Orctober – a Realm of Warcry upgrade

31 Monday Oct 2022

Posted by in Realm of Warcry

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Greetings Terrans, I’ve got a cheeky little Orctober / Warcry thing for you today. Back at the start of Orctober, I painted up 6 Kruel Boyz, as the first followers to join my Chaos Dwarf Champion. Since then, my local GW had their store anniversary, so I grabbed the special Kruel Boy boss & got him painted up as a final Orctober entry. Here he is:

He’s a brilliant mini – really nicely posed, and that lil’ vulture is a cool addition. I followed the same painting approach as I did for the first lot of Orcs, so no surprises there.

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As a happy coincidence, his pose almost perfectly mirrors Morbin’s… Bizarrely, this visually makes for a really strong pair, so this guy becomes an excellent Lieutenant for my Champion:

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And of course, he fits in beautifully with the rest of his kind:

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So that’s all for today – I’m still capped at 6 Orcs in my warband so this guy will have to replace one of the original six, but that’s fine by me. The Realm-of-Warcry droogs and I are meeting on-line tomorrow for a game, so I’m hoping that one of my Boys will manage to distinguish themselves enough to earn a promotion!

That’s all for today, I’ll be back tomorrow to share some seasonal undeaders :-)

What a load of Gnarloaks, (plus random dude)

26 Wednesday Oct 2022

Posted by in Side projects, Terrain, Warcry

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Greetings Terrans, second post in a week eh? Crazy times! This one is a bit of a cheat really, because all these bits were sort of lying around in various states of being painted. First up, there is this random Marine type:

I have no idea who this is, or why I have him, but he was a nice mini to paint! I’ve gone for an Inquisitorial vibe rather than painting him as a Marine, and, unusually for me, I went for a blue colour scheme. I’m really pleased with his cloak :-)

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Next up is all the terrain from the Heart of Ghur boxed set… I’m a bit hit and miss when it comes to enjoying terrain – sometimes I do, but I often don’t. This lot definitely fell into the latter group, but I persevered & got through the set:

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Phew!! Fair play, you do get a ton of stuff in the set, but it does get tedious from a painting perspective… All I can say is thank fuck for Contrast paints!!

I might go back to these and add some tribal markings or something to the bigger pieces of bone, but for now I am just glad they are done :-)

That’s all for now, hopefully I’ll catch you before the end of Orctober with a sneaky last-minute Greenskin!

Blackstone Fortress Part 4

24 Monday Oct 2022

Posted by in Blackstone Fortress

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Greetings Terrans, just a quicky today – I finished up the Chaos Space Marines from BSF, which nicely concludes the baddies half of the box. First up, these two dudes:

Not too much to say about them really – they are identical models apart from a different head option, and are posed in a pretty static ‘on guard’ kinda way. They are supposed to be Black Legion, so no big surprises on the painting front – I just went with the same method as I did for the Legion of the Damned that I did a while back. I’m not a huge fan of painting Marines at the best of times, and these two were pretty uninspiring, but good to get them done.

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Next up is the big-bad Chaos Lord from the box – the rather grand-sounding ‘Obsidius Mallex’:

He is also Black Legion according to the fluff, but I fancied taking a different approach to his armour & instead opted for grimy bone plate, with pinky-red for the organic mutant tendrils that run over and through his armour. I’m not a fan of these silly ‘because mutation’ tubes in CSMs at the best of times, but GW manage to take this irritating trend and turn it up to 11 on this guy, turning an otherwise ok model into a bit of a pig’s ear. And don’t get me started on that ridiculous top-knot thing – there is no way that isn’t tearing a chunk out of his scalp at the slightest head movement… Oh, no, wait, it’s ok because ‘Transhuman’ and ‘Chaos’. Ugh :-/

Still, as with his Bro-Marines, I’m glad to have him done. Here they are hanging out together & looking moody:

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And that’s it for this post – catch you muddy truckers next time!