Chaos in Tilea - Rulers of Tor Nimtala

 

The previous long post was loooooong. But it was a necessary evil. Here we are again with some  background for the campaign of Chaos in Tilea. 

 

Chaos in Tilea - Campaign background

 

Long time, no see. I would have love to keep up to the updates but the never ending March 2020 that was the last year put a halt to many projects and the current year I dedicated the Old World Army Challenge to an oldhammer 40k Iyanden army. 

But here we are and we will try to organize this mess a little bit...

Lots of goblins

-I think someone is following us...

Thinking about this couple of units, it was the most stressful month of the past OWAC. An entire horde of goblins to paint, plus some trolls (which were shown in a previous post). I've never painted so many models in a hurry. Well, not at this level at least, some tournaments with bare sketchy base colours applied to several dwarf units, lot different to fully finished units.

Until April I only had two gobbos painted because why not.

But from two to 30 there is a long run. I wanted to try something new for the skin variation in this lot. Instead of layering and usual glazing I'd normally do, I tried a different mass-glazing approach.

I made a greyscale (or sepia) sketch after priming. Then, the goblins were divided by skin each tone. Some will be glazed with greens, other ones with pale blueish skin and others with the typical bright green skin.

As you may have noticed, I took more time with the shields. After getting the varied tones I wanted for the skins and clothes, the time saved with the glazing helped a lot to get this month done as well as to dedicate to paint some old school shield motifs.

The last two normal goblins were painted in a previous month as I said before. This couple was special because they were the first goblins (& orcs!) I got in the collection, together with the champion of the rock lobba which remain unpainted. I know that one of them is a lesser goblin, but as they came in the lot they had some kind of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill charm so they went into the same unit.

Next, the command group (well, the banner bearer and the champion, as the musician is in the previous pictures, I mistook it)

Punks not dead.

I enjoyed paiting the banner based in a local fanzine, following the punk theme of the unit and the champion. I felt that the drawing and the phrase catch perfectly the character of the rabble of small troublemakers.

Total:

19x Goblins

Light armour + spear + javelin + shields
Banner and musician

[73 points]

The champion came from Ral Partha. It will be noticed inside such a chaotic unit.

ser Gitfried (Hero lvl 10)

Light armour + two handed weapon
[32 points]

There were not enough goblins for this month, so I pushed my luck a little bit and painted also a unit of goblin archers. They're mostly C12/13 goblins except for some wolf raiders that I repaired and had no wolf, so they were added to the unit.

10x Goblin stikkas

Short bow

[35 points]

A productive month. I am trying to collect an army capable of playing Blood Bath at Orc's Drift Campaign. However, with the awesome C12/13 goblins it is impossible to resist and complete the army book's two mandatory goblin units rule. In the future I will get to the 20 stikkas, dunno if expanding the spear goblin unit up to 30.

Adrian's out!

Don't Feed the Trolls

 

-No, they smashed my precious mailing box!

The big guys are 'ere. There is no good 'ol orc force without a bunch of these smelly guys wandering around.

These fellas were in my desk from the begining. I couldn't resist to purchase two of the Satyr Art Studio's Bog trolls when a friend of mine didn't want them. They capture the old school vibe, fit perfectly with the C20 trolls despite the size (which I inted to purchase some to grow the family in the future). And more important, if a friend has them means I do not need to purchase 'em from California, which is a lot right now. The only limit to not have more or them, or that lovely remake of the cloud giant, damn, Drew D. William has all the goods.

I wanted a reddish skin in the troll smacking the mailing box, unfortunately, I painted a more white skin tone with some reddish/unhealthy bits. Which was perfect, nonetheless. I couldn't resist to add some meal and, of course, check pattern and free hand in the bits.

The last one is from Tim Prow, sold by Ral Partha Europe. The bone clubs and the monocle give him some character, as well as that long face with huge nose. This time I nailed the reddish tone I wanted with the other troll.

My plan is to expand this unit with some C20 trolls painted with random skin tones as well. No troll shall have similar colour.

That's for now. The big guys are finished, now with the little, cunnin' 'n' sniky-like of the rabble for the next entry.

Check out!

Da Brute Force

 

-Oi, anything need to be «really» crushed boss??

Happy 2021 everyone! 💃

The big black orcs have arrived. Funny unit to paint and to put together. I wanted something that really really screams BLACK ORCS with the old school vibe, as the fourth edition ones are a bit naked and do not fit the theme with the 3rd ed early slotta and preslotta boys. I wanted to collect an entire Jes Goodwin unit. However, I do not want to find myself completely bankrupt, which could be the possible scenario trying to get the entire collection in so little time for the III OWAC.

It is not impossible, but you should snipe some evilbay and fb group purchases. 

In the meantime when I was doing all the preparation stuff for the next OWAC, Knightmare miniatures announced an entire line of his Iron Orc (aka black orcs) by none but Kev Adam. Sign me in. That saved me time for the OWAC and a solution for the unit, because another problem with Jes' black orcs is the amount of different sculpts. If I'll be mortgaging the house for those miniatures, at least only for one of each sculpts.

The Iron orcs do not blend completely with the Jes sculpts because they are completely different but it is the point with the third ed. orcs. Their armour is ragged and more oldhammery than other iterations of the black orcs from the different WHF editions. They match perfectly by not matching with each other.

And you will say "but that reasoning is stupid". Indeed it is, that's why it works. See for example the musician, a miniature that only exist in metal in the 4th-5th ed. black orcs. It doesn't match in style with any of the other miniatures of the unit. Neither with any of the other orcs of the army!

One of them is fine, too many of them will be horrible for my taste.

They're not bad miniatures, it is only they don't have the ragged pelts and clothes, lack armour, their armour has no spikes or broken parts... However, Jes' black orcs have little of those things that can blend with other units of the army. Kev new black orcs too, their complex armour patterns and lots of spikes, ragged clothes and such mix very well with other units. Their faces are not the traditional Kev's orc face.

I wanted them to be a bit different only in their skin tonnes and more armoured and intimidating. The armour fix the later, so I decided to try something different for the skin tonnes. That's why I went for the purplish colour and the deep purpleish greens.

The banner was the opportunity to make also something similar to the old Thatcher witch face. I selected a local witch for that matter.

Also, check patterns, yay!

That's it for the more elite troop of the army. Next one, a huge horde of little fellas.