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I actually painted mine as a mixture of them.
Basing my army as ghazkull’s WAAAAGH. Because i liked the hodgepodge nature of how they work “together” when they set out to cause galactic mayhem.
Although if i had to pick one klan that i like the most it would be Blood Axes. I just like their attempt at using tactics and general attempts to copy imperial doctrines and styles. Though goffs are a second runner up.
Goffs, I love their color scheme and background. I also like Deathskulls.
I'm quite surprise about how Bad Moons and Blood Axes are loved, IMHO their color schemes look terrible and I've never seen in person an ork army painted with those colors. I'm glad they're popular though, variety is always a great value
Blackie wrote: Goffs, I love their color scheme and background. I also like Deathskulls.
I'm quite surprise about how Bad Moons and Blood Axes are loved, IMHO their color schemes look terrible and I've never seen in person an ork army painted with those colors. I'm glad they're popular though, variety is always a great value
I have seen plenty of bad moonz, though. It is also a common paint scheme for GW's artist.
I agree that blood axes a difficult. Painting Ork infantry with a camouflage pattern just looks very bad and noisy. I think the best way is to choose a suitably military fatigue for helmets and shoulder pads, like sand brown or olive and then a contrasting skin tone. I general with Orks you can paint their skin with a very wide variety of skin tones and gave great results.
For snakebites I like a dark, unsaturated green skin tone with white warpaint death-skulls style. It looks a bit like australian aboriginal warriors. I haven't painted a lot of snakebites, though.
Been primarily Bad Moons since 1991. Like all good warbands I have a few units of other Clanz, but my Warboss and core boyz units have always been the rich, yellow gits. It’s funny to see how popular they are now – before my Hobby Hiatus of c.2005-2015, you hardly ever saw them; it was nearly all Goffs and Evil Sunz back then.
When I dug up my orks they had primary school evil sunz paint jobs. So I stuck with the theme but stripped & re-painted them since I've started playing in 8th, with some new purchases etc. Was originally going to be a mad max list until I realised how poor vehicles were
When I first started I collected Goffs, but I always had an affinity for Bad Moons. I took a long break when I got back in a year ago I decided to do the Bad Moonz tredd headz army I always wanted.
Pretty rapidly I accumulated a ton of stuff (Orks were being sold off at insanely cheap prices at the end of 7th) so I'm going to eventually have every clan in my collection.
Nazrak wrote: Been primarily Bad Moons since 1991. Like all good warbands I have a few units of other Clanz, but my Warboss and core boyz units have always been the rich, yellow gits. It’s funny to see how popular they are now – before my Hobby Hiatus of c.2005-2015, you hardly ever saw them; it was nearly all Goffs and Evil Sunz back then.
When I started back in the late 90s my impression of the Ork codex was that it heavily favored a Goff playstyle. Then when Codex: Armageddon came out Evil Sunz seemed pretty good. Most Ork shooty units back in 3rd didn't seem very good to me*, so maybe that's why people didn't play Bad Moons as much?
*I remember the best shooting units being Warbikes and looted Basilisks. Shoota Boyz, Flash Gitz and Big Gunz I remember being pretty bad.
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pismakron wrote: I agree that blood axes a difficult. Painting Ork infantry with a camouflage pattern just looks very bad and noisy. I think the best way is to choose a suitably military fatigue for helmets and shoulder pads, like sand brown or olive and then a contrasting skin tone. I general with Orks you can paint their skin with a very wide variety of skin tones and gave great results.
For some reason I got it in my head that Blood Axes often used the color purple, but I've been looking around and I can't seem to find any official reference to that now.
I'm wondering if the purple thing was just some weird headcannon I dreamed up a long time ago that is now confusing me in my doddering old age?
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Made up my own paint scheme, but like to think my waaagh as a mixture of Blood Axes specialists (love the fluff and units) who support snakebites hordes of (AoS) boyz and shamans (because I like to actually win).
For some reason I got it in my head that Blood Axes often used the color purple, but I've been looking around and I can't seem to find any official reference to that now.
I'm wondering if the purple thing was just some weird headcannon I dreamed up a long time ago that is now confusing me in my doddering old age?
Funny, it's the same for me and I actually went with purple.
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When I got my battle of Vedros box early last year to try my hand at painting again I went with Deathskulls, because I find blue paint goes on well, but don't really like it on Marines. My old collection of minis had some old Gorkamorka bits too, and I figured if I was going to repaint, doing them as Deathskulls meant it wouldn't matter if I missed a bit of the previous paintjob. Gone blue with brown and cream and used a darker silver and copper for the metals. Still haven't dared to try the facepaint yet though, as I'm very happy with how the new (to me) Ork face sculpts pick up drybrushing.
CommissarClay wrote: I actually painted mine as a mixture of them.
Basing my army as ghazkull’s WAAAAGH. Because i liked the hodgepodge nature of how they work “together” when they set out to cause galactic mayhem.
Although if i had to pick one klan that i like the most it would be Blood Axes. I just like their attempt at using tactics and general attempts to copy imperial doctrines and styles. Though goffs are a second runner up.
Ditto. thus I have mix of all clans there. These slugga&choppa are goffs, these evil sunz, these shoota guys are dethskulls etc
I have painted my orks as a combination of evil sunz and goffs with a lot of the more flashy stuff painted more like bad moons (things like kannonz, kanz and flash gitz)
Bad Moons for me. Never had an interest in any other clan and Bad Moons are my lucky army where in spite of my general bad luck with dice I roll fantastic.
