Dirtycrabcakes Deathmaw Gnoblog (new Death Slaughtermaster!!)

I like blue. I play Ultramarines, so I have lots o' blue paint. Deathmaw tribe seems quite appropriate. I started playing when the new book and models were released a couple of months ago. I am a slow painter, so I haven't gotten very far. I am getting close to finishing my 2nd and 3rd ogres, so those should be posted soon. Here is the first ogre I painted - my tyrant. He has no name, so you can call him Bob Bluepants the Terrible.

This was my first time trying to paint rust of any kind. I think it looks good on the morning star part of the weapon and not as good on the main killy part. It looks better in real life than in this pic though. The base needs touching up, but overall, I am pretty happy with him.

Here's a pic of my first bull. He still needs basing. I am not 100% happy with the blood on his chest - I still haven't figured out a good way to paint blood yet. He needs little bit of touch-up and highlighting too.






Here are some pics of my converted BSB using extra stonehorn bits. This is one of my first real kit-bashing attempts. I think he looks pretty decent. I'm not entirely happy with the back of the banner, but oh well. He is mostly painted right now. I will post pics once he is done.





My next post will likely be my first finished irongut.

My tyrant has the same pose/parts and blue pants too Funny coincidence. Same goes for my Bruiser BSB who also as same pose, only difference is the banner which is different.

I like your painting. A lot! Keep it up. Only on thing bothers me and that is the blood on his chest... It looks little slapped on. Otherwise very nice models

Yeah, I completely agree with the blood on the chest comment. I haven't figured out how to make that look right yet.  I need to do some youtube research.

I use a mix of chestnut ink and a very small amount of red ink. Blood starts to turn brown as it drys.

I use a mix of chestnut ink and a very small amount of red ink.

Both of which have been out of production for years I still have a pot of chestnut ink too, but it is probably very hard to get hold of today.

Anyway, nice ogres! The off-yellow pants turned out great, and I like your colours overall. A last highlight (bleached bone?) on the skin will help bring it out. And the blood would maybe look better if it was darker, or like Salt gut said, more brown.

Keep it up!

Thanks for the compliments and tips. I will try out blood suggestions (don't have any inks other than the old blue ink).

Wow, Shoggoth you make me feel old. I'm sure some online company produces a similar paint. I have a whole pot of blood ink mixed up and i use it all the time! I guess i should be more sparing with it, didn't know it would be so hard to replace.

Nice start...

For blood get tamiya Red Clear and some red, purple and black washes and it makse nice Gorey blood.

if im honest im not a fan of the bsb the head and arms are too big and the banner pole is off

if im honest im not a fan of the bsb the head and arms are too big and the banner pole is off

Yup, although neither issue really that noticable on the table top.

I tried to trim the arms as much as a could, but I was afraid that if I cut too much off, the arms wouldn't be usable.

I didn't really get much of chance to paint this weekend, so I don't have any updated pics yet.

I figured I would track my "achievements" here. Total tally is 56 by my count.

1. Gettin Started - Play a game of warhammer using the new ogre book
2. Going Large - Play a game of warhammer of over 2000 points using the new ogre book
3. Brace for impact! - During a game, an ogre unit successfully charges and rolls 10+ on the dice
4. I'm in charge! - play a game with the new book using a tyrant in your army
5. Incoming! - during a game, lose at least 3 ogres to a single war machine shot
6. look what we can do! - have a mornfang rider successfully parry an attack
7. Oooo, shiny! - buy one of the models new to the ogre range
8. That's huge! - build a stonehorn or thundertusk model
9. Sigh! - lose more than 3 ogres to any one casting of a spell that involved you taking an initiative test as part of it's resolution
10. I didn't mean it lads - lose a spellcaster to the "snake eyes" effect of grut's sickle
11. Boom! Hur, Hur, Hur - field a unit of 5+ leadbelchers and shoot with them at least 4 times in a single game.
12. Say hello to my little friend! - field an ironblaster in your army
13. Still loving it - play 5 games using the new book rules
14. Crush the thinlings - take a new book ogre army to a tournament
15. getting colder - field a thundertusk OR a unit of yhetees in your army
16. it's freezing! - field more than one thunder tusk AND a unit of yhettes in your army
17. Getting warmer! - field a firebelly in your army
18. Hot! Hot! - field more than one firebelly in your army
19. Unleash Hell! - field 2 scraplaunchers and 2 iron blasters in your army

