Thank you for you patience

Thank you to everyone who has been reading my blog so far. I was on nights last weekend and have been away this week celebrating my 1st anniversary so apologies for the small break in service.

Hoping to post something for IDICBeer's Mirror Universe competition on YouTube this week and also get an update for my 500 points of Orks which have now been completed.  I also gave plans afoot for WarbossTae's July Challenge so hopefully lots to keep people entertained on here and my YouTube channel (dornsapothecary) in the coming weeks.

Take care!

YouTube Channel

Hi guys

In an attempt to appeal to as many people as possible I have posted a couple videos to YouTube today.

One as an short introductory video and the other is a video response to Travis at Aussie Ork for his 300 Subscriber competition which includes my newly painted battlewagon along with some WIP and finished pictures.

Here's the link: dornsapothecary

Hope you enjoy, please subscribe if you're interested and I try to keep this blog and the YouTube Channel as uptodate as possible, even with little updates.

Its an interesting time for Ork collectors / players.  New walkers, new Flash Gitz models (long overdue!!) and with any luck (looks hopefully at the GW website one last time) a new Codex just around the corner.

Take care!

Ork Boy Fatigue

Painting 40 boyz became a little tedious and I needed a break from it so decided to break out the BattleWagon and a few spray paints.

It's far from finished but I'm really pleased with how it's turned out...

I'm planning on using this model for my Aussie Ork 300 subscriber entry.  More to come soon!

Progress to 500

Ok,  since the last time I updated I have been making some headway on the rest of my 500 point starter army.  The lootas, shootas and sluggas or all getting there to join their greenskin brethren and the warboss... yet to be named??!!

The teef and leather bits are yet to be painted so they're not quite ready to start doing all the basing etc but i'm pleased with the progress I made.  Did this as a big batch paint which I think might have been a little too much but fortunately I had the Lootas in there to mix things up a little.

 For my next 500 points I've made plans to paint up a few more points of top up boyz and a big unit of nobs.  A 10 man Nob squad with transport could easily hit the 500 point mark and i'm not necessarily going to field it this was but it allows me to mentally prepare for what gets painted next.

When I get to 500 points of painted models i'm going to make a YouTube video response to Aussie Ork for his 300 subscriber competition in an attempt to top up my "backburnered" Orcs and Goblins Army.

Will post again soon, hopefully with a pic of the fully painted 500!

An introduction

So last year I started keeping a log for painting up some Warhammer Fantasy Savage Orcs. It was really nice to see myself making some progress but sadly work and other things imposed on my painting and my well intentioned 40k plans all fell by the wayside for the last six months or so.

Having recently got some more time on my hands I made a commitment to actually get some models painted and play some games of 40k.  This has coincided really nicely with the new 7th edition rulebook coming out so as I paint my models I can get to grips with the most uptodate rules, etc.

Having a large pile of Orks built or ready to be built I asked the wargaming community for advice on creating a 500 point Ork starter army based on the models I currently have.

With that in mind I've not started to paint up this small force so I can start playing some games.

The initial 500 points will be:

Warboss with power klaw, eavy armour, cybork body and attack squig

18 Boyz with a Nob (Bosspole, PowerKlaw, Eavy Armour) and a big shoota

17 Boyz with a Nob (Bosspole, PowerKlaw, Eavy Armour) and a big shoota

5 Lootas

Here's the progress so far...

Hope you enjoy! And I hope to upload my progress in the coming weeks as well as thoughts on developing my force and any games I start to play.