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Had some catching up to do - you're smashing through some good work here. Your edge highlighting/brush control is really impressive - the Chaos Lord in particular looks great. The purple scheme is very eye-catching, works well on the guardsmen and marines both! I'll echo the praise for the Ogryn's claw as well, looks suitably mean.

Love reading about painting with your daughter - my boy is 14 months and loves trying to play with my army men so can't wait to share the hobby with him.

Looking forward to seeing those old grots painted up nice and new!

amazingturtles wrote:Painting with family is always worthwhile, i'm glad she enjoyed it! And she did a pretty good job too, i mean, that's about how i handled guns for a long time.... or maybe still

Yeah, it was really lovely and we’ll definitely be doing it again!

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,

If you can track down some extra Goblin or Gretchin heads a simple head swap makes the mono-pose Grots look a little better and unique.

Cheers,

CB

I toyed with the idea of doing some head swaps with my goblins but both sets are so hunchbacked that it’d be beyond me to achieve without wrecking one or the other. I might give some of the Orks a go as the boyz have spare heads

youwashock wrote:Awesome that you can share this with her.

Yep, it really was!

Pomander Cask wrote:Nice little grots, and it sounds like a great family moment.

Cheers, they’re coming along nicely now

MegaDave wrote:If I ever make it across the pond I'll have to bring the Iron Warriors and have a 2nd Ed. fight.

Looks like quite a few fun projects you've got there, can't wait to see what you do with them!

I’ll have to get painting then, to get anywhere near the size of army you’ve got!

Maharg wrote:You've been busy since I was last here. Blackstone baddies look great together, good work and well done on reaching 100 models last year. Looking forward to seeing you fill that cabinet this year

Cheers Maharg, the Blackstone Fortress stuff has been really fun, once these gobbos are done I’ll be on with the good guys.

tzurk wrote:Had some catching up to do - you're smashing through some good work here. Your edge highlighting/brush control is really impressive - the Chaos Lord in particular looks great. The purple scheme is very eye-catching, works well on the guardsmen and marines both! I'll echo the praise for the Ogryn's claw as well, looks suitably mean.

Love reading about painting with your daughter - my boy is 14 months and loves trying to play with my army men so can't wait to share the hobby with him.

Looking forward to seeing those old grots painted up nice and new!

Cheers tzurk, my brush control is coming on, but it’s mainly confidence that has made the difference so far... that and going back on the edges to improve the finished result! Both my kids are interested in daddy’s little guys (need to double check I pluralise that one!) and so far have been very gentle with them. My eldest is 6 and only recently able to concentrate for long enough and listen to instructions! Hopefully the interest will continue! Hopefully your lad goes much the same way and picks up an interest in minis!

Did some painting tonight, I got the bases for Russ’ Pups finished, nothing special just vomit brown, Agrax Earthshade, dry brush Vomit Brown then Bleached Bone;



I tried to get a decent shot to show how the dog on the left is leaping off the rock, but I couldn’t quite manage it. The shot with his boss looks the most dynamic I think

Pretty pleased how well they all look together!

I also made progress on the now 30 Grots. All of their colours have been blocked in. An all over, apart from the skin, drybrush of bleached bone has happened.



I started on the Botgun Metal but what doing the first guy noticed that I hadn’t drilled their barrels. 28 barrels take a long time to drill, especiallly when doing the muzzle holes too! It’s hard to see, but here’s a close up for proof of progress!


Sadly it’s late now, so off to bed for me!

Thanks for looking!

Drilling out grot gun barrels! You are dedicated!

Love those old wolves, they look nice.

F and G look awesome. And bless your heart for giving those old grots some love.

Seeing the barrel holes on your grots, I now feel real ashamed that my sisters didn't even get a blob of black color on their bolters I need to rectify that in the next few days.

The dogs are looking good, very old school.

Dang I forget how sinister the goblins used to look compared to the comical look they have now.

Great job with the barrels , that little bit goes a long way.

Now this is the sort of stuff I like!
Great work on the highelves and chaos warriors. Those old warriors are some of my favourites. These days they could probably pass for chaos dwarfs, given the size creep. But they're still excellent models and the metallic purple works really well on them!
The ancient hormagaunts are nasty looking done in brown with the big gnashy white teeth. Too bad you don't see many of them any more.
Good job on Tychos banner too! Love a good bit of freehand work.

