Maneater Standard Bearer

I decided that the maneater sniper unit is going to need a standard bearer so I can take the flaming banner.  A huge flag would look rather stupid so after talking it over with some friends (sorry I don't remember who made the original sign suggestion) I decided on a little wooden sign.

I bought a pack of "craft sticks" from target and got to cutting.

Eventually I decided on the following pieces to make my sign.

It looked a bit too big so I got out some models and eventually had to cut it down a little to get the scale just right.

After some practice on scrap pieces, (I knew I would only get 1 try at this or else I would have to rebuild it) I got to painting.

AAAAAANNNNDDDDD finally, the finished model.

Maneater sniper

So in the new ogre book you can kit out maneaters with all sorts of special rules. We have a list of em and you get to pick 2. 2 of those options are Scout and Sniper. Pair that with Braces of Ogre Pistols and you've got yourself a character hunting unit. It's a gimmicky unit, but even if they don't manage to snipe your character, they're still a unit of maneaters to deal with.

Anyways instead of just getting 3 ogres with pistols, I wanted to do something crazy... Ogre snipers. The best part is that I was able to pull it off using an ogre head, a kroot rifle(if I can find a more suitable rifle I'll swap it out, but for the time being its a gnarly looking enough gun), and an old t-shirt.

So I rolled up some of tshirt bits I cut out to make the ogre body.



I cut another square of cloth to cover the body then its just putting the head and gun on the model.







What self respecting sniper would go to war without facepaint





Then cover the whole base with tall grass for him to peek out of (it also hides the fact that there is no body or anything under the cover.)





Once it finishes fully drying I'll get all the loose grass off it.

Bulls, Ironguts, leadbelchers and firebelly... oh my.

I have the ogres from the latest battalion box I did painted up. I ended up making 6 Ironguts, 6 bulls (although they just call them Ogres now), 1 Leadbelcher, and 1 Butcher/Firebelly.







I'm not a huge fan of the look of the new firebelly model and I wanted something that could double as a regular butcher so I converted up this guy. I'm certainly not the best when it comes to greenstuff modelling, so I won't comment on how many failed attempts I had in making the flames.

Ogre Expansion

I needed to get my Ogre army up to 2800 points so I can do the Battle at Blob's Park, and I really wanted to be able to field a horde of Ogre Bulls.

Originally I was going to buy an Ogre bull box, but the price difference in an box of bulls and a Ogre battalion isn't actually that much.. especially if you order it online from Miniature mart (I paid 79 dollars)  

I get the 6 bulls and some for just a little more money.  

I didn't really need 4 more leadbelchers so after looking over the sprues and my ogre bits, I decided that I could get 2 more ironguts out of the box.  I also wanted to do a custom butcher so I dedicated one of the ogre bodies to that..  I've now been able to build.

6 Ogre Bulls

6 Ironguts

1 leadbelcher 

1 Butcher

All I have left to do is build all the gnoblars you get with it.  The box claims you get 24 gnoblars, but on all the bull sprues they give you some extra gnoblars that you're supposed to use as like sword gnoblars, luck gnoblars etc and glue them to ogre models.  However if you're a cheap basturd like I am, you can buy some extra bases and get an additonal 20 gnoblars, upping the number to 44.  

6 Ogre Bulls

6 Ironguts

1 leadbelcher 

1 Butcher

44 Gnoblars

Not bad for 78.00

Stealth Suits done, and Rollcall

Finished the Stealth Suits today.  I think they are my favorite Tau models.

Here's an photo of all the painted models I have for my Tau force.  As you can see, I've not gotten the guts to do any of the tanks or battlesuits yet.  I can't decide what to do next.  I'm thinking the Piranha.

Markerlight drone and Token, Stealthsuit, and Piranha

Today was a busy day of painting.

I've finished painting the markerlight drone and markerlight token that come with the Stealthsuit unit.

Also did another stealthsuit.

Also, I bought and assembled a piranha.  Since I have the choice of fusion blaster and burst cannon, I've decided to magnetize it.  Was a VERY simple thing to do.

Stealth Suit Test Model

Test Model for the Stealth Suits is mostly done... I need to smooth out some of the white paint, but I like the way it turned out. I love the white on black look its just such a pain to paint.  Prob took me 3 1/2 - 4 hours to paint which for me is WAY to long on a single model of that size.

The fusion blaster and burst cannon are magnetized for easy changing.

Finished basing the Kroot unit as well.