Scarecrow's Fancy Stuff

Well, I follow everyone else's gnoblogs very often so i decided i'd make my own.  I don't paint purely ogres so there will other projects that i'm working on, since i do also have a beastmen army.  I have quite a list of things i need to get done with this army, most of which is simply painting every ogre that i have.

Figured it would only be right to start off with the fun achievements!

Ogre Achievements

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

And the big guys!


Here are some closer pictures of the bulls.



Some guts.


And some characters.




And of course a big beastie.

Looking great so far! I like the blue war paint, it works well. Any reason why you opted for a different skin colour for the Firebelly?

Fluff reasons, oddly enough.  Since most firebellys are nomadic, i wanted to reflect that in mine and not have him be actually FROM the tribe itself, but just happening to have stumbled across it and was welcomed in.  My maneaters will likely have similar skin tones so they can look like they have been away and weren't originally part of the tribe itself.

Wow, everything looks great, but I especially like the Firebelly. The skin looks fantastic. But the tyrant and the overall very coherent scheme look very nice.

Fine army you got there.

Yeah this is sweet stuff and I echo the firebelly - the whole model looks great (and cold).

Finally got the saddle onto my stonehorn.  Not sure why this guy is taking me so long but i'm getting a lot closer.

Guess who finally has a rider!  The only thing i have left is one small trophy and then he's all done!  I'm excited!




Who wouldn't want to kiss this lovable face

And on that picture, my stone horns done!

Got a head start on next months pledge!  My ironblaster, which is all the games i've played has done something that makes me happy, whether it's blow apart a plague furnace, or rip through a warsphinx, so it's time that he got painted so that i don't have to use my beastman chariot anymore!

All the bits:


Tusks:


Rhinox:


Main structure (the only part thats completely done):



Still a ton of work to do though. 

Problem is that with vacation starting tomorrow, i'm gone for a week or so so my productivity is gonna take a massive hit.  That's alright though.  Still gonna try and get him done by the end of next month!

ANy chance of a Mel Gibson ogre in this lists future?

ANy chance of a Mel Gibson ogre in this lists future?

Not gonna lie, i'm now thinking of a way to make a maneater that could just fit that description...

Well, i had gotten a bit of work done on my ironblaster before i headed off to vacation but never did post any photos.

Well, now that i'm back from vacationing with my lovely lovely girlfriend, it's time to post a little bit of progress.



I'm hoping to get a little more work done on it tomorrow, as well as maybe a shot or two of the large tusks as they progress, since i'm happy with how those look so far.

Great painting!
Curious how the Rhinox turns out!

More progress on the ironblaster!

I finally convinced the girlfriend to give painting a try!  Heres what she came up with:


I said she didn't have to paint a gnoblar, but she wanted to paint something that would be useful to me, so i let her have at it. 

The best part is that she told me that when she woke up this morning, she wanted to paint some more!  You can imagine my excitement when i heard this 

Love that stonehorn!
Curious, what paints did you use to get that colour fur?

I just noticed the stonehorns base.... 

Love that stonehorn!
Curious, what paints did you use to get that colour fur?

Basecoat with Calthan Brown
Was with Devlan Mud
Drybrush with Calthan Brown
Drybrush with Blazing Orange
Wash with Devlan Mud
Selectively drybrush with Blazing Orange

That should be about right.

I just noticed the stonehorns base.... 

 

Nice blog and realy like your painting style!
Good job on the stone horn and cant wait to see the IB finished!

What's that noise?

It's the sound of progress my friends!  My ironblaster is nearly complete, and i am down to trophies. 







Enjoy

Trophies done so full model is complete.  Yay me