Good to see that I am not the only sitting on some "old" treasures. Wolves are looking great and so do the gobbos.

MegaDave wrote:Drilling out grot gun barrels! You are dedicated!

Love those old wolves, they look nice.

Some might say Mad!

youwashock wrote:F and G look awesome. And bless your heart for giving those old grots some love.

I’ve neglected them for 20 years so it’s the least I can do!

Viterbi wrote:Seeing the barrel holes on your grots, I now feel real ashamed that my sisters didn't even get a blob of black color on their bolters I need to rectify that in the next few days.

Give it a go, It’s surprisingly simple to do. A 1mm drill bit alone can do it, though a pin vice speeds up for mass production on this scale! I got mine dirt cheap off eBay.

Theophony wrote:The dogs are looking good, very old school.

Dang I forget how sinister the goblins used to look compared to the comical look they have now.

Great job with the barrels , that little bit goes a long way.

Cheers Theo, the Grots are pretty sinister, that grin has something unnerving I think. Once I popped my barrel drilling cherry there was no going back. Gretchin being a bit dim I thought I’d go for unsafely thin barrel wall thickness too!

Snrub wrote:Now this is the sort of stuff I like!
Great work on the highelves and chaos warriors. Those old warriors are some of my favourites. These days they could probably pass for chaos dwarfs, given the size creep. But they're still excellent models and the metallic purple works really well on them!
The ancient hormagaunts are nasty looking done in brown with the big gnashy white teeth. Too bad you don't see many of them any more.
Good job on Tychos banner too! Love a good bit of freehand work.

Hey Snrub, you must’ve gone through a fair bit of the blog! Glad you liked it, I have a bit more Chaos coming up with the BattleMasters archers at some point. The Gaunts are probably so rare as people got off with the toppling over all the time l, what with being so top heavy. If you liked Tycho’s banner I’ll have to get my standard bearer brought up to my current scheme!

Yorkright wrote: Good to see that I am not the only sitting on some "old" treasures. Wolves are looking great and so do the gobbos.

Yep, plenty of old skool minis needing some love here!

Speaking of which I spent 10 mins in the painting chair tonight and got the hoods and metals done on these guys...

Such fun minis, but hard to squeeze on their base! I might need to drill out a few more holes to rearrange them a bit so I don’t have and over hangers! Did a couple of the Grots’ guns but no picks, so I guess it didn’t happen!

The old snotling and nurgling bases were so fantastically full of character. A real hallmark of the game at the time.

 gobert wrote:
Hey Snrub, you must’ve gone through a fair bit of the blog! Glad you liked it, I have a bit more Chaos coming up with the BattleMasters archers at some point. The Gaunts are probably so rare as people got off with the toppling over all the time l, what with being so top heavy. If you liked Tycho’s banner I’ll have to get my standard bearer brought up to my current scheme!

Indeed I did. Went though the whole thing. Are the gaunts metal or plastic? I assume, being that old that they're metal.
Free handing is one of my favourite aspects of painting. So yes, please. More banners!
Do you have one planned for Leman Russ?

youwashock wrote:The old snotling and nurgling bases were so fantastically full of character. A real hallmark of the game at the time.

Yep, they all have something interesting about them. The one with the mushroom/mop is my favourite I think, but the cheeky one sticking his to its out is a classic!

Snrub wrote:Indeed I did. Went though the whole thing. Are the gaunts metal or plastic? I assume, being that old that they're metal.
Free handing is one of my favourite aspects of painting. So yes, please. More banners!
Do you have one planned for Leman Russ?

Sorry for all the long posts! Yep the Hormagaunts are fully metal, the slightest nudge and their resting on their claws! My freehand banners are a bit old, I should do some for my Wolves and certainly for the big dog himself. I’ll see if the mood takes me post Grots!

It’s been a bit of a slog but i got all of the metal work done on the Grots. They then got a wash of Agrax Earthshade and given their canon fodder nature I think I’ll call them done aside from their bases. The snotlings were glued to their base, but I have a few details to add like teeth and tongues! I also started some test bases, I’m thinking wet mud as I have some wet mud effect paint from army painter. Might try out some flocking too and maybe the odd grass tuft. Does anyone know of good wet muddy base examples or better yet tutorials?

