Hordes: Blindwater Bog Trog Trawlers

So I like the Bog Trog minis... and actually played a game of Hordes for the first time in about 6 years so that gave me a little inspiration to paint something. I actually painted my Shambler unit too but not enough light for me to take photos of them at the moment, plus I haven't even undercoated the bases like I managed to do on the trawlers yet.
First guy is not converted but the second guy is. 

This guy I cut off the handle from his right hand and bent the arm carefully, then I replaced the handle on the gun with brass rod and roughly sculpted a strap onto it.
I took the knife off of a Metal GW Kroot shaper for the right hand. 

Wood elves; Tharn: Swordmaiden and Druid

So I thought just updating my blog today with a picture of something I bought off eBay and just change the base of was a little rubbish, so here we have a proper update, of some models I have converted :)

The Tharn miniatures from Privateer press are pretty damned cool (well the not beast form ones at least (my opinion) and I have so many ideas for forest beasts and creatures etc that I'm probably going to have to split my miniature for the wood elf faction into a number of sub-factions, e.g. I have the faun, Tharn, Dryads, going to do some Centaurs, Satyr and Brownies, etc, just too much stuff for one warband.

 So I wanted a bit of variation in the Tharn warband without having to use the beast form Tharn figures, so I converted the sword maiden above, well actually I was planning on making a mounted Tharn but I couldn't get the legs into a pose I wanted them and I don't have the skills to resculpt them satisfactorily, so it's a happy mistake in reality lol.-

I used clippers on purpose on this model despite the damage that they cause because I wanted them to force the legs apart to create the open legs for making a mounted pose however when I gave up on that it wasn't too hard to bend them to make the running pose instead.
I then had to putty over the damage to the loin cloth and a little to her legs, the skull on her belt was destroyed so I replaced it with a part from the new Wood elf wild rider kit (from the antlers).
I clipped and cut off the javelin from her left arm and used a file to make good all the bindings on her leg and arms (will have to see how that looks after undercoating, so hard to see on a shiny bit of metal lol.
The swords are from the wood elf glade guard kit, if I can get hold of some of the kingdom death rawhide upgrade axes at some point I will probably replace them for something more feral but there is very little out there in a decent size for the Tharn figures.

This guy is pretty much a stock Rackham Confrontation Kelt druid, rare now so I had to go over my budget to pick him up but i've no idea how else to make slightly over sized Male tharn (they are substantially bigger than the females), this guy isn't really big enough but he is bigger than the female models and being a druid I can explain it away by saying he's just a little weedy lol.
 

As you can see above the only conversion I did to this model was to remove the rounded upper part of his ears and greenstuff pointy ears (all Tharn have pointy elf like ears).

I will probably use the Kromac Figure to lead the Tharn split of warband as I own him anyway from all my Circle purchases, I have had to request a new set from Privateer press as the one I have has a major casting defect (basically all the detail is on his left leg but it's massively sunken back, as it if formed in the mould with a bubble behind it and collapsed during cooling).
I can probably repair the leg enough to use on a conversion for another male tharn, but I wanted the original detail on my Kromac.
I have found that the new style Ungor bodies could make decent male tharn conversions but I have not managed to source a decent set of mostly naked over sized male legs to convert the lower halves, so I will probably only end up with 2-3 male tharn in the list (I want to make a mounted one but I may cope out and just cover the legs with some coverings or something).

Cheers for reading (Especially if you got this far lol)

Hordes Circle of Orboros: Gorax WIP

Just a minor update to show WIP of my Gorax.

Hordes Circle of Orboros: Ferile WarpWolf (PIP) part 3 & Ghetorix

Not at all convinced by the glowing runes, I need another go at that.

My brand new pot of P3 Molten Bronze is totally solid :( so I don't have a highlight colour for the Bronze.... otherwise i'm nearly there now.

Also managed to get Ghetorix to this level, still a few stages behind the ferile above:

Hordes Circle of Orboros: Ferile WarpWolf (PIP) part 2

Coming along quite nicely I think now, though there are some bits where the quickshade I appiled a bit too heavily or didn't wanter it down quite enough and need to be blended back in again with watered down bone white.

I'm pretty happy with how he's coming along so far.

 None of the armour has had more than it's base colours and a littel bit of quick shade for depth applied... i'm not looking forward to adding some highlight to the orange lol...

 I found a pot of P3 Molten bronze which I didn't realise I had, that should make a great highlight to the much darker I-kore Lucifer bronze :).

Got to paint his nose and eyes yet too.


And I keep forgetting to put the top coat of cream onto his tail at the moment it's just barely base coated.

You might not be able to see it in the pictures, I think it's most visble on his back, but any large flat areas of model i went out of my way to try and keep the top highlight showing hte brush strokes to try and give the effect of fine fur.... I think it looks pretty good (at least on his back lol).

I also managed to drop the model when painting him and i've broken off the back spike on the left hand side :(, chipped a few bits too but it was all the spikes and I hadn't finished them so I just slapped the highlight colour on the ends lol.

Hordes Circle of Orboros: Ferile WarpWolf (PIP)

 
Well the aim of this plog was to combat gamers ADD by painting and modelling lots of different things, and while that is still true I appear to have remembered that I used to have a Circle of Orboros army for Hordes... because I liked the figures... and the Bloodtrackers I painted up (the woodsey elf types with Javlins) have put me down the path of wanting a Circle army again...

