amount of sawing, bending, filing and cutting to get the Giant into this position. I'm really looking forward to making models like this in Finecast in the future.

I've reached the end of my pictures. I have some Ironguts, a non-converted Butcher and a bunch of upgrade gnoblars that I haven't got any pictures of. I also hope to get some good pics of the whole army on a proper gaming table, but that won't happen until the new army book is released.

My first Gnoblar, thanks mate!

enjoy! It was very well deserved

Yet again, another very beautiful conversion, and very well executed A genius idea I can't wait for the new book to come put, just in the vain hope of more models from yourself

JJ

That slave giant is so full of win. Another well deserved gnobbie.
Thing is, it looks a little too devastating to be a slavegiant.

the whole army is getting beteere and bettere=keep adding more pics of the finished models

I'm glad you all like it but this is what I have for now.

The next update will probably be a Stonehorn or Ironblaster as soon as I can get hold of one.

wow grate stuff congrats

this is a great looking army i really like the armour plates added tot your ogres .
love what you did with the old giant but man your crazy for taking the time to do it.

Amazing detail and a very steady hand...

Cool army and original skin color. I love the use of the snotling pump wagon. I might steal your idea and use it for my gnoblar horde.

Holy Gnoblar...from the conversions, to the coloursheme: A completly amazing army. Can we get a groupshot please?

And may I also add, your 100 Nightgoblins are madness!!!! How did you not completly freak out by painting them?? And I'm afraid to paint 50 Gobbos...

I finally got to play a couple of small games with the new list after my first two opponents cancelled.

This was part of a campaign and I had to use the same 1000 points list in two games. Percentages were a bit stricter than normal which effectively meant I could have no lord and only a single hero.

My list:
Tjatse the Gorebelcher (lvl2, lore of great maw, general, armour of silvered steel, luckstone, great weapon)
5 Bulls (ironfists, banner, bellower)
4 Ironguts (banner of discipline, bellower -- butcher here)
3 Mournfangs (heavy armour, ironfists, bellower)
3 Leadbelchers
18 Gnoblars (trappers)

In short, I got outmanoeuvred by a High Elf army and a lot of Ogres got hacked to pieces by S5-6 attacks with rerolls to hit. Hard to soak up the casualties with so few points. Ended in a big loss. Really missed not having any Sabretusks as he had an Eagle that owned the movement phase.

Second game was against other Ogres, very similar list but with more Ironguts and Bulls but no Leadies. Very close game that ended in a minor loss.

Getting all protective gear for the Butcher was a mistake. Both my opponents simply directed their attacks against the Ironguts even though they didn't know what he had, simply because his toughness is higher so the save was a complete waste. A Ruby Ring would have been much more useful.

The Leadbelchers and Mournfangs were the most successful. The Leadbelchers were able to get several rounds where an average result would have resulted in a panic test, despite there being only three of them. I look forward to trying bigger units.

Holy Gnoblar...from the conversions, to the coloursheme: A completly amazing army. Can we get a groupshot please?

Thanks. I had planned to get a few army shots in the bigger games I had planned but they got cancelled. I hope I get a new opportunity soon, they'll be at their best on the tabletop.

And may I also add, your 100 Nightgoblins are madness!!!! How did you not completly freak out by painting them?? And I'm afraid to paint 50 Gobbos...

All it takes is a quick but effective paint scheme and a lot of patience. I love big units so I think it's worth the effort.

awesome models and thats one nicely converted tyrant. Keep it up

Finally I have something painted for my Ogres again. Not much but it's something.





These Knights Gnoblar are obviously counts-as Sabretusks. Too good not to have. Pretty fun to make too and the lions are nice models that I happened to have in my bitz box after I used the HE Chariot for my Daemons.

Unfortunately for my Ogres, December will be another month of focusing on Greenskins. We have a new year's resolution running on Da Warpath and I promised to paint 300 models this year. Right now I'm at 218 so quite hard but not impossible to finish since most of the remaining 82 will be Night Goblins. I promise to paint some Ogres come the new year though!

Your Army simply looks amazing.  My personal Favorites are the BSB which is a very original design of banner and simple fantastic and the Gnoblar sabretusk riders!

