Blue sun. Updated today

Just starting my gnoblog not got any fluff or names yet, but here's some photos of what I've done so far.







I took a few photos but these are the only ones that didn't come out blurry.


I'm going to add some symbols to the pants maybe a tattoo or two on some of them. Also considering adding some blood on and dripping from the weapons.

I'll be running a 3 butcher (two I'll be making myself) and tyrant (empire maneater) list if the army gets big enough I'll be using greasus as i have the model but thats way in the future

The greenstuff looks very good.
The painting too, though I think you'll need a wash on the metal, because it is too shiny.
I love the skin.

Nice, the skin is really good
Although I would echo Lexy and say try to weather the metal or at least give it a wash because at present I think it lets the rest of the model down.

Well done. I really like the style you've done the skin in. However, the metal needs a little something.

Thanks for the comments I'm really happy with the skin and the eyes if you look close you can make out the blue iris. As for the metal it's only had a coat of boltgun up to now as i've nt decided what i'm going to do with them rust,paint,blood,patterns etc

ideas?

love the work,the skin tone looks great something i tryed to achieve but failed,how did you manage it?
look forward to seeing more photos.

As for the metal it's only had a coat of boltgun up to now as i've nt decided what i'm going to do with them rust,paint,blood,patterns etc

I suppose it depends on the fluff. Blood is always classic, but I like rusty old weapons too. Maybe a bit of both?

Hey Davespaceman! I like the eyes on your ogre. It's great the way you've painted the eyes to make him look as though he's looking sideways.
I can't say how I'd do blood on the gutplate/metal areas, but weathering the metal is easy peasy as you probably already know. Just wash it with thinned down inks- different coloured inks will give different effects. Blacks and dark browns for a dirty/tarnished effect, browns, chestnuts, and oranges for a rust effect. Thin the ink about 50/50 with water and control where you put it (cracks and crevices). In fact, I'd be tempted to thin it down even further and apply more washes of less pigment rather than fewer washes of more pigment. That way the pigment builds up in layers for a subtler effect. Between layers, I'd be drybrushing with boltgun metal or similar- but not flicking the brush back and forth- overbrushing- dipping the brush in paint and wiping it off, as with standard drybrushing, but applying the paint with an overbrushing technique. This way, little specks of paint won't land on other bits of the model you've already finished. So it's- overbrush, wash, overbrush, wash etc. until you get the effect you like. You could even wash with different colours each time to get a really deep effect. 

The skin collour of the Ogre is realy nice.
Brown fits the Ogre well.

The Teeth are white and for my feeling too bright.
Maybee make the teeth darker, brown/yellow makes the teeth less bright.

Overal, this Ogre is good painted.
Keep up the good work! 

The Butchers apron is very nice!!!

Quick update with some shots of my first gorger not sure how I'll finish him but I'm liking the stark contrast of the black claws and mouth also changed the title of my blog to the name of my tribe.
His arm fell off so it's got a gap which I'll fix in a day or so

loving the gorger skintone!  I would suggest painting the took in a highly contrasting colour to attract the eye to the face of the model - a warlock/liche purple would work well

can't wait to see this one finished (bones, rope and cloth)!

Great job so far . I'd nickname the gorger Arnold Schwarzengorger

really nice skinwork there mate, to bad I can't paint skin that well so freakingly hard to get right.

Finished my first bull.

Added my tribes symbol to his pants
Darkened the teeth though it doesn't show on the pic.
Washed the metal using Willy Wobbleguts' technique.
Mixed some various greys using Chaos black and Fortress grey for the base.
Scorched grass and snow to top it off




Bulls skintone
Undercoat black spray
Scorched brown all over flesh
Bestial brown in all but the recesses
then a coat or two of bestial and bronzed flesh mix increasing the bronzed as i go
then highlights of bronzed with a tiny bit of bestial.

Gorger Skin
Undercoat black spray
Scorched brown all over flesh
Bestial brown in all but the recesses
Mixture of bronzed and bestial not sure of the amounts just went of the colour
Then a layer of bronzed flesh
Then highlighted with bronzed and elf flesh mix.

And these random pictures detail what exactly?

JJ

The last pictures I see no Ogres/models.

Gorger skin is very good painted, yay  good work!

Are the pics so incredibly huge that the ogre doesn't fit the forum?

- Salvage

Forgot to shrink the photos I'll edit them now. Surprised you all didn't just scroll across though.

Surprised you all didn't just scroll across though.

Wasn't an option for me. Anyways, I like the bull. The new metal looks good.

