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Hey there, just got myself the batallion box, the army book and a hunter. After some reading in the book and looking at pictures I tought of a tribe which is tracking itself. I've some cool Ideas for a story and ready for converting some models. Altough I'm not really sure how to convert them yet, I am sure that I want to make them unique.
Instead of making the 24 gnoblars which would come with the box according to the back I just cutted out all of them and made like 40.
With this new army I want to learn 3 new things. 2 of them come together and are blending and NMM. The 3th thing is converting with greenstuff.
I already painted my first bull but I'm not really happy with it. My techniques need some more work, but most of all I don't like it because it is to plain/normal. The pictures are a bit dark, this is because of an anti-lighting thing, which prevents that my pictures from becoming to light
I'll be working on my story, I hope you got some inspiration or tips for me for what I can do with this unknown tracking.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe all hail Henk !
Gorg skullcrushdate unknown
Not a huge fan of nmm but the painting looks really good. Nice and clean. Good work. looking forward to more pics.
cheers,Gorg
I put the laughter in manslaughter.
His name shall be Herman Li
ss_bashamdate unknown
Your technique looks fine to me. Very nice.
I am the Eightfold path!
speedygogodate unknown
I'm impressed with you painting job, very nice.
Ghworgdate unknown
Very nice paintjob, and the background is intriguing.
Hey I got a pet Gnoblar! mmmmmm Gnoblar...
Vargh Gnobsplatterdate unknown
Forgot to post the close up of the banner yesterday.
Working on the NMM ironfist of the second ogre, got some problems with doing the lower parts.
When I get frustrated, I unleash my frustrations on my gnoblars (less painting quality). Want to give them a more snowy look too tough, have to think about that too.
Also made a little list of how I think the army should look like. Lords: Tyrant, 321 -The Tenderiser -Gut Maw -Wyrdstone Necklace -Heavy armour - 2 sword gnoblars, 1 luck gnoblar it could also be that I make a special character
And a WIP of the story: My name is Vargh Gnobsplatter. I'm the Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe. My story starts long ago when I was just a young bull in the Son of the Mountains Tribe back then. The Hunter of that tribe found some tracks of a group of other invading ogres. They had been plundering our territory for a while. So the Tyrant walked up to the Hunter "Follow 'em, find out whot's Walk'n here. Dunt come back 'till you know what it is" he said. So the Hunter took some of us bulls, and his little group of trappers. There we started following the tracks. In the late afternoons we stopped and builded small encampments to stay over for the night. Also we played games, often at the cost of some gnoblars. During this games I beated up my Crusher, making me the new leader of the bulls.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe all hail Henk !
Gorg skullcrushdate unknown
why do the gnobs have metallics?
cheers,Gorg
I put the laughter in manslaughter.
His name shall be Herman Li
Vargh Gnobsplatterdate unknown
They must have something to bicker for and most of all, I don't want to spend to much effort in them (40 small annoying thingies, which can't even fight proper )
Very nice paintjob, and the background is intriguing.
Sorry, I'm dutch and don't know what intriguing means, I translated it to dutch with a dictionary but don't know the dutch word neither... It is something like impressive right ?
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe all hail Henk !
Gorg skullcrushdate unknown
Ok . Intruiging means interesting.(so good)
cheers,Gorg
I put the laughter in manslaughter.
His name shall be Herman Li
Coraidate unknown
I think you've really got the blending thing down. The gnoblar skin, ogre pants and ogre skin are all blended very well. the only thing I'm not sold on is the highlights on the ogres man boobs. Are they warpaint for an extremem highlight. If the l;atter something seems a bit off about them,. I like the NMM on the gutplate but it looks like it could sue some more layers/feathering in the future or a wash to bring the layers together a bit more as the differant colours are a little visible right now. Likewise the iroinfist is really coming along but not quite working. Have you seen Vincenti's NMM gnoblog for his Empire Greatswords? They're a great example of NMM silver/steel and I'm sure he'll be willing to give you a few pointers
Thanks Corai
Ashamed I didn't think of it before, I've renamed my Pet Gnoblar's Hannibal, Face, B.A., Murdock and Sam & Al and Quincy
Dtrikdate unknown
I'm pretty positive thats warpaint Corai, otherwise those would be some very shiny man boobs
Your models look great, NMM is no minor feat either, great job!
<---George
The Friendbashers Tribe
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Vargh Gnobsplatterdate unknown
The white stripes on the boobs are warpaint indeed, he also has stripes on his upper arms and one on his head. I gave the second model more like a picture instead of stripes so you won't get confused
I saw Vincenti's greatswords yesterday, the NMM is impresive. I've read a lot (think all of them) of tutorials on the net, but still I'm doing something wrong. And the blending needs some work yes, but I'm getting better *points at the ironfist*.
