Happy Orctober 2020

 My most modest contribution for this year´s Orctober are these two orcs brawling over a bottle of booze. Both have sat undercoated on my paiting table for too long and now I sort of forced myself into splashing some color on them.

Both are from the C15 / ORC5 / 0508 Orc Villagers series. They will join the orc

baggage train with some of the models I´ve painted earlier.

The bottle is a very crude green stuff thingie I came up with. 

To be honest I did not enjoy painting these that much. The details are somewhat shoddy and the face of that knocked-out one is just a complete mess in my opinion.

Serious IG fire power

 The armament policy of the old IG seems to have been "You can never have too many las cannons". Every tactical squad comes with one and command sections have two. If you don´t choose one of the alternatives as I did with my 2nd tactical platoon.

Following the afore mentined policy I have completed this support squad: sergeant, four las gun troopers, one missile launcher and FOUR las cannons. That´s quite a lot of fire power if you ask me.

The whole squad together. Mixture of plastic and metal bodies.

Squad sergeant is an imperial army sergeant model that has been

given a chain sword to match the army list equipment.

Beaky marine missile launcher sits quite well on the shoulder of that metal body IG trooper.

This squad will eventually be part of the ´yellow´ or reserve platoon of my IG army.

Speed painted with the same formula as the rest of the army.

As next I´ll finish the command section. And then it´s time to do another tactical squad...

Psykers - one sanctioned and the other...

 Not all psykers are decimated or taken to Terra to be absorbed by the Emperor of Mankind. Some become sanctined sanctioned psykers for Imperial Guard and those individuals are often attached to command sections. Always seen as suspicious by the Commissariat sanctioned psykers of the 114th Salihanian regiment are forced to wear red clothing as a warning sign for normal troopers. The are shunned by NCOs and common grunts but tolerated by officers who understand their value on the battle field.

Some psykers take mattes in their own hands. At least for a while. Joining a Genestealer Cult may seem like a way to avoid being killed or absorbed. But mingling with forces of chaos come with a price. Seen as just a human psykers are ruthlessly exploited by the cult leader and will be sacrificed without a blink if survival of the coven requires it. And the blessings of the dark powers behind the Cult are not always very beneficial.

Got the two models in a job lot I scored a couple of weeks ago. As they are duplicates I wanted to have one as a IG sanctined psyker and the other as a GS Cult rogue psyker.

Sanctined psyker wields a IG standard issue las gun. For the rogue I gave two autopistols. The rogue was painted first and I didn´t like the big shoulder pockets on him so I removed those from IG one´s plastic arms. Much better that way.

As the IG psyker is assigned to desert themed army his skin a bit darker than that of the rogue´s. 

Here´s another rogue psyker I painted earlier and a sanctioned one too.

Getting back on track with IG

 As mentioned I was suffering from something of a painters block. That was quickly remedied when I got lucky and scored a largeish job lot of 80´s IG. I had ran out of IG trooper models earlier and put that project to side. Now I´ll be able to put more squads on the table as in the job lot there´s material for few dozens of guardsmen.

The first ones that hit the painting table. Going to comple a support squad that was left unfinished earlier when I ran out of heavy weapons troopers´ right arm pieces.

My recipe for desert themed IG: Army Painted Desert Yellow base, Mournfang brown gaiters, pouches and straps, Black shoes, gloves and armor, Cadian Fleshstone for face and hands, Leadbelcher for all bits metal.

Wash with Agrax, platoon color to chest badge (yellow for support platoon). Armageddon dunes technical on base. And as last highlight jumpsuit with Kislev Flesh. Quick and easy. The grenadier on the right is the only completed one of these. Rest are in various phases of WIP.

Some really nice stuff in the job jot. Would love to expand my assault platoon with another squad. Just need to get some jump pack and chain sword first.

A somewhat chaotic 200th posting

Wow! When staring this blog just under five years ago I never thought I´d one day have 200 postings. At first I was thinking about doing something special for the occasion. Perhaps a look into those Oldhammer blogs that led me into becoming an oldhammer enthusiastic. Or once again returning to baggage trains, war altars, animal handlers or some one of those unit types that no longer exist in more modern rules sets.

However this will be an introduction of a new WFB army in building. Some of these models have been shown here before but not all and certainly not together.

So, it´s Slaaneshian Chaos. At the moment 19 beastmen, 3 minotaurs and 2 beastmasters with 6 chaos hounds. The beastmen are on round bases as the are to be used in a genesteraler cult army too. I will get a movement tray for them eventually.

Bird´s eye view. Pastel colors to give that oldschool look. Purple/pink, yellow and black used to tie the army together.

19 beastmen with a starndard. Equipped with light armor and shields that equals 13 points/model. So the cost for the whole unit without a character model to lead it would be 260 points. Not bad for WS4, T4 and W2 rank and file. Planning on adding a musician, champion and three more troopers to make it 24 (4x6) strong.

Two beastmasters and six chaos hounds. With ligh armor the animal handlers are 17 points each for total of 34. Chaos hounds are 23 points/model which means that this unit cost a total of 172 points. Not planning on adding anything to this.

The three minotaurs. With double handed weapons they are 48 points each for total of 144 points. I want to have six minotaurs in the end. In two units of three as their maximum unit size is five.

It´s a humble start. Just 260+172+144 = 576 points of rank & file so far. But throw in some characters and perhaps a bound host and it´s pretty quickly past 1500 total points. And I do have six trolls that could be used but in my opinion trolls aren´t very Slaanesh so I think I´ll stay away from that option.

What I´d really like to add is some chaos thug horse. Perhaps using those pre slotta C34/27 chaos beastman riders. And thugs on foot too. Thinking about some sort of cultist models. A war altar is a must. Just need to find suitable models for that first.

That it for posting number 200. Have a happy Orctober - go paint something green ;)