Blotthrowers Dark Fantasia

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Sooo......where was I? 

Its been a while, and with some work completed on the Daemons I basically wandered off and started painting something else, always the way!

After doing the poll as to what army I should take to the south coast GT I was really struggling with what to take, everyone had made some valid points about all 3 ideas and in the end I decided to go with a compromise. I decided that I would take on the challenge of getting the Orc and Goblin monster mash painted in the next 10 weeks. If that fails, I would take the Halflings. Hooray!

So without further ado here's what I've cobbled together so far:





The mark 1 Steampunk Giant (created Circa 2008)



The Mark 2 Steampunk Giant (created Circa 2012)



The Steampunk Trolls (as with all of these pictures, better ones to follow as the light today is terrible, along with my photography!)



And last but not least, my latest creation, the Steampunk Wyvern



Now since I took these photo's I've managed to undercoat most of the stuff I need to paint. Realistically I need the following items to have the whole army complete and ready to paint:

50 night goblins (on route)
Night Goblin bsb - to convert
Doom Diver - to convert (any thoughts on good steampunk ideas? I'm thinking maybe the gun on the imperial guard basalisk!)
Unit filler for the arrer boyz (this is in hand I just need to have the money to buy it!)

So 10 weeks, lots of painting and (probably) lots of distractions to tempt me along the way, hopefully I'll make it, if not then the Halflings will ride to war again!

[Blotthrower]

So not a lot of work done on this project this week, I'm going to have to step up the painting speed if I'm to have any chance of finishing the army on time... anyway, here's this weeks contribution:

Orc Shaman (Love this model!)



Night Goblin Bsb (Again, the character in the old metal goblins is something I really miss)


Some Arrer Boyz (Only 21 more and a unit filler to go....)



I think to stop myself going completely insane I'm going to probably paint the two remaining trolls next, get them finished and then move on to another batch of arrer boyz, as batch painting is my least favourite part of the army painting process.

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So, I've taken a bit of a break from the painting (for one night at least) to have a crack at making the arrer boy unit filler. I decided to go with a privateer press diretroll bomber as the base because I love the idea of a giant troll throwing flaming barrels at people and that can count as a missile weapon right?





And with the progress I've made on the arrer boyz:





You'll notice there is a space in the unit where an arrer boy should go. Well that's where I made a bit of a miscalculation with the troll as he overhangs slightly, so I will have to get creative to fill that space! i'm thinking maybe a goblin with a Spear trying to keep the troll back, or otherwise a squashed Goblin, as that's always amusing!