2013 Recap

last year, i set myself 24 goals, aiming for a 60% success.
http://enkiel.blogspot.ca/2012/12/goal-for-2013.html

Lets see how i fared first

Warmachine 1/1
1 goal which was not to buy new model until everything is painted. I resisted, and despite not painting anything, at least i didn't buy anything. Success

40k 0/3
Paint a few model from my Dark Eldar. In the end, i didn't paint dark eldar, i instead started a new Grey Knights army. Fail X3

Fantasy 4/13
Nurgle 3/3
Finishing my army + presentation tray for ND Open. Success
Play at least 10 games. Success. I didnt play them before the tournament, which bite me in the ass, but at least i played with the army.

Ogre 1/4
Well, this gonna be painfull, as i didn't really touch them, except to play with them once in awhile....

Finish Stonehorn. Failed. Didn't touch him at all.
new BSB. Failed. Didn't even start thinking about it
Tattooes. Failed. No real reason.
10 Games. Success!

O&G 0/6
Even worst than my Ogres, those werent touched, not even for playing....

Terrain 2/7

 adding terrain to 40k Failed x2
Basecoat or paint 40k building Failed x2
Build and Paint 2 Tabletop Failed
Build and Paint 2 tabletop forest + add another terrain to my fantasy table. Success. I call it success because i fixed my forest problem by purchasing 4 already painted GW Forest, and also added a used skullmantle big ass terrain to my roster.

Total is 7/24 for a very bad 29%... Lets sets some goal that are actually possible, even with a "i dont wanna see anything warhammer related for the next 6 months" phase...

100th Post!

For this milestone, i decided to go ahead, and get a group shot of every army i own, in their current state. Figured i could also talk about GW's new price hike, but i don't really feel like this post being a downer.



Ogre Kingdoms

Ogre were my first real army i started collecting, in 2008 or so. I have a bit of everything, and can easily field 5000+ points on the table. I won many small tournament with it (Especially since our new book was released), and i even went as far as to win Best General in a 40+ players event.

About 90% is painted.

Dark Elves

Dark Elves were an army i started back in 7th ed, when i was tired of loosing with my Ogres, and wanted a few wins to raise moral. It worked. It also allowed me to learn alot more about game (since Ogres were pretty basic back then, without cavalry, little shooting, and weird magic phase).

About 50% is painted, some to good standard

there's a few model i'm particulary proud of ; My cold one were painted scale by scale, My Cauldron's Witch Elves were painted to a standard i could never achieve again, and my favourite piece of all ; my Sorceress

Some color choice were perfect for that model

Dark Eldar

I decided that i wanted to start 40k a long time ago, but never really cared much to collect a complete army. I finally did lastr year, and i'm currently owning about 2000 pts of those elves in space. Not much is painted (or even assembled), but my goal is to get it slowly done, hoping to start playing for real with 6th ed (and when times permit... which shouldnt happen too often). Sadly, since everything i have painted to my current standard is currently displayed at my local store, there's no army shot available at this time.

Haemonculi painted 2 month ago

Orcs and Goblins

I always though that an Orc army was interesting. Not very competitive, but loads of fun and random stuff that can make each game truely unique, even with the same list. This one is my first true army with loads of conversion (and a theme!), which makes its progress slower than anything i've ever done. I did almost complete 2 chariot conversion, but nothing is finished. About 5 Orcs are painted.

Not much is painted, or even built!

Nurgle Carnival

This one is not really a secret, but it's something i plan on starting maybe this summer. Basically, i'm aiming for a mono-god Daemons army based on the Nurgle Carnival. With each model an unique conversion, this is one of those project that might never ever reach 1500 points, especially if they get released with the type of new model we've seen with the last few books (come on, who really wants to convert something like an ironblaster when the current model is so gorgeous?). I have tons of idea in store, with unit filler, presentation tray, and even unique model ideas.

List of the month (Orc & Goblins 2500 pts)

List of the month : Orcs & Goblins (2500 pts)

For the past month or two, I been playing weekly at night vs a friend of mine. After the Empire release, he decided to start playing that army, and I quickly switched to Orcs&Goblins, for giggles.

