Ogres of character and distinction

Its been a while since I have progressed my ogre army. I had a game the other week using the Ogres with the KoW playtest rules and they were very brutal and fun to play too. The experience rekindled my enthusiasm for getting the army painted up so I got on with the ogre characters who have been sitting on my workbench since January or so. I'm quite pleased with how these turned out.









And a group shot.


 
I'm now working on some charioteers, hopefully I can finish them soon and get cracking on the rest of the army.

One by one

Another day, another miniature.This chap has been clogging up my workbench for a while so I decided it was time to complete the work I had started. This is another Reaper Bones Elf. IIRC I stared painting this one whilst we were still playing our Dragonlance D&D campaign as a miniature for Gilthanas.



What next, more workbench clean-up maybe?

Cloaked in mystery

One more for the painted pile. This is "Aenur the sword of Twilight" a metal GW elf that came free with a White Dwarf 238 to promote Mordheim. In our D&D campaign this will be Rowen, an elven fighter/thief with a very task oriented philosophy.



Hopefully I can finish a few more odds and ends before the month is out.

Slowdown

For various reasons March hasn't seen me add much to the painted pile. Not only has it been a busy month but also my PNKD has been pretty bad which has wiped out any chance of painting in most of the free time I have managed to find.

I have managed to complete some Reaper Bones Drow which are needed for the D&D campaign - in fact this week's session is likely to conclude the Drow adventure so I've only just finished then in time.



March's other finished items are all scenery - three buildings made from Mantic's Mars Attacks scenery.



















Those are the final three buildings planned for the Officer Down table leaving just a few odds and ends to complete on that project.

Creating a buzz

And the painted miniatures counter passes the 100 mark with the addition of my DreadBall Zzor team to the painted pile.

Here are the starting 8:-



And the reserves:-



Free agents, prones and Ludvig:-



And a shot of Ludvig's wings:-



And a group shot of all 20 of them:-



Phew! Unfortunately my hard work has been a little undone by getting carried away in the Mantic sale and buying three Dreadball Season 3 boosters to complete my season 3 teams.

The objective of completing all my Dreadball miniatures this year is looking achievable though as is the 300 miniatures mark.

Oi Ref!

Another couple of additions to the painted pile completed over the weekend. Firstly an ancient Citadel C31 Giant Hill Troll from a horde if giants, ogres and trolls recently unearthed in my garage. I ended up doing a bit of a rush job on this one to complete him for the Random Platypus January paint-a-long.



The weapon blade is not the one which came with the original model as that was lost before I bought him. The replacement is from a plastic Warhammer Regiments Skaven spear I dug out of my bits box. I think it should really have been the other way up but for some reason I thought the original was this way round ... it wasn't.

And next up another refbot for Dreadball so my second DB set is fully functional.



I'm part way through my Zzor DB team at the moment, hopefully I can get them ready to use before Dreadball night on Wednesday.

They're having a ball

More Dreadball booster goodness - this time it is the female corporation team.



I'm now working on the robot team hoping that I will get them complete in time for a Dreadball evening I'm hosting next week.

January was a highly successful month for getting things done - I know I won't be able to keep this work rate up for the whole year (summer tends to slow things down) but if I can keep this up for a while longer then it should be relatively easy to beat the 300 mark in 2015.