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) 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) Swamp Horror

He's Still WIP, got a couple of teeth to finish off and decide what to do about the big grey patches on the side (I tried a smooth grey, didn't like it, so went with a smudged grey but I don't like that much either :().

Love this model, if it wasn't for this guy and the Bog trogs I could easily have avoided buying into another army *sigh*. Still I hope that the model can pull double duty in another game system one day.

It sure is fun to paint things in a completely different way / choice of colours than normal though, the minions in general with their varied model races / creatures are well, just enjoyable to paint :) (well the blindwater side at least, I was fed up after my 6th Brigand for Thornfall... lol).

However this picture was taken while the base was still drying (actually it still is) but since taking the shot the damn water simulation type stuff has shrunk a LOT (it basically now just looks like a wet base, rather than a couple of MM depth). :(, going to try another layer in the morning and hope for the best but with the rate of shrinkage so far I think it's going to need about 30 layers.

Hordes: Blindwater pact (Minions) Posse and Wrastler

Latest Gatormen to receive a paint job, the Posse and a Blackhide Wrastler.
I need to re-paint a bit of the posse leader as I failed to notice the gaping holes in him that required a fair amount of greenstuff work to fill.... lol.

So far I haven't converted any of the blindwarter figures but I have a couple of Croak hunters that will be converted and I want to do a bit of work to the ironback spitters before they I start painting them too.

So far i'm finding this army really easy / quick to paint, i'm loving the speed at which the army is coming together :).

WARMACHINE: SEARFORGE

Below are my painted Searforge Mercenary models for Privateer Press's Warmachine

Mercenary Warcaster: Gorten Grundback

Mechanic: hor Stein Hammer and Solo: Lord Rockbottom

Unit: Herne & Johnne

Heavy Warjack: Ghordson Driller

Heavy Warbeast: Lug

Light Warjacks: 3x Grundback Gunners and one Grundback Blaster

Heavy Wawrjacks: Bashers

My converted Hamemrfall High Shield Unit Attachement

Unit: Horgenhold Forgeguard