The Tribe of Grahk the Pale

[Polymphus]

Alright. Terrible pictures taken in a hurry because I have to go soon, but better than nothing...

Hunter. I knocked the crossbow when I was setting him up to take the photo, so it's tilted a little downwards. It shouldn't be, and I'll fix it tommorrow.



The butcher. There's also a bangstick made from a 40K IG autocannon that I'll post when I get the chance.


Yhetees. I think the elevated positions make these guys look really impressive.


So yeah. I'm really rushing now and I'll get better pics up later, but have with these until then.

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[Ghworg]

The Hunter conversion looks interesting, but I can't really see the Butcher one. Anyway, keep it up and I look forward to more pics!

Ghworg

[pez]

really nice yhetee pose if there not already like that in the box.
pez

[Polymphus]

Photobucket is down for an unspecified length for maintenance, so I'm trying to figure out how to use imageshack in the time being. Bear with me 'til then.

"Before we leave boss, should I call da yhetees down? They could be dead helpful in the whole killin' thing; pun not intended." "Yes, I think we shall. Call the avalanches, I think they could prove...useful."

Alright, here's a Yhetee WiP. The fur and skin are done, but the bone and wood are not. I'm quite pleased with how it came out.


And here is the base, Polyfiller makes excellent snow. *cymbal crash*


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[Malekith]

Excellent yhetee there Polymphus, can't wait to see a unit of these creatures painted and ranked up. Also, I'd like to the hunter painted soon, and yes it is a good pose!
Thanks, Malekith

[Polymphus]

The hunter has disintegrated again. Stupid gammy superglue. I'm going to buy a new pottle on Thursday hopefully and get him back together, then I'll start painting him. Assuming he stays together, he seems like a fantastic model. The pics on the GW site don't do him justice. I love him to bits.

[Lexy]

You know what helps?
Pinning the parts.
Just drill a hole in the two parts and glue a paperclip in them.
Just make sure the holes are drilled at the same place.
The paperclips hold the parts in place and they seem to hold on better to the glue too.

[Polymphus]

I tried to use the smallest drill bit I have (about 1mm in thickness), but it kept spinning off on a tangent and taking big tracts out of the hunter's arms. I guess it's more of a skill thing though. I should practice on plastic first...

[Lexy]

Do you use a automatic drill or a hand drill?
Because I use the hand drill from GW and that works fine.
The Dremels and stuff seem to slide off if you don't do it right.(haven't worked with them, because my drill works well enough.

[Polymphus]

Automatic. I'll have to try a manual. Thanks for the tip.

[Grumbleputty]

I've found that (carefully!) spinning the tip of an X-Acto blade to create a little pit where you want the drill bit to go keeps it from wandering off as much. Lexy's right too- use a pin vise for much more control (or at least use a power drill with variable speed, at the slowest setting)

-great looking stuff so far- can't wait to see more!

[Polymphus]

I've seen those blades down at my local hobby shop, I'll have to pick one up when I go in to get the glue. Thanks for all the advice guys. I've started work on the remaining yhetees, as well as a dragoon irongut, which still needs a lot of work. I'll get pics up when they're looking a bit smoother than they are now...

From the Diary of Alexander Grigovich, Inquisitor of the Holy Lord Sigmar.
Sektober 5th

Disturbing events prompt me to write another entry. Ravensburg has long been a haven for the kind and devout, but it seems that this situation will not last much longer. Today, I uncovered evidence of heresies most vile amongst the townsfolk. A family home desecrated, symbols that seemed to twist and write daubed upon the walls in various horrible fluids, the nature of which I choose not to speculate. A child survived, but burned upon its flesh were words in a language I could not understand. I killed it. It was weeping pitifully, but I had no choice. Should I have let it live, and let the heresy spread? An aura of dread was left hanging over the building, which I had my men immolate. The same aura I have felt only once before, hanging over a most unusual man; a Tilean, whose name and proffession allude me. I must seek him out, and perhaps he will shed some light on the matter. If not, and maybe if so, then he will die. As it is written, so shall it be.

AG.

A note on the dragoon, I'm looking to change the style more towards a Polish Hussar, a design which in turn the GW Winged Lancer and Gryphon legion are based on.

Link!

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[Polymphus]

Thought for the day: I love lamp.

Alrighty, time for some pics of what I've been up to methinks...

Disclaimer: Because Poly is very lazy, all photos supplied are WiPs. Judge accordingly.







And next time on Poly's gnoblog...


Plus finished other unit of bulls! (hopefully)

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[Reg06]

They have a nice old Rus feel to them, and since you said they are wip I'll ignore the paint splotches where your brush wasn't exactly, shall we say "accurate."

[Polymphus]

Can you point out some specific places? While they are indeed WiP, the skin on the bulls and the fur on the far righthand ogre I consider complete, and want to know if anything looks a bit dodgy. The WiP notice stands entirely on the gorger though, except for the hair, which is complete and looks great, but somehow the photos haven't quite captured it.

[Reg06]

First photo, bull on the far right, on his right hip. It looks like you painted the belt with a tank brush. Around the bottoms of the gutplates on all three of those bulls there seems to be metal on the pants where you slipped a little. Second photo, the middle and lefthand bull have skin on their waistband, bottom of the hat, and fur on their shoulders (again, on the bottom). Is all the black fur eventually going to turn white? If so, then the skin on the fur is fine at the moment as it'll get covered up. And what is that big white splotch on the back of the right side bull's pants?

