Despite being rather large and imposing models, Ogres are made up of a few simple parts. These being the flesh, pants, gut-plate, boots, and club. Of these items, the flesh is probably the most difficult area to perfect. There are many, many skin tones you could adopt but it would be wise to choose one you are comfortable with. The tone presented here will take some practice and patience to get right, so hang in there. But don't be deterred, Ogres are pretty dang easy to paint for all their massive bulk!
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Gnoblars are plentiful amongst the Ogre Kingdoms. So you better learn how to paint the lil' buggers. However, given their small size, Gnoblars are actually a snap to paint. Some flesh, ragged clothing, and a few improvised weapons make up the average Gnoblar model. There's really not much to 'em!
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Undercoat your model Chaos Black. Remember that a good basecoat is always the best path to a nice miniature. So do just that with Step 1! Carefully paint the skin with Catachan Green. The Gnoblar clothing colours are really up to you, though here it was basecoated with Scab Red. (This particular Gnoblar was painted to match the Bull Ogre Step by Step.) Paint the pants, wrappings, claws, teeth, belt, and weapon hafts Scorched Brown. |
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Time to start highlighting. Apply a watered down 40% Catachan Green, 60% Fortress Grey mix to highlight the Gnoblar's skin. Pick out raised areas like the bridge of the nose, nostrils, ears, and musculature of the creature. Water down some Dark Flesh and highlight the pants, weapon haft, and wrappings. Mix a watered down 1:1 mix of Blood Red and Scab Red and highlight the shirt. |
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Grab
Graveyard Earth and apply a quick highlight to the wrappings.
Next, add a drop of Chaos Black to Boltgun Metal and
paint any weaponry with this mix. Once you are done
with this, change your water! |
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Water a bit off Brown Ink down and apply this to any metallic areas in order to create a rusted look. Wait for this to dry, then carefully paint the Gnoblar's tongue Scab Red. |
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Finish up the Gnoblar's skin by adding more Fortress Grey to the mix used in Step 2. This time only pick out a few prominent raised areas for the highlight. Using Kommando Khaki, paint the teeth, claws, and highlight the wrappings one more time. A quick highlight of Blood Red on the tongue and shirt will finish our red usage. Finally clean up any of the inked metallics with Boltgun Metal. Once you get the hang of painting Gnoblars, you can crank them out at a furious pace! |
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Time to get your freshly painted models onto the tabletop for their first battle.
Next: A
Simple Scenario.
Previous: Gathering the Troops.









