Smells like Kev Spirit

Look, I've said it before but I'm not exactly a great orc lover here. I know I've said it a fair few times already but I keep coming back to painting some now that I've started a couple years back for orctober.

Thing is, I still wouldn't want to have a huge force of them in any game nor would I even want to play them that much but for some reason I feel compelled to having a force of them for my games.

Since this year, I've started to make warbands of all sorts for fantasy just like I used to do for Rogue Trader. That means when I saw a sale on the Oldhammer forum with plenty of cool orcs from Kev Adams, I took the opportunity to scratch the itch.

Now you will have noticed all models are missing their tab... That's a little annoying.

It is annoying and hard to understand since the model were just glued on their original square bases but it's also annoying because that means extra time spent...

Now since my good friend the One exposed his way to fix this issue, I thought I'd show my way to do things as well. It's pretty much the same with just a twist to save a step (because I'm that lazy really).

First step was to painfully drill and pin the feet of all models (at least all the feet standing flat on the base). I mean painfully because believe it or not I still drill with a hand tool and still haven't replaced the power drill that I broke some 10 years ago...

2nd step is to fill that useless hole in the bases (Hexes since those are meant for Skirmish warbands).

Just a bit of paper and PVA glue really, you don't need much since the sand and glue on top will be more than strong enough.

Next step is to drill holes in the bases to receive the pins (I cut the pins to the same size so I just have to put them on the base and move them a little to leave a little mark. I can then insert the pins and bend them to hold the base and then drown them in super glue :



Now you might remember my little Mordheim at the beginning of the month... well I came back with very good memories but also with some cool and fresh lead and amongst it I got some funky lead shields sculpted by the guys ! I think you'll agree they look splendid and old school with the perfect nod towards Kev Adams and Fraser Grey !
Couldn't ask for better shields really ! I strongly advise you to have a look at their ranges of cool models all sculpted by talented folks the name of whom you'll recognise in no time ;)

Shields from Uscarl Miniatures

Here are the shields on the models, just the right size I find :



So here's the prepared and based band ! Without stripping, the preparation and basing on all 7 must have taken me like a good hour, an hour not spent on painting them so please, please, try and think about friends when you remove tabs for no reason !

I've never been much of an orc fan but the Gorfang Rotgu model always had this little special vibe that I like with almost a Blanche style. I'll go the Blanche way on these by the way, loads of red and checkers, want to emphasise the silly and messy side of them. This should be fun, We'll see how to shoehorn them into a game afterwards ;)

I hope you'll forget this occasional post without any painted lead but I'm quite motivated by this little group. I think I'll have to find them the right ogre to fit with them, I have plenty of choice here so I'll make sur eto pick the right one.

As for what's coming next, well, I feel in a Heavy Metal mood these days, that should reflect on my output ;)