2nd ed. Grots!

Here’s a blast from the past! For this round of the challenge we went back to troops, and I had the perfect unit lined up for the occasion: 20 gretchin from the second edition of Warhammer 40,000. These have been lying around boxes of ork bits as bare plastic for a very long time indeed!

Painting 20 of the exact same model is a bit mind numbing but I do find it easier than painting 20 models that are all similar but not quite the same. At least in the same model case you can just get in a rhythm and you’ll find the same bits in the same place each time. Pick a colour and get through it!

These are really characterful models and were also fun to paint because of that. I tried to simplify the paintjob on some of the areas of the model to speed up the process, but I found I was having enough fun that I did quite a few stages on some areas. The skin is the same four green stages I do on the orks, only lacking the red wash I give the orks on their lips and around the eyes. For some reason these models felt they should stay all green!

From the back you can see the one real shortcut I took: their tunics. These were done with a single coat of GW’s Snakebite Leather over the Vallejo Dunkelgelb undercoat. I think that worked out ok. Juxtaposed with the more worked-on areas it looks less lazy than it might otherwise.

Overall a very fun round of the challenge, and I still have just under a week till the next round to fill with some other project. I have some more Riders of Rohan on the go, so they might get finished in that time, we’ll see!