Laz’s Extended Waaagh

My Grotmas gifts to myself arrived from the overlords at Waaaghland Games, and I’ve made good progress on getting them pieced together.

The Nobs box is stuffed with so many bits and weapon choices, I was a little overwhelmed. The combat patrol magazine options have been relatively slim on the build extras, so I wasn’t expecting so many in one box. If I had these leftover bits from the start, the first set of boyz could have been greatly improved. The Ammo Grunt’s face was tiny, so I swapped in a Grot’s head of slightly more comic proportions.

Big Mek was a fun build, fewer spare bits but decent options, a bit of an odd sculpt, but he imposes some bulk on the situation. Now to painting them, not all that convinced the Snazzwagon is going to turn up before Dakkacembers end, but fingers crossed.

These boyz caught my eye on the auction site and proved a little too cheap to ignore. The pictures online didn’t do them any justice. I was planning to strip them and start again, but they have proved less offensive to the eye than previously expected. Someone obviously made a good effort on getting them this far, so I think I might give them a bit of a touch-up job rather than a full repaint, and try to blend them in with the rest of the force. If I don’t like the outcome, they can always take a bath in Dettol. My first Kill Team, hopefully still usable in both games?

I have ordered some more additions to my little band of Orks (other than the Snazzwagon coming from Combat Patrol Magazine), an actual band of Nobs to make up for the severe lack of Nobs from Nobvember, and a Big Mech so that I have something to HQ, all set to arrive before the holidays. I have no idea about force formulation, likely an unplayable mash of units, but they should keep me busy throughout the holiday period.

So for now I will work on these bad boyz and await the arrival of the rest of my Dakkamas presents. Hurrah!

A fun build, although a little fiddly, with plenty of leftover bits for kitbashing. I think I’m going to stick to a pretty classic paint job, but let’s see how the feeling takes me. Pretty amped, got to get at it quickly Nobvembers end approaches!

My attempt at Orktober crashed and burned. I managed to get one band of Boyz pieced together and primed by the 30th. I already had the models (signed up for the Combat Patrol mag just in time for most of the Ork stuff), so I decided, as a change from painting space bois, I would set myself the Nobvember challenge and see how much of the Patrol set I could get painted this month. I’ve never painted any greenskins before, so it’s going to be a learning curve. That was the main reason I signed up for the magazine: to get some different models besides Space Marines in the mix.  So here goes.