[Polymphus]

Ah, that's a relief. Yeah, none of that stuff was meant to be painted. The white splotch was me painting at midnight and having the kind of idea you only have at said time: "I want to paint his pants white. But I don't know what white will look like on his pants. Therefore, I shall paint the back of his pants white, and not highlight them at all beforehand."
It has since been painted over. The furs are all going to be white, and the black/messy bits too have been since painted over. The main big finished thing is the skin, which I'm quite pleased with really.

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[Polymphus]

I hope this is okay by those in charge, but I need to get this out and this is the closest I have to a conventional blog, so here goes nothing...

This year at school I did exceptionally well, and was even given the position of academic captain, one of four in a school of over 1500. And so it came as shock to me when I got my exam results back about an hour ago and found that I failed about 2/3 of my end of year exams, doing especially poorly in the subjects I find I excel at, history and english. I wrote 5000 words in under three hours, none of it waffle and all of it 100% accurate. I reread everything methodically and I'm sure it's amongst the best I've ever written. I failed every paper.

This year's results are the ones that go out to all the universities too, which means that my chances of doing what I've always wanted to do (be a history teacher) are completely shot. I've got one more year of school left and I'm not sure if I can handle it any more, seeing these results. If my best fails, then is there any point? Arg. I apologise to anyone still reading for laying this onto you guys, but as I said, it's this or nothing really.

So where next for Poly? Back to school and the very distinct posibility of failure? Victoria university is a convenient half hour flight away and has open entry first year courses, but the mere idea of going back into the whole history side of things (despite research being one of the few things that makes me genuinely happy) makes me feel slightly sick. And of course my GF is moving away on the 10th so she can do a rather distinguished design/graphics degree and I won't be seeing her for at least a year. So if y'all want to know why updates might slow down a bit, there it is: RL isn't playing fair. Ah well, in true Poly fashion I just have to wait and hope it turns out for the best.

[/emo rant]

Back on the Ogre front, I have finally aquired some superglue and repaired the hunter and the yhetees.  I've also finished the Yhetee's fur and bases, and nearly finished one of the bulls. His club is yet to be highlighted, but I'm pretty pleased with how he looks. My camera has gone walkies and isn't coming back until tommorrow night, but I'll get pics up when I can. As explained about, this may take a bit longer than usual as I'll probably be moping, but I'll do my best.

A rather depressed Poly
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EDIT: 100 posts and a pet gnoblar to boot. So something good did come out of today. Hurrah! *does dance*

[Reg06]

Too bad about the exams, and I wish you the best of luck in whatever you do next. A similar thing happened to me at the end of my AP US History class- for our final (last year's AP test) we had to go to the auditorium, and unbeknownst (how does one spell that word?) to me another class was taking a different test (I think it was US government, so it wasn't completely different), and I sat there. Of course I failed miserably, but the great thing is I got EXACTLY 25%, which on a multiple choice quiz with 4 choices per question was exactly what I should have gotten.

[Ghworg]

Commisserations on the bad exam results. I wish you luck Poly, as it seems we share the same ambition to teach history!

Ghworg

[Polymphus]

Today I fiddled around with the settings on my camera. Do you guys think these photos are better or worse than the previous?





I painted the pants! Still unpainted: the club (yes I see the mould line, will remove it tonight), some of the leather. I'm going to rust the metal up a bit more too. It's a little too "clean" for my liking right now.

And here's the repaired hunter. Note the gnoblar retinue.


I'm planning to go down to my local store and make another ogre order. At present it contains the following...
-1 Box bulls
-1 Box Ironguts
-1 Gorger
-2 trapper blisters

I'm considering adding (some of) the following...

-1 Box leadbelchers
-1 Giant
-1 Scraplauncher
-3 Yhetees
-2 more trapper blisters

If anyone has any recommendations of things to get, then chuck 'em forth within the next 12 hours and I'll make up my mind then. Remember I currently have...

-1 Hunter
-1 Butcher
-3 Ironguts
-6 Bulls
-1 Gorger
-3 Yhetees
-1 (poorly, am considering starting anew from scratch) bruiser.

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[Mr Marshmallow]

sorry about the grades, maybe you just weren't meant to be a history teacher 

The models look nice, I really like the base, it looks like a cover of leaves that was then covered by snow.

I would suggest not getting the giant, and going for more 'guts, that is if you dont mind playing a cookie cutter list. Leadbelchers are always fun, if you don't want Ironguts.

[Polymphus]

I've discovered that I can have a second marker look at the paper if I think the mark was unfair and I'm going to do that. They were damn good essays really. And then if the second marker pans them too at least I'll have a second opinion of what I've done wrong. Mistakes=learning opportunities. I still have one more year of school and I got pretty much straight Es (As in American terms) during the year. At the time it was just a hell of a shock though. Time will tell I guess.

[Reg06]

Nice bull. The picture quality is about the same, but this one seems much less pale (he looks tanned).

[Ghworg]

Really like the Bull and looking forward to seeing the Hunter painted.

Ghworg