Wood Elves and Dungeon Saga

Time for another update from Amy's painting table and as usual she's been very busy.

First up we have a couple of characters for her wood Elf army from Kings Of War, a King on Dragon and a mounted Mage.

Then to change up what she was painting she opted to dive into Dungeon Saga again, painting up the minions from the first expansion as well as some of the heroes and epic heroes (the leveled up versions of the characters from the core game) and then the big bad Undead Demon.

Undead Minions

Halfling Theif

Halfling Warrior (!?)

And just to show how small these guys really are here's a size comparison with the barbarian.

Epic Wizard

Epic Ranger

The Big Nasty, Ba'su'su

She's still working on more heroes for Dungeon Saga so they'll be another update soon.

Warhammer 40K: Orks Finished! Warbikes, Wartrakk, Shokk Attack Gun and more...

So here we are, after a surprise find at a Wargames show a couple of years back and several impulse buys on trade groups and eBay that came after, I've finally finished my second edition Ork army (well nearly all second edition, as I'm playing 8th Ed with them a few non 2nd Ed units have found their way into the army).

If you've been following the progress of this army you'll know it's mainly been about taking existing paint jobs and bringing them up to a decent table top standard yet retaining that 2nd Ed feel.  In some cases this has meant that only a small amount of titivation (colour matching and highlights generally) was needed while in other cases a total repaint ended up happening.

First up we have a Mek Boy with Shokk Attack Gun with his Snotling ammo.  I wasn't intending on having one of these but he came in a batch of Orks I picked up and unfortunately he was one of the worse paint jobs I've worked on so he ended up getting a total repaint however I'm quite happy with the end results.

Next we have a Wartrakk which only needed a small amount of work to bring it up to table top standard.

The Warbikes are next, another cheap Wargames show purchase.  they did need quite a bit of work doing on them but I remembered to take a 'before' shot of one of the bikes so you can see the difference.  As they already had blue fuel tanks I decided to keep the blue scheme rather than the normal red, Deffskull bikers right?

Most of the bikes I have picked up had blue tires even though they are form different sources, does any one know what the precedence might be for this? 

Finally we have a modern Ork Bomma which I really like the look of and fits in great with the Ramshackle Deffkoptas.  Very little work was required on this, just some washes on the metal and touching up the white as well as work on the base which was untouched.

A rusted pile of Ork detritus made of spare parts from Ramshackle's Jet Bikes and a tester for me when I come to paint the Death Guard weaponry

So there we have it, a finished project (well for now anyway, we all know a project is never truly finished), so what's next I here you say?  Well I'm going back to my first gaming love, the army that took my soul and offered it up to the gaming gods, Chaos Space Marines. 

Warhammer 40k: Ork Mech Boy, Mega Nobz, Boyz and Gretchin

My march towards completing this next wave of Orks is nearly done having had the added impetus of knowing that the new Ork Codex is being released in Orktober and just recently switching to playing matched play games rather than the open play games we've had until now.

First up we have another Mech Boy, always useful when equipped with a force field to soak up some  of the rounds that fly the Boyz way and nothing to sniff at once he gets up close and personal.

I had a lot of fun painting this chap up, there's just something about these older sculpts which ooze character compared to the modern sculpts.  As with most of the rest of my Ork army this paint job is a refurb of an existing paint job where I try to bring it up to a standard I'm happy with while retaining most if not all of the original scheme.  In some cases this can mean a major change in look in others (like the Boyz) it's more subtle.  As an example, below is a shot of the Mech prior to me painting him but after I had given him an arm swap as he had been equipped with a plasma gun in his left hand.

Next up we have some Bad Moon Nobz in Mega Armour, I already have a squad of the Rogue Trader variants (Nobz in Power Armour) so these will make a nice addition to the force as my main opponent hates them, especially when they get transported straight to the front lines thanks to a Weirdboy with Da' Jump.

The mainstay of any Ork army is it's Boyz and here we have even more of them!

You can never have enough Boyz and these bring me up to a thirty strong mob.  These received quite an extensive repaint though it's not all to obvious as I kept the paint scheme the same (it was different enough to the Boyz I have already to add variety yet still in keeping with the overall scheme).  Below is a shot of one prior to the re-paint.

Lastly we have the runts of Ork society, Gretchin.  Bizarrely these received the most extensive re-paint as there original scheme was too different from the ones I already had and if I field them as a unit of twenty I want them to look uniform.

Here's how they started

And a comparison of the re-paints (left) to my existing ones (right) which only needed a few repairs when I bought them so aren't my paint jobs.

All that is left of this batch of Orks is a Mech Boy with Shokk Attack Gun (with his Snotling ammo), three 2nd Edition plastic Warbikes and a Wartrakk then a small amount of work on a Blitza Bommer I picked up recently.

Warhammer 40k: Orks Orks Orks Orks...

Well you know how they say a project is never finished... well I'm back working on more Orks!  Recently we've been playing a lot of 8th Ed 40k and enjoying it a lot however one thing became clear to me while playing and that was I needed more Boyz (so I can get 30 of them marching up the field with Ghazghkull a Painboy and Mech with force field in tow, WAAAGH!).

First five of the new batch finished

So of to eBay I went and within a few days I managed to pick up exactly what I needed plus some nice bonuses that will definitely seem some action in my force.

The eBay purchase

Now the photos weren't great but I could just make out enough so that I knew I wouldn't have to strip them and could just work with their current paint jobs.

The first batch of five as received

Once they arrived they got a wash in the sink as they were covered in a fair amount of dust and when they had dried the colours really began to pop but I knew I'd have a fair amount of work to do, in fact I've basically re-painted this first batch while retaining their original paint scheme.

One of the Boys posing for his close up

When painting these I've been doing it to a level that matches the existing force so that you can't tell they are from disparate sources, it can be a little odd at times not painting to your full ability but I like the look of these and like to think that this is how my 2nd Ed Orks would have looked if I'd ever painted them up back in the day.

I'm now on to painting the next (and last, honest) batch of ten Ork Boyz which you can follow the work in progress of over on my Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/crucium.giger/ but  I will be posting finished shots here soon.

Oh and I might have picked up a painted Blitza-Bommer to round out the force but more on that later.