Will update the story this evening.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe all hail Henk !
Vargh Gnobsplatterdate unknown
Quickly took some foto's before the sun had set, but when you take foto's at sunset they'll get an orange glow. Not really happy with the pictures, but I don't want to keep them from you. It's still WIP, and looks nicer IRL IMO. I'll make new pictures tomorrow with full sunlight. Sorry but no new story part, I painted instead. And btw, I don't paint this fast but I was already started before I started this gnoblog.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe all hail Henk !
Ghworgdate unknown
As always, I love the simplicity of the colours and the skill of the painting. I am particularly impressed by the warpaint.
Hey I got a pet Gnoblar! mmmmmm Gnoblar...
Coraidate unknown
I definaltley like the warpaint in this one. much clearer as warpaint and addas a nice, stark contrast to the skin
Thanks Corai
Ashamed I didn't think of it before, I've renamed my Pet Gnoblar's Hannibal, Face, B.A., Murdock and Sam & Al and Quincy
Corai03 May 2007
looks good to me. I actualy really like the bracer, shame to hear you too kit off, but if yopu weren't happy with it in real life there's not much else you can do wit hit. Good luck with the comp, I hope this guy turns out great
Thanks Corai
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Ghworg03 May 2007
That bloke looks brilliant. How did u do the High Elf style armour?
2 Pet Gnoblars! I dub them Itchy and Scratchy, for reasons that are too private to divulge.
Vargh Gnobsplatter03 May 2007
I started out with making a rough triangle shape of greenstuff, and putted that on the ogre. Then I flattened it (some more at the top to make it look likes it goes under the belt). Then I made to sharp cuts to make the final triangle shape and to get rid of the excess greenstuff. After that I pressed the edges down a little bit for the cloth underneath the scale mail. I made the scale mail by following the chaos dwarf video tutorial. Tough next time I'm going to try and make better vertical layers.
Started painting his trousers today. Decided to give it some more layers then the normal ones since it has to win a competition.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter05 May 2007
Here are some pictures of the trousers which are almost finished. And the skin has had a dwarf flesh basecoat, next step will be a 3:1 , elf flesh : scorched brown mix. (just like the other 2) I was thinking of adding some red to the mix for the shades at the skin, will it look good or should I stick to the brown shades ?
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Corai05 May 2007
The blending on the pants looks awesome. I'd think some red added to the skin shade would work nicely with the blue pants colour. But I'd keep it quite minimal, more of a ruddy brown/terracotta
Thanks Corai
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RezaKk05 May 2007
Wow wish i could paint trousers like that
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Vargh Gnobsplatter05 May 2007
basecoat storm blue, layer of regel blue, ultramarines blue at the top, mix those 50:50 and paint it between the layers, then 25:75 and do the same. It not that hard if you know how to do it
Maybe I'll make a tutorial with pictures of how I paint my ogres one day.
P.S. my first post as bruiser
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Blu Blu05 May 2007
They look really good I also think adding red to the skin mix could be good but be careful because its easy to turn flesh colours into pinks if you add to much reds and whites.
Cheers
Blu Blu.
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Vargh Gnobsplatter08 May 2007
Painted the scalemail, and the cloth underneath it. I'm rather happy with the NMM of the mail, could be better, but looks good for my standards. funny thing is that the cloth under the mail is painted with spacewolfs grey, but looks like white IRL.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Corai08 May 2007
the scale mail certinaly looksg reat. Possibley your best NMM so far. The SENMM works really well with regimented detail like mail and you've done a great job.
I'm curious, was the skin painted that colour before you stted or do you apply rough, block base colours before giving the model detail?
thanks Corai
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Vargh Gnobsplatter08 May 2007
I've to mix my skin color, but it doesn't covers really great. That's why I start out with roughly painting the skin with dwarf flesh. It saves me a lot of mixing
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Ghworg08 May 2007
I love that scale mail. Very nicely painted.
2 Pet Gnoblars! I dub them Itchy and Scratchy, for reasons that are too private to divulge.
Gorg skullcrush08 May 2007
Wow that nmm scale mail is absolutely amazing. Great work.
cheers,gorg
They cant stop us let 'em try, For heavy metal we will die.
