Boyz Toyz

As I come to write this post, I realise that I should have waited a year, so I could be painting these models on the 30th anniversary of first acquiring them, and the 15th anniversary of me saying on this very blog that I intended to play some Gorkamorka.

Still 29 and 14 years respectively is still objectively a Long Time, so that's... something.

Here we go then. I have, at long last, painted a mob for Gorkamorka and got some games in.

Since I'm also currently the custodian of my brother's 2nd edition 40k ork army on the flimsy rationale that I might paint some of it, I decided to do these in "sort of able to pass as Goffs" colours - so the paint scheme is basically exactly the same as the one I've used for my brand new 40k orks. 

The only real difference is that I started these earlier, and so I've stuck with the plain grey undercoat, rather than drybrushing, for the boys on foot. I did go for the "sort of slap chop" method for the vehicles.

Models are a combination of the official Gorkamorka models from the box set, semi-random metals, and a few 2nd edition 40k models with 3D printed bases. 

I'm also insistent that the glyphs on the vehicles and backplate things are at least vaguely the right ones (or very roughly make sense). The 2nd edition Ork codex is good for this - looking at later codices the set of glyphs printed gets smaller and smaller, which is a shame. 

More importantly than any of this, Kieron and I are 3 games into a campaign, which he's helpfully been posting about here and here. It's an entirely bonkers game which I really like, so hopefully I can earn enough teef for it to be worth painting more of this stuff. 

I suppose, although unlikely, we might bore one of the others into joining in too. We'll see...

40k Combat Patrol Delivery 11 - Now look what I've started

I think it's sensible if I just pretend there hasn't in fact been a huge delay between these posts, and plough on regardless. We'll ignore the fact that I'm no longer receiving these, and I'll just continue to work through the huge pile of plastic that I own as a result.

With that established as Official Blog Policy, here we go with the next delivery from the Combat Patrol Magazine subscription. 

This one finishes off two of the forces that have already started, and starts another. 

First up, Chaos Terminators!

For these I did something that wasn't on models I'd already painted - some of them have power weapons, which I've done with orange drybrushing over a black base. It's an effect that I quite like, and which doesn't really show up in the photos. So that's nice, but you will have to take my word for it to some extent.

So, that finishes off the standard chaos guys. There will be World Eaters to come later, but now we're moving on. 

Next, the eldar receive some Wraithguard. 

Really not much to say about these are they're pretty simple models with nothing to call out especially. 

This leaves me with about 800 points of Eldar in 5th edition, which is an amount so specific that it only crops up as useful every so often. That said, I fielded them in a 3-way scenario a few weeks ago and won, so it might be best to retire the whole force on a high anyway.

And finally, it's the start of the Orks, and as usual the magazine does this with a commander. This one is a warboss in mega-armour.

I considered not bothering with this model - I could see a path of "great big horde army" stretched out before me, and I wasn't sure I was up for it. 

I eventually decided that I'd at least assemble the model and see what it looked like. I didn't really want to break the flow of blogging about these one delivery at a time (ignoring the fact that months go by between me doing that). So, I put it together, looked at the details, and immediately decided it was extremely cool and I was in fact entirely up for painting an ork army. 

I opted for the Goff colour scheme of red and black with some white details - mostly because "huge circular-saw-based axe" seems like a Goff-style weapon to me. Modern ork models don't go in for clan-specific versions, so it's all down to painting - so as I assemble an enormous waaaagh I'll have to figure out schemes for the others as I include them.

Colours will vary a bit between models I expect, but here's the basic scheme I've used here (and on other orks, of which more to come later):

Skin - Fastpaints Orc Skin

Red clothing - Fastpaints Blood Red

Black clothing - Fastpaints Grim Black

Black Armour - Contrast Black Templar

Red Armour - Contract Blood Angels Red

White Details - Corax White

Leather/brown clothing - Fastpaints Dark Wood, Hardened Leather, Sand Golem or Pallid Bone

Teeth - Fastpaints Pallid Bone

Tongues/Fingernails - Fastpaints Absolution Green

Metals - Either drybrushed Leadbelcher or Fastpaints Enchanted Steel, washed with Agrax Earthshade

Base - Vallejo US Field Drab

I did all of that over a sort of halfway-slapchop undercoat - I sprayed it black then drybrushed up through grey and white shades, but without being too fastidious on lighting direction beyond "generally sort of top-down" which seems to have given more highlights than I'd been getting by just using a grey undercoat. I'll play around with that some more but it seems like the future!

All of that sounds like a lot but the huge advantage of these guys is that you don't need to be careful with any of it - provided everything is covered it generally looks fine. 

We're back in business!

Just a Random Psyker

Given it's been eight months since I last posted on here, it seems like I need a huge splash to get back into it, something mind-blowing that will really announce my triumphant return.

So, anyway, here's an imperial psyker that's been sat on my desk for ages. I'd had him painted but only just flocked the base (where "only just" means about 6 weeks ago but I took photos and then didn't do anything with them for a while).

I'm back, baby!