BigD´s Angry Fists & The gnoblar revolution

[BigD]

Hi all,

I´ve been playing an undead army for quite some years and although I thoroughly enjoy gaming with them, it was time for a new army. But which army? Much soulsearching followed and I was lured towards the putrid powers of nurgle, but in the end I realised the answer was slapping me in the face...OGRES. Of course. An army with cool ogre models, completely different from undead, great fluff, funny gnoblar models. It all became clear, my second warhammer army would be ogres.

Now all I had to do now was to find a theme for my army. This site proved to be a valuable source of inspiration, I was toying with the idea of starting a nurgle ogre warband, but when I read the White Dwarf article about the gnoblar armylist, I knew my theme had to be gnoblars. My tribe of dog-of-war ogres want to save their strength to bash heads for their paymasters. In order to save their strength, they rely on their gnoblar servants (just an excuse for my ogres to act like lazy gits), so they are less likely to smash a gnoblar when they feel like it. When my army grows I´ll flesh out the fluff.

I´ve been painting a test model (not very neatly, hence the small, blurry pic) to try out some color schemes.

After some experimenting, I chose regal blue as my main color. I firmly believe in a limited palette to unify the army, so all my models will include some blue. The skin of my ogres will be grey to complement the blue.

Here´s the humble beginnings of my all conquering tribe of ogres. I´m quite happy with the way it turned out, because it´s the first time I´ve painted such a large area of skin


C&C is welcome

thanks for reading

[Blu Blu]

Nice bull, tops painting.
Great work there my friend , hope you can keep it up for the whole army, because if you can you will have a very secial force when your done.

Keep it up.

Blu Blu.

[Kyte]

Angry fist tribe you say... ARe you going to make a Reuben Kyte model then? I'd really like to see that...

Thanks

 - Kyte

[Ghworg]

That is one sweet model, and I heartily look forward to more models and background.

[BigD]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

@ Blu Blu: I´m planning to paint all the whole army to the same standard. It might take a while though, the bull took around 6 hours.

@Kyte: Not a bad idea at all. I might have a Reuben Kyte on a base with a bruiser or maneater (this should, of course, be Thrug the Deaf, the maneater who accompanied Kyte on his journey down Ivory Road in White Dwarf 302). The Angry Fist tribe appealed to me because the army book said that the tribe is the most sophisticated tribe of ogres. It offers nice conversion options for Ogre-style imperial technology.


I should have finished a whole bull unit at the end of coming week. Nothing fancy, just a unit of bulls with iron fists with full command and, to keep in fluff, some gnobs on the bases. To give some more character to this unit, I´ll have an old ogre veteran with wooden leg as the crusher.

[Corai]

Although I'd debate your choice of full command in bulls units, the mdoel looks really good. The skin tone is very nice and I couldn't agree more about the idea of having a unifying colour scheme to make the army look complete. I'll be following the gnoblog with interest, are we going to see some gnobbos before long then?

thanks
Corai

[BigD]

Although I'd debate your choice of full command in bulls units, the mdoel looks really good. The skin tone is very nice and I couldn't agree more about the idea of having a unifying colour scheme to make the army look complete. I'll be following the gnoblog with interest, are we going to see some gnobbos before long then?

thanks
Corai

Thanks for the compliment on the skintone. I´m happy with the way the skintone turned out. I know that a full command of bulls isn´t the best thing to do, pointwise. I especially believe a crusher isn´t worth its points. I take a full command for aesthetic reasons; it just looks cool to have a full command in a unit.

After the bulls, I´ll start on a unit of gnobs (but to stay in fluff, I´ll also have some gnoblar servants on the bases of the bulls as well...so more gnobs will be featured on this page soon)

[BigD]

Hi there,

Time for some new pics!

 I've finished some bulls last week:



and here's the crusher of the unit: Ol' Brog Headtaker. Fluffwise, he's an old ogre, veteran of many battles (he misses an eye and leg), who has gained quite reputation in the old world. The empire even put a price on his head. Needless to say, this makes Brog immensly proud. He even has a boast-gnoblar walking around with his wanted-posters (I have no idea what the proper english description for this is...but you get the idea)!