Vargh Gnobsplatter10 May 2007
Me and a friend of mine went to our hobby store. And got ourself a new hobby called Confrontation. But not to much about that, I got some really cool wolfen models and was thinking that they would also make very cool gorgers. http://www.rackham-store.com/boutique/images_produits/FRWFBO01_2.jpg
The tree thingy creature is as high as an ogre, so the wolves are just a bit bigger. I'll make some pictures tomorrow to show the size difference. The bases are only 2mm smaller then the GW bases and I'm not planning on joining tournaments. So what do you guys think ?
***edit*** The image is rather big, so I changed it into a link instead of having the image here.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
---Hamrin---10 May 2007
Awesome painting
I think the wolfen models would look good, the feet might look weird compared to yer ogres though
My Pet Gnoblar is called nothing but "food"
The Over Belly10 May 2007
I really like the bold colours!!
Wonderful photos by the way, must work out how you do it, any suggestion!?
Oh yea, I think I must be a bit slow... what is NMM?
Thanks
tOB.
«You better get inside the Over belly.»
Corai10 May 2007
NMM?
NMM is non metallic metals. Its painting flat colours onto a model to trick the eye into thinking it's looking at metal
thanks corai
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The Over Belly10 May 2007
Ahh I see, the NMM mail looks really nice then, come out good.
Surely it would be quick to just use a metallic paint?
Or am I missing the point... again heh
Thanks
tOB.
«You better get inside the Over belly.»
Gorg skullcrush10 May 2007
ya it would be quicker but some people prefer this look.
cheers,Gorg
They cant stop us let 'em try, For heavy metal we will die.
The Over Belly10 May 2007
See knew I missed the point.
Are you going to fashion the mail to all your ogres?
tOB
«You better get inside the Over belly.»
Vargh Gnobsplatter11 May 2007
(forgot to say, the wolfen are not painted by me. They're painted by profesional painters from Rackham.)
I've a high elf army done in metalic. Then I saw NMM on the internet and tought it looked pretty cool. So I decided to do my next army in NMM aswel, and that turned out to be my ogres
And yes, I'm going to do more mail on my ogres. It is not that hard to make and paint. And really looks great, plus it gives a bit of an elven look to it
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter12 May 2007
Finished the leather parts, and with that the lower body of the crusher (not a really big update). So now there's no excuse left to start with the skin
And here's the pictures of the Wolfes next to my crusher as I promised. They're slightly bigger then ogres. So I think they'll make perfect gorgers, or even yhetees.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter17 Aug 2008
*bump* (like massive bump)
I finished the crusher long ago, it even was in a painting competition on this forum. But never posted the pics of it in my log. so here it is:
The model deserves better pics, but it's all I've now.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Reg0617 Aug 2008
That looks... fantastic. Very good job. Everything is smooth, and very well done.
But there's no iron shoes- nooooo!
Quote from: Ganymede on Mar 26, 2009, 11:17:45 AM
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just-josh17 Aug 2008
You really have got this thing about Ogres not havin iron shoes, haven't you Reg?
Good looking paint job mate Very smooth, and transgressional Is the metal NMM or does it just look like it?
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Quote from: Shadowlord on Mar 11, 2013, 01:57:18 PM
After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.
And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
Manowar17 Aug 2008
It is definitely NMM (which is very nice by the way).
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Vargh Gnobsplatter17 Aug 2008
Wearing iron boots in the snow wouldn't be that smart, would it? Anyhow my leadbelchers do have the iron shoes.
Is the metal NMM or does it just look like it?
I take that as a compliment it's NMM indeed.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
just-josh17 Aug 2008
It is incredible!
JJ
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Quote from: Shadowlord on Mar 11, 2013, 01:57:18 PM
After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.
And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
Patuljak17 Aug 2008
Looking fantastic! Great job on the "metallic" parts and I'm loving the warpaints, they look crude and sharp - might just steal the general design myself
Eagerly awaiting more pics!
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Vargh Gnobsplatter18 Aug 2008
18-08-08
Painting my fourth bull, it feels like it's going to bore me (he has nothing special). But it's good to freshen my skill. Going on a holiday tomorrow evening, the stories say that there's a good hobby store in the city near the bungalow so I might get some new paints there (and maybe some brushes).
I'm planning on building a unit filler for my gnoblars, those creatures are irritating. At the moment I use them to unleash my frustration on. Imagine yourself mixing paint, painting a layer, mixing, painting, mixing, painting, mixing, painting, make a mistake, fixing, mixing, painting, etc. After a while it's so nice to pick up a gnoblar, a big brush and just rush the little fellow.
I saw some bretton gnoblars in another log, can't recall whose log it was. But I'm going to steal the idea and get some gnoblars which I'm going to give HE stuff from my bit box.
and an image taken with my cellphone and edited with paint(shame on me x2), so you have something to look at
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
just-josh19 Aug 2008
They look incredible mate Are you doing NMM across the whole army?
