What's in progress?

These are the next models waiting for paint.

Standard bearer (or vulture skewerer)


Badass champion (and badass picture)


Hornblower


Front rank lad


and BSB (on foot and on boar)

Second orc unit

To please my gaming friends, I have decided to paint front ranks only until all my units are painted in this way (or "somewhat" painted). Then I will return to each ranked infantry unit to paint flanks and rears. Otherwise, odds are high that job, wife and life prevent you from painting more than one or two units. In this way, I will not get bored with units either. So, its a win-lose-win situation.

This is the first orc of my second unit of orc boyz painted in Vallejo colours. It is a Rackham model (as 20 out of 25 models in the unit also are) and I am trying colour schemes and a new skin painting technique. It is not quite finished. I have to tone down the armour a bit and paint the dagger hanging in his belt and dothe base, but I am quite pleased with it.



It is an amazing model and the Rackham sculpt is so clean it is a pleasure to paint it.


Notice the little lizard snack.



This orc has seen battle before.

Two great improvements

I have abandoned and returned to GW, which has drastically improved my painting speed and quality. For colours, I have started using the Vallejo paint range, finding the bottle design and colours vastly superior to GW:s standard colours. However, a purchase of the new Foundation Paint Adeptus Battle Grey has provided me with an excellent base coat for my "grayskins".

Wolf riders

Hello master, at last I am satisfied with your wolf riders, and it took me a long time and a lot of fiddling around to finally agree with the "goblin" colour. Now it is almost, but not quite, Dead flesh in the final highlight but I kept some grey in it to prevent them from looking too much like zombies or too green.

Without any further ado, here they are...




Looking for prey (or "escape routes eeeeh alternative flanks we mean")


Drummer (from Dragonrune Goblin Command Group)




Wolf riders from the side...

Mini-tournament

Me and three buddies had a 1500-points' gathering last weekend. My orcs performed rather well, defating Undead Vampire Counts, drawing against Chaos (a revenge for the last mishap) and was finally slaughtered by Empire in a sort of "final". My Empire opponent performed well in the magic and shooting phase which he needed to decimate my ranks before I got within Waagh range. My army consisted of four blocks of infantry, three of fast cavalry, a couple of chukkas, some squig hoppers, a chariot and a troll. I had a shaman which performed decently, but I felt that another shaman would have been welcome to deal with Empire and Undead magic phases. Playing Orcs is otherwise a real blessing. Every battle is filled with crazy twists and turns, bringing joy to both generals and each battle saw "beautiful" Warhammer moments. In the rush to pack my troops, I forgot my camera. It will be used next time, since my opponents' armies are both painted and eye-catching. My wolves are soon finished and ready to be shown to Master.

And, yes, my package has arrived...

Shopping spree

Have just purchased close to 200 pounds of models and bitz, enabling me to start four crazy modelling projects. Now if they only can send it ASAP. My fingers are itching, and my master's ever watchful eye is fixed on the Royal Post Office.

Battle report 2: vs Khorne Beasts

If bad dice rolls was my nemesis in the first battle, my luck had returned just in time for the second battle. A Fanatic protecting my right flank inflicted 6 wounds on a unit of four Dragon Ogres who promptly failed a Panic test and fled off the table. The battle was won when the trap was set after forcing my opponent to fail a number of frenzied charges in front of my main battle line. My waagh succeded and my general and BSB sliced through a unit of minotaurs, a tuskgor chariot and chaos ogres led by a doombull. After that, my general succeeded in taking on a blood beast of khorne and two herds in the middle of a forest, coming out on top. My BSB fought back a huge herd (27 beasts led by a Shaman), and the battle was a massacre in my favour. Losing a big block of black orcs to Khorngors (they are really nasty), did not change the outcome.

Lessons learned: Having a lot of infantry blocks, it can be wise to push three or four of them out to the flanks, leaving room for chariots, wolf riders and trolls to support my main battle line. The Size Matters-rule can be very annoying for the enemy, when my wolf riders can flee to safer ground through orcs that do not bother.

Guzzla's battle brew will always cause stupidity on my heroes. It is safe to say that I am stupid enough to keep buying it.