After a long decade of pause in the hobby (work, travels, babies... you know the usual stuff !) I have a calm year in front of me and I wanted to dive back into an ocean of plastic, glue and paint.
But as I have only one year, and as a specialist of too much converting, slow painting and never finishing anything, I've decided to set myself a fierce goal of
painting 5000 points of Orks in 1 year.
I need deadlines to motivate me, and i want to acquire new techniques and methods of painting and converting much more efficiently and faster.
The Great Patriotic WAAAAAAAAGH
I'm passionate about the WW2, and especially the kinda forgotten eastern front. So i've decided to add my love for the minis and T-34 plastic model to create an army of Orkmunnist with a "decade of war in front line" vibe.
It's more a general inspiration than a strong line to follow, the rockit launcha will be made as
RPG-7 for example, anachronical but so cool and representative of a "soviet spirit"!
The army paint scheme will be green uniform and whitwashed armor plates (I love winter camos), with lot of rust. Green on green would have been meh so the red imposed himself for the skins, turning my Orks into living Kommunist propaganda !
To match the goal of 5000pts painted in less than one year I set myself strong rules to follow :
1 - rationalise convertions, and leave the minis alone ! All my old armies were fully converted, not this one -> paint the model, and come back to it maybe later to add thoses sweet platicard and greenstuff details
2 - painting faster, focusing on Wow effect, leaving the rest to contrast and drybrushing
3 - Run towards ennemy wiggling your big choppa !
I even have a sweet sweet excel datasheet to give me endorfina when I pinkifie a square. 1st OBJEKTIV - FULL PINK FOR CHRISTMAS !
Without further ado the first squads :
10 Boyz + Nob with Klaw
This is mostly a painting test squad, with tries of red skins from Baal Red lighted with dark skin tone, for this "peach skin" result that I kinda like. The leather will be treated with contrast paint for the next one (this old method is tedious for a meh result).
The nob is converted as a Political Komissar. It will be painted when the color scheme and the paint methods are final.
10 SnaggaBoyz + Nob with Klaw
To have more versatility all the helmets Boyz from my huge pile of BlackReach monopose Boyz will have a scythe to be potentially played as SnaggaBoyz.
10 Grots
The skin is lighted here with Ivory white, to have a lighter finish than the Boyz. It makes them look like lil' candy, I really like it.
I want to make them SSh-39 WW2 Russian Helmet when I will have time.
Next in line are 30 more Boyz and SnaggaBoyz, then the real fun begins with packs of StormBoyz, Kommandos and Defkoptas.
PS : You'll have guess that i'm not a native English speaker, feel free to correct me.