O&G Rampage Prep Part 2

Progress is continuing on my O&G Army for Midwest Rampage 2014. The tournament calls for 3000 points and as of today I have 839 points painted.

Here is my current progress I am trying to get my Black Orc unit painted up.

 

 

The centerpiece of the unit is a Black Orc Boss being carried by 4 other Black Orcs. I picked this up about 20 years ago in Germany and believe the manufacturer was Grenadier. I thought that it would add character to the unit and be a great unit filler. Here are a couple details:

 

Musician and Standard Bearer

 

Big Boss

 

 

I used a Dark Angels Green for a base coat on the Black Orcs, did a wash of Nuln Oil, layered with Waaagh Flesh followed by a highlight of Warboss Green. I defintiely wanted the Black Orcs to have a much darker tone than the standard Orcs.

Armour was painted with Boltgun Metal followed by a wash of Nuln Oil, drybrushed then with Ironbreaker. The leather parts were painted with Oiled Leather from Reaper Paints and washed with Devlan Mud.

 

Regarding basing which I am doing uniform throughout, I am using products from Woodland Scenics. after painting the base brown I lay down a thin layer of white elmers glue and dip the model in a container containing "Burnt Grass". After this has dried, I randomly place droplets of glue and dip in a a container of rock I chose. This is followed up by a fine green grass. If the base allows for it such as the trolls, I will add lichen to act as small shrubs and add "Field Grass" to act as dead foliage.

 

Now that I have these parts done, I am down to a giant and night goblins for my newer miniatures. Everything else is at least 20 years old and it will be nice to get paint on them and have a very unique looking army. Unit later....

O&G Rampage Prep Part 1

Well Midwest Rampage is approaching on May 17th and I am needing to build my O&G Army up. Painting has begun but has been painstakingly slow. Personal life can really cut into that hobby time.

I am needing to have 3,000 points of my army painted and am determined to get a completely painted army on the table this year. This is saying a lot as much of my army is now over 25 years old. Many of my figs date from the late 80s and have never seen a drop of paint. This makes my army also unique as I have a high percentage of metal figures in comparison to many fellow gamers.

This is my unit of trolls, completely painted and ready to go. I used GW color Rotting Flesh (Old color) as a base with a flesh wash then drybrushing the rotting flesh back on. I then came back and dry brushed with a mix of Rotting Flesh and Bleached Bone. Final drybrush was just Bleached Bone. I wanted to go for a more stoney look than a human fleshy look and I love the effect.

And this is my Mangler Squig. I used the new GW paints on this and the Paint system for Khorne for the mangler color. Base - Khorne Red, Wash - Carroburg Crimson, 1st layer - Wazdakka Red, 2nd layer - Squig Orange, drybrush - Kindleflame, glaze - Bloodletter. this was my first test with the techincal paints from GW and I used the Nugle's Rot on the tongue for a wet effect. I used the Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust for a good rust effect on all the chains, etc. I love the effect it gives. I've decided to go with yellow cloaks for the Night Goblins in my army. I love the look over the usual black. I used Leprous Brown as a base on the clocks, a shade of flesh wash, then layered in yellow working it lighter until a drybrush of complete yellow.