And the Orks are DONE!!!

Ok I have some good news; the Orks are finished.

I had a massive push and painted the whole of my Ork army. That meant I completed all 15 Lootas , the last four Defcopters and the one random Ork Warbike.

I have to say it feels pretty good to be finishing of one of the my forces from my list.

    

 I wanted to finish my Clean Slate Challenge in a year, and I was under no illusions that it would be an easy task, or one that I could realistically complete, it was more a target to aim for.

So as we approached a year in to the challenge I decided I was going to focus on getting the last of the Orks done and dusted.

 

The Ork force was by far the largest component of my unpainted models, so it would be a real moral victory to get these guys finished.

I haven’t sat down and worked out exactly how many points this army comes too but it is a sizeable force and one I can be proud of. I had a Bad Moons army when I was about 15, and I had always hoped to come back and paint myself another Ban Moons army, when I was a bit better at painting.

Now I know they are not the best painted models out there, I could have spent a lot longer painting these models, but it would have taken me another four years to complete them all. That said for Orks they will certainly do the job.

 

 

 

I will now try to concentrate on getting the Grey Knights completed, as there is only eighteen of them, and they are dead simple to paint.

…And another Mob of Boyz

So here we are with another group of Orks painted, 18 this time.

I’m getting a bit tired of these Orks, but I’m making my way through them slowly but surely, which is the important thing.

I bought these Boyz on eBay, and their skin and most of the models were painted already painted. So I had a choice of what to do. I could strip the models re-prime them and start gain, OR suck it up and paint a few guns and bits here and their to match my existing models?

Guess what? I went for the second option.

At this point I’m so fed up with painting Orks, so I just wanted to get them done and off my painting table.

So apologies to those who feel they don’t fit in with the rest of the army, I know, but they are done and that’s a win for me.

Plus it’s easy to tell them apart from the other units if they get caught up in a big melee!

Even More Ork Boyz, but this time with Shootas

So the endless green horde continues, and this time we have another mob of 30 Boyz painted, this time however with shootas.

A word of wisdom from me for 6th edition 40k and using Orks, Shootas Boys are much better than Slugga Boyz.

When a squad of Shoota Boyz can throw out 60 shots a turn without worrying about being struck first by higher initiative models it’s quite fun (I’ve watched them just delete squads of marines). I find the extra range and extra shots from Shoota Boyz to have much more flexibility, and power than the more situational assault from Slugga Boyz.

I used my usual technique of a yellow spray, a sepia wash for the yellow and two green washes for the skin finally picking out the odd piece here and there. I used a darker blue this time as a unit identifier, I find it very useful to have on colour on every model in the units to mark them as an individual unit, as for example having 4 units of 30 Boyz on the table in multiple combats can become quite confusing very quickly.

Once again I’m happy with the results, and I’m looking forward to getting all these Orks finished.