What I ended up realizing, is despite the fact Orcs and Goblins are not a strong army book, there’s a lot that can be done with the green menace.

On the Table for the remaining of the Year

Waaagh! A Savage and Chariot themed Orc Army.

I was reading a while ago about someonep playing Dark Elf with 5-6 chariot and was succesful. I figured, if a stinky pointy ears guy riding geckos, there's no reason Orcs riding all might Boar couldnt do it better.

So this is why i decided to try it out, and just see how successful this can be. There's obviously alot of limitation, since Chariots are special, and you can only take 3 in a 2500 pts army.But there's alot more in the book that can do similar role.

List of the month (Orc & Goblins)

Sometimes, i make list just for the fun of looking at different army book. In the case of this list, its exactly what happened.

pabelbilly.deviantart.com

Lists of the Month (Savage Orcs)

For a new list, this month, i decided to go for something i've never played, with an army i just started, but am not planning on completing within the next 9-12 months. When Orcs cames out, i was simply in love with the models.

Spider

After many weeks/months slowly painting Savage Orc, i decided to take a break from the green tide, and concentrate on something different, to break a bit from the "monotony" of always painting the samething things.

I searched a bit, focusing on Australian (to work with my "sub-theme" of australian aboriginal), and found, what i think is one of the best looking spider i could find ; the Gasteracantha cancriformis.

Not living strickly in australia, but found there also (thanks to wiki), the white, black and red could really work with the Arachnarok, with just the "tender bits" left to find a color (most likely some sort of light pink skin)

So for the next few weeks, expect to see alot of spider... lets call it Spider Weeks

Druzzt nearly finished

Druzzt ended up being really fun to paint. I tried some different approach with the brush, and i think it's gonna be one of my best painted Orc so far. When i built him, the idea was to have him as my Savage Warboss, but i chaged my mind afterward, as he's not impressive enough to deserve that role.

I'm hoping to have him finished before friday, and hopefully start on the 5th this weekend.

 

And the usual group shot of what i got so far.

Savage Black Orc Part 1

Savage Black Orc might sound weird, especially when you know how  different breed those two are, but to follow my theme, and avoid any and all metalwork, i figured that making a Black Orc from a Savage Orc would keep the theme, visually at least.

For now i'm considering using only 1, a Lord, as my General, avoiding my 1000 pts unit to go stupid and miss their animosity test. If once painted i like the result, i might consider trying to make a whole unit of them.

This one, still unnamed, has a few things i'm not completely sold on ;
1- Weapon's arm guard. Would have looked better if the bones were going the same direction as the arm, or maybe smaller.
2- Head. The Jaw armor really works to make a savage version of the Black Orc, but the problem is that nothing is protecting his head, which he should have. But right now, i have no idea what would work. I though about a skull, but what kind? i dont know.

So here's the pictures.

Calzag Part 3 ; Finally finished

Well, Calzag was quite a challenge. The Big Stabba gave me all kind of problem, the stone being far too big to use my current technique to highlight it. The wood was also a big problem, as it is neither flat or has any real detail. I think i did an OK job with it, and i hope that the job i did with the rest of the model will keep eyes away from his big weapon.

3 Completed, 1 primed, 1 built.... still lots to go, but as always, there's no time frame, so all i can say is that i hope i can finish the next one, Druzzt, within the next month.

Here's a picture of the fab 5.

Calzag Part 1

My fourth orc is on the way. This time i decided to go for the big stabba upgraded one, with just one Orc carrying it (looks funny imho, like someone who picked a weapon too big for him).

For him i dusted off my Windsor & Newton (don't ask me why i dont use it more often... think i'm just scared to damage its perfection). Such nice brushes, nothing compared to the Pebeo i usually use.

For this one, nothing out of ordinary for now, but since he's on a 50x25 base (usually), he'll get some special attention when i'll get to do it (which should be in about 10-15 more Orcs). I have no clue what i'll do about his warpaint yet, maybe something related to his Big Stabba....

Arhugg and Buzzrog warpaint finished

One last post for tonight ; i finished my two savage orc warpaint. Pretty happy with the result, and definately looking forward for a complete unit of them painted that way..... 2 down, 38 to go (because i did decide to bump their number to 40...)

