Warboss Clawz' Waaagh, Updated army pics

OK, so it is time for me to start my first painting log. I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing, so be gentle lol.

The theme of the army is to be Warboss Clawz and his winter/xmas themed Waaagh. I am still in the very earliest stages of the project, and I expect my progress to be in bursts over the next year as I finish up my Master's thesis and begin a PhD get a job in the summer.

I know enough about myself to predict that I will have weeks-long periods with no work at all, weeks-long periods with incremental progress, and 3-4 day blocks of intense work, strung together in a mostly random order. I'll try to post every couple of weeks regardless of lack of progress (and as often as I can be bothered to post photos during times of porgress).

My biggest challenge will be remembering to take pictures and post them.

This post has been edited by amysrevenge on Dec 4 2012, 03:12 PM

I know that feeling, that's how may progress goes as well.

Good Luck in building and painting your waaagh.

Good Luck in your studies as well

that sounds like you are a true Orc

also posts the progress of your ma-thesis. Am currently working on one myself, so perhaps we could give each other a kick in the xxx if we do too much painting and too little studying. What subject are you writing about?

This post has been edited by BorkBork on Jan 18 2010, 08:43 PM

I'll begin with some "Before" pictures. Most of my models were purchased as-is, assembled with mold lines still there, un-based.

Here is a group shot of almost everything I have, as of today. I still have 5 Boar Boyz and some strange old plastic Boyz and Grots soaking to strip the paint.


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This is a shot of NGs before I touched them.


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Here are some NGs, fanatics, and a character or two, de-based and on pins.


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Here are the Night Goblins all on pins with mold-lins removed. Still need to trim the hoods.


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Here are the Boyz. Some are choppa/shield, some are dual choppas, some are choppa only, and a bunch are in bits in the tin.


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Wolf Riders and Spider Riders. Expect major conversions for the wolf riders, not as much on the spiders.


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Squig hoppers and chariots.


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Here are some Reaper minis I'm going to work on. Will eventually be a Fanatic, a NG Boss on Giant Cave Squig, and a warmachine crew.


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Various warmachine crew, new and old (now I just need to scratch-build the machines).


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Boring - Squig herds in the blister, and another chariot on the sprue.


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Rare choices! Trolls, Doom Diver, and Giant.


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Here are a bunch of various characters, including Gorbad Ironclaw.


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Piggies! I'm gonna turn these into boars...


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These are the reason I must be ever-vigilant with my models. Jeffrey Lebowski (The Dude) and Victoria Beckham (Posh).


This post has been edited by amysrevenge on Jan 18 2010, 09:20 PM

Electrical Engineering

I dont' have a title worked out yet, but in general I'm working on routing in wireless sensor networks. Specifically on the statistics of certain types of routing.

Here are some of my early results. A mix of encouraging and discouraging.

First, the good. Here are some super-blurry shots of the scultping I'm doing on the hoods of my Night Goblins (about 15-20% completed now). I haven't decided whether to do similar fur around the cuffs and cloak-bottoms or not. I probably will though. I obviously need to improve my camera-fu, with regard to close-ups.



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Here are a couple of test-models I did for snowtrolls.



Unfortunately, the scale is waaay off - they ended up giant-sized rather than troll-sized.

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This post has been edited by amysrevenge on Jan 18 2010, 09:11 PM

whoah.....that is so not my cup of tea. I am a bit of a technical no-no.

I am more on the soft side of science ....archaeology
Thesis is about Roman military finds from South-holland (a province of the Netherlands) and the mechanism of social change caused by the presence of the Roman army in the area, and the identity of local groups within the empire, and the role of army veterans in local communities.

But back on topic

Impressive hoard you got there, that will keep you busy for a while.
And yeah somehow Trolls are surprisingly small. I always misjudge their size as well when converting.

Am really curious on how the piggies will turn out

Well, I don't have any more pics to post, but I've been sitting indoors during my vacation to the rainiest desert of all time (Palm Springs CA) sculpting fur on the collars of my night goblins. I'm also messing around with two of the Animousity unit filler special models, setting one up as it came and converting the other into some fun things.

well good luck with all that lot of orcs. Ive got about just as much to paint up and it seems daunting, but also good fun at the same time. Best of luck to you

now thats something I would like to hear about. Im currently doing a degree (business Information Technology, not quite archaology/history) but am a big history buff (but prefer the Greek and Carthaginian empires), no part in thanks to my dad who happens to have an archaeology degree. But your title does sound intresting, especially since your basing it in the netherlands region

bloddforgedorcs

...@ BorkBork: also Solleveld? Near my place, Monster...
fun thesis (historian myself)

cheers,

Kees

Ok, a bit more NG sculpting done, and I've played a bit with some of the Animousity figures.

Here is another, slightly less blurry shot of the hood trim I'm doing. I've got about 60 done (including shamans and heroes and fanatics), and about 20 to go.

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Here is what I've done so far for the fanatic out of the Reaper goblin ninja and some NG and giant bits.

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These are some of the fun I"m having with the animousity orcs. This one is swinging the giant peasant like a club

I started work on a movement/display tray for the NGs last night, since I want to do the bases and the tray together. I'm super stoked about how it's turning out! I'll have some WIP pics up in about 10 hours from the time of this post.

Teaser: it's powered by either batteries (during play) or a DC adapter (on display)...

Teaser from the future: I think the theme for basing my Orcs will be a line from Weird Al Yankovic's The Night Santa Went Crazy "You can't hardly walk around the North Pole without steppin' in reindeer guts."

Also, if anyone has any ideas on what tack I should take for my scratch-built rock lobba and spear chukkas, let 'er rip. I'm thinking Gingerbread House for the pump wagons, should I go with gingergread as building materials for lobbers and chukkas to, or is there something else I'm not thinking of that might work?

OK, here is what will soon be my first NG movement tray. Two more like it still to go lol.

The easy part first. The part the bases go in...



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Then comes the under-tray



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Here is how the tray sits on the under-tray


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Finally, here is the point of the whole thing


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The idea is that there will be tiny little lights popping up through holes in the tray. The gap between tray and under-tray is where the wires will hide, the bottom is open for access to the battery pack, and the back is open to get at the DC adapter plug.

Now that movement tray is going to look funky, I'm looking forward to it.

Cheers