Some bit of buildings and stuff

Greetings nerds.

I've been making some scenery this week. This is actually a slight detour from the 8 gamers thing as it involves our Mordheim project. With an effort to replace the rather *ahem* tatty buildings we have currently (one is an old grey plastic monstrosity with the words "all hail!" and a crude smiley face drawn on the top) I've finally finished or at least, in the finishing stages of one piece and working on another.

With Mordheim primarily focused on ruins, behold....some weird crypt thing and a mashed up building:

They both still need some work, maybe a broken gargoyle on the ruin on the left and some highlights on the crypt and some touch-ups to the areas that are flaking. It's not brilliant, but it will do. 

Painting wise, the boars are all done and so is most of one of the riders. I've actually got another project I'm working on, which will either go really well or be a waste of £20 and a lot of time. 

Remember the goblin heroes I bought ages ago? Well, I've started on them. By started I mean "I've glued the cloak on the shaman, cut him off his metal base and in the slow process of making him a cool-looking action-packed base of awesome." The goblin warboss on the other hand...I think I bodged his arm, so he's now holding the spare spear from the goblin boss on giant squig model, which is held on with a lot of superglue, 2 types of green stuff (normal and liquid) and hope, lots of hope. 

I'm a troll man...

Here is a painting update! I've been a bit slack recently, but I've finally started work on the howdah for the big spider. I actually don't know how some parts go together, so expect it to be bodged, at a jaunty angle and badly glued together. It will also have the web flinger because quite frankly, I don't want a goblin shaman miscasting, then exploding on my lovely big spider.

Also, I've nearly finished the river trolls. They haven't been based yet, nor had goblins stuck on them (at least one of them is going to have a goblin sitting on his back). Here they are so far:

Pokey

Fishy

Sicky

 

 

Can't wait to get these lads into a scrap. Or rather, can't wait to fail those stupidity tests and have them stand about doing naff all.

A detour to Mordheim

Hello!

I haven't posted much, due to being busy with other blogs and drinking heavily and as such, haven't had much chance to write anything since getting back from holiday (save for talking about how good squigs are).

Anyway, painting progress is slow. My second box of savage orcs are like a rather large lump of wyrdstone around my neck. I can see them out of the corner of my eye; laying in a heap on the cutting mat, half-painted green, with all the weapon hands finally glued on, but not effort to actually paint said weapons. Only one is marginally complete (the musician). I will work on getting these finished, as I was proud of the first lot (who need war-painting up!)

I've also been working on my cockatrice, which now sports a rather fetching pink mohawk and blue fur. It looks hideous. Also completed is another mushroom (this time on a base that's the right size). Tried taking some pictures of it and they look rubbish, so no pictures, sorry. Other projects include painting another screamer-killer Carnifex (sorry, 40K talk).

HOWEVER...I have got pics of a new addition to my Mordheim warband. Yes, a tangent - apologies, but I'm rather proud of this dude. Few games back, one of my Orc Big 'Uns (Morko) got a weapons expert skill (and because he can have shooting skillz, he now has a blunderbuss that "e found in da handz of sum humie wiv no legz." Yes...quite. Anyway, Morko now totes a blunderbuss. Now, converting one was out of my slightly inferior hands. However, using a technique know as 'copying'; I managed to cobble together something I saw on another blog, but in my own primitive style. It isn't the best conversion work, but it does the job and it's typically 'orc and goblins' in that respect.

yes, that's a spare spider from the Arachnarok kit, in the hand of a
40K ork, that had been cut and re-glued ages ago.

Shoddy, yes - but that's Orc craftsmanship for you. The little guy is Gorko, his mate!