Welcoming three new boys to Mektown!

 

The beginning of Mektown.

So for this update, I was planning on showing off more Bretonnian Knights, but instead we're taking a ride into Mektown! On a whim, Richard and I decided to put together some MDF terrain I had bought years ago designed for Warhammer 40k Orks. I've got quite a bit of terrain to put together, and I selected to put together the Grub Hut and the Grog Tank, white Richard put together the more difficult Ork Lookout Tower.

Grub Hut.

Grog Tank.

Yoofs on the Lookout.

Of course I wasn't done there, pulling out a can of black spray, I sprayed them both top to bottom, inside and out, and begun to dry brush them all silver. During this, Richard was getting a crash course on painting orks, with these three orks as the test subjects. While he was painting his ork, I was fixating on painting the terrain, along with painting two of the models alongside him.

Richards Yoof in the centre, the others are mine.

The centre ork is the one Richard painted, and we used all Army Painter paints to paint them. They are old models from the old Gorkamorka starter set from way back in 1997. These models I like simply because they are a mix of the old goofy Space Ork models and the new direction that Orks went when the new Orks went around this time.

Yoof with Slugga and Choppa.

Yoof with Six Shoota and Knife.

Yoof with Slugga and Knuckles.

They are quite a bit small for this terrain though, but that's fine since they will mostly be used as Yoofs for any mob they join, young inexperienced orks who need to cut their teef and prove they are tough!

Yoofs are in charge!

The Nob kicking them out of his shop.

Small skirmish between the Nob and prospective Yoofs.

The terrain was quite simple to paint, with red and white and green to sprinkle some colour around on panels and the signage. Bronze was also dry brushed sparingly around to simulate rusting to an extent, and even to paint the grating and some panels too. Considering this all took one afternoon from construction to finished paintjob, I'm quite pleased with the results.

Until next time!

Some Loonies and their Giant Friend.

 

I've continued my quest to flesh out my Orcs and Goblins war host, giving me more options to field wacky and zany units on the field. With my recent completion of some Night Goblin Short Bow regiment being completed, I suddenly found myself with too few Fanatics to populate my regiments with. This is where these guys come in.

I initially was going to 3D print some fanatics to add to my force, but I remembered having bought a box of these guys a long time ago, and so I dug them out of the pile of shame and put them together, trying to make sure I used different heads to my three existing models that I painted a long time ago.

These three were painted using only Vallejo paints, in my mission to transition from using Army Painter paints to Vallejo, I found it worked quite well and while I'm still on the hunt for certain colours to match my previous colours, the Vallejo line more than makes up with excellent coverage.

This giant Mangler Squig duo was initially spray painted with Army Painter Dragon Red, which was well passed it's best before date. I didn't know spray cans had a shelf life, but when I sprayed the model, it came out reddish brown. I ended up base coating the whole model with Vallejo Model Flat Red, and dry brushing it with a mixture of yellow and Flat Red to highlight.

The goblins were painted the same way I painted my other goblins, with Vallejo Flat Green as the skin base, washed with GW Biel Tan wash. I've since begun using the GW washes for my shading purposes simply because I much prefer the paint pots. I've also noticed that the GW recipe doesn't stain as heavily as the Army Painter or Vallejo washes, so I'm able to retain more of the original colour, which goes great with fantasy models.

Till next time!