JULY: Tom's Space Orks - Wrap Up

Oueff!.OWAC, what a ride! 

Here's those xenos orks out in all their glory, plus myself in obligatory Bryan Ansell pose - tucked in sleeves and all. Missing moustache and mullet though...

And a far more orkish pose:

Ah, that's better - da boyz in all der gloree!

And this is where it all started:

You can see that I definitely showed a lack of fortitude with sticking to my planned list! I neglected to paint a vast amount of ork boys, almost half the cyboars and a few bikers. I did add quite a few more gretchin, freebooters, tanks and squigs though...

My pictures are all taken on my decidedly less than top notch smartphone, as I thought it would be unfair to inflict the task of photographing them onto my professional friend. He worked so hard on them last year!

As a heads up, there's bits of fluff and cat hair abound sooo, sorry about that...

Anyway...

My boss, with the bigboss and a backup of heavy weaponry.

Three meks and a painboy. Gretchin also in attendance.

Freebooters! Please excuse the far left model - it's the mek from the pic above, doing that thing that the kids did at school for their school photo 🏃...

Biker boyz! These were soul destroying to paint, although they do look much better in the hand than they do in photographs which I'm quite pleased about. I really like how the Nobz bike came out in the end :)

Cyboar boyz. I feel I could've painted a few more of these - I quite liked painting the boars. I think I just mentally drew a line under five models and  struggled to press on...

Buggies and a skorcha. These took a while to get going, but once I was amongst it I found myself looking forward to painting them.

Runtherd and assisting grots. I love this unit! My favourite figure is the lil' guy holding the spanner - back row, first from the right.

Squigs! What's an ork army without a few squigs eh? My favourite is the yellow boi, front middle.

Gretchin. I really tried to paint all the sculpts I had. I went and brought ones I didn't have especially (many thanks to the Oldhammer FB sellers). In the end, I've two left on the painting table, and three gretchin assistants in the unpainted pile. They'll have to wait until next year or something.

It's quite hard to pick a favourite, but I'm going to go  for the peg leg guy in the bottom pic. Notable mention goes to the two carrying stuff, hunched over on their backs - I enjoyed painting them!

I think I have four more to find to complete the hobby bingo, but they seem to be as rare as hens teeth so I'm not holding out much luck.

 

Here's a catalogue bingo sheet, so nearly filled in! You can see the WIP in two of them there at time of posting...

And a nice shot of all the little runts from both OWAC's with their herders

Big Gunz! I pushed myself on these to actually get paint on them. I'm super pleased that they're done. (The Hop Splatt will be towed by my wartrakk from last year)

So, with regard to painting I didn't really change anything from last year. Maybe apart from the basing. I think last year I added tufts of grass and barbed wire, whereas this year I didn't - the skulls were enough to add a bit of interest. I also probably painted a bit more 'sparsely' this year. I could've added a lot more detail to certain things (the robot/boom wagon are easy examples), but I feel they mix in well and the overall look is not diminished. I am close to using up a whole tub of the turquoise contrast paint, which I've not done before (used a whole contrast tub, that is). And I'm scraping the barrel of the blue/green/red and yellow which is nice :)

Here's a nice pic of ALL the boyz when I went and had an introductory 1000point game last month at my FLGS. Although it's mildly distressing how many of those models are just for fun - no in game effect at all....unless played under RT rulez, which I guess is kinda pleasing in it's own way!

And here they all are for a proppa pic - my Old World Army Challenges 3 and 4 together. 

I am very much a painter who needs a push to actually paint, so a massive thank you to all the OWAC challengers, the admin Byron, and most especially to Iannick - the founder. What a legend! and without whom it's most likely all this would still be in the loft (or unbrought *ahem*)

I also added a cigar to a freebooting gretchin that I painted last year. Here he is for completion :)

Talking of freebooters, here's all my painted freebooters as denoted by the stripy clothing.

My storage for all of them is this big red box from Halfords. The bases have all got magnets in, so they will stick....However, I now realise that it is not enough just to use super glue to bind the magnet to the base. Some kind of filler putty to really sick it in there is definitely needed, as the magnets keep on popping off the bases to stick to the metal instead!. 

Anyhow, they'll be packed away now until I either get them out to game with (a rare occurance, but there's a couple of games in the pipeline), or I garner enough motivation to add more - next year maybe!

So, thank you - the viewer, for following along. If you left a comment, be assured that it really did help me pick up the brush when the grind got real!

Nowt left to say now except....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Intro... link

Jan: leader... link

Feb: rank and file... link

March: rank and file... link

April: rank and file... link

May: rank and file... link

June: wildcard... link

Final Army List

72... 1 x Warlord + 'eavy armour

35... 1 x Big Boss

33... 1 x Nobz Bike

18... 1 x Runtherd

36... 2 x Mekaniak

18... 1 x Painboy

120... 10 x Freebooters (or count as regular boy. I've counted a Mek as a regular boy)

38... 1 x Ork w/heavy plasma (fit in with the freebooters if I split them into 2 units)

22... 1 x Ork w/heavy bolta (fit in with the freebooters if I split them into 2 units)

12... 1 x Musician (counted points as a regular boy)

235... 5 x Bikers (purposes of points, these are Evil Sunz)

135... 5 x Ork Cyboars (purposes of points, these are Snakebites)

FREE... 1 x TONK

FREE... 1 x Boom Wagon

FREE... 1 x Robot

FREE... 1 x Ork w/flamer

50... 1 x Skorcha

50... 1 x Buggy w/heavy plasma

45... 1 x Buggy w/twin linked heavy boltas

65... 1 x Buggy w/multimelta

60... 1 x Splatta Kannon

1 x Crew 

FREE... 1 x Hop Splatt Field Gun

2 x Crew

FREE... 10 x Squigs

FREE... 1 x Grandfather squig

27... 9 x Grot assistants

100... 20 x Gretchin

TOTAL ... 1171

Characters: 239 // 20%

Mobs: 662  //  57%

Support: 270 // 23%

(counting vehicles as one plus the crew)

TOTAL MODELS PAINTED: 102

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