O&G Cavalry

Hi there,

Back to my Orcs and Goblins army, just for this unit, next should be an Empire unit. Today, we've got 10 Snortas riding their favourite boars. These guys are recent (old school) sculpts from Red Bard Games. 3D printed in resin (you receive them printed, you don't print them). And they come with their banner as a PDF file you can download from the manufacturer website. Ah and their amazing shields are also part of the delivery.

They are pretty cool and well in the spirit of the old Citadel minis by Kev Adams.

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More Orcs... (never enough)

A new Orc warriors regiment joins the O&G horde. The basis of this unit is the famous regiment of renown 'Ruglud's Armoured Orcs'. To this, I have added some Orcs with spears from the same period and others from the Marauder range. Three of them, including the standard bearer, are from Heartbreaker.

The Marauder musician will be swapped with the one (the real Ruglud's regiment musician) I painted for the first Orc Boyz unit. 

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The Red Bard Alternative

Some time ago I've been looking for Gruntas and Snortas to add cavalry units to my Orcs and Goblins army. I managed to get some from the well known auctions site, but not enough. And I didn't want to go over a certain price. 

Then, I found - I don't remember how - some Orcs riding boars on the site of a new Spanish miniatures manufacturer: Red Bard Games. While visiting their site, I was surprised to see that they've also produced an Orc riding a War Wyvern, an Orc shaman riding a boar and a complete O/G baggage train. I found also a pair of nice Ogres and two Dwarf carts. Then, recently, they've also added a Gob shaman riding a Cockatrice and three Gob Fanatics. Last but not least, they have also procuced a Daemon Asscannon! 

All of these minis are a more than good alternative for old school miniatures. Their size, their look, their attitude are just perfect and fit well with the rest of my army. They are 3D printed in resin, easy to assemble and with no mould lines.

Here are some I have just painted.

Orc Boss riding a War Wyvern

Biguns

"Foremost among Orc warrior society are the 'Big Uns'. These big, tough, fierce Orcs always grab the best wargear when looting the battlefield." - Warhammer Armies 3rd ed.

Here they come - 30 Biguns - ready to hack and slay for the glory of themselves... and of the horde, of course... 

To build this unit, I pulled from my leadpile the biggest Orcs or those that are particularly well equiped. This is a melting pot of minis coming from all over the place and from several eras. Some are veeeery old Citadel Black Orcs, including from the Eeza Ugezod's Mothercrushers set (the boss of the Biguns unit is actually Eeza himself), some where big Orcs - not necessarily tagged as Biguns - sculpted by the Goblinmaster himself, some are Marauder Biguns and finally the most recent (and huge) ones are from Knightmare Miniatures (sculpted by no one else than Kev Adams).

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Gruntas

Once again I have painted some alternative Oldhammer minis coming from Knightmare Miniatures: Orc Gruntas riding powerful war boars.

These figures do not come with a standard bearer, so I made a little conversion by cutting the arm holding a standard on a 4th edition Savage Orc boar boy. I have also swapped two of the minis weapons for diversity purpose.

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Reinforcements

My progresses in painting my O&G army are going well. This time I've painted some reinforcements for existing units, adding 6 Orc Boyz to the 24 already painted and 20 Gobbos with spears to the existing unit of 20. 

My aim is to have big units (Orc Boyz units will be 30 strong, the max allowed by the 3rd ed. Armies, and Gobbos units will be at least 40 strong). O&G weakness is their poor leadership and cool skills. I want to avoid them fleeing due to missile fire losses. So the more numerous they are, the highest their chances to reach the enemy lines will be.

Ah and I also painted 2 additional Goblin Fanatics (now I have 9).

The Orc Boyz are from the old Citadel regiment plastic range and the Gobbos are a mix of 1) 4th edition monopause plastic minis and 2) proxies from Black Tree Design

Orc Boyz

Machineries of Destruction

Going barefoot and half-naked because they don't have the chance to loot proper clothes and shoes, that's the destiny of the Greenskin war machines crew... But at least they are protected by their leader and they don't end up eaten by their stronger peers. 

I've painted three bolt throwers, one skullcrusher and one leadbelcher along with their crew. Now with a total of six, I think the Greenskins are well equipped in war machines. Maybe I'll try to find a "cheap" man mangler on eBay if I have the opportunity.

I had to "convert" one of the bolt throwers as I received it with one missing wheel and no levers. I used spare chariot wheels to replace them.

The skullcrusher comes from Knightmare Miniatures.

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Even Greenskins need Spellcasters...

Spellcasters, i.e. Shamans, in the Orcish "society" are a paradox. They rarely fight on the front line, hacking at the enemies of their race and shouting at them. They are also often considered by their kin  to be physically "weaker" than the warriors (of course, this is wrong). 

But they are highly respected, or at least feared. Their spells can kill dozens of enemies at the same time. Even the strongest Orc warlord cannot rival with that. They can boost the already high Orcs' appetite for destruction and invoke terrible undead and daemonic beings.

Some Shamans even lead their own tribes, such as Radzog in the Doomstones Campaign (WFRP) who is a very powerful spellcasterr leading the Bloodaxe Alliance, a huge horde of Greenskins.

The one I painted for my O&G army is a 4th or 5th edition mini (I guess). I like everything about this mini: his huge bone staff, his posture, his ragged clothes and I wanted to paint him for a long time. This is now done.

Wild Things

Savage Orcs are a must for any Greenskins army. Their impact on the battlefield (provided that they can reach the enemy units and that they fail their cool test to enter frenzy) can be decisive.

At first, I planned to find some 4th edition Savage Orcs on Ebay. I like those minis and they can be found at decent prices. But then, for my Birthday, I received a gift voucher at my local hobby store and I wanted to spend it in another way than buying paints and brushes for once (because I usually don't buy Citadel minis of the most recent editions for several reasons: their price, their exagerated size, shape, etc.).

But I must admit that the Savage Orcs - although huge (twice as big) and over-muscled in comparison with older Orc minis - are particularly well done. I like their 'stone age' equipment, the bones, beasts' teeth and scales/pelts from monsters lurking in the Badlands.

I wanted each of them to be unique. That's why I have used several skin tones and paid particular attention to assemble them in different postures and equipped them with unique sets of hand weapons and shields. At first, I also wanted to add some (blue and red) war paints, but then I renounced because I feared to ruin my paintjob.

 

 

 

Waaaagh!!!

Hello and Happy New Year !!!

This first port of 2020 is about my second painted unit of Greenskins: 25 Orc Boyz.

For the moment, it is led by a command group that will ultimately be the leaders of a Biguns unit. And I've also painted the famous Harboth.

Eight of the warriors are monopause plastic minis, but they have different skin tones and cloth colours. Mixed with metal minis in the unit, the result is acceptable.

Orcs!

As mentioned some time ago, I'm starting to paint a fourth army, after the Dwarfs, the Wood Elves and Chaos. Now it's time for Greenskinzzzz !!! 😁

I've started with arrer boyz: Harboth's Orc Archers, to be precise. Although I own Harboth himself, he will not be part of the unit. He has no bow and I will use him as leader of an Orc warriors unit.

I've painted some Greenskins in the past, some Blood Bowl players. All of them had the same skin tone. For this first unit of my O&G army, I wanted each mini to look unique and hence, I have mixed several skin tones.

To be compliant with the 3rd Edition Armies, I will continue painting the pre-requisites: at least 20 Orc Boyz, 20 Gobbos and 20 Stickas. And 3-4 Goblin Fanatics to go along.