Orktober, Part 2 - Da Weirdboy.

 Gargrub led his mob in a crouched run through the rubble, shots snarled over their heads and impacted on the wall ahead, once there he led his boyz to join up with Ruztoof's mob.

“Got kicked around like a beaten squig?” Ruztoof shouted over the background roar of more missiles firing.

“Dinna see you up there for wormfood!” Gargrub retorted, grinning around his elongated fangs.

“You were too busy runnin', like a runt!” Ruztoof replied, then kicked a passing grot a good five meters. It was an impressive kick, but Gargrub wasn't going to admit that, no Ork would.

Further exchanges were cut short by the first Space Marines pushing through the gaps in the wall they had just vacated, sprays of bolter fire accompanying them as they advanced.
Gargrub was about to initiate the charge when he clutched the side of his head.
Green sparks surged all around them assembled boyz arcing between them and being pulled towards the pile of rubble behind them.

Another Ork was climbing awkwardly up the rubble, the green energy siphoning off the massed orks around and funnelling straight towards this individual.
Leather cloak whipping around him, Skabgutz hauled himself forwards, one eye squeezed shut in paint and the other a bulging red orb with spirals of power surrounding the dilated pupil.

Gargrub groaned and elbowed Ruztoof in the ribs, indicating for him to look behind them at the Wierdboy.

Skabgutz pulled himself up to his full height, empowered by the Waaagh! Energy all around him. Bolt shells detonated harmlessly in a green haze a few feet in front of him as he stood in the open. Boyz sporadically fired their Slugga pistols at the space marines, but they were all keeping a wary eye on the strange Snakebite Ork standing above them.

“Word iz that too much energy and he'll blow up, like a Bom” Gargrub shouted to Ruztoof.

“I'm off if he twitches wrong, I'd rather fight the Marine-Boyz then get blown up by him” Ruztoof replied.

'Too right' thought Gargrub as he eyed Skabgutz suspiciously. Every Ork knew that there was something just wrong about using the wierdboy's powers, but if they killed stuff, who was he to argue.

At that point, Skabgutz leant forward and opened his jaw impossibly wide. He vomited a bright green tendril of energy which took the shape of an Ork skull and shot towards the nearest Space Marines who were forming up.

As it impacted them, it exploded in a bright white flash, causing everyone present to shield their eyes from the glare. When they could see again, the carnage was impressive. The wall was splashed with bright red blood, and armoured bodies were strewn around it, but more Space Marines were pushing through.

Skabgutz, swayed and belched loudly, apparently satisfied with his work. He hefted his staff and screamed a primal sound at the top of his lungs.

It was a sound taken up by every Ork in the battle at once and signalled that the real fight was beginning...

WAAAGH!

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Hello, well the month of October/Orktober has been progressing, unfortunately my progress on this project hasn't.
A combination of work, changing shifts and changing Covid restrictions has all led to a lack of enthusiasm for actually partaking in the hobby.

But, persevere I did, and now having a few days off work, might see a chance to recover from working nights and get some projects completed which have been slowing me down as they never seemed to make any progress.

Due to the above, I've decided to modify my Orktober list, as I am not such a fast worker that I'll get an entire scratch built tank completed in less the a week.

So whilst the Slugga Boyz are about halfway completed, I also took the opportunity to get in a "quick win" project and repaint part of my Weirdboy.

This rather friendly looking chap was a Deathskull Weirdboy with blue robes and a lot of gun metal.

I decided I liked the idea of the Goffs keeping a pet "Snakebite" who they'd captured somewhere along the way and the Warboss had realised how useful he was.

A quick repaint of Mournfang Brown, followed by a drybrush of Baneblade Brown and a wash of Agrax Earthshade on the robes led me to a nice weathered leather effect, perfect for the feral Boyz of the Snakebite Klan.

I also repainted some of the metallics to a warm copper colour, as in some of the older concept artwork from around the 4th edition codex, there was rumours of Weirdboyz using copper as a grounding point if their powers got out of control, so that their heads wouldn't explode!

This was just a 'quick win' to get a model finished and restart motivation (quick wins are all important I think). Like I said the Slugga Boyz (Ruztoof's mob) are about halfway finished, and I'm going to attempt to get a mob of 'Ardboyz (Slugga Boyz who have scavenged metal from places and hammered it to fit them as armour) if not finished by the end of the month, at least a good portion of the way there.

With that I'll leave you with the face only a mother (or fungus in the case of Orks) could love...

WAAAGH!

 - Lewis