We can't scroll across a post as far as I'm aware.

I like the effect you're using with the skin and it turned out fantastically well on the gorger.

Keep it comin an think of some fluff!

Belch!

Ive started a fluff story about my tyrants' life. Here's the first draft of the first part let me know what you think.




I was born in a small tribe, high in the mountains raised solely by my mother. As for my father ‘Cobb’ he left when I was young. He went back travelling the world as a mercenary.  He didn't leave much to ma and me. Just an old club and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Jayne

Ma raised me the best she could but with a name like Jayne I had to grow up quick and I grew up mean. Being an only child I got well fed and I grew big in the early years of my life I got in to lots of fights and became quite adept at armed and unarmed combat. Every time a newcomer to our tribe arrived they’d pick on me due to my name. Their mistake. By the time I was a young bull I’d killed/eaten more than some bruisers.

One day a maneater (Gol Headtwister) came to our tribe and told me stories of the various lands that lay beyond our mountain. These tales along with the ones I remember my father telling me when I was young inspired me to go out in to the world myself. So I accompanied the maneater on his next trip to the lands of men.

As we travelled we joined with a small group of merchants who paid us to protect them on the way to their home some where in the west called the ‘empire’. Along the way I saw many different races and creatures we killed and ate a few not as many as we’d have liked but the merchants were in a rush and their pay was good and we could always come back.

We  arrived in the empire in a large town we took our money from the merchants and we went for a drink few places would serve and I wondered if it was the way I dressed Gol seemed to dress similar to these manlings so I thought I’d try.

 We found a tailor who measured me up and did a nice job so good I still wear the same clothes today with one or two patch jobs. We paid the manling and went to a bar we sat outside as it was built for these little bearded lings that weren’t too friendly but liked a drink and liked our gold. I later found out these were dwarfs or Dawi as they referred to themselves.

We spent a long time in that bar whilst Gol got us some work. From a rich manling land owner who was having trouble with beastmen two different tribes had been living on his land and causing trouble the money was good and it wasn’t far.

The landowner had recruited a number of lings to assist in freeing his lands mainly manlings and a few ogres. We decided to take on the smaller beastmen as a warm up they didn’t seem to have many tents or living quarters they just seemed to congregate round a cave. This cave was off-limits to the landowners’ people as it was said to have an eerie presence we could see this at night there was a greenish glow. Our plan was to charge in and smash the leader who was a hooded grey looking one then just mop up the rest.

We underestimated their numbers.

As we charged through the encampment there was screeching and scurrying everywhere we slew thirty or more and they retreated in to the cave we followed them in and were hit by a wave of bodies biting scratching and stabbing at us I saw one ogre get enveloped by them I fought my way to him but it was too late. I looked around for their leader I saw him on a rock at the back. As I fought my way to him two larger beastmen stepped in front of me they were probably my height at least but a lot thinner and covered with fur one had a morning star tied to it’s tail which he swung at me killing two of the little ones in the process, I dodged and drove my fist into his face flooring it. The other one grabbed me from behind and bit into my shoulder. I dropped to one knee and pulled it over me as it lay there I swung my club down on its head shattering its’ skull the other had regained its composure and came barrelling towards me this time I swung my club in its verminous face. It fell and I grabbed its neck and snapped it casting it to the floor I went after the grey one whom had started casting lightning from its' staff which was laying waste to the manlings. I assume he thought the big ones had taken care of me as he allowed me to get too close he turned to face me as I grabbed it by the throat it tried to speak some incantation but my grip was too tight and its life was soon ended. With there leader gone and Gol finishing off the other large ones the swarm that had seemed like hundreds disappeared down holes and in cracks. Victory was ours

The manlings sealed the cave with some black powder and we retuned to the landowner for our next task.

I have a few comments,
1) I like the story
2) I like the homage
3) I love your signature. Even though Chuck is sooo 2007 that is too hilarious to ignore.

I was a little weary to begin with with the first person setup to your fluff but it works well and my fears were unfounded as it proved to be an interesting story! Got a little confused when beastmen miraculously became skaven though...or were they allies? Perhaps worth clearing up...

Liked it though...it doesn't explain how he became tyrant yet, but I assume that's still to come!

Belch!

Finished the gorger

more wips and some more finished pics








Butcher


maneater/bull and first Gnoblar

I like the Wolverine-esque Bull. I tried something similar but I just couldn't make it look good, although you did a fine job with it. The hair looks cool as well. A real crazed look on that Ogre.

