Wow, nearly into August and my first post and finished mini of the year - how embarrassing!
The year started so well, carrying on where 2021 left off and I should have had another 30+ War of the Roses figures finished in Jan/Feb for the Never Mind the Billhooks event in March, unfortunately I was unable to attend the event and so they never passed the finishing post.
Various projects have moved along in the meantime, but mainly building and prep work - the do 'something' every day mantra continues and I haven't missed a single day, but with little to show for it.
However here is the first to make it into the public domain and quite a surprise entry, not least for me, a Savage Orruk for Warhammer Age of Sigmar:
Carl and I have entered a doubles event at Warhammer World in August and while Carl continues with his old Slaves to Darkness Chaos project, I settled on Ogor Mawtribes which have been sat unbuilt in their box since they first came out some 18 years ago!! ...and just happened to be a 1000 points army in new money.
- but hang on you say, this isn't an Ogor... well no, having stalled on the Ogors I got an itch to do some Bonesplitterz Savage Orruks and this is me actually scratching that itch. Only a week in so far, let's see if they replace the Ogors this time around or are just a convenient diversion to avoid finishing what I should?
Again all the heavy lifting is done with Games Workshop's 'Contrast Paints' over the same brown zenithal prime as my 40k Ork Boy only this time I decided a lighter, brighter green was in order which is where the new Mantis Warriors Green contrast paint comes in followed by Army Painter's Green Wash to add depth and darken the overall shade slightly ...and to go with that a good excuse to use the psychedelic shade of Talassar Blue for the warpaint (I had considered orange or pink warpaint, but blue just seems right - and sits much happier next to the green if there's a slight overlap, which would muddy the other colours).
So not the year of painting I had planned so far, and certainly not what I expected to be my first finished mini but hopefully the start of plenty more to come as there aren't many weeks now for both myself and Carl to finish our armies... wish us luck!
