Fistus Tribe's Merry Men [13/1/15 It's a Giant...]

This'll be my Gnoblog for painting my at the moment smallish, but ever growing Ogre army.

I haven't really played Warhammer at all in the last ten or so years, just a few games at a friends place with his armies and having a pint or two at the same time. Most of the time I play skirmish games like Malifaux or Infinity or just boardgames. At some stage I bought a few Skaven models (Screaming Bell, unit of Clanrats, Doomwheel) for painting and did paint them. Then I almost started putting an army together but realized I'll never be able to paint a gazillion clanrats to the standard I'd like to.

Some time ago I decided to buy a few Ogres to paint. Then we decided to start a Border Patrol thingy and here I am. Building an army of dirty fat men. Who worship the god of all things perverse. Almost like in any Con one might attend. But at least I'll survive with the amount of models most people will have in a single unit.

Currently I have finished as sort of test models four Ironguts and four Leadbelchers. On my table I have 2 more Ironguts and 14 Bulls (the battalion box) and the female Maneater to lead the tribe as the Tyrant. And in the drawer there's ten Chaos Warhounds as replacement Sabretusks, a Thundertusk and a few Gnoblars along some trappers. And I'm considering getting a box of the VC Crypt Horrors to make some Yhetees or Gorgers...

Here's some pictures of the finished models, followed by some step by step photos of the progress for what I'm working on.





The models have been basecoated white, followed by a layer of reddish brown, all over the model with an airbrush. It gives an uniform start for the colour of the whole model, I'll probably start all the models with the brown layer, no matter what the final colour, it will show through here and there anyways. The color is a mix of Tamiya Flat Brown and Vallejo Scarlet Red.





Next I painted the skin with Flat Flest by Tamiya. I painted the colour in a downward angle so some of the brown will be left visible and to create shading in the darkest regions. This is followed by a first highlight of Flat Flesh mixed with white painted in thin layers and only on the parts of skin that will get more light. You can see the difference in colour in the following picture.



After that I painted a layer of pure white, well diluted and only on the frontside of the Ogres to create a slight contrast between the backs and fronts. It's not much but it'll give some feeling to the finished model.



Then the whole skin is painted with a layer of diluted Ogryn Flesh/Reikland Flesh, not flooding the whole model but instead, more like glazing and just to change the color. Apply another layer in the shadowed regions to create a deeper shadow.



Then I start to add a pinker tone. I use a really diluted wash/glaze of Murderous Magenta by P3. Again, don't let the paint pool anywhere, your brush should be almost dry, just leaving a thin layer of paint that'll dry almost instantly. I use more on the face because it needs to have a good contrast.



That's all for now. Next layer will be Leviathan purple to the shadows, then a greenish wash for the skin to get a more sickly tone. This is a combination of various techniques in tutorials I've read and watched. It can be quite easily applied to any colour scheme and any miniature. The airbrushing part is optional, you can achieve similar results with a brush too, it'll just take a bit more time.

Very nice flesh tone, might try something similar once I get to my painting stage!

The completed Irongut has some lovely muted colors.

Very nice! I really like the scheme you've got going.

I haven't had as much time to paint as I would have liked to in the last couple of days but I did finish the skin on the ogres. There'll be more pictures later. Some of the faces might still need deeper shadows around the eyes but I'll get to that'll be one of the last stages of painting the minis.

The clothes and bits of armour will be a bit easier to paint as that's pretty much only a couple of different shades of brown and grey to create a bit of variation in the colour, washed with black and brown washes. The metals will receive an undercoat of old Chainmail. For the Ironguts I use Tin Bitz, another old favorite.

And by old I mean the paints from the 90's. It's still one of my favorite metallic paints. I have two pots left, the old lift tops are great, the paints are still pretty much perfect and I haven't had a need to add any water. It covers well, the surface of the paint is pretty much flat and the pigment size is good. Vallejo's Model Air Gungrey/Gunmetal is another good one but the coverage isn't as good in one layer.

But anyways, that's it for now. I'll try to get more painting done tomorrow or on Tuesday. I'll try to remember to take more pictures then too.

In the end, for today and yesterday, I've been remodeling my kitchen. Hopefully I'll finish by tomorrow and can finally get back to my minis. Though I have to admit that the kitchen looks really nice with the white and black finish, it almost justifies not painting my models.

Really like the finished darker browns.  Makes them stand out even though they are dark.

Finally! A long awaited update! With pictures!

I've finished painting the Bulls and Guts. Wheeee. Well, the bases are still under way but that's a quick fix I'll finish tomorrow. I've also bought new stuff to paint. Yaaay.



