Author Topic: Warboss Gazrot Skullsmasha Tribe - Da Blog (Read 14487 times)

Gareth · « **Reply #20 on:** February 8, 2009, 08:59:43 AM »

Waaagh Gazrot iz growing in strength. We haz an uge mob of boyz now. Just need dem big uns and black orcs show der worthless hides. Den I can get da gobbos to knock up some rok lobbas and doomdiver catapults, den nothing can stop Waaagh Gazrot.

Da green tide!

Gareth · « **Reply #21 on:** February 9, 2009, 05:36:43 AM »

Mini update after the weekend. Big uns were a success, the dark skin, custom shields and extra yellow armour bits really helped change the standard boyz into something a bit better then a boy but not as hard as a blorc.

Pics soon.

Character Key
L - Lord, Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
H - Hero/Wizard, Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
B - Boss
S - Standard Bearer
M - Muscian
O - Orc Boy/Big un/Black Orc (depending on the regiment)

Colour Key
Purple - Still in box
Red - Assembled/Undercoated/Basecoated
Amber - Working on
Green - Complete

Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
L

Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
H

Orc Boy regiment with two choppas
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Arrer Boy regiment with bows
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Boy regiment with spears and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Big Un regiment with choppas and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Black Orc regiment with choppas, great axes and shields - All are bought now.
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Gareth · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2009, 06:09:05 AM »

Gazrot ere, Iz waz woken up by dem noisy big uns arriving dis morning. So I used squig cam to capture dem in the da decent lighting conditions.

Ere, you don't look like big uns, you look like boyz dat have painted themselves in dark green squig dung and nicked me bestest armour!
Stand next to dat stikka boy for comparison you sneaky git or iz will bash ya noggin.

Gareth · « **Reply #23 on:** February 15, 2009, 10:39:28 AM »

Dem big uns have all arrived finally, dey look ded old and killy with dark skin. And da gobbos in da armoury should be proud of der handiwork because da big uns look gud in da yellow armour and custom shields.

Gareth · « **Reply #24 on:** February 17, 2009, 07:33:14 AM »

I've painted 102 models! Huzzah! I'm really happy with how this project is going so far. I'm getting fast turn around without sacrificing quality and my enthusiasm is still strong for the orcs. I've started assembling the black orcs and working out how I'm going to tackle the project, pretty much got it sorted in my head. I think heads and shields will be painted separately. And the yellow will be kept to just shoulder guards, mask jaw and shield icon jaw (like my custom big un shields). I'm thinking of adding slate and skulls to the bases. The slate will help with ranking problems lifting
models up in places to clear over head axes etc.

Character Key
L - Lord, Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
H - Hero/Wizard, Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
B - Boss
S - Standard Bearer
M - Muscian
O - Orc Boy/Big un/Black Orc (depending on the regiment)

Colour Key
Purple - Still in box
Red - Assembled/Undercoated/Basecoated
Amber - Working on
Green - Complete

Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
L

Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
H

Orc Boy regiment with two choppas
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Arrer Boy regiment with bows
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Boy regiment with spears and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Big Un regiment with choppas and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Black Orc regiment with choppas, great axes and shields - All are bought now.
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

-V- · « **Reply #25 on:** February 17, 2009, 11:34:13 AM »

Gareth, How have you painted 100+ models in such a short time?? I envy you it takes me forever to paint up an army and your churning one out in nearly a month lol...

Good stuff

Gareth · « **Reply #26 on:** February 17, 2009, 11:46:43 AM »

Well, it's actually nearly 3 months.

In 2008 I spent...
2 weeks to build 100 orcs (plus custom shields for big uns)
and 2 weeks painting 25 orcs with 2x choppas.

So at the start of 2009 (and this blog) all the models (except the black orcs and war machines) were assembled and some were even primed and base coated. I then spent the past 7 weeks painting nothing but orc boyz in every minute of my spare time.

11 weeks to build and paint 102 models. It's only 9 a week.

Lorizael · « **Reply #27 on:** February 25, 2009, 03:16:31 AM »

That's still really good going Gareth, and they're looking pretty awesome.

Can you give a step by step on painting the yellow please? You use Gryphonne Sepia same as me, but I can't seem to get it looking anywhere near as nice as yours!

Gareth · « **Reply #28 on:** February 25, 2009, 03:54:43 AM »

Couple of coats vallejo white, then a couple of coats of vallejo sunblast yellow, gryphonne sepia wash ONLY in the recesses, then mix white into sunblast for some highlights. Simple.

Gareth · « **Reply #29 on:** March 5, 2009, 07:35:31 AM »

At last, I'm able to share some pics of the black orcs, took 1 week to build. 1 week to undercoat, paint helmets and shields, half a week to paint 5.

I've taken 3 views of the first 5 models, plus a close up of the unit boss. I also took the opportunity of taking a comparison shot.

Now that I can finally see some progress on this unit, I'm feeling better about painting the rest now.

Gareth · « **Reply #30 on:** March 9, 2009, 06:28:04 AM »

This is the completed second rank pic.

Over the weekend, I completed the 3rd rank of black orcs as well (pic tomorrow), not bad consideriing most of saturday I was stripping down a mountain bike and then celebrating my sister's birthday.