20. One for the cauldron - paint an ogre model and post it on the stronghold
21. Paint a unit of ogres
22. Here Kitty! - field 1 or more lone sabretusks in your army
23. Win a game using ogres vs. beastmen.
24. Win a game using ogres vs. Dwarfs
25. Does this taste funny to you? - Win a game using ogres vs. Daemons of chaos
26. Win a game using ogres vs. High elves
27. Win a game using ogres vs. Wood elves
28. Win a game using ogres vs. Dark elves
29. franzfurters - Win a game using ogres vs. Empire
30. Tastes like chicken - Win a game using ogres vs. Lizardmen
31. Stake Out - Win a game using ogres vs. Vampire counts
32. Past their sell-by date - win a game using ogres vs. Tomb kings
33. Eat your greens - Win a game using ogres vs. orcs and goblins
34. Win a game using ogres vs. Warriors of chaos
35. Overtyrant - win a game using ogres vs. Ogres
36. Tinned food - win a game using ogres vs. Bretonnia
37. Rats! - win a game using ogres vs. Skaven
38. Convert one of the new range of ogre models
39. Oops! - destroy either a scraplauncher or an ironblaster with a misfire
40. We don't bicker! - field an army containing 4+ units of gnoblars
41. No auto-wounds for you! - have a butcher or slaughtermaster get hit with a poisoned attack
42. What that  coming over the hill? - field a unit of 4+ mornfangs
43. Now you see me - field a unit of scouting maneaters
44. Hunger! - field 3 gorgers in an army
45. Hahahaha! - kill 3+ models in a single use of the gnoblar trappers rule.
46. Fork in the eye! - kill an enemy character with a scraplauncher killing blow
47. I'm special - field any one of the ogre special characters in your army
48. The maw! - successfully use the large template version of the maw spell to kill an enemy model
49. the maw the merrier! - have the large template version ofmaw spell roll a misfire and kill one or more of your ogres.
50. Oh no you don't - use the greedy fist item to consume the magical properties of a weapon
51. I Heart you - use the hellheart to cause miscasts in 2+ enemy wizards in one use.
52. hole is where the heart is - cause an enemy wizard to dimensional cascade and go down a hole using the hellheart.
53. Its mine, MINE! - use the gnoblar Thiefstone to steal an item from an enemy character.
54. Just the lads - field an army containing ONLY ogres, no animals, gnoblars, etc.  Bonus if you also win.
55. You can't touch this - pass a 4+ ward vs flaming with a firebelly.
56. Start a gnoblog for your ogre army
57. Update pics into your ogre gnoblog on at least 4 seperate occasions.
58. Use the thunder mace in a game to kill 10+ models with thunder crush attacks (does not have to be all in one attack)
59. Why do I bother? - lose 3 games in a row with your ogre army
60. Overpowered! - win 3 games in a row with your ogre army.
61. That's no place for a hatchet - roll a 2 on the scraplauncher misfire chart
62. Jugger! - roll a 10+ when successfully charging with a stone horn
63. Re-roll this! - subject 3+ high elf units to numbing chill in the same combat phase
64. Oh shi-! - Have a slaughermaster or butcher die from rolling a 1 on Bloodgruel.
65. Seigebroken - Hit a building with Seigebreaker.
66. OH GOD MY FACE! - Kill an enemy character with  the chaintrap from the Thundertusk.
67. Dancing On Sunshine -. Have a character pass his Initative test from being hit by Purple Sun.
68. Sunburned - Kill an Ogre with a Purple Sun that YOU cast.
69. Why Can't I Hold All These Items? - Roll 120pts for Golgfag magic item allowance.
70. Buffy The Ogre Caster - Have all of your Slaughtermasters spells be augments.
71. It's Rude To Bragg - Have Bragg kill a Large Target in a challenge.
72. WHAT THE FU-BOOOM! - Destroy an enemy model with an Ironblaster misfire. 
73. Soups on! -  Have Skrag kill enough models to unlock all of his special rules in one game
74. Crusher - play 10 games with the new ogre book
75. Bruiser - play 20 games with the new ogre book
76. Tyrant - play 50 games with the new ogre book
77. Maneater - play with the new ogre book in 5 different venues
78. ker-splat! - kill an enemy unit with just your impact hits alone.
79. Box clever - construct, buy or convert a new carry case for your ogre army
80. Altered beast power up! - boost every unit in your army with a single augment from the lore of the great maw
81. ...and you play Ogres!? - Have more war machine weapons in your army than your opponent.
82. Small, but many -have a gnoblar horde break an enemy unit.
83. We're all there - have a unit of at least 12 ogres get into the enemy deployment zone with no casualties taken.
84. My horde is bigger then yours - have an ogre horde break an enemy horde.
85. So much power lost - have an ogre unit roll 10 or more and still fail a charge.
86. Rambo or Conan? - have a lone ogre lose a combat but pass his break test.
87. You call that a club?.... THIS is a club - cause 6 S10's with Siegebreaker on a unit occupying a building.
88. Ogre zoo - Paint at least one of the Stonehorn, Thundertusk, Mournfang and Sabretusk models.
89. She's a Maaaaaneater! - paint the female Maneater model.
90. They're not bloody Eagles you know! - Run a Hunter in a unit of 5 or more Sabretusks.
91. But they're soooo cute! - Fill your whole core with Gnoblars.
92. Bird brained - kill an enemy model with a hunter's blood vulture.
93. Timber! - lose an ogre when a giant (yours or your opponent's) falls on one of your units.
94. Thinling roast! - kill 5 enemy models with a single firebelly breath weapon blast
95. Cats paw - Kill a skaven weapon team with a sabretusk
96. Halitosis - use 3 breath weapon attacks in a single game.
97. Billy no-mates - field an army with only 1 character in it.  He cannot deploy in a unit or join one.  Bonus if he survives the game.
98. Steady now! - Use freehand to paint a banner for an ogre unit
99. Da lads! - post a pic of your entire army on the stronghold in your ogre gnoblog.
100. Feast master - place 1st, or best in race, at a tournament.
101. Brrrr! - field more than one thundertusk in your army OR more than one unit of yhettes in your army