There's a Giant and a Stonehorn under the way and also four Mournfang Cavalry. In my closet there're still the Chaos Warho... Sabretusks to be plus some Vampire Counts Crypt Horrors I'll try to make into believable Yhetees or Gorgers. The debate is still ongoing in my mind, as I think a Gorger should look a bit more menacing, there's Crypt thingies are so meager and small. I'll probably just add some fur, maybe swap/sculpt the heads for something more approriate and be done with it. The Stonehorn, poor little bugger, will have to do without mutations for the most part.



And here's my Giant, lovingly named Almi. He draws some serious inspiration from the movie Pan's Labyrinth. I can't remember what the creature is called but it's from some sort of Spanish/Southern European folklore. Basically it has eyes on it's palms instead of face and it eats little kids. How nice.

I'll have to sculpt a right hand for him as there are none ready in the Giant sprues. Stupid GW and their right-handed policy on weapons. Why can't I just have peaceful Giant without weapons... Another option would of course be just using a weapon hand, chaotify the weapon a bit, mend it into the arm and add a few eyes to that. The armor on left arm is proudly stolen from the head od a Thundertusk.

And anyone who was looking for more step by step photos, sorry, I just painted in so small batches that I sort of forgot to take pictures. The last steps were pretty much adding some more Leviathan purple to the face and painting the eyes white. The weapons were first painted with Chainmail, Stippled with brown, then I added a layer each of black and brown washes.

Wooden bits got a basecoat of brown, then I painted some rally quick wood grain on that with a light khaki colour. Wooden grain should be painted with some thin short streaks that curve a little. I'll try to make a small step by step on that soon too. People tend to struggle on that some times. Then a layer of brown wash, add more wood grain again and then a second wash.

Stones were painted with gray, some highlight were added with light grey, then a black wash. After that i did some more highlights with the original grey and some edge highlights with a mixture of the original grey and white.

A mini-update. After whiffing some more plastic glue fumes I finished the other arm. I like how he turned out all weird and scary. Just a bit of work with grey stuff and liquid green stuff, add a few extra pieces and it's ready for painting. On that note, liquid green stuff has surprised me, it's actually quite a good product.

Finally got the ogres on the bases.

I've now got 14 painted Bulls, 6 Ironguts and 4 Leadbelchers.





Here's the rest of the stuff in works. I'll try to build the Mournfangs tonight abd get all the new stuff basecoated tomorrow unless the missus has better use for me. On another note, I bought the Wet Nurse from Kingdom Death to act as a Slaughtermaster, that'll probably make a few people roll their eyes.

Alright kids, look away... There's definitely something weird going on on my table. A little more and they're ready to be glued to the bases.

omg Is that what I think it is? Lol.

Nice work man, nice work!

omg Is that what I think it is? Lol.

Nice work man, nice work!

Yup your not imagining it.  He's got his meat and 2 veg on show!   

Okay, I got Mr./Ms. Meat and Veggies and Dat Bruiser ready on Thursday night. It was a quick paint job but I'm quite happy with the results. The Bruiser could poke someones eyes out with those nipples and her friend Gool 'ol Butcher does that even without touching anyone. So this is the army for Border Patrol with 1200 points done (plus a tiny bit extra points). It's also a good point starting point for a larger army as I have around 800 points of Core.

I got the first game under my belt on Friday, completely destroyed an army of Dwarfs, not nearly a cheesy list on either of us. I had some luck with the dice while taking on his Slayers in the Wathctower and his Miners came a turn or two too late, I had killed his rangers with a block of Bulls and Dat Bruiser already. Mr./Ms. Butch was happily throwing around the +1S spell and Leadies run to take on the Warmachines, as did a smaller unit of Bulls.

At the end of the battle none of the Dwarves had survived, none even got to run away. That +1S has some good effect together with Stomps and Impacts. Even got an Ogre Charge once and there wasn't much left after that.

The paint theme is nice to paint and even fairly quick to do now. I'll have to paint a couple more Ironguts to strenghten the unit and get some really weird Chaos Maneaters done, probably taking some themes out of Hellraiser and Berserk.







Here's what I'm working on currently. Afte airbrushing, I've painted a few layers on the Giant, he's coming along nicely and will most likely look really good when I'm done. I'm taking a bit of extra care painting him to get the blends a little bit smoother. His hands will be closer to purple, something like the faces on the Ogres, the pants will be painted in green and brown. I also bought a second box of Mournfangs on Friday to make the unit a bit more survivable.

Finally got some painting done again. I had some big plans for painting during Christmas but those failed miserably. But I ended up cleaning my mini closets and found some paints I had lost and a lot of other stuff too. After organizing, I can even find stuff from there.

The colours in the picture aren't perfect, my Fuji still burns white if photographed against a dark background. It's still in work in progress stage though the skin is finished for most part. But it's a great model to paint. I'm really enjoying this one.



And if someone is interested in 15mm Scifi and 40k, here's a link to another picture of models I'm currently working on. The Eldar are quite dirty on purpose. More Stuff