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Congrats on the major milestone Nev, thats quite an impressive marine history you have there, although not too surprising given your army! What chapter are you thinking of straying towards for the spare intercessors?

Tommygun1918 wrote:Congratulations, on getting 9th done. I have half of 10th done (marine half) and will probably have to wait until I get 11th finished before getting back to the nids.

IMHO the nid side of the Leviathan box is the stronger side, but they are both solid.

JordySteve wrote:Congrats on the major milestone Nev, thats quite an impressive marine history you have there, although not too surprising given your army! What chapter are you thinking of straying towards for the spare intercessors?

Right now I’m up in the air. Either Deathwatch or Salamanders. Pushfits would be harder to add to the DW, as no shoulder swaps. Odds are they will just sit in the PoS for a while until I make up my mind.

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So with Armageddon going up for pre-order today, I’m sure you are all asking “Nev, surely a gamer of your venerable stature must have a few ork models kicking around your collection from throughout the years” To which the answer is yes, but probably both more and less then you think. The Assault on Black Reach box, the source of most random orks in gamer’s collection, is one that I never got. But I’ve been here a very long time, so grab your pith helmets and mining picks, it’s time to do some digging.


Ignore the pointy eared gits. We’ve got ork raiders. Probably about half the box left to paint. But we are not done with RT yet. we have plastics. (and some more metal)


The multipose ork kit was not good. I should have all the arms and guns clipped in my bits box. I tried to batch paint the lot of them at one point, but did not get far.


Most of these guys were painted my my friend Dave. I did a handful of them. The pirate in the back might be actual lead. I remember when I was cleaning him up, which was a bit after safe alloys had replaced lead, going to clean up mold lines and after the first pass thinking “Wow, that’s really soft” Washed my hands thoughly after moving these models around today.


But no retro ork collection can be considered complete without these guys. Back in the day I picked up the rulebooks and marine separate from the box, so didn’t get them when they were new. These came to me when my friend Ben gave me his old nids. I think. May have been from the lot of stuff from Phil. Or a mix, where the minis were from one and the cardstock from another.

I vaguely feel that there is an egg carton with more out there, but I could not find it. I suspect they may have been consolidated into other boxes. The problem with repacking and moving.

So how does all this fit into the new stuff coming down the line? It probably doesn’t. Maybe a grot gets painted and swapped into the new sqaud. Or they get painted for fun. These guys are going to be so hilariously out of scale. Which is a shame, as there are a lot of fun sculpts here. But once the green tide starts rolling along, they may get swept up in the waggggggh.

Oh, welcome to oldhammer ork side! Loving that you're joining retro goodness

Nev, I think it's really cool how many starter sets you've collected and worked on. Don't be hard on yourself. The 6th edition Dark Vengeance starter is the only official one I have ever bought, and I still have two chaos leaders from it that I haven't painted yet. I only just finished the final marine model of my of my homemade Leviathan starter set with the "Hunter and Hunted" painting contest.

inmygravenimage wrote:Oh, welcome to oldhammer ork side! Loving that you're joining retro goodness

We’ll see how many of them actually get paint. Lovely models, but I’ve got a pretty busy paint queue. And I got my preorder in for the 11th starter, so some fresh boys will be joining them demanding paint.

Syro_ wrote:Nev, I think it's really cool how many starter sets you've collected and worked on. Don't be hard on yourself. The 6th edition Dark Vengeance starter is the only official one I have ever bought, and I still have two chaos leaders from it that I haven't painted yet. I only just finished the final marine model of my of my homemade Leviathan starter set with the "Hunter and Hunted" painting contest.

Heh, I’m not being hard on myself. It was a lightbulb moment of “Hey, I just finished both sides of the starter” that triggered a cascade of “have I ever done this before?” And then going down the rabbit hole. I’ve done the marine half on a lot of them.

As an extra bit of fun, often (always?) when I reply to this thread below the reply box is shows the last post of the first page of the thread. Which on topic is a pic of my BoM marines with the caption "Well, now that we are a bit into 6th edition, I've finally finished the tac squad from the 4th ed starter box “ Which should tell you how long I’ve been blogging, and that me slowly churning out marines years after they hit the Pile of Shame is nothing new.

Hope you are all having a great weekend out there.