Ogrob's fantasy projects - The swamp orcs return (?) 1/6

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great work as always mate!

[plessiez]

Amazing thread.

Can I ask, where did you get the plumes you’re using on your Knights of the Mark please?

[Ogrob]

Amazing thread.

Can I ask, where did you get the plumes you’re using on your Knights of the Mark please?

Thank you! Some of them are from the gothic heads from Victrix armoured late roman, some are from Gripping Beast's dark age cavalry, and many I have sculpted by first pinning a copper wire into the helm and then covering it with greenstuff. The foot Knights use the afforementioned plastic bits, while my mounted Knights have more sculpted.

[Ogrob]

The autumnwood is an old and dangerous place. In times of trouble, the Guardians may find themselves assissted by druids, wild men and even the fae spirits of the woods. Some of these spirits make for uncomfortable allies, as they awaken from the slumber with a thirst for blood...

Finally finished this Dungeons & Lasers figure, it had been sat half painted for six months at least on my desk. Ended up using a lot of speed paints as well as pigments from Green Stuff world to give a natural and mottled tree-like appearance. The two hanging corpses got a heavy splattering of the aptly named Murder Scene and some blood red.

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

I love this thread. I really like your recent additions to your Rohan army. 

[Pattus Magnus]

That ent looks excellent! The painting techniques you used definitely give a natural feel to the model. I like the basing a lot, too.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

That is very good.

[Ogrob]

The other day I had the idea that I wanted some heavy weapon mercenaries for my Rhudaur Hillmen force (In SAGA terms, Borderers with heavy weapons for when my Rhudaur play using the Pagan People battle board from Age of Crusades). I quickly threw together some more Frostgrave Barbarians but to differentiate them they got a very different paint scheme compared to the Rhudaur themselves. In my mind, they might represent veterans, deserters or even refugees from Angmar following the wars with the northern Kingdom.

[Basementboy]

Gorgeous work! I do love the frostgrave sculpts, they remind me of the classic Conan stories.

[Ogrob]

If you've been through this thread you may remember a few dozen pages and a couple of years back I bought the Age of Sigmar Dominion starter with the intent of converting the new figures to use for Oathmark. I painted up most of the Orcs (or Orruks as GW calls them) and put them on square bases, but then stalled out on making enough figures to work with Oathmark. I was missing essential troop types and we were to be honest stalling out of Oathmark as a whole.

Now, for some reason or other, I happened to be browsing GW's webpage a few weeks back. They almost had me hooked with both the Cities of Sigmar and the Darkoath releases, but i had held off. This time, I came back to the Kruleboyz (which is what GW calls the swamp orcs specifically) and was reminded that I do really like their aesthetic. They have this mix of beast hunter, slaver and Warcraft II orc gear that I really enjoy. I failed a will save and bought a whole bunch of them.

I also set about rebasing my square based figures back to GW style round bases. I don't have a particular game system in mind for this project, but I might come away with something that works for SAGA Age of Magic, or One Page Rule's Age of Fantasy.

Anyway, enough rambling. Here are the first two units rebased to original style bases but with a bit more effort put in compared to the first iteration.




What do you think?

[Philotep]

Brilliant! Love the figures and the bases (though I prefer squares for my own games)