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Quote from: Shadowlord on Mar 11, 2013, 01:57:18 PM
After all, painting 100 night goblins is something you do in the morning just before you are off to work.
And I think you missed a 0 when you wrote 11 armies. The correct nr should be 110 armies I would think, based on your painting speed.
Vargh Gnobsplatter19 Aug 2008
I try to keep it up, going to take a long while before the army is finished.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Lexy19 Aug 2008
Vargh, the ogres look great. Now I'm not a fan of alot of blood on weapons, but I miss the rust a bit for the weapons. I know that you don't want to spoil the NMM by splatting rust on it, but though painted great the look a bit, ummm....elfy
Painted great though.
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Quote from: Cormorant on Aug 24, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
Now all we need is the 7th edition rule that said if the models are killed they don't get to fight and we WOULD be a broken army! lol
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Vargh Gnobsplatter19 Aug 2008
they're supposed to look elfy But I might try it out as soon as I've found out how to make rust on NMM. Suggestions anyone?
well, I'm off for my holiday. See you guys in a week.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter26 Aug 2008
Weekly issue #1 26-08-08
First of all, I decided to make a major post every week to highlight the things I've done that week. And to show the total progress of my tribe.
As I stated earlier in my log, I went on a holiday last week. And this week was not without thinking of warhammer. In a matter of fact I did some great work. To start, I bought 7 new paints and 3 brushes for just 14 euros!
My holiday was in the middle of a forest, and as I was looking around I found some great scenery stuff around me just waiting for me to pick them up. I got myself some seeds from an unknown tree which make great miniature leaves. I'm going to use these to make bases with an autumn feeling/look. And I found some grass which looks just like miniature trees! young trees though, but still. (I think they will do great on an ogre base).
After looking at this pictures I realized I should stop making pictures with my cell phone and get a decent camera to get you up to date in style. With pictures who are worth the miniature. But until then I'll leave you with this crappy quality, and this wip picture of my upcoming bull. (working on the skin atm)
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Reg0626 Aug 2008
Great looking bulls- I love your style. While the faux leaves look great, and should work perfectly I'm not too sure about the grass. I imagine it will dry up and break off, or become gross somehow.
Quote from: Ganymede on Mar 26, 2009, 11:17:45 AM
If by RAW, you mean "Reg06's Audacious Whims", then you'd be right.
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Vargh Gnobsplatter27 Aug 2008
I'm going to use varnish on it, I hope it will preserve it.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter04 Sep 2008
Weekly issue #2 04-09-08
Well no posts this week
I did made some progress on my 4th bull though. After going wild when painting the skin of my ogre (I've always hated it) I decided it to *beep* it and went dry brushing (I'm not keen on the look of it). But it turned out pretty cool, and with some warpaint added I can live with the effect. Although I've to stay sharp and not loosen my painting skills on this army.
I tried to make some pictures, and was successful, but the camera saves the pictures on a xd card, and I've only got a sd slot in my laptop. My girlfriend said we would have a cable laying around but I couldn't find it anywhere. Therefore I can not post any pictures of my bull for you guys.
Oh, before I forget to mention. I did a part of the ironfist, and I think the NMM effect is astonishing!
Tomorrow I'm starting a 3 day communication course, and after the 7th my own painting contest is starting. Giving me a hard time finishing this last bull.
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter24 Sep 2008
Well, it sure seems that my weekly issues didn't work out.
Anyhow, here's an update. Nearly got my first 6 ogre bulls from the battalion box done. (Got it like 2 years ago). Just one to go in the painting contest, and finish 2 off and I'll be done
I've puzzling over a 500pts HE/Ogre list for some quick fun games. I'm not yet sure though if I take an unpimped mage or a commander with 25pts of items.
15 x HE Spearmen 165pts
10 x HE Archers 120pts
3 x Ogre Bulls 105pts 3 x Ironfists 15pts
1 x HE commander 70pts 25pts items 25pts OR 1 x HE mage 95pts ------------------------------- Total 500pts
So what do you think?
Tyrant of the Unknown Tracking Tribe
Vargh Gnobsplatter25 Sep 2008
No replies on my list
well, second round of the painting competition is coming up, and this time I do want to have my model finished before the deadline. So I started removing moldlines, and have it primed before sunday.
But I want to give it a High Elf touch like I did with the scale mail on the pants of my crusher (see 1 or 2 pages back). But I'm out of inspiration. Suggestions anybody?
***edit*** I totally forgot to mention that the HE list is 6th edition.
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(working on the skin atm)