Just a quick trial of the concept. The shield needs a wash and a shave, but both size and insane chaos colours work for me.

Am I up in the middle of the night painting weirdass, old-school Chaos shields? Maybe. But I don't see how that's any of your business... 😤

Finally giving my rescued Ruglud's lads a go. The sculpts are pretty crappy and shallow so I opted for very simple painting, with the plate in pure silver with contrast in top. They took the heavy armour of Chaos warriors so the plate and shields can be in all kinds of crazy oldhammer Chaos colours.

24 unnecessarily gaudy orc archers done. I generally speaking hate the flocking stage, even if I never use anything else than PVA and my own flock mix, but I will have to get that done soon, also for the shielded melee orcs finished earlier.

7 orc shields for Ruglud's lads, composed of various free shields and emblems. Homemade checkered patterns on the round ones, as a guidance for my "freehand"...

01:55 and I'm looking for suitably orcy shields for Ruglud's lads. My initial idea to create fancy shield transfers has proven more difficult than expected, especially as my traitor friend's printer is broken. 😠 So, back to something hand-painted with embossed designs, preferably less mainstream. 🙄

It's REALLY important that the scale of figures are identical... 😂

First SP game in 6+ months, with units akin to reality; 2 battalions with skirmisher support converging on a small mission where the world's worst spy Red Robford is rumoured to be recuperating from the numerous grievous wounds he took when being viscously gunned down by the murderous French...

Setting up the first Sharp Practice game in a very long time I do wonder why not more people use my flock of sheep from Thingiverse!? 😠 www.thingiverse.com/smygpainter/...

My "recreated" Ruglud's armoured orcs are all cleaned up and based (with one imposter figure; Harboth from the archer unit) to make a 24-orc unit. 3D printed crossbows and shields to be added, hopefully with some cool homemade transfers. Ruglud himself freed up as the very keen army general.

I have "invested" in 5 more of Ruglud's armoured orcs, bringing the unit up to 24 and freeing Ruglud himself up as the general. Into the acetone they go, and then it's time to get cracking on these. Totally worth the money, who needs food anyway... 🙄

Assembling stone trolls, as one tends to do on Sunday mornings. Due to fixed arms they are somewhat difficult to fit inside the base perimeter so they don't touch each other with the weapons, but I'll work on the poses there.

I'm afraid I have committed two more river trolls. As usual any actual skill was substituted with contrast paints and uncontrolled chimpanzee screaming.

I'm blatantly going to call this a pretty good replacement, given that I need to chonk it a little for durability. I'll use a thin layer of PVA later to reinforce the join.

What I should be doing: Prince2 Agile certification What I'm doing: prototyping a replacement blade for one of Ruglud's armoured orcs.

Partial progress; the printed bases work at least. There's no question that TOW's switch to the larger bases should have been the standard from day one... It'll be more work with the 2nd hand ones as they had their slotta inserts removed, apart from some stumps, so they'll need careful glueing.

Printing replacement crossbows for Ruglud's lads. TOW 30x30 mm slottabases printing in the FDM...

Sometimes old plastic is good; the bases on my 35+ y.o. Ruglud's armoured orcs just snapped in half, and the shields and crossbows came off like they were held by spit. Into the acetone they go, and then I'll see what can be done with them. I'll give them new shields, possibly with fancy transfers.

I had to visualize the two "armies" I have . As I'm re-basing for TOW from Midgard there's no obvious plan point wise, but the "good guys" are probably playable with the addition of leaders, while the "bad guys" need more actual troops, either units or filling out. Orc archers on the way at least.

Finished off the first six orc archers; just the usual contrast paint atrocity. Six individual poses plus command, but I'll batch-paint them according to clothing, much easier than the 24 individual fighty orcs... 🤦

"Oh great, they have a mother-in-law." "What, down here in the mines of Moria? Surely not!?" "Look for yourself..." "Oh bloody hell!" Another case of inadvisably applied contrast paints; halfway through it I also remembered that I can't paint, but overall happy with the result.

As the old Babylonians said: "Fucking finally!". After two failed prints using supplied pre-hollowed bodies which then broke as eggshells there are finally solid-printed river trolls. I prefer to 3D assemble and then hollow, but the arms and heads are so chonky I got undrainable cavities.

River trolls might be happening, we'll see tomorrow...

I have gotten the last of my replacement Ruglud's armoured orcs; the champion Uludd. Now I just need to strip them all, re-base them on printed 30x30 mm bases and unfortunately paint them. Given the cost for these 10 extra original figures this will be my summer vacation...