First a Family picture. Wurrzag do not have warpaint yet, as i'm waiting to see after a few more Orc what is the best looking mix of color/sized/pattern dot, before committing to painting his.

 Like i said previously, i want to have different pattern on the back of each of my Orc, so this one is kind of looking like a rising sun between two hills, or, well, i let you think of some weirder signification.

Arhugg's warpaints Part 2

Following my wife's advice (she got some kind of certificate on anthropology, and australia always been one of her favourite subject), i added some color. I wouldnt call it done yet, as i think it still needs something on the lower part of the leg and maybe something on his fingers, but i think it gives a pretty good idea what it'll look like. None will be 100% alike, but all will have those 3 color, with roughly the same pattern.


One thing that wont be present on all, is the design on his back. I got a few idea of what i could do (arrow, cross, simple form like that).

Arhugg's warpaints

So here's a test i did on Arrhug (Since i didnt really like his skintone anyway). That's pretty much what i have in mind ; warpaint arent drawing on the body, but a ritual, so dot painting make sense. It also really fit with my aboriginal influence.

Obviously, its not finished ; only the first half is done (other side will be the same thing), and i think i'll add some other on his legs and forearms.


There's a few thing i'm not 100% happy bout, such as the face. But i didnt want to touch the reddish nose and ears, so i was pretty limited on the space i had to paint. Eyebrow are a nice touch imho. Another place i didnt like was on his chin, as their chin is pretty weird, its hard to get a straight line in. I might go for something else than dots for that place.

For the rest, a few line may get added beside the dots (instead of two parallel lines of dots).

Anyway, here's the picture of my test model, Comment welcome ;

Buzzrog Part 3 : it's all in the details

Buzzrog is slowly getting finished. There's only left to paint ;
the wood on weapons
the belt (which i have no clue what color to paint)
the warpaint (which i also have no clue what color to paint)

For the belt, i'm starting to consider painting it wood grain like, since i dont want any metal in my army. I should have though about it before, i could have trimmed the spike on the plates...

Anyway, here's some pictures.

I purchased 30 of them... with only 1 done, i'm about 28 1/2 left to build/paint. Here's the trio so far ;

Once Buzzrog is finished, i think i'm gonna start painting my Arachnarok, even if i wish i could have painted it with an airbrush... I did some putty job on it, and i just can't wait to see how good it'll look on a big model. I attempted the putty on Buzzrog neck and arms's connection to the body, and i think it did an amazing job to smoother the joint.


But with all the new release coming soon for the Dark Eldar, i might slow down my Orcs (is that possible?).

Buzzrog Part 1

So i started working on my second Savage Orc, named Buzzrog. He's much closer to the skin color i'm aiming for. I think i did a decent job with him. I still got loads of job to do, but i think its a pretty nice start, and only took me about 3 hours.

Arhugg

Didn't decide on the warpaint yet, but i've painted another Orc. Not too happy about how his skin came out ; he ended up much darker than i wanted, and for some reason the paint ended up really glossy too. But i like how the rest came out, and i think that a complete unit painted to that standard should look really good on the table...




I'll call him... Arhugg.

Next to wurrzag.

The fact that the skintone didnt come out as i wanted it will help also having different skintone amongs a unit.

Wurrzag Part 4 . Finished for now

I decided to stop working on Wurrzag for now. My attempt at finding color, or painting them failed so far, and since he's a character, i dont really wanna mess up the paint by trying new stuff. Here is how he look so far, and how he'll most likely look for a few weeks.

So until i feel confident about my choice, i got myself a box of Savage Orc today. Some pretty nice looking plastic models, easy to fit, and the joints are almost invisible. Still undecided if i'll try to cover up a very tiny gap, or if i'll just paint him as is.

Wurrzag Part 3

I completed most of the body, with only the staff left to paint, and the warpaint.

Wurrzag Part 2

Did a little more work over the past day on good ol' Wurrzag.

I painted his mask's wood. I'm pretty happy about the jaw look, but the rest will most likely need to be redone. I did some attempt at glowing, but failed miserably, so he'll just have standard eye. OSL is still too out of my league.