I've got a few WIP photos to post. I tend to jump around with my painting a lot, so I find it a bit hard to get any model 100% complete in a short amount of time. Here is my first irongut (about 90% done), my first leadbelcher (about 50% done) and my BSB (about 75% done). I've been working on my rust techniques lately.





What's wrong with this picture?







And... my BSB. I really need to finish him. The damn gnoblar on his should is really annoying me. I can't figure out how I want to paint him.

Is that a space marine shield on that iron gut???!!!   

You got it... it grants him a 6+ invlun (ward) save.

Well deserved after beating up a space marine for it!!!   

Well deserved after beating up a space marine for it!!!   

Beating up... or Eating up?

If you want to get the most realistic looking blood model wise, you can use the clear red from tamiya. It dries up glossy and a bit clear almost like looking through a puddle.You can add a touch of black and it looks like dried clotted blood.. I will use that on my ogres to get the look.
Here is an orc where I have used the tamiya clear red on the axe and the dwarf head.

Well deserved after beating up a space marine for it!!!   

Beating up... or Eating up?

Quite Right!  I stand corrected   

I am getting a new battalion in and I will be making some maneater conversions that I am excited about. I will actually be trying to sculpt something with greenstuff. My plan is to make a unit of maneater gunslingers, modeled after Roland Deschain. Something like this:



I don't think I will be able to do a bandolier, unless there is some bits I could use, but I am planning on sculpting the hats and jackets. To look somewhat similar.

My unit champion will be the paymaster maneater - his jacket already works - just need to give him a hat.

Ohh, the dark tower is looming over the horizon at last..
can't wait to see the work on these.

Ohh, the dark tower is looming over the horizon at last..
can't wait to see the work on these.

Well, I am very, very inexperienced with conversions, so be prepared to be... underwhelmed. 

I love the idea of Dark Tower maneaters, looking forward to seeing what you do with them.

I am getting a new battalion in and I will be making some maneater conversions that I am excited about. I will actually be trying to sculpt something with greenstuff. My plan is to make a unit of maneater gunslingers, modeled after Roland Deschain. Something like this:

Definitely look forward to seeing those bad boys!  The idea of ogres in trench coats and funky hats is awesome!   

