Orktober 2021

 According to official Ork lore every month is Orktober...

Nob 'Umin Gut'Nasha and his Death Skull Boyz.

Like all my other 40K and Rogue Trader stuff it is something I paint on and off from time to time. So with all that crazy 40K 2nd edition going on I found out that I have enough Orks to field a small 1-2000pts army. I devided them up in Mobs and it seems to work out.

First finished unit is some Death Skull Boyz. I always liked the blue face look, but not so much the raggedy look of the patched together clothes and gear. So my Death Skull Mob has the blue faces, but chose to wear a rather uniform look of military style green and brown colours.

Ork Minder.

This is a random Ork I painted during summer. He only has one ear and is wearing purple outfit, he is clearly crazy, so I have decided to make him a minder for my Wierd Boy. Eventually he will get a banner.

The nasty lads.

Power Armour Nob will join a unit of Evil Sunz Nobs and Thrugg has been degraded to a simple Ork Minder after he joined the Ork Big Mob. Maybe that will change in the future....

Orktober 2016 Part II

So I managed to finish my Orks for the 2016 orktober Fest. I painted 6 new Space Orks and took some photos of them mixed with my already painted ones. This brings me to a total of 21 painted Orks.

The complete gang!

Nobs in power armour.

Group with command and banner.

Group with Nob.

Group with Nob carrying a plasma pistol and chainsword.

The colours came out a bit strange on some of the photos, but I hope you can still make out what is what on the pics.

Orktober 2016 Part I

Once again it is Orktober. I forgot about it last year and even though I mostly paint Darkest Africa these days I want to do some more Space Orks this year.

To get the mood going I will post a picture, I found in the computer, of some Orks I painted some time ago, but still haven't been posted on my blog.

A Big Boss and his retinue!

So I hope to have a few more boyz painted this season and if all else fails, maybe just take some updated photos of my Space Orks, there might be a few new models among them anyway.

So for now, Happy Orktober!

My First Orktober

Apparently it is Orctober and everybody have to paint Orcs. I never painted many Orcs before, actually I think I only ever painted two Orcs before and those were for a friend. But of course I already had a huge load of unpainted Orcs and Space Orks lying around, so I jumped right in and started painting up some of my Space Ork Raiders.

Unfortunately I didn't manage to paint as many as I wanted to, but I finished five and I guess it is better than nothing. I have another five which are half way done, so hopefully I will boost my Raiders to 10 Orks soon.

 Here is the bunch I managed to finish.

I am not trying to tie in my Orks with any perticular clan. I don't really like the stricter structures of the Ork clans and tried to paint my Orks as a bunch of nasty paramilitary raiding misfits.

Here they are raiding an Imperial ARBCO station.

Sneaky Ork bastards.

"Give us the gas and the truck and die!"

The Ork Boss face off against Inquisitor Gar.

And I took some close ups of different angles of the Orks. I think they turned out really good and I am happy about the colours I have chosen for them. I was trying to mainly use some different shades of brown, military green and some brighter reds to contrast the skin. 

Some light yellow/brown flack armour and gloves, darker brown belts and pouches, clothes in military green and armour in red or green.

The Boss in his red power armour. It is really a classic, so he just has to look that way.

The other guy is clearly an angry militant Ork, so he is mostly in green combat colours.

Back.

The boys in subtle colours. One sporting a fancy facepaint.

I have chosen to paint at least one Ork boy, from the Space Ork Raiders box, for each other Ork I paint. This is because I have so many dublicates of these and doing it like this I won't end up having all the same models left when I finish more of the unique models.

Of course this is not nearly all the Orks I have, I hope to finish the next five soon and eventually have a larger force painted. I also have an Ork Dreadnought, some Tinboys and a Robork and controller.

Orks in progress.

And my Dark Angels Terminators in progress.

Just to show I haven't forgotten about these.