Warhammer 40k. Orks. Ork Boyz. Part1.

I was not sure where to begin in this post.

The content has been shown somewhat before on this blog but I later removed it. I am tempted to explain why its reapers now, but I feel that it dose not matter.

This is my very first army. Back when I was a young boy, me and my friend age 7-8 got our hands on the second edition Warhammer 40k starter box. He picked space marines and I picked space orks.

With a beginner’s guide in Swedish we took our first steps into the wargaming hobby. One or two years later we sat with the original rulebook and an English to Swedish lexicon trying to deciphered how the game was played.

There is some found memory’s there, almost like a treasure hunt when the game system slowly unfolded before our eyes. Discovering that there was something called codex’s and with it came additional rules for our army’s.

Around 2002 the army and the hobby were packed into storage containers and would not see the light again for about eleven years.

As I entered the hobby once more my old orks was outdated and badly painted, so many greater sculpts had been done for other factions and so the orks stayed in the storage as I went and built other army’s.

But my old miniatures slowly called me back. And now I feel determined to bring the army back to its former glory. This have been an on and off project I have been working on since 2015. Trying to fresh up the old paint job, add missing squad members and stay true to the old army layout.

I feel that it is time to show what I have been working on. Now, this is not an army that will win prices. It will not blow anyone away. Some models are very poorly painted, there are mould lines here and there, weird conversions and odd old sculpts is in the army. But this is my original army. 90% of all models are from second or third edition. I must have played with these guys hundreds of times. Some models have incredible stories to tell of great feat they did during some games.

I have tried to keep true to my original paint scheme. Not striping any paint if I did not need to. Most of the colours is the original paint from back in the day. I have however brushed it up as good as I could. Added washes and dirt. And painted them in the clan of deathskulls.

The intention is to continue with the army adding to it. But I will mostly add vehicle and walkers. I want the original infantry to make up the bulk of the army.

Hope this can bring some inspiration.