Orcs orcs orcs...

Finally: nice weather! Which means I could finally take some pictures of the 20 strong orc unit I'd painted last week. I didn't paint 20 models last week, but I did paint the last two ranks and the movement tray (I didn't have any of the right size) in 2 days, so I was pretty happy. Since I decided to work on my greenskins again I'm really excited to paint, but sadly I was really busy with my study too, so I couldn't paint every day. But now that I've got my work done it's finally time to update my blog and paint again!

I really like the unit, especially now that it's painted. Like I said last time, I used to use mainly goblins, but orcs are cool too. They have larger bases (which I always like), they are stronger (they even got buffed in the new army book!) and they look like they're gonna kick your ass.

Choosing the next thing I was going to paint was a hard choice. I really want to finish my snotling unit, because they're small, funny and have a 40mm base (they're swarms) and I also want to finish my night goblin archers. Both of them aren't orcs, but I want some fire support and those archers cost next to nothing, so I can take a big unit. And snotlings fit in every greenskin army, so I want them anyway. I also bought some new boar boyz, but I fear those will stay unpainted for a while, because there is just so much other stuff to do.
Finally there was another temptation I couldn't resist: a 40k (warhammer in the year 40000, aliens and lazers everywhere!) tournament in Utrecht. It really isn't a big tournament, only 400 points, but that made it even more attractive to me. I don't have a 40k army and this seemed a nice deadline to try to paint an army, it would also be a nice way to meet some warhammer players in Utrecht, because I'm trying to move there.

Ofcourse I didn't choose the right army to paint in two weeks (the tournament is in 16 days from now), I really love orcs, so I thought I wanted to play orcs. Also I didn't want to make an army filled with tanks (I like the guns, but I think infantry is cooler than tanks), so I opted to build a footslogger army. This means I'd just picked one of the two armies with the largest model count...
One of the strengths of a footslogger army, or green tide, is there are way too many models in your army to all get killed. This actually is very effective and very competitive, not to mention awesome, but it also means that I will have to paint a lot of models. For the 400 point tournament I made an armylist with over 40 models in it. So that's a few models to paint every day! But I like the army, so I'm sticking to it. I'm not going to complain anymore about my stupid choices, because I'm painting a lot anyway these days, but I just had to mention it.

Next update will be filled with 40k orks (not sure why they aren't called orcs anymore in the future) and some more talk about the tournament and my armylist. Also I hope to fight a small battle before then, to learn how 40k works, and maybe fit in some snotlings too :3. Now it's time to start finding a quick way to paint orks while still keeping them look decent.