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!

More Blood Bowl Gnomes! (Carl)

After a few weeks gap I’ve managed to get a couple more of the Gnomes finished towards my Blood Bowl Gnome team.

I’m still a bit undecided about my theme/concept for these. I think it’s the contrast paints I used to base them.

Ork Flesh and Snakebite Leather have proved to be a bit darker than I intended the end result to be.

I’m hoping my basing will brighten the overall look of the full team when it’s finished.

These take my completions to 16 this year.

Blood Bowl Gnome (Carl)

Another Blood Bowl finish! This time it’s a Gnome.

I considered using a traditional gnome colour scheme (garden variety) or even a Smurf colour scheme but in the end I rejected both of those in favour of an experiment.

I’ve leaned into the woodland spirit aspect of the Gnomes with my paint scheme, going for a Green Man vibe. In the Blood Bowl setting the Gnomes are tricksters often playing practical jokes on those that travel through their realms. So I adopted a gnome-in-the-woodland-camouflage colourway.

It’s totally darker than I intended but I’m committed now. I’ve applied the same brown and green contrast paints on all the minis at the same time, before going in to start to finish each one.

I still like him. Plus… he’s completion number 14!