Greetings Terrans, hope you’re well. I’ve been carrying on with the odds and sods from my ‘primed pile’ this last week, and have another Silver Tower mini to share – the rather beefy ‘Ogroid Thaumaturge’:

He’s a stonking model, but I honestly found it to be strangely frustrating to paint! All those swirly tattoos are cut into the skin & I really wanted to get them to look all glowing & magical, but I just couldn’t get it to look good… no idea why, just wasn’t happening :-(

Anyway, I used up all the fucks I had, and ended up going for for a contrasting red for the tattoos – it looks ok I guess, but it bothers me that it’s not what I had in mind. Still, I had fun with highlighting all that flesh, and I’m particularly pleased with the OSL from the magic flamey-staff thing.

This is actually the second Ogroid I’ve painted – I tackled the more martial Ogroid Myrmidon a few years ago & I thought I’d put them together for a photo – they make quite a decent pair!

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Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for you this week, but don’t worry, I have more Silver Tower guff to follow in due course. Until then, have a good one & catch you all soon!

Greetings Terrans, happy Orctober. Just a short post today, with some equally short greenskinz to share – a small rabble of gobbos from the Silver Tower set:

The observant among you might notice that there are are a few too many limbs and eyes for the given number of heads… that’s because these are ‘Scuttlings’ – mutated gobbos from the Silver Tower fluff:

“Grot Scuttlings are a type of grots that live in the Silver Towers, infesting the Gaunt Summoner’s domain neither by his will or permission. These green-skinned invaders, sprouting like fungus and ensnaring the unwary that they might devour. Grot Scuttlings resemble half-arachnid half-grot creatures and are tribal and wily. They have four grot legs and two hands in which they clutch stabbas, spears and Huntin’ Bows. When some Grots start eating a strange fungus that grew on big spiders, which, over some time, caused them to mutate and so Scuttlings were created.”

So there we go – weird and mutated night-goblins is pretty much the vibe here… Not much else to say! The set of eight is comprised of four melee grots, and four ranged grots:

The minis are pretty goofy, and not terribly inspiring to paint, so I didn’t put much effort in to the job – just a whole load of drybrushing & a bit of highlighting for the flesh. Of the two types, I suppose the melee ones are a bit less naff thanks to the awkward sticky-out ‘bow-arm’ situation, but there isn’t much in it! Still, they are done and dusted, and I’m counting them as my humble contribution to Orctober.

Have a good one all, catch you later.