Decided to try my hand at sculpting a cowboy hat using a spare ogre head. I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Hopefully it will look good painted.

If you made one with an extra long greenstuff poncho





You could make an additonal maneater and not have to use an Ogre body.  Like with my sniper maneaters, I soaked strips of t-shirt in Elmer's Glue and it gave me a firm enough body to glue things to.

Very interesting idea... I may have to try that out.

If you made one with an extra long greenstuff poncho





You could make an additonal maneater and not have to use an Ogre body.  Like with my sniper maneaters, I soaked strips of t-shirt in Elmer's Glue and it gave me a firm enough body to glue things to.

Very interesting idea... I may have to try that out.

It's all about saving those precious Ogre bodies.

I still need legs though... may have to actually sculpt those.

Slaughtermaster:





Next project - try to finish a couple of maneaters.

Slaughter looks great! Liking the subtle blue to insinuate the tribe an the bruised fleshy tones around the nails are especially good!

Slaughter looks great! Liking the subtle blue to insinuate the tribe an the bruised fleshy tones around the nails are especially good!

Thanks for the kind words! I was afraid that the the bruised/irritated areas of skin weren't subtle enough.

They are not subtle no, but would wounds such as those bars/nails produce subtle bruises? NO so they're awesome!!

Nice! The slaughtermaster is looking great! If you want an easy way to do blood heres how:
1:Layer the area with red gore.
2:Highlight the red area with Blood Red.
3:You can use Flesh wash, brown ink, or watered down snakebite leather and scorched brown in a 3(water):1(Sankebite):1(Scorched Brown)
(Optional) One final highlight of blood red.
(Optional) Use ardcoat to give the area an effect that looks like the blood was just spilled.
Hope that helps!

THanks - I did something similar for the SM, although I wanted his blood to look mainly like it was somewhat old and dried. I like how it turned out on him as compared to previous models I did.

Pics of my ironguts - pics may be a bit crappy due to using an iPhone camera instead of my DSLR. These days I've been using my tyrant as my IG champion since I rarely field him as an actual tyrant. I actually started this unit way back. I tried to use greenstuff to make the extended hilt on my musician and it looks dumb. Other than that, I am happy with the unit.

Command:



Action shot!



One of my favorite models from the unit:





And conga line, showing off their shields!

Those are some pretty awesome Ironguts you've got there I particularly like the skin tone you're using.

JJ

Thanks! I think the skin tone is more similar to the original ogre skin tone (which I like better than the new flesh-toned ogres).

Yes, that's what I like about it. I was a little agrieved when I noticed that the generic ogre skin tone had changed from the old one, to the new man flesh one. I thought the old, grey-ish skin tone made the Ogres unique and defined them as a race. I am glad to see someone is still carrying it on Not to mention, the shading on your skin tone is very good

JJ

I agree, infact I spent about 5 days learning how to do the old one. Still can't get it 100% match but mine are very similar.

Ok! I got 2 completed maneater gunslingers for ya! A 3rd one is right around the corner too...

First up is my maneater champion - loosely based on Indiana Jones. I switched his flail with a whip and took the sword off his hip and replaced it with an ogre pistol.





2nd up is a regular gunslinger, based off the Roldand Deschain character from the Dark Tower series.







And a group shot...

Those guys have a real "Deadwood" feel to them.  Nice job. 

Have a Gnoblar on me.   

Thanks!

Love those maneaters! Particularly like the 'Dark Tower' conversion. I'm not normally a fan of people's ogre to maneaters conversions as they never quite seem far enough from bulls to me but this is definitely an exception looks fantastic with great execution on the sculpting.

Also, I am also annoyed at the new fleshy ogres. Why? Why? Why did they do it? It was unique .... Oh well! At least it lives on in us

Awesome - thanks for the feedback!

Most have probably already seen this from the other thread I started, but here's my Grut's-wielding Slaughtermaster of death - notice the pile of heads at (under) his feet? I title this miniature:

"Grut's Gone Wrong."

Absolutely fantastic conversion! I think you've executed Grut's Sickle superbly, and it's impossible to mistake. Enjoy your pet gnobbo

JJ

Thanks again!

Nice conversion and a great use of Braggs weapons!

Not a ogre. Deal wit' it.