Loads of painting done

Full day of painting and here is what I've got to show for it.

28 Gnoblars

Gnoblar Leadbelcher (this also works as unit filler)

Gnoblar Traps

Spell Markers

Bullgorger

Trollguts

Flame Cage

Flame Cage

Flaming Sword 

Insomnia + Looney Tunes = This

I couldn't sleep so I decided to make another one of my gnoblar traps.  This one is a little Looney Tunes but whatever.

Wrap a paperclip around a chopstick till it comes out looking like a spring.

Cut a piece of wood.

Add the Red X.

Apply a brown wash, glue and base.   Voila!  Something that Wile E. Coyote would be proud of.  

I think this one may be my favorite one so far.  Probably should try to sleep now or else I'll start another one and be awake till morning.

From Chinese to Gnoblars

So I got to thinking today about more gnoblars.  After some discussions on OgreStronghold about a gnoblar only army, I got to thinking about doing some "unit filler" for my gnoblars.  1. As cheap way of getting more of them, and 2. To make them a little more interesting.

While I LOVE the gnoblar trappers models that GW makes, they're freaking EXPENSIVE.  

Finecast or not, I'm not paying 20.00 for 10 points worth of guys.

However, what about making the traps and using THOSE as unit filler.  I can get twenty 20mm square bases, twelve 25mm square bases, five 25x50mm bases and five 40mm square bases for $8.25.

I've got a few ideas for traps, and tonight I hammered out a couple of them on the cheap.  The first is just a simple sharpened stick in the ground.  I started off with a chopstick I had from ordering Chinese food the other day.  

Then using my Dremel, I cut off the end at an angle.

Then I roughed up the wood a bit and gave it a point.  Deliberately making gashes in the wood so that later the brown wash will have places to soak into. 

 After that a little super glue to the base.

Now through the magic of television, here is one that I finished earlier.  

My next idea was just a simple deadfall trap.  So a trip to the driveway later, I got a rock.  I drilled a little hole in the base so I could put my stick(more chopstick) into. 

I painted the base and applied the little rocks ahead of time, then allowed that to dry.  

Now the finished product, in retrospect I think I could find a better rock, but I was a roll and didn't want to spend any more time out in the cold driveway.

I have a few more ideas for cheap... I mean interesting... traps to do, but that's all for tonight.  I want to figure out how many different traps I can do, then spread out what they are.  I could hammer out a crap-ton of the pointy sticks in a short amount of time, but then it would get overplayed.