His boast-gnob and the beheaded imperial town crier who carried the wanted-posters

I notice that I forgot to take a frontal pic of Brog Guess that will have to follow later (together with the standar bearer).


BigD

[Blu Blu]

This Gnoblog is hoting up now, im hooked.
Keep it up.

Blu Blu.

[Gorg skullcrush]

Very nice boast-gnob. A good idea backed up by a good conversion.

cheers,Gorg

[Corai]

Very nice. the earthy, natural tones are perfectly set off by the vibrant greens of the gnoblars. The boast gnobbo is a particularly nice touch. Keep it up.

Thanks
Corai

[Jimmy]

Your ogres are looking great.  I love the wanted poster that is awesome.  How do you paint your ogre skin may I ask?

[BigD]

Hi,

Glad to read that people like my ogres!

@Corai: I´m glad you mentioned the green of the gnoblars as opposed to the natural tones. This was exactly the contrast I was looking for. I´m happy to see that someone else noticed it as well 

@Jimmy: For the skin, I use black as an undercoat. The basecoat is a mix of 5 parts fortress grey, 2 parts graveyard earth and one part chaos black.

Because I forgot to take a frontal pic of Brog, I´ll post one now. I also finished the standard bearer. I´m not entirely happy with the fist. I might repaint it slightly to make it look more like a primitive cave-drawing. Maybe someone has a good suggestions for that?


Next in the pipeline is a unit of gnoblar fighters, to stay in fluff with my gnob+theme. I´m playing with the idea of using a unit filler for this as well. Maybe use the halfling hotpot manned by gnoblars, or a couple of gnoblars trying to operate an imperial handgun. I´m not sure yet.

BigD

[Gorg skullcrush]

Holy sh*t dude. Do not touch that fist. If you do I will virtually slap you. It is friggin amazing. Awesome freehand. I am jealous of your skills.

cheers,Gorg

p.s sorry for the spaz mate. I'm just kiddin ,but seriously it looks great.

[Corai]

I agree, the freehand o nthe fist looks amazing. I'd be warey of tryng to make a primitive looking banner, as inevitabley, primitive/tribal freehand just winds up looking like bad freehand and you're clearly not bad at it!

Thanks
Corai

[BigD]

Holy sh*t dude. Do not touch that fist. If you do I will virtually slap you.

Hmmm, good thing I excel in virtually running away 

Oke then, Corai and Gorg. I might leave the fist that way than. I guess I´ll try some practice runs of a primitive fist on a scrap of paper then and see how it looks, before even thinking of altering the banner. Thanks for the tip, Corai, it sounds like a good argument not to make the fist look more primitive.

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@Jimmy: For the skin, I use black as an undercoat. The basecoat is a mix of 5 parts fortress grey, 2 parts graveyard earth and one part chaos black.

Sorry Jimmy, I posted my previous post, without finishing my answer on how I painted the skin. Here´s the rest. After the basecoat, I start shading down the model. First I do the light shades (simply adding a bit of black to the basecoat) and gradually add more black for the deeper recesses. Then I add some skull white to the basecoat to do a highlight on the raised area´s of the skin and add some more white to the first highlight color to give the the facial area an extra highlight.

[Ghworg]

U are an awesome painter. I especially love that Boasting-Gnoblar.

[BigD]

@Ghworg: Thanks, I do my best 

Unfortunately, I have to slow down my postings on this blog. I moved to a new place, so I´m still keeping myself busy with painting, but of a whole other kind 

Tomorrow, I´ll try to post some pics of the gnoblars and markers I´ve been working on the past few days.
About the markers, since I always forget about the number of wounds, spells in play or magic items, I decided to make everything in this army either WYSIWYG or make markers for it. At the moment, I´m working on wound markers.

I´ve also decided on my first 500 points to collect and paint:
- 1 bruiser with iron fist and light armour
- 3 bulls with iron fists (including bellower and a standard bearer with lookout gnob)
- 20 gnoblar fighters (including groin biter)
- 8 trappers (including snarefinger)
- 2 leadbelchers
So I have already finished the bulls and will use the crusher as a bruiser untill I´ve painted all of the above models.

