The Herd Gathers!

So the Geek Garage Gor Herd Challenge has finally come to an end.  This was a super fun experience.  We all got together at one of our LGS's and snapped a few pics.

First here is a pic of the Gor's and their creators:

Left to Right: John "Freaking" Salmond, Al "Wild Chevy", Randon "Grimwolf", Brett "Happy Panda", Scotty "Scotty Kahn"
Not Pictured: Will "Journeyman", and Mikey "Mephistoles"

Sadly we weren't able to get Mikey's entry photographed, Journeyman's fig was represented in the group photo.

So now, the two group shots... Couldn't get a good photo, lots of blurry dudes.

Now some individual shots:

First up Journeyman's Sir Goat:

Next Scotty's Late comer:

Here's John's beast:

Next up Panda's rusted runt:

Wild Chevy's blue eyed beauty:

and finally Grim's messy Gor:

Right now these guy's are sitting in a display case at our LGS.  Tell your friends to follow!!

Thanks for watching!

-Grim

What's the Storey Morning Gorey?

So once again a great challenge has been issued out by the garage and the Panda has failed to deliver on time! I think I've bit off more than I can chew with my commission schedule. I feel bad and promise I've got a few ideas to improve my posting rep soon but I won't let the cat out of the bag just yet.

Anyway... On to my member of the Gore Herd!  I was having convulsions upon seeing the great ideas that my fellow GGers have produced. From Journeyman's obvious delight with chance to do new techniques, Grim's stellar gore, Chevy's always solid blends to Meph's initial post filled with his crazy conversion skills I wasn't sure what I would be able to bring to the table.

Well lets see, what do I do well? Then it hits me! I have never made crazy conversions as green stuff generally scares me; I don't have award winning paint jobs; what I do well is get great table top quality paint jobs for playable pieces! I generally field a fully painted force on the table top if possible so this definitely shows who I am.  But how do I make this fit with the Gor? Well, going back to the days when I was entrenched in the GeeDubb fanboi club I remember how disciples of Chaos are susceptible to the mutating effects of their patrons and are never safe from this power. BAM! I decided to paint up my Gor as if he is being changed from the inside out to become a Chaos Spawn! So what does this entail since I'm not going to have mutations on him you ask? Well a good sickly flesh color would be a great focal point that separates him from the brown bovine that comprise the rest of the herd. Add in the fact that he's probably a blood thirsty critter already and having the Chaos gods isn't helping him, so he probably isn't cleaning his opponents blood off his weapons any time soon!  Anyway I hope you all have enjoyed my ramblings!

Happypanda

For the Glory of the Herd! Final

So, I was able to finish this guy up last night.  Oh, how I love holidays :)

Not sure what to think of the finished product.  I tried a few experiments with gore and the like.  Not really sure how I like the result.  However, I wanted to be true to the story of this guy.

As was mentioned in the initial For the Glory of the Herd! post.  This guy has just defeated a challenger in the ranks to retain his title as Champion of the Herd.  I wanted to make it look like he had been in a battle.  He lost his eye in the battle, so I figured there had to be a lot of blood.  Plus he slaughtered his challenger... so that meant even more blood.  Figuring there really wasn't any place for this dude to shower, I preceded to splash blood (red and brown paints mixed up with gloss varnish) all over the dude and his weapons. 

I think my favorite part is the base.  I used a baking soda, white glue, water mixture to produce the snow effect. After applying the snow mixture I dusted the still wet mixture with straight baking soda.  (A trick from my buddies basing tutorial... you can find that tutorial a few posts below this one ) After applying the dusting I took some of my blood mixture and watered it down quite a bit, then I barely tapped the snow with the brush.  Coolest little effect happened.  I was quite impressed. 

Anyhow, here is what it looks like. 

I had a blast participating in this Geek Garage Challenge.  Hopefully this is a first of many. 

And to my fellow bloggers... Time is ticking... midnight tonight deadline.  Remember your promise and the consequences of failure... GRIM SMAAAAAAAASH!!!

Haha!