Looking at the pics it looks like I forgot their red eyes l. I also have no clue how I’m going to manage to paint the base on the snotlings!

Thanks for looking!

Too long since I've commented here, but let's rectify that. First of, congrats for reaching 100 models last year, it's no small feat! You've been doing some great work recently, especially with the latest finished models, Leman and his pups. Proper old school! I got to say though, Leman seems a bit naked without his banner, are you planning on adding one?

Snotlings! i love those little guys, i wish i had some of my own

mcmattila wrote:Too long since I've commented here, but let's rectify that. First of, congrats for reaching 100 models last year, it's no small feat! You've been doing some great work recently, especially with the latest finished models, Leman and his pups. Proper old school! I got to say though, Leman seems a bit naked without his banner, are you planning on adding one?

Thanks mcmattila, I’m pretty chuffed with 100 minis, and so far I’m on track to beat it... can I count a base if snotlings as 9 minis!?!? Given 2 people have asked I probably should sort him a banner. I’ll need to do some research now.

amazingturtles wrote:Snotlings! i love those little guys, i wish i had some of my own

They’re pretty awesome! So much crammed on to a little base!

The Grots are nearing completion. I got their basing material down and got a few tester bases near completion. To the point where I stuck down their occupants! I quite like the tufts and need to decide whether to flock them. I might add some PVA puddles here and there to. The Nob and Bik Mek could do with dirtying up a bit I reckon. Tried a different approach with the single painted Gretchin base, but I prefer the original version.



Hopefully I finish them off next week, but I’m off to Germany with work so it’ll probably be a weekend job! Thanks for looking!

The original shokk attack gun is a marvel of GW's golden age. The whole idea, plus the rules with all the random charts to see what happened when you fired it. Yours looks great.

Lovely bunch of old school Orks, the shok attack gun has been a thorn in my side for many years. You’ve done a great job on all of them.

 youwashock wrote:
The original shokk attack gun is a marvel of GW's golden age.

I like that it hasn't changed design, one iota, in what? Like 30 odd years.
A true testament to orky engineering.

Love seeing the old ork models, great stuff. My old shokk attack gun is no more (got converted into a kustom force field) but the snotlings still survive, will have to dig them out as a fun distraction project

OG SAG is amazing. I probably have enough of the shoota/choppa orks that came in the same pack as the grots to make a decent mob - I'll have to dig them out at some point. I am so in love with old orks and glad to see them getting some love! The nob (warboss?) with claw is great too, absolutely classic.

I adore seeing the classic Shokk attack gun, the new one is a great miniature but you just cannot beat that classic. Those Smotlings bring back a lot of memories as well. Hope you get a little time for some are and are in Germany.

youwashock wrote:The original shokk attack gun is a marvel of GW's golden age. The whole idea, plus the rules with all the random charts to see what happened when you fired it. Yours looks great.

Yeah I remember reading the descriptions and thought the idea of teleporting a snotling in to a Terminators armour was the epitome of Orkishness. I’d forgotten how random the rules were too!

Yorkright wrote: Lovely bunch of old school Orks, the shok attack gun has been a thorn in my side for many years. You’ve done a great job on all of them.

Cheers Yorkright, teenage Gobert was most chuffed with him too!

Snrub wrote:

 youwashock wrote:
The original shokk attack gun is a marvel of GW's golden age.

I like that it hasn't changed design, one iota, in what? Like 30 odd years.
A true testament to orky engineering.

Exactly, why change a classic!?! I love the snotling vacuum on the new version... maybe I should buy one?!?

Maharg wrote:Love seeing the old ork models, great stuff. My old shokk attack gun is no more (got converted into a kustom force field) but the snotlings still survive, will have to dig them out as a fun distraction project

Thanks, and you should definitely dig out your Snotlings, I reckon you’d do a great job on the little characters!

tzurk wrote:OG SAG is amazing. I probably have enough of the shoota/choppa orks that came in the same pack as the grots to make a decent mob - I'll have to dig them out at some point. I am so in love with old orks and glad to see them getting some love! The nob (warboss?) with claw is great too, absolutely classic.

