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Good luck. Sure you can manage bud. Just a case of knuckling down. Bring on the green.

Thanks for all the encouragement guys! Here's a dark and terrible picture of all I've gotten done so far.

Even dark and terrible pictures can reveal solid progress.

EDC

Mmmm, look at all those rokkits.

Go go Warboss!
We Love Ewe too.

 Dr H wrote:
Go go Warboss!
We Love Ewe too.

Thanks, Dr H! That means a whole lot to me. I've found myself in need of new paints and washes. So, this week (once my overdue check arrives) I'm off to the local hobby shop to buy exactly those.

Thats a lot of orks Warboss. Good progress so far

I did some more painting, but I haven't taken any pictures in months. I'll get some PIP shots up by the end of the week.

Nice conversions, must get my hands on some non gw heads.

Awesome Orks man; I love the Black Orc conversions.

I can't believe it's been a whole year since I've made any progress on this army, but here's yesterday's progress. I did a very basic skin coat in various shades of green, blue, and brown on 90 random boyz.



And here are 4 examples of the various skin tones that happened after highlighting and ink washing. Sorry about the bizarrely ethereal photos. I blame my camera.



Thanks for looking! Feedback always appreciated. Have an awesome day!

Welcome back Warboss, good to see you posting again.

Yorkright wrote:
Welcome back Warboss, good to see you posting again.

Thanks, Yorkright! I hope to have more progress shots up soon.

Nice to see you back again! I love the idea of a variety of skin colours on orks.

Glad to see you putting some skin in the game. I been wondering if you would come back

 Matthew wrote:
Nice to see you back again! I love the idea of a variety of skin colours on orks.

 cormadepanda wrote:
Glad to see you putting some skin in the game. I been wondering if you would come back

Thankyou, friends. It's good to be back. I finished drybrushing the midtones on all 90 boys.



Here's a close up on the variety created with base coats and highlights.



Feedback always welcome. I'm glad I'm making progress with these models finally.

I've got to do something about the quality of these photos. Anyway, I've finished the skin on 115 boys. Now I have to start grouping them into units and selecting the most obnoxious combinations of bloo, yellow, gold, black, white, and gunmetal. Huzzah.

Wow. Dat waghh is getting pretty cool like .

Yellow? Oh my...

I am hoping to see more in the future warboss.

Your wish is my command, panda.

Dats a whole lotta boyz!

That is really amazing. The variation of the skin is lovely to see

Good to see you about the place again, 'boss. Good comeback. Nice to see variation in skin tones.

 Dr H wrote:
Good to see you about the place again, 'boss. Good comeback. Nice to see variation in skin tones.

Thanks very much, Dr H. It's good to be back. I'll have an update on one project or another later today.


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Minimal progress is still progress, right?

They are coming out really nice. Blues and tans are attractive, and dirty like orks should be.

That is an incredible number of models to take on in one go.

Good luck.

Cheers,

CB

You said it, Captain Brown! It's why I'm limiting myself to 6 models at a time. The skin was one thing, but clothes on 150 models turned out to be too daunting a task.

As to the tan, it's really just a yellow basecoat.

Amazingly, it's been less than 3 years since I've last posted any progress. BUT, while spending quarantine building every unmade model in my possession (or really only 400 or so of the more than 1,000 I had/have), I unearthed an unfinished WAAAZAG himself. So, I finally finished him. Here he is, tada!



Also, not pictured, I finally finished building all 90 of my Stormboyz. I'll post more pictures when I find a tabletop clean enough (and large enough) to showcase everything I've completed.

This unit of Freebooter shoota boyz are one of many thematically designated Trukk boyz units in my army (there's 2 models not shown as they are in Brooklyn and I'm in Queens).


and some close ups of bayonets:


and then a mob of generic nobz.


and 2 gunslingers to add to a previous wip unit:

Nice work on the orc boys-antes, subtle work that lets them switch attacks without dropping their guns .

 Theophony wrote:
Nice work on the orc boys-antes, subtle work that lets them switch attacks without dropping their guns .

Thanks, Theo. I also made a few other themed units. These small mobs are all meant to be attached to trukks that I'll one day get around to building. First up are the helmety trukk boyz (complete with nob who wears a not-subtle icon to remind his boyz wot they are all about):


And then this enthusiastically grenade-tacular mob of stikkbommaz:


I also made a bunch of kombi-rokkit nobz


And kombi-skorchaz:


Somewhere I have a nob to match this mob.


And another for this one:

thanks for looking. C &C welcome!