Showing posts with label stone trolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stone trolls. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Troll Project Trollgers

 Updating my blog post for this weekend and including some Stone and River Trollgers that I have been picking away at in the evenings.  Go ahead and catch up on the other troll project posts to see how these were assembled and converted.  However, I found the pinning of all the joints to be very tasking.  So much so it slowed me down.  The joints were a secondary problem because the models don't line up well at all.  The Stone Trollgers were painted first and old GW paint and washes were used.  These trolls used Fheris Grey, Tallarn Flesh, standard metals, leather, browns and whites for bones.  The key to getting the color depth are several layers and black/brown washes before highlights.  I like to start out very dark and then work my way to brighter colors.  For instance the skin tone was started with Fheris grey, Badab black wash, Geris grey, Devlon mudd, Then fheris grey again before being highlighted up to the flesh tone with gheris grey/ tallarn flesh.  The leather is snakebite leacher, devlon mudd washed, then snakebite reapplied.  A 50/50 mix of snakebite and bleached bone was then applied.  The bone, teeth, and claws was started with khemri brown, Mudd washed, Brown reapplied and then bleach bone and skull white used to highight.  Now onto some movement trays for these guys, not sure to do 2x4 or 3x3....
Painted Stone trollgers.  Angled view.

Painted Stone trollgers.  Front view.
9 Trollgers angled view in 3x3 formation.
x8 Black Primed River Trollgers. Front View.

Angled view 1/2 painted River Trollgers.  The skintone on these trolls is a foundation Chardanite Granit with black, mudd, and ogre flesh used.  Until the Tallarn Flesh and Chardonite granite was used in a 50/50 mix on flesh areas.

Terrible Backlit Trollgers won't do this again.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Troll Project

Well another update on the Troll Front. Recieved my second order of arms in for the BFSP troll and am in the process of pinning them on. I have recently added some WoC shoulder pads to a few as well and am lining them up for all to see. Just to give them some variety I will be putting some ogre hands on them and cleaning up cracks with more green stuff. Any comments please post and happy Wargamming!
Trolls lined up and ready to be assembled more
a better view of troll heads made from instacast
 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Troll Project

In continuation with the previous post following our dreadfull troll project a few more things have come about. First, snips have been made on the old BFSP trolls allowing new heads and arms to be pinned and glued in place of the old ones.
Second, after instacasting troll heads I have pinned all 18 on the BFSP trolls. Third, I had to ebay some new arms and found them on ebay; subsequently, I only ordered half of what I needed and had to order more which should be here in the coming week. Luckily everything seems to be coming together. However, I am still on the fence about my basing scheme with the new trolls. My original idea was to use lava bases left over from my Chaos Dwarfs so that I can use them in a new Monster Army for Warriors of Chaos Army.
But now I am thinking about doing resin bases to match the Orc and Goblin army I have since been redoing...we'll have to wait and see and get some real pictures on here. Any Advice is welcome so please comment.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Troll Project

The troll project is a series of articles and posts i will be putting together to map out some conversions. The basic idea is to take terribly sculpted trolls from 7th editions Battle For Skull Pass project and convert them into usable current models.
I will be doing this in several steps the first is to collect 18+ trolls for the core of a potential Throgg army for the new Warriors of Chaos book or as a Special choice in the current Orcs and Goblins book. Either way parts from either race will be used. The first step I will trying is below and that is an insta-cast mold of old stone troll heads with which I have several of already.
The problem I am running into with them however is the trimming of the heads and however I hope to solve this by using regular tools such as a dremil tool, exacto knife and then some green stuff.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Blargh! Morning Update

Well I have been up to alot. Painting mostly so here we go! I coverted and painted up Rhinox chariots for our Orc and Goblin TT with Ogres. Then rebased, washed, and painted 10 boar boyz for the same purpose. Furthermore, modified and finished a Finecast Mangler, kinda like it. Then I painted up some Trolls(old stone metal) which are coming along nicely though not finished. Finally I converted up several hexwraiths from old Knights Errants that a friend gave me a long time ago, Thanks Paul! Enjoy the picks. Going to Springfield, Illinois for a tournament and sounds like a god turnout so up next will be a battle summary report and info on how the list did, OrcOgres of Course.

Scratch built Rhinox Chariots, stone chariot bases

10 boar boyz recoated and finished tray to
mangler squig, horn added
but view, goblin needs couple more highlights
Hexwraiths x7 jumping over and through a wall piece
HxWraiths converted from old Knights errants not to shabby
Some trolls that need based, everything needs some grass!