Oh well go with the flow, I picked up a starter and some other bits and this is just a WIP to show i'm still alive...

Having food poisoning meant I had today off sick, which has meant that I have also managed to start on this fella.

Wood elves: Tree Seer & Trackers (PiP)

Not much going on in the hobby world i'm afraid, I've had very little to report, did a bit of dabbling but nothing much to showfor it bought some bits, sold some bits, just generally didn't do a lot lol.

Paiting these Tharn bloodtrackers & spellsinger to this point and putting a base coat on some Terrortoise is all I have accomplished in the long time between the last post and this one.

Some progress has been made on this one though she definately isn't finished, infact she's gone back into the cabinet again until the desire to paint her strikes again...

Hordes / Fishmen update; Rask Minion Warlock

Not much to say beyond the fact that there are a few highlights yet to do (E.g. Gold) and that this figure is a pain in the arse to paint (at least for me lol).

Mordheim Vampire Hunters: Campaign Master forces Ash's Mount

Today I have a work in progress paint job to show you.

The original model is from Epic Alexia, Mistress of the Witchfire (Privateer press Warmachine figure). I have posted it before along with it's converted rider (Ash; the Zombie lord).
I still need to apply the tail and paint the hooves and some of the buckles but it's coming on ok (note: the model is not as pick as it looks (on my monitor at least).

Wood elves: Tree seer and tracker (PiP)

GW Wood elf spell weaver

I'm actually finding these wood elves to be a bit of a chore,i'm putting in what feels like a lot of effort here but the results... well they just aren't as good as I'd hope, I know i'm a mediocre painter at best but i'm feeling quite disheartened by this lot :(. With my limited painting time as it is i'm going to slap dash finish these 6 wood elves and move onto something more enjoyable (hopefully lol), perhaps i'll even finish the two Faun I had half done to go with them.... depends which way the wind is blowing I guess.

Actually the most painting work I have done recently is the wall behind the elves (well the entire kitchen wall) lol, you may possibly have noticed the test patches of colour and possibly a bit of masking tape in previous photos... been like that a long time, finally did something about it lol.

Privateer Press Circle Tharn Blood Tracker

Inspiration: Rhulic Adventurers

Not my work, just a few excellent conversion I had to share. These have all been converted for Privateer Press's Iron Kingdoms RPG game using mostly Pribateer press parts, and a couple of Reaper miniature parts.

The below conversions are from "PsycoLaughs" over on the Privateer press forums, the picture is a link to the thread with some other photos.

This guy is from Rob Hawkins and can be seen on his blog here his blog also has some human, trollkin, elf and gobber adventurers.

This one IS my own, done a few years back for the fun of it (I have never played in a game of IKRPG), a Rhulic sniper converted from  GW Ratling sniper (basically I extended the knee areas to give the model Rhulic sized legs).

Moving away from miniatures, there is this lovely bit of art showing a Rhulic Light Labour Jack (upright) by nfeyma over on DeviantArt here I woulden't have gone with the Khador fists myself but then I can't draw a stick man so... nevermind lol.

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Ironback Spitters (paint in progress)

 

Teedle deep and Tweedle derp about half way through the paint work so far, one coat of P3 heartfire orange (which has pretty poor coverage BTW, even over a brown undercoat, but it brightened up the model enough), one coat of army painter lava orange, one red ink wash, GW scorched brown, P3 Jack Bone (excellent coverage) and lastly Army painter Quickshade: Strong tone.

 

I need to go back over the guy's scales again as the covereage of the scorched brown was kind of .... well not great lol (painting in with poor light does that), so I need to make sure no orange is showing through, then some highlights, some varnish and i'll start on the back plates.

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Ironback Spitters

 

A Couple more minor conversions for my Hordes army.

Both these spitters had the horn on their chin removed and filed down to a neat angle.

One of them has been posed looking to his left (picture below) the other to be much more up-right, which involved removing some of the metal from inside his torso, and one of his back spikes.

Both then had greenstuff applied to cover up some of the blank area that was mean to be covered by their torsos and then some in the neck area (the one below has quite a lot as you can see, in order to get the "looking left" pose I wanted. 

Both these guys will be straight on the painting desk and will be getting a similar colour scheme to the terrortoise so as they could be used in the same warband should ever I manage to finish my Modheim rules or play something else :).

Cheers for looking

Maxxev

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Witch Doctor (Paint in progress)

Just a couple of shots of another model for my Gatormen still got to paint his tongue (and the snakes) and knife, plus some highlights and touch up here and there.

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Swamp Horror (no 2)

Barney the Squid

Couldn't resist getting two of these things, seeing as they are fantastic miniatures :P lol.I went with a completely different scheme on this one (another reason why i'm enjoying painting the minions) and I figured out what to do with all that space on the side of them, a bit of blobbing with some ink and I think it came out quite well :). Still need to varnish this one to take the shine off the purple ink but i'm liking him this far. I may have overdone it with the highlighting on the armour, can't really tell till after the varnish goes on, still might tone it down a little... not sure...

The eyes have only been undercoated so far.

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Croak Hunter

 

Just a minor conversion today, because I now have a number of croak hunters for my Minion force, I decided to convert a couple (only one so far), he's now been undercoated but most of the work was just chopping, bending and gluing, there was very little Greenstuff involved.

Here's the original model as from PP's gallery:

http://privateerpress.com/files/products/CroakHunter.png