Have a Gnoblar for some fantastic work! 

I love your army! Fantastically striking. Those gnoblar knights are very creative!

Your color scheme makes me think of uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings, with the red skin, black-grey armour, steppe-like bases and pale green gnoblars. Just out of curiosity, was that intentional? Or is it just me that likes the movies a little bit too much?

Thank you both for the very kind words.

@Shoggoth: Much as I love the LotR movies, it's just coincidence.

Some nice bits on my table: a Banelegions Sea Devil, Hunter and saddle from the Stonehorn kit, a Pirate Maneater head and some bottle caps. It's going to take me some time to get this ready for painting but it should turn out rather interesting I think. The Sea Devil model is very nice, good detail and a better fit than most Forge World kits I've done (though I've yet to try any of their recent releases).

I will run the Sea Devil as a Stonehorn. It won't fit very well on a Stonehorn base as the legs are too wide but it's not like I would bring this guy to a competitive game anyway. I will probably make a very big base for him.

I've decided to name him Ahab the Whaler. First person to spot the literary reference gets a Gnoblar. Be quick, they don't come any easier than this. 

Moby Dick!

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race.". Then he shot it with an Ironblaster and ate it, with a side order of squid, like any right-minded ogre would.

Stealing my blog name I see!  I jest but wow sir this is indeed lovely and very well done and you got a gnoblar from me for that giant ride of yours.

very impressive,

the paintjob and the conversions are well done. nice ideas.

hope to see some more pitures

matt

Moby Dick!

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race.". Then he shot it with an Ironblaster and ate it, with a side order of squid, like any right-minded ogre would.

The gnoblar is yours sir, love that quote!

@Matt and Johnny: Thank you!

+ 1 Gnoblar for this outstanding work

Stop it you guys! you make my all my plans and painting look like mammoth poo when you do awesome things like this!

Painting like this deserves a gnoblar!

Wow!! Glad I didn't do red for my ironskins.   Absolutely LOVE the guy riding the giant.  Very dynamic.

My Ironblaster is done. It's the first of the new kits for me but more will follow shortly as I'm well on my way with the Stonehorn.

Someone asked for an army shot and since I had the table out for a game last night I put all my painted Ogres on the table.



I forgot to take a closeup of the finished Stonehorn though. Maybe next time.

I have a big game planned with my brothers next week (2x4000 per side, plus SoM) so I need to finish a few nice models to bring. I want to finish Ahab the Whaler (a few posts up), all of my pledge for January and a few more Ironguts.


Also, I got this pretty boy. Very nice model. In little over an hour I had him cleaned up, built, up-armoured and sanded.

That Giant surfing model is excellent.

Odd but nice colors on the army as well.

WOW.

Great Gnoblog, some real character in the army and the cohesive scheme is fantastic.

You should be proud to have such an outstanding army,  I am very jealous.

Can't wait to see more, especially some of the big stuff!!!!

Keep it up

Tozon


PS +1 Gnoblar coming your way for outstanding efforts!

Thanks for commenting.

I have finished building Ahab the Whaler. Here he is, ready for his undercoat.

Ha ha ha... One word will suffice:

EPIC!

One great thing about Ogres is customisation and converting and this is one prime example of awesomeness.

Looking good!

A Stonehorn. Chose him over the Thundertusk as I love the face of the beast. Hardly converted at all, just a few bits of armour. As you can see in the last picture he had a little tail accident when I took these pictures.





8 more Leadbelchers. I always used them because they fit the Ironskins, but now that they are more useful I felt it was about time I got some more.









The Curs'd Ettin was a pleasure to paint, and quite quick too. The skin has a good texture that is very good for drybrushing. I added some armour to him to fit my army better.


Size comparison. The Ettin is about as tall as the plastic Giant I suppose (not sure, I don't have one). I love his freakish body proportions.

Great work again!

I love the Ettin, his gimpy arm is far too awesome!!!


Also I am shamelessly robbing your bottle cap armour method for a couple of Maneater conversions so thanks for that!!!!

