Spring Greens

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking either. Trying to vary some mostly green footsoldiers with some other mostly green footsoldiers? Good job, Kraken.

More commissioned stuff for Leofa, this is a quick unit of Ork Slugga Boyz. Nice kit, although the torsos are a bit monopose and clunky. A few alternative angles for pistols and axes would have helped, I reckon, but that's nothing clippers couldn't fix. Solid, chunky and brutal otherwise, just what you want.

Painting greenskins always presents you with the challenge of picking the right green. There's plenty more to come for this army, a smallish one of about 500 points (pending new codex), and I want to mark the different squads with individual greens as much as I can. These came out nice, though, not too bright but not too drab either. I'd use this mix again (which is lucky, I've got plenty of Massive Darkness Orcs to get through later).

They don't have their own champion, per se, but this guy came out pretty well, so he's got a promotion to Acting Nob. Cue as many nob gags as you can come up with, obviously.

Painting Guide: -

Basecoat - Black

• Skin - Death World Green, Athonian Camoshade, Elysian Green layers, a tiny bit of Nurgling Green over the face and knuckles. Lips and scars picked out with Barbarian Flesh (from Army Painter)
• Black Leather - Nuln Oil, Skavenblight Dinge and Codex Grey layers, Longbeard Grey drybrush on the very edges only
• Blue Overalls - Macragge Blue, Drakenhof Nightshade, Altdorf Guard Blue layer, Etherium Blue Drybrush
• Khakis - Karak Stone, Agrax, Rakarth Flesh drybrush
• Metalllll - Leadbelcher, Nuln Oil, Agrax Earthshade, Runefang Silver notches and buckles, a few Brass Scorpion bits picked out here and there
• Teef - Ushabti Bone, Seraphim Sepia, Pallid Wychflesh highlight
• Facepaint and Glyphs - Pallid Wychflesh. For the facepaint, this was stippled on first with an old and knackered drybrush, then picked out with highlights afterwards
• Eyes - Mephiston Red, Troll Slayer Orange
• Bases - PVA and grit, Zamesi Desert once dry, then Tyrant Skull drybrush. I'd like to come back round and put a few tufts on these, but that will have to wait a bit until I can find the ones I want

Looking forward to the rest of these, I like a good space Ork.