With the deadline for the 1 Million Miniatures challenge approaching (May 9th!) and having been distracted from painting for a bit due to participating in a Vampire the Eternal Struggle tournament, it was time to get back on track and make a dent in the last 21 models needed for me to hit 100.
I’ve painted one Blood Bowl team already during this challenge (the Amazons) as my gaming group is keen to get into Blood Bowl. Another friend was keen to join in but not necessarily interested in the hobby aspect of the game and as I had this Orc team lying around from an old starter set I decided to paint it up for him to borrow.
I’ve been painting quite a few Warhammer and Warhammer 40k orcs/orks recently and decided to changing things up and go for a blue scheme rather than the reds and blacks I’ve been going with. I quite like the look of these, might have to paint some more blue armoured Orks in the future.
Painting process-wise, there’s not too much to write about, this is the good old base coat, Agrax Earthshade all over, highlights type of painting. The skin recipe is the same as my Warhammer orcs.
I enjoyed painting the markings on these, it’s a fun part of painting any orcs/orks, and you can get away with being a bit messy, you can be sure orcs wouldn’t be particularly neat.
These models take me to 91 total for the challenge, just need to find 9 more to do inside the next two weeks and I’ll be all done. Back to the painting table!
Lair of the Lagomorph 
Nicely done, Nic! 🙂 They look really good! Maybe I need to paint some orcs – I could do with being able to get messy (well, OK, messier)!
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Thanks John! I’m sure you could justify some big green alien mercenaries in your VSF games!
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Ah, well, I do have a plan for that! 🙂
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Excited to see what that is!
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That’s a lovely scheme on this team, Nic! If my eyes aren’t deceiving me, they have some nice “scuffs” and wear and tear on the armor too which I really like. Two weeks to get nine more models done for you should be very doable. I could commit to getting two or maybe three done in that time, if I’m feeling ambitious 🙂 Good luck at the V:TES tournament as well! I would imagine that will be a blood-sucking good time!
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Thanks Jeff! I do like that beat up look for the orcs so almost always end up with some sort of chipping effect. I went for a very bright silver this time which I think I really like and I’ll do again as standard now.
The tournament was a great time, I managed to end up on the final table where I got promptly demolished but still happy with that result!
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That sounds good to me and getting to the final table is definitely an accomplishment. I entered in plenty of card tournaments in my younger days and didn’t accomplish that feat too often so good on you, I’d say!
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