Time to start some warm-up exercises ahead of Orktober, and my now annual Ork War vs fellow blogger The Imperial Rebel Ork (who’s already been hard at work assembling his own Ork invasion which you can see here). As all great athletes will tell you it pays to train so over the last few weeks I’ve been hammering scrap metal to my body as makeshift armour, yelling “Waaagh!” at passing strangers and mounting a spiked deff-rolla on the family car. This week I even found time to paint a few of the green lads. You won’t catch me retiring on day one having exacerbated an old ork-painting injury, oh no!
This year I’m planning to focus on my 40k Ork army but I do have plenty of fantasy Orcs kicking around as well, including various Kruelboyz, so I grabbed three of them out of the pile for a quick warm up.
I really like how this one’s shield matches his own face down to the eye-patch.
Ugly gits aren’t they!
Plenty more green lads are just a couple of weeks away but, assuming life can find it in itself to be a tiny bit less manic for a few days, I’ve got a bunch of other models I’d like to knock through first. Watch this space!
Convert or Die 
September 17th, 2022 at 8:25 am
Oh, yes, they all definitely have a charm of their own! 🙂
September 17th, 2022 at 9:29 pm
Cheers! Aye they’ve got faces only a mother could love – and even then only if she was an orc! 😀
September 17th, 2022 at 8:26 am
Lovely stuff mate – I have half a dozen of those lads to paint too, gonna nick the yellow shield idea if that’s ok chap 😉
September 17th, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Cheers mate! Aye, nick away – I’ve pinched enough paint schemes off you over the years (in fact I’ve just spotted another which I’ll be “borrowing” courtesy of your latest post). 🙂
September 17th, 2022 at 3:12 pm
Nice looking Ork skin there!
September 17th, 2022 at 9:32 pm
Cheers – I’ve certainly had the practice painting green skin over years (in fact I wonder if I’ve painted more Orks/Orcs/Goblins/etc than anything else – now I think about it the answer is probably yes).
September 17th, 2022 at 11:56 pm
Great work on these, and I adore those shields.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Cheers – the shields were fun to do, they a much needed bit of “pop” I reckon. 🙂
September 18th, 2022 at 6:02 am
Nicely done and it looks like battle has already commenced with IRO. Seconds out, round 1!
September 18th, 2022 at 7:37 pm
Cheers! Ah, the battle between IRO and I never ends, we just take breathers! 😀
September 18th, 2022 at 8:30 am
Those are really nice- the bright yellow shields adds a nice bit of colour too them.
Cheers,
Pete.
September 18th, 2022 at 7:38 pm
Cheers – I reckoned they needed that little bit of extra colour, it’s tempting to do them in all dark/muted tones but they need a splash of colour somewhere I feel.
September 18th, 2022 at 9:40 pm
This is a nice appetizer for the main course that is coming next month! These newish Orcs really do have a lot of personality and manage to stand out from the classic designs as well. I’m looking forward to seeing what you accomplish between now and Orktober as well 🙂
September 21st, 2022 at 7:24 am
Cheers man! As ever I’ve got loads of orks I’ve been meaning to tackle so hopefully now will be the time. 🙂
Aye, I really like the Kruleboys, they’re a bit different to the previous orcs but as you say they’ve got loads of personality. I like the way they explore the niche of something halfway between orcs and goblins, something lean and sneaky but still powerful.