Sam's Savage Orcs - The one where it was okay until it wasn't... (204.5 points)

So its a bit of tradition for me to lament on how savage the orcs were to me during the months challenge, and for the first time this month I thought it wasn't going to be necessary. Luckily for me though, that isn't the case (and I don't actually have to think about something else to write about whew!😅)

Everything started out swimmingly, I was painting fairly consistently knowing that I wouldn't have the last week in the month due to international travel for work (coincidentally I'm typing this from a hotel room, woohoo... not), then I got sick for a few days, as a result work piled up into the infinite, and did I mention I have two small kids. So it was 11pm the night before I was due to leave in the morning for work and there was half the work to do on every figure. Many hours of power painting later and it was done, as was I...

100 pts: Savage Orc Big Boss, DHW

104.5 pts: 10 x Savage Orcs inc. musician, spear, shield

Total: 204.5 points

A couple of points, 

You'll notice that some of these sculpts are not technically spears, I decided a while back that I wanted to have roughly a 50/50 split of spear and HW in the unit for visual purposes. There are only 4 sculpts in the range for spear and they are all quite similar, so when they line up in bigger units I think they don't really look all that savage any more. Additionally, they are rarer to come across, so breaking the unit up like I'm planning, not only looks better, it was also easier to arrange for.

I was planning on doing some face painting, which I still may add later, but the time constraints threw all "extras" directly out the window. My general idea is to go with some black and white face paint, making simple patterns that are evocative of skulls in a Calavera style. This is to go with the theme that they are 'Da Immortalz', the story of which I will tell once the unit is finished. The black and white theme is reflected in the shields colouring though. I also think the drum face looks a bit boring, so I'm thinking of hitting that with a primitive looking dotted spiral pattern. Hopefully I'll experiment with both of these things next month.

The basing isn't 100% finished as I need to varnish these guys first, and again didn't really have the time to do that. I'll add the tufts and static grass same as my army next month.

Generally, I've also realised that I really need a better set-up for taking the pics, so I'm going to have to have a bit of a think about it. I don't really know anything about cameras, but I have a bunch of people at work that do pro photography, so may be able to rope them in to doing something for me. In fairness to myself though, I did take them at gone 3 in the morning knowing I needed to get up at 6 to go catch a flight... 😭

Anyway, enough of my lamentations, this months is done and I'm back in the challenge, ooooohhh yeeaaahhh!!!! Next month I'm lining up to paint my fav sculpt in the range, bull hat guy, and I'll either finish the spear unit or start on the archers.

Good luck to everyone, looking forwards to checking out some sweet oldhammer paint jobs.

Samuel