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Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

Some updated shots of the Waaagh! With some closer shots of the named characters I have as well!

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

I was rewatching the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings cartoon movie for the first time in many years and I forgot how Stoney Baloney this movie was! I realize that they basically ran out of money and had to use all the rotoscope footage they had which is why the story moves along so jarringly quick. There’s a whole 12 minute chase scene where it’s basically horse dressage while Frodo tries to get away. But this is it! This is how I fell in love with orcs! I saw these guys in this and the Hobbit cartoon and it rocked my world. Who were these fanged and tusked guys and where can I find more!? Luckily it was the early-ish 1990’s and I would soon be provided so much to work with as Magic the Gathering, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and my discovery of Warhammer Fantasy Battles would happen soon in quick succession not to mention that these movies would be remade by Peter Jackson as the new millennium rolled in. What a movie! What a legacy! What an impact on my life!

Harboth’s Black Mountain Archers! This is one of the oldest Regiments of Renown along with Eeza Ugezod’s Mother Crushers. I’ve also got both versions of Ruglud’s Armored Orcs. I’ll show those at some point! I’m considering whether or not to put flock on the bases because they are rather unique for GW stuff as seen below. I’m not sure how much I want to obscure such a curiosity!

I finally finished my 3 units of 30 savage orcs! I was encouraged to reclaim my coffee table for when we have guests over soon. These guys are kinda finicky!

The Witchfate Tor! I painted this a long time ago around whenever it came out. It’s due for some touch ups! The “statues” are game pieces from a TSR Hobbies board game called “Dragonstrike” that I bought at a surplus store called Ax Man. Back then I was a smoker with a Redbull habit. Nothing some steady dry brushing and spot detailing couldn’t fix!

I also have the ruined version, the Dreadstone Blight, and another tower whose name escapes me. Not the Deathknell Watch, the other one with the asymmetrical construction that could double as an observatory. Let me know if you know the name!

I try to post something every day. I have a lot of stuff to show everybody. Here’s today’s! This Orc Warboss that I converted/kitbashed after listening to the Misfits a lot about 10 years ago or so. I named him Grimghost the Black and his lore is that he’s the leader of a warband from Sylvania called Da Grave Eatas! The ghouls eat the corpses and the boys eat the ghouls! One day I’ll make a regiment for him.

I batch painted ten more orc big’uns while listening to a podcast about a lady driving a semi looking for a serial killer. Can recommend “Alice isn’t Dead.” Anyway, I’ve got 25 of them now led by Warboss Gorgut from Lair of the Orclord from Warhammer Quest!

Orc Bosses!

Here is the Age of Sigmar Loonshrine I painted a while ago and the Idol of Gork and Mork for size comparison!

I’m calling it finished for now… Idol of Gork and Mork from the Storm of Chaos campaign, updated in 2025

Idol of Gork and Mork! Scratch built from foam board, garden rocks, those cheap bead necklace things that Jack Skelington dog tags from Spencer’s gifts come on, and Games Workshop skulls.

I originally made this for the Storm of Chaos campain for Warhammer Fantasy Battles sixth edition in the early 2000’s. I added the bad moon later and combined it with some stone pillars I made as my first attempt with using foam board insulation for builds.

I’m going to be doing some updates to it! Adding more Shields and Totems!

I painted this mini at least 15 years ago, maybe closer to 20 and today I found out on Tumblr that it’s from an Angus McBride painting!!!

Some miscellaneous minis that I’ve painted!

Some work in progress shots of my Mordheim board! It’s set in a nearby Orc Fort!

I made some huts and some towers from take out containers, popsicle sticks, paper towels, school glue, and leftover bits for my Mordheim board!

I painted this unit of 30 black orcs as the Krimson Killaz from the 8th edition rulebook/Total War: Warhammer games!

Eeza Ugezod’s Mother Crushers. Black orc regiment of renown from the 1980’s! I’m pretty stoked to have and to have painted 25 of these guys!

I love when Grimgor Ironhide checked the hubris of both Valten (and Karl Franz) and Archaon the Everchosen at the conclusion of the Storm of Chaos (global) campaign for Warhammer Fantasy Battles 6th Edition. Just smacked both of them around to prove a point and then left. What was that point? That both of them had made a terrible error not considering Grimgor and his ‘Ardboyz as the main threat.

Also Vardek Crom trying to take his army through Sylvania was equally a dumb idea.

Here are some very old paint jobs from when I played in that campaign!

I made some frenzied (savage) orc chariots for Warhammer the Old World! This particular guy seen before I put him on the chariot has huge Bat Boy from Weekly World News energy and I love him!

Orc fighting pit I made years ago! It’s going to go on my Mordheim board!

This is my shopping cart that I take to the grocery store. Red unz’ go fasta! It’s a Menards shopping cart that we found abandoned far away from any of their locations (Menards is like Home Depot or Lowe’s) and I went to Menards to buy the sheet metal and paint, they said (and I quote!) “you can’t keep the cart, we don’t use the plastic ones anymore.” The horns are railroad spikes and one time it skewered a bag of chips, which I then bought.

Close ups of the Orcs and Goblins army. I need to finish the bases on a lot of these and it’s my least favorite part. Buy flock in bulk: my advice

The games room.

(Most of) My Orcs and Goblins army is on the left and (most of) my Warriors of Chaos army is on the right inside three Warhammer Fortresses.

I kitbashed a Nippon Ronin in the Empire! They’ve taken out some raiding orcs!

Azhag the Slaughterer! I always wanted the 8th edition version of him too but I really love my 5th edition sculpt and here it is!

A party of pig-faced orcs, some goblins and bugbear walk into a bar...

Pig-faced orcs. This might be the cover for their next album. They haven't decided yet.

Sketch of an Orc. I much prefer the pig-faced variety to the tusked, green WoW versions.

I have finally settled over to my new laptop that works like a dream and have thusly christened it with a drawing of Karuk. 

Someone tell me how to do backgrounds.

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