Da Green Horde

When GW announced in spring that they would discontinue the Bonesplitterz (Savage Orcs) faction in AOS, I decided to get a box of Savage Orruks while they were still available. The box included two Big Stabbas , which is an overly large spear carried by two Orcs, and somehow I got the idea to combine them and kitbash a centrepiece model for my Bonesplitterz  - the Savage Orruk Palanquin.   Games Workshop never produced a centrepiece model for the faction, Orcs are either on foot or riding a boar. There are no giant beasts, which makes sense lore-wise, as the Bonesplitterz are monster-hunters that hunt the largest enemies in order to gain their might. I remember that Savage Orcs could use Boar Chariots in some editions of WHFB, but that never made sense to me, as a chariot seems too "high-tech" for them. They refuse to use metal or armour, so I assume that they also distrust the wheel. So this is more or less my interpretation of a Savage Orc Chariot. The build was quite...

Happy New Year everyone! I didn't have a lot of hobby time in the last few months, but now during the holidays I managed to get some painting done. Fellow blogger Keith announced the Year of the Dragon challenge, which was a great opportunity to paint a model which I've owned for probably nearly 20 years - the Orc Warboss on Wyvern.   The model has since been re-released in resin, but this is the original metal version, which means it weighs a lot and required some pinning and gap-filling during assembly. I didn't glue the Orc on top of the wyvern and used magnets instead. This makes it possible to use the wyvern without a rider and I may even create an alternate rider at some point (maybe a shaman?). Despite it being a large model, painting the wyvern didn't take a lot of time since I was smart enough to use a green spray primer (Vallejo Goblin Green). On top of the green basecoat I just put a few different washes and diluted Contrast paints. As this model was paint...