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I've been an on-again off-again painter and modeller for the vast majority of my life. Orcs were my first ever purchase at the ripe age of seven and every time, the greenskins reel me back in. I never had the stamina to do large armies so I never really managed a full WHFB force. Here I intend to change that for AoS, which seems more my speed, and the new ironjawz are the perfect way to do it. Watch this space for green skin, brute force, and maybe even a story or two about da boyz! Comments and messages are more than welcome, get krumpin'!

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Back Again!

Guess who! So, I have a deadline of the 11th of September, as I am heading to Nottingham with some mates and I know they prefer painted on their tables. So, I have to get the ironjawz done! Due to points changes, I am shelving the ardboyz, replacing them and the ironfist with gore gruntas and a grot shaman. So now I have to finish: 1 megaboss, 10 brutes, 3 gore gruntas, 1 shaman. All close to start/middle of painting. The brutes nearly have their armour done. No pictures as yet, but I
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Legions of Legend ends with victory!

Hey there all! Next update: Legions of Legend has ended, and I am victorious! Already posted my display board before in the April thread, but here is a pic of it in store for the final day of the competition! It came second, very fairly to a great Sylvaneth one. Also included: Me with the store's Slayer Sword, now mine for the year. Also won a framed artwork, of which I chose Mannfred from the End Times, as it's more artsy and mostly monochrome and that fits my other artworks. So, whilst the
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Also I forgot to add the spider to the blog!

Can't believe I forgot to put this here, but I also won the last open category with my arachnarok. This was a challenge to paint; the carapace was airbrushed which would be fun if it wasn't for the constant cleaning. Did the trick though, since the staff all remarked on how it give's a flat surface texture and blending. I received the spider assembled, and had to snap the back legs off to allow me to paint the belly. The goblins were much more fun to paint, if fiddly. And whoever designed the ho
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So somehow...

I did another win! That makes 3/4 heats won, which I believe makes me the overall winner of the Legions of Legend at GW York. Display board to go but I believe according to scoring im away in front. So here are the models that did it, 5 savage maniaks who were the entry, and then a forgeworld banner and savage big boss, which were the Open entry earning a point each: They became a bit of a struggle to get done really, with a 12 hour stint the day before deadline. Ended up getting
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I won a thing!

Hey there! So, the warchanter was finished yesterday in time for Legions of Legend at my local GW. Each entry is judged and there is a winner, and somehow this time it was my turn! Very pleased, I wanted to do my best with this but it was also a bit of a test model for how the brutes would be painted. Shifted my scheme around a bit, such as dropping the strapping colour, instead using the reddish leather for all straps including weapon bindings. I also changed the trousers from black to dark, wa
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Second battle!

So, I am back, and with another battle under my belt! So today someone required an opponent at my local, and despite preferring 2000 points, I only have 1000 so they happily scaled down. We played the first battleplan from the stormcasts book, which he was using. It is essentially the stormcasts needing to hold a realmgate which they teleport in around, and I had to deploy first outside a 15 inch bubble from the gate. Whilst in the bubble, the stormcast take no battleshock tests, and the gate
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Final non-Greenskin, promise!

And here we have a finished Skink! Really, really pleased with this, not sure if it beats my Weirdnob as my best paint job yet but it was really fun messing about with different colours and trying out new stuff. My favourites personally are the freehand scales and the glazing to darken the skin towards the back, as well as the feathers, and the way the bones on the sculpted base poke through the snow. Valhallen Blizzard is fantastic, my next force after Ironjawz is being snowey (hopefully Arcani
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I'm terrible

So I know it has been way, way too long since I updated this. I will try to be more active, my thread in the destruction subforum currently is a bit more up to date. Admittedly, painting on the greenskins is slow. But right now that is due to the advent competition I am taking part in, in my local GW. Basically you bought something under £20 and a base or layer paint, that got wrapped, and on the 1st of December everyone who entered got one at random and have to use the paint bundled as the prim
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Armies on Parade GW York

Hey there all! Painting is coming along don't you worry, and I will repost my battle report here when I've made up a bit of fluff for it (find it in my forum thread atm). But today I popped into my local store, GW York, to check out armies on parade. Some really fantastic entries, including a space hulk diorama with lights and sounds. Gave my vote however to the skaven force with the cliffs and water on the board. Great effort in both the base and the army. Second place for me are the orks, who
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Fluff and a finished Shaman!

Prologue: Dust and Water   As a scholar of the Freeguild's of Azyr, the opportunity presented to me was something unlike any other had yet had the chance to do. This could land me in the history books, my published work in libraries among the Mortal Realms. Alternatively, this could lead to a swift return to Sigmar's embrace. I, Gerber Lichter, have been charged by my betters in the colleges with research of a most peculiar and unknown facet of one of the most terrifying races known to
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Tiny update

I know I have posted this everywhere but I thought I would add something here too. Really enjoying painting him so far, the staff is WiP but should be finished soon to the point where I can glue it on. I really like how the model is an update of the old Nazgob one really. The staff has a leg bone on it, the same shaped sword at the hip, one big hood, little bags replacing the big sack. C&C always welcome.  
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Nearly There

Hey there guys! Just doing a quick update entry to show off the banner bearer. His main body section is now finished, apart from maybe some touch ups (Like the bright silver on his left foot is too thick!). I've decided that the green colour, whilst not maybe as nice by itself as a yellowey natural green, works better with the dark metallic armour, as it is the primary source of colour. The skull on his pauldron seems a bit washed out unfortunately but the rest seems to have been caught well eno
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Da Tribe needs 'elp!

Hey there. So on the painting front, I have nearly completely finished the banner bearer's body, and will get on with his weapon and pole so I can get him assembled. Then I'll worry about the banner. But for now I have had lots and lots of fluff for the tribe and where they live and hierarchy whirling around my head with one major flaw; I have no idea what to name the tribe. I therefore also have no idea what there clan symbol would be, and that's holding up painting the banner. So any sugges
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Onwards, with feeling!

An actual update with much more impressive photographs and painting (I hope!). So I put in another couple of hours and the skin is now finished, including a glazed lip thanks to you guys on the destruction sub-forum. Also finished the leather straps (Have cleaned up the left under-arm strap since posting, that red's a bit too wide), so I will be tackling the armour next. Chainmail is also done, I added some Typhus Corrosion in the spots where it's torn and damaged and his skin is showing through
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A reintroduction to the greenskins.

Hey there all. Thought I'd start off by saying that painting time comes and goes so it might be sporadic, but I've decided that the best way to kickstart myself from a dry-spell of painting is to not go back to Nurgle's rank and file and bore myself straight back out of the habit, but instead to paint something really shiny. So, as I intend to hit ironjawz and associated destruction forces hard post-nurgle, here is my first orruk in a while. I bought the FW orc bosses a few years ago now bu
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