![]() ![]() There’s quite a lot of stuff to cover in this post, covering as it does all the odds and ends needed to complete the team. Yes, that’s right, my Blood Bowl Orc team are ready to take to the pitch at last (minus their troll who’ll come later – possibly much later…). Well, I spent a lot longer talking about painting them than I did actually painting them, which goes to show these projects are a lot more achievable if you just crack on with them. Big thanks to Ann for running the challenge, I’m fairly sure he’d still be gathering dust without it! Still, he’s done now and I’m pleased with how he’s turned out. He didn’t actually take me that long to get him from his half-finished state to completed, maybe an hour or so, which goes to show I could have done it any time in the last ten years or so. Any readers who happen to know where he came from please shout out in the comments.Īnyway, needless to say he’s been neglected for a long, long time – but he was never forgotten, which means he’s perfect for the Neglected But Not Forgotten challenge being run by Ann’s Immaterium. However I’m pretty familiar with that range and I’m fairly certain he’s not one of them. The aesthetic of him reminds me very much of the models produced by Rackham for the – sadly defunct and much missed – game Confrontation. He’s been knocking around in my collection, started but not finished, for a good decade at least, possibly longer. I’ve no idea what the origin of this old Orc is. Then again maybe that’s just because I’m distracted currently by the thought of all the new orks gathering over on the 40k side of the fence… That said I’m not feeling particularly drawn to starting an army of them, which is a nice change for me because usually I’ve convinced myself that I must start at least 2 or 3 new armies before I’ve even had breakfast. Indeed, given how many orcs (and orks) I’ve painted over the years I was surprised by how steep the learning curve was with these but I did enjoy painting them (more – I must admit – than I am the little Hobgrots that I picked up at the same time – damn those are fiddly little dudes to paint!) so more will undoubtedly be emerging from the swamps sooner or later. That said all the messing around that went on before I finally settled on a scheme probably went to the determent of the shields looking their best, something I’ll work on improving with the next ones I tackle. Plus these are totemic items, the orcs are proud of them, and at the end of the day these are still orcs – even if they are sneaky ones – and they’re going to want to show them off. These are described as “scare shields” so must be intended to, well scare people, and they’re not going to do that if no-one can see them. At first I considered something filthy and organic, perfect for sneaking around mist-cloaked fens or launching ambushes from dingy bogs (stop giggling at the back!) but in the end my love of grimy yellow won out. ![]() I spent a lot of time experimenting – and even more time mentally debating – what colour to paint the shields. My love for greenskins however has proved more than enough to lure me into picking up a few of the Kruelboyz – the new “skinny orcs” currently stabbin’ their way out of the swamps and onto our tabletops. Given my usual habit of keeping miniatures sitting around on the painting desk for a least a few years, if not decades, before finally working on them it may surprise some readers to see me approaching the bleeding edge of Games Workshop’s frantic release schedule for a change. And best of all, he’s done at last (so now I’ll undoubtedly think of the perfect conversion to use him for – any moment now…). I still think he’s a bit weird but I did really enjoy painting him all the same, a lot more than I expected to in fact. In the end I decided I’d had enough and I’d just paint him as the designers intended. My initial plan was to use him for a conversion that just didn’t pan out, and although I tried him for various other ideas nothing ever quite worked as well as I’d hoped. It’s the kind of background that we saw a lot of in the early days of Age of Sigmar, where being original was held in higher regard than being good or making sense. His background suggests that he uses anything he can lay his hands on as a drum to beat out the rhythm of war, creating a rising cacophony – especially when the things he’s hitting includes other people – that drives the entire Orc clan into a frenzy and sets them into motion and into battle. He’s not bad per say, just odd, he appears to be showing off two huge, carved bones but quite why he’s doing this isn’t at all clear. I’ve always found the Warchanter to be a bit weird to be honest. ![]()
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