Well you know how they say a project is never finished... well I'm back working on more Orks! Recently we've been playing a lot of 8th Ed 40k and enjoying it a lot however one thing became clear to me while playing and that was I needed more Boyz (so I can get 30 of them marching up the field with Ghazghkull a Painboy and Mech with force field in tow, WAAAGH!).
First five of the new batch finished
So of to eBay I went and within a few days I managed to pick up exactly what I needed plus some nice bonuses that will definitely seem some action in my force.
The eBay purchase
Now the photos weren't great but I could just make out enough so that I knew I wouldn't have to strip them and could just work with their current paint jobs.
The first batch of five as received
Once they arrived they got a wash in the sink as they were covered in a fair amount of dust and when they had dried the colours really began to pop but I knew I'd have a fair amount of work to do, in fact I've basically re-painted this first batch while retaining their original paint scheme.
One of the Boys posing for his close up
When painting these I've been doing it to a level that matches the existing force so that you can't tell they are from disparate sources, it can be a little odd at times not painting to your full ability but I like the look of these and like to think that this is how my 2nd Ed Orks would have looked if I'd ever painted them up back in the day.
I'm now on to painting the next (and last, honest) batch of ten Ork Boyz which you can follow the work in progress of over on my Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/crucium.giger/ but I will be posting finished shots here soon.
Oh and I might have picked up a painted Blitza-Bommer to round out the force but more on that later.
