Legionnary List - First tournament outing

Attending Exeter Legionary this weekend, which will be my first
tournament outing with the orks, luckily its only a 1000pts. I'm
basically going to run with what I have painted so far:

Big Mek Kustom Force Field - 85pts
10 Lootas, 2 Meks with Kustom mega blasta (only taking meks cuz they
don't give you 5 lootas in a box)
2 X 30 Boyz, Nob with power klaw and boss pole - 220pts (each)
10 Gretchin with Runtherd
3 X Kanz with Rokkits - 150pts
3 X Kanz with Grotzooka - 135pts

Second Ork boy squad

Some photos of my second squad of orks boyz

Gretchin!

Below are my finished Gretchin squad, I'm not a 100% happy with these, it appears these guys have a few odd molding issues with them that I didn't really notice until I started to painted them, but they look prety good from about a foot away and the completed bases really unifies them. I have finished my secon Killa Kan Squadron and will post some pictures soon.

This is my second painted Killa Kan squadron, I've decided to fit these with Grotzooka. Awesome gun. Really love these Kan models, i''m tempted to buy another box to play around with a few more dynamic poses.

Photo day

Had a proper day of taking photos of all the orks done so far. I've still got plenty to paint though so when i'm through posting the stuff I've finished I can post some step-by-step of of the unfinished boyz and kanz.

After playing a few games with the list, I felt it I needed a cheap troop unit I could leave sat back on my home objective. So attached is also a picture of a work in progress 10 man grot unit.

So here is the rest of the rokkit killa kan unit, and WIP grot unit.

Big Mek with Kustom Force Field

The obvious addition to make the footsloggin boyz and kanz work would be a Big Mek with Kustom Force Field, so here is mine, painted in the same scheme as the boyz and kanz. He provides a nice 4/5+ cover save to the green tide. The only model based so far is the Warboss, with a simple astronomica/codex grey dry brush, and finished with bit of static grass.

Test Killa Kan

My first test Killa Kan, decided to go with a similar scheme as the boyz and Warboss - decided from a few practise games that Rokkits on at least one squad of Kanz works really well.

Really pleased with the simiplicity and effectiveness of the scheme.

Ork Warboss

Most of the boyz for this army came from Black Reach box sets (from various people), and came with a Ork Warboss. I didn't like the actual head for this model, so I swapped it for a standard nob head.

My first orks

First Boyz squad - I wasn't particularly bothered about choosing a certain clan for this army, so I literally just made them up as regular boyz, then picked a foundation colour I liked for the shoulder guard and anything else where I thought a bit of colour was needed.

Before applying the base coats, I gave the boyz a spray undercoat of Chaos Black, followed by a Tin Bitz, Boltgun Metal and Chainmail on the metal drybrush.

Since painting these, I've retrospectively gone back and removed the mold lines!

Wrath of Kan

I Started the Orks for a 500pt campaign that was ran at my local club (see sig), as a veteren Tau player I was looking forward to playing an army that enjoyed CC rather then constantly trying to escape from it. The campaign was 500pts, but you had 750pts that you could choose from to make a force for each game. I stuck with a simple core of two large boy squads (inc nob PK), led by a weirdboy. I enjoyed a lot of sucess with this "too many boyz to kill list". I therefore decided to expand to orks with a hope of making them in to a new tournament list for the GT (well until they ruined the the GT with no final).

I'd had been thinking about a maxed out boyz/kan list for a while, a walking wall of av11 sounded good and the general list in my head seemed fluffy and characterful without being cheesy, or the boring battlewagon spam. However not really wanting to spend £100 on dodgy GW metal (i've heard the Kan horror stories) I waited and even considered calling in my free commision with my good friend Col.G to make some scratchbuilt kans. However I was rewarded a few weeks later when rumours surfaced of a new plastic killa kanz being released in March:- I therefore became the owner of 9 Kanz on the 6th of March. Having not really painted a new army since the Tau (except a long term Lizardmen and Daemon hunter project), I was looking to do the orks
well, but did not relish the idea of painting 90+ boyz. I was advised to try out the "new" foundation paints and washes - and I was really amazed by the results.

So anyway, that was several months ago and here is some of the progress I have made so far. My original goal was 1500pts by October (first GT heat), however with my new found enjoyment of painting I think that will easily be achievable.

The core of my 1500pts:
3 x 30 boyz with nob upgrade, powerclaw and boss pole.
3 x 3 Kanz with a combination of rokkits and Grotzooka.

The original campaign orks - January 2010