BigD

[Mentag the Marauder]

That looks like a good solid 500pts to build on. You wont enjoy painting the Gnoblars.

[BigD]

You wont enjoy painting the Gnoblars.

I don´t mind painting the gnobs, they don´t take me that long to paint. Besides, the theme for my army is that they have a lot of gnoblars to serve them, so the ogres can focus their energy on cracking skulls as dogs of war! I plan to keep up my interest in painting gnoblars by converting some of them and to make unit-fillers. At the moment, I´m toying with an idea of using the halfling hotpot as unit filler (with gnoblars instead of halflings, ofcourse). Does anyone have a good suggestion of what I can use as a filler in my gnoblar units?

My first few gnoblar fighters.


A wip of a model I might use as a groinbiter. The story behind this little fellow is that some gnoblars saw a bretonnian knight defeating an ogre singlehandedly. This made quite an impact on the greenskins, so every now and then an enterprising individual will loot a knight´s gear and bully a small gnoblar into being his steed. In battle, this wannabe knight charges in the thick of battle and every now and then even manages to actually defeat a foe.


In my last post, I talked about using markers for everything from gut magic to wounds. This is what I made in a spare hour; a one-wound marker and a two-wounds marker. When the gnoblar fighters unit is finished, I´ll start on a bicker marker.



BigD

[Corai]

Nice. the gnobbos are looking really characterful, and I'm glad to hear you're finiding the motivation to get on and paint them. he wound markers also look really nice.

thanks
Corai

[BigD]

minor update on my army:

Between painting my new house, I still managed to find some time to put together and start painting the next batch of 4 gnoblars and the groinbiter I showed in my last post. I should be able to post some pics soon.

(this post is a way for me to create a deadline, forcing me to put more time into painting models, instead of walls...let's see if I fall for this little trick  )

BigD

[BigD]

Hi,

After a month of living without warhammer (I was busy with moving to another place), I finally had some time to continue painting my ogres the last two weeks.

In one of my previous posts I showed a pic of a knight gnoblar. I´m currently busy converting more gnoblars to make them look like they are mimicking warriors of other races. It inspired me to have a go at my first little story.

Snug scanned the the battlefield for something interesting to look at. His ladz got bogged down, because Grubbucket and Dungnoze found 2 beetles. He could hear the high pitch of gnoblar shouts and cheers. "Them boyz Grubbucket and Dungnoze have beetle race", thought Snug. He couldn´t care less about it and was more interested to set his pointy little teeth in some groins, but he had to wait for one of the gnoblar fighters got bored of the race and decided to squish the beetles. In the meantime, an interesting scene caugth his eyes. A lone grail knight readied his lance and spurred his warhorse to charge a band of 4 of ogres. "Phah, canned pinkskin will be good lunch for Thrug and his mates." Snug sat down on a helmet lying on the battefield and eagerly anticipated a nice little show where the Bretonnian would die horribly and end up in one or more Ogre stomachs. The knight quickly approached the ogres and than, the unthinkable happened, Snug almost fell of his helmet. The knigth pierced the upper body of Thrug while he smashed into another ogre. The knight fell to the ground, but so did Thrug, a piece of shattered lance sticking out of his chest. Although the remaining 3 ogres dispatched the unsaddled human with ease, the Bretonnian still made an impression on Snug while he sat to ponder the thing the just witnessed.

At the corpse harvest, after battle, Snug approached Thrug and the dead human. From the knight, he took both the helmet and shield. Afther that, he climbed on Thrug and pulled the lance out of his dead body. "If humie can kill them big ogres, with pointy stick and shiny bits, I can kill them humies."[/font]

I also managed to finish 2 leadbelchers.




A gnoblar managed to ignite the barrel of blackpowder one of his mates is carrying on his back


A close up of the gnob sitting on the shoulder of one of the leadbelchers

comments and criticism are, of course, more than welcome!

[Corai]

Excellant, clean job as usual. I love the narrative interplay between the two gnolbars on the base, and the mushrooms really help finish the piece

Thanks
Corai

[Kyte]

The clean paint job is amazing! I think the fire is a tad too red though.

Thanks

 - Kyte