Stay tuned really... we might be giving these figures away... just need to hit a milestone follower number... At 50 followers we give one of these models away to a random follower... at 75 we give another away, at 100 another... and so on every 25 until they are gone.

So stay tuned and be active!!

Thanks for watching!

-Grim

Glory to the Herd!! Part 4

Alright, I had a bit of time last night to sling a bit more paint.  Sadly I didn't slow down enough to take note of exactly what I was doing.  After reading my last paint write up... it may not matter any how... Definitely need to work on preparing a more understandable write up of what I do.

Anyway, enough with the blabbin'  Here is my progress thus far, still need to do quite a bit of work on the swords and armor, then some finishing touches to the face and base.

Here you are:

Stay tuned over the next day, we should be seeing a lot of activity on the Gor Herd.  (That is assuming my fellow bloggers don't fail :P ;) )

Thanks for watching!

-Grim

Glory to the Herd... Part 3

Alright, had a bit of time to do some more work on this crazy dude.  I have completed the flesh and started on the fur and the hair, slapped a basecoat on his axe haft as well.

With the flesh I started with Rackham Tanned Flesh, I diluted it down with water and some VMC thinner medium. It was diluted almost to wash consistency... just a smidge thicker, this only tinted the model.  I followed up with a GW Gryphonne sepia wash.  I came back and highlighted with some GW Tallarn Flesh mixed with the Rackham Tanned flesh... I really don't know the exact mixture... I just kind of plop a drop or two of each color on my wet pallette then I mix 'em together till I get about what I think I need.  (Sorry for the vagueness here :( )  I applied the highlight mix to the top portions of the muscles.  After this application I washed with a bit of GW Asurmen Blue.  After the Asurmen Blue wash dried I mixed some Rackham Ephren Blue with the highlight mixture, watered it down a bit and highlighted again with this mixture.  I then washed again with GW Gryphonne sepia.  After which I introduced some Rackham Red into the initial highlight mix.  ( A tangent here, I use a drop of this Rackham Red in every flesh tone I create in order to get the redish tint to the the faces of all of my models... very useful pot that one :) ) I applied the redish mix to the cheekbones the nose and mouth area of the figure.  Followed up with a thinned down wash of Rackham Ephren Blue, GW Tallarn Flesh, and Rackham Red, essentially a purple wash.  After which I highlighted again with the tallarn flesh mixture and a little bit of Andrea Color White Paint set pot number 2.
I really hope you understand what is going on here... I may have to do a step by step tutorial of this sometime if there is enough interest.

Here are the pics:

 

Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more!!

-Grim

Glory to the Herd! ... Part 2

Looks like its down to the wire!  One week left on the challenge... so who is going to finish.

Ill tell you, this summer has been a lot busier than I ever thought.  Finding time has been extremely difficult.  However I finally got this bad boy all primed up and ready to go.

Now for some pics:

I should be slingin' some paint on this dude during the week.  I will be posting up WIPs a la our friend Journeyman over the next few days.

Thanks for watching!

-Grim

Jumping into the fray!

Got the pose for my Gor all hammered out. I'm not big on the conversions and modeling, so I'm just sticking with basically a stock pose.
Have some gap filling to do, as well as a bunch of base work before the paint can start. Hopefully that doesn't take too terribly long and I can get crackin.

Glory to the herd!

Alright I finally was able to nab a bit of time to assemble my entry into the Gor Herd!  I imagine this guy has just finished fighting for his right to lead the herd.  He has just clambered to the top of the hill presenting himself as the new Champion of the herd.

A bit of putty work and he will be ready for priming.  More to come!!!

Thanks for watching.

-Grim

To War!

Well, these guys are not necessarily a new paint job but the reason I am putting them up here is that I finally got one unit of my massive Dwarven horde completely equipped with painted shields. You may be thinking Whoopty doo, but this is actually quite a milestone for me.
For some strange reason I have no problem painting up the rank and file soldiers, 5 or even 10 at a time. I always forgo the shields though. I know they make the unit look much better and helps with WYSIWYG but I still tend to ignore them completely.

So, now my Ironbreakers may charge forth into battle, fully equipped and armored.