The Bronzecast Ogrions & the Normalites of Vanillashire.

Hi everyone,

I have finally finished painting up the giant, and just managed to take the photos and post them before going to bed!

From the last post, I added highlights and lowlights to the skin and apparel.  Everything was done in acrylics in order to match the style with the rest of the army.  If this was not the case, I would have painted this in oils.

As you can see, the armour is painted in the style of the Ogrions, and the clothes have the same colour as the Normalites.

I painted a little object-source-lighting along the legs and arms with blue oil paint.  I just wanted a bit to embellish the lightening. With oil paints this takes only 5 minutes!

I am not sure what I am going to do for next week.  I still have 9 Ogrion archers to paint up, so I might start working on them

Until next week, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

The Ogres have three types of shooting infantry: Shooters, Boomers and Goblin Spitters. I have already done a horde of Shooters which are the long range ogre variant.

Here I am presenting the short range alternative; ie the Ogre Boomers or as I call them Ogrion Archers (because they have bows!, what was I suppose to do!).

I think I will do the next regiment of Ogrion Hounds (Crocodogs), because I have a bit too much on my plate at the moment.

Until then, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

I have taken a break from painting and spent the time customizing an Isperia sphinx model from Wizkids.  This is a very cheap model despite its size.

I want to use it as a proxy Red Goblin Slasher, so I had to remove the wings and add a firing platform. The platform is scratchbuilt from an old GW Imperial cannon sprue.

After building up the proxy Slasher, I can know use it on tabletop in my games in April. If I don’t manged to paint it up by then, I can always paint it at my leisure after the campaign.

Until next week, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

A quick post this week.  My second regiment of Ogrion Hounds (Crocodogs).  This now leaves me one regiment of archers and a regiment of Ogrion Riders (Ogre Chariots). I also need to finish painting up the Slasher, Mammoth and Characters besides three units of Normalites.

So it is safe to say I will not manage to finish painting up this army before the first week of April, but it will be all built up and ready to play.

Until next week stay safe and have fun.

Regards,

NR

Hi everyone,

I have just finished the last Ogrion Infantry regiment in this army. This is also an Ogrion Archer Regiment (Ogre Boomers). There were ten models in a box so I could make 3 regiments from them altogether.

These are the only Stormcast Eternal models that I bought brand new and at retail prices. This is because I could not find them cheaper and second-hand. If anything I found several lots that were painted up (very basically) and selling at triple the cost!

Now all I have left to paint up are my last two proxy ‘monsters’, a proxy chariot regiment, one horde of Normalite archers (goblins),  two regiments of Normalite cavaly, and several characters (which I will leave till the end).

There is no way I am going to paint up everything in this army before the first week of April.  I have to resign to the fact that it is not going to happen.

Therefore for the next post I am just going to build as much up as possible.  That way at least I can play with them.

Until next time, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

I have been using up all my spare time with the Ogrion army, trying my best to get it ready. Today I have finished the first part of my last Normalite Infantry unit – a horde of archers.

I decided to make an archery horde because my army lacks shooting and is more melee focused. Hopefully this with help address that deficiency.

I will placing roughly 30 models onto the base and I will work one line at a time starting from the back and moving forward.

The statues came from old tourist souvenirs.  They were the top part of a pen! I kid you not. I repainted them in oil paints.

Next up were the archers. In the Perry Miniatures 100 year war English army plastic box set there are only 24 archer models.  Therefore I needed 6 more.  I took these from some plastic Dark Age archers from Gripping Beast.  I just made some minor conversions with the heads.

Like all the other Normalite regiments, I wanted this horde to be led by a mounted nobleman. I just decided to give him a bow instead of a lance.

Hopefully by next week I will have painted up the second line, and maybe – just maybe – they will be ready for the first battle (but I doubted it. They will be on the field for the second battle).

Until next post, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

Today all I have is a quick update for the Archer Horde I am painting up.  I managed to finish the second line of archers and now I have to paint up the last line.

This will be the last unit I will be able to finish before the campaign starts on the 5th of April. Therefore, I will start gluing things together in order to play with the units that are not painted up.  These consist mostly of the Normalite cavalry and all the characters.

This will be the last push before gaming starts.  I hope nothing pops up to misdirect my efforts to finish this unit. So wish me luck.

Until next time, stay safe and have fun.

NR

Hi everyone,

I played my first game this Saturday morning – I lost miserable – but I failed to paint up all my units.

In order to maximize my options, this week I spent most of my free time buiding up all my remaining units that were still in their respective  boxes.

Now I can slow down, and try to paint up a unit every two weeks instead of every week. This will give me some time to paint up other stuff.

Below are several photos of what I built up and have left to paint.

So that is all for now.  I will continue to paint and finish this project but at a more casual and less regimented routine.

I failed my goal, but the army still looks good on the table. Now to try and win a battle!

Stay safe and have fun!

NR