Year Long Army Painting Q2 Complete! Ork Kommandos!
Ork Kommandos are complete! These models date to before official Ork Kommando models were released! Most of them, anyway. The Nob is a pewter model from the first Kommando box set. I found the Boyz in that box to be extremely ugly, but I love this Nob with his casual pose, cigar, and over-eager Grot helper.
To model “stealthiness” before the Kommandos were released, I cut apart some of the old 3rd edition jungle terrain leaves and added them to the Boyz to cover some of their profiles.
The Bomb Squig is a pewter model from a separate blister when they used to be sold separately.
The Distraction Grot is the modern model from the Kill Team set, with leaves added.
With this squad, the Q2 of the Army Painting Challenge is complete! I’m officially halfway done!
Next: LI Astartes Rhinos which will finish June, and then I’m preparing for the second half of the year! 1/2 army will be LI Solar Auxilia, and July will feature an “All the same” challenge which will be a model decided by AFK Staff. Additionally, there will be a whole lot more Orks! Stay tuned!
Battle Report – WAAAAGH Gitsmasha vs. Space Wolves 2000 pts!
Recently I’ve been concentrating on Painting, and to a lesser effect Modeling. I put out Home Fires as part of Storytelling, but the fourth strand of the hobby, Gaming, has been completely set by the wayside.
Until now.
Or, rather, last Monday. I’ve been unable to post due to internet connectivity issues. But longtime friend of the blog Misha brought their Space Wolves to let me cut my teeth on my Orks!
Deployment: Tipping Point
Mission: Scorched Earth
Mission Rule: Stalwarts
Setup:
Space Wolves charged forward, occupying the center. The WAAAAAGH! followed, allowing most Ork units to push forward. Beast Snagga boys threatened the Repulsor, while Meganobs and Squighog Boys took out the Land Raider Redeemer.
The Judiciar with the Bladeguard wiped the Bikes, but were then cut down by Nobs. In a display of indignity, the Judiciar with one wound was disaptched in the following shooting phase with Nob Sluggas in close combat!
Murderfang dispatched the Beast Snaggas while Ragnar Blackmane moved up and slaughtered the Boys. Flash Git fire killed his Intercessor escort, and reduced Ragnar to one wound! In a wave of desperation, Grots charged! The Runterherd did one unsaved wound which was undone with a re-roll, but one lucky Grot got another wound through! Ragnar went down with a Grot Stabba in his eye!
After this, Murderfang and Bjorn the Fell-Handed took out most Orks. At the end of the game, only one squad of Grots remained. However, the Space Wolves had made a tactical error! Due to the mission rules, Misha burned a mid-field objective on turn 2, confident he could take more later. In truth, the Space Wolves lost more than 15 points on Primary because this objective was not kept. In the end, the Orks won 72-62!
Next: more battle reports and LI Fast Attack!
AFK Year Long Army Paint – Two Squads of Stormboys!
Two squads of five Stormboys, each with a Nob with Power Klaw!
These Stormboys were made with old pewter Stormboy torsos and rocket packs. One even has the old pewter Stormboy head! Others have heads from the Ork Boys, Warbikers, and Loota/Burna box sets. The Nobs had their legs created from Nob Legs that I clipped off for my Nob Biker project long ago, grafted onto normal Boy legs, and with heads and arms from the Ork Nob box. An Old School addition to the Ork army, heavy enough to bean your opponent with the power of pewter!
Next: LI Fast Attack sprues to complete May, then more Escher, Orks, and LI for June!
AFK Year Long Army Painting – Ork Trukk no 1
Job’s a good’un! Next: Stormboyz!
AFK Full Army Painting 2nd Quarter – Warbikes with Nob
These three Warbikes were harder than normal as I assembled them long ago. Most kits are much easier in sub-assemblies.
I am constantly amazed by the quality of the Dirty Down brand rust effect paint.
Next: Legion Imperialis Astartes Support! This is my last obligation for April and after that I’m on to doing things to get ahead for May! I have eight more Escher girls, an Ork Trukk, ten Stormboyz, and a LI Astartes Fast attack selection. Then, for June, eight more Necromunda models including some bounty hunters, a unit of Kommandos, and ten LI Rhinos! That’s it for the first half of the year!
AFK Full Army Painting 2nd Quarter – Deffkilla Wartrike
My first entry for the 2nd quarter is complete! To stay on pace, all I need to finish next is three Warbikes, which are ready to begin!
Squighog Boys – AFK Year Long Army, 1st Quarter Complete!
The Squighog Boys are ready for WAAAAGH! Gitsmasha!
I painted the Squighogs in a style reminiscent of a tiger shark. The bottom 1/3 is Apothecary White while the top is Space Wolves Grey with Basillicanum Grey stripes.
The various pelts on the boys were painted using some of the reject colors that didn’t make it to my main paint scheme, but it ended up paying off by making the pelts look similar but just different enough from the main scheme.
Because this was the last unit in my 1st quarter queue, here is all of Q1!
Next: Legion Imperialis Kratos to round out previous Kratos squads and finish my obligations for March!
Ork Boys Squad – AFK Army Challenge 1st Quarter
Included in these lads is the Ork I used as my model for the paint scheme.
Next: March Large Model challenge – a Redemptor Dreadnought, then Squighog Boys and one more selection of Legion from the box set to cover March!
Gargatok Gitsmasha, the grumpiest Ork Warboss – AFK Year Long Painting Challenge
The Warlord for my 2000 point army is complete! Gargatok strides into battle with my first Blood For The Blood God effect.
Next: Legion Imperialis infantry, and that clears me for February! After that anything I paint for the Orks or LI puts me ahead of schedule!
Year Long Painting Challenge – Ork Meganobz and finalized paint scheme
The first entries for my first quarter part of the year-long army painting challenge at AFK are complete!
First: one Ork boy, the finalized prototype for my paint scheme:
Recipe: Slapchop over black primer with Administratum Gray and then Pro Acryl white. Skin is Mantis Warriors green. Armored areas are Asurmen Blue. Cloth is Gore Grunta Fur, Frostheart, or (not shown) Basillicanum Gray. Metal is Duncan’s Sir Coates Silver with Nuln oil wash. Teeth and nails are Skeleton Horde. Rust effects are Dirty Down Rust. Hand painted checks and dags in Pro Acryl White. Bases are a coat of Rhinox Hide with technical Agrellan Earth and Pro Acryl black on the rims. Plants are Gamer Grass.
With those basic colors, behold the first completed unit: Five Meganobs!
These old pewter minis may not be as capable in close combat as the new plastic ones with killsaws, but they still hit like a freight train and have decent shooting in the Taktikal Brigade. Plus they are SOLID pewter which means that if they can’t, they can simply be thrown at the opponent for maximum damage.
That being said, these old sculpts are LOUSY with wires. There’s wires everywhere! I spent a whole day finding and picking out wires to make the details pop.
Next: Gargatok Gitsmasha himself in Mega Armour!