You get a gnoblar for your ettin

Finished my Firebelly. I drybrushed the fire "backwards" starting with white basecoat and then went yellow, orange, red. Then some black on the round tops. I also did a little source lighting on the mask but it is barely noticeable I think.

Bravo sir he is amazing

This Gnoblog is a feast for the eyes! Cant wait to see Ahab the Whaler painted.

The wait is over and Ahab the Whaler is done. Except for a couple of flaws I noticed in the pictures, that is. Stuff gets bigger on the screen.











The water hasn't quite dried through yet but when it does I might try to put another layer on.

I love your colour scheme, and that whaler fella is gnarly!
Good work on the flames as well

Pure epic!  I love it sir!

Pure epic!  I love it sir!

I second this!!!

Looking great! If I were to add one thing to Ahab's mount it would be some more highlights in his eye. They look a bit cartoonish when compared to the rest of the model.

Mate that is just awesome.

Good bloody job sir!

This is a brilliant log!  Ahab just makes me happy.  Aces, man.

ive not had a look on here for a little whyle-going great keep  it up

This army looks sick!

I have looked through this thread twice, but have been unable to find the method you use for the nice red skin. Obviously, from what you have said, it is drybrushed up from black. Do you mind sharing the exact method that you used?

Also, how have you done the Ogre pants?

Thanks

Thanks!

The key to drybrushing over black is foundation paints. Regular red would need more steps to get the same coverage.

Since I've neglected to do so before I'll post my full recipe:

1. Assembly
2. Add extra armour bits
3. Sand base
4. Black undercoat
5a. Skin: heavy drybrush of Mechrite Red
5b. Skin: light drybrush of Macharius Solar Orange
6a. Pants and wood: touch up with black if you got any red on them
6b. Pants and wood: heavy drybrush of Khemri Brown
6c. Pants and wood: light drybrush of Dheneb Stone -- at this point parts of the skin will also get a very light drybrush of Dheneb to bring out the details more, such as faces and knuckles
7a. Metal: touch up with black
7b. Metal: heavy drybrush of Adeptus Battlegrey
7c. Metal: light drybrush of Astronomican Grey
7d. Metal: very light drybrush of Skull White
8a. Nails, teeth, eyes: pick out in black
8b. Nails, teeth: pick out in Khemri Brown
8c. Nails, teeth: drybrush (where possible) or highlight Dheneb Stone
8d. Eyes: pick out in white
8e. Eyes: add black pupil dot
9. Any other details
10a. Base: drybrush Calthan Brown
10b. Base: drybrush Bronzed Flesh
10c. Base: paint edge Scorched Brown
11. Touch up any mistakes
12. Add a few grass tufts

A heavy drybrush should cover most of the area but leave the darker colour showing in the recesses. A light drybrush should only stick to raised parts. Obviously this takes some practice to get right but it is a straightforward and very fast way to paint once you get the hang of it.

thanks heaps for posting the recipe Anton.

Do you have anything more you are going to add to your army? I think it is sensational!

Thanks.

I've done some more Ironguts that I don't have pics of yet and a Scraplauncher and some Mournfangs in the works, but nothing as fancy as the big conversions that are already there.

After that I'll probably paint other things for a while (continue on my Greenskins and maybe start a new army), but at some point I want to return to this lot and do Maneaters and Lore customised Butchers.

thanks for the painting recipie. did u use gw brushes also? was there any washing once you were finished the drybrushing?

I use a standard brush (GW currently), a GW medium drybrush, a GW small drybrush and a detail brush. The detail brush is currently GW, but a Windsor and Newton Series 7 will do the same job and last longer for a higher price. Which one I choose is often a matter of convenience (whichever is easier to get when I wear one out).

I go through medium drybrushes like crazy. I use them a lot and drybrushing is tough on the bristles.

No washes on this army. I'm thinking about using one or two on my next one though. It will still be mostly drybrushing but a couple of washes could soften a colour or two so I'm going to try that once I get a few models. A link will appear in my sig once I get a blog going on the appropriate forum.

Just a bump for my updated Lizardmen paintlog on Lustria Online.


This is what I have after two months. The link to the paintlog is in my signature, there are more pictures there. Thanks for looking!