Dave,

Your sculpting of greenstuff is excellent, will be nicking a few ideas from your own gnoblog to add into my FeastMaster tribe.

P.S. Good to see one more Dawi player who had migrated to the guts… 

Blackthorn

Hmm I like the Wolverine-Bull but not convinced it should be a maneater...ah well

It's all looking good atm!

The gorger is awesome, love the skin on it.
The new bulls are also cool. The wolverine one is very neat, but I'll also say that as cool as it is it just doesn't have the well traveled veteran of the world look that a Maneater does.

Great conversions The Gorger is very good.

Wolverine is usually a bull but he's different enough to be used as a maneater when need be.

Two more nearly finished sculpts coming soon

Built and used Greasus today he got annihilated by blood knights, turns out he's a good support character but with no save he gets dead quick.


Blackthorn take all the ideas you want, you'll have to join me for a beer or two at Bugmans.

Built and used Greasus today he got annihilated by blood knights, turns out he's a good support character but with no save he gets dead quick.

I often find this... He gets annihilated every game I use him in lol!

Can't wait for the next two sculpts

JJ

Indeed looking forwards to the sculpts and yes. greasus dies. The END.

Awesome work.  I love the wolverine ogre.  You're doing a great job with the painting and converting of your army.

Finished my Butchers, have a butchers.









Not sure about the apron i tried to bloody it but it didn't work so it's staying white for now.

I like your skin tone, and the resculpted torsos worked well. The bangstick is cool looking.
I don't like the cleavers, they are far to large and FF7y for my tastes.
I've always thought that aprons look best either not existing, or being a leather color (which will pair with blood better).

I totally agree with Reg on colour wise, go for leather coloured aprons and add blood with them to give them the ogre taste. I actualy love the cleavers, they are what you would see a butcher carrying around with him any where. Bangstick love and good look with the rest.

Those butchers kick a**!

Like all the models you've done, the butchers look great. Although i would highly question whether  an ogre butcher would have a bright white clean apron.  It would most likely be caked in blood, entrails, saliva, etc.  I would add some gore to it most definately, and some leather tone low lights or soemthing.

Otherwise, looking sweet.

Update 20/11/08

These are awesome. The skin, it's impressive The cloth (especially on the butcher's apron) is great. The metal is very nice. The bases... I'm running out of adjectives.

Lets just settle for unfair. I think that is a good way to describe your painting and modelling skills that you have shown with this army.

Quick update of what I did today I wanted a tubby but tough bareknuckle fighter for a maneater/bruiser for my 4k list. I think he came out well just need to neaten his hands a little and find him a name





Forgive my filthy nails I'm just about to shower

Very good work, it's going to be a fantastic army, once it's finished. Especially the Gorger looks fantastic! How did you paint the skin? It's really, really terrific.

Keep the good work up,

Greetings Nizzre'

PS: Sorry fpr my bad english, it has been a while since i used it!

hehe! what next? a borat ogre? great work! i love big belly! did you fill it with something or is it all greenstuff?

I filled in the gut hole with sprue but the rest is all green stuff

okay cool!

Just the one pic for now as my hands wont stay still today so all are too blurry more shall come soon

I really like the striping effect on the ice weapons.

Blurry maybe, good? Yes!  They're looking really nice! 

hi davespaceman
freaking awsome work on the skin. like the clear and still detailed work on the shadows -and the sense of veines.
-cant wait to see more!

Luchador 99% finished just need to put a symbol on his trunks
Better pics when I get the camera

cool! looks epic what paints did you use?

Coming soon to a blog near you
Cowboy maneater

Cowboy Wip really having trouble sorting the cuffs on his coat but I will prevail





Better pics when he's finished

Now this is one epic ogre.. cant wait to see it painted!.. the jacket could use some shot holes..

More progress not sure about his skull belt buckle might change it for a normal one.

Lovely sculpting, and great idea!  I agree about the belt buckle, or maybe add some sort of surround to the skull to make it more.. buckle-like? Great work on his coat, too!

Time for an update done a little comission work

A couple of Ironblasters lots of pics trying to get a clear one almost finished just need to touch up in a few places edging the bases and maybe a little grass.

Wanted to ask about your bases, how did you do the spring thaw effect? I was thinking of doing something very similar with my army too.

Looks very cool!

For the bases I used a mixture of greys on the sand basic dry brushing then I stick grass on in nice patches then glue snow to the grass.

Wow, the stuff is looking great! Keep up the good work!

Chris