Yep, I’ve got 10-20 of the 2nd Edition boxset boyz a bit further down my queue. I’ve painted up a few previously but fancy doing a bit of a kitbash on any unpainted boyz. I’ll probably use the slugga arms from my box of Ork boyz (leaving them as shoota boyz). The Bad Moon was a Nob in Mega Armour if I recall correctly, and definitely a classic now!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:I adore seeing the classic Shokk attack gun, the new one is a great miniature but you just cannot beat that classic. Those Smotlings bring back a lot of memories as well. Hope you get a little time for some are and are in Germany.

Can’t beat a bit of Orky engineering, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it! Sadly Germany was a bit frantic, so no R&R aside from a nice dinner out (Gamr Goulash washed down with a couple of beers!).

Mrs Gobert was out last night, so after getting the kids to sleep and tidying, I managed a bit of painting;

Painting 33 bases is pretty time consuming it turns out! I’m trying the Army Painter effects paint; Wet Mud. I’m not totally happy that it looks like wet mud yet, but it’s petty ok. If anyone knows of decent tutorials on its use, please let me know as my google-fu has turned up nothing. I’ve gone dead simple so far; liberal painting of Wet Mud then Agrax Earthshade, then a heavy dry brush of Wet Mud.

I slapped some paint on to their boots and the inside of their legs. Small kids always get mud up their inside leg so it stands to reason that Gretchin get the same! The snotlings got their bases done too;

I’m thinking I’ll put some flock down to represent tramples grass with a few getting some tufts. I’m also considering using PVA to make some puddles, because everyone love jumping up and down in muddy puddles!

Whilst waiting for the wash on the bases to dry I started on this pretty lady and her kids;

Continuing the theme of inspiration from my kids’ books, she’ll be getting the Gruffalo treatment. Orange eyes should be straightforward, as should terrible tusks. I’ll probably interpret purple prickles as purple pustules.

Anyway, Thanks for looking!

Sounds like a good plan for the Ambull. The snotlings are fabulous, as is the march of the grots.

Grots are getting there! Love the idea of all of them stomping around in the muck

Great idea on them mucking about in the mud, perhaps some mushrooms instead of tufts?

Did you seriously paint the eyes of the snotlings That is some real dedication! Excited to see the Gruffalo Ambull

I think the mud looks nice and... muddy. It's got that sticky look to it, is what I mean.

youwashock wrote:Sounds like a good plan for the Ambull. The snotlings are fabulous, as is the march of the grots.

Yeah, I’m pretty excited for her! Snotlings are hard to muck up they’re so characterful!

MegaDave wrote:Grots are getting there! Love the idea of all of them stomping around in the muck

I reckon 1 more decent length painting session and they’ll be done unless I get too experimental with their bases!

Yorkright wrote: Great idea on them mucking about in the mud, perhaps some mushrooms instead of tufts?

Ah, now I’m going to have to use my newly acquired greenstuff to make some... they’re gonna be horrible as I’ve not the faintest clue what to do!

Viterbi wrote:Did you seriously paint the eyes of the snotlings That is some real dedication! Excited to see the Gruffalo Ambull

Yep, although some have red cheeks now that need touching up! I really enjoyed the Zog Tyranids, so hopefully Ambullo and her children will be just as fun. I have future plans for Highway Rat themed BattleMasters Chaos Archers. They’re usually painted nearly naked, so not sure how they’ll turn out with skin tight leggings and jumpers...

amazingturtles wrote:I think the mud looks nice and... muddy. It's got that sticky look to it, is what I mean.

Cheers turtles, maybe the wet mud effect works better than I thought!

Bad news Shokk Attack Gun fans; Big Mek lost a fight with the floor and a six year old! Luckily it’s nothing that can’t be easily fixed, but he might not end up as part of this batch now. It might spur me to improve on the 15+ year paint job though!

*anguished shrieking*

A terror I have yet to experience personally. Best of luck with the repairs.

Nice work on the Grots, if you can get some old brown ink or something similar (Agrax Earthshade just is not dark enough in my opinion) it is a quick way to make brown sand look wet.

Cheers,

CB