I've never gotten a lot of painting on them done, so I don't have much to show. One day, though. One day...
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
I had them as a mix with mostly blood axes, but when ork clans inevitably get their chapter tactics equivalent I’ll repaint to whatever I want to build around.
40k drinking game: take a shot everytime a book references Skitarii using transports.
I'm sure even with the release of klans I'll still field more then one klan using different detachments. Never send a deff dredd to do a speed freaks job.
I loved the idea of Deathskulls (deff skullz) and went to them straight away. Loved the idea of looting vehicles and being lucky, especially in a game of dice rolling, I need all the luck I can get.
Dakka Flakka Flame wrote: For some reason I got it in my head that Blood Axes often used the color purple, but I've been looking around and I can't seem to find any official reference to that now.
I'm wondering if the purple thing was just some weird headcannon I dreamed up a long time ago that is now confusing me in my doddering old age?
There was a joke doing the rounds a few years ago that Blood Axe Kommandos wore purple.
“Why?”
Cuz itz ded stelfy innit?
“Uh....”
Well ‘ave yer ever seen a purple ork?
Deffskullz for my army, I love their thieving ways and it helps that my favourite colour is blue and their superstition in daubing things in blue paint makes for an interesting army scheme. Also, since I always liked using Lootas, they ended up being the perfect klan for me.
The only other klan that ever really got my attention were the Bad Moonz, but their yellow colour scheme ended up being something I didn't want to go for. I might go for something similar when I paint up my Flash Gitz, but I didn't want their colour scheme as an army wide thing.
Goffs are too focused on stompin and not about the finer things like looting and proper dakka.
Bad Moonz have too many teef for their own good. The best bitz are looted, buying is for umie gitz (see basically any game ever made as proof of this logic).
Evil Sunz appreciate a good wagon but are too busy zoomin around to grab proppa scrap and not have it fly off. Good mekz at least
Snakebites..... those poor backwards Orks don't understand what dakka is.
Blood Axes..... while snakebites might not know what dakka is, Blood Axes don't even know what Orky is.
Deathskullz appreciate proper looting and dakka like any good Ork should. Deathskullz also know the value of getting grots to do.... well grots work. Just so happens that blue is lucky and deathskullz appreciate a good bit of luck when stomping, shooting, looting, and trying to not explode when the mek "fixes" your shoota.
Spoiler:
Warboss Vankraken
(From left to right) "Fishbonez" Tankbusta Nob, "Gold Gob" Nob, WAAAGH Banner Nob, Big Choppa Nob, Flash Git Kaptain
A Killa Kanz krumped a panzy eldar and another (unpainted) is in the middle of showing a smurf what he thinks of his so called "Spiritual Liege"
A shot of my Ork collection but somewhat outdated as its from one and a half years ago.
"Hold my shoota, I'm goin in"
Armies (7th edition points)
7000+ Points Death Skullz
4000 Points
+ + 3000 Points "The Fiery Heart of the Emperor"
3500 Points "Void Kraken" Space Marines
3000 Points "Bard's Booze Cruise"
I voted Bad Moons. The yellow contrasting with the green skin is really striking. It's always been one of my favourites and what I would do if I ever get around to starting that Ork project I've been promising myself since 2002.
"Courage and Honour. I hear you murmur these words in the mist, in their wake I hear your hearts beat harder with false conviction seeking to convince yourselves that a brave death has meaning.
There is no courage to be found here my nephews, no honour to be had. Your souls will join the trillion others in the mist shrieking uselessly to eternity, weeping for the empire you could not save.
To the unfaithful, I bring holy plagues ripe with enlightenment. To the devout, I bring the blessing of immortality through the kiss of sacred rot.
And to you, new-born sons of Gulliman, to you flesh crafted puppets of a failing Imperium I bring the holiest gift of all.... Silence."
- Mortarion, The Death Lord, The Reaper of Men, Daemon Primarch of Nurgle
I've always had a soft spot for Deathskulls. I love how all of them have mekanik tendencies. Even the least of them can modify weapons and armour, while the ones with more orky nowats can salvage and kustomize warmachines from practically every other sentient race.
Orkz is never beaten in battle. If we win, we win. If we did, we did fighting so it don't count. If we legz it, we just come back for annuver go, see?
Not all painted to completion, but I've got an army of every clan.
It lets me paint tons of orks without getting bored, and it lets me use a LOAD of old models (the Snakebites have one Trukk, and it's the Gorkamorka Digga one). My 'Grand Warlord' is a Goff, so I guess technically he's in charge (and his clan gets the Battlefortress and the Stompa). But every clan has a load of cool stuff (Squiggoths for the Snakebites, along with the old Buzzer Squig katapults), etc.
1500pts
500pts
My old collection of minis had some old Gorkamorka bits too, and I figured if I was going to repaint, doing them as Deathskulls meant it wouldn't matter if I missed a bit of the previous paintjob. 
7000+ Points Death Skullz
4000 Points
+ 
+ 3000 Points "The Fiery Heart of the Emperor"
3000 Points "Bard's Booze Cruise" 
5300 | 
2800 | 
3600 | 
1600 | 
