#waaaagh!

It’s been a long time since I posted anything here but I can formally present the Venombelly Warband (so far) in all their glory.

These 32 models are everything from when I first started painting at the end of 2024 through to now:

1x Runtherd and Gretchin

1x Mek Gun

1x Squad of Boys

Boy #9 (Ork #10)

It's been a while but this is my first Boy for Orktober.

Pleased with the skin-tone here, this is my Skarsnik Green + Flayed One Flesh from Citadel and then a thinned layer of Ork Skin from Army Painter Speed Paints.

I think that's the general recipe for my Boyz locked down even though I do like having some variation in skin-tone across my minis.

Still not happy with his pants or torso and that's partially down to the areas just being fiddly to get to combined with my lack of fine motor skills. I am increasingly thinking I might have to start painting in sub-assembly just to counteract this issue.

Sparkz - Ork Mekboy

Sparkz fixes fings fur orkz. Mekz, shootas, bad hurt orkz, problumz, uvver orkz.

Sparkz like fix fings, Sparkz like make fings, Sparkz like break fings. Any fing a fing Sparkz does fing to fing. Make work, make hurt, make win, make lose.

Sparkz no like dem snakebites, dey stoopid, Sparkz once seen snakebite nob hit huooman can-man wit a stik...nobsnakebite got squishsqashed like a snotting. Sparkz hav best smartbrainz of all do, Sparkz make huooman can-man dance funny like squig cuz Sparkz change lekky-snakes in back of can-man! Hur hur hur. Dat why Sparkz best mekboy in all o' evil suns....Sparkz wishez he cud get dose bad moonz Teef do. Dey got loadza teef...dey use it stoopid, Sparkz use teef betta! Twich - Ork Kommando

Twwich like sneaky, me don't care where dem popple iz me get dem, shoot dem and stabz dem, make em go quietboom!

Sommonone big nob Goffz say Twwich no ork dat him unorky, Twich show him me ork. Me shoot him friend...den me beat stoopid bignobgoff wit he friend head....Goffz like Twich now...Twich no care, Twich like when popple go “what da fu-!” den fall down. Make Twich go funny noise.

Me da best sneaker o' dee Blood Axes, ovver Orkz be stompin den wen dey get dere dey see Twich wiv big pile o bodies wiv no noisez Ow - Ork Painboy Ow make orkz betta! But orkz be scardy-squiggs, dey no want feet on head or be filled wi da plazmaz...stoopid orkz!

Me once make Ork evvy have many armz...he no like it...maybe cuz evvy don like avvin armz inside him. Me say dey be holdin him togevver but him go all mad an me have to taake em out!...den he fall part...why every-ork make earquiet to what Ow sayz?

Me got asked by big me klan Goff nob make him see what give him insidebighurt...so me put window in chest fur him seez...he get big un shouty and say “NO NOT ME WANT!” so me again av ta make him borin again! Orkz no like Ow make em better, dey just wanna fixer, me say me make better dden me make dem betta!

Ow like to smashgood, sum orkz fink cuz me painboy me no dakka dakka or smash dem punyz dose orkz funny, dey be Dakka and den Ow DAKKA DAKKA, den dey DAKKA DAKKA and Ow DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA, den DEY DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA den dey get DAKKA'D by punyz and Ow laugh an fix em an den DAKKA SUM MORE!

Had a really awesome session of dark heresy, got to do some really nice role-playing putting the fear of Tarro the Voidborn into some PDF guardsmen while doing some character expansion.

Also there is some serious corpse-hair rations gonnna hit the fan next session. We've seen something resembling an Ork Mekboy and what I'm really, really hoping isn't an Ork Warboss just walking about like they own the place.