Being laid off and heading towards a mass starvation event the only reasonable way forward was to pay with both my livers for these Ruglud's armoured orcs to complement my old ones. I'll print a blade, shields and crossbows. Including a champion on its way I'll have a unit of 20 as a summer project.

A very slow old-school orc project (well over 3 months) due to shitty life, and me (a certified idiot) creating 24 individuals to paint. 🤦🤦🤦 Very happy with the result but any future units will be mono-pose, as god intended... Now I just need to find the motivation for the basing. 🙄

Re-basing my undead from Midgard to Warhammer TOW (which I will not play either...). With the few Empire and dwarves painted earlier, and with the existing Undead, along with some ongoing and upcoming greenskins, I might get two sides together for at least one game before binning it all.

11 of Ruglud's armoured orcs might be another restoration project. I think the box had 16 so lost 5 over the years. Given the plastic shields I don't think I can strip the enamel paint, so possibly just another repaint on top. I should be able to fill them out with 3D printed ones for a full unit.

Wonderful "Celtic" orcs, and you can get the first KS too now...

I see that silly people have been playing silly games with silly miniatures again. It will never catch on, mark my words...

Orc! I love the old-school sculpts and the result is decent with little effort. 3D sculpts from Monstrous encounters on MMF, and it's mainly contrast paints used.

Knocked up a few tree bases that I'm quite happy with. Unfortunately they are for my 6.y.o. best friend Christopher's (a.k.a. The little shit) construction site. However, these rather surprisingly turned out so well that I must make some for myself; I have dozens of Temu trees like this.

I can highly recommend it myself.

Pausing the Empire I thought I would try a few orcs, so I assembled and printed a few from Monstrous encounters. Mainly contrast paints followed by a 2:5 Nuln oil wash, which dulled the metals a bit. I prefer Mantis warrior green to the left over Karandras green, but might mix both.

Steam tank goes "Trundle, trundle, KABOOM!"... 😅 To be varnished and flocked but happy with this; a bought hull design with added decorations to the shields, and then a 3D-tinkered turret where I replaced the ugly, hexagonal barrel with a proper bronze one, be it balls or steam it fires. 💁

15th century Italian Kickstarter, part 2. Now with light and heavy horse plus siege/earthwork engineers/workers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/upp...

This "quick revamp" of my 40 old halberdiers basically became a full repaint, and I really should have re-primed them and used contrast paints. Already filled in with paint and varnish by 20 y.o. me they have suffered some more but with shield transfers and a new command I'm very happy with them.

Some Warhammer flags created using the Armoria heraldry tool. I made up a few Altdorf-themed ones as a trial, not sure which will look best on my halberdiers.

The rank fillers from MOM miniatures for my halberdiers are finally done! Some quarter master or other, I presume... 💁 Much too busy models for me; the only thing worse than my eyesight is my skill...

With 30 minutes to spare I have finished the last figure for the year, for a total of 261. Not bad for what has been a shit year... 😐 Happy New Year!

Two of the second halberdier command group finished, now it's just one champion and two new unit fillers to add. I didn't like the effect of the dogs I did so I'll add a quarter master/paymaster-like git from MOM miniatures instead, which will fit in better with plumes and whatnot.

Two simple unit fillers for Pellehammer; lacking two figures so these will go in the front rank of my halberdiers. I could have made them more flashy in Altdorf blue and red, but this will do as a 20 minute effort.

Now, I'm not saying that this is the best figure I have ever painted, but it's far from my worst. The first of the command groups for my revamped halberdiers, and since I didn't paint them very well I of course had to rein in my considerable artistic brilliance now to make this one match them...

Done some Pellehammer flags in Armoria for my Imperials and Tilean mercenaries. The white eagle on is however from the interwebs.

I'm not saying that I bought a very cheap but good and seemingly sturdy griffin model to create my own mounted Pellehammer Imperial general, but I might have...

Not sure how your lives are going, but I have a steam tank at least! 🥳 Now I just need to ruin it with some painting...

I tried applying my homemade as-per-the-old-boxart transfers to my roughly revamped 33 y.o. plastic halberdiers, and I'm VERY happy with the result! Why didn't 20 y.o. me do this properly back then? 🙄

Struggling on with my FANTASTIC idea to rather brutally revamp my 33 y.o. GW halberdiers I've decided on the old-school shields on the boxes I bought back then, so created similar transfer ones in the Armoria app. The shapes are not perfect so need cutting down a bit but they'll also wrap around.

So...someone seems to have ordered 18 new brushes. 😳 Better get painting then... 🙄🙈

I bought this lamp too: much lampiness for little money! 👍