Orktober Days 7-8 (Carl)

 

I’ve managed to get the rest of the red into the Orc models today. Didn’t get anything done yesterday though.

One thing that working on the Mantic Games Orcs has highlighted is how soft and confused the detail of the armour and fabric folds is. The delineation of the different elements is very poor. I think these models are definitely designed for the ‘dip’ method. Crank them out fast and stick them on the table.

They’re a massed army model not a display painter worthy sculpt at all. Which, to be fair, is as it should be, they’re designed for use in Kings of War so they’re supposed to appear in massed ranks on the tabletop not as individuals in a skirmish.

The styling is pretty good but the execution of the concept is a bit lacking for me.

Orktober Days 4-6 (Carl)

 

Day 4 and 5 saw no progress, work and ‘life’ getting in the way, but I’ve managed to nudge things on a bit today on Day 6.

I also found the Goblin spearman that belongs to this little warband. Pretty useful as I couldn’t quite remember what colours I’d used on him.

So I’ve started putting some colour in. I’ve added the yellow to all of them and made a start on the red. Although it all looks very bright at the moment, I’m sure it’ll dirty down at the end.

Orktober 2026 Day 3 (Carl)

 

The tiniest of additions today, a bit of gold on the rings and sword. I’ve mainly worked on a bard and another Blood Bowl Gnome today so this Orc really was a bystander.

In fact the only reason he got some paint added was I put too much gold on the palette when doing the Blood Bowl Gnome's pipe!

Orktober 2026 Day 2 (Carl)

 

Day 2 and I’ve actually managed to do something and post it! Despite working a nine hour shift and being awake for 19.5 hours!

I’ve put an initial green, Biel-Tan Green - GW Shade, onto the Orc leader along with a Reikland Fleshshade over the top of the greenskin of another.

So a bit of progress.

Orktober 2026 day 1 (Carl)

 

Orktober is a thing that has existed online for a while among miniature painting enthusiasts. I think it is mostly driven by Games Workshop fans as the title, a play on Inktober, has Orc spelt with a ‘K’ like the Warhammer 40k faction.

Regardless of its origins I’m going to try and take the opportunity to get a few Orc models completed. They have been languishing in one of my WiP boxes for years so it’s worth a try.

In a departure from my usual approach of only posting completions I’ll, hopefully, be posting daily updates on their progress even if there isn’t any!

We’ll see how that develops as the month progresses. 

Blood Bowl Woodland Fox (Carl)

Another completion posted on the same day!!

You can tell I had a few needing just their bases finishing.

This is a Woodland Fox for my Blood Bowl Gnome team. I really enjoyed painting him, it was pretty quick to do and I’m happy with the final result.

Completion number 18 for the year.

Blood Bowl Goblin (Carl)

This little fella has been waiting ages for me to finish him. Literally a 5 minute job and scenic scatter on the base. But somehow I kept leaving it.

Anyway, he’s one of the modern Goblin sculpts for Blood Bowl by Games Workshop. I needed a couple of Goblin replacements for my Orc team Da Deff Skwadd. The existing minis I had in the team have been transferred to my Goblin team along with the Troll. So there’s another Goblin and Troll currently in progress for Da Deff Skwadd too.

This one is completion number 17 for the year!