10 weeks into this project and enthusiasm is starting to run dry. In this time I've painted 92 models for this force. Including the 25 I painted last year, I'm yet to hit 1500pts, how demoralising is that.

With 10 black orcs remaining, I'm going to persevere. It should be a real treat to paint the rock lobba, doom diver and chariot next. Just need to concentrate and stop buying nids.

-V- · « **Reply #31 on:** March 9, 2009, 07:20:34 AM »

How did you do the metal on those black orcs? It looks really greasy and oily and dark its wonderful. Perfectly suitable for black orcs so how did you do it?

Gareth · « **Reply #32 on:** March 9, 2009, 07:46:59 AM »

Quote from: Valar on March 9, 2009, 07:20:34 AM

How did you do the metal on those black orcs? It looks really greasy and oily and dark its wonderful. Perfectly suitable for black orcs so how did you do it?

Firstly, you need to know where to put light and dark reflections on the blades. Typically this is nmm style with metal paints.

If you're comfortable with highlighting and shading in a nmm, then paint the whole metallic area in gun metal, then wash with devlan. Then using watered down black paint (not wash) glaze the dark shadows on. You may have to repeat to build it up gradually and develop the blends. Finally highlight the lightest areas with mithril silver.

This is army painting. For characters or larger areas, i'd include more layers and mix the colours a little.

the key is to get the contrast, the dark black painted on reflections make the silver highlights seem brighter because of the stark contrast.

Gareth · « **Reply #33 on:** March 9, 2009, 11:22:57 AM »

Me haz nicked da gobboz blueprintz for making custom big un shieldz. Dey are ded stabby and it stops you getting arrers in ya eyes.

1. Plasticard. 0.5 - 1mm thick should be perfect.
2. Cut the shield shape using a scalpel or a sharp craft knife. You might want to draw an outline with a pencil first.
3. Cut the eyes out.
4. Score the plasticard. Don't cut all the way through.
5. Bend the plasticard along the score lines.
6. Cut out the jaw shape using a scalpel or a sharp craft knife.
7. 4. Score the plasticard. Don't cut all the way through. Bend the edges along the score line.
8. Glue the jaw to the shield.
9. Roll out a very thin sausage of greenstuff. Leave to cure.
10. Use a sharp knife to cut the dry greenstuff sausage into little discs. These are the rivets.
11. Squeeze a blob of super glue onto a non-porous palette (old plate or tile is perfect). Using a pin, prick each rivet and dab into the glue blob, then quickly apply the gluey rivet to the shield.

Here is a pic of the scratch built shields.

This is a pic of them painted.

Gareth · « **Reply #34 on:** March 10, 2009, 05:59:45 AM »

Pic of rank number 3. Rank 4 should be up in a couple of days. And the final rank should be up by Saturday.

Character Key
L - Lord, Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
H - Hero/Wizard, Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
B - Boss
S - Standard Bearer
M - Muscian
O - Orc Boy/Big un/Black Orc (depending on the regiment)
G - Goblin
S - Snotling

Colour Key
Purple - Still in box
Red - Assembled/Undercoated/Basecoated
Amber - Working on
Green - Complete

Gazrot Black Ork Warboss
L

Shaman Sniksnot Night Goblin Shaman
H

Orc Boy regiment with two choppas
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Arrer Boy regiment with bows
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Boy regiment with spears and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Orc Big Un regiment with choppas and shields
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Black Orc regiment with choppas, great axes
B S M O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

Rocklobba
Bully
Goblin
Goblin
Snotling

Doom diver Catapult
Doom diver
Goblin pullers
Snotling

Orc Boar Chariot
Orc
Orc

Gareth · « **Reply #35 on:** March 12, 2009, 06:21:09 AM »

Rank 4 of the Black Orcs is complete. Just rank 5 to go.

Oh and to whet your appetites... here is a sneaky peak of the army so far. 122 painted models

Gareth · « **Reply #36 on:** March 13, 2009, 05:38:31 AM »

This is for highlighting black to represent matt black. To represent gloss black you need a higher contrast and bright highlight (pure white in most cases). I don't promote this as being the only way of painting black, obviously this is my way of doing it, I'm not saying it's the correct way.

Gareth · « **Reply #37 on:** March 14, 2009, 10:57:36 AM »

WAAARGH! Da 5th Rank of da hardest orcs ever ar done!

Waaargh Gazrot is now 127 models strong! Took some pics of the blorcs and a few group shots.

5th Rank

Front unit view

Right hand side view

Left hand side view

Blurry top view

Gazrot with da ladz

Gazrot with all of da ladz

Gazrot with da ladz and the recently conquered ladz of the bad moon tribe... Skarsnik is going to be so angry!

Gareth · « **Reply #38 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:13:16 AM »

1. Using Vallejo game colour Leather brown, paint the area you wish to be wood.

2. Mix a small amount of VGC bone into VGC leather brown and paint along the centre length of the shaft. For flat areas, just feather blend the mix towards the top.

3. Mix flesh ink and a touch of black ink (not wash) together and using a small pointy brush, paint wobbly lines along the length. Occasionally add a dot to represent a knot in the wood and have your wobbly lines go around it.

HaywireGrenade has done this technique on his Tomb Kings It's quick, fast and effective.

Gareth · « **Reply #39 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:38:01 AM »

Finished my doomdiver last night, I'm really pleased with it's movement tray base.

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